Kilkenny GAA Thread

Now probably isn’t the time but sure really everything starts and stops with the county board and I am not happy with them and I wasn’t for a long time. Now in reality we need three intercounty managers where we find it difficult to get one. The minor and U20s have potential and might be a bit of competition. But the senior is a complete rebuild.

Lads need to realise our actual playing numbers is tiny .......it's going to take an awful lot of work and money to get us back near winning an all Ireland

Lets be honest that was a very poor showing. Clare were awful in the first half but came out roaring in the second half and only for the goal I think the game would have being over much sooner. We ran out of ideas both on the sideline and on the field.

When you bring Fogarty and Walsh off the bench who great servants as they are you know the writing is on the wall.

This was the season to be blooding new players who could add some dynamic off the bench. But instead Lyng went with tried and trusted.

There is massive change needed. The whole script needs to be ripped up and changed. If we keep doing the same thing we will get the same result. We have being basically doing the same thing for the last 10 years.

The only saving grace today is that IMO we would not have won the next day and losing 3 in row would have being a savage dissappointment.

A question for posters here as i dont post a lot. When was the last time you were really excited by a Kilkenny Team and you looked forward to playing any county. We have been functional for a long time.

Agree with alot but don't think Lynn should go but he better change personel and style of play.

Having been in croke Park in the noughties to watch KK winning their all irelands.. it is very hard to believe that KK have now gone nine seasons without winning Liam McCarthy.. and it doesn't look as if the drought is going to end anytime soon

What's happening at underage??? I remember 20 years ago ye had the best underage system in the country

Very hard to know how good we are or aren’t after this season. Mixed results. Some players below expectations. Some players probably played above expectations (Deegan, Donnelly). We were always 4-5 players short of matching Limerick this year. Not saying we have 4-5 players better than the ones starting but as another poster said, we don’t have the numbers for whatever reason. Saying Lyng should go and saying we are better being beaten today than having to face Limerick and lose again is just ridiculous. Clare won’t beat Limerick if that’s who they face but I don’t think they will be embarrassed if they are beaten by them for the third time this year.

Have we ever gone a decade of not winning an All Ireland? After this years All Ireland, there's five left. I personally can't see us winning one in the 20s

Nobody knows whether we would have beaten limerick or cork all irrelevant now.think Lyng should stay and try re build.but today IMO we should have won, had all the cards and fucked it up.more than anything clare did

Forwards didn't perform.

When did we start to take our eyes off the ball? Our generational players where kids in the 90s so most of the work was done there. I'd say from mid to late 00s is when we started to become complacent regarding our development of players

During the 90's/early 00's you used to always see kids with hurleys beating the sliotar of a wall in their housing estate green, nowadays it's a rare sight

Hard to see where we go from here.

The county is just in a rut. We don’t have the quality, we lack the tactical nous, and we lack the hurling.

I remember the mid 90’s when we were most definitely 3rd best in Leinster never mind the country, and times seemed bleak. Today just feels like we’ve lost more than a match, like we’ve lost something that made Kilkenny the greatest hurling county in the country.

And you know what? It’s hard to be enthused by the game. Today was simply another poor game, lacking excitement, lacking a buzz. You’d swear all week we were done in the championship already such was the lack of buzz. We’ve had so many poor games to watch now over the past few seasons, I think people are being put off.

I don’t know, as mad as we are about hurling, the feel for the game doesn’t seem to be there. Everything feels stale, and it’s showing in our county teams.

I hope all the lads here posting were at the game.

The support for Kilkenny was absolutely embarrassing for an All Ireland semi final.

Lads should start there.

Yeah he may as well stay, still learning, let him rebuild now, there was no all Ireland left behind that another manager would have won