Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Honestly i would just have a seeded all ireland open championship still have provincial finals . Probably kill the league but what happened to Waterford it might be half dead as it is seen as not worth is .What we have here and yes that’s the way it falls, having tipp and Waterford gone before the summer weather even kicks in is a farce . Can only be the money man that think it’s a good idea but anything is better then current arrangement imho .

you could have 2 champs league style groups with top 3 in each group coming out, 1 goes to semi 2 and 3 in quarters. that would mean the provincial championship are gone though or else play them first and use as seeding for all ireland groups.

Look fellas want to get rid of Munster round Robin because we weren't good enough.

Face it.the best teams qualified.

Austin,Curran,Shaun obrien,dessie Curran and possibly conor Gleeson only few to have good championships..

It's also a time for people to go on holidays. You can't suddenly schedule games earlier because the county are knocked out if half the team have made plans already.

If the likes of Dunford, Mahony, Foran, Harney and a few others are named in the panel next year then forget about it. Cody would horse lads out of the panel after 3 years if they haven’t broken into the starting 15 or if you were well past your sell by date. 

Whoever the scab is also in the panel leaking out information should also horsed out. 

That's harsh on SOD, he didn't push on in Davy's term but he was sensational in 2018 when they made the All Ireland semi final.

No one from Clare really emerged well from 2014-16.

They are a bit limited and if Tony Kelly was to miss a game from here on they would more than likely be exposed but Lohan will always command respect from almost everyone in Clare. Their workrate makes them a match for most teams.

Is it correct that jim mcguinness attended a Waterford training session between the limerick and cork games. Was mentioned on the colm Parkinson podcast. Could be only a load of rubbish.

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I'm not really a fan of the round robin..it just feels like overkill, in Munster anyway. You could have a munster back door type championship, have 2 qf's, then 2 losers playoff with 5th team, then munsters semis and final. The teams that dont make the munster final then go into the qualifiers. It would take the same time to run as the round robin but there would be a meaning to each game i.e you need to win to progress to next round. It may draw more consistent crowds aswell. Also teams may get an extra weeks break after winning their match. That clare game just felt like one game too many and even I'm drained.

So Cahill return or not return ? Would you like to see him come back or time to move on got as far with them as he can ? Personally I’d like to find out what the hell was going on behind the scenes in the Munster campaign before I could give a definitive answer to that . It’s very early days yet but the silence is deafening even regarding the dreaded rumours . Ideally you don’t want to be changing the manager by default every few years but maybe the collateral damage from all this might be too much . One thing we don’t want is a dragged out decision one way or another .

I'm not from Waterford and don't know what was going on, but I was amazed at the display last Sunday. That was a very depleted Clare team and they still won at their leisure. I presume there was a serious issue within the Waterford camp? It was a scandalous display, just how bad it was has been kind of overlooked in the media. It wasn't a case of Clare being particularly good, just Waterford were shocking. I felt sorry for the fans coming all the way to Ennis to watch that display.

'A very Clare thing to do'? Give a few other examples? In fairness, it's not often Clare are ever in a position like they were last Sunday so I've no idea what you mean.

I'm sure it's something Waterford may use as motivation in the future. Tipp did it previously to us, didn't think Clare would go to that level.

Didn’t Cody do it too against Waterford?