Kerry Hurlers thread

[Ballyfireside]

Jun 3, 2022 22:18:07 GMT veteran said:

I notice Cillian Trant is a sub for Kerry tomorrow. He plays his football with St. Senans and hurling with Crotta. Was a sub with Kerry u20 football team last year. I was very impressed with him in the North Kerry Championship ln 2021. I haven’t seen him play hurling but apparently he is very good.

His lineage is spectacular on the football side. His maternal grand uncle was Dr, Jim Brosnan and therefore his great grand uncle was Con Brosnan. I am not sure where the hurling came from. Greyhounds and horses would have been the sporting pursuits on the paternal side. It will be interesting to see how his career/s pan out.

I sat at 'St Micks' with wan of the clan and he was a noted hurler, of Elvis numbers!

Seriously, there would be clues as to how Cillian excels if one were to use Artificial Intelligence, Algorithms, etc - I was party to such a programme that helped ticked boxes re how, well more why really, Kieren Fallon became what was probably the worlds best jockey despite neither his forefathers nor his foremothers having any connection with horse racing - same with trainer AP O'Brien though unlike Fallon, at least he was raised in 'horsey country', though his initial career was driving a forklift with then Waterford Creameries.

The reason I make the point here is that it is a good example of nature and nurture - it all gets interesting when nature is nurtured and which rockets things. From the aforementioned project I was able to figure out how I am such a genius, well more geniass - ah got in there before ye hoors out there! Seriously, yes, technology can be very useful, well powerful - and of course as we all know, power corrupts!

I have previous here, with a TCD genetics professor who questioned 'this Kerry Ingredient lark'; ah sure in consoling him I 'agreed' it was all down to An Post, the postmen we recruited - Sadlers Wells eat your heart out.

Anyway, good luck to Cillian and his pals, give us the equivalent of an Elvis show. His minders need to be on duty as I know a certain educational institution who would like to retaliate against Ballyfireside!

The Kerry Hurlers abú!

BTW I'm delighted I see that our Vet is nearly there with non-UCC words, ah sure I'm only a NIHE man, wan of 'the lesser institutions' a UCC laddo once advocated - well that was until a lesser man became his boss and he had to walk down the road - Winning Streakers is wan of Ballyfireside's works in the making - ah you can smell the buns burning in the oven? Now don't get Bally' going about the fireman returning to the fire station to find it on fire - a bit like the pagan pulpit preacher of stigmata who got his 'light finger' burnt when he tried to lift Ballyfireplace, touched something he couldn't afford.

[legendz]

I hope Kerry seize the day. It's an opportunity for a stand out championship win. If at first you don't succeed, try and try again!!!
Ciarraí abú!

[Premier]

Kerry getting blown out of it here. A lot of the players extremely light

[kerryexile5]

Playing Paudie O Connor as a sweeper hasnt worked. His first touch is poor and he hasnt the physique to stop Antrims fast runners.

Ability to create goals the big difference, Kerry have had plenty of possession.

Podge Boyle the best player on the pitch yet again.

[southward]

Hate to pick on anyone but our keeper is killing us. Same against Offaly in Tralee.

[kerryexile5]

Jun 4, 2022 16:37:28 GMT southward said:

Hate to pick on anyone but our keeper is killing us. Same against Offaly in Tralee.

Agreed


Jordan Conway is absolutely destroying his man.

[southward]

Shocking decision by the ref there, giving a free to Antrim for a "trip". Kerry player was yards away. wtf??

[gaelicden]

Jun 4, 2022 17:02:17 GMT southward said:

Shocking decision by the ref there, giving a free to Antrim for a "trip". Kerry player was yards away. wtf??

And look what we've lost by

[ciarraimick]

What! Ffs. We lose by a point. Antrim get a phantom free and ref does nt even allow the puck out! Robbed but so so proud of Kerry today

[legendz]

Jun 4, 2022 16:37:28 GMT southward said:

Hate to pick on anyone but our keeper is killing us. Same against Offaly in Tralee.

Cracking game like on Tralee v Offaly. Agreed, the keeper is hampering us. Incredible effort by the Kerry lads.

[homerj]

absolutely did the county proud.

but bitter taste, two huge decisions at critical times.

black card against kerry, exact same incident no black for antrim.

and the phantom trip that should have been a free in.

huge huge moments of the game

[Premier]

Jun 4, 2022 17:02:17 GMT southward said:

Shocking decision by the ref there, giving a free to Antrim for a "trip". Kerry player was yards away. wtf??

Shocking. 2 point swing. Great heart by the team in fairness. A few more players to supplement the main men and they’d have a very good team

[kerryexile5]

Shocking performance by the ref.

Cost Kerry big time.

If JB O Halloran from Kerry was in goals, Kerry would be Joe McDonagh cup champions today.

That Limerick goalie very very poor.

[homerj]

Wexford at home next weekend.

[southward]

Jun 4, 2022 17:14:33 GMT homerj said:

Wexford at home next weekend.

Let's all try to get there. Be great for Kerry hurlers to play in front of a partisan full house. These lads deserve it, heroic again today.

[dano]

Heartbreaking way to lose. The ref will realize , when he watches it, that he alone cost Kerry the game. Put that in your pipe and smoke it now certain former Cork player/pundit.

[legendz]

Jun 4, 2022 17:14:33 GMT homerj said:

Wexford at home next weekend.

No consolation at the moment. Such a great effort. Ref and keeper nightmares.

[thehermit]

Heartbreaking lads, heartbreaking. But after a terrible start they did us proud. Ref was a joke, Jordan heroic. We go again next week. Chest out, head high, An Riocht Abu!

[Kerryman Randy Savage]

Hard luck to the Kerry hurlers. A powerful performance that wasn't rewarded with a better result. Kerry undone by a Dublin official, good to know its not just football where it happens.

[thehermit]

Ah Bally there's no need to call a fella names like that. Yes he fecked us over a bit, a good bit. But we also hit some awful, awful wides and 2 were handy, handy frees. We started terribly and gave ourselves a mountain to scale and that's just the painful reality.

[Kerryman Randy Savage]

I'll admit that after the game I hoped the ref took a bribe as I couldn't comprehend anyone could be so shockingly poor by choice.

The ref does need to be dropped from intercounty games though. Let him ruin his county club matches for a few years before he rides off into the sunset.

[legendz]

Against Offaly we conceded a fourth sloppy goal and then we started playing. Same today. Conceded the fourth sloppy goal and climbed the mountain, almost.
Kerry deserve to big support for the Wexford match.

[hurlingman]

Very disappointing. While some calls played a part Kerry still had enough chances to win it. As has been the case in the past ww were too slow starting again.

[kerryexile5]

Jun 4, 2022 19:49:37 GMT Kerryman Randy Savage said:

I'll admit that after the game I hoped the ref took a bribe as I couldn't comprehend anyone could be so shockingly poor by choice.

The ref does need to be dropped from intercounty games though. Let him ruin his county club matches for a few years before he rides off into the sunset.

The ref had a hint of no matter what Kerry can't win this game today and give Croke Park the big headache of promotion/relagation in Munster.

A black card for the Kerry player denying a goal scoring opportunity, yet no black card for the Antrim doing the same in first half.

The phantom free was so ridiculous, Ursulsa Jacob called it out 3 times after the game.

He then couldn't blow the full time quick enough after Podge's last minute goal.

I am so angry at the ref I can't analyse any other aspect of the game until I calm down on maybe Monday.

Them Kerry hurlers bleed green and gold. Warriors against every single adversity thrown at them from every angle. 

[ciarraimick]

Regardless of decisions going against us I don't think I was as ever so proud of Kerry hurlers after today. Ist half looked like we were going to be obliterated but the boys kept on going. Brilliant attitude. Ciarraí abu!

[homerj]

Let it be clear and this is scant consolidation to that group of men tonight, but I will repeat.

They did this county proud today. An amazing comeback and they can hold their heads up, kerry Hurling is alive and well.

[ciarraimick]

Jun 4, 2022 17:46:27 GMT Kerryman Randy Savage said:

Hard luck to the Kerry hurlers. A powerful performance that wasn't rewarded with a better result. Kerry undone by a Dublin official, good to know its not just football where it happens.

Randy as far as I Know the ref is from Clare.

[thehermit]

It's a very conflicting emotion, taking the last train he after a some pints and reflecting on a game like that.

On the one hand we had our chances to win and we effed up the first 20 mins. On the other hand the easiest thing on the world at half the would have been to fold the proverbial and move along home. Instead they fought and fought and fought.

Now this maybe drunken hubris but I've never known a Kerry team to give up and stop fighting, football or hurling. We might lose but fcuk we don't get blown out of the water.

They kept going and they deserved more, but fcuk it they fought till the bitter end, it makes me proud to be a Kerryman.

[Mickmack]

Jun 3, 2022 6:48:46 GMT Mickmack said:

Its a huge occasion and i hope Kerry can settle straight away. In that recent game in Tralee v Offaly, Kerry took about 10 minutes to get a foothold in the game.

My biggest fear for Kerry of not settling into the game was realised in a big way today.
The first half seemed to pass most of them by.
Antrim had this tactic of drawing the full back line out about 40 yards from goal and then creating an overlap and really they could have been further ahead at half time.

I am writing this having watched the game in full after coming home from the match. I replayed the Kerry penalty incident a few times and i cant see a foul on Fionan Mackessy as he careered through. The expertly taken penalty gave Kerry a foothold.

Shane Conway got his first touch in the 34th minute. Kerry had such little possession that the ball into the full forward line was no more than 50:50. At the other end the Kerry full back line were dragged all over the place as 70:30 balls were fed into their forwards. It was total domination yet Kerry hung in and got it back to 7 points and i was praying for the half time whistle but in injury time of that first half Antrim conjured up a goal and a point to kill off Kerry again. Or so it seemed.

I suppose the big momentum shifter was the introduction of Jordan Conway. Why he didnt start i dont know. Suddenly in the second half it was Kerry who were finding the space to play good ball in. Shane moved further out the field and got on the ball more.

It is unfair to mention this given his awesome performance but Podge left three points behind him from handy enough frees. It was a day when Kerry needed to take every chance given the mountain they had to climb.

The Antrim penalty was a killer blow and Paudie could have probably got a red card for that slap.

The Kerry keeper was slow off his line for the other goal Antrim got in the second half...another blow but Antrim seemed capable of creating goals when they put their minds to it.

Antrim were able to pick off a score no matter how much Kerry put them under pressure. Of course that free for the slip was a totally wrong decision. Not alone did it put them 4 ahead but he wasted a minute of the 6 minutes of injury time in taking it. All i can say about his decision to blow it up when he did is that he must not have have fancied the extra time.

Antrim seemed to have a better plan for puckouts. A lot of scores came from them. The Kerry puckout didnt yield as much.

As for the ref, he got that free to Antrim totally wrong. He was entitled to blow it up when he did but it was a little heartless. I'd say when he looks back at the video of the game he will realise he erred badly with that free.

His father is Sean Stack from the Clare team of the 1970s. He was on the half back line with Ger Loughnane and Sean Hehir. They had a great team but could never get over Cork who went on to win 3 All Irelands in a row. As far as i know Sean Stack was born in Kerry before moving to Clare. He played Sigerson with Maynooth. I cant imagine an anti Kerry bias in his son to be honest.

[greengold35]

Jun 4, 2022 23:24:37 GMT Mickmack said:

Jun 3, 2022 6:48:46 GMT Mickmack said:

Its a huge occasion and i hope Kerry can settle straight away. In that recent game in Tralee v Offaly, Kerry took about 10 minutes to get a foothold in the game.

My biggest fear for Kerry of not settling into the game was realised in a big way today.
The first half seemed to pass most of them by.
Antrim had this tactic of drawing the full back line out about 40 yards from goal and then creating an overlap and really they could have been further ahead at half time.

I am writing this having watched the game in full after coming home from the match. I replayed the Kerry penalty incident a few times and i cant see a foul on Fionan Mackessy as he careered through. The expertly taken penalty gave Kerry a foothold.

Shane Conway got his first touch in the 34th minute. Kerry had such little possession that the ball into the full forward line was no more than 50:50. At the other end the Kerry full back line were dragged all over the place as 70:30 balls were fed into their forwards. It was total domination yet Kerry hung in and got it back to 7 points and i was praying for the half time whistle but in injury time of that first half Antrim conjured up a goal and a point to kill off Kerry again. Or so it seemed.

I suppose the big momentum shifter was the introduction of Jordan Conway. Why he didnt start i dont know. Suddenly in the second half it was Kerry who were finding the space to play good ball in. Shane moved further out the field and got on the ball more.

It is unfair to mention this given his awesome performance but Podge left three points behind him from handy enough frees. It was a day when Kerry needed to take every chance given the mountain they had to climb.

The Antrim penalty was a killer blow and Paudie could have probably got a red card for that slap.

The Kerry keeper was slow off his line for the other goal Antrim got in the second half...another blow but Antrim seemed capable of creating goals when they put their minds to it.

Antrim were able to pick off a score no matter how much Kerry put them under pressure. Of course that free for the slip was a totally wrong decision. Not alone did it put them 4 ahead but he wasted a minute of the 6 minutes of injury time in taking it. All i can say about his decision to blow it up when he did is that he must not have have fancied the extra time.

Antrim seemed to have a better plan for puckouts. A lot of scores came from them. The Kerry puckout didnt yield as much.

As for the ref, he got that free to Antrim totally wrong. He was entitled to blow it up when he did but it was a little heartless. I'd say when he looks back at the video of the game he will realise he erred badly with that free.

His father is Sean Stack from the Clare team of the 1970s. He was on the half back line with Ger Loughnane and Sean Hehir. They had a great team but could never get over Cork who went on to win 3 All Irelands in a row. As far as i know Sean Stack was born in Kerry before moving to Clare. He played Sigerson with Maynooth. I cant imagine an anti Kerry bias in his son to be honest.

Seán Stack who hurled in the 70s was born in Moyvane before moving to Clare - he is a relative of grand national winning jockey Tommy Stack.