Will Tadhg Kennelly come home?

[buck02]

alonso said:

personally i wouldnt want him i lost all respect for him a while back when he was always on about winning an all ireland for kerry then a few days later he signs a new contract.

No respect or perhaps just a case of extreme jealousy.

Tadhg is doing something I'm sure we would all give our right arm for - playing professional sport in a beautiful country.

If you dont think he'd love to come back and win an all ireland you obviously know f-all about him.

The guy played in a north kerry final only a few days after his father passed away - if you dont think he has the bottle to play the amateur game you should think again.

[Walter Mitty]

buck02 said:

alonso said:

personally i wouldnt want him i lost all respect for him a while back when he was always on about winning an all ireland for kerry then a few days later he signs a new contract.

No respect or perhaps just a case of extreme jealousy.

Tadhg is doing something I'm sure we would all give our right arm for - playing professional sport in a beautiful country.

If you dont think he'd love to come back and win an all ireland you obviously know f-all about him.

The guy played in a north kerry final only a few days after his father passed away - if you dont think he has the bottle to play the amateur game you should think again.

Spot on as usual buck02

[tomdoodle]

I hope all you racegoers backed Tom Doodle at Listowel Races on Saturday.
Tadhg Kennelly will be home on Wednesday but no football for a long time,injury too serious.

[homerj]

would it be serious enough to keep him out of a county final if feale rangers get there?

[Walter Mitty]

homerj said:

would it be serious enough to keep him out of a county final if feale rangers get there?

Most certainly...its in a brace at the moment

[Walter Mitty]

tomdoodle said:

I hope all you racegoers backed Tom Doodle at Listowel Races on Saturday.
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yes sir!! Jets was hopping that night!

[madmac999]

alonso said:

personally i wouldnt want him i lost all respect for him a while back when he was always on about winning an all ireland for kerry then a few days later he signs a new contract. he has no right just to walk straight onto a team it could unsettle every thing

You my friend are what is known in Roy Keane terms as a "prawn sandwich" fan. How can you be grudge a man playing professional sport. Who wouldn't give their right arm to be playing a professional sport in such a great country like Australia.

No one said anything about him walking on to the team i m sure he'd have to train like everyone else!!

An extreme case of jealousy me thinks!!

[Piggy]

tadgh would be a serious player for kerry if he came back, anyone who ever saw him play underage would know that.

[AnygivenSunday]

Iv known tadghy a while now and with all yer talk about him walking into a Kerry all Ireland winning team is mad, Tadgh is one man who would not even expect to do it, nor think he would be able to... Every one in the county knew he would be a kerry minor when he was 16 yet the man taught he was not good enough. so all our talk about him is not worth mentioning, we know he is class now its up to him to decide what he wants to do.

[kerry07]

Yes its for Tadhg to decide....

He would be some addition for me he would seal the next four to five years ----no pressure--

Tadhg

[Tackle Hard]

i hope he does he wud solve alot of problems in midfield! i kno scanlon played very well but tadgh wud give us an extra dimension and with dara soon 2 go lik he is def needed and wanted! the experience and trainin over der wud make him so strong and fit he wud be a revolution here! his high fielding wud also be a site worth waitin 4!

[jd1]

shaneo11 said:

i hope he does he wud solve alot of problems in midfield! i kno scanlon played very well but tadgh wud give us an extra dimension and with dara soon 2 go lik he is def needed and wanted! the experience and trainin over der wud make him so strong and fit he wud be a revolution here! his high fielding wud also be a site worth waitin 4!

ye make the aussie rules seem like a game from another planet , they are professionals i know , but do our boys not train and put in just as much effort for kerry as any other professional outfit , tadhg would give us another option without a doubt but there are alot of players in the county who deserve a chance also

[Jo90]

I think it's an insult to the current Kerry team to insinuate that Tadgh Kennelly would just walk into the team.
Personally I think he'd be struggling to make the panel. People must be really underestimating this Kerry team if they think Kennelly would make the team. Just because Kennelly is a fulltime professional doesn't mean he'd make it either - most of the Kerry players are practically professional sportsmen anyway going by how much they train.
It would be somewhat acceptable to say that Kennelly would make the team if he had been a star of the senior team before he left but truth be told, he has never played an intercounty game at senior level. To say he'd make it based on how good he was at minor level is ridiculous. Far better minor players than Kennelly have never made an impact at senior level. I admire what Kennelly has done with the Swans and I think if he did come home and train his butt off he *might* be able to make it back into the Kerry panel but it's certainly not the formality most people think it is.

[Joxer]

Spot on Jo90, well said...some sense on this thread at last........

[kerrygold]

i think we saw with the last international rules series how far more advanced the full time prefessional aussie rules players are who train three times a day 5 days a weeks as compared to the part time professional gaelic footballers who train once a day 2 or 3 days a weeks.The gaelic players couldnt live with them physically or in terms of fitness.

is it not insulting to tadgh as a full time pro to suggest he could not adapt back to gaelic football.If we hadnt won an all-ireland in 10 years we would be begging him to come home!

[buck02]

jo90 said:

I think it's an insult to the current Kerry team to insinuate that Tadgh Kennelly would just walk into the team.
Personally I think he'd be struggling to make the panel. People must be really underestimating this Kerry team if they think Kennelly would make the team. Just because Kennelly is a fulltime professional doesn't mean he'd make it either - most of the Kerry players are practically professional sportsmen anyway going by how much they train.
It would be somewhat acceptable to say that Kennelly would make the team if he had been a star of the senior team before he left but truth be told, he has never played an intercounty game at senior level. To say he'd make it based on how good he was at minor level is ridiculous. Far better minor players than Kennelly have never made an impact at senior level. I admire what Kennelly has done with the Swans and I think if he did come home and train his butt off he *might* be able to make it back into the Kerry panel but it's certainly not the formality most people think it is.

If you said this time last year that Seamus Scanlon would play midfield for Kerry in an all ireland this year everybody would have said "not a hope". So perhaps it would not be as hard as you're saying for Tadgh to make this Kerry team.

An insult to this Kerry team? Jesus they'd want to be easily insulted.

[kerrygold]

looks a case of too much cream running down the side of the cheeks to me.Hunger can be a great thing,it keeps things in perspective and keeps a clear mind.

[Walter Mitty]

jo90 said:

Far better minor players than Kennelly have never made an impact at senior level..

Name one

[osama]

danny said:

jo90 said:

Far better minor players than Kennelly have never made an impact at senior level..

Name one

Tadgh Kennelly played for kerry u-21s when he was 17, who are you trying to fool with your far better players never made an impact. He is the best minor we have had since 1994.

[Jo90]

danny said:

jo90 said:

Far better minor players than Kennelly have never made an impact at senior level..

Name one

Conrad Murphy

[Walter Mitty]

jo90 said:

danny said:

Name one

Conrad Murphy

Cant agree with you there...conrad was class but did not offer the all round game kennelly had

[Joxer]

Tadhg plays a different game now and has done for a number of years. He hasn't played Gaelic Football at the highest level ever. Is he capable of doing so? I think so. Will he? To a certain extent thats up to himself but the notion that he could come back from Australia and walk straight on to the Kerry Senior team is fanciful in my opinion. He would have to work very hard and prove himself...its far from guaranteed that it would work out for him. The guys on the Kerry Senior team at present are there strictly on merit and work hard to ensure they remain there. Anyone, regardless of name, would have to meet the same criteria.

In regard Osama to your comment that Tadhg is the best minor we've had since 1994, could I offer the names of Colm Cooper, Declan O'Sullivan, Tomas O'Se, Mike McCarthy,Cillian Young,David Moran, Tommy Walsh, Paddy Curran......

[kerrygold]

I'd be very surprised lads if tadgh wouldnt be ready for the business end of a championship,ie.august and september,with a full national league and munster championship campains to his back.


i dont see any reason why he wouldnt slot into any of kerrys central positions with some application on his behalf.

[Walter Mitty]

joxer said:

Tadhg plays a different game now and has done for a number of years. He hasn't played Gaelic Football at the highest level ever. Is he capable of doing so? I think so. Will he? To a certain extent thats up to himself but the notion that he could come back from Australia and walk straight on to the Kerry Senior team is fanciful in my opinion. He would have to work very hard and prove himself...its far from guaranteed that it would work out for him. The guys on the Kerry Senior team at present are there strictly on merit and work hard to ensure they remain there. Anyone, regardless of name, would have to meet the same criteria.

In regard Osama to your comment that Tadhg is the best minor we've had since 1994, could I offer the names of Colm Cooper, Declan O'Sullivan, Tomas O'Se, Mike McCarthy,Cillian Young,David Moran, Tommy Walsh, Paddy Curran......

I think Joxer you are missing Osamas point. All these minors have made it with kerry. Jo 90 made the point that far better players played minor than Tadgh and did not make it with Kerry. We are still waiting for our example!!

[osama]

Joxer, he had more potential as a minot than any of them, cooper was the least promising of the three in th FF line when he was a minor. In relation to Conrad Murphy, I never saw him scoring 18 points for Ireland in a compromise rules game and he didnt play for cork u-21s his bad year a minor.

[BIGMAC]

2007
Missed the start of the 2006 season following shoulder surgery, but the Irishman quickly found form and again provided plenty of run and dash from defence. One of football’s great success stories, it will continue for another three years as he signed a new contract at the end of 2006. A 2005 premiership player, he is vital to the Swans.


from the swans website,i make it 2010 before we should truely know the answer

[BIGMAC]

Signed a three-year contract in late August to ensure he remains in the red and white until the end of 2009.

again from the swans website

[Jo90]

danny said:

jo90 said:

Conrad Murphy

Cant agree with you there...conrad was class but did not offer the all round game kennelly had

I saw a few games Conrad Murphy player in 2000 and I thought he was the pivotal player in Cork's All-Ireland minor success, particularly his performance in the Munster final. I feel Kennelly didn't have the same impact for the Kerry minors. The point to begin with is that what happens at minor level isn't a guaranteed indicator for how good or bad someone is at senior level. Look at Eoin Liston and Tom O'Sullivan, neither of whom played with the Kerry minors. That was no indicator of their future abilities and there's dozens of other examples like them.

[JOAN]

this thread should be closed until 2009.. We do this every year. I cant see him ever playing for Kerry not he couldnt but that he wont..

[AnygivenSunday]

Tadgh is home