Kilkenny GAA Thread

Ross Whelan from the Village is one who impressed me in championship last year and in the early stages of the league this year

I was at it last week also, Freshford deserved to win, they had James Maher back and 1 or 2 others due to comeback, they were sensational yesterday. scoring 4-28, they could have won by 40 points. Going off yesterday they will be very very hard to beat and I do not think any other team will come within 4/5 points of them. Far to good for Junior

Think tullaroan beating thomastown was more than a bit of a shock, other 3 games could have easily went another way and good to see close competitive games.anyone know the story with clara and st martins

While it is great to have these competitions for the lads involved.

why has the minor championship been fixed for Monday evening and the u15 for Wednesday which will result in some lads involved playing 4 tough games over 5 days.

surely with a whole summer these matches could have been spread out a bit more.

Was at Co.Board underage championship draws. When dates were giving for championship, the top table were asked by club delegates to push out the start by a week to allow clubs have access to their players and give squad players recovery time before championship, which they don't have for 10 DAYS because of upcoming County Tournaments. The answer we got was dates are tight (Nowlan Park booked for 4 weeks after 1st Rd for minor A & B finals). They said they'd look into it but obviously they don't understand player welfare or give a toss about the club scene. Its about ticking boxes and getting it played off ASAP. Put it another way, would they ask Ballyhale, Boro etc to play knockout championship TWO days after the All Ireland. We as clubs are letting them dictate too much. Very frustrating, Rant over.

What the hell are young lads to do from August till the end of October

Roinn A minor may have more teams in it that don't make it more competitive. The 2 finalists from last Yr were not promoted but the 2 losing semi finalists were

Minor league finished mid July. Under19 league and championship running since

People go on holidays during the summer. Minor championship in July and August would be a nightmare for most teams. In a perfect world every competition from U13 up would be played in blazing sunshine on perfect pitches but that's not realistic

There has been u19, Minor, U15 and U13 all throughout the summer so not sure of your exact point that you're trying to make.

Not sure about that I know our own club hasn’t played U-15 since early July.So that is 6 weeks with no games.

Either way it doesn’t excuse having all these games so close to one another and not allowing clubs access to players in the week leading up to championship.

I'd agree with that but that's a separate discussion. There's obviously a lot of internal pressure on the development squads to produce this weekend.

But anyone who has been involved in underage teams knows that running U13, U15 and U17 championship through July and August is completely impractical. Most rural clubs would struggle to field a team and considering it's knockout championship it's just not fair. There's nothing wrong with hurling in September when the league only wrapped up for most clubs in mid July

Push out the club championship by a week was the obvious solution. The U13 championship could have started next week regardless as there's no intercounty tournament at that age, but as I said earlier the top brass don't give a damn about the club player it's all about ticking boxes and getting championships played off as quick as they can.

Kentu there is no underage competition finished actually there is no championship run off yet only the u19 which has been delayed already.

Thats a fair assessment.