Kilkenny GAA Thread

Pretty sure there is a JJ highlights reel on YouTube. Worth watching for everyone to remember how good he actually was. JJ was a defender. Hayes is a forward playing wing back. Both play different games in different t generations. I would have Hayes making it alongside JJ and Tommy in a combined half back line

As a Clareman, I think some posters on this site are exaggerating the negatives re this kilkenny team. Quite simply ye should have had yesterday's game wrapped up by half time. Well on top with loads of unconverted goal chances etc. At the start of the second half Kilkenny failed to convert a few further easy chances that would have given them a very comfortable lead. Inevitably Clare came back into the game but at the end the margin was so small. Kilkenny are THE great hurling county. Ye still have loads of talented hurlers and should be competitive well into the future. The main problem for Kilkenny that I see is the poor Leinster hurling championship. I'm not comparing the quality of the teams but rather the relatively low key atmosphere at the Leinster games. I attend all Clare games and as many limerick games as I can. Each of these games regardless of the quality of the hurling is a great occasion; well attended, keen rivalry, banter, pubs full and plenty of craic. Kilkenny would revel in that type of championship with their skill, commitment and never say die attitude. Rather they are playing lacklustre teams in the current Galway and Dublin teams neither of whom show much passion. Kilkenny needs the emergence of another Leinster quality team, like Offaly in thec90s etc, to bring the best out of them. Just a few unsolicited thoughts.

I can’t recall a Kilkenny scoring two goals and not conceding any and losing. The breeze seemed to strengthen in the second half.

Agreed👍

I agree there's always a huge reaction but yesterday will hurt everyone involved for a while. We were so dominat in the 1st half how were we not 10 or 12 points up. Is it fitness that's causing us to go out of games so much? This has gone on a few years. Could we spend the money and get in bigger names in this department? I still think we are poorly coached and give some terrible ball into the forwards. What will haunt management over the winter is again they were afraid to use subs. Molloy,Wall or Shane Murphy would of made a better impact because they have legs.Push up deegan. He is at a crossroad now. He needs to forget Cody's team. There's positions that just have to be filled. Corner back,center back and a few forwards. We definitely arent a millions miles off but look at Cork now lads like Hayes and downey came thru the underage ranks. It's being a massive joke the way the u20 particularly was handled. Need to appoint the proper people to these teams.

On a normal day a fully fit Mullen could have scored 1-2 so could m Carey

Not sure whether it’s fitness or concentration that we keep drifting out of games and not killing teams off it was happening in codys last few years with m Comerford and Dempsey involved

C Phelan was also involved in Cody’s last few years also

Our panel looked a bit stale yesterday the same old faces I think lyng kept on some of the older heads to give himself a bit of a foot hold in the job and experience around the place

I would imagine he expected more of his 20s panel to be on match panels and starting by now but nun have made the break through so he went with the older brigade

The panel will evolve lads will step away and hopefully that will allow some of the younger players to flourish and freshen up the panel it’s a young man’s game now

If the likes of Tj step away it means others will need to step up and take on more responsibility Mullen Donnelly Cody etc

E Cody definetly needs to spend a few games in the half forward line next year he seems to bottled up to much inside

We definitely need 2 backs a midfielder and a few forwards

Regards the coaching I think that comes from county board from underage up

The problem is we’re so married to the one style of play and way of doing things from the whole Cody era unless there is a county board clear out there is no fresh thinking they do what they ve always done because that’s what worked in the past

Like I don’t think we ll ever see a coaching ticket or manager from outside kk manage a kk county team

In their respective runs, Limerick lost 3 matches and drew 3, Kilkenny lost one and drew none.

Kilkenny also had to play a good Galway team in two quarter finals. Limerick went straight to semis each year.

Kilkenny frequently had players of the quality of Richie Hogan, R Power and TJ to draw on as subs!

Kilkenny had to contend with a great Tipp team that would wipe the floor with Cork of today in terms of hurling.

And Kilkenny went on nto win 4 of the next five after losing the five in a row.

Come back in 4/5 years time if Lim have won another 3/4, but any claim of supremacy over Cody's 06-15 just doesnt hold up as yet.

Other than the U19 competition this year which was contested by 4 teams what is Mark Aylwards pedigree to get the KK U20 job?

Nobody respond to that nonsense

Surprised how active the KK forum is here. I remember on the Hoganstand forum years ago, KK had one poster. Their county forum was a ghost town. Yet here, it's extremly active. Why was that?

the two losers had the 4 week break

Well they were well out of sight only for the ref making a howler with two terrible decisions.

ye it’s hard to know just throwing it out there for a reaction, but I don’t think Lyng brought on enough young lads? I think the minor would be ideal for Henry to renter the fold. Mark Alyward seemed to have been popular with the U 19 squad as was Gorta.

I know it makes no sense (even less so now obviously), but I still reckon it was a thing possibly.

The disallowed goal and the free Limerick got after Twomney was blown for what the ref thought was a throw ball when it wasn't.