Kilkenny GAA Thread

Loads of time for him to stand out at club level. How did he play today ?

I thought John Donnelly had a huge game for Thomastown today 4pts from play and contributed so many other scores as well. I thought they could have won by more if they had played a few low balls in front of their forwards ,they kept putting in high ball. I also thought the forwards bar JD were nervy enough and didn’t have confidence in there own abilities this will surely bring them on today.

The senior and Intermediate championships look very open this year. All of a sudden there must be 7/8 team in senior that think they have a chance. Village, Shamrocks, Boro not as strong as once was and OLG could be beaten on there day as a lot of teams do not fear them. Great to see an open championship, teams like Tullaroan, Thomastown, Mullinavat, Ballycallan, Bennetsbridge could beat the big 3 on any given day.

KK in 2014 we had five top class free takers Henry,TJ,Richie Power,Richie Hogan and Eoin Larkin.

but surely they should have someone in mind that would be sharing the frees at this stage.

I’ll forgive you this time.

Clubber coverage has been excellent this week. Great to be able to look back through all the games at your leisure if you buy the weekly or yearly pass.

It's valued highly by those involved both players and management, it should be valued by intercounty managers and I think most do as it's the highest standard in GAA outside of intercounty, so if you want to see if lads in your panel can mix it then it's an excellent breeding ground.

You don't value it because with due respect judging by your posts you mindset is very insular towards Kilkenny.

it’s good to see Sean hunt up there I think he’s a prospect.

ye but not at noon on a Saturday. On the beer last night a lot of rumours still that all three managers back in place, no one was happy not one person, if it was a survey the county board would lose by a 99.9% margin. From what I heard all three managers will be reinstated but there may be changes in the backroom teams

There's a county board meeting tonight, won't be at it myself (on holidays) but if all 3 are back they will more than likely be ratified tonight. I don't think there was ever much doubt that Lyng would be back, a little surprised if Bergin is coming back but as someone mentioned on this thread before with most of the team underage again next year there is logic in not changing, although personally I'd have made a change. If Dowling is back it really will be a big surprise, I don't think he's done enough to warrant another year.

He came 4th.

two questions

1/ Are the county board to ratify the management teams tonight.

2/ If they do not agree what happens then.

Confirmed they've all been ratified with management teams TBC

The minor final was one of our darkest days no question about it.

As i mentioned in a previous post Bergin was always going to be given another year. Its by far the most successful year he's had over the team. IMO he should have been moved on last year after a few poor years for our minors but whatever the County Board review system is, if he survived the previous years reviews, he was always going to survive this year.

Under 21s, I don't have a huge issue with Dowling staying in place. While yes, some selection mistakes were made many things were done to hamper him too of which the senior management need to answer for.

Lyng was never in doubt but he needs to clean house and start with awhole.new panel. I saw a lot of club games this weekend and the standard is excellent. There are plenty of hurlers out there worth a shot if managed correctly and given a proper chance. Better than some on the current panel who are either gone past it or who have never been proven themselves for their clubs

The reason that league/shield finals are played are that if they aren't played your grade is set if you play in the first round of league, which means if teams are short of numbers early in the competition and they bring on a couple of young lads from the junior team they are then gone from junior and can't play again, whereas if they play a league/shield final your grade isn't set until you play a knockout game and usually by the junior competitions are out of the way. I'm not saying your proposal dosen't have logic but that's the reason they play the league finals.

So really you’re telling me that it was a unanimous decision to appoint all three managers. That’s unbelievable the minor manager was involved with the minors for six years and what was won, we lost to Laois 2 years ago and they didn’t even go on to win Leinster and then bet by thirteen man Tipp in our own backyard actually we were made a laughing stock,and what if he loses this year what will be the outcome then. I sincerely doubt if anyone was approached for any of the jobs.

At least the senior and U20 managers have only two of the three years done the minor management went full term, so are they getting rewarded for winning a Leinster. Someone said earlier that having the same management back after winning Leinster makes sense, well it doesn’t to me I just cannot figure out some people’s logic they will be inheriting a good team this year. But we had one last year and they made a total bollox of it. I want to put the question to all posters what’s the least we expect from the minor management team next year I can’t wait to hear your answers.