Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

In fairness not many said otherwise other than Tipp getting whipped.

Waterford were well fancied today vs Clare.

What's happening here is unbelievable

God help us but the rumours will be mad after this. Its one thing going out but this looks like an imploding bomb in slow motion.

Christ this is embarrassing

This is a new low

Shocking display. We'll go out humiliated.

He's obviously a big part of the problem. He doesn't come out of this without blame.

This is laughable stuff from a tipp Lad here .at least we can say our beatings are down to all the tiipp team gone ..missed. injured retired but Ye suppose to have second best team

Hes a poor man manager

Did he sub Barron off in the 1st half today? Missed it on TV but was listening to the radio

The fact Waterford consistently bottle it in big games has absolutely nothing to do with management. How many times has it happened under a number of different managers over the years

The buck stops with management and never moreso than now with Cahill. Whatever has gone on something clearly is amiss in the camp. Confidence is absolutely gone out of the players, that was evident after 5 minutes last Sunday and the same today. I also don’t know how anyone can say anything about the players after that utterly bizarre team selection today. Before a ball was picked that team looked totally disjointed on paper and so it proved. Players were totally caught by surprise by the late changes today by all accounts so where does that leave the panel and the management?

Ah well, that's an end to 2022 for Waterford, on the 22nd of May. It's hard to take, but it will be harder for the players than for anyone & there is no way they became bad players overnight. They gave everything they had under the circumstances. You cannot mess around with a team's structure so drastically in such a short space of time & expect the miracle to happen. It is like backing a 250/1 in the grand national, you look like a genius if it comes off, but it is 250 times less likely to work. Anyway, what's done is done & I really hope Clare push on now, I would love to see them go all the way. Shane O' Donnell & Tony Kelly are a joy to watch.

As for us, there will almost definitely be a change of management & it is probably due now. In fairness, this management team & players have given us some great days out & for that they deserve a lot of thanks & credit, including a league title this year. I do hope the manager does not put all of the blame on the players for the last 2 weekends, as it would be good to see him & his selectors at least reflect upon their own roles too, in particular the extent of any tactical approach. It is not about blaming people at this stage, but learning for the future & Waterford definitely do have a future, a bright one. Cork's performance ensured we could not advance anyway, but I guess there will be lessons to be learned from this season & of course, a league title is something good to have. It will be a long wait now for club championship, so some lads might go to sunnier climes for a while. We'll be back in 2023 with a fresh slate!

An absolutely dreadful performance from us today, against a Clare side who left out some of their best players, we certainly didn't look like a side fighting for our championship lives. It's hard to believe we were so poor, it was like a poor challenge game in the second half, Clare even subbing off the keeper to give lads a run.

A really bad day for us and hard to see Cahill staying on.

Back in your box

waterdord are simply not good enough. cahill was right too criticise. display v cork was shocking.