Waterford GAA Discussion Thread 2011-2012

deise_girl wrote: »

Wow lads
Waterford GAA ‏@WaterfordGAA 27s
Michael Ryan has officially informed Waterford Co Board that he will Not be seeking the position of Senior Hurling Team Manager for 2014.

I'd say thats bollocks ,likely he was told he wasnt being considered so was given the oppurtunity to step down.


he has been so good for us ,what a shame

Wow that's a surprise. Anyone got more on the story

He deserved another year a chance to reap the harvest of the seeds he had sown so to speak.

Last time I was talking to him he said he was going for another year, that was a couple of weeks ago (the week after the loss to KK), very strange indeed. I'm sure it will all come out eventually what happened. Is this story confirmed?

Sounds plausible while Mullane was missed will the new manager be up to the task? Michael Ryan done alright and brought the team on from the disaster of Davy's reign.

rebel girl 15 wrote: »

Not true as far as I heard

What did you hear?

Mountainlad wrote: »

That definitely won't happen

It was meant to be a joke but nothing would surprise me now. Instead of celebrating our great win in minor here we are dicussing our senior manager's position. Its like jumping in the air after winning only to get a kick in the goolies when you land.

Mr Tibbs wrote: »

It was meant to be a joke but nothing would surprise me now. Instead of celebrating our great win in minor here we are dicussing our senior manager's position. Its like jumping in the air after winning only to get a kick in the goolies when you land.

have you not been a Déise man long ? is that not our lot in life ,I'd imagine being a Waterford fan is a lot like being bipolar

Mr Tibbs wrote: »

It was meant to be a joke but nothing would surprise me now. Instead of celebrating our great win in minor here we are dicussing our senior manager's position. Its like jumping in the air after winning only to get a kick in the goolies when you land.

Hopefully the pressure will be kept off the minors as they prepare for the final. So plenty of talk about the selection of a new management team might not be a bad thing.

First things first - Congrats to Waterford minors on beating Kilkenny and getting to the All Ireland final.
In hindsight they have had the easier semi as I reckon Galway are stronger than Kilkenny.
Waterford played very poorly today and still won. The sideline seems very out of depth tactically. The referee did give a lot of frees but to be fair, most of them were frees, you cant put a hand on a fellas back, grab his arm or his jersey, Waterford fouled persistently today and were let off near the end when Murphy drove a relatively handy free wide. They kept launching puck outs on top of Foran and he wasn't winning them, Kilkenny knew this would happen, Limerick knew the last day this would happen and whoever they play in the final will think this will happen again so Waterford need to think smart and make a change to their puck outs or vary them some what the next day.
Waterfords big players didn't play well, which is a good thing in a way because they won. Oz Gleeson tries to showboat a small bit he got caught badly twice for this in the 1st half and scores came off it, he copped on in the 2nd half and had a fine game.
The full back looks shakey and the 2 corner backs wouldn't fill me with confidence either. Tom Devine was very quiet mid field without being poor or anything, he just wasn't in the game. Roche was poor, I know he was injured before today so that may have been it. Its good to have a lad like Curran to come in there when they needed and he hurled well when he came on.
The ball wasn't fed into the full forward line enough and I noticed the full forward line were drifting away from goal when they weren't being fed, this is exactly what the opposition wants to see. We eventually had to bring Patrick Curran to 11 to get him into the game.
Stephen Bennett is an outstanding young hurler, who, please god, will be a massive player for the senior team in years to come. Stephen however needs to know when to take his points and when to go for the jugular. I will applaud a lad for going for broke and having the balls to do so but at times taking the point is the better option, it happened on 3/4 occasions today. I know this team likes to score goals but at times they want to walk the ball into the net and that wont happen too often at this level.
Hopefully the lads can go on and win the All Ireland, we really need an All Ireland at some level and please god these lads can do it, they are well capable.

On the Michael Ryan issue...people are saying here that he did well, I dunno, he did better than what was expected out of him but I don't think he made progress, he maintained the team and they didn't regress, but progress, no, not at all. he was always going to be a stop gap appointment. Id thank him for his work but I'm not sorry he's finished up. but the county board need to be very shrewd with their next appointment and if Mullane will come back on board, we should have Molumphy, Daniels, Philip Mahony and Shane Walsh next year to add to what we already have. Munster is going to be extremely competitive over the next few years and we cant afford to sit back as a county.

Jason Ryan hasn't done much in Kildare it seems plus hes a football manager, not a hurling manager and I don't think he would ever be seriously considered for the Waterford hurling job.

Good win for the minors today, despite making pretty hard work of it. Am I alone in being concerned at how our teams at many grades seem to have real problems gaining possession though? It sure was nice to see the ground stroke employed by a Waterford team and the ball kept moving though.

Surprised to hear about Michael Ryan stepping down, the managerial merry-go-round begins again..

Ando's Saggy Bottom wrote: »

I hope the county board are straight on the phone to Donal O Grady.

Would have been of the same opinion before he was appointed in Limerick, but after his stint there, I am not sure he is not a one trick pony with the short passing game. This is probably a harsh assessment, but in my opinion, the jury would be out on him right now.

Deleted User wrote: »

AFAIRC he was in the running last time only he stayed on with Wexford. From De la Salle which is a big hurling club in the city of Waterford. Many would think a Waterford man younger then alot of the intercounty players couldnt have brought a professional setup to a football county but he did it with Wexford and his absence this year has been noted. I do think the job will probably go to Queally or Ken though

I have as much respect for ken as anyone but does he have the pedigree to run a team?

this seems like a steve staunton to me

skully could have done anything with 2 more years this thing stinks