Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Confirmed out. If we don’t win now, we can stay at home for the rest of the championship. Clare are AI champions but Kelly and O’Donnell are head and shoulders their best players for the last 10 years.

Those missed frees are a real killer

god almighty just in the door from work will be needing a summary here before catching up . Well done Waterford .

ah lads what a fcuking buzz

Great result, lovely to get the win today, it will give the lads a massive boost going forward

Well done to the team that was a really solid performance and well done to Peter Queally and his management team. Thought they made the right changes when needed. Especially getting ball winners on in the second half.

well done today lads , fortress walsh park is well and truly up and running , queally is a really good man to have on the line too , got all the big calls right today especially in the halfback and full back lines

a few mumbles and groans over the penalty from our side of things but i dont think we were winning enough ball in the full forward line to really challenge late on

a lad sitting beside me today said we are a fair team if we can come down here and win without who we were missing , he was right but waterford are missing plenty themselves ,no excuses its a justified win well done

Releif to get that win. We owed Clare that one to be fair. When I heard Kelly was out I said we have to win this if we don’t time to pack it in.

in reality we’re only back where we were 12 months ago with one won from one it’s no use unless we go and back it up the next couple weeks

Delighted with the win. For large parts we seemed a bit nervous or something, and the game itself seemed cagey from both sides.

In the second half that nervous seems to go away and you could see the lads growing in confidence, balls they were dropping in the first half they were holding in the second.

Jack Prender moving to midfield and the introduction of Kiely mad a difference.

Bennett very good as always, Nolan with some big saves, defensively very good throughout.

As someone already said, we are where we were last year, 2 points on the board, 3 games to qualify, it's in our own hands again.

What I wouldn't give for a win next week. Those early draws are going to make Munster extremely tight and 4 points I suspect would qualify you.

who needs a flag when we have the real one …

also great to see us top of the table,however briefly

i dont think its the turnaround its the players , we cant replace some of them and it appears that some of our praised allstars are not as genuine as the looked , cathal malone was overlooked last year for an all-star but david fitz got one despite shooting 9 wides from play in the all ireland final , conceding 3 points from play to his wing back marker and refusing to track him back the field in the munster final and his brutal work rate against cork last year in munster , produced another lacklustre performance when it was required again today but when you are getting away with murder who cares

from a waterford point of view ,i taught irlath daly and mark fitz were excellent in fairness

Delighted for ye lads, Stephen Bennett is some warrior, after hearing his interview with Wooly Parkinson and what he's putting body through he's probably the non-Wexford player I've the most good will towards, Barron was excellent and your bench was massive, taught Peter Duggan was sensational too.

Ye have nothing guaranteed at this stage but I will make 1 point, taught some of the comments here after the Carlow game were crazy, it was a poor result but it was the 1st Sunday of February and ye were down to bare bones with injuries, things are usually not as bad as they seem just like there's usually no need to get completely carried away after the good days.

Tough for Limerick now as well. Waterford looked really good yesterday

Nicky English article in today's IT saying Waterford are no pushover in Munster ; some other interesting comments too but I'm unable to copy & paste it here.

Good win yesterday a few things on it ,
Firstly a lot of the team played well, Bennett ( our one star forward) , Barron, Fitzgerald, Nolan and Lyon’s in the first half according to the program his first points since 2020.
The fact that the best hurler in the country was absent was a huge plus ,
The very soft penalty we got.
Clares off form in frees and the second goal we got which held in the wind..