He went with a system I donât think his team ever played before and they looked lost playing it. He went away from their strengths and what got them there completely. It also seemed to go away completely from what he and his team are about and whatâs made them a smashing team, man to man no backward step weâre going to take you on all over the field and keep coming at you. After taking that approach with Limerick why change for kk? Not only the change but the choice of Morey and the fact they looked completely unpractised in it compounded it. Ok he recognised it didnât work and changed tack but you can add in they seemingly had no plan what to do about butler marking TK.
I can see lohans logic in the cold light of day. Kilkenny had the game dead and buried inside the first quarter last year. They were against a significant breeze too. He wanted to avoid kk gaining a big lead because they simply wont let up.
He was a gee hair from being called a tactical genius by the same pundits that are blaming him.
The howler for the goal and ryan taylors injury were what ultimately fucked them
Outside of Eoin Cody, the other 5 Kilkenny forwards scored two points from play. Obviously TJ is unreal and still very effective, but the other four I wouldnâ't describe as elite at all.
Compare the half forward line yesterday of Phelan, Keoghan and Donnelly to Power, Shefflin and Larkin and it tells a story.
Bubbles was right the other day, you only need about two wristy, scoring forwards now and let the rest run around hooking and blocking and forraging.
The scoring zone has extended by 20-30 yards since then. Now the top teams are regularly getting points from midfield and half backs and even full backs. Those shots would have been balls in 10/15 years ago
The selection of Morey was largely down to the fact that he had two injured players at 3 and 6 and couldnât trust them. Neither had he the strength in his panel to replace them.
It getting deflected onto the crossbar added to the drama of it as well, but there are a fair few examples of better saves I could think of. A great save but I wouldnât have it as the greatest.
Maybe thatâs fair enough and Iâm being too harsh on them. But the fact they won the rest of the match after they changed tack shows it was the wrong choice.