Plain of the Herbs wrote:Some rewriting of hurling history in the 'Kilkenny Peepel's' Leinster club final preview. Seems Young Irelands and not Birr won the 2002/03 Final. How about that, Townman? And Cloghan played no part in St Rynaghs' four wins - Banagher only. And Ballyhale beat Kilmacow in the Leinster semi-final. Not a cow milked in Kilmacud! http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/sport/gael ... -1-6451725
don't worry DJ Carey Charlie Carter, Pat O'Neill. know who won the leinster final that day in portlaoise
also the all ireland final the following march hard luck to k/k they were the better team in the 60 minutes, day didn't go right for Ciaran Slevin, but Shefflian showed his class in the end and thats what won it. he was the oldest player on the field yet there was no player that could keep up with him in extra time as he was left on his own to score points for fun.
Plain of the Herbs wrote:Some rewriting of hurling history in the 'Kilkenny Peepel's' Leinster club final preview. Seems Young Irelands and not Birr won the 2002/03 Final. How about that, Townman? And Cloghan played no part in St Rynaghs' four wins - Banagher only. And Ballyhale beat Kilmacow in the Leinster semi-final. Not a cow milked in Kilmacud! http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/sport/gael ... -1-6451725
don't worry DJ Carey Charlie Carter, Pat O'Neill. know who won the leinster final that day in portlaoise
also the all ireland final the following march hard luck to k/k they were the better team in the 60 minutes, day didn't go right for Ciaran Slevin, but Shefflian showed his class in the end and thats what won it. he was the oldest player on the field yet there was no player that could keep up with him in extra time as he was left on his own to score points for fun.
He was the freshest man on the field in extra time cos he was doing nothing for the previous 60min just looking for handy ball. But fair play to him, anyone that picked up a paper today would have thought he was the best player on show!
in fairness to him he is whats it 36, he went into midfield at times yesterday he sent in a few balls that they got scores off, he also done a lovely one two with TJ Reid for a score from a line ball his points from out on the side line were top class. if k/k had him they would have won yesterdays final by anything up to 7 points.
lads looks kk were unlucky c slevin had an off day on the frees but how many times has he carried kk over the line with brilliant free taken .
injuries to d kilmartain c kiely and g healion were a huge factor,loosing one of those lads would have been bad but when g healion went off kk lost it shape a bit especially in midfield .
ger healion constantly talked to the players around he is a real team player, a great leader .
any team need luck and kk just had not got it yesterday , d currams goal chance would go in 9 times out of ten .
this kk team is special and will be back in leinster again probally next year .
yesterday has to go down as experence now .
great credit must go to all the kk players the have proved the can hurl with the best , something most of knew anyway.
the managment must get credit for building a team with great self belief, spirit and a team that play great hurling .
there are an example to our county team now .
finally tj reid and h sheflin were realy well cortailed yesterday untill extra time when kk had lost their shape ,{ kk held sheflin and reid to 3 point from play in normal time i think} but they both are top class tj reid free taking was brilliant but h sheflin point from the sideline was worth the admission fee . class act
the ref shud have given a free to colin f rite at the end of normal time but didnt. how he didnt send off cody is a mystery tho. if slevin had hit dat point to win it shefflin wud have been responsible becos of de 2 misplaced passes
it has been a hard year yet again for Currams, Mahon, Helion & Slevin with so many defeats in big games the last few years
coilin fennelly should have got that free but he got a free and g healion got booked for a good challange early in the game .
i disagree c mahon d currams g healion and c slevin should be proud of where the have led kk over the last 3 years .
last sunday proved kk are up there with the best clubs in the country .
KK have been unlucky in a few big game but hopefull that will balance out over the next few years.
if kk preform to that level next year it will take a massive improvement from any other club in offaly to beat them .
kk are still young enough the healions are around 30 but the rest are 26 or 27 apart from kiely who is a minor and con mahon and the geraghtys are u 21 .
kk will be a serious team for a while yet in my opinion .
i wudnt doubt dat. good battling performance & were unlucky - as well as being partly responsible for it themselves. overall de wexican gave more to bh than kk....but he wudnt want to get a name for blowin up kilkenny teams now wud he?
sam88885a wrote:coilin fennelly should have got that free but he got a free and g healion got booked for a good challange early in the game .
i disagree c mahon d currams g healion and c slevin should be proud of where the have led kk over the last 3 years .
last sunday proved kk are up there with the best clubs in the country .
KK have been unlucky in a few big game but hopefull that will balance out over the next few years.
if kk preform to that level next year it will take a massive improvement from any other club in offaly to beat them .
kk are still young enough the healions are around 30 but the rest are 26 or 27 apart from kiely who is a minor and con mahon and the geraghtys are u 21 .
kk will be a serious team for a while yet in my opinion .
they are a young team the Healions will be 32 next year, but theres a good few who have been knocking around there since 07, but it will be hard to see them beaten in offaly in 20015.
It was a tale of Kilcormac’s retention of their own puckout. In the first half Kilcormac won hardly any of their own ball, the Ballyhale half-back line was well on top in that sector and they kept a supply going forward. The Kilcormac half-back line did a good job keeping the ball away from the danger zone.
In the second half Kilcormac did much better. They won alot more breaking ball off their own puckout and were able to earn their frees. They were generally unable to get the ball beyond the 45m line though, and the full-forward line was out of it. Again it was apparent that five of the six forwards didn’t make the required impact and while Cillian Kiely did well, he was unable to get into the scoring zone as he did against Shelmaliers.
On the frees, Diarmuid Lyng made a point on TG4 between normal time and extra time about the O’Neill’s ball becoming soft in the wet which causes it to steer off course and how the striker is faced with taking the chance of adjusting their stroke to compensate, or just trusting the ball. Anyone any thoughts? Still on TG4, John Allen was for the birds. Just wasn’t tuned in at all, and many of his comments on the referee’s decisions were plain wrong. And it was the 78th minute before they missed Ger Healion.
Ballyhale took over in extra time and their extra class shone through. Kilcormac clearly tired. That’s understandable, they had put in a massive shift for 60 minutes in testing conditions. Ballyhale knew the K-K full-back was going to man the square and they were able to make an extra attacker by moving the full-forward around. And the Ballyhale full-back line read the low ball coming in and were able to get out in front.
In previous years the Kilcormac management almost always alternated Daniel Currams between full-forward and half-forward. They never once moved him from square’s edge on Sunday, despite players naturally tiring. I wonder why. And I still think James Gorman should be full-forward with Currams top of the right, to come in onto the breaking ball or to take a pass.
They will meet again.
Pat Donegan. Signed out of respect for players and all involved with Offaly.
watched the game on tg4 player last night b whelahan and d owens were interviewed before the game , the contrast was striking owens was so positive unbeat where as whelahan seemed fearfull of ballyhale .
i think whelahan should have used his chance to praise club hurling in offaly instead of be in awe of kilkenny , even if he doesnt belive offaly club hurling is good he needs to be much more positive .
guy need a dream.
hard luck to k/k they were the better team in the 60 minutes, day didn't go right for Ciaran Slevin, but Shefflian showed his class in the end and thats what won it. he was the oldest player on the field yet there was no player that could keep up with him in extra time as he was left on his own to score points for fun.
