Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

going bad ? how does one go bad ,it's a team not milk

Is it not as embarrassing for Longford as it is for waterford…?

Michael O Donoghue rightly got the Galway job after the Clarinbridge win and got them a long awaited all Ireland.

Why don't we do sensible things like that?

Senior and Premier Intermediate Championship Group fixtures

No doubt almost every Waterford hurling fan on the planet would of rather been heding to Croke Park on the weekend of 19th-21st July instead 😔

A late free and 65 a big contributer for us not been in Thurles today

Bored with the old limerick project to be honest gotten to the stage think won’t even bother watch the all Ireland for the usual result.

His smugness is off the scale. We’re talking at peak Derek McGrath levels.

54 now. Currid is back on a short term deal

I would disagree... Limerick had Anthony Daly as underage director of hurling from 2014 to 2017. A lot of Limerick's success stems from underage players during that period. What other county bar Dublin would have had the money to employ someone like Daly in an underage position!!

When Limerick made the breakthrough in 2018 I thought our own day would finally come too, there was nothing to suggest this kind of dominance was ensuing. They had come with a strong underage group 2013-2016 and bar about 3/4 years of dominance at underage it’s not exactly been a never ending conveyor belt of success. That Anthony Daly period mentioned above actually didn’t yield much in they way of underage success afterwards the backbone of this team are from The 2 classic drawn Munster minor finals in 2013 and 2014 and when Waterford and Limerick went on to with the next 3 u21 all Irelands,l between them 2015, 2016 and 2017 I thought we would be up there with Limerick challenging for all Irelands in the years that followed. Instead they went one direction as we went the other. For the simple reason they made the best of the resources they had and us quite the opposite. A shocking managerial appointment in 2019 that set us back years followed by a couple of covid years under Liam Cahill where we looked like we might do something but it’s been a whimper ever since. It’s hard not to be envious of what Limerick went on to achieve with their golden generation

JPs money made them the machine they are now. They obviously had the raw material but the financial backing aided what is a fantastic team. We never had that financial backing. There's no guarantee that we would have reached anywhere near the heights of Limerick, but what if we had that backing. You just think it's not a level playing field. The dubs dominance is another example of what financial backing can do.

sorry about the delayed reaction , i could have sent a written reply faster 😂

there are two reasons , with offaly , 1 most teams that have success at underage like say clare ,wexford or waterford ,usually have acore of 5 or 6 really good experienced players for the younger lads to aspire to , looking at offaly at the moment them players are not there so it will be immediately up to young lads like screaney dan bourke and charlie mitchell take up the mantle of improving offaly hurling before they finish collage

2 , while screaney reminds me of tony kelly or shane o donnell ,with no great size but can take a hit , its a big ask for a young team to all jump to senior together , as i say if you go back to 2011 or 12 when clare were relatively poor had lads like brendan bugler , colin ryan , patrick donnellan on the panel , when waterford had that young team come through in the 2016 ,they had lads like noel connors ,brick walsh and kevin moran to guide them into senior hurling , its needed in a players development in my opinion

Game was over after 5 minutes. That particular Ballygunner team are very strong and were even missing one of their best players last night. There are a few very good players from other clubs in that age group yoo. If they stick together, as in not be drawn away to soccer, I'd fancy Waterford for a Minor Munster championship or more in 3 years time.

Yes, Derek Mcgrath had this spotted before they even came in the school gates and has grabbed them for his own as he sees a Harty cup winning team in a few years. Think they won the 1st year equivalent with ease, hammering Midleton CBS in the final.

Next year's minor team should be competitive. I don't mean they will be as good as the 2013 group but they are the best for some time.