Kilkenny GAA Thread

Well done to cw and Tom Mullally and smiley dermody from ballyhale who's involved with the backroom. Some of the cw players were very good in the air and the introduction of the cw clubs into the kk league all those years ago has being a big addition. The long ball into the fowards has caused defenders trouble the last few weeks. Antrim got a few goals against kk,Westmeath against wexford and carlow caused offally trouble with a long high ball.Offally were entitled to rest players last week after a busy schedule but it probably backfired and gave carlow the belief and confidence.

Not much talk about the wexford match. Alot of ex wexford players came out during the week urging supporters to get out and support the team. This is a absolutely huge game for wexford and it will bring pressure and nerves but id expect them to tear into us.Although they have struggled in the championship form goes out the window when these 2 meet.Darragh Egan will probably get the bullet after this but the players need to look in the morror.they switched off after half time and paid the ultimate price.

Kk haven't being wonderful either and it has to be a worry that we seem to be switching off for 10 minutes .Maybe they're timing their run. Some of hurling and touches was very poor

Is the game being streamed/shown anywhere??

Unless my eyes are deceiving me that's Mikey Carey wearing number 6

Padraig playing at 6 according to the radio commentary

After a strong start we've let wexford back in it. We're getting caught a lot taking too much out of the ball. Ref very poor I thought in the 1st half but we should be out of sight already. There were 6 or 7 handy points on when we tried to overcomplicate it but hopefully we drive on 2nd half. Adrian mullen touch was off completely before he went off injured. Mikey Butler went off with a pull straight across his shins. No yellow but we got a few yellows for less. Not sure what happened to mossy.

Ref is a complete homer today

So in this Leinster we have only managed to beat Westmeath, Antrim and Dublin. It's hardly inspiring is it. Shocking

I'm growing a passionate, irrational hatred for Wexford! Do they realise they're 4 other teams in the Leinster Championship?

In fairness kclr said a lot of things in the last 10mins..

Ref was shocking, but all in all its the next day v galway that counts.lyng took no chances today with injuries.2 weeks now to push thi gs on and get to all ireland semi final.

Why was that game not shown live... ppl want to see the end of leinster championship... that game better than anything munster could serve.

Just stopped on the way home and there's no abuse here but the refs performance was as poor as I've seen in a long time. The result didn't really make a difference and the performance at times was good, at times poor but many decisions were shocking altogether. We conceded 4 goals which is a worry. Hopefully butler will be available for the leinster final.

I see you’re as positive as ever 👍

We started the game very well and raced into a 8 or 9 point lead i know it was early but we should of being able to control the game better and not go in a point behind . We scored 2 goals but we tried to force the goals in the first half. Wexford got a very soft penalty in my book anyway. Maybe I'm biased but I just thought we had to work much harder for a free.

Wexford done to us in the 2nd half what we done in the first.They had a few goal chances. We were making basic errors and wexford were just cuter. Some of our defending was shocking and the ball into the fowards so predictable. I train u13s where one defender goes for the ball and the other one waits for the break but today we had 2 and 3 defenders going for the same ball and a Wexford lad waiting for the break.

Obviously Richie Reid and deegan were loses but to lose butler,mullen and then mossy really stretched things. Mullen looked in a bit of pain walking off and only 2 weeks for all these lads to come back could be tight.

Tom phelan was excellent infairness to him and he will start the leinster final but alot more questions than answers. Billy Ryan,Donnelly,drennan all quite and the subs didn't work. We probably needed subs with a bit of legs. I'm definitely not convinced with Darragh Corcoran and I'd much prefer to see Mikey Carey.

Adrian mullen fractured thumb by the sound of it. Padraig walsh last shot was wide. Was behind it.

Mossy possible did something to his hamstring scoring his goal.

Butler received a kind of ankle tap trip. Was in a fair bit of pain. He looked to have planted his foot down out of normal sink/stride because of the ankle tap trip. Think he got the free. Hopefully not achilles bad-though he tried to hobble on for a few mins after it.