Kilkenny GAA Thread

I was expecting the usual visitors to the thread who come to dance on our grave after a defeat and then the few of our own who take the opportunity to lash players they don’t like …..but some of the stuff the last few days…..it’s absolutely batshit crazy this year.

Agreed, you still need the players, and just so as not to appear hypocritical, if some 2nd generation Kilkenny Silicon Valley billionaire arrives to pump millions into Kilkenny GAA, I won’t be complaining.

However, a full debate on some sort of relatively level playing field within the GAA does need to urgently take place. the disparity in terms of resources that has always existed between the big counties and the rest is growing into a chasm and that isn’t what an amateur sport based on 32 county model should let get out of control.

 The same person who told me a few years ago that he believes only big well-resourced counties will win AIs, said if GAA don’t come up with a solution to get some level of equality across all counties, the county model that has been the foundation of the GAA’s success will become its death knell.

TBC, but in the meantime, well done. Hayes for me would already make an All Time 15. Finn, Byrnes, Lynch and Gillane not far off it.

Glad your first paragraph clarified that you have no ideological hang-ups about inequity in the GAA anyway.

So we could field a Kilkenny minor team for a waste of time shiny match during the week but couldn't be arsed to try put together a minor football team this year.

Three years ago has nothing to do with it. Limerick won the League at their ease walloping KK in the final. That was important as the fear of KK was now gone. They should have lost to Waterford, did to Clare & refereeing decisions helped them v Tipp, Cork & in the MF. Had a result gone wrong for them they would have been gone. Then the Leinster sides died away in the championship minutes of the semi & final. I watched the Clare/KK game in a Limerick pub, the whole crowd was baying for KK. Reason? They reckoned they had the measure of KK but would have been worried about Clare

Who’s boasting? And about other counties? Never. We’d never be claiming second best either.

But we’ve been achieving too…won the U20 again this year - that’s 3 out of the last 4. Some counties are on one in the last 15 years. And we’re in the Camogie final, easy enough run in that up to now.

**** sake is there any Mods for this thread??

I wondered the same myself.

Thought that Shinty match was bizarre tbh, I don't see what we have to gain from that.

3 teams won 90+ hurling finals. What exactly has changed to bring such fear except for the 4th biggest hurling county having it's 2nd ever golden generation ?

The only difference I can see is the teams that were the "Haves" for 100 years have briefly become the "have nots" so now suddenly we need "a full debate" all of a sudden.

Where was the fuking full debate when Kilkenny won 30+ All Irelands and the 10 other former champions stuck on single digits. Your friend can shove his predictions to be honest.

"Limerick have been our conquerors in recent years"

In the last five years Kilkenny has lost ten championship matches. Limerick account for only two of those. Kilkenny have also lost to Cork, Tipperary, Waterford, Wexford & Galway. Plenty of counties have had a piece of Kilkenny in that time.

God bless the inventor of the ignore button. It has saved me the insights of the resident self appointed boards GAA intellectual all year. Clicking on the view post button today was a good reminder: don't let curiosity get the better of you.

1. Money won't fix Offaly problems which are in decades of their own making.

2. He can't help where he is from. Offaly is his lot and that's that

3. If he's that exciting then they won't be in the taco chips cup for too much longer. Back to giving kk a badly needed ego boost judging by the fragile state of many posters here.

4. Kk, while medium in pop size compared to others, have multiple advantages others don't such as tradition, geography and a hurling first policy.

5. The golden age for kk is over. Many here have not come to terms with this.

6. Kk has plenty of money... They just won't spend it.

Breezy 1985.I’ll tell you where the debate was , on the Sunday game night after night by Donal og trying to pinpoint off of film stills where KK were holding. That’s where the poster above you got the handle JJ’s left hand, this went on for years.Loughnane constantly called us out for playing on the edge and accusing us of damaging players hands . It prompted Dr.Con Murphy from the Cork backroom team to state that he never had to treat a Cork player for hand injuries. Cyril Farrell on the Sunday papers before KK played them in the 1986 AI semi final accused us of all sorts, we couldn’t get a free after that day . Another highly intelligent Corkman Dona O Grady said the grass was too long after we beat them in the 2006 AI. There were several more instances over the years too numerous to mention. No one called out Limerick’s hand passes on the Sunday game.Why should Anthony Daly sure wasn’t he a director of the Limerick underage academy. A lot of people on here during the week were outraged by my comments and wanted me sent away, while probably agreed with the above accusations at the time.

In the unlikely event that you are ever on mastermind kilkenny gaa will have to be your specialist subject..in the week after your alleged county win the 4 in a row for the first time in its history you post on many threads about 'that crowd 'kilkenny with the vim and vigour of a true obsessive...maybe the wet summer is spoiling your holidays..