Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Great to see kilrossanty doing well in hurling, the 2 Fitzgerald boys who played u20 football for the country this year are fine hurler's Also

It was definitely an unusual situation with the Barron brothers! Would make a lot more sense for the Fourmile lads to go to Clonmel as you said.

I think it’s fair to say Blackwater should have been in the B championship. Whether they were in the Harty as a matter of pride or were simply graded wrong, they were way out of their depth.

Hopefully he brings something to the role

Cahill doesn't suffer fools

Yeah the connacht football semi final called off due to covid issues so this on live instead.

Dunhill with an excellent win by 0-13 to 0-11 win today, hopefully a sign of things to come for tomorrow. Well done to Dunhill and best of luck to brickeys and the gunners tomorrow.

Ballygunner going very well

2 out of 3 for Waterford clubs not bad. Bricky Rangers sadly losing out in the Junior

I watched that Kerry hurling team Kilmoyley on Buffs Snapchat they looked a seriously well conditioned fit team for end of November, I wonder do some of them play senior football in Kerry.

It will be a tough match for Dunhill.

It's almost a now or never for this Ballygunner team and if the past is anything to go by in the Provincial series they need to remain focused. The 2019 Munster final loss was a big one esp been reigning Munster Champs and losing out to a great Ballyhale team in the AI series the season prior. This current squad deserves to be in Croke Park on club finals day

Ballyhale vs Ballygunner all Ireland final could be some classic but long road ahead for both teams.

I reckon Ballygunner would have preferred a sterner test than they got from an unbelievably flat Ballyea yesterday. If the latter had come flying out of the traps they might have made some inroads, as Ballygunner looked rather rusty in the opening 20 minutes, and with Dessie Hutchinson having a rare off-day. However, with Ballyea never getting off the ground, Ballygunner won as they pleased, even at half throttle. I was surprised they did not bring on their subs a bit earlier in order to give them a decent amount of game time. I found it interesting that, with Philip Mahony coming in, they retained Ronan Power at wing back and moved Billy O’Keeffe to the forwards where he was largely a passenger until his late scoring burst.

Loughmore-Castleiney will probably be more to Ballygunner’s liking than Thurles Sarsfields, who have a lot of physically big players who are good in the air, two areas which have discommoded the Gunners in the past. The Tipperary final replay was as engaging as the drawn game. I was amazed that the Loughmore goalie, with his team four points up with a few minutes to go, and on a wet pitch, would send a short puckout along the ground to a defender in the middle of the pitch who wasn’t expecting it. A few seconds later and the ball was in the back of the Loughmore net. Then, Thurles repaid the compliment with the silly foul which presented Loughmore with the winning point. It was ironic that the player who committed the foul, the very experienced Padraic Maher, had put in an heroic last quarter for Thurles.

It was great that all the other Munster club games were streamed by clubber.ie, a service which I had never heard of before. That said, the game between Dunhill and Smith O’Briens made for hard viewing, such was the extraordinarily low standard of the fare on view. This despite the game being played on the excellent Ennis pitch in good weather conditions. You couldn’t say that Dunhill deserved to win this game – Smith O’Briens had their chances – apart from the fact that they were ahead at the final whistle. On this performance they will be hard pressed against the Kerry senior champions, Kilmoyley, who had a big win over the Tipperary standard bearers over the weekend.

It was interesting to hear the local commentators wondering aloud on a couple of occasions if Liam Cahill was watching the game as he would have to be impressed by the performance of Michael Harney who, as one of the commentators put it, was playing at a level above everyone else on the pitch.

The junior game between Brickey Rangers and Ogonelloe was of a much higher standard, despite being played on a poorer pitch (at Sixmilebridge) which deteriorated as the game progressed. In fact, the last quarter degenerated into a series of rucks and throw-ins. The Brickeys started well, but four bad misses in a row in the middle of the first half were to prove costly. Then Ogonelloe struck for two goals, largely against the run of play, but the Brickeys struck back with two excellent strikes in the space of two minutes by corner forward Mikey Hanlon to put them back in the lead. 

As the second half progressed, Ogonelloe got increasingly on top, and looked the fitter team. A feature of the half was the persistence of the Brickeys goalkeeper in hitting long puckouts to the same side of the field, although his forwards were having no success in gaining possession from them. As a result, they got very little ball to the inside line which had done well in the first half. With a change of tactics it could have been three wins out of three for the Déise in Clare at the weekend.

In the defense of dunhill and smith o briens it was bitterly cold there ..feeling much colder than the 6 that was reported. That combined with their first game in 2 months leaves plenty of room for improvement on what was indeed a flat performance

Think that's mainly due to having flood lights in Fraher field (presuming they work)

Any news of who's been called up to the Senior Hurling squad ?

Collective training due to start from the 6th Dec

2 semi finals are live on TG4 that day. The Ballygunner game is the second game so there is a need for lights. 3-15 throw in I think.

That was actually the eastern final that Ballygunner won last night, they will meet abbeyside in the county final as abbeyside also had a big win in their western final against st cathradges, 2-15 to 0-8. Two one sided divisional finals but a good county final hopefully.