Kilkenny GAA Thread

Savage player. Reinvented his game in several positions (not a quality admired enough in GAA). You know a player is special when he is asked to solve areas all over the field because very few are asked to do that (because most can't). Good hurling brain, very creative and dogged. A joy to watch.

Pádraig Walsh brilliance! Cork vs Kilkenny in the Allianz Leagues. - YouTube

Kilkenny have "no chance" of winning the All Ireland??

They are 2nd favourites and justifiably so. So the answer as to whether they have a serious chance is of course yes.

If the answer is no, then just award the title to Lim now, because Kilkenny have at least as good a chance of winning it as Clare and Galway and better than Cork and Tipp, and miles better than Waterford, Wex or Dublin. If we have "no chance" then the same logically applies to all of those counties.

I hope Kilkenny get to an AI final, and if it's Limerick in the final and we get beaten again, so be it. The idea that you'd lose an AI semi rather than risk losing again to Limerick in final is pathetic. The reality right now is that if Limerick are awaiting in the final, the opposing team will be a big underdog, and that whatever team that faces them (not just Kilkenny) will likely lose.

Kilkenny won just 2 AI's between 1935 and 1957 (and might well have lost both those too) and lost a whole host of finals and semis. Simply because outstanding Tipp and Cork teams were usually just too strong for us in that period, but they never gave in to an idea that "what's the point, we will probably lose again in final and that would be a disaster". In fact that period is very like the curernt one, a few outstanding individual players (Paddy Phelan, Jim Langton, Terry Leahy, Jack Mulcahy,) but a lot of average ones too.

We beat Tipp 4 years in a row 2011-2014 and it was great, and while it was undoubtedly sore for them, Tipp never thought about avoiding us for fear they would lose 3,4 5 ina row etc. You can never think like that, you just put in your best performance and hope it's good enough.

Bottom line, you never let the fear of losing deter you, and there is no shame in being the 2nd best team in Ireland when the best team is a machine like Limerick

@jimmythesulk Congratulations to a "badly run club" on reaching an U21 county final.

A very low cut indeed. Whatever grade it is every club in the county love to win a county final . The very best of luck to Kilmacow in the final.

I doubt they are embarrassed at all at reaching a county final. Definitely not as embarrassing as your comments at this stage!

This has to be a wind-up?

Kilkenny would of definitely beaten Tipp the last two years.

This years and without a shadow of a doubt last years Tipp team has to be one of the worst I’ve ever seen take to Munster championship.

I reckon Ballyhale would of beaten the Colm Bonnar Tipp team they were so unfit and lost every Munster match.

Cork are bang average though, a lot of soft hurlers and I’d fancy Kilkenny to beat them if they met next year and Waterford are on a similar level to Wexford and Dublin this last two years and now with Austin Gleeson gone.

Only really leaves Limerick and Galway who Kilkenny have to worry about if truth be told.

Load of shite, we would have bet cork pulling up the last few years only they hadn't the bottle to get far enough to meet us. Mark my words we will beat them this year if they don't **** the bed as always.

If tipp and cork are so great why have we been playing (and comprehensively beating) Clare in semis the last couple of years? Looking forward to hearing why they're secretly better than Clare but somehow can't win through against them.

Yes its Roinn C but Kilmacow beat the Shamrocks in the quarter final. What answer would you get from a Shamrocks man if you asked them if they were embarrassed? Fairly ignorant comment.

You would have to love the munster championship..you support 2 of the 5 teams after all... I wonder to the limerick lads cherish the munster medals more than the liam Mccarthy..somehow I doubt it..

You are also forgetting the fact that Waterford have been so poor recently that essentially 3 out of 4 teams went through. And in 2022 tipp were shocking too so 2 of the 5 teams were poor..

Your rose-tinted glasses are really just remembering the excellent games between your 2 chosen teams limerick and clare

PeggyShippen is best being off being ignored on this thread, getting great Joy of rubbing Kilkenny people up the wrong way, can't continue to have a conversation by themselves.

"Infact you've lost to everyone from Munster in Croke Park over the last 6 years except Clare.." Really?

Not getting sucked into a Munster/Leinster quagmire discussion, but Kilkenny beat both Cork and Limerick in Croke Park in 2019.

All competitions in Kilkenny are hard to win especially this time of year with home and away and weather conditions. Glenmore must be excellent u21, are Ian Bryne, Cathal Bryne and young Reid not in with the Kilkenny Seniors ?

Yep. That`s Roinn C for you.

Should they not have automatically gone up to B last year after winning the previous year's C competition. Think this crop won the Minor B three years ago...so should be in A really this year. But this is what happens when you've someone we'll up in the Co Board

Who have Glenmore got that's well up in the county board?