Kilkenny GAA Thread

A win for us in the league match v Waterford will give us a semi final v Cork.

The team i would like to see if the injured lads are available bar Mullen and TJ;

Murphy

Butler

Lawlor

T Walsh

Blanchfield

Reid

P Walsh

P Mullen

R Corcoran/C Kenny

B Ryan

Donnelly

Deegan

Drenan

Mossy

E Cody

Dont think Lyng will start corcoran so maybe Kenny or have Fogarty in his place but hopefully Blanchfield will get the nod and ditto butler and Lawlor if fit.

If R Hogan is fit then he needs at least 20 mins v Waterford. Otherwise theres no point in him having him on the panel. Would like to see Gearoid Dunne getting 20 mins as well. Not sure how Buckley is after the weekend but Lyng seems to like him there.

Guillane nearly always tries to kick the ball after, as he clearly did v KK in '18 and last year, which is not a breach of the rule

Contrary to rumours, Conor Heary is still on the senior hurling panel.

To drop the hurl intentionally is a foul, doesn't matter a bit about kicking the ball afterwards

I think it's on TG4 Sport YouTube

They lost 2-15 to 17. That's all I know

In fairness the schools finals wouldn't get much viewers either outside of the participating counties.

Busy few weeks coming up is right and its great for us supporters. I don't know much about the minor but last year was certainly a huge disappointment.Alot of the best Laois and offally players are overage this year I think.Hopefully bergin and his management team would of learned alot from last years disaster.

Alot of eyes will be on the u20s and the players will want to prove last year wasnt a fluke. Theres no doubt we got the breaks and luck along the way but they still had to win these matches. Last year is in the past now.Preparation with the full group probably hasn't being ideal with kierans again involved in the final friday and Clifford,Rowe,drennan and dunne with the seniors have done little or nothing with the 20s. They're getting great exposure with the seniors which is great.ive said it here already that when push comes to shove the u20s will have their full compliment although drennan will make it very hard if he continues the way he's going. It will be hard but they'll manage something. The u20s start before the senior and the senior have Westmeath first so he'll play the first few u20s anyway. Lyng managed the u20s last year so he will know how important it is to get a bit success at that level.Cathal beirne,bill Hughes and Harry shine are back from injury which will be a big help.Paddy Langton has recovered from injury. Hopefully denis Walsh will be ready. Theres definitely no guarantees we will be as successful as last year. We kind of slipped in under the radar last year. Wexford will be decent again and galway will be very good.

I think lyng will trust what he has at senior for the early stages anyway. Tj and mullen could come into the attack.Realistically the two big matches we have In leinster are galway at home and Wexford away.Sunday could be our last match before the championship so I would like to see our team taking shape. I would like to see Corcoran and blanchfield getting a run out on the half back line.paddy mullen has done nothing wrong in the few matches but the last few teams have being poor so we haven't learned much about players so that's why it would be good to win sunday and get a home game against cork and then possibly a league final against limerick if we won that.That would be great preparation heading into the championship.We are slowly getting better with the short game. Our puckouts and movement will hopefully be worked hard on over the next few months.

We haven't mentioned David herity here who's doing a fantastic job with Kildare. I really liked listening to him anytime I heard him talk. I'd really like to see him involved with kk at some stage but I'd be suprised if a few bigger teams don't come after him over the next few years.

I think we've moved on from Shefflin at this stage with regards to ever to him being the senior manager. Plenty of others have showing their desire to help out with various Kilkenny teams. Hopefully D Lyng gets his deserved rewards for being so willing to take over the hot seat from B Cody. I'd also commend former greats like P Barry, M Rice and JJ Delaney for throwing in their lot for the good of Kilkenny hurling.

Are people really putting all blame on Henry during his time with Ttown when you see their record over last number of years?? To me I had Glenmore as favourites to win Intermediate that year as I'm from a neighbouring club and could visibly see and hear what was going on that Declan Wall had such an impact with them.

Anyway Bit harsh if your judging Henry on that. The current Shamrocks success was started by him and he took over the team when there was issues off the field with the club but steered everyone together in the one direction and they have hardly looked back since.

Lyng had 2 very poor terms with u20's in his 1st 2 years although it was covid disruptive but it was same for all teams too.

I would hold Judgement on Henry until we see how his term ends in Galway as ultimately it will all come down to knockout championship, yes they don't have much strength in depth it seems at the moment but time will tell on this. I thought he got all he could out of them in that Limerick semi final personally last year but Henry doesn't do moral victories and he defines meaningful Silverware as success.

By all accounts D Lyng is very good at communicating with the players. Some seemed to have lost confidence in recent years but are back in form so far under Lyng. All the more reason that no player, young or old, should be ruled out. Let's see what all the players on the panel can do during the coming year.

Good Luck to Kieran's tomorrow, this should be a high-quality match. There is also bad blood between the two schools as Kieran’s feel hard done by, forced into losing a replay 3 years ago in U16 final after winning the first day, but being pinned for playing a sub too many in closing seconds of extra time. 3 or 4 from each team playing tomorrow.

Interesting one, given what I feel were the lousy accusations aimed at Kieran’s by some earlier. I had a look at Athenry's team from semi. Just one player from Athenry. And at a quick glance the other 14 players make journeys between 10 and 30 mins to attend. 13 of the squad come fromClarinbridge, a 20 min drive over poor roads, when they could easily scoot up to Oranmore in 5 mins on the main Galway road.

But hey, Kieran’s yeh!

Yep, good luck to St Kierans and sod the begrudgers.