Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Definitely not Derek as I only had to read it once to understand it 😅

Seriously though, I’d love to see the team who played this challenge game named.

Wonder was the Wexford match last night a mix of Under 20s & the fridge players on the senior panel ?

Portugal training camp coming up soon

Sure his grandfather played minor for the Cats before moving to Carrick

I think everyone is well aware of the challenge playing Clare in Ennis.

They are coming in under the radar from 1b which will suit them down to the ground. A poor year last season after being AI champions, they will feel they have a point to prove and I would certainly expect them to hit the ground running.

I think we are gone beyond picking one game as a 'banker'

The truth is that we need 4 points from 4 games.. any of 4 games.

If we believe, and I do, that any team in Munster can beat any other team on a given day, than the task in front of us is to prove this point, twice. However the odds are against us.

Is it possible to go to Ennis and get 2 points? Probability 50/50

Is it possible to beat Cork at home? If we do not afford them the respect we did last year. Probability 40/60

Can we take Tipp at home. Somehow I feel they have our number more so than Cork. Probability 35/65

Limerick away. We just have not been able to challenge them at all in last few years Probability 30/70

That's what I feel at present but what makes Munster so mad is. as the winners and losers from each round emerge, the whole balance adjusts.

4pts from 8pts available. Impossible ???

Think you're being generous there, there's no way Clare is a 50/50 game. Given our wretched record in Ennis I'd give us a 30% chance at best.

40/60 v Cork also probably a little optimistic, again would probably go 30% at best and same v Tipp.

30/70 Limerick away is even too optimistic, again an absolute graveyard for us - would think 10-20% if I'm brutally honest.

4pts may be enough but at this moment in time it's just so hard to even see where one win could come from.

2 years ago we were bet out the gate in nearly every league game and relegated to 1b. We also bounced back to turn over cork at home in our first game. We gave Clare (league and ai champs that year) a right rattle down in Ennis that year too and were unlucky not to come away with something.

All this talk of Ennis and even Walsh Park being hard places to go is just media waffle. Clare didn’t win a game there last year and we’ve been on the end of plenty of hidings at home.

Like it’s been said, anyone is capable of beating anyone in this championship and if we can get a strong 15 out we should fear nobody.

I see Dessie rattling on about how much Waterford miss knock out hurling. If he doesn't realise by now, that every game in Munster is as good as knock out, he feckin' well should.

Saturday 21st March

All Ireland U19D Hurling Final

Mount Sion CBS (Wat) v Scoil Airegal Ballyhale(Kik) 2.00 GAA YouTube

If Dessie, or anyone else in the camp for that matter, wants knockout hurling, they have to drop this bs about the round robin system first. It’s tough, we get it. Everybody gets it. No other county shites on about it though like we do. It’s handing the psychological advantage to the opposition before a sliothar is thrown in.
The draw against tipp two years ago saved Cork from going out. They scraped through and went on to narrowly lose the AI final.
It’s all to play for. I’m sick of the negativity.

20’s are out next Wednesday night against Clare up in Sixmilebridge. Last few years minors results which I imagine will be forming this years 20’s below:

2025 – Won 1-21 to 1-15 in Dungarvan

2024 – Lost 0-22 to 0-13 in Ennis

2023 – Lost 0-20 to 1-16 in Dungarvan

2022 – Lost 1-22 to 1-8 in Ennis

Not pretty reading and you could nearly disregard last years win given it’s unlikely many/any from last year’s AI winning team will be involved? Fairly unpredictable at this grade though so hopefully that underage feel good factor carries on from last year and we'll see how a few have developed since minor the last few years. Is there a panel list somewhere?

Is this equivalent Clare u20 group that won the minor AI? A couple of decent trimmings there but think we have closed the gap and I reckon our u20s won’t be far off the pace and might even surprise a few people.

nope , a combined Dungarvan colleges was too successful so they prevented amalgamated teams, despite the fact the combined schools were about 800,versus 11/1200 for DLS

https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/triumphant-dungarvan-can-divide-and-conquer/29180141.html

With Ballygunner opening their own mainstream secondary proper they will likely hollow out DLS , and we could see an opportunity for it.

DLS had a harty team just gone who strangely had a player from MT sion club but was a DLS student,which i thought odd . will be interesting to see how it rebalances in coming years

Laois and Kerry up to 1B next year

Kerry away be a nice 'bonding session'