Kilkenny GAA Thread

He's top class but I'd have Quaid as the best in the country in the last 3 years or so, Murphy is best in the country in terms of point blank saves, an all time great display v Limerick in 2018 but Quaid is top of the tree in terms of puckouts and never puts a foot wrong, reminds me of Cluxton a bit in that regard and his influence on the Limerick team, for example and its nitpicking but the goal Tipp got vs Kilkenny in the league this year, i can't remember the last time Quaid made an error like that or any error which led to a score.

James Maher is supposed to be going travelling next year as well .

Are the 3 lads teachers? heard rumours about lads in a few counties who are mostly teachers, alot of them going to Dubai apparently.

Yes indeed, Danny Neville easily Limericks best Footballer went to Dubai. We might well have won the Munster Final the year Tipp won it, if we had him but there you go. Not blaming any of these Lads of course, it is their life.

His wife also teaches in Dublin.

The new Dublin manager should put the call in, Dublin crave a class corner forward who can open defences. He owes us nothing and in my opinion has been treated abysmally in recent years

I thought Richie was involved with agency that looked after teachers that worked out in Dubai other places.

thought he was finished with that a good few years ago. Most of them are expected, be disappointed if Carey is gone. Short in a lot of positions for next year

Is there any basis to any of these "retirements" being bandied about? I'm sure there's a number of players who will consider calling it a day, but I've certainly heard nothing official as of yet.

As for the Cody thing, I've heard so many different scenarios over the last few days it's got to the point of make believe:

-McGarry and Gorta are gone

-McGarry and Gorta are taking over

-Lyng or Eddie or Herity or DJ or Adrian Finan are taking over

-Shefflins leaving Galway and coming home - the prodigal son

FFS, I wouldn't be surprised if Cody's not leaving at all. Nothing official so it's all at least 2nd hand information if not 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th........made up!

It's only 5 days since the final, and we've gone doolally already.

This is not directed at anyone in particular, just a rant

You're not wrong, but if he's staying he'll announce it in his own time, which doesn't help either. Brian is not one to have his hand forced

TJ has been outstanding for us in the last two games. We should all be grateful that Cody had the insight to persevere with him when his form wasn`t what we all expect it to be. You`re a broken record. When we play well you`ll come on here and praise anybody except Brian Cody and when we lose it`s Cody`s fault and he should be replaced. I`d say it`s been a tough 24 years for you as a Kilkenny supporter to have every success stained by your resentment for the manager.

Was there even a county board meeting held last night?? 🤨

We should be grateful to Cody for persisting with TJ Reid is some take.

Was he as patient with Tommy or Henry?

The character and belief Cody instils in teams is magnificent but no one in KK should be blinkered to the fact that we are being consistently outthought and outplayed in last 15 mins of tight matches. Being in position to win a tight game 10-15 mins out and doing so, has been a hallmark of Kilkenny teams for 100 years. Now we invariably lose tight ones. There is a pattern here and we’d be dumb to just shrug and believe it’s just bad luck.

The AI was there to be won after our 2nd goal, we needed composure and guile, but we got aerial bombardment that Limerick comfortably dealt with to build a 5 pts lead. In Reid and Hogan and Mullen we had the players with the class and guile to work the third goal we needed. Instead, we went long in to Walsh (some early success but nothing in last 15), Keoghan and Ryan (who between them, barely won a ball all day).

We blew a golden chance to beat a serious team playing at their near best.

I make no apologies for also saying if one or the other of Cody or Reid retire, I hope it's Cody

Maybe too just a bit of respect for the football and when that's all over, time for stuff like this. When God made time, he made plenty of it etc Sure, what's a week or so in the span of two dozen years.