Kilkenny GAA Thread

Kk will be very happy with that considering their limitations up front. Tj was wonderful today but reliance on him to win puck outs and spank frees over won't win the all ireland vs limerick.

The ref added to what was an intense free taking competition. This suited kk all day long.

Galway were very poor and showed their frail mentality.

The handshake stuff was embarrassing. Shefflin was the bigger man. Cody doing his best to show his true colours. He might have plenty of Celtic crosses but his name is tarnished. A quick shake at the start of the game and the whole thing was put to bed. Petty stuff.

More childish talk about the hand shake i suppose Ireland the land of gossip rumours. It has covered up Owens not doing anything about the stamping in the first half like the foul on Colin Fennelly in the 2015 all ireland it was also a clearly sending off offence

I wouldn't criticise Owens for not seeing the stamp, it was hard to pick up in real time without the benefit of replays, possibly the linesman should have alright.

There's no gossip. The handshake moment was live on television and we all saw what went on. That it doesn't suit your agenda doesn't change that. Reality still exists independently outside. Rumours are not needed when it's unfolding live on TV. It's the people claiming there's nothing in it are in fact the rumour spreaders.

Explain what you mean it does not suit my agenda i say other people have agenda to keep it going. They shook hands people on here must be into physology.

Thoughts this morning; Mikey Butler had a great game but Cody failing to make his way to Henry is just embarrassing. What message is that sending out to young people by icons and role models.

Can't get my head around this handshake how people are so obsessed with it there two men wanting there teams to win it the Kilkenny way "stubbornness" is what drives Kilkenny to win . Not one a these men want to fold it looks that way. Anyway they shook hands what more do people want a big hug and a kiss that ain't going to happen they've too much respect for eachother to do that . Move on

Cody could have walked down the sideline at FT shook hands nipped the silly situation in the bud, instead he choose to walk around the pitch avoiding Henry like someone walking around a nightclub avoiding someone they recently broke up with, as I said on another thread when you factor in the personal grief Henry has recently been through I think its horrendous carry on from BC.

Loads of criticism after the wexford game about our use of the ball.Much cleverer last night and thought we used the bench really well. Galway tried to sit really deep and choke up full forward line but to many of them just let themselves down which isn't anything new.They just seem to be a group who if you let hurl can hurt any team .but not sure they have that real hunger that it takes to cope in real championship.

Ref gave out early yellow cards to Kilkenny players then seemed to readjust how he was going to ref game and starting letting dangerous tackles go without any card.Galway very lucky to finish without at least one red.

We will be difficult team to beat in a semifinal 3in a row completed.with what is possibly our weakest panel in years.is some testament to the spirit of that group of players and management.

Cody /shefflin thing is a side show of little interest to me .media need to move on lohan and davy wouldn't look at each other and it was talked about less

1st off Thought Eoin Murphy was outstanding last night he has proved once again last night that he's the best shotstopper in the country, he was very measured with his puckouts aswell hopefully he can keep it that way when pressure will come on in the Semi Final...

Backline did all they could have been asked to do great to see Reid and Deegan's use of ball improve massively, Thought game bypassed Fogarty completely being honest but he worked hard as he always does while I'd say Kenny won't see anymore action around Midfield this year....A Mullen was very sharp and looks like getting back to somewhere near his best, Leahy coming in from the cold done well and that 45 mins or so he played will have done him world of Good....TJ very reliable last night didn't miss a beat with frees and won some hard ball when was needed....E Cody was being constantly fouled by whoever was marking him and didn't get enough fair treatment even though we had a higher free count.

We will need to improve massively month's time but they will have good time to work on thing's in training break won't do lads like TJ any harm.

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I think Cody didn't do a thing wrong after the match. He walked onto the pitch at a 45 degree angle in somewhat the direction of Henry, and was glancing and peripheral vision of what stance Henry was taking. Who would go over to someone with a stance and a scowl like that? And Cody could well be the panto villain if he had of gone straight to Henry with people saying Cody rubbing it in/ can only be honourable when he wins.

I've never seen any manager take the stance Henry had last night. Rooted to the line, arms folded, without even going out onto the pitch to console his own Galway players.

I'd love to know, especially from anyone who could see the handshake live, was the reason Henry was shaking his head because of a photographer or journalist etc hounding him with a question that we couldn't see on tv? Or was it disappointment in Cody?

I watched the handshake thing back this morning. I honestly think cody should of just went over after it shook hands and moved on and there'd be nothing about it today. I do think Henry made a little more out of it by shaking the head and looking for more to be made of it. Barry hickey came over to cody and asked him did u shake hands and cody can clearly be heard saying its up to Henry to come to me.i tried uploading the video but it's too big to upload it said but anyone who goes back and watches it can clearly hear it.

I was dissapointed with galway and said leaving salthill Henry has a huge job on his hands. I thought think there's still a flakeyness in their team. The stamp was dirty he should be cited for it cause he knew what he was at. Richie was hit high twice in that sequence and cooney should of walked altho he done nothing during the match. Flynns one on lawlor was also a red if you're watching the other matches this year.I was delighted to see fogarty back he was a loss around the middle for his workrate.Hopefully padraig will be back the next day. Lads will know in training places are up for grabs and its a very open panel we had lads like fogarty,leahy and browne with nearly no time parachuted in the team. We've got to the semi final the last few years we need to kick on now to show progression.

I still worry about Tommy Walsh. It's hard to believe how far blanchfield had slipped down the ladder after a good league.Lawlor is really learning every trick of a full back and he used all his experience and whelan left the hand on the back and owens had no option but to give a free. It's a worry we scored so little from play but this was an arm wrestle and I'd prefer to win a bad one than lose a good one. We've scored fairly decent to date and got plenty of goals so I wouldn't be overly worried about that. Clare or wexford possibly in a semi final game is a winnable game for both teams but I wouldn't like to go up and get hammered in a final.

We definitely Improved from the last few days altho that wouldn't be hard. We'll be a tough nut for anyone in the semi final.Thank god we didn't revert to route one when the pressure came on so the trick now is to keep the head the next day when the pressure is on.

Eoin Codys mother is Henry's sister. No relation to Brian AFAIK.

Henry made the most out of it.