Kilkenny GAA Thread

Your having a laugh. Half back line is small slow and no presence. They will get ran out of it come summer.

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Corcoran, Dunne and Blanchfield all starting, which is great. Not sure why that couldn't have been announced initially. Dummy teams for Davy

1 point up at halftime. Dreadful match, the weather isn't helping but it's awful stuff. Corcoran, Blanchfield and Dunne all started. Corcoran has done well and Blanchfield has been OK if suspect in his decision making. Dunne hasn't done well and has given the ball away too often. Drennan has done well with frees but no-one has really stood out. Waterford have hit a lot of wides and are overdoing the short passing in wet conditions. Pitch is a bit raggedy and there's been a good few slips from both sets of players. You can skip this half if you plan on watching the deferred coverage on tg4, I can't stress how bad I thought that half was.

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We got the win but that was a tough slog of a match to watch. Need to use the ball far better from the short puckouts, some really aimless passing from Deegan and Tommy Walsh. Forwards struggled to win their own ball. Drennan was class from frees and was better from play in the 2nd half. Cody had an off day and Dunne was poor but he'll learn from this. Waterford were really negative. Not a match to remember.

For a few years under Cody I used to question our movement and delivery into our forwards. Lyng, having had the u20s brought a change to the way we played with the 20s.

I'm not sure what the plan was for today. As I said earlier the ground and conditions were tough but we landed ball after ball to our half forward line and we won maybe 20% of these at best. The high ball into our full forward line was 3v2 every time. Waterford negative but had they taken their scores better we were in trouble. We dug out the win and hurled somewhat better in the last 20 mins but we still gave their forwards too much space. We stood off them tooo much. We brought a few forwards in but still no richie hogan. Richie has seen no game time yet even though he has been named on the panel. Paddy deegan will need to move further forward than our half back line.

Very poor today but hopefully see a big improvement v Cork in the semi final.

Not a great game today by any means but good to get the win all the same.

Anyone know why Richie Reid, Paddy Mullen, Buckley, Wally were all named on the team list but not there today?

Crazy tactics having Eoin Cody so far away from goal. Without naming names, a few that played today have never been good enough to win an All Ireland and that ain't going to change soon. On the positive Drennan looked good again.

The game was played on Waterfords terms. Bar 3 or 4 obviously desperate deliveries from the defence ultimately the blame is on the forwards in my opinion. They were very slow to reset after tracking the Waterford runs which meant the defenders had nowhere to hit the ball when they looked up. When Waterford were going to this "2" puck out of theirs where they shove 10 or 11 players into the opposite half the game descended into chaos around the middle with no shape to it. When this happened one of our forwards probably needed to take a risk and leave his man and just shove up to their 21 to give an out ball and a bit of danger. We just followed them and left their half empty for too long.

Weather had a big impact on the game but it really was one of the worst games I've ever had the misfortune of seeing live and I'd write it off.

Drennan excellent again. Cody looks tired to me.

Richie Hogan wasn't togged.

Whilst acknowledging Waterford weren't at full strength either, winning with the players we had on the field was a good result although some lads are playing themselves off the team.

Paddy Deegan is desperate .. God we are a slow team

Bill Drennan excellent and Blanchfield has badly needed pace.

We once again struggled to beat ‘Davy-ball’. It was Wexford all over. 28 players in the middle and a pure arm wrestle of running and wrestling. Waterford had probably worked out who they wanted to see hitting the ball out from the KK defence (worst case) and as a result we looked poor and the same players with the same questionable decision making caused an untold amount of stress. Some of the backs just look so awkward at times. I thought considering our lack of success playing out and considering that Waterford had no attacking presence inside the 21, we could have taken a risk and pushed a man on to De Burca and then played it longer to suit the conditions and force waterford to play.

Davy set up to not concede a goal but that was primarily about his ego - he only mentioned it about 5 times on the radio afterwards. The Donegal of hurling are back.

Kilkenny won it when waterford ran out of energy and options.

btw what was in De Burcas ear?

since when were paddy deegan and ritchie reid small , they are two of the most experienced in the game for god sake ,

is there better options in kilkenny at the moment , i know kenny is being tried there , to be fair when i think back to the semi final last year we did get plenty of space inside the 45 before we hit another inevitable wide ,

Just watched match there again , how mediocre we are skill wise is cruel and the lack of athleticism through out the team will kill us .....we seem to be light years of Limerick in developing players that are well conditioned but extremely agile ....to many of our lads are slow to turn very one paced