Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Patrick Fitzgerald is a class act. We need a few more of his calibre to reach the holy grail.

How long until someone comes after David Frank's?

he was 2 years younger than a lot of the bigger palyers and got pushed around, he looked a monster at minor and a mouse at u20, he still need 2 or 3 years to fill out but whatever it is he has it

Good luck to King Henry tomorrow anything to avoid the nightmare of Kilkenny v Man City in the Final .

being honest , waterford the gel is not sticking , great players a really good manager fantastic club team representing the county and all ireland champions , but politics is an issue

in clare , we have been flat since the munster final , but the munster seemed to be the aim in clare with lohan , key injuries are more of a factor though

It’s all about timing.

Kilkenny can get through Leinster in second gear even losing twice in the process

Clare went after Munster and ran out of gas, Waterford went after the league but had timing wrong in terms of preparation for Munster

Less of the ‘king’ shite. We live in a republic…😡 Henry’s should be left with the royals and Just to clarify I don’t mean ‘Meath’

Doubt he'd take the job

After today Liam Cahill will have more All Ireland underage winners to choose from when/if he gets the Tipp gig in a few years

Jesus you have issues 😂😂😂

Yeah will be interesting to see how Ryan does with Cork given he could very well have ended up Waterford manager at the time. He came with a good reputation and good record with underage sides. Wasn't there rumours at the time part of the reason he may not have been too interested was having to look after fundraising and a few other things?

Was just having a read through some of the posts over on the Clare thread in light of their nightmare the weekend against KK. The below post stood out as sounding very familiar on our end! You could literally replace "Croke Park" with "Cusack Park", "...starting Paudi Fitz" with "...starting Paudie Mahony", "Kelly on frees" with "Curran/Bennett on frees", "...the team we saw in Thurles in the Munster final" with "...the team we saw in Thurles in the League final", "The Clare team yesterday..." with "The Waterford team yesterday..." and the last paragraph replace Munster and AI (semi) final with "League title".

Mad how things can come crashing down after one or two games despite what went before and we're well able to relate to exactly what the Clare lads are going through right now.

Soul destroying day in Croke Park yesterday. Infairness one could write a book about everything that went wrong yesterday; the frees, wides, starting Paidi Fitz, Kelly on frees, etc, etc. It was a complete capitulation.

The only point I’ll make regarding the performance is that I don’t think we can appreciate how the past 4 weeks took an awful toll on the players. The team we saw in Thurles in the Munster final, was a ravenous, energetic, physical, hardworking team that gave the best team of this generation a great game. The Clare team yesterday was unrecognisable, everything they did yesterday was laboured and they looked like a team that was both mentally and physically shot, running on empty. They also looked completely unprepared for their opponent.....

Before the weekend I would have said that this had already been a good year for Clare. Getting to both a Munster and All Ireland final. But yesterday has really just dampened everything. It’s a tough one to take.

cahill only got a one year term extension and that is officially up now, so he has to be ratified in for another year. the players and Liam and beavens are keen to give it another go from what I hear and have let the co board know but the co board haven’t given any indication of what they want to do yet.

Was at both semi finals at the weekend and there was a piece about the semis since 2000 in the programme. Waterford have been in 13 semi finals with one replay. 3 wins out of that total and 4 lost by one score.

If you include 1998, that's 14 semi finals in 25 years and if you'd have said that in 1998, you'd have been put in the mad house. Strange to think how much we've under achieved and not won one despite the past 25 years.

By all reports Kingston was offered an extension and players wanted him to stay too. I know he's self employed so possibly a factor, also his son been on the panel might be a tricky situation although i think he was harsh on him on a few occasions. I'd imagine they knew last week and obviously had Ryan in mind after managing the 2 u20 all Ireland wins.

When we look back on things in, say, November, will we say Waterford had a better year than Clare. For all the acclaim they got they won nothing.

A bit like us over the past couple of years

Derek McGrath been linked with the Dublin job