Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Are tickets for the Waterford vTipp game going to be on sale in Ticketmaster via the Centra shops does anyone know, or just through the clubs??

I would imagine the same as the previous games. A link to purchase tickets will be distributed to club secretaries to share with their members first. Once demand has eased from club members this link will then be made public via social media for the remaining tickets to be purchased by non members.

Waterford appealing the red card that gleeson got on a technicality.

What the technicality? It was all very bizzarre with the timing of it. TJ Ryan was on the Irish examiner podcast this morning saying Waterford should have taken him off at half time and sent him home sick 😂 interesting to see what would have happened there

in fairness it was definetly no worse than Aaron Gillanes swing last week which everyone saw in real time and it only warranted a yellow.

As a matter of interest what are peoples views of the comment "striking with the hurley", just as an example last Saturday, Conor Gleeson gets a straight red, misses the entire second half of the match and probably an All Ireland Quarter Final, yet Dathai Burke clearly strikes Jack Fagan as he lines up to score his goal with a very similar pull across the shoulder, but Fagan continues scores the goal, making nothing of it, so Burke walks away without a booking , Galway continues with 15 men for the rest of the game and not even a mention of it in the aftermath - I am not saying Burke should have been sent of either, but yet both incidents are "striking with the hurley". and almost identical except for the reaction of the player being struck.

Donal Og was very quick to point out that two wrongs don't make a right, but there is a serious inconsistency with referees decisions during games, and the cost of this inconsistency can be massive on a player and his team, but yet nothing seems to be being done about this. This is what causes so much frustration between players and supporters alike.

The question for me, if the half time break hadn’t arrived when it did, would the outcome have been different? It seemed that after half time whistle being blown, Joe thrown on the ground for 5 mins like he’d been shot by a sniper, led to the discussion with the umpires and the referee before they entered the tunnel which obviously led to the decision of the red card

Be even more charitable and say he had to receive an injection at ht to continue. This coming off the back of a thumb injury sustained v Waterford in the league match.

have to say I just couldn’t see that performance coming last Saturday. fair play to all the first 55 minutes were probably the best we have played under Cahill and in fairness they kept their cool in the last quarter when it looked like Galway were going to reel us in. Taught Stephen Bennett was massive in this period and showed massive leadership. Probably would have preferred to get Dublin but Tipp it is. We definitely have the legs to take Tipp on but I suppose the big worry is how much the last two games have taken out of us. It will be interesting see what kind of a team Tipp will name. A lot of their fans seem to be calling for some of the younger lads to start and hold the likes of callinan and Noel McGrath in reserve for the last 20 when we may start to tire. From our own point of view barring injuries it will be the same team (apart from gleeson of course) will daly come back in for him if fit? (Did daly play corner back in league vs Limerick?) in relation to the sending off I think joe being down for 5 minutes and then going off with his hand in a sling definitely swayed the refs decision but if you swing out like that you are asking for trouble (unless you wear a limerick jersey of course) hard to see the appeal being successful but you never know in the gaa

No idea about training and stuff but would there be very little physical training done by us this week esp with the 3 matches in a row

Best of the luck to the Minors tonight. Bloody sick of playing Tipperary underage

Great stuff from us so far, goal was excellent

wow ... what a first half, up 1-14 to 0-5 at half time, we aren't used to this!!

I’ve heard Patrick Fitzgerald referred to as as the new Paul Flynn … I can see why.

Yesss

That will hopefully seal it, some great prospects

Final on August 9th ; neutral venue.