Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Good few frees missed today, both Bennett and Gleason

Cahill himself exposed today. Can blame the players all he wants he’s got to look in the mirror too. All well and good getting a reaction against Clare team already qualified next weekend, today was the day to stand up and be counted.

Yeah puck outs were bad and some of the delivery into the forwards was poor with the ball going over the sideline. The Sunday Game gave credit to Cork for marking up for the puck outs.

I don’t think we send enough direct ball into Kiely. He’s proven that he’s a handful in every game. Makes an old school nuisance of himself and opportunities seem to break off him.

Do we go for goal too much? I thought on a few occasions that lads in a yard of space could have taken a point (not guaranteed but a decent chance) but instead played risky passes which turned the ball over. I think it’s fine in the league to target goals but in the heat of championship, the score board needs to tick a bit more.

Shellshocked lads, I can't put into words how disappointed and pissed off I am after that. The worst performance under Cahill and boy did we pick a good day for it to come. Had we kept a stinker like that for next week after we qualified or a Munster final you wouldn't be too bothered as we'd go again but now it's out of our own hands regardless of what happens in Ennis. I don't see us beating Clare anyway (even if we had beaten Cork it was always going to be very tough to get a result up there) and Cork have renewed purpose that any win over a Tipp team on their holidays will somehow see them through.

Can't believe how many passengers we had today, nobody apart from Aussie stood up. They can all go out to put that right next week but it's summer over I feel. Absolutely sickening, I genuinely haven't felt this sickened since the '16 and '11 Munster finals, '08 AI final if I'm honest...

RTE player wouldn't function on computer at work this afternoon. Come home & Saorview decides to lose half the channels. Am royally p1ssed off with the whole world right now. It'll be this time tomorrow before I'll be in a position to get the Sunday Game on the NowTV RTE app.

No idea what Cahill had to say after the match. But if he isn't taking full ownership of the performance & outcome then he needn't hang around until next Sunday night before considering his term to be finished. We're going to have a greater need for Tipp to win than ourselves next weekend. We have to cheer for Tipp!!! &£#££'##_&£##&£##£ sake

The only plus side is that I'm going to live forever. Because it doesn't look like Waterford will win the McCarthy Cup in my lifetime.

It's a carbon copy of that for Hegarty. i dont blame the refs but most of the time a linesman or umpire can see it.

Notice how quick they were to red card Aussie in the league when he struck back with minimal contact.

So far Cahill hasn't accepted any blame for a poor result. After 3 years, this is his squad following his instructions. Therefore the buck stops at his desk.

Still trying to pinpoint where this has all gone wrong all of a sudden, we’ve gone from being league champs and everyones second favourites for the AI a few weeks ago to what can only be described as a collapse against a Cork side that had no form whatsoever leading to to this game. The warning signs were there in the patchy performance against Tipp.

one thing that stood out for me yesterday was the demeanour of management teams on the sideline. Kingston was animated and and as fired up as I’ve seen him and the team really responded to it,

Cahills body language wasn’t great. Looked pissed off and moody half the time and I wonder is the relationship between players and management all as it seems. It’s year 3 of the project now and barring us actually qualifying for the AI series it’s hard to to say that it hasnt run its course

Linesman was too busy watching the Waterford lads on the sidelne in front of the stand.

I'm surprised he saw any of the match.

He Was like Fr. Dougal on flag duty.

Piss poor and gone from championship.

Even though I don't agree with the numpty on the Deise banter page on Facebook but something did stand out to me about the crowd. We have a bunch of gobshites following us, everytime there was a free, there was people shooohing for the free taker. **** off out to ballinakill for yourselves if you want that shite.

Stephen Bennett is actually nearly like Pauric Mahoney at this stage, only there for frees which he is piss poor at it also. Absolute passenger. Watched him in warm up and he was slicing balls all over the place.

Think Cahill is done, can only beat the players for a certain period before it becomes tiresome. We've lost 9 out of 11 round robin games since the introduction of the system. Absolutely shocking stat.

Cahill out

Paddy Joe out

Woman following hurling out

Bring back Derek

I think Cahill will go and from what I’m hearing after yesterday he won’t be missed by certain people. The players probably know the game is up now and I’m not sure what kind of performance we’ll see next week. Clare will absolutely tear into us and anyone thinking they’ll put out a dodgy team are sadly mistaken, there’s lads fighting for places in a Munster final so they’ll want to lay down a marker.

Still not sure what happened yesterday, to me it looks like they’re overtrained. Cahill’s system and plan is based on every player running themselves into the ground - forwards working as a unit, forwards and backs working as a unit. There was none of that yesterday, the whole thing was just flat and it looked like the players couldn’t do it as opposed to didn’t do it. These aren’t bad players and two weeks ago they were rightly praised for their effort against Limerick. So I don’t accept any criticism or digs aimed at them. Players can have an off day, they’re young fellas and doing their best. They’re on the go a long time this season already and put an awful lot into the league campaign. Has it caught up with them?

Ill mention the Gleeson incident once more and I’m finished then. He didn’t swing the Hurley at the cork player, he wrapped his arm around the player and was holding the Hurley in his hand. For anyone thinking Gleeson was in the wrong listen to Brendan Cummins commentary. He was watching it and said Gleeson was the innocent party. Gleeson is getting awful abuse and it’s just a constant with him at this stage. He’s a young chap who has given up 8 years of his life playing senior hurling for Waterford. I don’t really care if he has an off day, a bad day or a red card in every game he doesn’t deserve the grief he gets. Grand from outside the county that’s always going to happen. But some of the stuff being said about him around the place by Waterford people is just not on and it has to stop. If he walked away from it this morning then the tributes would flood in. Waterford people love nothing more than building people up only to knock them down at the first chance.

Cahills stock is falling quickly, wont ever get the tipp job and being honest wont be winning an all ireland with waterford.

Cork man here

Obviously thrilled with the result from our standpoint but being honest I was very disappointed with ye yesterday. Start of the year I thought ye could win it with the panel of players available to ye but by the looks of it something has gone amiss this year.

Bennett has to be nailing those frees and I expected a lot more from him after his league showings

Hutchinson is one of my favourite forwards in the game but in the last two outings he’s been well marshalled by ODonoghue but you need more from him.

Might be a controversial opinion but I thought ye were mad to drop Daire Lyons from centre field. To me he epitomised everything Cahill was about, an absolute work dog.

Calum Lyons is a joy to watch. Aussie in full flight the same. Sending off was probably harsh but I can see why the Ref gave it I must say. I’ve seen OLeary come in for some stick but it takes two to tango and Aussie was giving as good as he got. I actually think Aussie enjoys that side of the game too much

From our point of view we have to go and beat Tipp after a performance like that but being frank about it we are all playing for 2nd place again this year, can’t see anyone getting near a full strength Limerick

We need a psychologist