Kilkenny GAA Thread

Should be well up here. Dominated the first 20 minutes but didn't put the scores on the board. The ref has been good to Wexford, the free count seems heavily in their favour. They face a battle here so let's see...

Kilkenny were well on top in the first half despite the scoreline but struggled in the second half. Not sure if Wexford had a sweeper. Kilkenny the better team but could have lost it in the end.

Less said about the referee the better.

Hard luck to Wexford, they deserved to win.

Goalie saved us twice with blinding saves.

Our forwards were outworked by Wexford backs and similar to Offaly game, frequently overplayed the ball and/or took poor options.

Well done Kilkenny, they undoubtedly have some really talented players, but they will need a much better performance to beat Galway.

Cork are definitely going in the right directiopn but for me, too much hype. I feel the brand of hurling they play is attractive and "sexy" and this is feeding in to the narrative.

I'd take Galway 18-21 year old crop ahead of theirs any day. It is actually isnulting to Galway in particaular how much hype there currently is about Cork. For me at least, Galway (and to a lesser extent Kilkenny) are producing better all round traditional type hurlers. Ultimately Cork might win the long game, especially if Hurling continues to evolve as a hybrid Lacrosse, but I have my doubts.

They beat a Dublin team that nver really performed on day by 4 pts in 2020 U20 Final. And tonight beat a Limerick team by 2pts that we beat by 16 pts as minors.

Leinster will be interesting next year with a new man in charge of Wexford and a Galway likely in a full rebuild and definitely without Joe Canning.

It will be interesting to see does the new man in charge of Wexford trust his backs or was Davy right to have not trusted them. I think Wexford probably need a bit of new blood there is a lot of miles on the clock for a lot of those Wexford lads just due to the style of play he demands from his players in his system. Looking at how Waterford and Clare went after Davey left you could see Wexford probably struggle next year.

I think Galway need to start blooding some of their young guns whether they keep on Shane O'Neill or find a new man. This will probably lead to an erratic season or two for them.

Same man has the S&C job this year as had it last year. Personally I think it's the addition of some form of game plan thats doing it for us this year.

Ok thanks for that didn't or don't know who he is. It's just we had both Dublin and Waterford bet up a stick at halftime last year and were either outhurled or just not conditioned enough to keep going. It was frightening how poor we played in both second halves compared to the first. We just seem to be more consistent this year.

Did we not get someone else in to help with s&c?I think they also worked with Limerick.

Looks like we're playing cork next.We will need to improve big time from the last game as tonight proves Dublin very average .Cork will cause us big trouble with pace

Bookies have it as 50/50 which is fair enough. The thoughts of Jack O'Connor running at Paddy Deegan would give you nightmares. Cork will run at our defence to create goals, yellow cards, sin bins and penalties. If somehow we are in the running in the last 10 minutes, I would give us a chance as the effects of the playing consecutive weeks might catch up on Cork. They seemed to be struggling for a while in the last quarter before they pulled away again. Michael Carey to start with his pace? Conor Browne if fit for the same reason? Tough ask on Tommy Walsh to mark Horgan.

On the other hand, Cork also conceded a lot of scores and we have a few forwards to bring on for the last quarter.

I think the cork match is a 50-50 match.Cork have their dander up and are definitely coming.Plenty of pace in attack which we won't like.They haven't won a match in croke park since 2014 I think but this team hasn't much baggage.They also have some good subs and have added steel to the backline something which hasn't always being the case.Both teams will fancy their chances.

On ourselves I take the point we were lucky enough against wexford especially with the goal at the end but eoin cody and alan Murphy missed 3 goals between them.I know rory o Connor was inches away from getting a goal aswell but we're cork not a collins save away from losing to clare when Tony Kelly had his shot saved?thats the way these things go you need a bit of luck along the way.Tipp had 2 or 3 good chances Saturday to beat Waterford.On the face of it this is a 50-50 game and ourselves and cork will both have to make a big improvement from the last match to get into a final

We are probably lucky to have started this rebuild a few years ago and remained competitive.Tipp and galway have to now start this rebuild.

I think we have definitely adjusted better to the modern game and our subs have worked well but the big test now lies ahead

When we brought on our subs against Waterford last year they didn't work so this should be a lesson for next Sunday

Alot of talk about delaney being close and Hogan starting so the team selection will be interesting.Id probably go with carey for his pace to get forward but a few big decisions to be made

I'm not so sure this cork team are that different to those of the past few years .cork have always had pace in the forwards. They have beaten clare and dublin which are at a similar level to themselves. The test will come when the Kilkenny forwards start to really work there backs with high intensity tackling and they have to hit 50/50ball down to forwards. Our forwards can win those not so sure corks can.