Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Hardly that surprising when you consider the number of players available for selection for both clubs

The liam McCartney sounds interesting.. God bless the alcohol!

Anyway if we don't win it I'd be delighted to see ye finally get over the line, hon the Deise

Is there an off-button for Pat? Honestly it’s bad enough Derek McGrath spouting s***e regularly in the media without this lad chiming in aswell

https://m.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/it-is-hard-going-three-years-non-stop-at-the-level-liam-was-asking-pat-bennett-expects-deise-to-rise-again-42237362.html

Limerick are fairly well measured in their dealings with the media and I'd include the local media in that. If Tipperary done a 3 in a row there'd be people literally vomiting at the self congratulations and general bombast being spoken by them. Derek is a disaster in the media. He is a teacher trying to turn everything into philosophy. He's embarrassing. Pat is just a chancer of the highest order. No discipline whatsoever in the the media and he's passed it on

What are the rules of media contributions by ex managers, players etc etc…..the answer is none….it’s up to the sports editor of whatever paper / web site etc to decide……papers / web site will print/post anything so long as it’s not libellous

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The league is dead let’s be honest here while yes it’s a national title we couldn’t even celebrate as championship was coming up . A decent league giving fringe players a try should be objective and to just get out of Munster Championship would at least have us back to somewhere we want to be . Mentally a lot of damage was done last season and Davy’s leash might be a lot shorter then it should be .

Imagine a load of new faces in the squads for the Munster League games

Think a senior member of the squad got married yesterday and hard too see any of the fellow experienced players been in the squad for next Tuesdays game

Get your point but many of Brian Cody's Kilkenny teams done similar for many seasons and it worked for them be it in a different time where there were big breaks between games/tournaments etc

Maybe too much is been wrote into this 'league form vs Championship form' and the media not helping it. I doubt the sponsors/TG4 want too devalue the tournament. If it is a 'secondary hurling championship' why play the Munster League and Walsh Cups etc ???

Did Limerick blame winning the league in 2019 when they lost to Kilkenny in the AI semi final ??

He can hardly come out and say ‘ah shur Davey said we will be taking it handy up until April, we will be putting out experimental teams and concentrating on peaking for da Munster championship’…..?

The league is not now, nor has it ever been dead, there's great games between the best teams week on week, one or 2 teams will send out duds but most counties play it serious enough , Liam chose to overtrain the team and it came a cropper, he was really onto something and the cork lads walking out of semple said likewise, you're suffering from revisionist history

Can't get any later in the year for a final anyway

Great win for De La Salle

Getting out of Munster has to be the aim. It won't be any easier though as I don't see any soft touch. However if we could manage it, our record against the non Munster teams recently is excellent, we've beaten each of them on the last time we played.

I'm not too bothered about the league. In my view Davy tends to target certain fixtures rather than the entire league and I'd be hoping for similar. It may be forgotten but last year we seemed to have a lot of slow to heal injuries, particularly quad injuries, and it would be a boost if we could get a clearer run this year.

Under 20 is an unpredictable grade now with the rule that you become ineligible if you play senior. So I'd be hoping that the minors can make a step up. None of the recent minor teams have been bad but we need one very good one to come through to remain up with the other counties. Though I'm not sure I see that sort of team coming yet.

No sign of the waterford team yet