Kilkenny GAA Thread

Tbf a Cork man hardly loves tipp. It's not an outrageous position they are taking, many neutrals and all of tipp thought it was a red. Most kilkenny didn't. Agree to disagree. Its near 5 years ago.

Fair enough, presumed incorrect that you were saying a Cork man would be biased positively towards tipp. Now that's an outrageous position since I would consider him neutral on tipp kilkenny matters. Dislikes us both equally I'd imagine.

He’s been doing that a long time now, hasn’t the pace to get away so he feels he has no option but to play for a free anyway I heard there was a big who ha on twitter about Kilkenny divers. Are we all going to be tarred with the one brush.

A lot of nonsense posted on here the last few days, from a certain knocker of Paddy Deegan over the year's on here calling him slow is just unbelievable, to people going back on Richie Hogan incident, please stop going on about it, we have better things to be discussed on here surely.

On the sending off the other day I thought it was red on 1st look but another didn't look like any contact, the ref clearly didn't spot some of the other incidents or chose to ignore giving out a few 2nd yellows, he lost control either way which was a fair assessment.

Hard luck to O'Loughlins anyhow, their over reliance on Half back line came back to haunt them unfortunately, Would love to see Conor Heary get a few runs in the league, but I doubt we'll see too many of the established club players who just finished up in the 1st rounds of the league, maybe Fogarty, Heary and some of the Ttown lads maybe.

Hes a free taker of course his tally’s will be high

Certain panellist made the cut played in Leinster finals and all Irelands an made valuable contributions

J Walsh doesn’t have the physicality to make it at senior inter county level or the aggression imo

Thats why he has never made the cut

How many times did Deegan get turned over stupidly soloing up the field. OLG had the game in there hands if Deegan had to control things a bit better. IMO at the highest level Deegan is slow especially when turned.

His game management could be absolutely better no question, doesn't seem to have the patience to sit back on the D like a top class 6, I just disagree you with about his pace, he's very quick really.

He had a top class display in Leinster Final scoring 5 pts but it's hard going up and down the field no matter how fit any man is, gaps will appear, like they did with Goal Na Fianna scored.

I think I'm the leinster final it was clear that the olg forwards weren't getting the job done and he had to push up to show leadership, put points on the board. It was an amazing display and he was praised to the high heavens for it. But having your center back as your top scorer from play is not a sustainable strategy and good teams will find ways to exploit it. My point is whether he was right or wrong as the season went on, his forwards were not putting scores on the board and he felt it was up to him to cover that role. I don't think there's any question of playing him center back for kk anyway, but I think his approach for the club was a result of circumstances.

If the problem is that he pushes up too fast though, I'm not sure midfield works either unless you're definitely playing Mullen in the forwards, because you don't want two attacking midfielders against limerick, they'll destroy your half back line of one of them isn't defending.

I should have added if the goal they scored actually stood the conversation here is possibly much different, such fine margins.

That's true but the conversation regarding Paddy D is going on for a while and would continue.

Does anyone know when the draws for this years league/championship will be made?

Thanks in advance.

I thought Blanchfield done well v Carlow but got cleaned out by the Wexford full back Foley. He is only back to that level of hurling so should take him a few games to get up to speed.

Id say Lyng will play the Ballyhale lads v Wexford next Sunday, he will definitely not want to lose twice to Wexford at home in the space of 3 weeks.

This will upset a few posters 👌

It was really said in jest I agree fully a think he deserves it but going on the last week I'd expect a few knockers

A subject came up today about the cost of running teams it looks like we will not be able to keep up with the big guns shortly due to lack of funding. It wasn’t long ago I was slated for wanting funding to be reduced or to have a balance between all teams on a subject like this it only has to be looked at who is making the money even at club level the backroom teams are creaming it . That is why teams are training so hard the coaches and trainers are on an hourly rate. Look at Kyle Hayes training 30 plus hours a week. How could anyone even hold down a job as well as train intercounty and most top clubs are doing the same. It has to be curtailed.