Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

True and at least the old qualifier system gave a feel of 'All Ireland competition'

Are we better off getting relegated to the Joe McDonagh and getting into the All Ireland series that way ?. The Leinster teams getting so called easier games to try out the squad while Munster is dog eat dog each round

Fully agree, every team in Munster has 4 guaranteed opportunities to get points to qualify so you can't really complain, old qualifier system only guaranteed 2 games. The best of Waterford that we've seen under Cahill would have comfortably dealt with Cork in Walsh Park and qualified for the all Ireland series there and then so management and players need to get to the bottom of why there form left them on May 15, been blunt about the league clare and Limerick both got just a win against Offaly and a draw against each other and look at what they've produced in championship thus far.

The dogs in the street know munster is more competive, but to begrudge kerry and wexford there spot in the championship is really petty, the long and short of is waterford needed to beat tipp and Cork at home to qualify for a quarter final and they failed, for a team hoping to win the all ireland that should have been there target all year,

Nobody is begrudging anybody getting to all ireland series Waterford and Tipp got what they deserved am saying I hate early all ireland and teams done by may , yes you played less games but you always had a game in July to look forward. As to the bloke moaning about club players am sure a compromise could be made in schedule .

Grand so we keep this having major hurling counties done by may .

Errata

His point was that ours were all soft tissue injuries, with a particularly unusual amount of quad problems. So unlike other counties ours could be linked to our training.

Let's hope this is true

care to elaborate what you base your view on…….?

Good article but I think a good deal of blame needs to be placed on the clubs conceding games. Every now & again there may be a genuine reason to concede, but some are conceding on a regular basis. Lismore for example fielded 2 teams in the league this year, yet their first team conceded 2 if not 3 league games, while the second team played.

The high number of walkovers last weekend could be put down to a number of possible reasons. Teams out of contention not wanting to travel long distances, other teams in groups where walkovers occurred being impacted by these & as a result not needing to play their final game etc.

Punishments definitely need to be introduced for walkovers. I believe these were discussed at the most recent board meeting & are vital.

As for a lack of sponsorship, again I wouldn’t be inclined to put my name to a competition that some clubs continue to treat with such disregard. Until all clubs buy in it will be very difficult to get any decent level of sponsorship for the competition.

I think the introduction of promotion & relegation in the league outside of championship performance is the big positive. There is certainly room for improvement within the structure, but clubs should be taking a long hard look at their own contributions towards this years league.

Sep 11th County senior final

Going by social media of some of the players, hurling is far from there minds with a lot of drinking going on. No doubt they deserve it they were training non stop since January. Very doubtful they have thought about next season

I honestly think it was the Limerick game caused all the damage; they played pretty well but even though close at finish, they knew they hadn't really closed the gap and lost believe in each other and management.

Our puckouts were poor all rear, especially the absence of real confidence to go short to keep teams guessing; night and day compared to Limerick.

De Burca has no confidence in his knee and was a shadow of himself, Barron and Bennett were miles off. We are doing nothing without those lads playing well.

Best of luck to Clare, hopefully they can close gap to Limerick if they get past kk

"John Meaney will manage Mount Sion for the fifth year in a row. Ger Cunningham, Darren Ryan and Jim Greene will also be part of the set-up."

That's hardly Ger Cunningham former Cork goalkeeper, no?

At least the club championships will provide something to follow, pity it's another month+ away...

Has anyone any hope of putting it up to BG? Given they'll be going out to equal Erins Own and Mount Sions number of titles it's hard to see them lacking hunger this year (or next year if the chance is there to beat the record). A few clubs there that seem to be regressing, if anything, year on year - DLS being one. Maybe Dungarvan, Abbeyside and Lismore best placed to give BG a game but hard to see anyone beating them.