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mountgomery burns wrote: »

In fairness, fairly hard to believe that anecdote.

It didn't happen.

I see wexford have passed 10,000 subscriptions for their club hurling streaming service, with Galway expecting to break that number this weekend. anybody know what sort of numbers Waterford are at over last weeks?

Patrick Fitzgerald scoring everything for Ballygunner

PTH2009 wrote: »

Patrick Fitzgerald scoring everything for Ballygunner

Some player and I think he’s underage next year

upthedeise16 wrote: »

Some player and I think he’s underage next year

He must be part of the Waterford Minor squad ?

the Division 2 minor final was postponed

Some result for An Ghaeltacht in the Div 3 final
7-20- 0-07 win over Erin's Own. Am I right in saying its made up of An Rinn and a few other clubs?

Ballygunner 1-13 Abbeyside 0-14

Last night’s county minor hurling final between Ballygunner and Abbeyside was a wonderful advertisement for the current standard of under-age hurling in Waterford.

It was a titanic struggle between two evenly-matched teams that went right down to the wire. Despite the wet conditions, which got worse in the second half, the hurling quality throughout both teams was very high, and breath-taking at times.

I don’t think I have never seen a single player dominate a game as much as happened in this one. Still only 16, Patrick Fitzgerald (son of former Passage and Gaultier great and current well-known referee, Anthony “Fly” Fitzgerald) came into this game with a big reputation and, boy, how he lived up to it.

Wonderfully skillful and possessing a bit of pace, he got all of Ballygunner’s scores bar one point. His early goal (superbly executed under pressure) ultimately won the game, as it created a scoring gap that Abbeyside were unable to bridge. What really impressed me was his ability to read the game and get on the ball. In the second half in particular, when Abbeyside were exerting major pressure, he won ball after ball in the midfield area and used it to great effect, either running at the Village defence or laying off to better-placed team mates.

And yet despite Fitzgerald’s exploits and the quality of the Ballygunner performance, Abbeyside will feel they left this game after them. Like their senior team last Sunday, their decision-making was poor, especially in the first half when they kept shooting for points from distance or from difficult positions, hitting nine wides in the process. This was even more surprising given that, as we found out in the second half when they played more sensible hurling, they had a very handy player at full forward in Charlie Treen.

Down four points at half time, Abbeyside really upped the ante to dominate the third quarter, during which the they reduced the deficit to one point. However, they will rue a couple of shots from good positions which dropped short to the goalkeeper.

There has been some talk about how the water breaks are affecting the flow of games. On this occasion Abbeyside were really going well when the second half break was called, whereas on the restart Ballygunner were able to regain the initiative, and despite the Villagers’ best efforts, they held out to the end.

One would hope that a good county team can be built around these two teams. This year they have the advantage (as, of course, do all the other counties) of completing the county championship before the intercounty championship begins, so the selectors will have a good idea of the resources at their disposal, and how they can perform under competitive conditions.

And fair dues to those responsible for making this live transmission available on YouTube. According to broadcaster Gavin Whelan, over 1,000 people were looking in at the beginning of the game.

Giveitfong wrote: »

Ballygunner 1-13 Abbeyside 0-14

Last night’s county minor hurling final between Ballygunner and Abbeyside was a wonderful advertisement for the current standard of under-age hurling in Waterford.

It was a titanic struggle between two evenly-matched teams that went right down to the wire. Despite the wet conditions, which got worse in the second half, the hurling quality throughout both teams was very high, and breath-taking at times.

I don’t think I have never seen a single player dominate a game as much as happened in this one. Still only 16, Patrick Fitzgerald (son of former Passage and Gaultier great and current well-known referee, Anthony “Fly” Fitzgerald) came into this game with a big reputation and, boy, how he lived up to it.

Wonderfully skillful and possessing a bit of pace, he got all of Ballygunner’s scores bar one point. His early goal (superbly executed under pressure) ultimately won the game, as it created a scoring gap that Abbeyside were unable to bridge. What really impressed me was his ability to read the game and get on the ball. In the second half in particular, when Abbeyside were exerting major pressure, he won ball after ball in the midfield area and used it to great effect, either running at the Village defence or laying off to better-placed team mates.

And yet despite Fitzgerald’s exploits and the quality of the Ballygunner performance, Abbeyside will feel they left this game after them. Like their senior team last Sunday, their decision-making was poor, especially in the first half when they kept shooting for points from distance or from difficult positions, hitting nine wides in the process. This was even more surprising given that, as we found out in the second half when they played more sensible hurling, they had a very handy player at full forward in Charlie Treen.

Down four points at half time, Abbeyside really upped the ante to dominate the third quarter, during which the they reduced the deficit to one point. However, they will rue a couple of shots from good positions which dropped short to the goalkeeper.

There has been some talk about how the water breaks are affecting the flow of games. On this occasion Abbeyside were really going well when the second half break was called, whereas on the restart Ballygunner were able to regain the initiative, and despite the Villagers’ best efforts, they held out to the end.

One would hope that a good county team can be built around these two teams. This year they have the advantage (as, of course, do all the other counties) of completing the county championship before the intercounty championship begins, so the selectors will have a good idea of the resources at their disposal, and how they can perform under competitive conditions.

And fair dues to those responsible for making this live transmission available on YouTube. According to broadcaster Gavin Whelan, over 1,000 people were looking in at the beginning of the game.

Patrick Fitzgerald a very exciting prospect and all going well he could be in the same squad with some of our current senior players (Aussie, Barron, Bennetts, Jack Prendergast etc)

Still very young though

The big performance in last weekend’s club quarter finals came from Mount Sion in their unexpected victory over De La Salle. You certainly could not have foreseen this on the basis of their previous two games.

Even at half-time, the possibility of a Mount Sion win seemed remote. While they had worked hard in the first half, DLS were clearly the better team on the pitch, superbly orchestrated by Shane McNulty at the back and with Eddie Barrett putting in a big shift in midfield.

The fact that Mount Sion were only a point behind at half-time was down to their ability to get in for two goals and a lot of wastefulness by DLS at the other end, even though they did get some excellent scores. Jack Fagan in particular was having an off-day, with several missed frees and a point-blank goal opportunity which he blazed wide. Nevertheless, DLS did finish the half very strongly and all the signs were that they would build on this after the change of ends.

Maybe they relaxed a little, but they certainly were not prepared for the Mount Sion onslaught following the restart which saw them notching 1-9 in the third quarter against just two points for DLS. Austin Gleeson stormed into the game while Martin O’Neill gave a tour-de-force display at midfield. They got decent assistance from the likes of Evan McGrath and Mick Gaffney, who hadn’t really featured in the earlier games.

As panic set in among the DLS players, they started giving away fouls from their desperate attempts to get possession. They did manage two late goals but never looked like closing the gap.

Apart from those mentioned already, one Mount Sion player who has impressed me throughout the campaign, although he has been beset by recurring injury, is corner back PJ Fanning. Here is another of the many young players who have come to attention during the course of this championship.

There was always a chance of the Lismore/Abbeyside game being decided by one or other of these two temperamental teams not turning up on the day, and so it transpired. While Lismore did play very well, their task was made much easier by a very poor performance from Abbeyside. Their first touch was abysmal, their decision-making terrible, and their shooting askew.

They played really bad ball into their potentially dangerous inside line, in complete contrast to their game against Ballysaggart. To give him credit, Mark Ferncobme did reasonably well in the circumstances, but the fact is that, apart from Ferncombe’s scoring tally of 2-8 (1-2 from play), the rest of the Village forwards (both starters and substitutes) managed just one point between them. In the whole game, Michael Kiely got just one decent possession, which brought a good save from Seánie Barry.

Conor Prunty was the only other Abbeyside player to impress, and kept good control over Maurice Shanahan until he moved up late in the game to try to rescue Abbeyside, which in turn allowed Maurice to deliver the coup-de-grace with his late goal. With Maurice well-held and Ray Barry unable to reproduce the form of the previous game against Fourmilewater, Oisín O’Gorman stepped into the breach with a man-of-the-match performance via a tally of 1-5 from play. O’Gorman had come on as a second-half substitute against FMW to notch two goals, but he really announced his arrival with this performance.

Lismore also got big performances here from the very assured Iarlaith Daly at centre back and his brother Cárthach with his now trademark forward sallies from the wing back position. Meanwhile, Jack Prendergast is emerging as one of the personalities of the competition with another all-action display. His first touch is superb, and he is almost cheeky in the way he uses his pace and ability to keep possession to take on and go past opposing players.

In the third quarter final Passage really upped their game and worked very hard to overcome a Roanmore side which showed little of the skill and organisation which had been a feature of their previous games. They also drew great inspiration from the leadership provided by veteran Eoin Connors. Roanmore did miss a number of goal chances but there is no doubt that Passage were good value for this win.

The final game was another stroll in the park for Ballygunner, who won as they pleased. To their credit, Fourmilewater never threw in the towel, and I admired the way they strove to raise their game to their opponents’ level in the second half, led by the impressive Seán Walsh in midfield (another young newcomer). They put some good interpassing movements together, but every time they got near the Ballygunner goal they were swallowed up by the Gunners’ converging defence.

In the Western intermediate semi-finals, Colm Roche once again produced a high-octane performance, hitting 0-15 (0-7 from play) but it still wasn’t enough to get Shamrocks over the line, as Ballyduff Upper came from three points down with five minutes to go to force the game into overtime, where they won comfortably. The Reds did have the luxury here of bringing on Stephen Molumphy and Eoghan Murray as second-half substitutes.

In the other semi-final, Clashmore-Kinsalebeg reversed the big beating they took from An Rinn in the first qualifying round, and won this game with something to spare. Their star perfomer, once again, was Tadhg de Búrca, with Brian O’Halloran hitting 0-5 from play.

The final between Clashmore and Ballyduff will be live-streamed by Nemeton next Sunday at 6 pm and should be well worth watching. I am really enjoying being able to watch all these games from the comfort of my front room!

PTH2009 wrote: »

Winners for me this week

Ballyduff Lower
Ballygunner
Passage (think Mount Sion will blow there chance)
Clashmore

€8 per game for the streams

A tenner
Should have a package deal for 25

Is Colm Roche on the county panel?

same old story

https://twitter.com/WaterfordGAA/status/1297232830041403398?s=19

Deise_abu wrote: »

If their is inter county championship this year, Liam Cahill should be trying to get Philip to return based on tonights performance plus conditions come October would suit his style as evident in previous club championship campaigns

imagine it would take a lot of convincing for him to return but it would be very welcome

Also Maurice deserves a shot I think

PTH2009 wrote: »

imagine it would take a lot of convincing for him to return but it would be very welcome

Also Maurice deserves a shot I think

which younger players would you axe?