Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

How about the Senior B in Limerick???

Sheahan and Mikey Mahony possibly too? Hartley could well be called in. I wouldn’t anticipate him seeing much action so maybe he’d be better off preparing with the U20’s for their campaign. I haven’t seen much from Tobin to suggest he should be on the senior county panel. He’s still U20 also, I think that’s the place for him for now.

What sort of injury does prunty have? Big loss.

Yes mark Hartley also and Mikey mahoney

hon the lads

it's rare we have the fortune of doing it , but KK famously brought in lads a year or 3 before they actually played them, allowed them time to get used to it and come in fully ready,makes perfect sense to do the same

Hartley top scorer in the intermediate championship this year, at 18. Tobin looked like the best forward we had at u20 for Waterford the last 2 years when he was on the field.

Anyone know if Gavin Fives is on the panel, injured or away?

Not denying Hartley deserves a place on the panel. Training with them may stand to him when it comes to the U20’s, I’d just hope he’s some way involved with the U20’s also as he will be an important player there.

I don’t want to seem overly critical of a young player, but I think Tobin scored 4 or 5 points across the U20 Munster campaign last year? Hopefully he can push on this year, but I think the 20’s is the right place for him to develop.

I think there are good players within that U20 group the last 2 years. If anything it could be argued they regressed with that management team. They had played in the Munster final as minors and a cohort of the group had been in a Harty cup final as well (with DLS also having a strong team last year).

I do agree and the fact we’ve struggled to win games at u20 comes back to being in a Munster championship that is top heavy in comparison to Leinster just like senior grade. In fairness to the co board, proper succession plans are in place this year with Joxer moving from the minors up to the u20s and Darragh O Sullivan gone in with the minors hoping to follow the same path. We’re better set up for success than we’ve ever been we just hope the talent will come through over the next few years.

As I said earlier in week this should be a 6pt plus win if a performance like last week is repeated…..however the Offaly lads will believe they can beat us and they are fighting for their div 1A lives….who remember last years division 1B final v Offaly……we were cruising from memory but young duignan caught a few big balls from memory and caused havoc in last 10/15 mins. Think we only ended up winning by 2/3 pts…? It was 4 actually report below. 15 pts up at one stage🥲

https://munster.gaa.ie/event/2025-allianz-hurling-league-division-1b-final-waterford-v-offaly/

best of luck to the team today hopefully they can follow up last week performance with another win today. Think it’s a trick game and real banana skin. Offaly rested all their college players last week against Tipp whereas this week the likes of screeny etc are all playing. This is definitely a game Offaly would have targeted at the start of the league. If we are not on it we will be in bother. They gave us plenty of problems last year especially with the direct high ball into the full forward line where duignan was a hand full. Prunty is a big loss hopefully nothing long term as big picture wise he is crucial if we are to have any chance of getting out of Munster. Full back line not the same when he doesn’t play and not ideal that we have to play mark fitz there.

Offaly not afraid to use the hurl, ref looking straight at the pull down on Callum Lyons and not even a free

Scrappy, stop start match. Ref is too fussy.

Tipp hammered Offaly last week ; no repeat of that today.