Kilkenny GAA Thread

Good answer dealing with the facts. Happened right in front of me & the intake of breath from the crowd around said it all…if lads dive the reaction is far different. You can even see it on the video. You can spoof if you want, I’ve no dog in the row

not from kk but comparing what benny dunne(who was not a dirty player) did by hitting t walsh full force into the face with the hurl and what r hogan (not a dirty player) did is ridiculous.... hogan clipped barrett with his elbow. it was quite clearly not intentional... he could have really creamed him with a proper elbow if he wanted to... t walsh to his credit got up straight back up and got on with it... barrett stayed down like hed been shot... hasnt done barrett any favours since.. especially the time of aaron gillane incident in 2021 munster final in supervalu park

Lads, I've saw the chatter about John Walsh for years on this forum. Year after year he is consistently racking up big scores in the county championship.

In the All Ireland Minor Final in 2014 he lit up Croke Park. Scored 2-5 and against who? Limerick! Motm also. Look at the Limerick names who played that day and look at the Kilkenny names. Complete 360 since then.

Any county that had an 'electric' Minor such as Walsh would have handled him with care. Kilkenny didn't. Even though he still had U21 why not fast track such a talent. Clearly a flair player with an eye for goal. Maybe the flair was why he wasn't wanted by the BOSS. Look at it this way, Kilkennys last All Ireland Senior win was 2015, a year after that Minor. Why not get him in after that at 19/20 and actually give him the same timeframe on the panel as others have got since and before. If you're good enough you're old enough.

Lads can crib all they want about Walsh and say he's not good enough and all this but at the end of the day , are some players that have been starting and on the panel since any better? Not a chance!

Now I'm not saying one swallow makes a summer but minding that swallow until he's ready to fly is the key. That's what Kilkenny have failed to do over the years since the heights of the 00s. Too caught up on the best team of all as we were rightly called then. But now there's a new best team of all and its not us. That's sport lads, one county nurtured groups of talent and one didn't. Will Limerick end up like us as victims of their own success like us ? I highly doubt it.

Just my opinion and if you don't like it I'm sure you'll let me know. Inter county is a professional game now and some lads can't be hanging around putting off life for a chance that under certain management will/was never going to come. Amateur players playing a professional game is where Kilkenny is at right now

Huw is not superman, Paddy Deegan was leaving acres of space in front of Huw the whole game and Huw done what he could.

Paddy is a great hurler but he must be a nightmare for his own full back line with the space he leaves in front of them with his attack minded play.

He would be the polar opposite of how Declan Hannon plays no. 6 for Limerick.

It can only be midfield of wing forward for Paddy this year.

He would give Byrnes or Hayes (presuming he is available) plenty to think about on the wings and Deegan is as strong as a bullock too.

He had 1 and a half good games at minor and didn’t make the cut numerous times on senior panels time to move on he’s not the answer to kk problems and was never going to be lads need to get over it on here

Yea I'm not having the selfish comments on Deegan at all. I never think he plays selfish. And he's not slow. A lot of the time when he's soloing the ball it's uncontested from his own half and he has the head up looking to deliver a ball. His deliveries are suspect but slow and selfish, nah.

The quality of ball he was delivering was terrible(mostly missed hit shot attempts), he only seemed interested in shooting, or passing and trying to receive the ball back to shoot again. He consistently got turned over, miss hit ball and caught in possession in the second half, he found himself in the half forward lines at times and left an ocean of space behind him. Fogarty and Molloy were doing that excellently in the first half, working the ball up and hitting pockets of space then running into positions for returns and getting shots off. Deegan needed to keep it tight in the second half and let the 2 wing backs do what they were doing imo, attacking up the wings and creating space. Hogan even acknowledged that after the match.

Disappointed with their management team that none could apparently stop the rot. Too late acknowledging it afterwards.

Must be a lot of MMA training included? 😜

Wish discussion of the 2019 Richie Hogan Final red card was banned in this thread. It's always incredibly tedious and never goes anywhere as no-one will change their views on it now.

(In case anyone asks, to me it was a red card, it was such a reckless tackle to make in an All-Ireland Final.)

Ye grats two good results alright.

Absolutely congratulations to the 2 Kilkenny sides but what's going on in the rest of Leinster. Schools hurling is a wasteland in Dublin again and Wexford barely has a pulse. Like the Harty ..is unbelievable for vibrancy and teams. I won't go on about it because I ll 'trigger' ye with talk of Harty hurling .

Does the business every year for the Vegas and be interesting to tally up the scoring charts for the last 10 years and see where he is.

One and half Good games at Minor is still one and half good games more than certain panelists.

Yes the day is gone for him now. But let's hope the next talent doesn't slip through the cracks

3 of the last 4 Croke Cup have been Kierans v Athenry, you don't trigger anyone you just talk shite now and again.