Waterford GAA Thread - Mod note post #1

It will be a strange feeling for them I'd say. For the bit I saw of them this year they weren't good enough to get out of Leinster. TJ has been a brilliant player but it might be time for him to move on. There'll probably be a bit of a clear out too in that panel I'd imagine. There'll never be a shortage of good hurlers in KK.

I don't think that is anything to write home or get excited about. The fact is we still ended up with 1 point on the board out of a possible 8.

That was a game where we should have least got a draw. Marginal calls went against us that day. Interestingly ref that day was the same as our game against Cork in championship. Enough said!

how can you interpret that I’m or anyone is getting excited about this…..merely pointing out a fact. Bit of luck with a few decisions and injuries and season could have been a lot better. Definitely on a par with Dublin and Offaly.

league is glorified friendlies under this Munster championship format hence we beat Limerick in the league .

I don't like the format for several reasons. Firstly it increases the risk of missing players through injury. Secondly as shown today games can be dead rubbers without jeopardy. Third it increases the expense for fans going to games. Lastly I personally just don't get the same buzz with games, because it's so condensed the hype doesn't build in the same way.

I also always associated hurling with the summer, now most counties are out before summer even starts.

Being out before end of May was not the norm since the back door was introduced in 1997.

That kind of common sense talk doesn’t go down well in these parts .

Yet the teams making it to the league final are more than often the teams making to All Ireland Semi Finals/Finals in recent years.

Giving the short amount of time between league and championship, league allows you to build momentum and confidence heading into championship.

2023, Limerick V kilkenny league final, Limerick V kilkenny All Ireland final

2024, Clare V Kilkenny league final, Clare V Cork All Ireland final (KK losing the AI semi final by 2 points)

2025, Tipp V Cork League final, Tipp V Cork All Ireland final.

2026, Limerick V Cork League final. Let's see how the AI final fares out.

It was clear as day that Limerick were using this year's league as a championship warm up due to them having no game in the opening round of munster and they drove on to make the final so they wouldn't have such a long break between league and Munster championship.

While the league is the league, I think we as supporters had little optimism going into the championship after only defeating Limerick and offaly, a hammering from cork and disappointing performances in other games, yet sitting on 1 point in Munster with a -19 score difference we feel we are almost there.

I think more needs to be done in the build up to the championship, we need to be beating the teams that we feel we should be beating. I personally believe we should be or are at least be capable of beating Tipperary and Kilkenny, we have a league campaign where we beat Limerick, Tipperary, Kilkenny and offaly and we enter the championship very confident in ourselves.

A lot of the time this about mentality and consistency which we are lacking.

Anyone else feel the Munster championship was a bit of a let down this year, game wise, even yesterday, both Cork and Limerick blew the opposition away

Clare V Wat, Clare 6 point win

Tipp V Cork, Cork 4 point win

Cork V Limerick, Cork 2 point win

Wat V Tipp, Draw

Clare V Limerick, Lim 12 point win

Wat V Cork, Cork 4 point win

Tipp V Clare, Clare 11 point win

Limerick V Waterford, Lim 9 point win

Cork V Clare, Cork 16 point win

Limerick V Tipp, Lim 17 point win.

With the exception of our draw and Limerick V Cork they rest of the games were not great.

It is a reflection, we were with them with about 10 minutes to go and then got blown out of it.

I am not doubting the effort, but the score line is the score line.

Waterford very unlucky this year should have beaten kilkenny and stayed up and gave every team they played in munster a hard match waterford in my opinion are a much better team than clare and tipp.look at the hammering s clare got of limk and cork.

we get to go into 1b with a genuine belief of winning all our games,and winning a final.

We further get to have nothing but competitive matches till championship starts, no friendlies.

We also get to do the one thing that has been severely lacking in waterford , manage our player welfare roatate players out, train people in as backups in competitive games , and with a little luck go into championship with all our best players fit .

Being in 1B offers huge opportunities we wouldn't have in 1A

There's 2 parts to winning a poker hand.

1. What hand you are dealt
2. How you play that hand

County Senior Hurling Championship starting weekend of 3rd/4th/5th July

Group A (Ballygunner A)

Group B (Ballygunner B)