Kilkenny GAA Thread

Have your coffee at home.

Not meant to be smart it’s you who has to be smart,don’t buy prices go down. Are the minors waiting on Laois v Dublin tomorrow night.

Five euro for a portion of chips ,is it a crowd from Cork have the catering.

Is Jimmy Meagher still involved with the shamrocks.

home venue would be great after the long trek across the Sliabh Bloom alps yesterday. The Offaly venue ( the faithful fields) is some set up,there’s about four fields with floodlights and probably two more without floods.KK should definitely have a pitch for every intercounty grade, like the land in Dunmore is only waste ground anyway.

€12 euro might seem pricey for 2 coffess and 2 bars but you'd need to see what they are being charged by the county board before passing judgement.

Great match between Limerick and Waterford yesterday, Waterford wasted to many chances and were the better team for a lot of the match. Calum Lyons is an outstanding hurler as is Stephen Bennett. Dessie Hutchinson and Montgomery missed an awful lot between them. Waterford are the one team that can match Limerick and credit to Davy Fitzgerald he had Waterford spot on, tactically and physically. The goal was also a shambles, De Burca(poor fella) was down and 3 backs and the goalie had a chance to sort it out.

Munster championship is an outstanding spectacle, the 2 games next week are massive for Waterford and Clare. Clare have a chance v Limerick if they sort out the full back line and goalie.

Fully agree with above post. The championship is completely under the radar. Papers full of Rugby and Soccer.

3 outstanding matches on next weekend. Clare v Limerick, Cork v Waterford and Kilkenny v Galway and id also love to see Wexford v Antrim.

How many will be on TV

Wouldn't agree Waterford tactics were spot on..they had an extra man for most of the second half and seemed to think they needed goals..sent in a lot of high balls into the square when they could easily have worked a point..I think they should have won and left it behind them..

Tadgh de burca is terribly unlucky

I would be of the opinion that unless you have an unbelievable level of physicality - that you're just not going to play your way through that Limerick midfield/defence. You're basically just trying to play Limericks game with smaller men. An educated long ball, into a properly resourced full forward line is a better percentage call I think - considering the danger of what happens when it breaks down further out the field. Of course it's a mix and match - but in general I think it made sense. What didn't make sense was going for goals when the margin was so slight.

Limerick players all look like muscled up sprinters and sprinters lack stamina. Waterford had ample opportunities to win yesterday and blew it by going long for goals and lacking composure. Bennett`s 21 yard free miss and immediate foul on Byrnes was a ridiculous 2 point turnaround. This whole ball into hand, retain possession and match them physically is not how you beat them. We saw it again yesterday. They commit large numbers to the opponent in possession sometimes four or five. Teams need to stop worrying about retaining possession and move the ball quickly into open space, put their defenders on the back foot and make them think twice about committing.

See Michael Carey is around does anybody have a clue is it for a short visit or long term.

First big match of the year coming this weekend. Win this match and it probably puts the winners in a leinster final. It was a no win situation against Westmeath,the match was over after 20 minutes. They got the job done early picked up no injuries,got a game into tj and we move on.

The game lulled after half time and everyone just wanted the final whistle. The only negative of course was no goal and we have only 1 goal from play in the last 4 matches which isn't great. I know teams don't rely on goals like they did but you would hope to see us getting a few this weekend.

Galway started terribly and conceded 2 goals but once they settled they never looked like losing. They drove alot of aimless wides. Niland caused harm by roaming.

Midfield again for us is still a problem but as others have said hopefully Paddy mullen is given another go altho they might go for something different sunday. Adrian mullen is a key player for us now and he has continued the great form before that bad injury. Hopefully a few more lads can Kickstart their season sunday because we will need everyone. Mossy will probably start. This will be tactical but I'm hoping our backs are good enough to win their battles but our half foward line will have to at least break even with the galway half back line.i wouldn't be suprised to see finan Burke start and Joe Cooney push up a bit.

What injury did young Walsh puck up? Saw him chatting to the physio at the end.

Who is moderating this page? Any chance you could warn this poster of their responsibilities?

It will be interesting to watch how Clare go about taking on Limerick. Will they follow the Waterford approach or tweak it. They have a better forward line that Waterford but their back line is porous. I guess I'll have to invest in GAA Go to find out - our suffer some Junior B rugby shield runners up Roinn 3 match on TV instead..