Kilkenny GAA Thread

Clocks have to be stopped for water break . It's in rule . So that time is not added in the injury time. Refs are supposed to only add the time they usually have for injuries, subs and delays they deem necessary to stop the watch for. IE. time wasting major mellee that takes time to sort and likes . So at round 30 and 60 mins on stadium clock the time for extra time is announced if being announced by stadium . Stadium clock only stops for water break nothing else .

Results will be the key .No one will care what type of hurling Galway are playing if they are winning. Looking at thomastown last weekend and talking to some of the thomastown panel .The plan was to get in as much ball as possible to the edge of the square .something Kilkenny have been doing with 20 years.you would wonder is Cody's teachings ingrained into his former players.

Eddie well beaten in dublin with cuala

Henry's thomastown didn't improve from last year if anything have gone backwards.

Heard the same from the thomastown panel. Personally wasnt impressed with the line last Sunday but that is not to take away from the players' responsibilities. Henry has a good bit to prove as a manager- those ballyhale teams he managed to club all irelands would have managed themselves.

Where is Joey emigrating to he will be a big loss to the shamrocks and county very under rated the best of luck. As regards Thomastown people thought they had it all the last couple of years they were lucky against teams.

Heard he was going to America for a few years.And best of luck to him a gentleman and a leader of those young ballyhale lads.

Freshford left that county semi final behind them last year, if you give away five frees against lisdowney that answer your question.

Did you ever hear such tripe ‘could of managed themselves’, Henry was an excellent manager for Ballyhale. To do back to back was a serious achievement, at the age some of them younger lads were they were partying a bit too hard from what I could see and Henry go then to knuckle

down in year two.

I have no fear of Henry as a top

manager.

I could be wrong as I wouldn’t be up to date with the internal matters in Ballyhale, but didn’t the Mullen’s miss an U21 county final at some point? Was that not due to a lack of discipline or being unable to curb their socialising?

Agree with your points above about the early running and collapsing and that is fair to say and the evidence backs that up. I just disagree with using one match to say they are lucky against teams after all which makes no sense.

We have been intermediate and junior since the 80s and haven't been near winning an intermediate bar one county final in the nineties. This is our best team for years, we have been consistent in that we are in top four teams in the grade the last 5 years. As I said you can say weak mentally, hyped, decent but not good enough, soft when ground gets hard or whatever.

But nothing that has happened in the last 5 years is to do with luck or lack of it, we have just lacked something and that is it.

Anyway I have enough said

Were ye not in a senior final in the early 90s???

Great match.

OLG did themselves proud.

Shamrocks are great champions though. Strong all through the team.

Disappointing to see the keeper take a dive in order to get a lad sent off though.

Tapped Goalie on head despite being 5 points down and then boxed him straight in the throat.

One of the most blatant red cards you’ll see and an embarrassing way to end a county final after such a spirited performance.

Great game that. Shamrocks just so professional and experienced. They don't do anything special but are just stacked with special players.

Some great raw talent in that Loughlins team all around the same age which is probably a disadvantage really but they should be contending for a few years now if they learn from it. Their performance today was largely based on emotion and I think if they managed to curb that a bit they'll be better in the long run.

Ridiculous red at the end by Loughnane but he was hyped as soon as he came in bouncing off his man and breaking a hurl. The box was just absolutely needless.

Fantastic game well done Ballyhale Shamrocks . Some performance by Olg too. A great advertisement for hurling. Agree with all the above about red card for Olg but at the match thought Kevin Mullan should've got a red at 29 mins for tackle on deegan. No attempt to play the ball. Hurl to the face & amazingly no free. Have since watched game back on Tv & confirmed my view a certain red. They are often given for less e.g.. Richie Hogan v tipp in 2019

On today's performance he'd be worth a look. Put over some absolute beauties under ferocious pressure.