… lost today to Wicklow on a scoreline of 2-34 to 0-5.
It is a fooking disgrace to think that a county of it size makes such an obviously pathetic attempt at developing Gaelic football.
I went through a phase of thinking they shouldn’t be let compete in hurling until they make some kind of effort at developing football. But then again I am from Wexford. Personally, I think it’s pretty disgraceful to see a team losing by that margin to Wicklow but as long as they’re winning senior hurling titles at the rate they do then I don’t think any Kilkenny GAA follower, other than maybe their most ardent football supporters, will be too bothered. I suppose it’s also part of a wider debate - should county boards have a responsibility to do as much as possible to develop both codes equally or should they prioritise the one that gives them the most opportunity for success? Clearly, Kilkenny are doing the latter.
Damned if you do, Damned if you don’t.
Last year: “It’s a disgrace that KK don’t have a senior team in the League for football, throw them out of the hurling!”
This year: “It’s a disgrace that KK have a team in the league for football this year, throw them out of it!”
Maybe it’s a disgrace that Wicklow are in Div 4
Maybe it’s a disgrace that we got to within 9 pts of Waterford, who beat Clare over the weekend
Maybe it’s a disgrace that other strong hurling counties don’t take KK’s lead of specialising and add to their hurling titles
Maybe it’s a disgrace that Leitrim aren’t winning more Connaught hurling titles, Donegal are not competing in Ulster, that Kerry aren’t in Thurlas on Munster final hurling day
Maybe the 16th largest county (or 16th smallest) with a population of 80,000 is situated in the middle of the hurling belt of Ireland with none of it’s parts, save a couple of parishes at the top and bottom of the county adjacent to areas with footballing traditions
Or maybe KK people are too tired from polishing their medals that they’ve won over the years in hurling to give a fook about football.
Question:
Is the reason that Kilkenny are so pathetic at football because they make absolutely nop attempt whatsoever to develop the game in the county?
There is a large difference between football and hurling in terms concentration around the country. Football is all over the country and it is folly to suggest otherwise. I can only speak for Leitrim but there are two hurling clubs in the county despite the fact that there is absolutely no hurling tradition in the place. They still compete every year in the league.
Or maybe KK people are too tired from polishing their medals that they’ve won over the years in hurling to give a fook about football.
This is the real reason that Kilkenny footballers are a joke.
Without going into a slagging match between Football and Hurling and who plays what, lets get a few things straight:
- Hurling and football come under the GAA umbrella, as do Handball and Rounders. The four are completely different sports, save Hurling and football who share the same pitch, number of players and county jerseys. In essence, they are completely different sports.
- Football is played extensively across the country, but not exclusively. Counties like Galway and Cork who have football titles have specific hurling and football areas within their counties. KK falls within an area that is pretty much all hurling.
Q - How good are Leitrim at handball/rounders?
- The polishing the medals comment, I’m only jossin; standard retort by KK man when asked about football.
- Our ladies football team won the junior championship last year.
- Our mens seniors have a good chance of beating London in the league.
I don’t know how much it costs to enter a team into the football league but I heard something crazy like it goes into the hundreds of thousands. I’ll look it up but that money could be better spent, no? (in KK’s case, I’m sure it’s the same for Leitrim in hurling)
:lol:
Kilkenny football manager amongst Ireland’s most unromantic men
today at 8:38 am
There’s nothing romantic about the Kilkenny senior football team at the moment and it seems as if there’s not much romantic about one of their joint managers either.
Kilkenny joint-manager Jim O’Connor is one of 18 nominees for the title of Ireland’s most unromantic man, a competition that will help one unlucky lady in Ireland confirm that her fella is bottom of the pile when it comes to showering love and affection on their better half.
57-year old Jim was nominated by his daughter Dairine, who put his name forward after growing fed up of receiving woolly hats and tickets to Kilkenny football matches (seriously?) as gifts, of Jim snoring in the cinema and forgetting his wallet when it comes to paying for dinner.
We have a little bit of sympathy for Jim, however, as he can’t have been feeling very romantic after watching the Cats footballers endure a series of ridiculously heavy beatings in recent weeks.
Bad and all as Jim is, at first glance it would seem as if there are men guilty of far worse than bad presents and snoring at the cinema on the 18-man list.
Take the case of Dubliner Ian Bevan, for instance. Ian was nominated for the title after it was revealed he once abandoned his wife at a bus stop while he was driving her to the hospital with a broken ankle because he had left his phone at home.
Or what about Andrew Faulkner, also a Dub, who printed off a Tesco Value Valentine’s Card for his girlfriend or Derek O’Brien, who ordered his woman a Gym Dual Shaper to “help her with her fat belly”.
And what’s the punishment for these heartless, unromantic deeds? A luxury holiday in Cyprus awaits the ‘winner’ once the 18 finalists are whittled down to four finalists and face a panel of judges, amongst whom will be a representative from our own fine website.
The competition is being run by the Cyprus Tourism Organisation and if you want to vote, you can do so on the competition’s Facebook page.
Just make sure your woman doesn’t catch you lest she thinks of putting you forward for the title in 12 months time.
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Kildare will be disappointed with that.
I played football for Kilkenny.
Tonight?
No - over30 years ago.
They were called EMFA then.
I see they make their debut in the All Britain chanmpionship this weekend. Taking on Hertfordshire in Luton on Saturday night.
Nice little jolly for them:pint:
[quote=“chewy louie, post: 779736, member: 1137”]I see they make their debut in the All Britain chanmpionship this weekend. Taking on Hertfordshire in Luton on Saturday night.
Nice little jolly for them:pint:[/quote]
I remember having a smoke with their subs while the match went on when they played Lmk in a league game on a saturday night few years back,sound lads they were!
Kilkenny would be well suited to the British championship
They did piss in the powder.
You don’t even know what you’re talking about son, it was actually a crowd of your cunts from Laois who pissed in the powder above in the mines in Comer
Ah this ol chestnut, what would you expect from an ass except a bray.
Check it out with someone who knows pal. It wouldn’t even be an issue if the cunts below in New Ross didn’t go on the beer after running the Brits out the first time only for them to return when all the boys were drunk and bet the tar out of them
Its an urban legend with little or no fact to back it up. Its pushed by those whose agenda it suits.