Kilkenny GAA Thread

enjoy sitting in traffic in galway for a good hour too

I hope you're right. There's more than a little bit of trepidation around at the minute. We all know we are capable of so much more than we offered v Wexford but its about showing it now and from here on in. That's the Hope with a capital H.

they dont exactly need a master tactician to figure out what to expect from Kilkenny, will they play a sweeper though?

Lyng and Barry have probably jumped up the pecking order.Eddie has had mixed success but is rated as a good coach. We desperately need a modern coach but if he's not going to be listened to there's probably no point.

I'd also expect a much better performance Saturday evening and I wouldn't be suprised if we won. There's probably more pressure on galway but if we lose it will be our 3rd defeat in this championship and its hard to justify our place in a quarter final. We'd have a better chance against galway then cork. Galway should set up traditional with their half forwards out around midfield.Monaghan and joe cooney went to town the last day and are hurling well.We can't just leave them free like the last day. We need to try stretch gmac and daithi Burke and not make all stars out of them like the last day and lump every ball on top of them.Hopefully things have being worked on I training. I heard huw should be back so hopefully he will.The team that will be picked Friday will be different to the one Saturday.

I think it's fair to say lyng has earned his shot at the top job, but definitely agree with this, he should be picked because he makes the best case for himself not because Cody ordains him.

I give us every chance at the weekend, as someone said above a Hallmark of us over the last number of years has been a tendency towards inconsistency, bad games followed by good ones and vice versa. Would love a win, think a quarter final coming in with the record we've had in the provincials would be a little embarrassing tbh. We need to prove ourselves big time, for team confidence if nothing else.

Fair play to Lyng and co for winning the u20 with a modern approach to hurling but the competition is a shambles. Kilkennny won all 3 games by 1 point(which is great). All 3 teams were missing there best player and for Galway players. It really takes the gloss off the competition that the best players were absent.

That is very disrespectful in my view also, against Galway no matter who they had on field that day KK weren't given a prayer, absolutely grinded that result out infairness with Shine going off injured adding to that.

As therealdonster said you are long enough the last few years slating certain players to be cast aside but when it's put to you about replacements answers are never found.

In my view I would think Lyng should stay with the u20s for another year or 2 especially with a lot underage over the next 2 years, plenty of names to look at when the senior Job arises (Hopefully after this year irregardless of what happens this weekend) but with Shefflin currently out West hard to know who you'd go for.

wouldn't be getting so hung up on the results underage, there's a few good players on the team that will hopefully keep developing and make it to senior, is that not the aim here. Needs a round robin to give more players the opportunity to play

Kilkenny beat Galway in Pearse Stadium in 2012 in the final of the Walsh Cup... I can remember that because I was at it 😃

Can you just enjoy the win and stop the nonsense? Are you even aware that Kilkenny Under 20s were missing three, if not more, through injury? I let you come up with the names. Galway were a team full of talent so would have had replacements for any missing. Limerick were coming with all guns blazing, a replica of the seniors, and were fairly beaten too. The way our under 20s played this year, with heart, skill and never say die attitude, was always going to make them hard to beat.

Give it time and you'll get over our win!

Well said...obviously it's not the fault of the KK young lads, but what a farce that seniors are ruled out.

Fair play Village87 - most insightful poster here -, you've never been afraid to stick your head above the parapet. It's interesting that all the Cody cheerleaders and county board sycophants that abused you in the past have now turned 180 degrees to agree with you...

A few home truths on the U20s has them spitting out the tea again...

Yeah thanks for clearing that. In no way shape or form was I knocking players or management, great to win 3 championship matches in the fashion they did. They won playing a modern game of trying to run the ball through the lines and also go long when the option was available, the mix and match allowed Drennan the chance to be one on one when the opportunity allowed itself . Any negativity I have is towards the competition structure, crazy that teams cannot field the best team available, all the players missing against Kilkenny are getting very little game time with the seniors, Cathal O'Neill included.

Doesn't always work like that in the sense of predicting a result. Kilkenny people would probably have believed the opposite was the case before the 2012 Leinster final and that was awkward.

I understand where the GAA are coming from. Burn out is a serious issue IMO. I also understand Village that the competition is undermined by some players being excluded as they are with the seniors. IMO the Minor and U20 should be the same structure as the seniors and players can only play 1 competition.

Galway are no great shakes (the match with Dublin in Salthill was meant to have been awful) I'd take Whelan and Mannion from their options 8-15, rest are a bit hot and cold, same as us.

Henry trying 18 year old Gavin Leee tells you he thinks roughly the same (if he had an abundance of talent 8-15 he would have left Lee with U20s). It looks to me as if Henry might have mis-timed this a bit, the good young lads (Mc Donagh, Lee, Collins etc) aren't ready so he's having to go back to 2017 team with a few more that have been hot and cold (Niland, Concannon, Glennon, Flynn) last 3-4 years.

In fact I see a scenario we will win and imagine we are world beaters, but get hosed in semi.

btw

I doubt there is a single person in Galway that wouldnt have Richie Hogan in their panel if he was fit and available.