Kilkenny GAA Thread

Brilliant quote 'I score u score' that's Munster hurling.

I haven't watched the Sunday game back yet but I did see a clip online with Liam Sheedy talking about the wear and tear of the Munster Championship and the difficulty to get timing right when peaking. No argument that this year Munster is more even in abilities - BUT to put that forward as a defence for Tipp is just deflection. They have done nothing for the past few weeks except rout a division 2 team - whereas Galway had to pull them selves off the ground from a loss which was heartbreaking in how it happened.

That’s it, before the game all three pundits including Canning said Tipp were going into the game with greater momentum and that Galway would struggle to overcome the nature of the Leinster final defeat. Now it’s back to Tipp being fatigued from the Munster championship.

Adrian Mullen expected to participate v Clare after the weekend by all accounts

Was Canning disappointed to be proven wrong! Get the feeling he doesn't want H Shefflin to succeed.

Don't know where your coming out of this from, clear to see Canning wants best for Galway all of the time which is fine. I think he's probably the best and most honest analyst on the Sunday Game at present, calls it exactly as he sees it.

General opinion was Tipp were slight favourites going into this game even though the dogs on the street knew there was only going to be no more than a puck of a ball in it.

Dónal Og’s Tipp comment about the difficulty of peaking caught my interest because it speaks to the strength of Kilkenny hurling especially since 1999 under Cody with added spice from Ballyhale and Kieran’s.

Kilkenny won 10 national leagues, 18 Leinsters and 11 AIs. AI runners up 5. All in 24 years. Won last 4 Leinsters.

Ballyhale won 5 and ru 1 of the last 9 AIs.

Kieran’s won 8 and ru 2 of the last 12 college’s AI.

Ballyhale’s recent success has impacted Kk performances in the league and RR. The Kk league performance v Tipp last year away and this year in NP were demoralizing and I suspect affected subsequent attendance. But as Liam Sheedy acknowledged the heavy duty Oct-Nov training made them great in April and early May but mentally tired by late May.

We have seen the team and Ballyhale players peak for the AI semi final and final. Then the athletic deficit so evident v Wexford is closed. But the Ballyhale players peak multiple times over an entire year. Ballygunnar did it twice and kaybashed Waterford for 2022 & 2023.

Limerick are a truly great team. Kiely has 3 league titles, 5 Munsters and 4 AIs. But the 2023 league win & peak has them mentally tired all through Munster games. But they were tired but less so last year and the pack closed the gap. Can they recover for the semi. I don’t know.

When you look back at Cody’s record, he was a genius at managing peak performance. Dónal Og and Ursula should take note.

It'd be a short call I'd say 😁

Sheedy should know 2/3 wins meeting Kilkenny in all ireland finals.

Oh God please don't start this tit for tat nonsense.

I really hope Mossy is fit. He could cause absolute wreck to that Clare full back line with his direct running. Great news if Mullen is available. If the two of them are playing I'd be confident enough especially if Cleary and Conlon don't play on their side.

If you were to rate the Kilkenny forwards at the moment, I think it would be something like this

1 Eoin Cody

2 TJ, even at 35

3 Donnelly maybe

4 Mossy

5 Wally?

6 Billy Ryan?

7 Tom Phelan

8 Deegan, or maybe at midfield

9 Billy Drennan

10 Timmy Clifford.

Did we realize how lucky we were to have a forward line of Henry, Larkin, Brennan, Power, Hogan, TJ. Not sure how often they played together?

Cathal Barrettt hadn’t much luck since the Richie Hogan incident in 2019.

I certainly don’t forget cheaters feigning injury to get another player sent off KARMA

Some seriously stupid posts on this thread of late, is it the heat?

I think if we have most of the injuries cleared up for the clare match we have a great chance..for all the talk about how bad clare were last year how much better would they have neded to be to win.. i would think a hell of a lot. We didn't allow them play

Clare injury worries are as bad as ours too. As excellent as Tony Kelly can be there are plenty of times when a man marker has limited/ nullified him.

Our forwards should have the beating of their backs.

This talk of clare owe us one and need to do themselves justice puts far more pressure on them than us..