Kilkenny GAA Thread

It's sad that you can make a personal remark like that and then someone 'thanks' you for it.

Some very good hurlers on show there. Centre back sweeper was v good, thought the left half back was motm. Some first goal from Kieran’s.

I didn't question that it was genuine. The need for stuff to be personalised is all I questioned. Anyway, enjoy the rest of the day. Not worth sending it here feeling sorry for someone you don't know.

Unless you are slower than I think you know full well what I meant

To paraphrase what you said yourself funny how you picked on one phrase and ignored the rest

Congratulations to St. Kieran's winners, well deserved. 3-11 from play compared to 0-6. After recent All Ireland wins for Ballyhale, the U20's and the camogie team, a lot of good work being done at club, school and county level

Just one winner of the supposedly fabled Harty Cup has gone on to win the All Ireland in the last 10 years.

KK v Wat

D Brennan

T Walsh C DelaneyP Walsh

C Kenny R Reid C Buckley

C Fogarty P Mullen

B Ryan J Donnelly P Deegan

B Drennan M Keoghan E Cody

Subs

D Mason

D ONeill

D Corcoran

E Cody

D Blanchfield

R Corcoran

A Murphy

W Walsh

T Clifford

R Hogan

G Dunne

Mason sub goalie after being released a few weeks ago. Tallis is maybe injured. I'm happy for Dean tho. The team done well the last day so no big suprise. Delaney needs plenty of games so it's no harm he's playing. Hopefully it's a good match sunday. It would be good to get the win and a game against cork who are flying it.Waterford will be down a good few regulars but Davey will want a much better performance so he will.

Would've been quicker to say it's not true.

I got serious stick for a thread I created about the Harry Cup before - I thought the recent-ish hyping of it was borderline creepy and got shut down big time!

This is possibly the biggest load of off-topic nonsense written on this subject which is not an inconsiderable achievement. This is not an inter-county competition so specious comparisons don't wash.

Stick to the point. This is a schools' competition. In that context St Kieran's has an inter-county pick, or to be more precise an inter-counties pick. They will never play another school which has players from 20+ clubs. When St Kieran's did play a similar team in the Leinster final they were not good enough.

The Munster winners had players from 5/6 neighbouring parishes as was the case last year. That'd be like Johnstown winning a Senior A provincial title. Accusing schools like this of failure while in the same breath accusing other posters of being lazy and ignorant is a joke.

This point has been made ad nauseam, but as a counterfoil to the blowhards trying to big their win into some kind of achievement is a point definitely worth repeating.

A kilkenny team winning really does get under your skin ,love it

Yes, I think Davy Fitz will definitely play a sweeper. Hopefully Lyng has a plan to take it on. Regards our team, I was expecting Blanchfield and D Corcoran to have made their mark at this stage but we really haven't seen much of them. R Hogan does need to be tried.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a good match. The league has being very poor and I don't think we've learned a huge amount. Waterford down a good few bodies through injury and suspension which will definitely weaken them but looking at it their half back line is strong and Bennet,dessie,jack Prendergast and Patrick Curran all have plenty of experience. Theres no doubt this will be the first test for lyng unlike the Tipp match where we had a safety net if we lose tomorrow the league will be over. It won't be the end of the world but with Waterford down prunty,Gleeson,barron,Mikey Kiely we would be disappointed if we don't get a win or a draw at home.

What is interesting is lyng is still going with a host of the experience lads. I know injury and precautions have players out but from the all Ireland only Tommy Walsh and Richie Reid hold their positions from 1-9. Lyng is moving players around trying to see what formation will work the best. With all teams only playing 2 in the full forward line padriag is playing the Barry Nash role and he has being very effective the last few games granted the opposition was very poor. Tomorrow should be a much better test for this team and players trying to break into the team like mullen and drennan. I think Davey is over complicating things at the moment and it was bizarre looking at dessie hugging the far sideline trying to create space for the player inside. I'd be suprised if Waterford aren't up for this and give Bennet and dessie ball to try punish us. Their discipline has being very poor and can't continue into the championship.

We are slowly improving the short game but still inclined to give terrible ball from defense. The ball delivered needs to more a forwards ball. Id be fierce dissapointed if we made a hero out of tadgh de burca . I think darren Brennan is better at puckouts than scruff but he's definitely suspect under the high ball.Hopefully we have our homework done on and we get a good performance.