Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

This is the greatest post I’ve ever seen on the internet 👏

Davey and McGrath both stayed on after major hammerings on a par with what what Cahill experienced…..

Didn’t know that……who was the ‘Google’ management that you refer to…?

2 weeks on from our exit out of the championship and it is still hard to get the head around what went wrong. I was a little bit worried because we hadn’t been brillant in our opening two games but definitely didn’t see us going out of the championship so tamely.

Did we get our timing wrong and put too much emphasis on the league and peak there and by the time the championship came around we were just spent. The high intensity high pressing running off the shoulder game which we have been playing under Cahill just didn’t happen in the four games. Did too many of our top players just loose form at the same time?

Getting knocked out was bad enough but the display we put in down in Clare set the alarm bells ringing. It reminded me of our game against limerick under pairic fannings reign when it looked like players just downed tools. It would be sad if there have been issues in camp between players and management because Cahill and bevans have been a breath of fresh air for Waterford hurling and overall have given us three enjoyable years.

I still think with the panel and management we have that we are not far from an all Ireland. For the sake of Waterford hurling I hope all concerned can sit down air their grievances and try and move on together. Cahills interview the other night was positive in the fact he seems to want another year but we need the whole panel to row in behind him.

The only positive I can take is that mistakes were made this year by both management and players but if they can both learn from them hopefully it will stand to us next year, do things differently next year and come back stronger (with no pressure as more than likely we will be written off by most).

finally Munster final is on today, don’t know about anyone else but I’ll find it hard to watch knowing it could have been us lining out today. Anyway hopefully it’s a good game better than last nights one ( which wouldn’t be hard) and may the best team win. Have a feeling we could see both of these teams lining out against each other again in 6 weeks time

While I was also surprised they didn’t get the gig, Joxer was never a part of the management team. I’m not sure Ken was either.

Did you forget that it was being ‘too fit’ was waterfords problem this season…😀

The lack of quality at the helm of all our underage sides is a concern and has been for a number of years. Can’t just expect quality players to emerge if the calibre of coaching isn’t there in the first place

Between the great Munster final on Sunday and the hurling championship now entering the do-or-die business end of the season, I’m more angry and disappointed now than I was a few weeks ago after the Clare game. Seeing all these teams now gearing up for big mouth watering clashes and days out at Thurles and Croke Park without us being involved is sickeningly painful. Also mentioned here and there the last few pages about our continued dreadful underage performances/results is another source of huge frustration. The fact that our minors and U20’s are also long gone from their respective championships means we’ve no involvement at any (male) grade for the rest of the summer and thereby nothing to get excited about or act as a distraction, in the absence of any senior success. (Sick to the back teeth of the failings underage, we seem to bounce between hammerings and throwing away games when in winning positions. It has to be some mentality thing?)

I take nothing away from Clare, they’ve been great this championship and it’s good to see someone really putting it up to Limerick but it’s hard not to look at that and think that really could have been us. Seeing them play great, consistent hurling and so many of their lads going well acts as a painful reminder of our failings and frailties. After the league (or even after the Tipp and Limerick games) I think we all expected us to be in the position Clare now find themselves in. Instead we sleepwalked into a Cork ambush and it only went downhill fast from there. The crash and burn exit from this years championship has to be up there as one of the worst. Don’t know what will happen for 2023 or what the hurling landscape will look like by then but at least we’ll go into next year written off.

In 2009, Limerick brought out a book “Unlimited Heartbreak” detailing their infamous failures and hard luck stories to land success over the decades. Think it’s safe to say that mantle has been passed on to us and probably the only award we could give ourselves this year….

Yeah yesterdays Munster final was a depressing wake up call how far we have to get back . What would be considered success now for next season personally at least get to a all ireland semi to psychologically at least get back in a good place . Another week or so I’d like to see something coming out what happened and where we are going from here . It’s a long climb back but it’s a climb we must do , sooner rather then later.

Cahill should only remain in post if he has full backing of the players otherwise next year could be similar to what happened in limerick under Justin McCarthy…….massive discontent and players being dropped off the panel and a totally wasted season

Thoughts ?

Conditioning between the ears is what is needed

At different stages ove rthe last decade, 2013 in particular, I believe Cork has a very skilful set of players. Not saying that Cork consistently had the most skilful players in the country, but the accepted mantra in Cork was that skill wins out.

Frustrating today seeing Cork playing in the Preliminary Round up in Antrim

The sooner the season ends the better

More down to the championship format then anything . The sooner we get back to the old format the better and hurling final in September you were guaranteed to still be in championship by July this just leads to lack of interest and distraction for other sports by end of may !!