I think much like Billy Dooley in 94 they simply got sick of scoring points.
not true.
Do you have the number out of curiousity?
I heard they were back out training Monday night, I guess they had a few bits to work on.
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I believe they took a lot of positives out of the game.
wouldnt have the exact number. will find out for you. But I do know they didnt kick over 60 wides. In a 60 minute game, it would be nigh on impossible to have a kick out every 35 seconds from a purely logical point of view.
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Well when you put it like that…
Shur that would leave no time to rack up 70 points.
Some lads on here talk pure shite sure. Maths don’t add up
Last week the GAA witnessed one of the most overwhelming defeats in minor football history as Wexford trashed Kilkenny 17:20 to 0:01, a difference of 71 points.
For many the result became somewhat of a joke, as it highlighted just how much of a hurling county Kilkenny really is.
However, for those who are involved in Kilkenny football and want to improve the game there, it was no laughing matter.
Kilkenny senior county player Caleb Roche spoke to Action Replay’s Extra Time podcast about the system in Kilkenny and criticised the county board following the defeat:
“When you throw a team together three weeks before a match, what do you expect?
“There is no club football structure in place. How do you expect to be able to compete at inter-county level?
“I was at the game the other day and I felt sorry for the young lads to be honest. Especially when you had some of the hierarchy of the county board sitting there at the start of the match all laughing and they didn’t care about the match.
“But then as soon as the scoreline started to go the other way, the smiles soon started to disappear and it’s not good enough.
“There’s very little (in the way of a) system. The senior football county final is next weekend. They just want to play it off before the hurling.
“A senior football team in Kilkenny is guaranteed three league matches and one championship game, that’s it – four matches you’re guaranteed; whereas a junior hurling team is guaranteed 15 hurling matches.”
Results like these have been occurring since 2001, when Kilkenny lost 9:21 to 0:02 against Dublin. In 2004 Louth beat them 5:18 to 0:03. In 2008 it was Laois who won 4:20 to 0:06. During the 2011 campaign Meath beat the Cats 6:27 to 0:00 and in 2013 it was Offaly, winning on a scoreline of 8:30 to 1:00.
Yet, despite this shocking history, Roche believes that nothing will be changed.
“They had a meeting last night (Monday), but to me that’s just to show that they’re doing something. The meeting should’ve happened at the start of the year to sort out how they’re going to tackle football.
“They don’t really care, as long as they can get a team to fulfil a fixture. It’s just to tick boxes for them.
“All that has to be done, in my view, is to put a proper structure in place at underage level and say to teams that if they want to play football then put a team in.
“The only proper age group at the moment is under-14 level.”
Kilkenny-Wexford games are always 50-50, except this one, which was 17-20.
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I believe they have decided against fielding in the next round of this. Laois receive a bye.
Yeah they pulled out last week. They have done this for the last 5 years at least too so nothing too unusual by it.
Only I believe some Kilkenny man was in the press recently going on about how they were out training the Tuesday after the beating. Gotta look after that Leinster Council funding huh.
Yeah I think it was Herity wasn’t it? He claimed there was more at that training than was there for the championship game. They had their game played so grant criteria met.
Shower of cunts.
Congratulations to Railyard, Kilkenny SFC champions got third year in a row. Championship was dragged out a little this year, May is no time to be playing football, but they eventually got it played before it could interfere too much with the hurling.
A fondish memory
https://hoganstand.com/Kilkenny/Article/Index/297931
Anyone I met who was there that night swore the referee fucked us.
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That was pretty much the minor hurling team that year bar a few exceptions wasn’t it.
It would have typical if us to lose that game. The toughest tie we had all year
3 (three) Coolagh players on that team.
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