Kilkenny GAA Thread

Shefflins 2 yellows and the ensuing hullabolloo spring to mind

Will be interesting to see how two quarters go and whether the apparent gap in standards between the provinces materialises.

Hard to know, but way too much was made of the supposed gulf in quality between the two respective provincial finals at U20 this year.

On the other hand, I feel two easy wins for Cork and Clare would leave me very pessimistic about our prospects.

But in fairness to the previous poster I'd be a bit concerned about manager who needed a stats man to point out a player labouring as badly as you describe.

It’s what I thought. Is that official or do I determine that?

So either Clare or Wexford in the semifinal. Kilkenny would have taken that at the start of the year

I think I'm right in saying that the semi-final against Clare will be the first time the two counties will have met in the championship since 2006.

An exciting finish covers over two poor enough games but like ourselves in the leinster final the winning teams won't mind too much. A couple of howlers from a few of the goalies stand outs but the galway goalie had a much better game.As I said Henry has no magic wand and galway were lucky cork were so wasteful and the horgan incident probably backfired. They'll regret not bringing on cadogan earlie aswell.Cork were so wasteful it was criminal. Lehane missed a few frees and the head kind of went. Whelan is a serious player but donaghoe having a look around instead of gobbling up that ball for the goal sums things up for cork. I couldn't understand how did not try pull the gakway big defenders around and put a man marker on cathal mannion but mannion went to town near the end.

Wexford will also be disgusted it was a game they very easily could of won but the two recks were big losses along with roc. Have they trouble getting over the line? Chin should of had a penalty near the end. Clares subs very influential bit fannings howler was turning point.Clare had a lot of dirty petrol in the tank as I thought after coming down from that epic match with Limerick.wexford had their tactics spot on and I thought the 2 rocks going off turned this game cause Taylor,Shane o donnell and tk really came into it in the last ten mins

Cody will be giddy with the thoughts of dropping missiles in on the full forward because clare looked vulnerable with the long ball in on their full back line but this should bring on clare and although I'd give us a chance we've a poor record against them. We need to get our match ups right lads like Ryan Taylor,Shane o donnel and tk are key players.looking at kelly he reads the game so well he stands just outside the rucks and runs on to the breaking ball. He'll probably go with browne,butler and fogarty to sacrifice their game to nullify these lads.

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Great post although I was wondering about the "poor record against them". I don't put any store in league results, and we haven't played them in champo since Lohan was on the team (unless I'm forgetting a meeting since 2006?), so can't see that being a factor. I think they have better hurlers overall than us but we have a lot more battle in us than Wexford showed today, if it's in the mix near the end it will be some craic, two teams that would go through a wall for their managers.

The thing about wanting to drop ball on the edge of the square is understandable after today, but I hope Cody's instinct to play all route one is kept in check, our biggest weakness is when we get predictable. Quilligan is unlikely to have as bad a day twice in a row. Varying our attack is our best hope. That said, great day for tj to be in full forward looking for trouble.

as i say i reckon some of the current first team are running on empty .....

Even though Galway were never led yesterday they look disorganised and won it through individual plays rather than any semblance of a game plan. They will be well beaten by Limerick.

The other semi-final is Kilkenny's to lose at this stage you would think.

Personal opinion. Don't check bookmakers. Limerick we're seventh favourites to win the 2018 All Ireland so the bookmakers saying it doesn't make it so.

But you missed the bit where I said I don't check the bookmakers before offering an opinion.

By the way the 2018 stuff was easily googleable. It was an obvious one to show that bookmakers' odds are often baloney in the end.

You would forget that O loughlins club goes out to Johnswell village.