Kilkenny GAA Thread

Minors losing again. God do we have any good crop at all??

Minors lost again. Given St Kierans success this year I take it that our better hurlers are in the 18/19 age bracket? Please say I'm right?

It's hard to equate what happened in today with the display versus Galway.

Like two completely different teams.

16- and 17-year-olds can blow hot and cold but the most disappointing thing today was the lack of fight, the way most of the forwards in particular, gave up so easily, never fought for dirty ball, just let Dublin waltz out with it.

Dublin well worth the win but the second half as a spectacle was atrocious as ref allowed Dublin away with a scandalous amount of time wasting. No rhythm to the game whatsoever, lads being allowed 30-40 seconds to take puck outs and sidelines and up to a minute being wasted on frees.

Thought it was a really stupid idea to take Mullen off frees in 2nd half, the two he missed in 1st half were tricky, it clearly affected his confidence when he was looking like the only forward who might do damage,

Shur they can't get knocked out of it yet. Judge em on the knockout.

One of the most dissappointing performances by a minor team in a long time. On a perfect day for hurling, we scored 1 point from play in the first 25 minutes. Hit 11 wides in the first half. Poor decision making, poor execution, poor first touch. Hopefully, confidence can be restored as they are better than today showed

I think it's westmeath next weekend. They are top in tier 2 afaik

Kildare away in Manguard park next Saturday at one o clock.

3 and a half teams in Schools A U16.5 in 2023 were Kilkenny and the final between Kierans and CBS was meant to be really top quality stuff. So losing to Wex and Dublin is very hard to fathom.

The Wex loss was just one of thsoe days, but today's performance was close to inexplicable (even allowing for age).

Assuming we get by Kildare, Galway will be hell bent on rectifying matters, and if today's performance repeats itself, they will hammer us.

Kilkenny should have been well ahead at half time if they had to take their opportunities instead of hitting 11 wides in that half. Of their first 9 attempts at scores from play, they hit 8 wides which seemed to drain confidence from the team as you could hear groans from the crowd after each miss. I would still have hopes for the team

Strange competition, how come the likes of Westmeath or Kildare don't get these 2nd or 3rd chances. If Kilkenny lose the semi final v Galway they would have lost 3 matches and still progress in the competition. Makes no sense, the weaker counties are the ones that need more games. Minors should be going back to hurl for there clubs at this stage, because i doubt all the best minors are picked. 12 points yesterday is embarrassing.

Unfortunately the minor set up is becoming a **** show. It was a very poor display yesterday and management seem to have backed themselves into a corner by playing the same players in the last 3 games and in 7/8 challenge games. I heard parents saying yesterday that the management dont seem to know where most of the players play for their clubs as players playing out of position. There are much better players not getting a chance at all they were saying also. Management obviously not up to it. Players looked tired yesterday. Dublin were fitter, sharper and faster yesterday. We were way off the pace. It looks like we are not doing proper conditioning of players at this level and no proper speed training. Dublin could have won by 10-12 points. We have now lost home advantage in the next 2 games. Very dissappointing.

the most worrying thing about this minor team is no poster has an explanation for what happened from the heights of Saturday fortnight to yesterday. What happened? From the Galway game we should have been showing the fear factor that we are going to be the best in the country, well that’s gone, and it didn’t really look like they were testing the panel aside from playing Clifford wing back where I never saw him playing before. I thought myself that we should have been well up for this match after last week’s defeat in which they did battle back and could have won it and I wasn’t too worried going home whereas I was really worried yesterday going home.

Could well be a kilkenny wexford leinster final

Yet I was slated earlier last month for saying it was strange for some of the clubs to have such representation on the panel (Boro, Comer) despite losing to Dunnamaggin at Minor level and Dunna not having 1 player involved.

Hmmm, wonder had I a point?

About players not being allowed play for their clubs tonight, disgustingfor young lads. Shame on the decision makers on this one

How can someone be 'interfering' with selection? That's an interesting take considering the spread of players on the panel.
Comer were arguably the strongest U15 team last year, winning the league and losing just one game all year, narrowly, to OLG in the quarter final. Dunnamaggin beating them in the A semi was also a surprise.
Would be difficult to argue that any of their 5 players don't deserve to be there.
Judging this years minor panel on the 2023 Minor championship is odd given the players up to the age last year are overage for Co Minor this year. Would be difficult to argue strongly for any Dunnamaggin player being on this years panel bar possibly one.
Looking at the Celtic challenge team, which looks weak enough, and the 16A team there's no obvious real hard luck case I can see.
Management appear to have the right players but they have just produced 1 very average and 1 really poor performance back to back. I wouldn't give up on them just yet, it's a young team, 8 of the players that finished the game yesterday were U16, and the Kildare game might be a good chance to get back on track.