Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

Cork had 2 games last year behind the pay wall. Made the national news for a week and we had a statement from an Taoiseach.

Waterford have 3 games pay for view and there will not be a word about it.

Best of luck to the under 20's tonight

They’re not getting a cent from me this year they can go and run up my hole charging for their shite stop start streaming service.

Some performance so far up in Clare. Not going according to the script !

0-7 to 0-4 up at half time. Had a goal incorrectly disallowed for square ball too imo.

Playing v well apart from a few handling errors

Get stuck into them . Some poor wides in this game .

What is it with Waterford teams not being able to close out a game. That was some kick in the gut. Better team throughout should have been home and hosed only for all the wides.

That disallowed goal and free out from the 21 metre free in for us killed us.. we should have won that game.. lack of composure in front of goal cost us in the end

Has to be said the standard of shooting from both teams was abysmal. Can’t beleive that Clare team won the all Ireland minor 3 years ago. Tipp beat Cork 1-21 to 0-22 in the other match. Chalk and cheese

Really should have won that. The 21 yard free was a bad decision but why was a free out given? For me it seemed to travel the required distance and it probably would have been put over the bar.

Also I thought the square ball call was a referee trying to show his authority without actually knowing. Unless it's blatant you would genuinely need VAR to see whether the player is in the square before the ball so I can't understand why the ref didn't just trust the umpire who was clearly awarding a goal.

yea Cummins is definetly underage not sure what the story is with him. A big change to night from previous years I thought the handling and stick work was much improved, the harrying, hooking and blocking was excellent aswell, so many times we forced clare to turn possession over it’s just a shame we couldn’t deliver the end product at the other end. But the work rate is clearly Something they’ve worked really hard on. Joxer is trying to find the balance between the long term project while being competitive in games and you’d have to say he’s doing an excellent job. Mackey has been mentioned already as being excellent but a word on Conor Lynch at full back, what an absolute Rolls Royce of a player we have on our hands. There was some talk of him going playing rugby after the minor win last year, good to see him still hanging around with us and hope we can keep him.

Beforehand, we were given no chance (by the bookies at any rate). As pointed out, both teams had some dreadful wides. I don't know much about Limerick underage but I think they're not that strong these days. Cork & Tipp are a different proposition however.

Disappointed but not too disheartened. Overall. it's a fairly young U20 team and Joxer showed with the U17s that he can improve a team as the season goes on. A special call out to Conor Lynch, as alluded to above. And we seem to have a very reliable free taker.

The forwards looked weak (apart from Mackey of course). If Tobin, Jack Power and Spain come back in, that will be a massive addition. Hartley didn't appear for the second half ? Maybe he wasn't right fitness wise.

a very poor standard last night and we got beat nearly alone as the Clare full back line keeping them in the game .

Our awful record at the grade continues

Cormac Spain is not available this year at all so need to forget about him. Tobin and power would be a massive addition if they are available the next day however. I wonder would Hartley be better as an impact sub like he was for Ballygunner this year it might help get his confidence back up which he seems to lack at intercounty level .

It was the best performance by an u20 in nearly 10 years. You could see they had a style, a plan and a knew how to execute it. The teams the last few years you'd believe the players never met each other before throw in.

We were a touch unlucky with some of the refs decisions. I think if we had Tobin it would have given us the extra bit of juice up front to get over the line. Like most of these things we will really only know where we stand after both ourselves and Clare play our next games. But plenty to be positive about.

The only negative I would say, was lads getting shouts blocked when a pass off could have been an option, but that will come with experience.