Posting up articles about kk on a Limerick forum. Did you ever hear the likes of it
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It’s unedifying to see a once proud hurling county like kk trying to crawl into the long grass like some kind of limerick wannabe.
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We’re ashamed really, I gone so far as to give up going to Kilkenny hurling matches, I think I’ll support Wexford altogether this year. I might get to celebrate a moral victory at least
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Kilkenny are much more obsessed with “Chipp” than the other way around
This statement, even if taken as true, which is far from clearcut, needs context. Here is said context: relatively few people in Tipperary possess a profound interest in hurling. Last summer, after Tipperary’s early reverses in the Munster Championship, Brendan Cummins and journalist Shane Brophy noted that approximately 20,000 Tipp ‘supporters’ had gone awol.
For many of this crew, attendance at a championship match is most attractive as the alibi for a gloat. Therefore they go awol when their county does not go well. Tipperary has a far higher proportion of these merchants than any other place. Hence…
I think that’s more to do with this Tipp squad being particularly unlikeable than the Tipp team not being very good. Tipp got big crowds in the noughties when they were going a lot worse than they have recently
I’m not sure that is true.
This is a man who copy and pasted posts from Premierview onto his twitter feed before the 2016 All Ireland laughing at them and then blocked anybody who mentioned it afterwards. Not the most objective observer
Fair enough. But BC and SB are well placed observers…
Fair point. But I still think the dynamic is there, as per the 2011 homecoming. Far more significantly, so do BC and SB – among others. Nicky English and Michael Ryan made cognate statements during this decade.
How many people were at the Galway homecoming last year or Waterford the year before? Losing homecomings don’t have big crowds generally. Kilkenny in 2010 was different as they had been such a great team and won 4 in a row
Intercounty hurling crowds are an irrelevance really. You’re not some kind of great gael because you go to every Tipp game. There’s lads in my club who probably haven’t been to a Tipp championship game in 30 years but who will go to every game the club are involved in from u16 up. Intercounty is a much better standard and its great to watch but its given far too much importance
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I’ll not have the galway hurling bandwagon blackguarded into second place.
Well, we can agree – if not on much else – about the fact that club hurling, by definition, is more important than intercounty hurling, if only as hurling’s seedbed.
Yikes…
Kilkenny team to face Dublin
- Darren Brennan
- Paul Murphy
- Paddy Deegan
- Tommy Walsh
- Enda Morrissey
- Huw Lawlor
- Conor Fogarty
- Padraig Walsh
- Alan Murphy
- Adrian Mullen
- Walter Walsh
- TJ Reid
- Billy Ryan
- Colin Fennelly
- Ger Aylward
I think they will need to put up a big total to win.
They have a Welsh rubby player at center back they must be stuck 
Richie Leahy still can’t get a game. Cody must have it in for him