KILvDUB
E Murphy
M Butler C Delaney T Walsh
M Carey P Deegan C Browne
J Maher C Buckley
W Walsh P Walsh A Mullen
B Ryan TJ Reid E Cody
Subs D Brennan D Corcoran R Reid D Blanchfield C Fogarty C Kenny A Murphy J Donnelly M Keoghan R Leahy T Phelan Team supplied by KGSC in association with UPMC Nowlan Park
Was James Maher injured the last day or just taken off?
Looks much weaker on paper/screen from 2-9 than it does from 10-15.
Id say hes definitely better than some of that team from 5-9.
Hes unreal for Ballyhale.
He was fit and raring to go before Galway aswell but deemed not good enough for the 26.
It would appear BC has been using his constructive dismissal policy with Richie since the all Ireland semi last year but Richie isn’t listening.
He gets an awful lot of handy ball for Ballyhale in most games
Richie Hogan must be stubborn as fuck.
Theres literally nothing in it for him at this stage.
Thought it was very strange he came back. Blind man could see what he thought of him by the way he treated him in the semi against Cork.
Richie was a very gifted forward. A master craftsman.
Yep, Deegan is the only defender you could rely on to produce a decent game. They could probably done with P. Walsh back the field a bit further
Imagine the hurler Deegan could be if he could hit it off both sides!!
Should have stuck to the big ball
Not really any of anyone elses business, but even I’m starting to think that kk would have been better this year with a clean slate and pulling together.
Dublin forwards are very average though
Time for HS to return home
peddlerscross:I think the story is that Eoin Cody didn’t travel back on the bus afterwards. Shefflin is his uncle.
KK team for Saturday games normally comes out on a Thursday apparently but not this week.
The stuff about lads not travelling back from Salthill on team bus is not true. This slice of reality came from two players – non Ballyhale Shamrocks – who were on said bus.
What counts as true is that BC has been losing the plot for several years at this stage. I mean, could he not realize that the carry on with HS after the game would only bind in tighter the Galway players behind HS? I repeat: BC has lost the plot.
What was said about HS at the team meeting before the Galway game and after that game in the dressingroom remains a hot and sore topic of discussion in Kilkenny circles. We stayed on this topic last night in The Nore Bar for beaucoup pints. BC has taken dynamite to his own reputation.
Richie Hogan told someone I know he is fully fit but cannot make the 26. I reckon Cillian Buckley, Conor Fogarty, RH and Walter Walsh were only retained in the 2022 panel for optics. BC did not want four big names leaving all at once.
Kilkenny hurling is in a poor place. Dublin have every chance.
Called that one right wrong, in fairness.
But adjustments, including putting RR centre back, must have been an interesting pragmatic concession.
Really not sure how Dublin managed to be so awful in second half.
RR can actually look up and pick a pass unlike Deegan.
Dublin were septic.
I thought deegan did well playing ball from the wing today