Waterford GAA Discussion Thread 3 ***Updated Mod Note Post 1***

Block , hook and hurl the 2nd half at double the intensity of 1st half . Give the game your best ever 70 minutes .

Connor Gleeson for Darragh Fives only change

Scarce enough crowd here

Hopefully history will be made by us today

Dunford the only one I'd change at this point. No huge fault of his but two instances of bad control that led to KK points which should likely have been WD points. Come on the deise!

Yup dunford not in the game, should be replaced. His two air catches were costly.

High quality game, both team ticking away. Waterford finally playing a bit smarter with good balls into the forwards.

How will they cope with the expected onslaught for next 15 mins?

Maybe Tom Devine can cause a nuisance on the half forward line


Edit - Maurice on for dunford

Not sure how we escaped, but that was an incredible performance by Waterford today. Austin Gleeson an absolute colossus.

If the replay is half as good we'll be spoiled, and may the best team win.

carq wrote: »

Time and date of replay?

Next Saturday, 5pm apparently.

We really should have won that game, better team for 60 mins, why we retreated like we did near the end idk, will be gutting if we loose the next day, that performance should have seen us into an AI final.

Dnt start please

Disappointed but didn't expect that kind of game from us and was lucky not to win it. We could of lost it near the end after that bloody goal

Bloody hawkeye overruling our point late in the game

Possibly we may start our second choice under 21 team on the 20th August with the senior lads coming in later on during the game.

Imagine a bigger crowd will go to the replay. Would love a double header with Galway and Tipperary but not looking like it now

Jesus lads

Gavlor wrote: »

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Thurles Saturday

Balls was hoping for another Croke Park trip

I think there's a camogie AL semi double header in thurles that day

O Riain wrote: »

For anyone who didn't see the game on the telly. When Moran was going for a goal the ball actually game off a Kilkenny man and but was signalled wide.

Also hogan went over on the ball but Fives was incorrectly penalised for picking the ball off the ground when he didn't.

Small things but when ya have a tight game drawn like that against KK then it's a bit sickening. That's not to mention the hawk-eye score showing the ball mostly on the inside of the post when it had already been given as a point by the umpire.

That's a 3 point swing right there.

Hogan was shouldered in the chest, should have been a free in. Hawkeye was correct, can't understand people complaining that they didn't get a point for a wide. It would be more in Waterford fans way to be asking why they're team referred to negative, defeatist bull**** tactics at the end of the game instead of pushing on and sealing a deserved victory. And maybe asking what was wrong mentally with the team to have so many shocking wides in the last ten minutes. They reverted to type, blaming refs and Hawkeye (blaming Hawkeye for being correct, no less!) is pathetic.

I said yesterday I wished ye the best and if Kilkenny lost hopefully we wouldn't be on making stupid excuses. I also said ye could win if ye played good attacking hurling. I think I was right on that count. To be fair, on this thread almost everyone is accepting that the match was lost by Waterford (definitely Kilkenny were let off the hook today, ye had us bet no question) on the line and in the head. All I can say is I'd love if your players went away blaming the ref, playing the victim. Then they wouldn't have to bother looking at themselves and their heads would be completely out of it for the next day.

I doubt that will be the case though. Ye are right to be proud of your players today, they were immense, Gleeson gave a lesson today. They showed they are as good a team of proper hurlers as good as any in the country when they're let hurl. No reason that they can't have the same sheer workrate next week as well. Kilkenny looked heavy and lethargic in comparison, and again no reason for that to change in a week. But your manager is very slow to learn a lesson. What's working? Direct hurling. Great. Well, we're ahead because of it, now I don't have any faith in my lads to push on, better protect the lead. Shock, horror, Kilkenny take full advantage, and dominate while ye get a rake of wides.

But if ye want to blame the ref, that's great news.

Realt Dearg Sec wrote: »

Hogan was shouldered in the chest, should have been a free in. Hawkeye was correct, can't understand people complaining that they didn't get a point for a wide. It would be more in Waterford fans way to be asking why they're team referred to negative, defeatist bull**** tactics at the end of the game instead of pushing on and sealing a deserved victory. And maybe asking what was wrong mentally with the team to have so many shocking wides in the last ten minutes. They reverted to type, blaming refs and Hawkeye (blaming Hawkeye for being correct, no less!) is pathetic.

I said yesterday I wished ye the best and if Kilkenny lost hopefully we wouldn't be on making stupid excuses. I also said ye could win if ye played good attacking hurling. I think I was right on that count. To be fair, on this thread almost everyone is accepting that the match was lost by Waterford (definitely Kilkenny were let off the hook today, ye had us bet no question) on the line and in the head. All I can say is I'd love if your players went away blaming the ref, playing the victim. Then they wouldn't have to bother looking at themselves and their heads would be completely out of it for the next day.

I doubt that will be the case though. Ye are right to be proud of your players today, they were immense, Gleeson gave a lesson today. They showed they are as good a team of proper hurlers as good as any in the country when they're let hurl. No reason that they can't have the same sheer workrate next week as well. Kilkenny looked heavy and lethargic in comparison, and again no reason for that to change in a week. But your manager is very slow to learn a lesson. What's working? Direct hurling. Great. Well, we're ahead because of it, now I don't have any faith in my lads to push on, better protect the lead. Shock, horror, Kilkenny take full advantage, and dominate while ye get a rake of wides.

But if ye want to blame the ref, that's great news.

I thought the ref had a good game to be fair, there was no bad decisions that spring to mind now and usually any wrong decisions balance themselves out over the game.

I don't think we lost anything in our heads though, i think we threw away the lead retreating out the field and I'd lay the blame for that on management. Forget this trying to be cute and close it out, it was stupid to invite Kilkenny onto us and it cost us a well deserved win. We have the younger legs and more strength in depth, play the same direct kind of game on Sat but for the full 70 and it's ours for the taking.