Kilkenny GAA Thread Part 3 **MOD NOTE POST 1***

Grats

conor05 wrote: »

I am not convinced of that midfield pairing at Inter County level.
Reid especially, but I hope he proves me wrong.

R Reid has been outstanding with his club, albeit at centre back. I think it's worth a go. R Leahy would be ideal there but between injury and lack of form you could hardly risk him.

Anyway , who knows with everything behind closed doors.

SteJer

conor05 wrote: »

I am not convinced of that midfield pairing at Inter County level.
Reid especially, but I hope he proves me wrong.

Based on current form I think Richie Reid will offer a lot more at midfield than Fogarty or Leahy. They would be better coming off the bench, for now. Any other midfield options?

suirway

doel wrote: »

Any word on clubs with new managers.
From what I hear, Boro, Tullaroan, Vegas,Comer,Danesfort all looking for new men in charge plus a host of intermediate/junior clubs aswell

Stand to be corrected but seems the following managers/coaches no longer with clubs

James O’Connor - Shamrocks
Cheddar Plunkett - Village
Mark Dowling - Dicksboro
Niall Bergin - OLoughlins
Jimmy Coogan - Tullaroan
Paddy Mulally - Mullinavat
Liam Dowling - Erin’s Own
Barry Power - Clara
Ger Morrissey - Rower
James McGrath - BBridge
Maurice Aylward - TTown
Paul Carley - Danesfort
Paul Brennan - St. Martins

JJs Left Hand

Jaysus is anyone staying on

Grats

JJs Left Hand wrote: »

Jaysus is anyone staying on

Not sure the Shamrocks manager is gone.

tbiggertycome

Grats wrote: »

Not sure the Shamrocks manager is gone.

Yeah asked someone from the Ballyhale executive that before lockdown and they said if he's stepping down they hadn't been informed and didn't expect he would either. Only two I know for sure are OLG and Boro and I know OLG have already interviewed at least 3 candidates.

tbiggertycome

Also heard Hoban is staying on with GBC and apparently this has not pleased the locals or some of the players (almost all)

kkclubhurling

Andy Comerford is O Loughlins manager and think Village have replaced Cheddar too

ClubFirst

tbiggertycome wrote: »

Yeah asked someone from the Ballyhale executive that before lockdown and they said if he's stepping down they hadn't been informed and didn't expect he would either. Only two I know for sure are OLG and Boro and I know OLG have already interviewed at least 3 candidates.

Correct no truth in this. James O Connor staying with Shamrocks 100%. Dunnamaggin also looking for a new manager..

doel

suirway wrote: »

Stand to be corrected but seems the following managers/coaches no longer with clubs

James O’Connor - Shamrocks
Cheddar Plunkett - Village
Mark Dowling - Dicksboro
Niall Bergin - OLoughlins
Jimmy Coogan - Tullaroan
Paddy Mulally - Mullinavat
Liam Dowling - Erin’s Own
Barry Power - Clara
Ger Morrissey - Rower
James McGrath - BBridge
Maurice Aylward - TTown
Paul Carley - Danesfort
Paul Brennan - St. Martins

Surprised at Cheddar going. Imo he was doing a great job, massive improvement from where they were 2 years ago.
OLG and the Boro likely to keep it in house again?
Heard O'Connor was gone from Shamrocks aswell.

kkclubhurling

doel wrote: »

Surprised at Cheddar going. Imo he was doing a great job, massive improvement from where they were 2 years ago.
OLG and the Boro likely to keep it in house again?
Heard O'Connor was gone from Shamrocks aswell.

I heard from well known Village business man locally that Cheddar has a fairly demanding job based in Dublin and was traveling straight from there for training, and that he never took any payment from the village.

I’d imagine with Covid situation ongoing a lot of clubs will be tightening the belts, there’s been a few guys on the kk coaching circuit for a while now that might be left out of pocket.

Swamp_Cat

kkclubhurling wrote: »

I heard from well known Village business man locally that Cheddar has a fairly demanding job based in Dublin and was traveling straight from there for training, and that he never took any payment from the village.

I’d imagine with Covid situation ongoing a lot of clubs will be tightening the belts, there’s been a few guys on the kk coaching circuit for a while now that might be left out of pocket.

If even most of the list above is correct that seems like quite high turnover and some short duration stints as well. How far off the norm is this? Is it primarily COVID-19 & financial reasons? I know it can be thankless at times. Just surprised & not as tuned in to that side of things. thx

JJs Left Hand

Will the team be named tonight or tomorrow?

tbiggertycome

JJs Left Hand wrote: »

Will the team be named tonight or tomorrow?

Would assume tomorrow night as that's when he normally names a team even when we're playing on a Saturday.

doel

robwen wrote: »

Heard from someone involved that DJ is having a noticeable influence on Cody in terms of style of play etc.

Would DJ not have a similar train of thought to Cody, man on man ?
Anyone have an insight to the approach he takes?
Or even the way Gorta s preferred style of play??

brookville

It will be interesting to see what we can bring to the table this year?what affect will the change to the backroom team have or how will we play against a sweeper system if it faces us.Will our style of play be different?Dublin pushed us to the pin of our collar the last two years and had us in real trouble.They will tear into us for sure.Hopefully we bring our high intensity
I remember their half back line was very strong but crummey is now in attack and moran is further up barrett was sticky on tj last year and o Donnell had a great tussle with colin.Eoghan o Donnell man marked tj two years ago.Kenny will hope to get these two match up in particular spot on.We will need good performances from the other few fowards.

Fred Daly

Is it true that St lachtains told Tommy Buggy his services were no longer required, or did he feel himself he has taken them as far as he can.

conor05

brookville wrote: »

It will be interesting to see what we can bring to the table this year?what affect will the change to the backroom team have or how will we play against a sweeper system if it faces us.Will our style of play be different?Dublin pushed us to the pin of our collar the last two years and had us in real trouble.They will tear into us for sure.Hopefully we bring our high intensity
I remember their half back line was very strong but crummey is now in attack and moran is further up barrett was sticky on tj last year and o Donnell had a great tussle with colin.Eoghan o Donnell man marked tj two years ago.Kenny will hope to get these two match up in particular spot on.We will need good performances from the other few fowards.

I wouldn’t be so sure Crummy will start in attack against Kilkenny.

He is a monster of a athlete and they could put him on Walter for puckouts!

tbiggertycome

Fred Daly wrote: »

Is it true that St lachtains told Tommy Buggy his services were no longer required, or did he feel himself he has taken them as far as he can.

Yeah from what I heard the funds were an issue going forward as is the way with most clubs, I'm sure they were very happy with the results getting to a semi final and all but couldn't sustain the outlay for the set up. They will hardly be alone on that front going forward.

Pogue eile

brookville wrote: »

It will be interesting to see what we can bring to the table this year?what affect will the change to the backroom team have or how will we play against a sweeper system if it faces us.Will our style of play be different?Dublin pushed us to the pin of our collar the last two years and had us in real trouble.They will tear into us for sure.Hopefully we bring our high intensity
I remember their half back line was very strong but crummey is now in attack and moran is further up barrett was sticky on tj last year and o Donnell had a great tussle with colin.Eoghan o Donnell man marked tj two years ago.Kenny will hope to get these two match up in particular spot on.We will need good performances from the other few fowards.

Eoghan O'Donnell will surely pick up Colin Fennelly, Kilkenny have really struggled to bring their corner forwards into the game when Fennelly is held.

kk.man

conor05 wrote: »

I wouldn’t be so sure Crummy will start in attack against Kilkenny.

He is a monster of a athlete and they could put him on Walter for puckouts!

Walter would want to shine this year consistainly. IMO this could be a vital year for him.

Mad about baa baas

kk.man wrote: »

Walter would want to shine this year consistainly. IMO this could be a vital year for him.

He is very frustrating.. he can be very good on his day then has 2 off says. For all his size I wouldn't consider him to be the most physical or to be great under a high ball.. I like him on the wing running on to ball.. cody does seem to love him though and he will get plenty game time

tbiggertycome

Kil.v Dub.
E Murphy
C Delaney H Lawlor C Wallace
P Walsh P Deegan R Reid
C Buckley C Fogarty
J Donnelly TJ Reid W Walsh
B Ryan C Fennelly E Cody
Subs
D Brennan
P Murphy
J Holden
T Walsh
C Browne
A Murphy
R Leahy
M Keoghan
R Hogan
G Aylward
L Blanchfield

corny

conor05 wrote: »

I wouldn’t be so sure Crummy will start in attack against Kilkenny.

He is a monster of a athlete and they could put him on Walter for puckouts!

Walsh normally does well against us and its obviously not unknown for Crummey to shadow ball winners but i can't see Dublin abandoning the experiment tbh. Crummey played in an advanced role in his last two appearances. The championship opener and the keenly contested game against Wexford in the league. With Daire Gray and Conor Burke seemingly going well in the halfbacks it would be a surprise if he moved back without a real acid test.

It'll be back to the drawing board for them if Dublin don't make this a contest. I expect them to tear into it. Its in the last 5 or 10 minutes where they've habitually found it tough to contain Kilkenny though.

robwen

No Darren Mullen

dastardly00

robwen wrote: »

No Darren Mullen

As in he's not in the starting 15 or in the match day panel?

EDIT: Sorry I hadn't realised that the team had been named publicly

Garyp88

Strong panel but shocked at no darren Mullen also. I thought more village lads may have been involved like brassil, dwyer and guilfoyle. Does any know how old guilfoyle and dwyer are? because dwyer had an excellent club campaign. Does anyone know what's happened to David blanchfield seems to have dropped off the radar. Delighted for aylward to be back in after a good club scene and ciaran Wallace. How has Alan Murphy been selected and Buckley. Buckley maybe on the bench but has not been great lately also delighted for Richie Reid

dubcat51

Like the team except midfield.dont think buckley has ever played well at midfield.david blanchfield is injured as far as I know.love to see billy ryan and cody catch fire.

Garyp88

dubcat51 wrote: »

Like the team except midfield.dont think buckley has ever played well at midfield.david blanchfield is injured as far as I know.love to see billy ryan and cody catch fire.

Couldn't agree more Ryan, cody and John donelley can't wait to add to the form of fennelly. Also agree on Buckley I don't think he has the legs for midfield

tbiggertycome

I'd say Darren Mullens exclusion could be as a result of a potentially very serious incident which took place after the club's semi final win. I know the senior management were extremely unimpressed by it. I'd be afraid the Mullens brother may squander their phenomenal talent with some seriously brain dead behaviour off the field.