Waterford GAA Discussion Thread 2011-2012

Mountainlad · 27-05-2013 7:52pm

deisefolife wrote: »

i would love to see shane kearny ( of dungarvan) get a run. the man is a class hurler and his reading of the game is second to none.. i think his fitness might be holding him back

He definitely won't be playing for the Seniors. But I think he might make the 26, which I think would mean he wouldn't play for the Intermediates. Not full sure how it works to be honest. Actually dunno did Paudie Prender make the 26, but he was in the extended panel against Clare last year and didn't play for the Intermediates (unless I am mistaken).

Deise_2012 · 27-05-2013 9:41pm

Aidan Kearney was harshly dropped imo, could really do with him sunday!

Straight Talker · 27-05-2013 10:16pm

I have to say gentlemen i think yere comments about Donal Og are a bit over the top.It was only a 10 minute segment for crying out loud!Anyway this is a 50/50 game that Waterford are well capable of winning.And sure the winner will be through to the munster final.Of course Waterford or Clare will have to play Cork but i don't think Cork would beat any of those teams because John Mullane said Cork are going nowhere.:pac:

Mountainlad · 27-05-2013 10:38pm

Straight Talker wrote: »

I have to say gentlemen i think yere comments about Donal Og are a bit over the top.It was only a 10 minute segment for crying out loud!Anyway this is a 50/50 game that Waterford are well capable of winning.And sure the winner will be through to the munster final.Of course Waterford or Clare will have to play Cork but i don't think Cork would beat any of those teams because John Mullane said Cork are going nowhere.:pac:

What's over the top about the comments? Don't see anything really wrong with wanting to see some sort of analysis from people who are being well paid to preview a match on how are team might fare. Instead what we got was a snippet about how Brick Walsh reads the game well. Sure where would we be without this insight?

Des Cahill addressed Donal Og and said "Well Donal, you've been looking at Waterford" and the contrasting styles between the two managers. And yet, he didn't so much as mention Waterford by name in his piece about Clare dropping players deep inhibiting them scoring goals. Maybe that's the producers fault, I don't really know the framework for these shows but it was terrible.

Not asking that they come on and say how brilliant Waterford are, just want some opinions on where they see us being at the moment. It's a bad reflection on the research and attention they have paid to our games so far that they couldn;t even offer that.

Straight Talker · 27-05-2013 10:44pm

Mountainlad wrote: »

What's over the top about the comments? Don't see anything really wrong with wanting to see some sort of analysis from people who are being well paid to preview a match on how are team might fare. Instead what we got was a snippet about how Brick Walsh reads the game well. Sure where would we be without this insight?

Des Cahill addressed Donal Og and said "Well Donal, you've been looking at Waterford" and the contrasting styles between the two managers. And yet, he didn't so much as mention Waterford by name in his piece about Clare dropping players deep inhibiting them scoring goals. Maybe that's the producers fault, I don't really know the framework for these shows but it was terrible.

Not asking that they come on and say how brilliant Waterford are, just want some opinions on where they see us being at the moment. It's a bad reflection on the research and attention they have paid to our games so far that they couldn;t even offer that.

I agree there but rte's analysis of both hurling and football is terrible in general.To be honest i thought the three lad's worked very well together last night.All three have an understanding of modern day intercounty hurling.

Mountainlad · 27-05-2013 10:50pm

Straight Talker wrote: »

I agree there but rte's analysis of both hurling and football is terrible in general.To be honest i thought the three lad's worked very well together last night.All three have an understanding of modern day intercounty hurling.

Maybe they'll be better when they've more time. I'd have any of them ahead of Cyrill Farrell and Tomás Mulcahy anyway.

robopaddy · 28-05-2013 7:36am

Straight Talker wrote: »

I agree there but rte's analysis of both hurling and football is terrible in general.To be honest i thought the three lad's worked very well together last night.All three have an understanding of modern day intercounty hurling.

i disagree thought sunday nights analysis was a load of rubbish. What eddie brennan is still doing there is beyond me, all he does is bluff and repeat what the other lads say in nervous little ramblings and obviously hasn't much research done. while Liam Sheedy hasnt really much to say for himself either and has shown that being an AI winning manager dosent necessarily make you a good hurling analyst. I think Donal Og was actually the best of the 3, hes new to it so will take time to grow in confidence.

anyway now that no one has slagged off donal og you might lose interest and we can get back to the correct topics on this board

premierstone · 28-05-2013 11:01am

robopaddy wrote: »

anyway now that no one has slagged off donal og you might lose interest and we can get back to the correct topics on this board

Do you want salt with that chip on your shoulder?? And to be fair to Straight Talker he wasn't the one that brought up Donal Og that was your fellow Waterford posters so its a little unfair to accuse him of taking the thread off topic.

KevIRL · 28-05-2013 1:40pm

A preview of the Munster Hurling Championship I put together for livegaelic.com

http://www.livegaelic.com/features/munster-senior-hurling-championship-state-of-play/

deiseach · 28-05-2013 3:07pm

KevIRL wrote: »

A preview of the Munster Hurling Championship I put together for livegaelic.com

http://www.livegaelic.com/features/munster-senior-hurling-championship-state-of-play/

My cliché detector has gone into overdrive

KevIRL · 28-05-2013 3:20pm

deiseach wrote: »

My cliché detector has gone into overdrive

haha I wont pretend its cliché free zone anyway!

deiseach · 28-05-2013 3:43pm

KevIRL wrote: »

haha I wont pretend its cliché free zone anyway!

When it comes to writing an article, it all depends on the ball hopping right for ye on the day.

Hidalgo · 28-05-2013 3:49pm

From a Clare perspective Seadna Morey is a doubt for Sunday.
He played club championship last Sat week with a strapped elbow.

If he doesn't make it, Cian Dillon might come in, but he's not long back so that could be a risk after being out for the entire.
Another option would be Paul Flanagan, but again he hasn't seen any league action.
Honan also went off in club action but there doesn't appear to be the same worry surrounding his fitness.

robopaddy · 28-05-2013 4:49pm

deiseach wrote: »

When it comes to writing an article, it all depends on the ball hopping right for ye on the day.

definetly. whatever way the cookie crumbles

robopaddy · 28-05-2013 4:52pm

premierstone wrote: »

Do you want salt with that chip on your shoulder?? And to be fair to Straight Talker he wasn't the one that brought up Donal Og that was your fellow Waterford posters so its a little unfair to accuse him of taking the thread off topic.

ah tis always trouble with that lad. If hes not winding someone up hes busy getting wound up himself by taking offence to something someone has said about the rebels

PTH2009 · 28-05-2013 7:58pm

Our senoir footballers also kick off there Championship season this weekend playing the mighty Kerry in Killarney in the semi final of the munster championship on Saturday 1st June.

If they lose they will go into Round 2 of the qulifers on Saturday 6th July.

The footballers could be still in the championship when our senoir hurlers could be out of theirs (if Waterford are invovled in the early rounds of the Hurling championship)

The Hurling Prem Rounds and 1st Rounds take place on the Saturday 22/29 June.

tomkelly99 · 28-05-2013 8:55pm

It's that time of year again when the Super Valu Values You All-Ireland Senior Football and the Etihad Stadium All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships get underway in earnest. As I've always said, Championship doesn't start until Martin Heffernan from Faha texts me asking if Gary Hurney is suspended or not. Martin is back from his holidays in Westport today and was delighted to hear that Gary is available. I for one am excited about the months ahead.

There has been a lot of action in the last few months. I sold the Datsun to the travellers for E250 and I bought a lovely 1984 Toyota Carina from a young lad at the Hot Rod racing in The Pike. He said that it had 14 previous lady owners. There is a heap of metal bars in the back seat but he says he never used it for Hot Rodding so it certainly seems like a good deal. It only cost me E400 - a euro for every thousand miles on the clock. It hums away nicely though so it will be under my arse on the road to Killarney on Saturday. I'm looking forward to the drive down. Traffic should be grand apart from the usual bottlenecks in Lemybrien, Cappoquin, Lismore, Tallow Bridge, Fermoy, Castletownroche, Mallow and Shinagh Cross but once I get out past Rathmore it should be smooth sailing into Killarney, the home of one of my favourite singers, Joe Dolan. Shouldn't take more than 4 hours. I'll have the greatest hits of Joe playing to psyche me up for the game. Timeless classics like 'My Nuts are Gone Septic', 'Unrequited 20 Benson Love', 'Is this the Way to A&E Cos I've a Broken Heart?' and who could forget 'Mama, Fetch The Bucket, I Think My Pants Are Soiled.'.

Anyway, to matters at hand. I think the football will be closer than people are expecting. There is no doubt that Kerry have a very good team but there it's true to say that they are aging. With Mikey Sheehy and Charlie Nelligan retired there goes their potency in front of goal. The Bomber Liston has emigrated to Australia to work in the mines and Pat Spillane is still out doing regional work on the farms in Western Australia looking for a second year visa. I'd expect Vinny Murphy to give Niall Geary a hard time but I think that will have the Waterford forwards will have the freedom of Larry Fitzgerald Stadium. The great thing is that with the hurling not until Sunday we can get the greatest manager of all time, Michael Ryan, to manage the footballers too. I know that Kolo Toure has joined up with the squad and was training with them last week. He is staying with Matt Keane for the moment and Matt is driving him up and down to Dungarvan for training on the back of the scooter. Hopefully he will get the nod in full back and he will contain Mike Frank Russell. That's how you beat the Kingdom. That U-21 team from 2003 is really coming through now so I expect nothing short of a 17 point win for the Deise. I have my blue and white t-shirt printed with "It will be all Whyte on the Night" and I will be wearing that one for the whole week in anticipation.

I booked a hotel room in Mitchelstown on Saturday night so I'll be going back there after the game. I have tickets to Big Tom and The Mainliners on Saturday night which should be good. I havn't seen them live in concert in a long time. Must be at least 6 weeks since I went to watch them in The Rhu Glenn. Definitely one of my favourite bands, I always said if you could get them on a stage with Black Sabbath and Jason Mraz you'd have some gig. Maybe we can get them all in the Fraher Field next year?

The hurling on Sunday should be a lot closer than the football the night before. It will be a tougher year what with Stephen Molumphy gone off to America on the J1 and John Mullane being suspended. Luckily Tom Cunningham is back after 26 years out after a hip operation and that should shore up the full back line. He's after putting on a few pounds but I think that himself, Lawlor and Connors are as strong a full-back line you will find. For Molumphy, expect Gary Gator to slot straight in there. Fantastic in 1992, age seems to be but a number for this lad. If we can get Paddy Joe Ryan playing as a sweeper I think we can nullify the threat of Jamesie O'Connor who always seems to find the ball in tight situations. As regard to the forwards I still think that Michael needs to get a couple of the Fenor lads in there. They scored 4-13 against Butlerstown a few weeks back in the County League and I think only 3-10 of these came from frees. If they can manage 1-3 from play against Butlerstown they can surely manage the same against a poor Clare defence. That is the scores that we're missing from Mullane sorted straight away. Michael just needs to play two Dunhill/Fenorbahce lads instead of him. If they stand close together the ref won't notice the extra man and they probably get on well with one another so I think it's a good idea. The experience will stand them in good stead then in a bid to win the Junior Championship at the 79th time of asking. Tony Browne is aiming to become the oldest man to ever play sports ever in the world with the exception of the late great Patrick 'Bunty' Whaylen who played in goals for Clonea until the ripe old age of 92. He was never the same after that cataract operation when he was 76 but he always togged out and never missed training,mainly because at the time Clonea had no pitch and they trained on Buntys vegetable patch. Indeed,the phrase 'If you can welt a turnip,you can welt an ankle.' was coined at training there one night. Waterford tend to be very good at sidelines so if we get 37 sidelines,we're in a good position to win the game. Also, the Clare lads have very poor numeracy skills whereas 14 of the Waterford team are chartered accountants so we'll definitely have the upper nut on that score. I would be surprised if Waterford don't get at least a win, maybe a loss or best case scenario, a draw no bet.

All in all I think it will be a tight game but Waterford will win by at least 11 points. So overall, footballers by 17 and hurlers by 11 for a combined victory of 4 goals, or if you are measure it in snooker scores, 3 frames.

Deise Abu.

Tom

Ando's Saggy Bottom · 28-05-2013 9:44pm

Greatest post ever. Summer is indeed here.

Straight Talker · 28-05-2013 9:53pm

tomkelly99 wrote: »

It's that time of year again when the Super Valu Values You All-Ireland Senior Football and the Etihad Stadium All-Ireland Senior Hurling Championships get underway in earnest. As I've always said, Championship doesn't start until Martin Heffernan from Faha texts me asking if Gary Hurney is suspended or not. Martin is back from his holidays in Westport today and was delighted to hear that Gary is available. I for one am excited about the months ahead.

There has been a lot of action in the last few months. I sold the Datsun to the travellers for E250 and I bought a lovely 1984 Toyota Carina from a young lad at the Hot Rod racing in The Pike. He said that it had 14 previous lady owners. There is a heap of metal bars in the back seat but he says he never used it for Hot Rodding so it certainly seems like a good deal. It only cost me E400 - a euro for every thousand miles on the clock. It hums away nicely though so it will be under my arse on the road to Killarney on Saturday. I'm looking forward to the drive down. Traffic should be grand apart from the usual bottlenecks in Lemybrien, Cappoquin, Lismore, Tallow Bridge, Fermoy, Castletownroche, Mallow and Shinagh Cross but once I get out past Rathmore it should be smooth sailing into Killarney, the home of one of my favourite singers, Joe Dolan. Shouldn't take more than 4 hours. I'll have the greatest hits of Joe playing to psyche me up for the game. Timeless classics like 'My Nuts are Gone Septic', 'Unrequited 20 Benson Love', 'Is this the Way to A&E Cos I've a Broken Heart?' and who could forget 'Mama, Fetch The Bucket, I Think My Pants Are Soiled.'.

Anyway, to matters at hand. I think the football will be closer than people are expecting. There is no doubt that Kerry have a very good team but there it's true to say that they are aging. With Mikey Sheehy and Charlie Nelligan retired there goes their potency in front of goal. The Bomber Liston has emigrated to Australia to work in the mines and Pat Spillane is still out doing regional work on the farms in Western Australia looking for a second year visa. I'd expect Vinny Murphy to give Niall Geary a hard time but I think that will have the Waterford forwards will have the freedom of Larry Fitzgerald Stadium. The great thing is that with the hurling not until Sunday we can get the greatest manager of all time, Michael Ryan, to manage the footballers too. I know that Kolo Toure has joined up with the squad and was training with them last week. He is staying with Matt Keane for the moment and Matt is driving him up and down to Dungarvan for training on the back of the scooter. Hopefully he will get the nod in full back and he will contain Mike Frank Russell. That's how you beat the Kingdom. That U-21 team from 2003 is really coming through now so I expect nothing short of a 17 point win for the Deise. I have my blue and white t-shirt printed with "It will be all Whyte on the Night" and I will be wearing that one for the whole week in anticipation.

I booked a hotel room in Mitchelstown on Saturday night so I'll be going back there after the game. I have tickets to Big Tom and The Mainliners on Saturday night which should be good. I havn't seen them live in concert in a long time. Must be at least 6 weeks since I went to watch them in The Rhu Glenn. Definitely one of my favourite bands, I always said if you could get them on a stage with Black Sabbath and Jason Mraz you'd have some gig. Maybe we can get them all in the Fraher Field next year?

The hurling on Sunday should be a lot closer than the football the night before. It will be a tougher year what with Stephen Molumphy gone off to America on the J1 and John Mullane being suspended. Luckily Tom Cunningham is back after 26 years out after a hip operation and that should shore up the full back line. He's after putting on a few pounds but I think that himself, Lawlor and Connors are as strong a full-back line you will find. For Molumphy, expect Gary Gator to slot straight in there. Fantastic in 1992, age seems to be but a number for this lad. If we can get Paddy Joe Ryan playing as a sweeper I think we can nullify the threat of Jamesie O'Connor who always seems to find the ball in tight situations. As regard to the forwards I still think that Michael needs to get a couple of the Fenor lads in there. They scored 4-13 against Butlerstown a few weeks back in the County League and I think only 3-10 of these came from frees. If they can manage 1-3 from play against Butlerstown they can surely manage the same against a poor Clare defence. That is the scores that we're missing from Mullane sorted straight away. Michael just needs to play two Dunhill/Fenorbahce lads instead of him. If they stand close together the ref won't notice the extra man and they probably get on well with one another so I think it's a good idea. The experience will stand them in good stead then in a bid to win the Junior Championship at the 79th time of asking. Tony Browne is aiming to become the oldest man to ever play sports ever in the world with the exception of the late great Patrick 'Bunty' Whaylen who played in goals for Clonea until the ripe old age of 92. He was never the same after that cataract operation when he was 76 but he always togged out and never missed training,mainly because at the time Clonea had no pitch and they trained on Buntys vegetable patch. Indeed,the phrase 'If you can welt a turnip,you can welt an ankle.' was coined at training there one night. Waterford tend to be very good at sidelines so if we get 37 sidelines,we're in a good position to win the game. Also, the Clare lads have very poor numeracy skills whereas 14 of the Waterford team are chartered accountants so we'll definitely have the upper nut on that score. I would be surprised if Waterford don't get at least a win, maybe a loss or best case scenario, a draw no bet.

All in all I think it will be a tight game but Waterford will win by at least 11 points. So overall, footballers by 17 and hurlers by 11 for a combined victory of 4 goals, or if you are measure it in snooker scores, 3 frames.

Deise Abu.

Tom

Great post Lad!@ Paddy if Donal Og writes a a huge anti Waterford article in the papers this week then i will concede that he might have an anti Waterford agenda not that ye'd mind if it helps to drive the team on!For now Paddy the jury is out for me on that matter.

glick6 · 28-05-2013 10:14pm

Am I right in thinking team is supposed to be released tonight?

Mountainlad · 28-05-2013 10:27pm

glick6 wrote: »

Am I right in thinking team is supposed to be released tonight?

Is it not Friday night? Thought I read somewhere earlier in the year that since Ryan took over it's been Friday evening always. Don't ever remember us releasing a team on a Tuesday. Would be insanely early if they're waiting on the fitness of a few players.

glick6 · 28-05-2013 10:34pm

Mountainlad wrote: »

Is it not Friday night? Thought I read somewhere earlier in the year that since Ryan took over it's been Friday evening always. Don't ever remember us releasing a team on a Tuesday. Would be insanely early if they're waiting on the fitness of a few players.

Jeez I dunno where I got that from so. I thought I had heard of some new directive from Croke park. I must have been dreaming!

alllcounty · 28-05-2013 10:53pm

tomkelly99 wrote: »

As regard to the forwards I still think that Michael needs to get a couple of the Fenor lads in there. They scored 4-13 against Butlerstown a few weeks back in the County League and I think only 3-10 of these came from frees. If they can manage 1-3 from play against Butlerstown they can surely manage the same against a poor Clare defence. That is the scores that we're missing from Mullane sorted straight away. Michael just needs to play two Dunhill/Fenorbahce lads instead of him. If they stand close together the ref won't notice the extra man and they probably get on well with one another so I think it's a good idea. The experience will stand them in good stead then in a bid to win the Junior Championship at the 79th time of asking.

Tom there's a better chance of your native Rathgormack winning the junior hurling championship than Fenor capturing it. But we all like a tryer nevertheless.

Deise_2012 · 29-05-2013 12:23am

thoughts on the team? you were spot on mountain lad

Deise_2012 · 29-05-2013 12:28am

Wfd SH team to line out V Clare on Sunday:
1 Ian O Regan
2 Darragh Fives
3 Liam Lawlor
4 Noel Connors
5 Jamie Nagle
6 Brick
7 Paudie Prendergast
8 Shane O Sullivan
9 Kevin Moran
10 Maurice Shanahan
11 Seamus Prendergast
12 Brian O Halloran
13 Jamie Barron
14 Pauric Mahoney
15 Jake Dillon

If anyone hasn't seen it yet

PTH2009 · 29-05-2013 12:34am

Deise_2012 wrote: »

Wfd SH team to line out V Clare on Sunday:
1 Ian O Regan
2 Darragh Fives
3 Liam Lawlor
4 Noel Connors
5 Jamie Nagle
6 Brick
7 Paudie Prendergast
8 Shane O Sullivan
9 Kevin Moran
10 Maurice Shanahan
11 Seamus Prendergast
12 Brian O Halloran
13 Jamie Barron
14 Pauric Mahoney
15 Jake Dillon

If anyone hasn't seen it yet

just hope iggys puck outs are good on Sunday. None of that old Cork style short puck outs.

KevIRL · 29-05-2013 12:39am

V early in the week for team announcement, no?

Deise_2012 · 29-05-2013 12:44am

KevIRL wrote: »

V early in the week for team announcement, no?

yeah I was very surprised, maybe shane fives and shane walsh had no hope of making the game. Pretty straight forward selection then really

ManFromCheese · 29-05-2013 12:52am

i hope thats a dummy team as im worried, i suppose its the best we have pity shane walsh and fives are injured. maurice shanahan really needs to step upto the plate on sunday. am concerned over the wing backs and the forwards are very young, inside line all u21, clare are a young team too is the only thing.

O Riain · 29-05-2013 12:57am

ManFromCheese wrote: »

i hope thats a dummy team as im worried, i suppose its the best we have pity shane walsh and fives are injured. maurice shanahan really needs to step upto the plate on sunday. am concerned over the wing backs and the forwards are very young, inside line all u21, clare are a young team too is the only thing.

The half back line does look very shakey without Moran or fives in there but remember Moran can slip back if we're getting destroyed and I would assume that Tony has at least 20 minutes of hurling in him if needed.

Deise_2012 · 29-05-2013 1:03am

Fives will go midfield, moran to go wing back and prendergast will be corner back. My only concern is that davy will know to stick conor mcgrath on prendergast straight away

Horseboxhead · 29-05-2013 8:18am

This side are not going to beat clare, unfortunatly we don't have much better,Shane walsh when full fit is a loss, too many nice hurlers with question marks over whether they can really cut it at this level come championship, it would be a disaster to put young paudie pender corner back, he does not have natural corner back instincts, and it would be some waste bringing back d fives there as he has out grown that position, think this is not going to be pretty, as for iggy in goal ah jesus lads have we gone back to that now, he is not even the best keeper in his own club, he does not dominate the square, his puckouts are very suspect, does not like anyone coming in on top of him, and his decision making can be poor, say what you like about o keefe[deffo deserves to start],but he is a king compared to iggy, i would be hapier with youn barry from lismore in goal, think its Clare by at least 4/5 points.

robopaddy · 29-05-2013 8:24am

Deise_2012 wrote: »

Fives will go midfield, moran to go wing back and prendergast will be corner back. My only concern is that davy will know to stick conor mcgrath on prendergast straight away

Jeez I dunno I think Fives was picked there for a reason so he'll start there. Paidi Prendergast not a corner back, really low on options for corner back so Fives was the obvious choice to put back there.

I think its the best team we could come up with really. Has it been confirmed that that s.fives and walsh are out? I think you could see either of them being sprung from the bench if not anyway.

Only one who could feel hard done by is ray barry considering recent form but its really much and muchness with the corner forwards that are starting

cleaboy boy · 29-05-2013 8:42am

The team will line out as follows

Iggy

Connors, Lawlor, P Pender,

Nagle, Brick, Moran,

Sully, Fives,

Mahony, Seamus, O'Halloran,

Dillon, Shan, Barron.

Was at Walsh Park last night, this is the way that they will line out, Connors to pick up Conor McGrath from the start also.

Black Suir · 29-05-2013 9:17am

Most Waterford supporters fear what could happen in Killarney on Saturday night. However, Waterford manager Niall Carew must feel Waterford can pull off the win. On the County Board's Facebook and Twitter pages, he has named just fourteen players. He is so confident that Waterford will win he is asking Maurice O'Gorman to play in two places. Well done Niall. I love your confidence.

deiseach · 29-05-2013 10:32am

Black Suir wrote: »

Most Waterford supporters fear what could happen in Killarney on Saturday night. However, Waterford manager Niall Carew must feel Waterford can pull off the win. On the County Board's Facebook and Twitter pages, he has named just fourteen players. He is so confident that Waterford will win he is asking Maurice O'Gorman to play in two places. Well done Niall. I love your confidence.

Tom Kelly might have to revise his prediction for a 17-point winning margin.

Deise Vu · 29-05-2013 10:56am

Deise_2012 wrote: »

Wfd SH team to line out V Clare on Sunday:
1 Ian O Regan
2 Darragh Fives
3 Liam Lawlor
4 Noel Connors
5 Jamie Nagle
6 Brick
7 Paudie Prendergast
8 Shane O Sullivan
9 Kevin Moran
10 Maurice Shanahan
11 Seamus Prendergast
12 Brian O Halloran
13 Jamie Barron
14 Pauric Mahoney
15 Jake Dillon

If anyone hasn't seen it yet

There are 15 decent hurlers there but I think the bookies have this one right. You can only be confident that Connors, Brick and Moran will get break even or better. There are lots of nice hurlers that you wouldn't mind seeing beside Ken McGrath or Mullane or Flynn or Dan at their best but you would fear for them in this lineup.

Davy Fitz will have have Clare flying out of the blocks and I think our only chance is if we can somehow match them in the early exchanges and put some doubts in their heads. Clare must be feeling a bit of pressure, they have been expected to deliver with this team for at least two years and Waterford, going further backwards without Mullane, would have been their ideal opponents. In the league John Conlon hit some ridiculous wides. If that is his form rather than a brainfart on the day there is always the chance that doubt can spread through the Clare team, but in McGrath and Kelly, Clare have match winners that unfortunately I just can't see in the current Waterford lineup.

Hopefully, Sunday is the day Dillon or O'Halleron step up to the next level and fulfill the promise they showed underage but it is a huge ask especially consdering the rawness of the team around them.

Jarjohn · 29-05-2013 11:08am

Deise_2012 wrote: »

Wfd SH team to line out V Clare on Sunday:
1 Ian O Regan
2 Darragh Fives
3 Liam Lawlor
4 Noel Connors
5 Jamie Nagle
6 Brick
7 Paudie Prendergast
8 Shane O Sullivan
9 Kevin Moran
10 Maurice Shanahan
11 Seamus Prendergast
12 Brian O Halloran
13 Jamie Barron
14 Pauric Mahoney
15 Jake Dillon

If anyone hasn't seen it yet

Hoping it all goes well but would have concerns that too many players have serious questions to answer on Sunday. Keeper, Corner back, both wing backs, wing forward and both corner forwards will be under spotlight. You know what you will get from the rest of the lads but asking 7 to step up to the mark on one day I think is a few too many but I wish all of them the best and hope they do it. A win would bring huge confidence and momentum to the team. On another point have subs been named yet? Just interested to see what the options are if there are injuries, players off form etc..

KevIRL · 29-05-2013 1:19pm

PaddyPower really dont rate our chances anyway, their money back special offer on our game Sunday is, money back on all losing 1st/last, anytime and 1st team goalscorer bet if Waterford win the match

Usually their GAA money back specials are something like 'If a number 14 scores the first goal' or similar to that. Rare for it to kick in based on one team losing

doz · 29-05-2013 2:06pm

Can anyone who was at the recent challenge matches shed any light on why they think Iggy has got the nod? Compared to SOK i feel that we are at an immediate disadvantage with his high puck outs into a half forward line which has struggled to win ball for the last 2-3 years.

As for the remainder of the team, circumstances have conspired against us to an extent and we are now facing a situation where there is immediate pressure on a number of inexperienced young players to perform. It really is a sink or swim exercise and will tell us a lot about the character of these guys. I don't think there is any disputing the talent within the side but there is a big gap between talent and championship standard and it might be asking a bit too much for that gap to be successfully bridged in Sunday. I think Clare are deservedly favourites but if the likes of O'Halloran, Mahony and Dillon can stand tall in addition to us getting the usual excellent shifts we expect from Brick, Moran, Connors and Seamus then we can certainly come away with a win. I was very impressed with the spirit the team showed throughout the league and I expect us to carry that through to Sunday.

As far as positions go, I can't see the full forwards lining out as named. I would imagine either Seamus or Maurice will be pushed on with either Mahony or Dillon dropping back a line. As it stands on paper that full forward line must be one of the youngest in Championship history?

Obviously we would all prefer to see Darragh in midfield but given recent injuries I think he is the obvious choice in the corner. I think playing young Paudie in the corner on his Championship debut would be a huge risk and there is sense in his position at wing back where he should be able to draw confidence from having the Brick alongside him. I expect Jamie to hold his own and carry his excellent league form through to Sunday.

Can't wait for the game, hope this glorious weather holds up for Thurles, Deise Abu!

deisedude · 29-05-2013 2:17pm

I feel sick already. Really think its an awful ask to bit an improving Clare team with the injuries we have got. I hope i'm wrong

deiseach · 29-05-2013 3:03pm

doz wrote: »

Can't wait for the game, hope this glorious weather holds up for Thurles, Deise Abu!

After that catalogue of woe, you come out with this! We truly are gluttons for punishment

MUFC91CS · 29-05-2013 4:42pm

Horseboxhead wrote: »

This side are not going to beat clare, unfortunatly we don't have much better,Shane walsh when full fit is a loss, too many nice hurlers with question marks over whether they can really cut it at this level come championship, it would be a disaster to put young paudie pender corner back, he does not have natural corner back instincts, and it would be some waste bringing back d fives there as he has out grown that position, think this is not going to be pretty, as for iggy in goal ah jesus lads have we gone back to that now, he is not even the best keeper in his own club, he does not dominate the square, his puckouts are very suspect, does not like anyone coming in on top of him, and his decision making can be poor, say what you like about o keefe[deffo deserves to start],but he is a king compared to iggy, i would be hapier with youn barry from lismore in goal, think its Clare by at least 4/5 points.

Would you mind elaborating on this a little ??

Also taken into consideration that he gave a Man of the match performance against Abbeyside, and kept a clean sheet against Ballygunner.

I think the goalkeeping position is the least of our worries, not much ball winning in that forward line, backs will be under serious pressure.

Mountainlad · 29-05-2013 5:02pm

MUFC91CS wrote: »

Would you mind elaborating on this a little ??

Also taken into consideration that he gave a Man of the match performance against Abbeyside, and kept a clean sheet against Ballygunner.

I think the goalkeeping position is the least of our worries, not much ball winning in that forward line, backs will be under serious pressure.

Being honest I wouldn't doubt Iggy's ability to be safe around the house, and he's a good shot stopper (dunno is he quite as good as SOK but not far off).

But as has been highlighted on the Clare thread, the Waterford half forward line v Clare half back line is going to be a crucial battle in this game. At the moment I think we've a better half back line than they have half forward line, and I would think our midfield partnership (assuming Fives is there) is well able to get on top too.

But ultimately, it's generally your full forward line that gets the scores that win you a game. Shane Fives is a big loss, but our full back line backed up by our half back line can still come out on top, but not if they are under constant pressure from our own puckouts coming straight back down on top of us. Iggy can hit his puckout long, but in terms of getting them low and hard (the trajectory) that gives a forward line the edge over the backs, I don't think he can compete with O'Keeffe in that respect. I reckon Galway was the only game where Seamus Prender didn't make a clean catch at Centre forward (he did second half when in full). Galway crowded him and just made sure he didn't by batting it down, and they won most of the breaks. Going by Henno's post (on the Clare page, well worth reading), Clare dropped Colm Galvin deep to sweep the breaks as Cork were hitting a lot of ball down on Pa Cronin and that change turned the game in Clare's favour. I could see the same happening here. Hope it doesn't of course.

There's been a lot of criticism of SOK's short puckouts against Kilkenny, and to be honest I actually don't agree with a lot of it. He made one mistake in hitting one to Daniels when it probably wasn't on, but at the same time Daniels was asleep and so not blameless in that regard. Most of the scores we yielded came from long range efforts with the wind. We've big hitters in Nagle, Moran, Sully and now Darragh Fives as well, so it's something we should use to our advantage. Will Iggy be able to find thos lads short, the midfielders if they drop and look for them? I think SOK is better at this and so we're already at a disadvantage in that sense by not playing him. That's the way I see it now but time will tell whether that proves to be the case.

robopaddy · 29-05-2013 5:30pm

There is this big fear of Clare that I see here that I've never seen before. Its not like were up against the team of 1998. Fair enough they are a team on the up but are effectively a team of rookies a lot like ourselves with it all to prove, but we still have plenty experience and leadership, lads like Moran, Brick, O'Sullivan & Prendergast, an area in which Clare are completely lacking.
People point to their recent underage success but Ive had a look at the Munster minor championship since 2009 weve played them 7 times, beaten them on 5 occasions and theve only beaten us twice (granted both Munster Finals) so I dont see how they can be so far ahead on that department either.
We beat them in the league up in Ennis remember and people had us written off there aswell and we were actually good value for our win. I can understand certain amount of apprehension but I dont think we are near as bad as people here are saying we are nor are Clare as good. this talk of a hammering is way off the mark.

50/50 game. Waterford Clare games always are

celt262 · 29-05-2013 5:43pm

Is the game on tv sunday?

KevIRL · 29-05-2013 5:55pm

celt262 wrote: »

Is the game on tv sunday?

RTE2

Psychedelic · 29-05-2013 6:34pm

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Everywhere except Thurles. ****.

I could get a bus from Waterford City to Tipperary Town (a 1 hour, 45 minute journey ffs), would then have to get a rural bus from there to Thurles.

Any ideas how I can get to the game?

KevIRL · 29-05-2013 6:46pm

Psychedelic wrote: »

Everywhere except Thurles. ****.

I could get a bus from Waterford City to Tipperary Town (a 1 hour, 45 minute journey ffs), would then have to get a rural bus from there to Thurles.

Any ideas how I can get to the game?

Ring around some of the local GAA clubs and see if they have spaces left on buses going would be yer best bet. Also contact pubs like The Showboat to see if they have a bus going

Deise_2012 · 29-05-2013 6:47pm

Psychedelic wrote: »

Everywhere except Thurles. ****.

I could get a bus from Waterford City to Tipperary Town (a 1 hour, 45 minute journey ffs), would then have to get a rural bus from there to Thurles.

Any ideas how I can get to the game?

tell Michael Ryan that you're a fine corner back, he'll bring you up for free!

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