Kilkenny GAA Thread

He played against Offaly in league also,

Has made no other appearance from the bench as far as I know.

Think it was second day against Dublin in 2013 he played corner back or maybe the first day not sure

I can’t see him staying on the panel much longer with so little game time, Conor will be 28 this summer.

Your not getting the bad press, the bad press is over Ticketmaster once again and Tipp distributing tickets through clubs and Offaly didn't and let it be a free for all. Duignan is claiming they were advised to do so by Croke Park as its allocated seating so clubs couldn't be certain families etc. would be seating together, what's happening is alot of people from Offaly who never go to games are wanting to go to this so regular match go'ers are fearful they'll miss out on tickets. Keith Rossiter never used it as an excuse, to say the state of the pitch towards the Loughlins end was very bad was a fair comment and it was obvious just by the eye test weather he said it or not, it was probably more noticeable as the pitch is usually like a carpet, it's been fairly well acknowledged Salthill was in poor knick too on the day you mentioned.

I think you are completely deflecting and playing down the issue. I posted on this already. We are getting plenty of bad press on this from what I see.....and it's fully deserved. The playing surface is an embarrassment.

There is a ticket issue, which on the face of it, has taken some attention off of our own misgivings.

We pushed to commemorate and mark the anniversary. I think it shows we don't really give 2 F***s about commemoratation presenting a pitch in that state for an All Ireland FFinal.if we want to honour his memory, it should be like a carpet, like you said. Scheduling a concert, and then ploughing it up again, knowing full well we lobbied hard for this final......it shows where our priorities lie.

Players deserve pristine surface on their biggest day of the year. Its shameful. I'm not surprised to see calls for it to be changed.....and to save us some embarrassment, I'd be very happy if it was.

If Kilkenny were asked to hurl on a cabbage patch condition pitch for a final, we'd be up in arms.

Well I think you are completely overplaying this one personally. 90% of the pitch was immaculate last Sunday. Yes we could all see there was one patch in bad state but it didn't impact on the game and both teams coped fine with it. By this weekend coming I expect it to be improved. Calling it a cabbage patch is just dramatic nonsense.

We already heard Adam Screeney after the Leinster final talking about how it would be a privilege to play in Nowlan Park. They will all be up for this and not one of them will be complaining about the state of the pitch.

Its a pitch …. It will recover. A needless distraction.

Its not as if theres holes or trenches across the pitch - it will be sorted by the weekend im sure…
But lets all harp on about it as if it is a danger to players ……….

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Like I said, I don't want to comment on it anymore. But you've coaxed it out of me

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I think the attitude taken is clear….standards are slipping in Kilkenny and the condition we intend to present our hallowed ground at a centenary commemoration All Ireland hurling final says a lot, and the fact that majority of Kilkenny supporters are not embarrassed is just one example of those standards slipping.

BTW: I never outlined there was a danger to the players. I just said they deserved the best on what will be the biggest day of their hurling careers for many I would imagine. Your attitude that they have hurled on worse speaks volumes for your attention to detail.

The pitch issue is totally exaggerated. Free/lineball takers always look for the best spot. The second Wexford goal was worked through the "bad" area and was well taken. There was no obvious problem apparent on Sunday. Another excuse to have a go. Rossiter mentioned it but had nothing to say about his team's indiscipline. Jason Ryan's football tactics contributed to this indiscipline. Deflection tactic by Rossiter.

Ignore button is on for 3 posters. Could be one person.

I'd have absolutely no reason to deflect for starters and regardless I said the pitch was in poor condition so if that's deflecting it's a poor effort. If you feel embarrassed by the state of the pitch that's your provocative. The point I was making was rightly or wrongly the ticket situation got more traction in national media than the condition of the pitch. If Nowlan Park was a 40k venue and pitch was in that condition there would have been no petition stirred up by the Offaly bandwagon, anyway looks like the concerns were slightly premature as there will be tickets returned from the allocation gone to clubs in Tipp.

How come the find of the year was moved to midfield against Dublin and then dropped for the Wexford game. Shane Murphy would be the first name down at wing back. We are into to June and we couldn’t pick 10 players in there right positions. Lyng is a very hard man to figure out.

did similar happen with Blanchfield last year ?

Played well in the Lge, then disappeared?? (* i may be TOTALLY wrong …..* 😏 )

I’d say your thinking of codys last year Blanchfield played all the league and maybe the 1st championship game it didn’t go well and I don’t think he was started after that he came on in that years all Ireland and made a difference looking back he should have started that day

Just because 3 people are in disagreement with you it has to be duplicate accounts, there is someone who values there own opinion. No comment from you on the u20 and complete fiasco Mark Dowling was conducting either after you defended him to last after the 2023 defeat also.