Time For Kildare Fans To Be Counted

Woo Hoo - A Journo source fight - Bring it on... Part of the list of events live in Conleths this Saturday

Sean Moran in Southside Times accusing us of being anarchists. We have finally given 1998 a proper commemoration & I have honestly never been prouder to be a Kildare supporter in my life.

Highball wrote:

Woo Hoo - A Journo source fight - Bring it on...   Part of the list of events live in Conleths this Saturday

I think journalists across the board have been very important in this story - and have spread the word; got the sources and been independent of Croke Park (with one notable and very shiny, smiley exception) Well done to the fourth estate and in particular Ogie and Tommy on here and the journos in KFM, the Leader and the Nationalist...I don't remember a wave this high or this strong or this white since '98 (1998 not 1798 - I'm not quite that old).
NEWBRIDGE OR NOWHERE

TK reading too much into CB statement and concluding incorrectly.

If we are kicked out next year would it just be for the All Ireland series? Would the Leinster council be upset if Kildare were not in Leinster championship next year? For the record it is clear to me that we should not play anywhere other than Newbridge and let's go down any legal route we have..

And on a not unrelated note - from the Examiner:


"Spare a thought too for the Kildare hurlers.

The Lilywhites won a second Christy Ring Cup title on Saturday but with no direct promotion to the Joe McDonagh Cup, Joe Quaid’s charges must this Saturday navigate a play-off against Antrim at the Athletic Grounds in Armagh (throw-in 12.45pm).

The Kildare manager has described the venue choice, time of throw-in, and the fact the Joe McDonagh Cup is being reduced from six to five counties as a “disgrace”.

Antrim, who finished fifth in the Joe McDonagh Cup, have had three weeks to prepare for this relegation/promotion fixture, Kildare have been afforded seven days.

Moreover, Quaid has claimed the venue is “practically in Antrim’s backyard” as Belfast to the Athletic Grounds is 66km, whereas the Kildare hurlers face a 168km trip from Naas.

Back in 2014 when Kildare won their first Christy Ring title, they were forced to travel to Mullingar a week later to play Westmeath in a relegation/promotion play-off, a fixture they lost by nine points.

“There is no logic to what the GAA has done. We are not surprised, though. All they are worried about in the GAA is keeping the top teams happy and the rest of us down,” said Quaid.

“It is so wrong. Our lads are going out playing what is a way more important match for Kildare hurling than the Christy Ring final, but they are asked to play it seven days after the pinnacle of their competition and practically, in the backyard of the opposition.

“The more you think about it, the more you realise it stinks. What they are asking of these players is madness.”


“We are playing as a curtain-raiser to Armagh versus Clare. Wouldn’t it have made more sense to put us as the curtain-raiser to Mayo and Kildare? There is no logic to what they have done.”

Quaid, a two-time All-Star goalkeeper and now in his third year with Kildare, can’t understand why Croke Park have taken the decision to reduce the size of the Joe McDonagh Cup. Bottom-placed Meath have already been relegated to the Christy Ring Cup and they’ll be joined in the third-tier next year by either Kildare or Antrim.

“I’m not against the relegation/promotion play-off because I believe if you’re good enough to play in the Joe McDonagh, you should be able to beat a bottom team in that. But why are they reducing the number of teams in the Joe McDonagh Cup? It beggars belief. We won and are not promoted. Antrim lost the 2016 and 2017 Christy Ring finals but yet were deemed good enough and important enough to be put up in the Joe McDonagh this year.

“The people making decisions probably never had anything to do with teams in their lives. It stinks of that.”


“It would in one sense [make you question getting involved], but the satisfaction you get from last Saturday’s second-half performance in Croke Park, that is what does it for me.

“I was on a Limerick County Board for three years as a coaching officer and it would suck the life out of you to be stuck in boardrooms. These people are not in touch with reality and the further up you go, the less in touch they are with reality. Cian O’Neill is dead right to make the stand he has. If Kildare is thrown out of the football championship, so be it.

“It’s Newbridge or nowhere for the footballers. For us, it’s anywhere but Armagh.”"

As unified as we all are now behind the team, management and county board we can't forget the failings of previous officials in Kildare GAA for mismanagement of our finances and the lack of investment into St. Conleths. That has contributed to this fiasco.

Penny wise pound foolish. It has been endemic in Irish society and chickens are coming home to roost all over the place. Schools, Hospitals, housing developments, town planning etc.

The irony yesterday seeing Lowry on the steps of the court after being convicted smiling away sums up that generation of gombeens and brownbaggers that is the same generation currently running / ruining the GAA.

Having said that for all the reasons mentioned before this stance is badly needed and will benefit probably 29 of the 32 counties in Ireland. We have to hold firm and most likely have the game awarded to Mayo by the GAA.

We will come out better for this in the long run.

What is the end game here for the decision makers up in Croke Park, they surely realize now that Kildare Co. Board aren't for turning on this issue, they in no way want the championship delayed as this thing gets dragged through the courts so what is their next play other than rewarding the game to Mayo?

Is it a case where they come down so hard on Kildare for this action that Kildare accept the walkover and just appeal the punishment. I am really struggling to see what they are hoping to achieve by not agreeing to move the game to Conleth's during that meeting last night.

No tickets available for Saturday in CP on tickets.ie

If they were printed...

Cavan v Tyrone 5pm
Historic humiliation for GAA 7pm

Just saw that Hawker - No tickets for sale on tickets.ie or gaa.ie for the double header....

Hmmm the plot thickens

As unified as we all are now behind the team, management and county board we can't forget the failings of previous officials in Kildare GAA for mismanagement of our finances and the lack of investment into St. Conleths. That has contributed to this fiasco.

Penny wise pound foolish. It has been endemic in Irish society and chickens are coming home to roost all over the place. Schools, Hospitals, housing developments, town planning etc.

The irony yesterday seeing Lowry on the steps of the court after being convicted smiling away sums up that generation of gombeens and brownbaggers that is the same generation currently running / ruining the GAA.

Having said that for all the reasons mentioned before this stance is badly needed and will benefit probably 29 of the 32 counties in Ireland. We have to hold firm and most likely have the game awarded to Mayo by the GAA.

We will come out better for this in the long run.

Ogie wrote:

TommyKeegan wrote:

O'Neill is front and centre as he, and not the board, pushed for this and led on it. Look at wording of statement and you can guess where it came from. CB initially were initially going to agree to demands. That is what I've been told by three sources.

I can fairly categorically rebut that, for reasons I can't disclose publicly TK.

No row people, we're mates, though we disagree on about 90 per cent of everything!

Kildare president Seamus Aldridge: “I can’t see what it’s got to do with Cian O’Neill, only that he manages the Kildare team. He doesn’t speak for the county board. The county chairman should be speaking for Kildare, not Cian O’Neill."

How did that both pig and thick headed man Ger that title and how can it be removed.

Newstalk now reporting that tickets have gone on sale for the double header in Croke Park on Saturday for €25, please don't tell me we have given in......

Put a sock in it Seamus, you're talking crap.

The Orwellian logic of the GAA position: why isn't your stadium up to scratch? Btw, if you don't fulfill this fixture, we will hit you with a fine that will further prevent you from getting your stadium up to scratch.

Joseph Heller couldn't have written it.

Clem ryan just on kfm now reporting game on in newbridge sat or sun official announcement expected shortly

Tweet from KFM Sport suggesting game is in Newbridge Saturday or possibly Sunday, good for club players if Sunday, means all league games will get moved back to Saturday evening!

Yes !!! Saturday 7pm ... Newbridge

Rte reporting it now.

We won!

Major pressure on O’Neill and the players now, a win is a must.

Absolutely astonishing if true... Jesus may as well write off work this week as will be too busy gloating here, on social media, in street etc etc.

Great job... Now questions need to be asked off McGill; his stubborn stand and disgraceful comments..

Well done all involved apart from that idiot Aldridge who couldn't have timed his intervention any worse. Lets hope Kildare are gracious in victory and just keep saying that justice was done and a wrong righted. Oh and win the bloody game as well.