Kilkenny GAA Thread

Looks fine

good one freaney

Marrooned - you suggested that the outcome of this match might put things in perspective with regards our own under 20s - and it does. Offaly are a super team and we can moan/bitch all we like about our team. A bit of luck and we could have beaten this wonderful team. I'm looking forward to meeting them in the coming years. Leinster hurling is alive and well. Congratulations Offaly.

ye I’ll go with that Grats.

He was handing out fliers on the way into the wexford match last weekend.

Well done to offally,to be fair they have more than screeney they have some nice hurlers and dan Ravenhill would also be a big addition. This is a golden squad for offally so hopefully they can all stick together and devolop over the coming years. In hindsight kk will look back with a lot of regret. I know everyone has their own opinions on how good or bad our team was but i think if we had of got it right on the line we would of had a much better year. Someone mentioned playing lads because selectors had a influence if this scutter is still going on its absolutely disgraceful. I would question managements decision particularly the half back line. It had a lot of people talking for the wrong reason and although alot of people are blaming the half back line the fowards didnt do enough. With cork getting knocked out it was a huge opportunity to try win much needed silverware at underage. Well done to offally they have being absolutely starved.

Too easy an option to ‘go with that’. In 2020 Kilkenny won the Leinster Minor final beating Offaly 2-21 to 3-9. In 2023 Offaly won Leinster U20. In 2021 Kilkenny beat Offaly 3-21 to 1-16 on the way to winning the Leinster Minor Championship. In 2024 Offaly won the Leinster and All Ireland U20 finals….. Something went wrong the last two years. Mark Dowling being robbed of B Drennan in 2023 and K Doyle in 2024 was simply disgraceful and certainly didn’t help Kilkenny underage hurling.

I agree, no need to cali out players outside of what happens on the hurling field

great match

A real shot in the arm for hurling in Offaly and they deserved their win.

One thing I noticed was the free-taking routines, which look less than ideal for both teams - A lot of moving parts and lining up facing the goal rather than side-on to the target.
It doesn’t seem to affect Screeney much though he did miss a couple, but McCarthy has an even more elaborate routine with the OCD grass toss and I don’t think it helps

I’d be interested to know if they were coached to do this or developed it naturally

I’ve always thought TJ has the ideal style and coaches should be encouraging young lads to adopt it

They both take frees off the ‘unorthodox’ side. Hard not to have something a little awkward when hitting from that side. But the Tipp free takers routine is embarrassing. Someone will surely beat it out him eventually if he makes the senior Tipp setup.

ye it was a good win today for KK Celtic challenge, people might scoff at the win but I think it’s great it sure eats losing and it continues our run underage.Congratulations to all involved.

Hard to believe nobody shouted stop in this day and age. The whole point of this competition is continued player development and retention, so that was an unbelievable decision for Tipp to drop players on this panel and parachute in lads who were on the minor panel. Actions speak louder than words.

With all the talk of five in a row, does anyone remember when Kilkenny footballers won five games in a row?

1988

NFL Division 4: Kilkenny 2-10 Waterford 2-8

Challenge: Kilkenny 2-20 Army Selection 2-6

O'Byrne Cup 1st Round: Kilkenny 1-6 Carlow 1-5

O'Byrne Cup Quarter Final: Kilkenny 0-8 Kildare 0-5

Leinster Junior Championship 1st Round: Kilkenny 1-9 Carlow 1-8

The winning run came to an end in the O'Byrne Cup Semi Final where Laois won 1-11 to 0-6.

I was in the park for the Celtic challenge and I was sitting right along the line of all the damage. How the county board did not have someone overseeing the dismantling of the stage is beyond belief it was like something was dragged along the whole width of the pitch. Besides all the blame game with management and players on the U20s. The county boards top men should all resign they were fully and totally to blame for the whole mess from start to finish and we ended up without an U20 trophy.Just on the matter of the venue Offaly were better off playing in the park than Limerick, it created a cauldron which must have been daunting for Tipp. If Tipp had brought more supporters it could have been different.

Not to be a smart arse or anything here, I'm genuinely way out of the loop now in terms of how the county is run, and I appreciate your commitment to supporting the county teams and all that, but when others criticise the management teams you've said they need to give solutions as to who should replace them. So, who should be running the county board?

For the record I think bringing Springsteen and the final to kk was a big win for the county, and a few patches on the pitch is not great but it's a relatively small price that nobody is going to remember years from now when the memory of the occasions themselves (the gig and the final) still linger.

I think you are right to be honest.....and the history books won't mention the playing surface. I'm sure Offaly won't mind anyways .

I just don't like that it was allowed happen. I think one poster who outlined for CB to resign...that's a step to far for me. I'd just like accountability when mistakes are made and f**k ups occur.....so they won't happen again...and we get better. But the attitude that "it was grand"…or "it'll do"....well that's simply not good enough and is not up to the standards we set ourselves for hurling in kilkenny and all the preparation around it.

For what it's worth, I think funds gathered from u20 packed house, the concert and the wexford match was great....but it could have been done in a different order so everything was perfect when we display our pride and joy. I just want us to take a little more ownership and think before scheduling so things like what led to the scarring of the pitch don't happen.

Settling for "it'll do".......won't see us get back to winning All Irelands.