Kilkenny GAA Thread

Richie Hogan has announced his retirement today. A great hurler dogged by injuries the 5 years but always kept going and tried to get back on the pitch. As talented and gifted a hurler as we'll ever see, his goals in the 2011 all ireland and 2020 Leinster final were as good as you'll ever see. His performance in the drawn 2014 All Ireland must go down as one of his best 6 points from play.

https://www.the42.ie/richie-hogan-retires-kilkenny-6157784-Sep2023/

Best of luck in retirement Riche, a true great. He won 7 All Ireland in his first 9 years and none in the last 8, pity we could not get one in the last year or 2 with Riche on the pitch.

I noticed he didn’t thank Cody in his retirement statement alright but thanked Derek Lyng.

Absolutely, I expect 6/7 older lads to retire or dropped over next few weeks

Loved watching Richie play. His hand-eye coordination was off the charts and extremely hard to knock off the ball. There was a great interview with him during Covid (OTB i think), even with the ongoing injuries he was 100% dedicated to the cause.

Hope the injuries don't plague him in the future.

Had forgotten that 2020 goal against Galway in the LF, classic Richie.

A good win for Ballycallan against Glenmore. They made good use of the ball and hit quality ball into the likes of Ryan Corcoran who scored 4 points. Their half back line was well on top of Glenmore who depended on Ger Aylward from play and Alan Murphy from placed balls.

Of the 2015 All-Ireland winning Kilkenny team, Richie Hogan, Richie Power and Ger Aylward were beset by injuries afterwards

Explain how he was treated callously by Cody. He should have thanked Cody as everything he won was under him. All he had to say was thanks to all the KK mgmt teams. I think it was petty not to say thanks.

Basic manners to say thanks to someone. As I said all he had to say was Thanks to all the KK mgmt teams I played under and then people could read into whatever way they wanted.

O'Loughlin Gaels had a comfortable 7 points win over Clara helped by the latter's wastefulness. OLG had 16 shots to Clara's 22 in the first half but led by 15 to 10. Owen Wall was the star turn for OLG scoring 6 points, there was a lot of quality ball played into him and Sean Bolger. All forwards scored for OLG, Jordan Molloy played well also. David Fogarty was quiet. Clara were solid but shooting was poor.

Tullaroan bead Danesfort 2-21 to 1-19, Mossy Keoghan put in a good shift as did Tomas Dunne but the team is not going as well as last year yet. Danesfort were missing Richie Hogan and missed 4 scorable frees. Still they displayed enough today to show that they will have a fighting chance to avoid relegation

Well done Richie for all the great entertainment you gave kilkenny hurling

congrats on your statement

watched John Walsh give a great display today and he just back great game again John Walsh 1/10 gaffney more goals and as most of you great hurling brains say they not good enough

2-11 for TJ, Red card for Eoin Cody and a 7 point win for Bennettsbridge. The Bridge had a deserved 2 point lead early in the second half when Eoin Cody got a second yellow card in a niggly game. The referee seemed to lose control of the game. TJ carried Ballyhale even when he was being double marked. Enda Morrissey, Kevin Blanchfield,Jason Cleere and Sean Morrissey were best for the Bridge.

The Shamrocks look to be vulnerable missing Joey Holden, Darren Mullen, Ronan Corcoran, Brian Cody, Joey Cuddihy and Colin Fennelly from last year, Paddy Mullen also went off injured

Half of their team missing and all brilliant hurlers.

Still another All Ireland or two in Ballyhale if they get all them lads back on the field at the same time next year

It doesn’t take a lot to be nice and say Tks to all KK mgmt. Brian Cody always had KK interests first and foremost no matter what players were there.

Bennettsbridge must surely be in with a shout to win the SHC also?

They played a nice brand of hurling yesterday albeit against a weakened Shamrocks side.

The Kilkenny hurling podcast team of the week for last weekend:

Paddy Hogan - Danesfort

Tommy Dunne - Tullaroan

Enda Morrissey - Bennettsbridge

Tom Dunphy - GBC

Des Dunne - Danesfort

Niall Brassil - Village

Timmy Clifford - Boro

Jamie Ryan - OLG

Kevin Blanchfield - Bennettsbridge

Luke Scanlon - Village

TJ Reid - Shamrocks

Tommy Ronan - GBC

John Walsh - Mullinavat

Mossy Keoghan - Tullaroan

Sean Morrissey - Bennettsbridge

Just looking back at the last few teams of the week and Timmy Clifford, Kevin Blanchfield and Luke Scanlon seem to be included nearly every week. Looking at Clifford is his best position wing back? What would a half back line of Carey-D Blanchfiled-Clifford look like next year? On the converse side it would be another option gone from our forwards when realistically it's forwards that we are crying out for. Kevin Blanchfield has always looked like a good hurler to me and was always surprised not to see him in with the seniors, apparently he's heading to Australia shortly so doubt we'll see in a kk jersey anytime soon unfortunately! Is Scanlon finally beginning to deliver on his undoubted talent? Would he be worth a look back on the county panel? Good to see a few new names on the team this week also, didn't get to any of the games this weekend but was talking to fella from OLG who said that Owen Wall was excellent again for them, any forwards impressing during the first 4 round of games?