Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Another disappointing day at Croke Park. Cork were excellent and were determined not to lose 3 finals in a row. Disastrous start with one of our best players Vicki Falconer going off with a bad looking injury in first minute. It was downhill from then on with only Beth Carton and Lorraine Bray playing well.

I noticed from the semi final that charging into an opponent results in a yellow card in camogie. In hurling that seems to be tolerated although I notice the throw like handpass is also a feature in camogie these days.

Tough day for players and fans but getting to an All Ireland final was a great achievement and gave a good feeling around the county the last few weeks of this rainy summer.

First final since 1945 and now talk of the management team sacked ? Bit OTT.

It's generally been acknowledged this team has been on a upwards trajectory last few years.

Yes it was a whitewash yesterday this team are better than yesterday's display.

They would have beaten cork last year accept for the disgraceful decision to rescind ATs red card.

I don't know what happened to them yesterday definitely rabbit in the headlights

Maybe the croker effect maybe losing VF in the first 30 seconds knocked them out of shape. I don't know.

The quick fire goals were rinse and repeat alright maybe thats were VF was missed.

I agree with your comments on the CB 2 jokeshops on all levels.

Thanks to the team for a few great days out and prolonging the WD gaa season.

The Ref yesterday gifted Cork a few handy frees in the first half. If Vikki Falconer didn't go off injured, that might have prevented a couple of goals.

That aside, Cork were in a different class, with the honourable exception of Beth Carton and Lorraine Bray.

Debated whether I would make this point or not, however I felt it would have been mentioned if it was a men’s team. Cork team were way fitter and faster throughout. All their players were built quite athletically. We seemed to have a few players caught for pace, and that was exposed badly yesterday. The whole build up to the final seemed very reminiscent of 2008. Open training sessions and lots of promotions. There is an up and coming team with these ladies and hopefully they’ll have better days ahead

What serious questions? That they got bet by a men's minor team?

That game was held a number of weeks before the semi final V Tipp, it might have even been before the Antrim game.

Tbf, men are more athletic so one would presume the idea was the girls would be under a lot of pressure and chasing the ball, which would you would presume was the idea behind that game.

As bad as it was yesterday, we should have had another 1-2 minimum on the board at half time, going in at half time 4 points down and you are in the game, going in 9 down and it's a struggle and looked like it was over, first 10 minutes of the second half were always going to be crucial.

We then missed the first score of the second half which was followed by a cork goal and we just lost the plot for the next ten minutes.

In fairness to the girls, despite the game being well and truly over, they kept fighting.

Unfortunately the day and the occassion probably got the better of them, poor passing decisions, nervous first touches and cork were flawless.

A good young panel, hopefully they can build on this. Doesn't sound like Sean Power will be at the helm next season so the next managerial appointment will be crucial.

Ok fair enough!

Purely basing it on his interviews, it's sounds like he felt/believed he would win the AI this year and doesn't sound like he will go again.

In fairness to him he might be waiting for the dust to settle before making his mind up

Delighted to see the girls got a great turnout in Waterford today. They brightened up the summer for a lot of us.

Yesterday was a tough one, but they've a young panel so Id hope this is the beginning of something.

I do agree with a previous poster who highlighted Cork seemed fitter. They were faster and i think stronger all over the pitch.

What good is it being a senior club when you haven't a snowballs chance in hell of winning anything. To tell lads you play 'senior' is it?

Clubs voted against having 8 teams in the hurling, voted for it in football

I don’t think clubs ever got the chance to vote for it at a meeting. It was possibly a topic raised on the player survey but I don’t think there was ever an official proposal to reduce the senior hurling championship to 8 teams.

Could anyone tell me how many teams progress from their group in minor hurling? Ballygunner are unbeaten but only three points separate second and sixth in the table. One round of fixtures remain.

I think the report following the player survey recommended cutting football to 8 but keeping senior hurling at 12, or something to that effect. Proposal to cut football to 8 over a number of years was then brought to meeting on the back of that. I think it takes another 2 years to get senior football down to 8 teams, it’s 10 teams this year AFAIK.

Last round of the group stages in the Senior and Premier Intermediate.

I know in the Senior its 4 knockout games between 2nd placed vs 3rd placed teams in the Preliminary QFs with the winners joining the 4 1st placed team in the QFs.

Ballygunner, Roanmore and DLS confirmed as Group winners with Grp B still undecided but a win or draw for Fourmilewater will get them top spot

Not sure of the structure of the Premier Intermediate

Doesn't look right that Ballygunner should have to travel to Limerick two years in a row (assuming they are Waterford champions and then beat Cork representatives).