Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Heard he was out in ardkeen after getting a bad hit

Hopefully nothing serious

well done today lads mighty win , i didn't see it coming but what infuriates me about fitz is , if interchanges his tactics more like he done today he is a fine coach but playing a sweeper for a full game even 5 or ten points down makes no sense

i heard lads talking in dungarvin saturday night that the squad was flying , and why wouldn't they and they being let hurl for the first time all year , every team has a sweeper at times in a game but not all the time , he won an all ireland with clare when he allowed his sides play that open and free like today

The other very nice thing is knowing that one team's championship hopes will likely be hanging by a thread by the time we puck a ball next. The loser of Cork v Clare at PUC next weekend (if not a draw of course) will be in a very bad spot with 2/2 losses - a situation we found ourselves in many times the last few years.

What's the best set of results for us there? I guess Limerick to take care of Tipp and possibly Clare to beat Cork? That way Cork would be as good as gone knowing they'd still have to face Limerick.

Well done to Waterford from a disconsolate Clare supporter. Great to see ye back hurling with the traditional dash, sometimes a bit too extravagant, of previous years. Great for Munster hurling to have all 5 teams competitive and even better to have the two royalties of cork and tipperary struggling to compete. Meanwhile we had limerick well beaten, only to collapse giving them an undeserved win and a great boost. That's hurling I suppose. But we'll done to the Decies.

NIce to wake up on a monday after a championship Sunday with a huge win on the board. Let's hope we can kick on against Tipp and we get a better turnout from the waterford public. The fact we got over the line and kept the heads when Cork came back at us will hopefully stand to us down the line.

So did i to be honest!

If anyone has a spare ticket for Tipp game let me know, i suspect it'll be a little harder to get one this time!

The team set up/tactics and results since Davy came back and the very poor league campaign are the probably the reasons the ‘Fans’ stayed away…..yesterday finally he seems to have abandoned some of the insane 1 man full forward line etc stuff……hopefully it will continue and I’d say very quickly the fans will return….!

I actually had to walk away from laptop in injury time. The thought of Cork getting a goal was making me sick with nerves

Just like the sun comes out and banishes 6 months of miserable weather, so too does a proper display of skilful, tough, but most important of all, intelligent hurling banish all those dreary miserable performances that went before it. Measured balls in front of the full forward line, mixed up with some great fielding by Kiely and Pendergast in particular. It was born again stuff for the team and especially us fans. One of the great days.

Let’s not get carried away though. Cork had some atrocious misses and their insistence on constant niggle in defence blew up in their faces (and hooray for that) but we still only won by three points in a game where we had near total dominance.

We should enjoy it though! No matter what happens we will at least be in with a shout going to Clare, hard and all as that will be.

The years were rolled back with fabulous performances from Barron, TdB, the two Lyons and Monty playing his best match in a Deise shirt on my opinion. The full back line were also commanding and there wasn’t a substandard performance anywhere.

Special mention must go the TdB, coming back from his third awful injury and looking like he was never away. Also Stephen Bennett was clearly struggling physically from the throw in and got the Aussie treatment throughout from Cahalalane but lasted the match taking a couple of beautiful points and an unstoppable penalty.

Onwards and upwards. We are not hiding in the long grass now though. Let’s hope Davy doesn’t try to “surprise “ Tipp by going back to a sweeper.

Happy Monday everyone!

Any other player yes. Cahalane no. He might think his constant niggle is keeping him just on the right side of the ref but he is a fool if he doesn’t realize they know his form and want to catch him out.

No way, it was a filthy flick from behind on his hand, typical of him and no accident. He had no hope of getting that ball. Anyone else would have shepherd fitzy out towards the sideline. He's filthy and always has been. Got away with hitting Stephen Bennett off the ball throughout the match.

The ladies loo at city end was locked and out of action as well.

I said here after the teams were named on Friday that I was fearful of this one and unfortunately from a Cork perspective I was right. Congrats to Waterford, fully deserved your win and in truth the 3 point defeat probably flattered us.

I read a few articles and listened to podcasts and I tend to stay away from contributors whose county are involved as we all have our biases. Nearly all of the neutrals suggested that Cork were hard done by with the red card. But I disagree, you could argue that the first yellow was soft, but when you swing your hurley like that when you're already on a yellow you're asking for trouble so I don't think we can complain about the outcome.

Most of the talk here in Cork is that we have too many old-timers, especially having 3 in the forwards so I think we'll see some changes there for next week. But ironically it was Waterfords most experienced players who won the game for them.

A word on TDB, if it wasn't against my own county I'd have been delighted for him especially. Smashing player who this time last year I wasn't so sure would make it back to this level.

Here's wishing Shane Bennett a speedy recovery ; will be out for a while, by all accounts. He was showing up well in the league, so it's a big loss. If only Aussie could make a dramatic return to the fold.