Kilkenny GAA Thread

Jesus girl. You’re expending way too much energy on a trivial matter. Did you get dumped by a Kieran’s lad or some such?

With Billy Drennan's league performances I don't see how you can drop him from the panel.

If your referring to my selection I clearly have him involved.

As I said - I'm deliberately leaving out the under 20s in the hope that they can be left to concentrate on the under 20 championship.

Yeah, and I explained what I was doing in my original post and again in reply to your post.

Totally agree. If Kilkenny play without Drennan and Dunne it completely undermines the competition and makes it hard to gauge the standard.

Brassil and Bergin are gone by all accounts

Seems Evan Shefflin may never make the breakthrough to County if he's gone, a shame because he has been that good a club hurler over last 4/5 years.

That would be a big surprise. He's well worth a spot on the panel.

I agree. Hopefully it's not true.

Care to pick your panel for the coming championship and nail your colours to the mast? All of us could pick one or two who should or should not be there. The Manager hasn't that luxury.

I have to agree re: Shefflin over Buckley if we are talking about wing back fighting for a place on the panel.

In saying that I do remember that really good Kerry hurler Shane Conway playing for UCC one night against DCU and he gave Shefflin an awful roasting speed wise and Evan was subbed off after 25mins.

His acceleration & athleticism might be coming against him for the very top level of hurling that’s needed nowadays.

A brilliant club hurler though.

Alot of hurling on TV this weekend hopefully the weather improves and we see better quality of games.I know teams are trying to time their run after what happened Waterford last year and i dont know if some teams want a league final a couple of weeks before championship. Its probably easier for us we have a few teams we're expected to beat but in munster you have to be ready from the get go.i know it didnt do us any harm when we were winning all irelands but we had strength in depth. Maybe if the gap was a little longer between league and championship things would be different but there's being a lot of shadow boxing and teams trying to blood players.The championship is about 7 weeks away so managers will be starting to settle on their best 15. If we win the next 2 matches we will probably reach a league semi final. Lyng wouldn't say no to a league final.

First up is dublin sunday. We have a good record against them at home and id expect a win. I think we will have learned from the tipp defeat.dublin have done well considering the players who arent available. Donal Burke has being excellent and he has a free role and if he's left unmarked he will punish so I'd expect maybe Mikey butler if fit could be detailed to nullify his influence.Dublin still have good defenders but they will need big performances from Cian Boland,Ronan Hayes and Sutcliffe. Michael Donahoe is rebuilding and he will be given time.

Kk have given alot of players game time. We need to start settling on our two wing backs soon so they're familiar playing together. Hopefully Ronan Corcoran gets a run but Paddy mullen has done well and the next couple of matches will be a much better test.The forwards worked hard against Laois and will be disappointed they didn't get a few goals.Drennan will get more attention so this will be great experience. Himself and Billy Ryan are very reliant on their left and defenders will pick up on this but hopefully a forward or two puts their hand up for inclusion.

Maybe Burke wont play he pulled up with a hamstring the last day. Butler had a knock the last day so he might not be risked. Huw Lawlor is out this weekend so maybe Delaney will be 3 again. Richie hogan could make the bench and village87 pet conor Fogarty is available.

Conor Fogerty midfield 😁 oooh Jazus some folk won't be happy 👍