Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

what’s wrong with the system ?

Everybody outside of Waterford waxes lyrical about how brilliant the Munster championship is

I love the Munster championship but the condensed nature of it is bizarre for all teams. In contrast; Mayo are only getting their first game of All Ireland Championship in 2 weeks time; they are gauranteed 1 more game after that. Surely our matches could be pushed out another 3 weeks and finish up in June at least.

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Holy god, you obviously haven't read any of my previous posts. My points are not about Waterford but how we can enhance the All Ireland series and how over time we can make more counties stronger.

Perhaps an improved All Ireland series is just the 6 teams, worth 2 groups of 3 and the top in each group go straight into the final and munster and Leinster remain as they are.

To me, everything is on the table for the benefit of our national game.

Killenny could end up with more points than the 3rd place Munster team and yet not make it through to the All Ireland series, someone might say "that's because Leinster is weaker than Munster", "or "Leinster has one extra team", that in itself is a reason for improvement.

I don't think anyone in this form has stated that a bottom side in either Munster or Leinster should advance to the All Ireland series.

Mod Edit

Warning issued.

Maybe we could add more teams by having a Limerick B and Cork B. That's the Waterford solution to things isn't it.

Can we just end this conversation here? Nothing is going to change, adapt or die. That's the choice.

Could Kilkenny going out early influence a change in format

I’ve been thinking about Waterford today and where they stand. This isn’t going to be a post about championship formats.

You guys definitely don’t need a Cork man telling you how you should be feeling, but I’m comparing Waterford to my own counties form a couple of years ago. In 2022 we did ok in Munster without being brilliant and were happy to scrape through in 3rd place, before going out tamely to Galway in the quarter final.

The following year we were on 3 points after the first 2 rounds with visits to Ennis and Limerick to come. This was when Clare and Limerick were the top teams in Munster and playing each other in the final pretty much every year. We went to Ennis and lost by a point, followed by another very unlucky 1 point defeat in Limerick after a brilliant performance.

We had people saying Cork had gone backwards, having progressed from Munster in 2022 followed by coming fourth the following year. But I was hugely positive and hopeful for the future after seeing our performances in 2023.

Comparing it to Waterford. Every year they win a game in Munster, except this year. You could argue things have gone south, but for me this was the best I’ve seen Waterford in a while. Albeit their top level is slightly off the likes of Limerick, they really performed in every match and with a bit of luck (3 first half injuries and an incorrect black card against my own county) they could easily have won a few of those games.

The only thing I’d worry about is potential retirements. Not sure of the ages of Stephen Bennett, Aussie, De Burca and Barron but I hope they stay on another few years until the crop of minors from last year are ready to take the jersey.

So how long do we wait then to see are we continuing with same management ? A month should be time enough for a decision .

A lot depends on Queally himself in the short term if he intends to run for another year or step away. All intercounty teams are now officially out after the minor footballers today so intercounty management review will be on agenda at next monthly co board meeting. then there will be a committees to review and come back the following month if they going to stick or twist or twist with Queally or if there is an alternative plan. So probably looking at a period of 2 months before we know what direction it’s going to go

Apologies I forgot about Tailteanm cup. Best of luck to them

Kilkenny out of the Championship, perhaps Leinster is starting to become competitive, great to see Offaly get through and great to see Dublin put in such a strong performance.

Leinster is substandard compared to Munster Offaly wouldn't be within 6 points of any team in Munster

Tramore be busy