Kilkenny GAA Thread

Did any other hurling club win club all irelands in different grades.

Glenmore did it first, senior in 91 and junior a few years back. Bennettsbrisge became the second two hours after Glenmore when they won the intermediate the same day.

That may be true but those two Cork teams got through Munster. What does that say for the rest. And, having so many intermediate and junior clubs doesn't explain why their senior clubs don't do well either.

Even with the restructuring in Cork, going by their numbers, in terms of average, their representatives tonight would technically be ahead of ours.

i think there’s just over 120 hurling clubs in Cork, their representatives tonight were 51st (junior) and 25th(inter).

Ours have 38 clubs, and tonight were 25th(junior) and 13th(inter).

So at Junior their champions would be above 50% of other clubs while ours are under 40%, and at intermediate their champions would be in the top 20% while ours are outside the top 30%.

Technically speaking, going on club numbers, on average their champions rank higher than ours.

One of the worst posts I have ever read on here. Up their with Marooned accusing Limerick of taking performance enhancing drugs through inhalers after they beat us in the All Ireland last year. Limerick players being paid so they can rest between games rather than working. What a load of nonsense. Ye sure make us look like a county of sore losers.

Reality is Limerick just have the best players, manager and coach.

You go on about rest. Leinster hurling championship is so poor that we could rest half our team against Carlow, Antrim and also Dublin and Wexford for that matter and still cruise through to the All Ireland quarter final or semi final. Limerick don't have that luxury. Now that is unfair.

I am Kilkenny man. Are we not allowed call out our own posters who make up stuff (rumours me arse) and then make us look like a bunch of sore losers.

Great wins for both Tullogher and Thomastown. Hopefully a few get a run with the county over the next few months. Nice gesture by Tullogher to form a guard of honour for Thomastown as they can out onto the pitch.

I think St Catherines were the 51st ranked hurling club in Cork this year..

I'm not a sore loser...can't vouch for others but this Limerick team can and will be beaten.

So? Maybe the solution is for smaller populated counties with fewer clubs to regrade ALL their clubs from junior/intermediate to senior! That might help bigger counties like Cork.

You have to wonder what the state of club hurling is like in the other Munster counties since "low down" Cork clubs frequently come through at junior and intermediate.

I'm particularly pleased for the Thomastown manager Noel Doherty who stuck with these players from the start. Not a "big" name but by god he has Thomastown playing a terrific brand of hurling. They tried route one, high ball in, for 15 minutes or so yesterday and when it wasn't working they changed their tactics and took off. It's wonderful to see a team capable of switching between game plans.

No they just have better players, a better manager and a better coach. It's really that simple. On this thread we have posters like you who make stuff up and try to push the narrative that they cheat. If their was any truth in it you would imagine we would read about it in the papers. But their is no truth in it.

The players that will be called in will certainly have a pep in there step and an air of confidence. I thought the two KK teams defences set ups were brilliant and I thought the left corner back for tullougher was excellent.

I know that I'm on about the first 15