Kilkenny GAA Thread

Wherever he got the facts they were right

Any truth in Liam Moore taking himself off the U20 panel and Ciarain Wallace off the senior. In Moore's case,he's a big loss if true.....size, athletic and plenty of hurling in him.

Is Liam Moore representing himself or his club. What club has captaincy this year ,still in a case of confusion after covid.

wh the f... is gone wrong in this county.

Very hard to change the dynamic on a county board when it's gone stale. Clare is the same. Change is coming because things went so bad. The county board is actually being bi passed by dynamic business people and the county is starting to develope again. They are a long way back from Limerick across the border. Again their county board had to be bypassed ..

Precisely. It really is down to the clubs. They can make the change required.

See it with our own club nobody at the top table has a clue about moving forward or if anything is said the person that says it is bullied so much they feel the only option is to get out. These people then are going to Co Board meetings.

Well there's the county board faction in Clare and then the other side that supported and supports Lohans management. These people highlighted the huge deficiencies in Clare and set about getting reports done...and outside people did that. Then the report had to be accepted by the GAA..then these business people offered to do jobs ,made new posts and don't ask for a wage. So weather the county board knows it or not there's a separate group ..Lohan has almost nothing to do with the County board.

The ballyhale lads won't be back this weekend. This will be probably the last match he'll experiment. The Dublin match next Saturday and the Waterford one after a weeks break will give us a better idea of where we are at and hopefully a settled team heading into the championship.

KK v Laois

E Murphy

M Butler T Walsh M Carey

N Brassil P Deegan D Blanchfield

C Kenny J Donnelly

W Walsh P Walsh T Phelan

B Ryan M Keoghan A Murphy

Subs

L Dunphy

C Heary

M Kenny

J Burke

C Buckley

J Maher

T O Dwyer

J Bergin

C Bolger

J Walsh

E Landy

I thought Cody had finally accepted that Deegan isn't a back. Awful selection.

Is Huw Lawlor injured or did he just not make the final cut?

A fabulous win for the Boro in really blustery conditions. We've won the previous 2 minors and this year they won the minor, U19 and U21 a fabulous achievement for the club. It was particularly nice to beat Ballyhale in the final not that we've any great beef with them but their so good at winning once they get to finals it was great to see it out.

The Boro started with the wind and took a little while to get going but soon they imposed themselves on the game. They were 0-8 to 0-3 up after about 20 mins and Ballyhale hadn't scored in a long time when Dean Mason hit a high ball from his own 65 into the edge of the square, Padraig Moylan secured it but was dispossessed on the way out and the corner forward Devereaux I think pulled on it to the back of the net. The Boro settled down again after that and saw out the half 0-12 to 1-04. The Boro squandered a couple of goal chances in the first and second half and a great diaplay out of Dean Mason kept them in it.

Ballyhale started the second half the brighter with Eoin Cody causing a bit of havoc and within a few minutes of the restart Ballyhale were 2-06 to 0-13 but they couldn't catch the Boro and they stretched their legs again playing nice hurling, feeding the corner forwards with nice diagonal and other times low ball out in front. The quieten Ballyhale the Boro had to bringing Padraig Moylan back from midfield to play as a spare man in defence. This worked very well and allowed Timmy Clifford to bomb forward from CB. Liam Moore played very well throughout as did Aaron Treacy Murphy, James Carroll, Mark Nolan and Harry Shine there were plenty of other good performances including Niall Rowe and FB and the Boro back 6 as whole did very well. Against the wind the Boro got 1-12 and Ballyhale could only manage 1-08. Finished 1-24 to 2-12

Lets see how these lads progress over the next few years and hopefully they can at least make the Boro more consistent and winners at senior but hopefully a few might get a run with the county although we don't seem to be flavour of the month with our underage teams even with the success they've had. Hopefully Liam Moore might go back to the county setup because in that form he would be a huge bonus to any team.

All these Boro successes from Feile up to today have been with Mickey Walsh and it's amazing he's never been brought back into the Kilkenny underage setups seeing as he's the last manager to win an U21 with a KK team. Is it because he'd want to play the game his own way and not Cody's?

Heard Dean Mason has been called in too, not before time in my opinion. No doubt one or two of the keepers will be dropped by the end of the league.

4 points up at halftime. Much better performance than the last match here. Billy Ryan scored 3 points from play and is very dangerous when the ball is hit for him to run onto. Tom Phelan has made some dangerous runs with the ball and scored a great goal. Play is varied although there is a little overuse of diagonal passes. Michael Carey needs to use the ball better from the short puck outs. On the negative side Brassil had a torrid time at right half back, was 2nd to nearly every puckout.