Kilkenny GAA Thread

You obviously aren't up to speed with the new ruling and round robin format. My reason for suggesting that B Drennan, and the other under 20s with the seniors, should not play in the League Final is to allow them more time to develop. We know what they're capable of but they're lacking physically right now.

If B Drennan doesn't turn out for the Wexford match it won't matter a whole lot because of the new ruling and format. Unlike you I won't wait until the horse has bolted, you have my view now. You constantly criticise players and name players who should be dropped, but never name replacements. I don't know what rules you operate under but it is a 15 player game, not 10 or less!

The farce last year was that some counties, Galway for example, used under 20 players in meaningless senior matches early on and then never used them again. Did Limerick need to use under 20 players considering the brilliant panel they have? Every county knew the rules, which have been changed now thankfully, and they made their own choice. Kilkenny had no choice in been down 3 top class players due to injury and fought manfully throughout the competition to win the title for us.

It's sad really that you continue to begrudge and bemoan our success. Your agenda is not a pro Kilkenny one for some reason.

The steam off one's piss can be a very valuable commodity.

Exactly.

Brilliant response on the U20 Grats, one of the best posts not to mentions responses I've seen on this.

Spot on grats.

Living in Carlow. I will use the train from Portlaoise about 10-30. Returns at 25 past each from 4 to 7 I think. I am an OAP so it suits me

It would depend on how the distillation would go.

Can I ask how did young Brophy do at corner back? Erin's Own boyo 😁

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Interesting points on the current evolution of the game. As others have pointed out here, we need to keep highlighting this mess before the game as we know it is gone completely.

He'd be scolded for the foreseeable future if he was 😁

Hardy boyo 😁

Seemingly the U15s got an awful trimming at the weekend off Tipp.

Kilkenny are already guaranteed at least a quarter final (where they will meet a qualifier from the "weaker" counties) in minor and the winner of the KK v Galway match on Friday will decide who goes straight to semi. I hear Ed Mc Dermott may be back sooner than had been feared and if so, will be a huge addition in later stages.

The U20 four team group is essentially an exercise in trying out stuff, as all 4 teams stay in competition after their 3 matches, for that reason, I don’t think senior panellists will see any action this weekend.

Yes, I remember hearing we were well beaten in U16 by Galway last year, but the minor team seems to be tipping along nicely, so here's hoping

Eoin cody?

In 2018. with an another old Limerick Supporter, I attended the All Ireland Semi Final. With ten minutes plus injury time left we were six points down and Cork seemed Home and Hosed. My friend said 'let us go, it is the same story', But I said 'hold on' as no team could stay running and hand passing (often throwing) the ball for the full game at the rate Cork were doing it. Almost as soon as the words came out of my mouth the arse fell out of Cokr's challenge and they were ran off the field in extra time. Furthermore in the 2021 Final, Cork scored a goal in the first minutes. If you check the video you will see there was no less than nine hand passes/throws in the build up to that goal. Yet the fact that Cork do this so much is never highlighted. In the last four Finals Limerick have played they have scored seven goals and one of those was played a week before Christmas, in conditions hardly conducive to scoring goals. When Cork and Kilkenny played in there was no goal scored, in 2003 they each scored one goal, in 2004 they scored no goal between and I think the scored one goal each in 2006 and yet where was all the clamour then for goals back then.

I notice that much of the said clamour is coming from Tipperary. It just might have something to do with the fact that Limerick have handed Tipp their butts on a plate in seven out of their last ten Championship games they played and Kiely gave them one of them by inexplicably not starting Lynch, Hannon, Mulcahy and Hegarty.. When Tipp were cutting the living crap out of opponents and maiming players like Frankie Walsh of Waterford and his namesake Tommy from your own county, even more so, we did not hear any big roaring for rule change emanating from the Premier County, but of course they were winning. One ex Tipperary player, who is actually a Limerick man and whose nephew played on the Limerick Under 20 team last week, seems to be particularly exercised by all this

Furthermore, what was so wrong with The Munster Final, The two All Ireland Semi Finals and the Final of last year. They were good tough games in which nobody seemed to purposely clock any other player, as so often happened in the past.