Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

The sad thing was Limerick didn’t need their A game to beat us , if your given the score Limerick had with 3 mins to go you’d think Waterford would be up or well in this game . No point sugar coating it just so disappointing you’d wonder what Tipperary are thinking .

Wasn’t meant to be. Limerick too good. On another day we’d have taken more points in the first half and converted a couple of the numerous goal chances but today was disappointing. Credit to Limerick.

Just as it looked like Waterford could be edging closer and we're picking up a few scores Limerick scored a goal where a player was allowed stroll past our full back like he didn't even exist. That position seems to be a curse for Waterford. No other full back in the country would have let him walk through like that with a half arsed attempt at a tackle.

Limerick illegally hand passing that led to a fair few points today too - their goal was def a throw not hand pass. I dont get how they constantly get away with it?

Very disappointing but today shows we're not getting any closer to limerick.

They look capable of dominating for a few years to come.

Lads never gave up and kept going but the first half wides sucked the life out of them.

Cahills initial term I believe was for 2 years with the option of a third....hopefully himself and bevans will stick around.

Decent year all in all beating tipp and Galway.

Looking at this limerick team. Physically they are still far ahead of us. 4 weeks in a row didn't help but we found it hard to break thru tackles. I'd imagine bulking up ahead of next year will be important.

All in all...disappointing end but we re as good as anyone outside of limerick...few nice u20s coming thru and age profile good bar moran.

County board need to sort cahills plans fast and get plans ready for next year.

If Cahill left I'd welcome Derek McGrath back with open arms. Team play in a similar way as they did under him.

Just need a full pack to play with.

thanks for support, feel much better already.

Oh man

poor showing all round.

positives first i suppose- we matched them physically in stages- only stages though. Plenty of times even with 14 men where limerick were able to congest waterford players and overrun the man in possession.

puckouts were an unmitigated disaster from both ends. Cant count how many balls heharty caught clean from their puckouts .

badic skills were not there from our lads, fumbles . Spills . The difference at this level is stark and limerick showed the effeciency of their first touch with a lot of their scores

the ‘tactics’ or lack of was bizarre. Third quarter where dessie was only man in the 65 and lumping ball into the 3 spare limerick half backs was mcgrath-like.

im fed up now - ill finish me guinness.

After 20 minites i never thought we would win the match at any point which is sad really.

i thought we were closer to the end goal , but i think we are as far as ever now

Were all hurting but i want to thank the Waterford team and management for the last few weeks

who would of thought a few months ago we would be travelling all over the country going to matches and one monkey would be off our backs (beating Tipp in the championship). It was a massive lift for the mood

Stark but you can’t argue with it . Are we any closer to actually over coming this curse of winning an all ireland . They have to come back even stronger next year just to be in the mix again . Eventually we have to finish the deal can’t just blame well this is an exceptional Limerick team majority of all ireland winning teams are exceptional then you have the dynasties that come among ever other year Kilkenny , Tipperary , and maybe cork again in near future . I will go to the grave thinking we will never have a better chance of winning an all ireland then that loss to Galway in that final . Just have to keep on improving , nobody is going to give us an ireland going to have to rip it off somebody .

well he has 2 choices, if liam isnt staying on, then he has the tipp job if he wants it. thats a rebuilding job where he will have to cut a lot of players and likely will have at least one if not 2 middling seasons ,while cutting down a lot of tipp heroes , and he will be villified for it, particularly as results wont come quickly and if he's getting to 4 or 5 years without trophies tipp people will turn on him.

on the other hand he can stick with us, near guaranteed at least an all ireland semi and a competitive season, and he must feel he has unfinished business . this iwll also allow someone else to do the dirty work in tipp, and then he can swoop in when tipp are at a low ebb and won't be able to help but improve their fortunes .

no guarantees, and if he is called how hard will it be to turn down your own county, but theres a good bit to the decision

If he does then who could we get in ?

Very important appointment

Would be hopeful Cahill and Bevans give it one more year. They’ll have players back in de Burca, Pauric, a fit Iarlaith Daly and possibly SOK if he chooses to return. Michael Kiely did well this year and a few more from this and last years u20s can come in to push for places. That and hopefully it being back to normal in terms of reverting back to the round robin in championship, it’ll be a chance to get a full proper preseason in before the league and have a good crack at the championship in ‘22 with a format they haven’t yet had a chance to experience. Would be a bit of a headache for us if they choose to move on if the Tipp job becomes available as I can’t think of anyone off the top of my head that could come in. In saying that, at least our stock is a bit higher now than it was in late 2019/early 2020 when Cahill came in so it might attract some interest if the position becomes vacant.

Disappointing end to the season yesterday. I don’t think many of us really believed we’d beat Limerick and were going in in hope rather than expectation. We really needed everything to go right from the start like it did v Tipp and Galway and them to be a bit off to have a chance but the writing was on the wall by the first water break. Essentially game over at half time. Reminded me of playing KK about 10 or so years ago, they open up a 5 or 6 point lead and it’s curtains. The most disappointing thing for me was just that it doesn’t look like we have gotten any closer to Limerick since last year. Had we stayed with them for 50 mins or so before fading you could make the point we just ran out of steam and will be back stronger next year but we’re still as far off them as last Nov/Dec.

Credit to the lads though they kept battling to the end. We just couldn’t buy a goal which always seems to be the case against this superb Limerick side in championship.

Calum Lyons, the three Bennetts, Hogan, Barron, Aussie, Prunty, Dessie all had brilliant years. Hopefully a few of them will pick up an All Star for their efforts to take the sting out of yet another year that could have been…