Kilkenny GAA Thread

There is an onus on the county board to settle this quickly but there is also an onus on the club itself to publicly distance itself from the individual(s) concerned and to state that as a club they will not tolerate this in the future. A 5 year ban from entry to their clubs grounds would be a start aside from what happens at county board level. They cannot impose anything outside their grounds. This will at least give a little moral high ground to the club and maybe some comfort to a ref heading up there.

They don't but have their suspicions, the Gardai will handle it

God 🙄

Agreed, let the Gardai sort it first and then the club

Getting back to the action this weekend i assume we will have the same 6 backs and same 6 forwards with Mossy probably taking Clifford's place. Will he stick with Corcoran and Mullen in the middle? Id say he will definitely stay with one of them. The preference would be to go with both and see if they can produce whats needed.

Back off now and worry about sweeping things under your own Tipp carpet.

Yeah I for one anyway said I shout at refs (as a supporter) during a match things like "come on Ref that was never a free" or "Ah ref ya can't let him away with that" "ah **** sake ref that's the third time" etc. Do I need to say those things? No. Would it be better if I didn't? Sure. Is it abuse it's certainly not in my opinion.

Calling a Ref c**t, w****r , b*****s etc that's abusive and I think there's a large difference between the two variations. Most refs are used to the verbal abuse from supporters (they shouldn't be) but when team management are getting abusive and when team management and supporters follow a ref to his car abusing all the way that's too far in my opinion.

I'll be endeavouring not to be shouting at refs anymore if everyone takes on responsibility we can hopefully see a change at our games.

Weve been discussing it here the last 2 days.

Apparently the same starting 15 and subs from last week.

Anyway, fair play to the refs, about time they took a stand. Would love to see see the county board come all out in support of them, tv interviews etc. A couple of morons around the county and country would maybe think twice before resorting to personal abuse and harassment in the future.

Edit: to be clear that I'm not attacking everyone- I've often shouted"ah ref" etc- so not holier than anyone else-

No cheap shot at all. Stated a fact. Nice of you try to stir on multiple threads. That's you all over.

KK v GAL

E Murphy

M Butler H Lawlor T Walsh

D Blanchfield R Reid P Walsh

D Corcoran P Mullen

T Clifford A Mullen J Donnelly

B Ryan TJ Reid E Cody

Subs

D Brennan

C Delaney

C Buckley

C Heary

C Fogarty

A Murphy

C Kenny

M Keoghan

N Brennan

T Phelan

S Walsh

As others have said disgraceful carry on at that u17 match and fair play to the refs for taking action. I think the whole place is on their side. I just hope when things return next week that people's attitude will change but I don't think this is the last time supporters or mentors will give the ref abuse. This unfortunately isn't a isolated case. The last couple of years there has being high profile cases in Roscommon,Wicklow and Wexford to only name a few. This crap also goes in sunday league soccer.

Not a word about this weekends match. Hopefully the weather will stay good and a big crowd attends. The home venue and crowd should be a help.im expecting a much better performance sunday and we all know there's a few lads who have being just going through the motions and time on bench must be the next position for them.

Tj coming back is obviously a huge help and will definitely help a few fowards around him and free up a bit of space. Adrian mullen will probably be man marked. He is a key player now. Tom monaghan is injured so he is a loss. They have fahy named as replacement but they done the same last week and played mannion. I'd expect fintan Burke to start and mark Adrian and Cooney to push up. We will concentrate on ourselves and I think the players will be up for it. I think our backs will be ok.conor Whelan has yet to reach his high standards. I'd be shocked if niland got 6 or 7 points like last week. Middle 3rd will be a war zone but this is where we need to go well if we're to win and hopefully a big performance from Billy and Cody.

Finally a bit of a joke with team announcements now that they have to be submitted by Thursday. Hannon was ruled out for a few games the other day and then he's named although he won't play. The Tipp thing last week was a joke. Cahill said he didn't know but surely to God he wasn't waiting on 15 lads to see if they were fit. Every team could be unsure about one or two players but they could of named the team and made a change if needs be.Kk will probably make a change or 2 sunday.I know the day of 15v15 is gone but people like to know the team and talk about it a day or two before the game. I think the day of squad numbers is probably on the way and even programmes are nearly becoming redundant.

How would you feel if everyone in your club was tarred with the same brush due to the toxic actions of 1 individual?