Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

decies · 01-05-2022 7:00pm

PTH2009 · 01-05-2022 8:36pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119002936#Comment_119002936

Limerick beat Tipp next Sunday and become the first team to be qualified.

If thats to pass then all in our own hands we beat Cork and were hurling into June

I'd take your hand off for 3rd place

Mastermcgrath · 02-05-2022 4:46am

Hard not to be impressed with Clare. They’ll fear no one not even Limerick. Makes our game with Cork an absolute must win if it wasn’t already, if we have to go to Ennis to get a result on the final day were asking for trouble.

Bit of a funny mood in the county all of a sudden, after the highs of the league final win and first round win against Tipp, the defeat against Limerick and then the news of Iarlaith Daly has kind of dampened the spirits a bit. The 2 weeks break could have come at the perfect time, hopefully the lads took so much needed downtime last week and back to heavy training again this week to focus back on Cork on Sunday week. The schedule gets heavy from here on in and we’ll see what our panel is really made of in the next couple weeks

Cake Man · 02-05-2022 6:13am

Yeah it's mad the difference a game or two can make. All of a sudden there's not much mention of us while Clare's stock has risen in the last seven days and tbh that does no harm to dampen expectations on our end. To be fair to Clare they have done well against Tipp and Cork and can only beat what's put out in front of them but it surely doesn't get any easier for them now. They've played no doubt the two poorest sides in Munster so we'll know a lot more where they stand when they face Limerick in two weeks and then ourselves the week after.

Only saw highlights and read reports of the game today but does it look like we've much to worry about in terms of Cork coming to town? Hard to know what kind of mindset they'll be in, they will surely be low on confidence after two miserable outings but will also know the pressure is all on us to win well (a bit like the Tipp game all over again). They will also be well aware an ambush that gets them a win would put them in a final group game against a Tipp side already on holidays. To be fair though, if we can't beat this Cork team at home we've no business going any further in the championship.

Mastermcgrath · 02-05-2022 7:29am

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Cork are still Cork, they’re a proud lot and they certainly won’t have any hang ups about coming down to Walsh Park and upsetting the odds. But for an Ed Sheeran concert it could have been a different outcome yesterday and that must hurt the players. If there’s any steel in them they’ll be fighting for their lives and this will be a massive battle.

I think Kingston will have to change it around though they’ll be mindful of how we carved them open in the league final. We should have it over them again if we play to potential but certainly wouldn’t be taking any Cork team for granted

TheScoringGoal · 02-05-2022 7:52am

We haven't earned the right to underestimate any team so I wouldn't see the Cork game as a foregone conclusion.

JD. 60 · 02-05-2022 11:34am

I don’t think Cahill and management will be underestimating Cork. Having said that, it’s hard to see how Cork can pick themselves up after another lacklustre performance yesterday. In the unlikely event of Waterford losing to both Cork and Clare, you could get a weird scenario of 3 teams ending up on two points each (assuming Tipp lose to Limerick and then beat Cork in the final match).

Montys return · 02-05-2022 11:46am

Equally, if Limerick lose in Ennis and we lost to Cork we are out if Cork beat Tipp.

So really is a must win game Sunday week. Hopefully team stays focused and raises the game again, you'd have to be ready for a kick in Cork. It hasn't come yet but they are capable of it.

Pudz2180 · 02-05-2022 12:42pm

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That’s the problem if limerick beat tipp next weekend they are through so you’d imagine they will rest a few against Clare which obviously increases Clare’s chances of beating them. That would leave both Clare and limerick on 6 each. Cork beat us and ourselves and cork are both on 2 going into the last game. Cork would have the head to head over us and would therefore qualify ahead of us if we finish level on points.

Sunday week is huge but as someone said above if we can’t beat cork we don’t deserve to stay in the championship. The fear is there may be one kick in this cork team and will come to Walsh park with nothing to lose as they have been written off. If we perform how we did against Tipp we could be in trouble. We had been out 5 of the last 6 weekends so The break has definitely come at the right time for us. Allow Aussie and Jamie and a few other injured players to get more up to match fitness (hopefully no new injuries worries in the mean time)

decies · 02-05-2022 1:54pm

Ah here now we can’t beat cork in Walsh Park we deserve not to qualify we can’t be talking one minute just losing to limerick in that hell hole by 3 points and the possibility of losing to cork . We won’t be losing to cork we don’t have to be waving our lads like the limerick supporters look at us we are invincible but let’s be a lot more bullish here .

supernova5 · 02-05-2022 7:11pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119005502#Comment_119005502

yea totally agree, if Cork play like they did against Clare in the first half yesterday Waterford will absolutely pulverise them into submission and run up a huge score

Dammo · 02-05-2022 7:54pm

I hope this bullishness doesn’t transmit itself to the playing squad.

I seem to remember similar prior to the 2007 All Ireland semi 🤣.

Asdfgh2020 · 02-05-2022 9:35pm

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Who can forget that one……let’s hope the cork cockiness has been eroded sufficiently from their last two outings and the league final and that they will not be able to put in a ‘performance’ against Waterford and that desie, Ozzie et can run riot and as said above ‘pulverise’ them with a half dozen goals…😀

Mastermcgrath · 03-05-2022 1:50am

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That year we were ‘supposed’ to win the All Ireland ? Came up short against a mediocre Limerick side yet somehow would have taken the greatest team of all time down in the All Ireland if we got there.

Time people got over that defeat

HillFarmer · 03-05-2022 2:00am

HillFarmer · 03-05-2022 2:03am

This Cork team won't win an all Ireland but I can tell you one thing, this game will go down to the wire.

It would be fantastic going to Clare with two wins in the bag and a shot at a Munster final.

Asdfgh2020 · 03-05-2022 6:34am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119008173#Comment_119008173

That mediocre limerick team only lost by 5/6 pts in the end not like the 20 plus trouncing that W’ford got the following year….the ‘red faced one’ was awarded ‘man of the match’ such a joke……could argue it rubbed salt in the wound…..😡

TheScoringGoal · 03-05-2022 8:35am

No sign of the minor team being announced?

Motivator · 03-05-2022 9:32am

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That Limerick team never got the credit they deserved, they were a good team and it was full of hard workers. They were something like 10 points down within a few mins in that final and ended up being beaten by 6 I think. They had a goal chance in the second half that was saved by Jackie Tyrrell’s foot. If that had gone in they’d have been a point down and who knows what would have happened then.

That semi final is still my worst memory of following Waterford. Coming down on the train after it people were just in shock. I’ll always remember an old man sitting across from us and he didn’t say a word the whole way down, but he was crying at different stages.

Cake Man · 03-05-2022 11:11am

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119008420#Comment_119008420

Seems to be just one change from the starting 15 from last week with Daniel Lalor (DLS) coming in for Josh Hegarty (Mollerans).

Best of luck to the team and management tonight.

skaface · 03-05-2022 3:11pm

Is it on TG4 tonight lads

PTH2009 · 03-05-2022 3:25pm

https://www.rte.ie/sport/gaa/2022/0503/1295777-ballygunner-and-kilcoo-dominate-team-of-the-year-picks/

congrats to Dess and rest of the players

KevIRL · 03-05-2022 7:10pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119010209#Comment_119010209

https://youtu.be/izpIZ7Gy-l0

evolvingtipperary101 · 03-05-2022 7:33pm

Is it true that Cahill has a say in how the underage teams play?

decies · 03-05-2022 7:38pm

Half time Already down by 9 . Indifferent performances underage hurling hoping the seniors will make up for it all .

The White Feather · 03-05-2022 7:53pm

skaface · 03-05-2022 8:21pm

Very disappointing display there tonight by the minors.. Faded badly in the second half

PTH2009 · 03-05-2022 8:25pm

Disappointing performance and yet again falling badly at underage. We cant seem to put in good performances back to back

Only the senior hurlers left standing now and we look towards the huge game against Cork next weekend

JD. 60 · 03-05-2022 8:35pm

WTF ; a 2 point defeat a few weeks back and now this.

5948ai · 03-05-2022 8:40pm

Disappointing to see the minors lose like that this evening. Definitely not reflective of the gap between the teams. Hopefully these lads aren't mentally scarred by that defeat in the future.

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