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

Stationmaster wrote: »

Clare will obviously be going down all out to win the game but there are 4/5 big players missing which, as ye know yereselves from last year, makes it very hard on a team. If Clare don't win next weekend I can't see them coming out of Munster.

Very poor uptake on tickets too in Clare which is very disappointing.

2 things here .

1 clare are terrible supporters to travel , a few years ago we played cork in the munster final , it was a sell out in thurles and less then 5000 made the short trip down from clare

2 , i think ye will win next week , i was down there for the league game and the tight pitch killed us , we couldn't get any sort of running game going and we probably wont next week either , cusack park looks small but is a huge field as big as thurles it suites us down to the ground i feel we will get 4 points at home as will waterford as home advantage in provincial venues like walsh park or cusack park are huge

windy shepard henderson wrote: »

2 things here .

1 clare are terrible supporters to travel , a few years ago we played cork in the munster final , it was a sell out in thurles and less then 5000 made the short trip down from clare

2 , i think ye will win next week , i was down there for the league game and the tight pitch killed us , we couldn't get any sort of running game going and we probably wont next week either , cusack park looks small but is a huge field as big as thurles it suites us down to the ground i feel we will get 4 points at home as will waterford as home advantage in provincial venues like walsh park or cusack park are huge

It’s a do or die for both teams but more so for Waterford as it’s the first home game and we know how important home advantage is. The league defeat will probably help Clare in one sense that they have a fair idea about what their coming down to face now.

But from a Waterford point of view I expect Savage hunger for a win as there is a lot of frustration about how last years championship went and lads will be mad to put that right and give the supporters a win in our first game. If Ye were to lose I think there’s still a way back in as Ye have 2 home games but if Waterford don’t win I think it’s pretty much curtains for the year. For that reason I think Waterford will shade it

Mastermcgrath wrote: »

It’s a do or die for both teams but more so for Waterford as it’s the first home game and we know how important home advantage is. The league defeat will probably help Clare in one sense that they have a fair idea about what their coming down to face now.

But from a Waterford point of view I expect Savage hunger for a win as there is a lot of frustration about how last years championship went and lads will be mad to put that right and give the supporters a win in our first game. If Ye were to lose I think there’s still a way back in as Ye have 2 home games but if Waterford don’t win I think it’s pretty much curtains for the year. For that reason I think Waterford will shade it

Very true and could say a lot about Waterford if we lose too a Clare team with so many injuries at home

This time next week hopefully were walking out of Walsh Park smiling and looking forward too future challenges

I hate this new calendar as we could effectively be out of the Championship a week earlier than last year. Primary school kids might have no hurling to look forward too for there summer holidays. Found the old system was better and spread out the summer. It's all so congested now

willietherock wrote: »

Chance of not being a sell out?

It will sell out alright. If we can't sell 11.5k tickets for our first home Munster fixture in 23 years, then there's something seriously wrong!

PTH2009 wrote: »

Theres a Jamie Gleeson from Mount sion on the minor panel. Any relation too Aussie ?

His brother

IanVW wrote: »

https://twitter.com/wtfrdlandscapes/status/1125464781534658560?s=19

You could play snooker on that

Any team news for Sunday, have we a full panel to pick from?


What about the minors, what's this years crop like? Had they any challenge matches recently and what players would be worth keeping an eye on? Anyone know if WLR will also be covering the minor game at 12?

DiscoStew wrote: »

I think Darragh Fives and Mikey Kearney are carrying injuries, not sure if they will be available for Sunday or not.
Have heard little to nothing regarding the minors.

Have heard not to expect much from minors. Challenge games haven’t gone well. Also in the Celtic Challenge U17 (which is the equivalent of the minor second strings) an all Waterford selection has been getting beaten by divisional sides from other counties. We seem to be very weak at this age group

What is the expected attendance from Clare? I think anything above 3,000 would be fantastic, and wouldn't indicate that Clare supporters are 'bad travellers'. People really need to get over this imagined past where every Munster championship match was a Cecil B DeMille epic. You could win an All-Ireland by winning four matches back in those days, and you still didn't have packed grounds for Munster first round matches involving any two of Waterford, Clare and Limerick. Nowadays we have four matches in rapid succession, yet there is all manner of hand-wringing about attendances.

deiseach wrote: »

What is the expected attendance from Clare? I think anything above 3,000 would be fantastic, and wouldn't indicate that Clare supporters are 'bad travellers'. People really need to get over this imagined past where every Munster championship match was a Cecil B DeMille epic. You could win an All-Ireland by winning four matches back in those days, and you still didn't have packed grounds for Munster first round matches involving any two of Waterford, Clare and Limerick. Nowadays we have four matches in rapid succession, yet there is all manner of hand-wringing about attendances.

Its fairly expensive too if you have a family and you've got 4 games you aren't long spending a few hundred euro on match tickets, food, parking etc. Way too much emphasis on attendance

deiseach wrote: »

Part of it is that we focus on the sellout crowds that watch the Premier League in England and think that's normality with anything less than that coming up short (this also includes the GAA's attitude to Premier League pricing, but that's another story). Having spent some time back at the turn of the millennium heavily involved in that kind of thing, the away crowds there primarily consist of single young men or divorced old men. I brought my brother-in-law to the All-Ireland semi-final in 2010 and asked him afterwards for his thoughts. "Loads of women, mate. Games back home are a complete sausage fest"

Not so much nowadays but hooliganism is soccer is a big part of the culture.

If I remember correctly some group of idiots from Mayo tried too bring a Hooliganism into the GAA a few years ago.

The Million $ Question - where will Austin Gleeson play? As a neutral I would like to see him in the half-back line, probably at centre-back.

Gleeson will be in the forwards on Sunday

PTH2009 wrote: »

https://gaa.tickets.ie/Booking/EventTickets/39904/munster-s-h-c-round-robin-waterford-v-clare-walsh-park-12-May-2019

Limited terrace tickets on sale for Sunday

Gone!

PTH2009 wrote: »

Prob returns from Clare I imagine. Hopefully they were snapped up by genuine supporters

Surely not all season ticket holders will go too the game thus leaving empty seats.

I thought the county chairman said on the Damien Tiernan show on Wlr that there wouldn’t be any tickets go on general sale to the public as they had to look after the clubs? Even if these are Clare tickets being returned to Munster council surely our board made an agreement with the Munster council that Waterford would get them to distribute amongst our clubs first. A lot of clubs have had draws for tickets and some members have lost out and are extremely cross and disappointed at the way things have been done. It’s just another example of how this board treats its clubs and members whom they are going to levy the **** out of at the end of the year.