Kilkenny GAA Thread

He's already had a go at Fogerty before he even played a game 🤣 Sad.

Your either blind or like an anti-vaxxer just looking for information to back up your theory as brookville gave examples from yesterday in their post at 5.59.

Nicky Rackard went to school in St Kierans.

We were talking about last Saturday not 80 years ago.

Eoin kelly/donnacha fahy/podge delaney all came to kierans from other schools during my time there mainly in 4th year when already established as excellent hurlers who got onto the team straight away..I'm.sure there are more that I can't think of at the moment

I see Tomas Mulcahy commented on the Cork crowd booing Cian Lynch when he was introduced the other night. Kilkenny players have been booed down in Cork for the last few years. Some will probably excuse this as a small minority, but you wouldn’t hear a small minority in a crowded stadium. Cork unfortunately are not the only ones.

His brother much better hurler

No matter how he hurled winter or summer he never as poor as Conor Browne or Luke Scanlon now Cody gone we wouldn’t have to look at them again

if fogarty appears for kilkenny this year we are going backwards

Fogarty is 33. Has been poor for Kilkenny since the greats of Fenelly, JJ, Tommy, Riche Power etc all retired. He is not the answer now at 33.

Kilkenny have not won An Ireland since 2015. This is a results driven business, we as hurling supporters, volunteers, investors are entitled to our opinion. I am expressing my opinion on who I rate and do not rate. I base my opinion purely on what I see, not on hype or other platforms. If I do not have back up for opinions i entirely agree on members calling me out

This does not support your claim there is wholesale poaching going on.

Young lads who love hurling probably just want to go there. I find it hard to believe Kierans send delegations around to houses of good young hurlers to "poach" players, American College football style.

I wish my wife was as naive.

Well it is what happened in 2020. Some county minor players from that year who never transferred school were also contacted but they stayed where they are. If you had kids at that age hurling you would have heard what went on.

As someone who knows more about schools hurling and county underage hurling than any other poster on this page, it amazes me how you always play dumb on this. It shouldn't be allowed happen and makes kierans practically a county squad. And with so many students not getting on teams in their and usually about 25 plus on the bench for each match it can't help other students to see other players coming into the school and parachuted into the starting line up before them. Might be a reason why the haven't won anything in the last few years.

Cork won on Saturday night for two main reasons, in my opinion:

1. They had to win, Limerick didn't. Win or lose Limerick would have been unaffected. A Cork loss would have hit them hard. Cork targeted the game, Limerick didn't.
2. Limerick were flying early in the game but tired noticeably. I'd say they are in the middle of a ferocious block of training and won't be revealing their true hand until championship.

Kilkenny can't carry 34 and 35 year olds in their starting 6 forwards. I don't see the benefit in Richie Hogan starting anymore. I've said for the last few years now you use him for the last 20 minutes when his brain can win a game against a tiring defence. If you start him against a fresh defence they can just out work, out muscle and out run him. But put him in on a corner back with 50 mins in his legs and Richie can change a game.

TJ starts. Always. But it has to be acknowledged that even TJ is visibly starting to slow down. Along with JJ he's our greatest ever player and in my opinion undoubtedly our greatest ever hurler. But time waits for no man.