Waterford GAA thread - mod warning post #1 and #51

I'm wondering whether this thread is an ongoing case study of the Dunning–Kruger effect. No amount of being proven wrong seems to deter some posters, aided by being able to phoenix as a new user so they can regurgitate the same tired nonsense. Lamentable.

Barry coughlan retired this morning... lets hope its not the start of a mass exodus. young man too, 28 is all

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/gaa/waterford-full-back-barry-coughlan-retires-after-six-years-of-duty-870034.html

thesaturdayman wrote: »

Barry coughlan retired this morning... lets hope its not the start of a mass exodus. young man too, 28 is all

https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/sport/gaa/waterford-full-back-barry-coughlan-retires-after-six-years-of-duty-870034.html

Thanks for the service Best of luck to him

Scary reading about more players are expected to go

Paddy joe on wlr today saying we will play home games in Waterford next year. "Fraher field or forget it" was how he put it. Will be interesting to see how that goes but it's hard to see the Fraher field hosting the all Ireland champions may/June in a massive championship game

Deisegodeo wrote: »

Paddy joe on wlr today saying we will play home games in Waterford next year. "Fraher field or forget it" was how he put it. Will be interesting to see how that goes but it's hard to see the Fraher field hosting the all Ireland champions may/June in a massive championship game

https://www.google.ie/amp/s/allgaa.com/walsh-park-host-shc-games-first-time-22-years/amp/

He said the same last year and look what happened, full of s***

PTH2009 wrote: »

Didn't the same man say the same last year about the games being played in Walsh Park and we saw how that turned out

Yeah it's the reality now players are retiring earlier and it's just the way it is. It's only a hobbie at the end of the day

Really hope we don't lose TDB, Aussie, SOKY, Barron, all the Bennett's, Patrick Curren and Noel Connors.

Are you worried we won't be able to field a team next season PTH?

deiseach wrote: »

You are right to be sceptical of Paddy Joe's ability to walk the walk. Still, it's good to see them setting out their stall early. If Cusack Park with its one-in-one-out toilet block is good enough then so is Fraher Field, and let the Munster Council do their worst.

Ah it really isn't though. The grass banks are a health and safety disaster.

I'd be amazed if the game is allowed to go ahead in Fraher, but I do agree with it in principle.

deiseach wrote: »

Oh, I'm certain they won't want it to take place and they'll invoke 'health and safety', even though it was good enough to host a crowd of 6,635 in 2009. Trimming that crowd to 6,000 as was done with Newbridge for the Kildare-Mayo game should be perfectly reasonable, but the dignity of the Munster championship can't cope with playing in such a venue yet seems to be able to cope very well with a similar crowd rattling around in a 40,000 capacity venue.

It's an interesting argument in light of events this year. Paddy joe said the club's will make the decision whether we push for Fraher field or not. What newbridge has shown is that the gaa cannot take away home advantage, though they may wish to.

So if we as county decide we are going to play at Fraher field, with health and safety reducing the capacity to 5 or 6 thousand, how can they stop us? Interesting to see how it develops.

deiseach wrote: »

Well that's a complete cop out. Why should this be down to the clubs? Show some bloody leadership, man!

this is the start of the wheels being turned on building a stadium down the west as opposed to in the city. Watch this space.

Patrick joseph had this on his radar a long time now....

thesaturdayman wrote: »

Deisegodeo wrote: »

It's an interesting argument in light of events this year. Paddy joe said the club's will make the decision whether we push for Fraher field or not. What newbridge has shown is that the gaa cannot take away home advantage, though they may wish to.

So if we as county decide we are going to play at Fraher field, with health and safety reducing the capacity to 5 or 6 thousand, how can they stop us? Interesting to see how it develops.

furthermore on the above, fck the clubs making a call, load of geriatric representatives be falling asleep at county board meetings.

the senior mgr / panel should decide which pitch gives them the greatest advantage. Nowlan park one of widest in country that should suit us. It would also be identical to a home game.

Nowlan Park doesn’t suit Waterford very well at all. Two wins in the league up there - Tipp and Kilkenny - and I dunno how many defeats, some by big margins. Wexford ‘03 and Wexford in ‘14 are the last two championship games we’ve played there as far as I know and we were beaten in both. We’ve also shipped a couple of big defeats up there. I wouldn’t be happy to us play our games there at all.

deiseach wrote: »

Oh, I'm certain they won't want it to take place and they'll invoke 'health and safety', even though it was good enough to host a crowd of 6,635 in 2009. Trimming that crowd to 6,000 as was done with Newbridge for the Kildare-Mayo game should be perfectly reasonable, but the dignity of the Munster championship can't cope with playing in such a venue yet seems to be able to cope very well with a similar crowd rattling around in a 40,000 capacity venue.

The Slattery Report which came out in 2011 slashed the capacities of nearly every provincial ground. If they got 6,635 in then they'd probably be allowed maybe 4-5k now.

thesaturdayman wrote: »

furthermore on the above, fck the clubs making a call, load of geriatric representatives be falling asleep at county board meetings.

the senior mgr / panel should decide which pitch gives them the greatest advantage. Nowlan park one of widest in country that should suit us. It would also be identical to a home game.

You don’t really understand the gaa, do you?

willietherock wrote: »

It amazes me, as an outsider, how Waterford seem almost desparate to throw away home advantage for some hypersensitivity over their less than stellar home stadiums. There is no health and safety issue that can't be realistically dealt with prior notice. FFS they couldn't boil water in Cusack Pk as it kept tripping the whole electric system in the stadium.

This thread - https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056900592 - would suggest that the biggest health and safety issue that might arise would be rain. Then again we might see a repeat of the heatwave conditions we had for this year's football qualifier against Monaghan

So long Barry, and thanks for all the great memories and immense service to team and fans.

willietherock wrote: »

The retirement of BC has definately improved the H&S standards. :pac:

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