Kilkenny GAA Thread

Delighted for Henry. Galway showed great resilience to bounce back from the Leinster final 2 weeks ago and put in a performance like that where they completely bullied and dominated Tipp. As stated above Galway were 10 points the better team and hurling only ok. Tipp have an awful lot of questions to answer after that performance, they were very very poor. I have been critical of Galway after some of there performances in Leinster especially when they went 14 points down v Dublin but showed great character today.

Kilkenny and Clare will be a cracker. Kilkenny will be licking there lips after watching the Clare backs today. A dogged performance like Galway today and the few classy forwards we have should hopefully get us over the line, Kilkenny will have no fear of Clare

I'd have doubts over Cahill's ability to manage training loads over a season after Tipp's drop off this year and Waterford last year, yourselves and Clare is a complete 50/50 while I'd still have Limerick slight favourites Galway aren't going into that game without hope. Finn and Hannon is a big void to fill while Lynch is clearly hampered by injuries and the likes of Hegarty, Peter Casey, Flanagan a bit hit and miss. Conor Whelan was poor in the Leinster round robin phase but his last 2 performances have him with the likes of Gillane, Tony Kelly, Eoin Cody and Tom Morrissey in hurler of the year contention depending on how the remaining games go.

outsiders , would you go way you bolix

we pucked 24 wides from play last year against ye (apparently a record ), mikey butler destroyed kelly , conlon is out again conor cleary is out , shane o donal is out .....give us some chance !!😉

Jacob can never see Kilkenny winning...

FairPlay to Ursula Jacob nothing like the Leinster counties supporting one another like Munster do.

Ah well I’d be surprised if any of the pundits did back us, any time we beat a team Donal og and the rest of the panel do be telling us where the other team went wrong as in the semi final against Clare last year they were tired and Conlan were missing.no credit whatsoever given to KK .but there is only one way to shut them up.

We have the edge on clare and they will bee under huge pressure after last year.mikey surely will tail kelly after his 3-4 yesterday. Galway murdered tipp yesterday even if the scoeboard said 2pts.we have every chance IMO

You've touched on an interesting point which I spoke about with friends last night - the narrative is ALWAYS about how the other team went wrong whenever Kilkenny win. Galway were robbed in the Leinster final apparently - nothing about how they were outhurled for long periods in that game. Clare were exhausted last year after Munster. Galway never turned up in last years Leinster final. There was one common denominator in all of those games which the half assed punditry from Jacob etc all never seem to realise or recognise.

rte build up munster as a selling point , the history and rivals and all that , the match days themselves are an event more so a match , the scenes at the munster final were more akin to glastonbury or the electric picnic

when we played ye last year in croke pk we brought 40,000 supporters up with us most of whom were hitting the big tree and then coppers after the game and making a weekend of it , the build up was huge ,

kilkenny arived in there cars came saw conquered and left as if they had just watched a club game , it was just buisness as usual kilkenny people and leinster people alike dont buy into the fanfare that surrounds munster counties

I dont mean that , i just think too many people in clare jump on the bandwaggon when things are going good and dont want to know about it in the bad days ,

kilkenny people have been around the block so much they know not to get too excited with a facile 14 point win , as i say the people from clare heading to coppers are more used to going across the water to man united games then hurling games

I understand your point, I just decided to use the opportunity to say how much I enjoy Kilkenny hurling.

its rte that drive this crap , they make out munster hurling is superior to everything else because it draws people in

last year i was impressed and almost jelous how kilkenny people just got to their cars and headed home while people in clare jerseys were tuning an all ireland semi final in to a big weekend out regardless of the result

in truth i want us to be like ye and be more bullish

Well put.

RTE GAA reporting is driven by audience size in my opinion. Kilkenny is < 100k along with Leitrim. Munster hurling is over 1 million and Dublin is 2 million. Galway is sizeable. Cork commentators have dominated with DO’G followed by Donal Og - 400k audience.

exactly but that wont get many sponsors on bord or fair weather clare supporters to jump on board , i actually think sunday weeks game is 50/50 ,unlike last year but kilkenny wont be shacking in their boots either , 15 clare wides in oceans of space against a dublin team without donal burke , i doubt racard cody is intimidated let alone brian!!