Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Sack that management team and get rid of that county board now! Shambolic stuff why we sat so deep in the first half was absolutely crazy. The team is so badly coached. Why we have to play this sweeper system I don't know. It was figured out 7 years ago. Felt sorry for Sean Walsh running around on his own inside in the first half. With the money from the win a house competition we should look for someone to come in and play an attractive brand of hurling. That county board couldn't organise a piss up in a brewery! Why on earth we went from Cahill to Davy I'll never understand it no other county with the ambition of winning an all Ireland would go for him just look at the state of Antrim. Surely the end goal for this team is to win an All Ireland and that chance is gone. And to the lads on here looking for four teams to get out Munster ye should get a grip. We have the players and are good enough to get the third place. We have good forwards and we should be encouraging more freedom and style. I'm sick of this feeling sorry for ourselves and we need to stop with the rubbish talk and look at ourselves in the county. It's a joke once again an early summer

sometimes you just have to say hand on heart we’re not good enough. We’re not bad, just not good enough to get out of this championship. Can’t fault anyone or make any excuses. They gave it their all, done the county proud. It’s going to be a difficult few years. Hoping we can start building from the u20s with this years minors next year, I’m hearing there’s another good crop coming at u15s aswell. We need to just give it time get the right coaching and structures in place and we’ll come again.

2021 was last time…🥲🥲

Would you have faith in this county board getting a good management team in charge when these players come to senior? I certainly wouldn't

It was an ok 1st half and we should of punished them more as Cork we're terrible but that 2nd Cork goal was a killer and we couldn't get back into it even getting it back to 3/4 points. Hope Limerick hammer Cork but have a feeling it won't be the case

Tbh last week was the 'chance' and today was always going to be difficult. Another year over in May,so frustrating yet again. Have to feel for the older guard as they could walk away now on that whimper. Great servants esp Jamie Barron, Stephen Bennett (our best forward of the the year),TDB and sadly Aussie just couldn't get right for this year (that year out might of been a mistake) and was a shadow of himself coming on. Mark Fitzgerald had a great year and Sean Walsh tried his best

Suppose getting promotion in the league was the big positive and that Clare win was a good day. 1A will not be easy but its good to be getting games against the top teams each week, this blasted system in Munster will always be dog eat dog

The CB are to blame a small bit with the managerial appointments expect for Liam Cahill but maybe Covid format suited us in that regard. 2019 under Pauric Fanning didn't work out and then bringing Davy back turned out to be a disaster. Can't see Queally and co going but maybe a bit of a shake up. What is Eoin Kelly's responsibilities ?

No offence meant for anyone for been negative and the petty personal attacks

Easier

Thanks needed a laugh

The difference in this format showed today, Kilkenny can play a 2nd string team and Dublin vs Galway was just a 'match'

Limerick also had the luxury of playing a weakened team. Dublin match was competitive and relevant for Galway at least as they wanted to make the Leinster final and throw the Parnell park hoodoo off their back.

Waterford have to make Walsh park a fortress; not losing your home games is key in this format. Playing Clare away, as you will next season, is the best chance you'll have of getting that priceless away result - a disputed 65 last year was all that stood between you and qualification.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41638960.html?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwKgPe1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHtZ45ZNrfj_-QZ4JR2APPS-idbrMkwH-md54jAuvonpOxGmkVqVdWsi7MTrk_aem_10R_RqweWLTofxohU-XqxQ

Intresting read but won't change a thing unless it was someone from the bigger countys saying it

Why do Waterford always go for such negative managers. Ye actually have good forwards but never play to yere strengths.

Commiserations there to Waterford. The thing is if Waterford were in Leinster i'd have you ahead of Dublin and Wexford, and you would have come out of the Leinster championship round robin on at least a couple of occasions.

As it is though Waterford are in the minefield that is the Munster round robin! I don't like it it needs to go we wouldn't have meaningless games like Clare and Limerick today as well if it was gone.

At least Waterford will have some better quality matches in the league next year now that you got promoted from division one b.

couldn’t agree more, well short on the line, I thought tactically this year we were all over the place,

Waterford will win an All Ireland Minor in 2028 and an u20 in 2030, we'll then have a decent pool of talent to challenge properly again at senior.

You did indeed have us worried a bit with about ten minutes to go!

You mean Joxer? I’d leave him where he is doing good things with the underage, maybe he might prefer take on the the u20s next couple of years with the current minor crop and be ready to step in to the big gig after Queally leaves in a couple years down the line.

It always disappointing to be out and it sucks that’s it’s over. I feel the game was there for us today. We needed a few more first half scores with the wind. That bad turnover just after half time to gift Cork the goal was a sucker punch. Again, some poor delivery into the forwards but I saw lads looking up the field in the second half for options and nobody making a run also. The puck outs were too slow and ineffective. Where I’m disappointed in Queally is that with 20 minutes to go, he brought on the wrong sub. Ten minutes later he brought on the right sub. Aussie made a difference in his cameo and looked sharp and up for it. I thought Sean Walsh did well but he was left isolated too much. Stephen Bennett again just did it all.

I think we just don’t have the players. Every other top county has one or two future all star candidates bursting through every year, putting everyone on their toes to keep their place. We just have a few new lads on the panel who get a go in the league with the odd jersey up for grabs. We can’t keep keep expecting miracles from our senior players. Bennett is performing miracles. I said at the start of the year that if we couldn’t get out of the round robin before now then I couldn’t see us doing it this year with an older team and losing Calum and Monty. Unfortunately that’s the case and I don’t see any way we’ll get out of it next year either. It’s cruel as we’re not that far away but Munster is just too cut throat.

I’d agree that we need a management shake up but I don’t know who this tactical genius is going to be. One thing I’ll say is that Darragh O’Sullivan must be some manager as Ballygunner are a magnificent team with average enough players!!