Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Why would you expect them too?

appaears so, have to feel for cork, with all thier arrogance and bravado, i know what it is to be in croke park and have that done to you, please god let limerick have peaked

Wouldn’t feel too bad for cork. They Have dished our similar if not worse beatings to teams over the years including many to w’ford.

how does this defeat compare to kk’s annihilation/demolition job 2008......? Score line closer but Limerick could easily Have won by 20 plus pts.......?

As someone just said on Twitter …. It will probably take the Mayo footballers to finally beat this Limerick team.

Rumours are rumours but am hearing Cahill is going to tipp and coolmore looking to sponsor them, don’t kill the messenger 😂 . Anyway this needs to be sorted one way or another as soon as possible . Much work to do.

I’m fairly glad now we got Limerick in the semi final and it was Cork and not ourselves put to the sword yesterday. Another heavy beating in an AI final could have been very damaging for our players as it’s very hard to come back from it as we know from 08.

all the more reason now I think Cahill will go for the Tipp job, there is a 3 or 4 year building phase required in Tipp and it’s hard to see ourselves or anyone else getting close to Limerick in next couple of years regardless so it’s the right time for him surely.

we live and hope we are definitely the best of the rest after Limerick but there is no prizes for that as we know. Just hope to get all our squad available next year and hope we can come up with a new way to counteract this Limerick machine

We are definitely the best of the rest, and with a couple of players back from injury (TdB will be a huge addition next year again), one or two u20s getting more established, massive hunger levels and a bit of luck we might be able to beat Limerick in the next year or two.

Playing a fresh Limerick team while it was our 4th week on the trot was far from fair on our lads this year as noted by the various analysts out there. If we can keep Cahill that would be absolutely brilliant but looks unlikely at this stage. Next appointment absolutely crucial. Could Pat Ryan be tempted from Cork underage setup?

Lots of positives to take from this year. Our day will come. Deise Abu.

Anyone else a bit happy to see Cork hammered yesterday? After their semi I thought we would have beaten either of those teams handy with our performance against Limerick, which wasn't our best at all. I naively thought others would think the same, but everyone I heard talk about it seemed to think that Cork would provide Limerick's toughest challenge. Then I started hearing how arrogant the Cork lads were - one fella told me that they should have won three all Irelands since their last win. The 2013 one (obviously), 2017, they had that semi won and I can't remember what other year. Part of me also wondered is that what we sound like when we talk about the All Irelands we should have won in years we got to a semi.

My fear was that Limerick wouldn't put in a good performance on the day and that Cork would come close or even pip it. As good as Limerick are, they're not invincible. Tipp really should have beaten them this year. They never put Galway to the sword last year and just managed to hang on. An average KK side beat them the year before. They're unquestionably the best and in fairness this year did show it in every game, but they're not unbeatable on the day.

Be honest I think your clutching at straws there, There’s gobshites in every county. Didn’t take any satisfaction from that game yesterday, winners or losers. It’s easy pick holes in every Limerick performance to say their not invincible, it was the same with the great KK team of the noughtues, they didn’t hammer every team out the gate, often times only barely scrope over the line when needed to, but that’s the sign if a great team that knows how to win.

I genuinely feared for Cork going into yesterdays game for two reasons:

• the first being the arrogance portrayed rightly or wrong in the media - they showed a real lack of respect for this Limerick side which meant any chance of complacency setting is was definitely out the window - they were going to be hell bent on putting things to right. Easy for journalists etc to "poke the bear" because they do not have to deliver.
• Cork's game plan is totally dependent on building from the very back and working the ball all the way up the field through the lines at every opportunity, in order to get the ball into the hands of their speedy forwards. I feared that Limerick would apply massive pressure on the Cork backs as they tried to do this and that they would turn over a lot of ball in very dangerous positions, and they did exactly this. Unfortunately once this happened Cork had no alternative plan and as a young side they just crumpled - but they will learn and they will be back
• Looking at the bookies odds for next year it is easy to understand where they are coming from making Limerick as favorites followed by Galway, particularly if we return to the "round-robin" Provincial championships - Limerick realistically will have to face Waterford, Clare, Cork, and Tpp and then face once of them again in a Munster Final while Galway will be facing Kilkenny, Dublin, Wexford and Laois - I honestly believe that given where teams are "at this moment in time" and not being disrespectful to Leinster sides - Munster is going to be far more competitive and is going to take far more out of the teams that qualify through this group.

So why aren't the county board demanding more from TQS for their name on the jersey. Aren't they on all Waterford jersies in men's teams from U14 up. They've got great exposure the last few years so surely the sponsorship money should be a lot higher. And if TQS aren't willing to give it why not allow these people who have been helping out in the last few years.

I'm not privy to the details of the TQS sponsorship deal but other counties would have multiple sponsorship deals in place. Waterford are probably the same. Costs are too high for one sponsor to absorb.

Beat me too it

A lot of speculation in the Article. At least we will know the story by the end of the week

If Liam is to go, then at least the Waterford CB will have a bit of time find a replacement

Eastern Intermediate results from last Saturday- Ballygunner 5-23- Ballyduff Lower 0-06

Amazing score considering Ballyduff Lower were Eastern Champions last year

I was going to ask about Tramore's win. We didn't look like world beaters in winning the Junior last year so this does seem like a bit of a shock all right.