Kilkenny GAA Thread

It took an Eoin Murphy wondersave to beat Clare last year. Can we keep Tony Kelly as quiet as the last two years? Kilkenny had a poor Round Robin series drawing with a poor Galway team and Carlow, barely beating Dublin and Wexford. Leinster form shown to be poor today. Match is 50 50 in my opinion. Shane O'Donnell, my favourite non KK player, has been in terrific form. Hopefully, Carey and Donnelly are fit to start, Murphy's puckouts continue to improve and better quality ball into forwards

I was at the games today and t Kelly was definetly more himself and will take minding o Donnell and Roger’s are Clare’s biggest threats up front duggan and Shanagher offered very little and d Fitz was quiet

I think we need to target conlon aswell as his legs seem to be going he’s not moving as freely as previous years

But again hard to judge as I thought Wexford were so disappointing I really thought they would really put it up to Clare

O Connor sending off handed the game to clare, first never a yellow but discipline after that let hom down.In the semi we need to be disciplined as clare are bound to bring it after the last couple of years.

Tipp are really getting behind this minor team and want to get as many supporters as they can inside the gate. Clubs organizing buses and Players with little snippets on social media. Kk have improved alot of areas but they need to do more when it comes to these kind of things. I know supporters cant be forced to go to matches but a bit of joint up thinking with clubs and more advertising and promotion would help. I know these are only chaps but the same rules apply to the seniors the following week. Its embarrassing how poorly supported we are. Kk hurling gives us alot of good days out and the players deserve more support. Its being really highlighted the last few months how poor we are.Hopefully a big push next week is made and maybe a few senior players wishing them look.

Clare were in control for alot of that game except for the 10 min before the half time. Rory was their best foward at the time. The first yellow was scandalous but the 2nd probably a yellow but reidy definitely made the most of it because he was on a yellow. That game was there to be a lot closer for wexford but for some reason they never repeat their kk performances against most other teams. Are wexford happy enough to just compete with kk? I know quilligan is poor but chin and mac hit two at him in the 1st half theres no way he could let them in. They overdone the route one and became predictable. The big worry now for wexford hanlon,donahoe and liam og are near retiring and davey must of destroyed liam ryan and dee o keefe because they cant stay right at all. Chin when they really needed him agsinst kk and today he was missing. Himself and jack o connor injury prone. Theres a big enough job to be done in wexford and i dont know if they have the players to eat at the top table.

Clare will be happy to pull away at the end. Conlon now looks like a big weaklink and kk will definitely go after him bald headed. They will say the same about our 6 but johns legs are slowing down. Refs have really clamped down on clares fouling especially adam hogan buying frees so he wont get the 3 or 4 frees in a row like he did in the league final. Some of the clares movement was good and had wexford in 6s or 7s. We will have to get our match ups right. Eoin cody should be mad for a go on hogan again and teams are really identifying quilligan as a weak link but wexford were forcing goals.looking foward to the game and its a 50-50 no doubt.

The good news for a lot of people here is it wont be long before forchange is back id say he can nearly smell a defeat. As soon as kk are bet he will be on giving out about mossy and Donnelly.

I see the semi final is fixed for 3 o clock on the Saturday,not ideal.

Camogie quarter final also on. Will Kilkenny be involved?

3pm on a Saturday is a shocking bad time..plenty lads will be working and struggling to get to see it on tv not to talk of getting up to the match..

I do think we will have enough to beat them.if anything they have gone back a bit I think…as others have said conlon seems to be struggling ..would it be a bit of a curve ball to put billy Ryan on him for a while and run at him..

I can see limerick winning the other one handy..

Those are obviously uneducated guesses before lads start mentioning crystal balls.

Two disappointing qf’s yesterday. Neither were competitive really . As said by others already the sending off for Wex finished that game as a contest. Thought Cork won the other comfortably. Anyway back to broken record time. The throwing in the Dub v Cork game was a disgrace and not one pulled. Dublin were more guilty than Cork amazingly. It was a disgrace that the Tip ref left it go. I turned against the Dubs because of it and found myself in the unusual position of supporting Cork. If we get that Ref or Stack in any of the remaining matches then the lads should just throw the bloody ball because they won’t pull it. I nearly switched off it was that bad. Something has got to be done.

thanks for that.

Oranmore/maree Galway won it .john lockes brought them to extra time in quarter final before eventually loosing out.

Bennetsbridge well beaten in camogie Division 1 simi final by eventual winners boherlan dualla

Lucky for you the minor All Ireland is not on at 1.15pm or 3.15pm then.

Huge weekend for everyone involved with the minors.Management who have put in huge hours of work. Parents and adults who have drove these chaps everywhere and clubs and schools who have helped devolop these chaps.There does be alot of negativity here especially after a bad result and there's one or two lads who aren't happy unless kk are bet and can't wait to have all the answers. Despite not winning all irelands kk are hugely competitive at all levels. The seniors would of had a few more all irelands if it wasn't for a incredible limerick team. The u20 is still a sore one with alot of people around the county. Unforgiveable to set up the same way 2 years in a row and get cleaned out again. It's was glaringly obvious. The county board deserve credit for finally starting to get their house in order but standards need to keep increasing and fresh ideas required. No doubt there will be a good crop of u20s again so they need to be approaching candidates now before they make other commitments. Plenty of ex players from the golden era. Tom mullally would be excellent, Brian dowling is also doing well in kildare. Gortha and mark aylward had the 19s playing a nice brand and some nice hurlers on that panel.

Onto the match Saturday the last time they played in the park was against dublin it was a huge turning point in their season and a blessing. These are chaps and harder to keep out noise they might of thought things would come easier after the 1st game but got a valuable lesson against dublin. Wexford game just ran out of time and young lacey was a big loss. Shooting and workrate let them down against dublin but they have steadily improved the last few games and are now 60 mins away from the holy grail. Still starting matches a bit slowly and shooting can be alot better. Absolutely can't afford to drive 20 wides this weekend or give tipp a 8 or 9 point headstart. If they take all their chances I'd be confident of a great result and a much needed boost to underage hurling in kk. Tipp won a minor here so that won't be a huge addition although it's a help. Tipp really getting behind this team and I see kk are starting to advertise this game a bit more. There's no excuse for people Saturday get out and support these chaps and support your county.Hopefuly some of these will be senior in a few short years .its a huge deal to have a home all ireland. We could of had 2 if the u20 team was properly picked.It would be criminal to be outnumbered at home for a minor all ireland.best of luck to everyone involved

Have you seen the camogie draw is same as last year, 4 groups of 3 but you don't play anyone in your group, crazy stuff.

Camogie In ter and seniors down to play at 2 on Saturday week in big games while the hurlers are on at 3 in croker.Evening throw in let players and supporters get to both.