Kilkenny GAA Thread

And replace them with who exactly? This perception that we have ready made replacements is outrageous. One of our subs today is 18. Kenny? Clifford?

Nobody has put their hand up and said they're ready. We don't have the depth to replace the losses of Carey, Maher, Leahy and Browne from the panel let alone the notion that we can drop another 9 players

Good man. What 9 replacements would you bring in?

Even more than us, Derek Lyng, his management and all of the players will be feeling it badly after today.

If it was hard for us to watch it was surely gut wrenching for lyng.

I've no doubt they will leave no stone unturned in trying to rectify the problems that were evident today. Championship starts shortly and here's hoping we can prime ourselves to change things around between now and whenever we meet that Limerick team again.

Nail on the head here. We don't have these phantom replacements.

Of the 4 you mentioned there, Carey is a big loss in terms of physicality and pace. Hopefully he'll return to the fold at some stage

Jaysus I know, you wouldn't blame him

Jesus I'm not sure what you can learn getting beaten by 12 points only that you aren't at the level required. They would do the same again if they played again and against every other hurling team in Ireland right now.

I was expecting Kilkenny to put it up to Limerick today but the gulf in class was crystal clear to see. Limerick could have won by more only for being so wasteful towards the end. No team are beating them this year.

We've been cleaned out by teams going for long puckouts so often the last few years particularly against the likes of Waterford and Wexford. Also we quite simply didn't have the players on the pitch to hit it in long. It might be an option if TJ and Wally were on the pitch but they weren't.

Our puckouts do need to be better though, hitting it short to the full backline didn't work with the players either unable to pick out the pass or unwilling to try and run the ball up the pitch. I'd like to see Brennan get a few matches in goal at this stage for his puckouts alone. He seems better able to aim them to players further out than the full backline.

I don't want to read too much into one match, and calling for nine lads to be dropped and the manager to leave over a league match before he had ever managed a single championship game is mental.

Buti agree with the last poster: whatever about the performance, the lack of battle was just unacceptable and the one thing that really depressed me about today. When we play Galway later this month there had better be a huge reaction from this team. If they aren't hurt by that performance they would be better off packing it in.

Just to pick up on a few things you mentioned. I'm in no way disrespecting anyone who plays inter county hurling because everyone involved gives so much but conor delaney is not the answer to replace padraig walsh. Conor doesn't have the pace of for example butler so he wouldn't be out with his man. If you're not a tigrish defender who is able to be right with a corner forward then it'll be the same result.

I agree re Cody. The touch and speed is just not there at the minute. If we are trusting Billy drennan with a corner forward slot then he needs to contribute more from open play. He's young and excellent on the frees but we need more. That goes for all of our forwards. Blanchfield got a savage baptism today against Limerick and that will do him no harm at all. Physically not a team in Ireland can match Limerick currently so we have to up every facet of our game

Plenty of good young hurlers out there

get back to what kilkenny is all about skilled hurlers

kilkenny Hurling destroyed by Brian Cody

more important that you can run than hurl

now we pay the price for his philosophy

Then we turn to someone that had no experience in managing a team playing his club mate showed that

corcoran for fogarty

Gaffney for keoghan

Herty For Reid

john Walsh for Walter

evan Cody for buckley

conor Delaney he the best of full back line in league he left out

There is also 2 or 3 from last year under 20

lyng had great chance to build his own team

instead he tried to patch things up

lis Howard made a statement many years ago that Brian Cody would destroy kilkenny hurling everyone said she was just a bad loser but how right she was

Then you here bring back Cody

after the last 7 years of puke hurling

Firstly you play a game that suits the player's you have.mikey butler for example is a great defender but not one for short puck outs IMO.on the other side why do we not press the limerick full back line on their puck out puck outs.

Conor Delaney way above any of the 3 in my opinion

last 7 years lost 3 all irelands

2016 stood on side line with arms folded done nothing when tipp destroying us

noting to do with he picked his own son who had no right to be there and also picked Jackie and he not fit to play

2019 no idea what to do when down to 14

lucky last year only one of the greatest performances out of tj that I ever saw

he had the greatest team ever that includes this Limerick team

when fogarty went he had no idea

When I said Corcoran it’s the midfielder who has being outstanding for shamrocks midfield

Sorry about puke hurling packing your defence and just hit the ball up in the air to me is puke hurling

we have depended on the genius of the greatest hurler ever in Tj

go back to last years all Ireland and anyone who put out the midfield 2 village players

who were so far of the pace