Kilkenny GAA Thread

What do people think are the chances of this motion passing? At least it's good to see some attempt being made to change it.

I don't ever agree with Barry Kelly but I do with this. If it does pass I presume it won't be implemented until next year. Meanwhile every team should just throw the ball. The refs will either ignore or blow BOTH teams.

Every team should continue to throw the ball u mean or are u saying only some teams do it?

Would of thought Stephen Donnelly would be given a run based on club form and David Fogarty.

Hopefully kilkenny put in a good performance and find something to build on.

Mullen is playing. I'd be horrified to think 13 of today's teams are championships starters. I'd hope 8-9 max.

Team for the Championship.

Darren Brennan

Mikey Butler. Darragh Corcoran. Jordan Molloy

David Blanchfield. Huw Lawlor. Mikey Carey.

Kevin Blanchfield. Conor Heary.

Paddy Deegan. John Donnelly. Tom Phelan.

Adrian Mullen. TJ Reid. Eoin Cody

Change needed in goal for distribution purposes.

Most teams only play 2 inside and Molloy would do a good job as sweeper.

The spine of our defence needs readjusting. If Corcoran could work at 3 then this could release Huw to 6.

Tell the 3 Shamrocks lads in the full forward line to go for a goal every time. Bring out Mullen if we need a 4th half forward.

Paddy Deegan, John Donnelly, David Blanchfield, Mikey Carey and Tom Phelan to pick off the points.

Kevin Blanchfield and Paddy Deegan to punch the holes.

Heary to win the ball and frees.

Nice balance

Little or no chance.

Handpassing/Throwing, Steps,Hurley and bas size, sliotars that a 4-year-old can catch and strike, are all making the game ridiculously simple, and the trophies will be won by the best coached and best resourced teams.

Little will change because aesthetically it all looks great, speedy, ball being precisely drilled to hand, lovely triangles of zippy passes (2 throws and a brick flick off a bas the size of  small frying pan), points from 100 yards out that clear the top of the posts. Cue orgasms of "oh my word, what skill levels " etc. Abut much of it made possible by cheating and gaming the rules of the game and equipment.

It's the equivalent of rugby allowing knock ons, forward passes and offsides to not really be reffed very strictly and maybe allow Velcro gloves that make catching simple . Result, tonnes ofgreat tries from all over the pitch, Ireland beats England 85-72. “What a game we’ve seen here”.

But rugby isn’t that dumb, if they were, 7s would have taken over long ago.

On the chasm in resources between counties, the gaudiest showiest sporting event in the world, the Superbowl tomorrow night, will see Kansas City try to win their 3rd title in 5 years. So, what you might ask? Except there are 36 cities in the US with larger populations than Kansas City. In GAA, they'd be a Longford or Carlow demographically, but they can compete for the trophies because the NFL and NBA and MLB all realise their product is better served by not a allowing a tiny handful of massive cities take the titles every year via a vast outspend of their smaller city rivals. Lobsided games and half empty stadiums doesn't sell.

Sooner or later the GAA needs to develop a model that caps senior teams and guarantees the smaller teams a minimum funding. And the gap between the cap and the minimum guaranteed funding for smaller counties cannot be a chasm. Maybe 1m max and 500k guaranteed min.

If it doesn’t, the inter county model is finished.

We're always looking forward

I really wish people would stop trying to move the best full back in the country out of full back.

Any score?

Hurled very well for 25 minutes. Missed a hatfull of chances and have allowed cork back into the game.

Puckout meltdown part Deux..

Bring on Wally and back to long puck outs that don't work. 🙈

Nice to win.

But 2 poor enough teams, us slightly less poor.

Weird match, we destroyed Cork in the first 25 minutes and then were second best for most of the rest of the match bar some brief moments. 3 of our starting forwards were very poor with Billy Ryan not in the first half at all, Luke Hogan having a debut in which nothing happened for him and Conor Heary who got on a fair bit of ball in the 1st half but did nothing with it. On the other hand Mullen looked really sharp and scored some fantastic points from play. Eoin Cody was good in the first half but wasn't in the second half at all, John Donnelly scored a crucial point at the end but hadn't done much before then. Drennan did well when he came on and Wally Walsh was unlucky with the goal chance (the replay looks like the Cork Defender slapped him in the side of the head while making the attempted hook, that's surely a foul at least) however bring him on did lead to us going route one with the puckouts which I'll come to later.

Cian Kenny and Carey were good in the first half but less effective in the second half. Kenny is very good at finding space at times but he fades in and out of matches. Shane Murphy had a very good debut with lots of hard running and a very good score. Blanchfield and Corcoran did reasonably well. We leave Huw Lawlor too isolated at times, I thought he was lucky not to be sent half when he stopped Horgan from running onto the loose ball towards the end especially as he had already been booked. Didn't see much of Mikey Butler bar an awful misplaced pass, Tommy Walsh did fine in his individual battle.

Murphy's puckouts have been an issue for years and were highlighted again tonight. He quite simply cannot pick a player out unless they're in the full backline. If he can't do that he'll just bomb them down high on the tallest player in the forward line (Donnelly or Walsh). In modern hurling that is quite simply not good enough. We need a keeper to be able to pick out a half back or a midfielder with the puckouts, otherwise the opposition just bunches their backline up and even if we do get a clean catch our player is swamped up and more often than not loses possession. At this stage he shouldn't be playing in the league as either Brennan or Tallis have better puckouts and need game time and it's questionable as to whether he should be starting in the Championship.