Kilkenny GAA Thread

This is up their in ridiculousness with some of your conspiracies from last month.

Absolute Schutter. Lay off the sauce I'd say

And some of the best Cork & Tipp players were absent due to tragedies in the respective counties. Hardly ‘demeaning’ now, is it?

Some crazy scores (hammerings) at Minor level!?! Are these teams in the correct grade ??

Was similar last year in County final ... Same teams , same hammering....

Yee must be growing those big lads in peat moss! !! 😲 😄

One lad on here was complaining about Hurling in September and October. After Monday there will only be 4 A teams Hurling. A lot of young lads won't see the Hurling pitch again

Won't work all bar 3 in A looking to be in the bottom 4. Same with B Roinn C will always be a disaster with the town teams competing against rural teams using all the available players to have a team.

Back to the development squads competition at the weekend. Cork A, Limerick A, and Galway A , U16 played one another in challenge games. This is no conspiracy theory and I stand by what I said about demeaning the competition.

Most new housing estates are full of people from outside the county with no interest in playing hurling.

Good old Tullaroan at it again with the grading. In Minor C when they could win B. If there was a Roinn x they'd look to get into it.

The housing estates in these small towns are Celtic tiger products probably 15 to 20 years old so the local gaa clubs have development well underway, or should have and so what if young players or their families come from outside the country. That statement was bordering or implying racism. I was called out for less and abused for stating facts.

Generalising from my own experience here, but In my experience the new communities are very enthusiastic about sending their kids along when they are in the younger age groups but hurling is such a technical game that unless a kid is out pucking with his dad or neighbours and is actively encouraged to play and spend the time at it as they are growing, ultimately these kids will tend to not develop as much and tend to quit the game early. So that's why soccer clubs can hang onto these kids for longer (their parents and peers are out there kicking soccer with them)and why when it gets to u13 and u15 in hurling the names you generally hear on the pitch are Conor, Sean and Ryan as opposed to Kryztov, Pawel and Mohammed. Those new communities kids who make it through despite these difficulties must be extremely driven and talented. Maybe with the new generation of GDOs being appointed by clubs around the place can harness and encourage these players to keep at it as it would be great to see more of them coming through and distinguishing themselves in our national game.

Were the mentors of those squads from B Rangers ??

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Really the national school’s aren’t doing the work for the GAA ike they used to so the slack has to be taken up by the local club, everyone is not going to go to the club so the club has to go to them, it’s not simple but that has to be done.

The best young hurlers in our club are still the lads who are at home pucking around with their brothers/sisters/fathers/mams/uncles in their garden every night.

You can tell a mile away the kids who have hurling parents at home, it’s become second nature to them from all the wee 20 minute puck abouts here and there at home.

1 or 2 hours of organised training a week is not going to make you a hurler.