Kilkenny GAA Thread

No I was just stating that it was disgraceful carry on that the game was not televised on TV. A strongly worded letter to RTE stating this is needed and we have the perfect candidate here in Kilkenny. Otherwise it was a joke lads and lasses, lighten up. FYI I did have the game on GAA go and it was an epic. Clare followed Kilkenny tactics of the all Ireland last year of pushing up on the Limericks backs. Clare have great pace and looked very good last night

And what`s your excuse this week?

Beaten by a better team on the night. No excuses

Yes last year 2 shamrocks refs did 2 of the county quarter finals. County board not helping things by putting them in a situation like that with Shamrocks still in competition. Conflicts like that should always be avoided if possible and not the refs fault

Been a few comments to on here about overall standard of reffing in KK being poor. I have to say I think its actually pretty good compared to other counties.

Never once mentioned them being cheats. I mentioned they were put in an awkward situation and always going to be left open to the usual commentary by teams that lost. 2 of the best refs we have in the county IMO.

Left that behind us in the end really which I didn't expect to say at halftime. Mossy did well when he came on and Billy Ryan improved considerably. Huw Lawlor did a good job on Whelan and bar one chance we were much tighter defensively in the 2nd half. TJ didn't do much from play, he was very immobile and the ball needs to be directly to him now as he struggles to chase after it. Mullen was fairly average also.

Ref was poor, he let far too much go and while there was a delay in injury time let far too much go once the 5 minutes were up.

On the referee in comer game, agree that the abuse sent to tthe referee was totally out of order, but for all games to be called off doesnt serve any purpose IMO,even camogie games were off.deal with the individual and the situation at hand .calling all games off penalised people who had nothing to do with game

Just to add to the above to get to croker this year we need mullen, Cody and Billy Ryan to up their game about 50% on today's performance. Not out of the question but certainly that's where they need to be at. The movement of these 3 is critical. They need to be 5 yards ahead of their player and the accuracy of deliveries to them must improve.

Eoin Cody getting man of the match today. Hopefully that might spur him on.

What is your problem man? How were mikey butler and Tommy Walsh destroyed today? Mossy did well when he came in. In fairness he didn't get a great supply of ball and to say richie reid is as poor a centre back that has played for kilkenny is just rubbish. We're in a situation now that we don't have the same calibre of player we had 10 years ago but who do we replace the current lads with? The lads you say are not up to it?

Give me your 1st 15 and let's see who you have.

Nothing new there 🙄 he should count the steps for the goal

Really? He made a great save in the second half and prevented a point in the first half which turned out to be crucial. But I thought his puckouts were poor particularly in the first half. While some of the blame lies with the lack of movement in the half forward line, he doesn't seem to be able to pick a player out even when they're in space and when he hits it long he puts too much height on it. Possession of the sliotar from puckouts is becoming a more important part of the game than ever and he isn't helping us in this regard. He's also really slow with taking his puckouts but I don't know whether that's tactical or not.

On Eoin Murphy, one of the best shot stoppers out there, comfortable on the ball when he goes into contact, and can put snow on it for a long puck out. But when it comes to medium to long range precision puck outs, this is where it starts to unwind a bit. If you compare them to Eanna Murphys long puck outs today, they were much lower and many straight to hand (not suggesting that everything went perfect for them either). I could see Eoin getting frustrated today also, when there was no movement in the half forward line he either went short (which for the most part, we look uncomfortable with and is not the fault of Scruff), or just let fly anyway, which left us with at best a 50:50 chance of winning that ball.

The goal was killer, came out of nothing and Concannon took at least 8 steps with the ball, no one around him, no attempt to bounce or play the ball on the hurl. Looked great, but was a free out.

1st half was poor from us and we were lucky to be level at half time. Big improvement in the 2nd half, especially the forwards, Billy Ryan came into it and Mossy tried hard, shame his goal effort went wide. The 6 point lead slipped easily though.

TJ looked like he was stuck in the mud at times, few occasions where you'd expect that burst from him, but it looks like that might be gone.....hopefully not.

And as for forchange, you might think you sound like you're telling it like it is, being devil's advocate, but you just sound bitter.

Sound bitter what a load of rubbish your going on there mossy unlucky it went wide it was never going anywhere else

Eoin puck outs every bit as good as any other goalie

The difference is I deal in reality I said before anything started

padraig

Buckley

fogarty

Deegan

hogan

Walter

mossy

Ryan

either gone past it or not good enough nothing has changed to make me change my mind

when people can’t see that Brian Cody brought kilkenny hurling skill leval to a all time low trained Eoin Murphy to hit it long

he was superb today in everything he done I take it you all feel stupid you all trying to get rid of him

it’s amazing not one thing I say can be argued with facts I always put my case forward with facts not one person could argue the facts of the last 7 years of Cody management

as you say mossy tried hard that’s a given for kilkenny hurling you can try as hard as you want at this level you have to have the skill to go with it

even the commentators talked about kilkenny getting everything today Galway got one free in first half

one thing about being stuck in muck but when your thought process and your vision slow that’s a different thing and unfortunately at times TJ vision was poor for him today

We were very slow with their last puckout.5 points up and a few minutes to go it was a dissapointing result.

If you think mossy good to day your standard is very low

mikey butler in my option its the 3 time he destroyed this year as for Tommy Walsh he very poor again

Richie Reid did not win one ball at centre back hit a few loose balls here are there

we are in our own back yard and only for ref we were bet not my words but commentary

and anyone that thinks con fogarty should be on the kilkenny team sorry he knows nothing about hurling he is only ther because he is best buddy with a selector