National Hurling League 2022 Discussion

Delighted for Waterford, they were a better team than the rewards they got since 2017.

Still dont think they have the stopping of championship Limerick however.

I think the exact opposite.

I think Limerick will find it hard to beat Waterford in the championship

What are you basing that assumption on?

Surely odds are that limerick would be heavy favourites and Waterford would find it difficult to beat them?

Agree about Cork trimming Tipp and Clare.

Galway are gone for a while imo.

You've no business trying to stop Limerick when the spine of the team is over 30 like Galway's is.

Limerick and Waterford are setting the pace, but Waterford have yet to show they can cause Limerick problems in Championship.

I’m basing that assumption on current form and I think Waterford are showing the greatest form out of all the Munster teams albeit in the league.

But the time gap from league to championship this year is unprecedented and unless Waterford completely go off the boil in a few weeks I think they will be the hardest team to beat in Munster this year.

Waterford are the best Munster team in the league.

Championship is a different beast.

Limerick have the best team, and the best manager, id be confident they will peak again at the right time.

Not a Limerick fan BTW

Cork were lucky with the ref against Kilkenny. Not so tonight. Some analysts got carried away with the Cork win, choosing to ignore Cork's deficiencies in defence and their luck with the ref. One notable journalist getting totally carried away with the Cork win is John Fogarty Irish Examiner.

Have a read of his article, link attached. My message to him - much as you'd like, Sean Stack can't ref every Cork match.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/arid-40838906.html&ved=2ahUKEwjPwpjlk_b2AhVlmVwKHUagDlMQFnoECAQQAQ&usg=AOvVaw2VajqfBSPpcSMeaWZGOjgg

Cork beat a very poor kk team wouldn't read much into that ......without question now Waterford definitely have the best squad into country by along way too...... there blessed with pace everywhere ....I'll be amazed if they don't win the All Ireland

Waterford, Limerick, Cork in that order right now imo.

Galway haven't a prayer this year I think and have actually gone backwards under Shefflin. His long ball, win it yourself style is the last game this Galway team should be playing but he seems to think it worked for KK for years so it should work for them.

KK the most likely winners in leinster but wexford will push them to the end.

Yes but not for that reason. We have tried some any different formats to help those teams out and nothing works because league formats don't make a bit of difference to development.

Actually think Galway missed a trick not appointing Davey Fitz, he would have lit a fire up their hole which is exactly what they need. If Galway were the fittest team in Ireland they'd be there or thereabouts.

Ya but he tends to leave the place a charred mess after. Although Wexford do seem to have adjusted ok.

Lots of hype around Galway and Shefflin this year, maybe I'm wrong about the Davy snub, only time will tell.

I'd love to believe galway are going to be useless because then kk will probably get a handy run through Leinster and just have to hope to avoid Waterford and limerick in the semi to have a very good shot of sneaking into a final.

But galway aren't going to be anything like as bad as the League. Shefflin had no time at all with those players before it kicked off, I don't he targeted it in the least. Add into that he missed a lot of it due to the tragic loss of his brother and you can read nothing into galway yet. They lack a bit of scoring up front but I really don't expect them to play one dimensional hurling in the championship (someone earlier saying he is just applying what worked on kilkenny, obviously never watched his ballyhale team play. Would be shocked if they went route one all summer tbh)

Waterford were incredible; Cork were a shambles; but only six points in it at the end?

Saturday night was a strange game. Full of mini patches of dominance for both teams. The third Waterford goal completely ended the game. Cork seemed to have no plan on how to create goal chances it was all either plan A. really slow passing s=around defence before finally a long ball into the corner for Hoggie or Connolly, this yielded 3-4 frees for Hoggie, that was the total return. Plan B. Carry forward and shoot from distance. Plans A or B didn't allow for goal scoring chances.

Mark Coleman won a great ball and stopped the ball going out for a 65, regained his feet and sent a super ball to Barrett crossing the Waterford 65, first early ball Cork got into their forwards, he ran forward and popped a point. If the same early ball was delivered to the Waterford forwards would they have settled for a point??? I don't think so.

Waterford are currently extremely fluid, Patrick Curran scoring from distance and popping a goal from 10m yards, Stephen Bennett scoring from close range and 90 yards, there is great fluidity within an extremely cohesive structure, in every situation they all seem to know what each other are doing, they're all on the same page. Cork look the opposite, when the version of hurling they want to play isn't working out, they look lost, like under 12's who can't understand why they're losing.

Wonder did Cahill let the lads out on the piss for a few days, hopefully he did they deserve it!!

The hurling league is completely unfair on the likes of Laois, Antrim, Offaly and Westmeath. These counties need to be competing in the old Division 1B. Whatever format is good enough for Division 2A should also be good enough for Division 1B.

Division 1B counties have previously won the All-Ireland. It was evidence that 1B was providing competitive hurling before the Championship.

I know that 1A managers were fighting tooth and nail to avoid 1B. That was their fault for not finding the right balance between competitiveness and development.