Kilkenny GAA Thread

KILvWEX U20 A Tallis N Rowe S Purcell P Lennon J Fitzpatrick P Moylan P Langton K Doyle D Walsh A Hickey T Clifford P McDonald B Drennan G Dunne T Dunne Subs A Rafter B Reid E O Brien M Gannon J Doyle I Byrne J Walsh P Blanchfield

Team for tomorrow night anyone interested in going it's on in Dr Cullen Park Carlow

I think its more of a case to bring fairness to the competition, if you were from a sporting background in another country with no awareness of history, tradition etc. and saw 2 regional competitions in Munster and Leinster championships and then seen that 1 team joined the competition after those 2 concluded you'd think that's very odd.

Hard luck to the minors. As said above these are only young lads so these things happen. One word of criticism I would like to make is that there were 5/6 weeks of clubs games where the county players were not allowed play. How can you ask 16 year olds not participate with clubs, if anything they need to play these games. I know you could not do this with 2/3 matches with proximity to inter county matches.

Being honest about it Kilkenny were average in all 3 games winning only one match v Wexford. Young lads confidence will be down, they need to go back to their clubs and play, this will reenergise them, give them confidence as they would have done well. County management and selectors should attend these games, most players are competing in Roinn A so they would have been playing against each other, other players could have caught the eye, players can develop over 6/7 months at that age. Instead management had training on the same night as club matches. The whole thing looked very stale and systematic. These lads would be stars at club level and that unrehearsed/ off the cuff reaction hurling was absent at intercounty level

Already have antrim, derry and down in it. Its not really a Leinster only championship anyway. Provincial championships should be long gone in both football and hurling. So many pointless one sided games. Or in galways case, no games

It's like watching a under 20 team playing a minor team. Wexford very light. We should win this handy.

Making hard work of this

Finding it hard to see why Fitz was moved out of centre back. I don't think it's having a massive difference but still. Strange.

To be fair to them its very different conditions

The conditions are atrocious and they’re playing on a football pitch. The ball and the pitch look like they’ve been slathered in KY Jelly.

it’s very hard to keep your footing in that scenario, never mind hurl.

Good to win a Leinster final but that was painful. Was it 4 out of about 22 of their own puckouts that they won yet kept doing the same thing? Hopefully it was the poor conditions that affected the quality

A loss would have been very hard to stomach, we were comfortably the better team. The half back line and midfield were utterly dominant, that should nearly always give you a spring board for a comfortable win, but yet again the Achilles heel of modern Kilkenny hurling was on view, cleaned out on our own puck outs.

Well done to all, AI finals are there to be won, and Munster teams going in to finals as supposedly unbeatable have a nasty habit of crashing, usually with Kilkenny as opponents. Limerick have improved over course of their 3 games but Clare should have beaten them and Tipp were very limited.

btw Both teams deserved better than that pitch.

I did hear a lot of that Wexford team are underage next year except for Lawlor and a few so maybe that explains their small physiques.

In saying that they fairly horsed us out of it in a lot of positions in the second half.