Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Regarding Senior football

The huge delay by the County board in appointing a senior football management team at the last minute when other counties were already back in training has been detrimental to the team, so obviously our fitness and conditioning are way off.

Some of our best players like Conor Murray,Brian Lynch are gone travelling.Daragh Corcoran is unavailable unfortunately and one of our best players Brian Looby is now on the hurling panel.

One of the biggest issues is good footballers sitting on extended hurling panels for long periods of time and never ever making it onto hurling matchday squads.

Davy also set up a senior hurling development squad this year on top of the existing hurling team which has had an effect on the Waterford football panel's strength and depth.

This junior football championship is played over 1 weekend in the summer by Kilkenny, New York's second team and finalists of the British junior football championship.

We have plenty of talent to compete at Div 3 and 4 of the league and tailteann cup.Waterford have had a senior football team for over 100 years.

There is huge work being done with Waterford football development squads at u14 u15 u16 age groups at present where we are not just competing but beating counties in football.

We need players to want to play the highest level of football they can and wear the county football jersey,not committing because it's not trendy to be on the Waterford football team

The football clubs in particular need to lead the way in driving on the county football team.

Cavan,Fermanagh and louth senior hurling teams and other's had to fight this year for their very existence to represent their counties at senior hurling,Waterford should never consider getting rid of our Senior football team.

Really bad reflection on county board not to have secured a sponsor for the 2024 season & we are now in February.

I’d question the “huge delay” here. Can you imagine how many people they had to approach before they got someone to commit? It’s probably the least attractive gig in gaelic football. Even after Shankey was appointed, he had huge difficulty in getting any sort of management team together.

I’m not saying the board are doing any way well when it comes to turning around our football fortunes, but I don’t think there was any delay on the football appointment, other than being unable to secure a suitable candidate.

There is some small green shoots in the underage development squads of late as has been mentioned, and fair play to those who put those managements in place, gave them the backing and the managements themselves for their efforts. But given the state of affairs at adult inter county level it’s hard to see how this will translate into positive change at the top end, in my eyes at least.

It probably comes back to the clubs and asking more of the clubs in terms of promoting football, with support of our Deise Og coaches.

We’ve often had joint captains before, as do other counties. Tipp have a vice captain.

2024 Munster GAA Hurling ChampionshipRoundDateVenueRefereeReport 1ClareLimerick21/4Cusack Park Ennis @ 2pm 1WaterfordCork21/4Walsh Park Waterford @ 4pm2CorkClare28/4Supervalu Páirc Uí Chaoimh @ 2pm2LimerickTipperary28/4TUS Gaelic Grounds Limerick @ 4pm3WaterfordTipperary4/5Walsh Park Waterford @ 6pm3CorkLimerick11/5Supervalu Páirc Uí Chaoimh @ 7pm4ClareWaterford19/5Cusack Park Ennis @ 2pm4TipperaryCork19/5FBD Semple Stadium Thurles @ 4pm5LimerickWaterford26/5TUS Gaelic Grounds Limerick @ 4pm5TipperaryClare26/5FBD Semple Stadium Thurles @ 4pmFinal9/6

Sorry about that cut and paste

Few pre match pints in Norrises

And vice-captains…?

If we ever go to O Neills our stuff would be similar to Laois and Monaghans

Laois former Azzuri tenants, always loved the Sligo gear also

Remember last year when in the huddle the Waterford palyers bowing and taking deep breaths? The got slaughtered for it! Irish rugby team doing the same last Friday night in France and winning!! A lot of people out there ready and willing to stick the knife into Davy. Same as when McGrath was ruining hurling with a sweeper and now the same people are calling it anything but a sweeper- dropping someone deep!!! There are plenty of people out there ready to put the boot into Waterford, we don't need to be doing it ourselves.

I was part of swords RFC when we first went o neills, we were the first irish team i know of to do rugby stuff with them , they told us they couldn't do a xxxxl jersey, we told them to get out of rugby gear so, they made it, gear was fantastic lost only oneor 2 jerseys a year

Davy had a gilded oppurtuniy last year, league started with dublin antrim and laois, couldnt have been softer, and he messed it up, would he ever just stop feckarsing and just play the game, his tactics are crap and always were

He'll definitely move on to another county team after Waterford

He had the Galway job up until Henry's appointment came out of the blue

One thing you have to say about Davy is he loves the GAA and is committed

Laughable...loves the moolah, GAA is the vessel.

Seen a few comments on social media complaining about this given there's 7 Ballygunner players on the panel and another 4 retired after decent stints.

Any sponsor by Sunday? That aside, where’s the new supporters club?