Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Fair play to Waterford lads a much deserved win, i knew coming down that it'd be close so not surprised there. I keep saying it any!! Of the 5 teams in munster can get out there's no guarantees for any team from a Limerick perspective we have such a tough start 1st match away to cork(and them having played the week before)then away to clare so we could be on the back foot straight away but we'll see.

Can't remember who suggested the pubs but we went to is it the the tap? Then across to Alfie hales we'd a great few hours

Great result yesterday and one I was not expecting after last week. I might have expected some redemption but not in the form of a win, delighted for that lads and management team.

Can't comment on the game as I was away so I only had Twitter feeds and the Sunday game to rely on.

I’m sure most genuine contributors to this thread will Appreciate your post. On a lot of occasions when a rival ‘fan’ comes to another county’s thread it’s usually trolling/ref/player bashing etc……re the game, the Penalty decision and black card was harsh especially when you see it on TV, It probably swung the game in waterford’s favour even though without it we still would have scraped a win……as many have said it’s nothing to get too excited about as It’s only one league win in February but given the thumping from last wk by Cark and the other poor performances it was a good feeling to get a win over a top class opposition who looked rusty here and there but we still saw glimpses of the 2020 to 2024 Limerick and with guys the likes of guillane etc to come back they will be a different proposition come April/May…..hopefully with the return of the Ballygunner lads plus a few more we just might have enough to retain division 1A status and also maybe scrape out of Munster round robin once and for all. I doubt John Kiely will be loosing too much sleep about the game.?

Re your post game choices…..Tap room and Alfie Hayes are decent ‘boozers’ (Even-though I haven’t been in either in ages), glad to hear you had a nice experience after the game…..Alfie might not have had many Gaa clientele though🤣

22nd away to kilkenny 13:45

1st March away to Galway 2pm

8th March home to Tipp 15:15

I'd be targeting both the Offaly and Kilkenny games to try and ensure division 1 status.

Some performance yesterday from the lads, delighted for them. Ruben showing what everyone who watches hurling in Waterford knew already.

Definitely a different style of hurling witnessed yesterday starting to take shape, much more progressive, which might have something to do with duck. Also worth noting is was shane O'Sullivan's first week with the team, might also have helped!

Up the Deise!!

any news on Prunty?

Has Dowling been keeping his head down since last week's piece, or is he doing a similar one on Offaly which will spur them on to a victory on Sunday………?

With Prunty out, who will get the No.3 jersey………the young Duignan fellow usually plays as a traditional FF and is big and strong and can 'hurl' and could do damage if not properly marked, Iarlaith Daly maybe? Also Screeney is their other 'danger' man…….any ideas on who might pick him up, Conor Keane??

quick one lads … has any Munster senior hurling championship fixtures been 100% locked in yet. I can find weekends but not exact fixtures so I’m guessing not ?

ha thanks. I had seen that but failed to scroll across where the times were. Dam phone and their small screens. Sound Monty

They were only confirmed today

read a report the gunners are back in the camp this week, he will want to put minutes into them and dry them out , prunty will likely be out of the league so we will need to bed down our FB, arguably other than goalie the most important position ( we can survive a midfielder strike/halfback/wingback having a bad day ,but a FB on a bad day we will have a day like we had down in cork in 2011

Think 9 ballygunner players back training

As i said previously, Offaly deserve every bit of respect ,they will take a scalp , hopefully it will be against KK and not us, they are a tough proud hurling county and if we take them for granted they know how to make hay

They already lost to Kilkenny

like your confidence….. and on paper and recent fixtures you are correct they should win by 6 pts plus but…….there is always the ‘Offaly factor’ of old as in they will never throw in the towel and fight like dogs (beautiful dogs 🤣) to the end…🤔