Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

think these are 2 different situations. Tipp trained hard last November December and January which is grand. McGuinness came in mid championship with us (between a very tough physical limerick game and the cork game) and by all accounts the players were flogged for two weeks and subsequently couldn’t wag against cork and basically that was our year over. The timing was the issue winter is grand for that stuff but not in the middle of the championship

as far as the grit question I just don’t know. Watching Tipp celebrating there today I was like why the feck can that not be us? Are our players that much inferior to that tipp team? If not is it just a mentality thing with us? Is it a coaching/management issue? If queally and the players got together in the next few days and decided we are going to train like **** over the winter and give it a right lash next year would it make any difference to our chances next year or would it be the same old story with year over in may. Like Tipp were rock bottom last year and look at them now!

Yeah I don't know. I'll admit I am jealous watching Tipp win today, they were better than us in Thurles this year but not by miles.

2017 was the biggest chance. It was a good but not great Galway team

I agree, Cahill was still in learning mode at senior level when with us he will have made mistakes and learned from them. We can’t hold that against him we gave him the job knowing he is Tipp to the back bone and would want to manage his own county some day, and as someone else said him and Bevans effort can’t be faulted

In terms of what are we lacking well as a starting point we are weak on the sideline. Look at the quality of the Tipp management and backroom team today with the likes of Herity, Bevans, Eamon OShea. With all due respect Queally Dan and Eoin Kelly are not going to mastermind an all Ireland win, Queally needs to Buck up his management team over the winter we need to be looking at getting the best people we can get into the setup. Look at how it’s worked for our minors. This needs to be the model all the way up

That cork full forward line, great cycling down the hill with the wind at their backs

Lol

What struck me most with all the Tipp interviews this year (managers and players), they always mentioned needing to make up for last year.

The hurt they and their supporters felt, they needed to make it right, how they know it's a privilege to wear the jersey etc.

Cahill really had it drilled into them that wearing the Tipperary jersey isn't enough that there is a level of expectancy with it.

You would be hoping our lads, management, backroom team and players after today come together with the same attitude and drive, I maybe naive in my thinking considering Tipp are All Ireland Champions, Cork are National League and Munster champions and we have failed to get out of this round robin, but I feel we can be as good as both.

I honestly feel at this stage it's a mental thing. This year and last year has without a doubt been our best chance of getting out of Munster and on both occasions it was within our own destiny and we failed to take advantage and undoubtedly it was both games V Tipp that did us.

Last year we couldn't see the game out, this year we didn't show up in Thrurles bar the opening 10 minutes.

Seeing Tipp win today will hopefully have our lads chomping at the bit and raring to go next season.

If I'm Peter I'm going all out for division one to try and build momentum into the championship.

lads don’t worry about the league yes it would be good to stay up but it’s only glorified friendlies under the current Munster / All Ireland set up . We certainly don’t have a good enough panel to go all out in the league and bring form into championship. We might not have many new faces to come through but we need to see some movement in that regard . Eventually it has to come time to deliver then the usual we are not far away crack .

what’s the story with that Waterford supporters club and when does it open again ? The blurb says you buy a ticket in a win a house in Waterford ( already bought ) and you are automatically enrolled what ever that’s about . I agree with azzurri a disaster when the new merchandise is launched they hadn’t the stock to sell it online , the leisure quality is uninspiring. The win a house will bring a good bit of money in but the normal Deise draw is pale comparison to other counties . Rome wasn’t built in a day but please make progress .

The good news this morning after the championship supporters match up from hell, at least from the neutral point of view ,big difference from last year where you could be happy for Clare . Anyway the championship is reset and we can all dream again . Would love to see the chairman of Waterford GAA now sit down with Queally what can we do better this year on and off the pitch , to finally through that glass ceiling of Waterford GAA the Munster championship .

Karma? Oh lord!!

are you mad man going to a rivals celebration s. I have to live amongst them the radio is now insufferable and the endless flags . At least it will be calm by the autumn . One advantage of the early season !! How could you stay for 40 mins !!

What would ye all be thinking if it was Waterford who failed to score more than two points in the second half?

I can easily imagine the wolves baying for a change in manager etc. etc.

What will happen in Cork?

Anything worth mentioning on last weekends club championship games? Any stand out performers? Wins for Passage, Lismore, Sion, DLS, Roanmore, DLS and Ballygunner (the latter with an unmerciful 30 point battering of Brickeys).

I saw Neil Montgomery was back for Abbeyside, has Calum Lyons returned? Is there any indication they would be available next year for the county.

Hard to know what really to even think of next year, you could look at it that Munster is now even more difficult (if that were even possible). We've now to get out of a group containing the current AI champs, last years AI champs, the year before that AI champs and the last two years AI finalists. It's funny how only 2-3 years ago the thinking was our best hope of getting out was to get wins over Tipp and Cork whereas now the thinking seems to be shifting towards Clare and Limerick.