Waterford GAA Discussion Thread 2013- Mod Warning Post #1

Alf Tupper wrote: »

Ahem!

Hahahah fair enough but least they didn't throw the game.

3ships wrote: »

Hurling dev squad

U14 beat Tipp 0-13 to 1-9
U15 beat Tipp 2-13 to 0-12

didn't get the U16 result

I heard the Under 16s won as well but didn't get the score. This was a fund-raising triple bill in Fraher Field yesterday.

Cornerstoner wrote: »

Clashmore relegated to the junior ranks for 2015. Tadhg Burke and Brian O'Halloran will be plying their trade there after getting to the Intermediate Western Final last year and running Ardmore extremely close. Crazy stuff

No way? Who did they lose to over the weekend?

Deise_2012 wrote: »

No way? Who did they lose to over the weekend?

Ballinameela beat them by a point 1-10 to 1-9 and topped the group. Clashmore missed a last minute penalty, draw would not have been enough to keep them up

Deise_2012 wrote: »

Abbeyside have 0 points in the other group though?

2 relegated from Intermediate this year, bottom team in each group. This is because there are 10 teams intermediate and only 4 junior at the moment

Mountainlad wrote: »

There was going to be at least one more Senior hurler playing Junior unless Brickeys had gone down.

As an aside, if anyone has two spare tickets for the all Ireland final give me a shout.

What do you mean?

Mountainlad wrote: »

Well with the change like. Off the top of my head, Fives from Tourin, Breathnach An Rinn, Brick Stradbally and then the two lads for Clashmore. Brickeys have no Senior hurler and obviously Abbeysides b Team wouldn't.

Either do Cappoquin Ballinameela or Shamrocks

Cornerstoner wrote: »

Clashmore relegated to the junior ranks for 2015. Tadhg Burke and Brian O'Halloran will be plying their trade there after getting to the Intermediate Western Final last year and running Ardmore extremely close. Crazy stuff

Do they have to place and loose to Abbeyside first for relegation to happen?

Sliabh gCua1 wrote: »

Do they have to place and loose to Abbeyside first for relegation to happen?

Cornerstoner wrote: »

2 relegated from Intermediate this year, bottom team in each group. This is because there are 10 teams intermediate and only 4 junior at the moment

I dont know how clear I can explain this - both Abbeyside and Clashmore have been relegated!

From Waterford GAA supporters club

West Inter hurling.
Quarter finals.
Ballysaggart V Ring and Brickeys V Stradbally.
Cappoquin and Ballinameala seeded semi finalists

Abbeyside v Clashmore to see who is relegated to junior hurling for 2015

There is great work being done in Ballinameala and St Olivers underage and long may it continue. For a traditional football club to top the intermediate group. Remember playing years ago and a club like Ballinameala would struggle to be competitive or even field at junior...

Mountainlad wrote: »

That doesn't make sense though if their reason is there are only 4 junior teams...sure Abbeyside would go into the Second strings competition so there would still be only 4 junior teams? Or was it because they anticipated Abbeyside being relegated they did this.

It really is a farce that they have two separate Junior competitions in the West.

If Colligan or Modeligo go up (have to be honest and say they are the best two teams in the west so far playing in the west this year), and with Clashmore going down, and possibly Kilgobinet or Melleray coming up from Junior second string hurling, assuming each team plays each other once again next year, it means that teams will still get four games in the championship next year. If Kilbobinet or Melleray do not come up, and a Western Side does not win the county final then there would still be only four clubs playing junior hurling in the west this year. We have to remember, up to now its only clubs that win a county final that move up a grade. Tramore were an exception to that rule last year, moving up to intermediate last year after winning the eastern junior final but loosing to Ballysaggart in the county final, but to the best of my knowledge did not win a game in intermediate.

I dont think the relegating two clubs was looked at. Maybe Abbeyside might oblige the Western Board by putting their second team playing junior propper next year instead of two teams playing Junior second string teams, one in the senior competition and one in the Intermediate/Junior in the west.

If the Western board relegate two teams and no team moves up from junior you are going to have a group next year with an odd number of teams which will have clubs giving out.

Someone will have to hold their hand up and admit they got it terribly wrong with the relegating of two clubs thing.

Cake Man wrote: »

Anyone go to any of the Tony Forristal or Sonny Walsh games over the weekend? Disappointing to see neither team getting out of their respective groups. Anyone know how any of the U15 and U16 development squads got on in the other tournaments?
Any match reports or promising upcoming players from these sides?

Didn't make the Tony Forristal, was hoping to get to the semi if they got thru. Kilkenny absolutely ran away with it
Results
http://mountsiongaa.ie/news/tony-forristal-sonny-walsh/

The U-15 team were well beaten by Limerick and Cork, both of those teams went on to contest the final.

The under u-16 lost all their games but more competitive and the U-16bs did ok.

The U-17 lost both their games with Cork as usual winning that tournament in Mallow

I think Daly did an excellent job at Dublin, but I wouldn't like to see him as Waterford manager. He reminds me of Davy Fitz in his time with us. Always playing an extra man at the back and concentrating on conditioning ahead of hurling skills. I remember the semi against Tipp (2011 was it?) where they were lauded for running Tipp so close. But as far as I could see for most of the second half they were trailing a lead and playing an extra man at the back. Which meant that Tipp weren't scoring much, but they didn't look too dangerous either - they never looked like they'd catch Tipp or like they had the ambition to catch Tipp.

I'd love to see O'Grady with Waterford sometime, but it might be too late for him and I doubt we could afford him anyway.

Daly might want a year out, but if he wants to get straight back into management Galway would be a decent job for him.

And for Dublin I wonder would Nicky English be interested? He's living in Dublin as far as I know, so he might just be able to be persuaded. I think they should try for him anyway.

Hi guys,

I've done a preview of the weekends intermediate quarter finals but because I'm a new user, it won't let me post a link to it.

The website is skippykelly(dot)wordpress(dot)com

Also, I'm on twitter @SkipFC and it's a pinned tweet on my profile and would really appreciate if you guys could read it and let me know what you think.