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Snotser, you keep asking ‘what players left that were getting gametime’ but I don’t think that’s a fair question. But to answer it, Nigel Dunne retired and Ruairi McNamee left at the end of the season.

The reason why I say it’s not fair is due to the age profile of the squad. When Declan Kelly ...

Johnny Kelly and the coaching team deserve a huge amount of credit, as well as those involved with the underage teams which these players hurled on. The progress is remarkable and days like yesterday will hopefully become a normality.

Obviously, it’s a massive ask playing the Munster final losers ...

Some win, management and players have to be applauded for how they are approaching this competition. Hopefully a long summer

I would have thought this team would have been capable of more. There are a lot of decent hurlers there, probably not capable of replicating previous teams’ successes, but they were capable of at least getting into tier 1.

I’m blue in the face saying that the most important thing for our underage ...

An overall disappointing 2 year term for Carroll and his management team. I think the expectation was that he would step up and replace Leo O’Connor for the 20s, but that idea or thought should really be shelved now. It’s crucial that the underage teams coming are managed well and that we get ...

The story of this team is brilliant. The older lads are as impressive as our younger players, from Christy Ring to a potential All Ireland quarter final in a couple of years is remarkable. Great crowd as well, which this team has now well and truly earned for games going forward.

If I’m not ...

Think the brakes need to be pressed on the hype train in the media a little bit. Wexford, even though playing poorly, have not been beaten by us in 14 years I believe. If they manage to beat us, they will play a Galway side who will no doubt be in a Leinster final anyways and surely not as motivated ...

I didn’t get to the game but one thing I’d make a point of is the reaction of Jack McEvoy and Dylan Hyland on RTE’s terrible highlights package at the end of the game. Think it shows that despite a tough season, the lads are going all out to do their best in this competition and will no doubt get a ...

Hopefully a big crowd turns up in OCP. I think we can be close, we’ll probably need TJ to have an off day to some extent and the other forwards too in general. I like our team, it’s a pity that the game wasn’t a week later so that we would have King, Ravenhill and Screeney back. I suspect that King ...

Credit where credit is due, that is a great win for the players and management. Proved all of us doubters wrong and hopefully they continue to drive on.

I think we are doing a lot wrong at the minute despite what public perception might be about our underage. It’s quite clear that we have been fortunate with our recent success with the 20s, but for every really good year, there has been almost the same or more really bad years. Think of last year’s ...

This game will put any notions of Leo O’Connor getting the senior job to bed. The hurlers aren’t there, but the naivety to play this Kilkenny team man on man when they are clearly superior is crazy. As far as I’m concerned, these young lads have been thrown to the wolves.

I wouldn’t bother with the whole management debate at this stage, just reassess it at the end of the county season. Old arguments going around in circles, if you looked through this forum you would see an argument breaks out, 3 weeks later then it’s repeated.

On the attendance issue. I try go to ...

I was paraphrasing for getting a good support in at least. If O’Connor Park was to be filled, it would require almost a quarter of our population. Especially tough given the historical north/south football/hurling divide. But instead of having 6,000, surely 10,000+ is possible if there’s a bit of ...

I was listening to the Indo Hurling Podcast yesterday and one comment Michael Verney made which seemed to go unnoticed was that the seniors had to ‘earn the trust of the supporters’ or something along those lines. The crowds that followed the minors and 20s did not immediately start off with them ...