Holden, pray for Joey.
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Serious experience there. 9 starters from 2015 All Ireland final and those 9 would all have started at least one or both of 2014 All Ireland Finals. Big plus for the few young lads to have that level of All Ireland winning know how around them.
Yerra we have thirteen medallists starting.
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Hogan and Reid have 14 between them
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Oooooft.
Noted but would have an even greater fear for Zoolander (Paul Murphy) when he inevitably gets isolated.
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Murphy was fairly ok the last match. Holden is improving and Huw is raw. That’s as good as we have sure. We just need to do some damage at the other end.
I think TJ will do better with Donnelly beside him. At least Donnelly will pass him a few balls.
He was but Cork were all kinds of Gutless. Inevitably we will concede whether it be from further out the field by choosing to stack the HBs in front of the FB line or inside with overlaps if that HB wall fails to hold.
On the positive side if Hogan/Fennelly/Reid/Walsh were to all make hay on the same day we could win a shoot out.
Deegan is a great bit of stuff. Reminds me of Paddy Prendergast.
Deegan has come on a long way in 2 years. I’ll never forget Cody throwing the eyes to heaven when a poor touch from him led to a sideline in Thurles two years ago against Waterford. He was taken off at half time the same night.
He’s been very good since.
Deegan is so one handed though it isn’t funny
Deegan is completely two footed though. He can stand on your feet and rake your ankles for the full 70plus minutes with either foot.
I suppose he dunts harder off one side alright.
He’s slow as a bag too. I’ve seen milk turn quicker
That could be horrible to watch, I hope Cody does it humanely and hooks him before too long
Any truth in the rumors of Mooncoin and Carrigeen merging?
They should call the new club “The Half Moon”
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There is.
How will that go down? There’ll be a lot more of it with the escalating trend of rural de-population.
Not that type of a situation at all. There are rakes of numbers in the parish of Mooncoin.
Carrigeen are broke, after taking on an ill advised loan a few years ago. Croke Park would not assist them financially because they do not have a juvenile section. A half arsed attempt was made to construct a juvenile section but the effort died a death, because the ‘plan’ was too divisive in certain families. So the unthinkable was thought.
Another factor, in my view, is the expansion of Junior, on a non divisional basis, into Junior C and Junior D. The carry on of certain Carrigeen mentors and certain Carrigeen players has been disgraceful for a long time. Their true home would have been the nether regions of South Tipperary Junior hurling. Which or whether, Carrigeen’s carry on was confined previously to a narrow circuit of South Kilkenny clubs, places well used to their favoured approach – and inured to it, in truth.
Last year, far more clubs, including ones from North Kilkenny, were introduced to this approach. These clubs not impressed. I believe the Gardaí were called to the Threecastles pitch after Carrigeen’s visit last summer. The idea of ‘plucky little Carrigeen, keeping the flame burning’ got extinguished.
Carrigeen is a distinct part of Mooncoin Parish, a bit nearer Waterford than the village and environs. The historical source of Carrigeen GAA Club lies in its status as a Fine Gael-orientated outfit. The founding belief was that a counterbalance was needed to the supposedly Fianna Fáil-orientated Mooncoin club. This afflatus is now largely lost in the mists of time and survives largely as crankery and pettiness. Normally you would like to see a club keep going but few people would lament Carrigeen’s demise.
There are two other Kilkenny parishes with two clubs. Threecastles, which lies in the parish of Freshford, simply want to keep the club afloat because it was one of Kilkenny GAA’s founder clubs. Threecastles have 23 or 24 adult players. I guess their logic is that they might as well be hurling Junior C with Threecastles as with anyone else. Besides, their notably talented lads generally go and hurl with St Lachtain’s and there is, best of my knowledge, no particular tension between the two clubs.
Blacks and Whites and Graiguenamanagh is different. Blacks and Whites consider their club the pivot of a rural identity in Skeoughvosteen. Graiguenamanagh would amalgamate in the morning but Skeough’ are not for turning. I once had the honour of refereeing an U12 match between Blacks and Whites and Graiguenamanagh. Quite an experience…
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You really can’t help yourself can you, wanker.