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Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 12:21:17 GMT
Big blow to the team for next year,have to start from scratch now again,pity he didnt stay on and give one more year with the lads
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Post by G_S_J on Jul 21, 2015 15:25:10 GMT
How did Anthony Daly know so much about the local scene, was he involved with Lixnaw??? Anthony Daly devoted 4 or 5 pages of his book to his time with Kilmoyley. He clearly loved it. He loved heading down to Killimer, getting the ferry over and the zeal of the locals for hurling in a tiny pocket. Seeing as he is a man out of the job at the moment I wonder would he mind taking the ferry down again to train the county team. Big blow, I wonder though was their always an inkling he would go, should some other county up the food chain come a knocking? I think Kelly may be in line for the job of 2016 Leinster preliminary opponents, Offaly.
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Post by homerj on Jul 22, 2015 14:43:03 GMT
why on earth would you leave the team after a year like that unless he wanted to go out on an upward trend??
need a top class name in now, but i cant imagine there will be any hassle getting somebody in, division 1 and championship is a great carrot to dangle in front of somebody.
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Post by agoalisworth3pts on Jul 22, 2015 16:00:11 GMT
Anthony Daly devoted 4 or 5 pages of his book to his time with Kilmoyley. He clearly loved it. He loved heading down to Killimer, getting the ferry over and the zeal of the locals for hurling in a tiny pocket. Seeing as he is a man out of the job at the moment I wonder would he mind taking the ferry down again to train the county team. Big blow, I wonder though was their always an inkling he would go, should some other county up the food chain come a knocking? I think Kelly may be in line for the job of 2016 Leinster preliminary opponents, Offaly. id say twas the envelope dalo enjoyed more than the ferry drive and say the county board would want to win the lotto to entice him down for the county job! brendan cummins was involved with the team this year might be a nice introduction to inter county mamangement if hes interested going down that road!
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Post by mossie on Jul 22, 2015 16:56:32 GMT
why on earth would you leave the team after a year like that unless he wanted to go out on an upward trend?? need a top class name in now, but i cant imagine there will be any hassle getting somebody in, division 1 and championship is a great carrot to dangle in front of somebody. It will not be as easy as you think to get a good manager in. The team has jumped a level in both league and championship and some managers may be scared off by the leap required by the team to be competitive. I hope some of the selectors and backroom team remain to keep some continuity
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Post by fortyyards on Jul 24, 2015 10:42:54 GMT
Firstly great thanks is due to Eamon Kelly who has led us to Div 1B and annex another Christy Ring, his resignation is a surprise given these achievements, but maybe he has bigger fish to fry???
Agree with Mossie that the county board should make every effort to keep the existing backroom team together in terms of maintaining the upward curve for our hurlers. Time should be given to identify the best candidate to continue the good progress the team has made to date but also to try to remain at this level into the longer term.
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Post by Mickmack on Jul 28, 2015 19:39:19 GMT
Kelly spoke very highly of the efforts of the Kerry players on the radio on Saturday last. He cited the travelling as an issue. He seems to be a magnetic character and a good organiser.
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Post by Mickmack on Aug 2, 2015 11:21:18 GMT
Damian Lawlor
Published 02/08/2015 | 12:07
Former Kerry hurling manager Eamonn Kelly says the GAA must boost quickly the profile of the Christy Ring Cup or the competition will lose its appeal to emerging counties. He also feels that Croke Park then needs to take a more concerted approach to helping the competition's winners bridge the gap to Liam MacCarthy Cup standard.
The former Kingdom boss is concerned that the Ring Cup is presently more of an afterthought than a showpiece.
"It's ran off over just a few weeks," he says. "Games are sandwiched and come at you fast and furious. Then you reach a final and it's played in Croke Park in front of no-one with only the echo of your own voice coming back at you. I know players want to play there but to have any future the Ring Cup final needs to be played before a big qualifier, an All-Ireland quarter-final, or even a semi-final. That really shouldn't be too much to ask."
After two years in charge of the Kingdom, Kelly has just stepped down from his position. His resignation was a huge blow to the Kerry players with whom he had built up a serious relationship. He doesn't want to see them take a step back in his absence, but feels the powers that be can invest more to help cultivate their progress.
Kelly took over a group of disaffected players and turned them into winners. But he points out that like Westmeath, Carlow and Laois, who have all made the step from the Ring Cup, Kerry - and the likes of Kildare - need continued help.
"In Kerry, it's not a money problem. The hurlers would get more gear than a Tipp hurler, for example. The problem there fixtures. And the fact that we played a Ring Cup semi-final on a Saturday and the day after eight of our players were wanted to play senior club football with a Ring Cup final just six days away. People just couldn't understand why we didn't want the lads to play football whereas I couldn't understand how they could be expected to.
"In other counties it is very often a money or resources problem, however."
The GAA currently fund targeted and designated hurling counties with a 50,000 sum each year but one football manager from a developing county told the Sunday Independent this week that it would take a lump sum of 250,000 euro to implement the strength and conditioning and underage programmes necessary to transform the county into serial challengers for honours.
With no hope of that, it has been left to some managers to put their own money into projects. Kelly says that the game badly needs new faces at the top and admires the steps that Cheddar Plunkett took with Laois. He says they have made a breakthrough of sorts.
"Cheddar took it to a professional level bringing in the likes of Ger Cunningham (Newtownshandrum) and Brendan Cummins and holding a pre-season regime and they have made the leap to a fair extent.
"They have taken the place of Offaly in the Leinster championship next year and that's huge. Westmeath and Carlow are not far off making the breakthrough either but they all need help. And they need it now.
"Rushing off the Christy Ring Cup in four or five weeks is ridiculous, they need to look at it and not rush it as much. And then they need to take a leaf out of Sean Kelly's book and put it on a bigger stage. It needs that bigger platform. Croke Park was empty when we played there and as a manager that's fine because all I'm doing is looking out onto field, but where does it get you in general? Who is talking about the competiton? Do we put it on before bigger game? Or move to a smaller venue? Either way action is needed."
Kelly, who also guided his club Kildangan to All Ireland intermediate honours and delivered a first North Tipp title in 75 years soon after, also says that it will be a scourge and a blight on the game if the emerging counties try to implement defensive systems that are currently all the rage in the game.
"There is a case to be made for employing that system because it does work but something needs be looked at in that area too, whether you would experiment in a competition and make it 13 a side. You can't argue with Waterford's results - they justify what they are doing but the danger is teams at all levels will copy them and we will lose what is special about hurling."
The Kildangan man says rather than pouring money into weaker hurling counties the GAA needs to install more full time development officers and get into schools early. They also need to educate officials as to the benefits of being a dual county.
"From a Kerry point of view I was drawing from eight clubs in the north of the county - and I think they have the most passionate club championship I've ever seen but we need to spread the gospel to south Kerry and other areas. I was made aware of three very good players in Kenmare so I rang them to join panel and they never even returned the call.
"Players like them - and officials who stand back and let it slide by - need to be educated. We need to change the culture. It won't happen overnight, but constant evolvement and development of the game are needed, especially in counties like Kerry who will be in Division 1B next year. They can't make it on their own. It's only now they are getting going and only now they need real help from the top."
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Post by Mickmack on Aug 3, 2015 13:46:45 GMT
Mike O’Halloran was in Newbridge to see the Kerry minor hurlers beat Kildare in the All-Ireland Minor B Hurling Championship Quarter-Final…
Kerry 2-19
Kildare 0-13
KERRY minor hurlers took the first step towards a treble for Kerry teams as they strolled past Kildare in Newbridge on a scoreline of 2-19 points points to 0-13.
Kerry excelled in all positions and led at half-time one ten to six points, the points coming from the sticks of Shane Conway (7) and Fionan Mackessy (3).
Colin Sheehy the Lixnaw star kicked a goal that would be enthused about if was scored in the premiership.
One of Shane Conway’s points was a master class of every skill in the lexicon of hurling skills, he received the ball glided through four players shortened the grip and cut over an absolute beauty.
Not alone has this young man all the skills but he is brave, fleet footed, has a razor sharp hurling brain, specially aware and unselfish, I could go on.
Make it your business to see him in action in the Garveys Supervalu senior hurling championship in the coming weeks.
A feature of this team is their unselfish work for each other. Fionan Mackessy was immense at full forward.
Kerry Minors Tomas O Connor Tomas O’Connor surveys his options. Photo by Mike O’Halloran
The second half took the same shape of the first, apart from the number of wides Kerry racked up. I guess they were so superior to Kildare that they decided to take on shots that were ambitious.
Shane Conway continued his tormenting of Kildare in the second half aided by Fionan Mackessy, Kieran O’Regan and Eric Leen with points and a beautiful goal from David Egan.
Kerry Minors Fionan Makessy Fionan Mackessy tries to evade a Kildare defender. Photo by Mike O’Halloran
Kerry now go on to play Down in the semifinal on August 15th.
Kerry: David Sills, Billy Lyons, Michael Leen, Gerard Stackpoole, Eoin Ross, (Liam Mullins 52″) Jason Diggins, Robert Collins (Jason Keane 35″) John Buckley (Captain), Tomas O Connor (Kieran O Regan 46″ (1pt) Shane Conway (13pts) Jeremy McKenna, David Egan (1gl) (Jack Linehan), Eric Leen (1pt) (Colin Browne), Fionan Mackessy (4pts)
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Post by watchdebreakswillye on Aug 5, 2015 22:13:03 GMT
Seeing as he is a man out of the job at the moment I wonder would he mind taking the ferry down again to train the county team. Big blow, I wonder though was their always an inkling he would go, should some other county up the food chain come a knocking? I think Kelly may be in line for the job of 2016 Leinster preliminary opponents, Offaly. id say twas the envelope dalo enjoyed more than the ferry drive and say the county board would want to win the lotto to entice him down for the county job! brendan cummins was involved with the team this year might be a nice introduction to inter county mamangement if hes interested going down that road! Ciarán Carey - former Limerick great is a man worth mentioning for the vacant position. He managed Lixnaw to a senior Co. Championship title in 2014. He's managing Patrickswell seniors at present & by all accounts they're going really well in the Limerick senior Co. Championship. I believe all his people came from back around Caherciveen.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 3, 2015 9:33:50 GMT
Any truth that Jimmy Barry Murphy might be taking the Kerry Hurling Manager job?
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Post by homerj on Sept 3, 2015 12:42:51 GMT
strange move for him.
closer to home, but right now are Offaly going to allow him achieve anything that Kerry wouldnt?
we could potentiall face them twice next year at least.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2015 9:27:28 GMT
Massive win for the minor hurlers again yesterday in the All Ireland B Final beating Roscommon 6-17 to 1-7
Thats 4 in a row now for Kerry
Very talented bunch of players,good few underage again next year,be interesting to see if they will be still playing in the All Ireland B or will they be moved on from it and put into the Munster Championship or like the seniors play in the early rounds of the Leinster Championship.
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Post by homerj on Sept 6, 2015 18:02:24 GMT
Massive win for the minor hurlers again yesterday in the All Ireland B Final beating Roscommon 6-17 to 1-7 Thats 4 in a row now for Kerry Very talented bunch of players,good few underage again next year,be interesting to see if they will be still playing in the All Ireland B or will they be moved on from it and put into the Munster Championship or like the seniors play in the early rounds of the Leinster Championship. Should be put into Leinster, is there any chance of it?
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Post by G_S_J on Oct 16, 2015 13:16:56 GMT
So the draws for the Hurling were done also last night, the way it pans out for us is if we win the Leinster qualifier group we play Galway and runner up means Laois.
So it appears there won't be a route through to the Munster championship as some may have suggested.
Teams in the qualifier group are, Kerry, Offaly (Managed by Eamonn Kelly) Carlow and Wsetmeath.
Still no sign of the new manager appointment, anyone know what's going on there? Was supposed to be Ciaran Carey, but have they run into complications getting him?
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Post by Deleted on Oct 16, 2015 14:17:01 GMT
Ciaran Carey was involved in the Limerick County Final last week with Patrickswell maybe now that he is finished with the club we might hear something soon about a new manager,that's if he is the man getting the job
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Post by Ballyfireside on Oct 18, 2015 11:22:30 GMT
Breaking barriers a matter of point for Kerry hurling (Interesting enough article from The Irish Times) Kingdom coming as Leinster hurling has new and unlikely contestants for 2016
The most novel part of the championship draw on Thursday night didn’t involve a single ball nor a single bowl. The round-robin section of the Leinster hurling championship was pre-determined but even allowing for prior knowledge, it was still something notable to see Kerry in there along with Offaly, Westmeath and Carlow.
The winner of the group will play Galway in a Leinster quarter-final, the runner-up will play Laois. Come what may, Kerry are back in the All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championship for the first time in 16 years.
Heady times Coupled with this weekend’s expected appointment of Ciarán Carey as their new manager, it makes for heady times down around north Kerry. There’s a team holiday to Florida on the horizon as a reward for winning the Christy Ring Cup and a spring campaign in Division 1B playing against Clare, Wexford, Laois, Limerick and Offaly.
There will be sinking and there will be swimming and if they can get through the first year with their chins above the surf, they’ll go into the championship buzzing.
“There’s more buzz about playing in Division 1B than the Leinster Championship, to be honest about it,” says county chairman Patrick O’Sullivan. “We have to take it one step at a time and that’s the first step. It’s about getting games at our level, games that we’re going to be able to compete in.
“For us to get anywhere, it’s no good getting 20-point hammerings in the championship. To get meaningful games, you have to go to where the games are and whatever has to be done will be done.
“Our minors played in the Leinster league last year and hopefully soon the under-21 structure gets sorted out. There was supposed to be a second tier under-21 competition with groups of six but it has sort of fallen apart over the last number of years. If we can get that going properly and provide a stepping stone from minor to senior, then the efforts that are going into Kerry hurling will be more meaningful.”
That those efforts will always run into a good thick glass ceiling in the most football of football counties only makes them more commendable. Kerry beat Westmeath and Carlow last year and the year before and will spend the spring playing a division higher than both of them. A Leinster quarter-final is a thoroughly achievable goal.
And goals matter. Kerry GAA is a place where success is the greatest fuel for improvement. O’Sullivan knows he will live his whole life in a football county but he knows too that every step along the way comes spring-loaded.
“I come from a football part of the county in Killarney. The credit goes to the hurling officer and the work that’s being done under him. They are putting in huge work to try and be competitive and the county board is there to support them. We need to get high-calibre coaches into the county to work with the development squads and bring a bit more profile to it.
“I see young lads in Kerry at 12 years of age and they’re just as good as 12-year-olds in Kilkenny. But the problem is that as they get older, the hurling gets faster in hurling counties and we’re left behind. You can see it when you take those same groups to play at under-14 or under-16 tournaments: the players from the hurling counties have sped up their hurling to a huge extent and we’re playing catch-up straight away.”
Another hurdle Just as Galway and Antrim have had to do, Kerry will travel to all their games in Leinster. Not that O’Sullivan has any issue with that – it’s just another hurdle to hop.
“We have a long road and it’s not going to happen overnight. It could take us another four or five years just to get to another level. But the hurling officer is making great strides and everyone is very committed. The players are buying in and the county is backing them. I can’t see us changing the whole thing overnight but as a county we’re very positive towards it.”
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Post by Mickmack on Oct 18, 2015 14:39:59 GMT
There are worse ways to fundraise!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2015 15:53:21 GMT
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Post by homerj on Oct 19, 2015 21:58:29 GMT
High profile name, hope he does well.
Wasn't he involved with Lixnaw a few years back?.
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Post by southward on Nov 4, 2015 18:24:03 GMT
The GAA has confirmed the Champions 15 award winners for the 2015 Christy Ring, Nicky Rackard and Lory Meagher hurling championships.
Having lost the last two Christy Ring Cup finals at Croke Park, Kerry made it third time lucky in 2015 and saw off Derry by 1-20 to 0-12 to collect their second Christy Ring title in what was a big year for Kerry hurling.
It is no surprise to see the Kingdom top the list of recipients in the Ring Champion 15 with Shane Nolan, John Egan, Pa Kelly and Keith Carmody all recognised for their contributions.
Derry (3), Down (2), Kildare (2), Mayo, London, Meath and Wicklow have players awarded with a place in the prestigious selection.
These awards will be presented at Friday night’s GAA GPA All-Stars banquet at the Convention Centre, Dublin. ******************************************************************************************************
Mediocre enough return considering they fairly blitzed the thing this year.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2015 8:09:05 GMT
I thought Mikey Boyle and Daniel Collins would of been a certainty to get All-Stars. Mikey had a quietish final against Derry, but was outstanding in the lead up games and Collins had a great year too.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 5, 2015 8:19:19 GMT
Shane Nolan is making a great name for himself though, scored 2 goals in the Ireland Shinty match recently.
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