Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

enough whinging about the format.

Its on us to win 2 games, nobody else. Disappointed in Queally reaction yesterday and excuses

We have won 2 inter county hurling matches this year. all grades. Two. The 2nd penalty happened because yet again a waterford hurler failed to life the ball- Mark Fitzgerald. The Cork player didn't and was in on goal. 2 of Corks first 3 points came from a waterford player - under no pressure- failing to lift the ball. It's a failing that's costing us again and again and again. Happens probably 20 times in a game. Happens the opposition significantly less. We can moan all we like about the format but the facts speak for themselves. The only ones who can change things are ourselves.

it’s obviously a ‘pressure/nerves/big occasion' thing that causes the fumbling/failed jab/roll lifts etc……kids as young as 6/7 can jab and roll lift trying to say that senior players lack these basic skills is nonsense.

No your right you can't keep blaming managers. However Quelly was talking tactics with Dan down in front of me during the game. All they were doing was moving players around, like they were pretending to play chess. Dan a good player, I believe a good coach, a good motivator. But I'm not sure a man who hasn't progressed onto Lego blocks from duplo should be close to a tactics board, and if you are the one listening to him, your the bigger fool!!

If we had a good manager it would paint a clearer picture but we haven't had a good management team since Cahill and Beavins. Why was Shanahan not asked back with Laois in 2024? Why are players so low in confidence? I would back them players to the moon. Dessie Hutchinson was flying under Cahill. Then Cahill ran us into the ground in 2022 after the loss to Limerick. He done the same with Tipp in "23 and "24. Then in comes the spoofer from Clare and sticks Dessie in midfield. We need a good coach and gameplan to allow these players to flourish

Managers playing manager. Just moving the chairs on the Titanic, but to the trained eye doing **** all.

I'm a darragh lyons fan, but I don't think cork were filled with fear when he came on in the 65 minute. Especially as the lads taken off were hurling great. Surely if we were throwing the kitchen sink at it, Aussie should have come on!

I can't spell dyslexic eithher 🤣🤣🤣

Left it until now to post about match due to rawness of defeat! Firstly the players left it all out there and can't be faulted for effort and spirit. However once again lady luck was nowhere to be seen... we really can't buy a break in this format. Two players off early with injury and then Stephen having to go off too. Thirdly on to the referee Stack. First black was obviously a mistake... attacker didn't have possession of the ball, thankfully Billy bailed us out. We did well down to 14 but who's to say we could have built up a lead during that period if we had the full 15.

Second black card and penalty decided the game. How he saw fit to come to that decision when Fagan was not the last defender is beyond me. An absolute cruel decision at a vital moment in the game. You can be guaranteed that we will see a similar situation later on in the championship where the referee will issue a 21 yard free and yellow card.

Limerick now next weekend but we all know it's all but done.

A lot on here commenting on the format. Plain and simple this round robin format is a less equitable system. Wouldn't it be great to have similar matches in Walsh Park against our neighbours KK or Wexford. The sooner they do away with provincial championship the better or play it in conjunction with an "ALL" Ireland championship that we don't have an automatic right to anymore!

The first black card was a mistake from the ref and luckily we weathered the storm. Mistakes are going to happen.

The second black card, as much as it pains me to say it as a Waterford fan, was a nailed on black card and what the black card was brought in for. It was a mistake from Fagan in that split second. Like would he have been better off just not fouling and yes they would have had the goal but at least we would have been 15 v 15 for the last 10 minutes. It's indiscipline

carefull now your not allowed 🚫 to express any views like that in last paragraph.

The closest Waterford have come to winning an all Ireland was under Derek McGrath, but then again the game has moved on since then i suppose. I still think he'd be worth giving another chance if he does want the job.

We certainly will. But we will see other times when the black card is used correctly also. There's no mention of last defender in the rule to my memory, am open to correction on that.

RTE news : Hurling visibility a problem in Waterford - Mullane

http://www.rte.ie/sport/hurling/2026/0511/1572856-hurling-visibility-a-problem-in-waterford-mullane/

As a county we need to move beyond moaning at the Hurling Format and games not shown Live on RTE. All counties are in the same boat...

Wrote this 2 years ago above….Gaa+, or GAA beo or whatever its called is killing the "medium" counties.

Kids have no visibility, and even with all the tickets in the world, some people simple follow from home for whatever reason.

Lack of consistency around black card is emphasised by incident with Stephen ironically against Cork last year.

'Not being applied' - hurling refs scared to use the black card - Irish Mirror Online https://share.google/pZVuyrKxEDYDZ9DJg