Is there a wall stopping Lk & Kk folk going to Cork ???
If Wexford win we could play Galway.
Limerick have a few selections to ponder for Kilkenny.
If fit, SeĂĄn Finn will return to the corner and Richie English will continue on the opposite flank. Full back is major call. Last year Cody had his troops bomb ball down into Richie McCarthyâs paw all day long and he duly mopped it up and looked the business. If he starts this year Cody wonât be fooled a second time. Mike Casey offers a different option. Heâs faster and more aggressive than Richie but has none of Richieâs streetwise enterprise. Huge call.
Half back line picks itself. Byrnes is the weak link here, and he can be got at.
If OâDonovan is fit heâll partner Cian Lynch at centre field. If not Will OâDonoghue will come in.
Half-forward line picks itself, Hegarty, Hayes and Tom Morrissey. Huge work rate required, no doubt theyâll oblige.
Peter Casey wonât start, itâll be Mulcahy, Flanagan and Gillane again. Heâll make an impact at the 55min mark, around the same time Hegarty and OâDonovan are done.
Dowling will get a run only if we need a Plan B. To keep the Kilkenny defence stretched Pat Ryan will be in for the final 10.
Workrate and energy will be key. Kilkenny are far from finished, and while yesterday on top of last week will take its toll, they are still a contender. Experience is priceless and they have it, we donât.
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I think Richie Mc will be full back. Would have been my first choice at the start of the year but it looks like Kiely has tried everything possible not to play him. Very strange full back line decisions in the Clare game.
Why do you think Pat Ryan will come in? He dropped behind a few players already and is surely now behind Casey too. I donât get Dowling not appearing v Carlow, is it a sign heâs out of favour all of a sudden or he just wasnât needed? I still donât understand dropping him on the basis of the Clare game if Hayes and Hegarty are being kept on. Maybe itâs training form.
We could really do with a Jimbob type at midfield to better complement Lynch.
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Hayes and Hegarty are our whole platform - the work rate they get through is phenomenal. Both were absolutely bolloxed against Clare - dont know why youâre dragging them into a debate about the full forward line.
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Flanagan has been poor the last 2 days, 3 if you include the 21s.
Heâs only a pup and has seen a lot of hurling. Hard at that age to perform consistently.
He showed enough against Cork and in patches against Waterford to suggest he will be a big player for us in the future,
Thought he did quite well Saturday evening
Good few wides.
Yeah heâs definitely got it in him, which is probably why Kiely is sticking with him. He seems to be immune to kielys axe though.
We will see what they are all made of Sunday.
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Yup. This is it. Shit or get off the pot.
If they hurl to their capabilities theyâll win, I think. We are as good as whatâs left, including Galway. Belief is needed. A victory will do wonders for these gosuns
I thought Flanagan looked lively enough, but was probably the quietest of the three, and you wouldnât be reading a whole pile into it. Would agree he was very poor by his standards against Clare and for the 21s.
But Iâm not sure if Kiely would play both Casey & Mulcahy in the same line. He might, he hasnât really had that option to do so yet but for some reason I feel they really in direct competition with one another. Unless Flanaganâs touch is way off in training, I reckon heâll start.
Unleashing Casey for the last 20 as KK tire will do.
No way is Flanagan being left out next week. You know heâll put a proper shift in whatever happens. Itâs going to be an absolute war of attrition. Flanagan is one of those lads youâd want in the trenches.
Galway did a good job yesterday of keeping the ball away from the main Kilkenny defenders like Walsh, Murphy and Buckley. If we bomb aimless balls down on top of them we will be in bother.
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A wild one but any chance of Mul,Gillane and Casey starting inside? We need to try and set a blazing tempo from the start and take as much energy out of the KK legs,movement and runs inside will have to be through the roof pulling out our inside forwards and launching strike runs from midfield and our HF line.
If you think thatâs wild I saw a post on the HoganStand about giving Cian Lynch a run at Full Back 
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Ffs Flanagan stepped up v Galway when we needed him and v cork. He was moved to accomodate Dowling v Clare and it didnât work at all. Flanagan will relish the test v Kilkenny. Crazy talk here.
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Flanagan will do well to make the 26.
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He has nowhere near enough credit in the bank to be an automatic starter, his form at the moment is so so, if he was from the city the knives would be out,