Waterford GAA Discussion Thread 2009-2011

carter10 · 17-06-2011 05:02PM

STIG83 wrote: »

1st time i heard of clubs doing a scrap collection for money, but i suppose with the price of scrap at the moment it's an ideal time to do it.

Last Saturday I was at an underage football match in Tipp and I noticed as i left the Club a load of scrap inside the front gate, didnt give it much thought until I saw the above post. There was a good amount of it there too.

STIG83 · 17-06-2011 05:52PM

carter10 wrote: »

Last Saturday I was at an underage football match in Tipp and I noticed as i left the Club a load of scrap inside the front gate, didnt give it much thought until I saw the above post. There was a good amount of it there too.

Good money in it at the moment, we got rid of a load of stuff at home on the farm, we had over 3 ton and got €80 a ton.
So the clubs would want to gather a heap of it to get something decent for it.

alllcounty · 17-06-2011 08:34PM

Deise Hurler wrote: »

Have played full back many a times. The position is not about fancy hurling, more about good communicating and operating as a line. By that I mean the corner backs and the full back really need to work together. If the full back goes out to tackle an incoming player the corner backs must know instinctively what to do, which should be dropping into the full back position. The full back needs to be the leader of the line but to do this he must be confident in his position. Unfortunately we have chopped and changed our full back all year and neither lawlor or hutchinson have been given the chance to settle into the position. Even before the limerick match, we were all unsure as to which of the two would be selected. At the start of the year a full back should have been selected and the league should have been used to allow that player make the position his own.

If a full back makes a mistake their should be no need to haul them off. On sunday Hutchinson wasn't doing too bad up until the goal. He was exposed for one goal and straight away he was switched. You could see straight away that his head dropped once the switch was made and it was only a matter of time before he was going to be taken off.

In my opinion, Shane Fives is the best full back we have in Waterford. I am surprised he is not already being recognised as one of our star players as a few years ago if asked to name a young player who was going to make it with our seniors, his name would have been the first I would have said. Only a year and a half ago he was named as full back on the fitzgibbon cup team of the year, but unfortunately he has been given limited game time with Waterford and when selected he is usually played at wing back.

Anyway, whoever is selected at 3 from now on needs to be given time to make the position their own or we will still be talking in ten years time about how Waterford could have won an All Ireland if Sean Cullinane was still around.

Would be good to see Shane Fives play at full back. He has done well for WIT in 2010 and would have a good understanding playing with his brother in the corner. He also did well in the league match's earlier this year at full back before he got injured. Can't see why he was positioned in the forwards in challange match's this year when he plays as a defender. Options for full back are Fives, Brick or Lawler. Opposing teams know where our week point is and with our best shot stopper sitting on the bench we are badly in need of a good full back if we are to make any inroads this year.

egpower · 18-06-2011 01:22PM

alllcounty wrote: »

Would be good to see Shane Fives play at full back. He has done well for WIT in 2010 and would have a good understanding playing with his brother in the corner. He also did well in the league match's earlier this year at full back before he got injured. Can't see why he was positioned in the forwards in challange match's this year when he plays as a defender. Options for full back are Fives, Brick or Lawler. Opposing teams know where our week point is and with our best shot stopper sitting on the bench we are badly in need of a good full back if we are to make any inroads this year.

I haven't seen much of him play but I wonder does he lack the sheer bllody-mindedness that Diarmuid O'Sullivan, Stephen Lucey, Paul Curran, Brian Lohan and Noel Hickey all have. They would just not let you in - at almost any cost. I still have that vision of him watching Darach Honan glide by him en route to scoring a game-changing goal in the U21 Munster Final. I know - Honan is a bit of a freak show. But wouldn't you rugby tackle him / stop him at all costs when you have to ? Take the yellow card and prevent the score ? As I say I have not seen him much so that may be unfair to him. Thoughts ?

PTH2009 · 18-06-2011 01:23PM

The Waterford Footballers will play there All Ireland 2nd Round Football Quilfer on Sat 9th July (The day before the Munster Hurling final).

AFAIK i think Waterford should be guaranteed a home draw because in last weeks 1st round draw teams that got an away draw in 2010 were promised home draws. Waterford played Offaly away last year in Round 2 of the quilifers. Id imagine the same applys to Round 2 of the draw.

How good would a home draw to teams like Kildare, Down, Meath, Laois, Derry etc

Deise Tom · 18-06-2011 09:03PM

PTH2009 wrote: »

The Waterford Footballers will play there All Ireland 2nd Round Football Quilfer on Sat 9th July (The day before the Munster Hurling final).

AFAIK i think Waterford should be guaranteed a home draw because in last weeks 1st round draw teams that got an away draw in 2010 were promised home draws. Waterford played Offaly away last year in Round 2 of the quilifers. Id imagine the same applys to Round 2 of the draw.

How good would a home draw to teams like Kildare, Down, Meath, Laois, Derry etc

If they are drawn against a team that also had to play away last year i think its a toss for home advantage, or else its the first team out that has home advantage. knowing Waterford's luck it will be another away game.

Deise Tom · 18-06-2011 09:04PM

Poor game in Dungarvan this evening. Fourmilewater by far the better team. Jamie Barron had a very good game playing at Corner Forward.

suitcasepink · 18-06-2011 09:23PM

Deise Tom wrote: »

Poor game in Dungarvan this evening. Fourmilewater by far the better team. Jamie Barron had a very good game playing at Corner Forward.

Where did Liam Lawlor play?

Cake Man · 18-06-2011 10:01PM

Deise Tom wrote: »

Poor game in Dungarvan this evening. Fourmilewater by far the better team. Jamie Barron had a very good game playing at Corner Forward.

How did he get on? Strange that he played corner forward for Fourmilewater this evening but plays corner back for the county minors and U21's.

Hopefully none of the county players pick up injuries the weekend.

Deise Tom · 18-06-2011 10:10PM

deise_girl wrote: »

Where did Liam Lawlor play?

Centre back, had very little to do. It was as good i have seen Fourmilewater ever playing. Jamie Barron played corner forward, finished with 1-8. Was very impressive. Without been outstanding Shane Walsh was effective, Molumphy was poor for Ballyduff. Adrain could do very little with the goals. In fact he saved at least 2 or 3 more but tapping them over.

Deise Tom · 18-06-2011 10:12PM

Cake Man wrote: »

How did he get on? Strange that he played corner forward for Fourmilewater this evening but plays corner back for the county minors and U21's.

Hopefully none of the county players pick up injuries the weekend.

Most times i have seen him play its out the field. HE is a good fellow to have in any team, A bit like Luke Egan a few years back, can play as a back or as a forward.

Deise Tom · 18-06-2011 10:15PM

Cake Man wrote: »

Hopefully none of the county players pick up injuries the weekend.

there was reports that Shane Walsh carried an injury into the game. Still finished with 1-4.

Dont think playing for their clubs can do them any harm. Playing in a challenge game or in a training session with the county, one of the players can pick up an injury just as easy, if not more easy. just look what happened to Richie Foley last week.

Mountainlad · 19-06-2011 09:42AM

Went to the game as well. Maybe Lawlor hadn't an awful lot to do on his man, but he cleared a lot of ball. I'd agree that Fourmile were by far the better team. They went ten points up at one stage when they should have scored a goal. Similar situation a little bit later. Final scoreline was 2-15 to 1-10. They look a good team, could potentialy be a suprise in the championship given I think group 1 is stronger than group 2. Dunno that they'lve a chance of winning it, you'd expect either Ballygunner or De La Salle to be too good for anyone else this year.

Seamus Hannon and Stephen Molumphy were very good for Ballyduff. Shane Walsh was excellent second half. It was in midfield where it was won really.

egpower · 19-06-2011 10:28AM

Fair play to Dublin - now I am impressed. Beware the scalded cat!

Is that the end of McIntyre's reign unless they win the AI ? Just can't figure out Galway. There isn't a county that has consistently produced more classy minors over the last 10-15 years. I've heard it said that they are all the same type of player. I don't agree at all but that said I don't know why it is that they are not a dominant force now.

STIG83 · 19-06-2011 10:41AM

egpower wrote: »

Fair play to Dublin - now I am impressed. Beware the scalded cat!

Is that the end of McIntyre's reign unless they win the AI ? Just can't figure out Galway. There isn't a county that has consistently produced more classy minors over the last 10-15 years. I've heard it said that they are all the same type of player. I don't agree at all but that said I don't know why it is that they are not a dominant force now.

I dont know what to make of Galway myself either, only thing i can think of is that they rely too much on Joe Canning?
Some goal he got last night!! a rocket of a shot!!

Cake Man · 19-06-2011 11:15AM

That's the problem though, Joe scored a great goal and a nice long range point but did very little else. His free-taking was abysmal and was a main culprit in Galway stacking up about 15 or so wides. Definitely McIntyre's last year and I wouldn't be surprised if he's not in charge for Galway's next game in the qualifiers.
Galway continue to live up to their reputation-lions in the Spring, lambs in the Summer.

Cake Man · 19-06-2011 11:52AM

Copied this from another forum, draw for '11/'12 Harty Cup groups:

Group A- De La Salle, Ard Scoil Ris, Colaiste Criost Ri, Charleville
Group B- Colaiste na nDeise Thiar, Our Lady's Templemore, Midleton CBS, St Caimins CS,
Group C- Thurles CBS, St Flannans, St Colmans, Blackwater CS
Group D- Kerry Colleges, Nenagh CBS, Castletroy CC

Groups A, B and C all could be considered a "Group of Death", some really good games in there. DLS in a very tough group having to face this years champions Ard Scoil Ris from Limerick and beaten finalists Charleville.
Colaiste na nDeise have a tricky one too, Midleton are traditionally good as are Caimins.
Blackwater face difficult opposition in Thurles CBS and Flannans.

I think any of the Waterford colleges there would be doing well to get out of their group.

Mountainlad · 19-06-2011 01:43PM

Deise Tom wrote: »

Centre back, had very little to do. It was as good i have seen Fourmilewater ever playing. Jamie Barron played corner forward, finished with 1-8. Was very impressive. Without been outstanding Shane Walsh was effective, Molumphy was poor for Ballyduff. Adrain could do very little with the goals. In fact he saved at least 2 or 3 more but tapping them over.

I thought Molumphy made life difficult for the Fourmilewater backs and Power only made one save, and it was comfortable enough. He did score a free from his own twenty one. Its a serious addition having that strike added to the gale synonimous with Fraher Field.

Deise Tom · 19-06-2011 04:52PM

Mountainlad wrote: »

I thought Molumphy made life difficult for the Fourmilewater backs and Power only made one save, and it was comfortable enough. He did score a free from his own twenty one. Its a serious addition having that strike added to the gale synonimous with Fraher Field.

Molumphy did Ok i guess, he scored 1-1, but we did not see the same kind of play from him last night as you would in other games. When the same two sides met in Lismore was it two years ago, (the night that went 10 or 11 points up on two occasions and lost by a point or two) he was outstanding, didnt think he did half as well last night as he did that night.

STIG83 · 19-06-2011 04:58PM

So it's a road trip to Cork for the Munster Final.

PTH2009 · 19-06-2011 05:29PM

STIG83 wrote: »

So it's a road trip to Cork for the Munster Final.

Have heard the game will be in Thurles. The Waterford County Board have been offered money to have the final played in Thurles.

Sure its a home game to Tipp but Thurles is the spot to be for the final

Mountainlad · 19-06-2011 05:30PM

STIG83 wrote: »

So it's a road trip to Cork for the Munster Final.

I think Clare and Limerick could beat Galway and Wexford respectively. The one thing for Clare is that they have to travel to Galway but Limerick at home ta Wexford seems like it will only throw up one outcome.

Be interesting to see who ends up against Cork. It's looking like a quality championship, possibly the best in several years!

Fireball07 · 19-06-2011 05:50PM

Mountainlad wrote: »

I think Clare and Limerick could beat Galway and Wexford respectively. The one thing for Clare is that they have to travel to Galway but Limerick at home ta Wexford seems like it will only throw up one outcome.

Be interesting to see who ends up against Cork. It's looking like a quality championship, possibly the best in several years!

It says venues have not been decided yet....where did you hear that?

Deise Tom · 19-06-2011 05:53PM

STIG83 wrote: »

So it's a road trip to Cork for the Munster Final.

Anyone surprised with this.

KevIRL · 19-06-2011 05:55PM

Fireball07 wrote: »

It says venues have not been decided yet....where did you hear that?

First teams out got home advantage according to the thread on AFR anyway

Deise Tom · 19-06-2011 05:56PM

Mountainlad wrote: »

I think Clare and Limerick could beat Galway and Wexford respectively. The one thing for Clare is that they have to travel to Galway but Limerick at home ta Wexford seems like it will only throw up one outcome.

Be interesting to see who ends up against Cork. It's looking like a quality championship, possibly the best in several years!

What odds a double header in Thurles. The G.A.A. Will be looking for a big gate if they can get one. A double header might be the best bet.

Mountainlad · 19-06-2011 05:57PM

Fireball07 wrote: »

It says venues have not been decided yet....where did you hear that?

First team drawn has home advantage according to TV3. They have to be confirmed but it'll be Pearse Stadium and the Gaelic Grounds.

KevIRL · 19-06-2011 05:57PM

STIG83 wrote: »

So it's a road trip to Cork for the Munster Final.

Deise Tom wrote: »

Anyone surprised with this.

Every Munster final should be on in Thurles imo. Perfect venue for it.

One thing for sure, we have a lot to be fearful of going into the game, no matter where its played. I'm normally an enternal optimist but Tipp are looking scary and now with 2 testing games behind them.

Fireball07 · 19-06-2011 05:59PM

Mountainlad wrote: »

First team drawn has home advantage according to TV3. They have to be confirmed but it'll be Pearse Stadium and the Gaelic Grounds.

Fair enough...I just checked the RTE website and it didn't mention anything regarding that.

A home draw is nice, I like the Gaelic Grounds for hurling matches. It's a nice ground.

Hope we win but I'm really worried about Wexford, they could easily beat us.

Deise Tom · 19-06-2011 06:00PM

PRESS RELEASE
18.06.11

The GAA is pleased to announce a reduction of €5 on all adult stand prices and terrace prices for this year’s GAA Football and Hurling All-Ireland Senior Championships up to and including semi finals.

This reduction combined with the GAA Season Ticket offer and other GAA ticket packages ensures that the Association remains to the fore in terms of value for money.

This decrease will remain in place for all Central Council fixtures until the conclusion of the GAA Senior Championship semi-finals in both Hurling and Football.

“The GAA recognises the need to encourage patrons to attend our games and this price cut signals our intent to ensure our supporters continue to engage with and follow our Championship games.” Uachtarán Chumann Luthchleas Gael Criostóir Ó Cuana

Prices for the opening round of the GAA All-Ireland Qualifiers in both codes have been reduced to €15 for entry to the stand and €10 for terrace. Juveniles can enter the stand for €5 or the terrace free of charge.

Up until the semi-finals clubs can also avail of group passes for adult members which are €10 each, as well as another group offer where juveniles enter for €3 with one adult gaining free entry for every ten children.

Ticket prices for the GAA Football All-Ireland Senior Championship Finals in 2011 will be €80. The All-Ireland finals are significant national events and 80% of all revenues are directed back to our Clubs.

Currently there are five simple ways to purchase GAA tickets up to All Ireland Finals;
- At the official GAA website www.gaa.ie
- Contacting our official Ticket Office on 1890924648
- Through your own GAA Club or County Board
- Through a GAA season ticket
- Ticketmaster.ie

How generous the GAA Bosses are. Pity they did not mention in their press release that they have added €10 to the All-Ireland ticket prize.

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