Waterford GAA Discussion Thread 2009-2011

For all the physical training they looked a lot less fitter than Tipp. Their skills need improving, basic stuff like lifting the ball from the ground (when not under pressure) you would see some of our players making mistakes or just slow to do it.

few scenarios for you. which would you perfer

1. We lose to Galway in the qf after putting in a brave performance.

2. We beat Galway in the qf and get destroyed in Semi final by Kilkenny.

3. We beat Galway, we then do a miricle and beat Kilkenny in the semi final and then in the final Tipp hammer us out the gate yet again.

option 1 i think would be the best route

the whole place is like something out of communist Russia a dirty concrete stadium ugly place

If the players trained at 9 yesterday morning, would the majority of them not have work no? Just a thought.

Delighted with that minor draw, the lads are unbeaten this (and last) season in Walsh park so it's a big advantage to us.

few scenarios for you. which would you perfer

1. We lose to Galway in the qf after putting in a brave performance.

2. We beat Galway in the qf and get destroyed in Semi final by Kilkenny.

3. We beat Galway, we then do a miricle and beat Kilkenny in the semi final and then in the final Tipp hammer us out the gate yet again.

Give me no. 3. Keeping the unbeaten record v Galway, knocking that other shower out of the championship in God knows how long and the younger lads getting an AI final under the belt sound good to me tbh! :pac:

liogairmhordain wrote: »

Does anyone happen to know who won the toss before last Sunday's senior match?
Watching the minor match it was obvious the wind was going to have a major impact on the game.
I'd hate to think Waterford won the toss and let Tipp have the benefit of the wind from the start.
In fairness to Tipp, once it was obvious the full-back line's confidence was shot they just lofted everything up into the breeze and let Corbett et al do the rest.

I believe thats what happened, according to the RTE commentary. Waterford won the toss and elected to play into the breeze, which I found a bit unusual, given the gameplan would undoubted have been to prevent Tipp from getting any serious foothold in the game in the first half.

KevIRL wrote: »

Welcome. Very nice post on AFR the other night after the match

Lol, cheers. I have to say it took a lot to muster any sort of spirit to post so soon after the match on Sunday, but feel it was definitely good for the soul not to have been at the game, which I owe the flu a debt of gratitude for

Meself and Mrs.Kelly went to the match above in Cork.The traffic was grand.We only got stuck in Kilmeaden,Lemybrien,Dungarvan,Grange,Kinsalebeg,the Youghal bypass,Killeagh,Castlemartyr,the Midleton dual carriageway,the Dunkettle roundabout,the Mahon junction,Blackrock and a bit of difficulty parking.Other than that it was plain sailing.Cork is a great venue for the game.Frank Murphy always organises it so that it's dry whenever there is a big game on there.I wish he'd organise the seats in the uncovered stand though.I think they were designed for Corks thriving midget colony.I'd Tom Coffey from the Bachelors in Trouble sticking his knees into my back for the whole game.It was mildly frustrating,if not entirely unerotic.He was talking all the way through the game.I thought he was watching basketball for a while.He knows nothing about hurling.He should be a selector for the team really.

I was very happy with the game. Other than the beating we got and the fact that we were outclassed in every position on the field, I think we got our tactics and gameplan absolutely spot on. Davy is good like that,he's clever,much like a fox.He probably planned all this.He's after fooling all the experts into thinking we're clueless.But we're not.We're smart out.We're waiting in the long grass now for everyone.It just happens that the grass around us is very very long.

I thought it was a big call out of Davy to play a brick at full back. I mean,a brick having to mark Lar Corvette or Eoin Kelly or John Whatshisname? A brick is way too small.A concrete block wall might have done the job.But a solitary brick? No no Davy,never going to work.
It was very smart of Davy to name Noel Hunt and Kelly Proper in the subs.Kelly Proper is full of running.Noel Hunt is full of brains.Together they're a lethal combination.

If Tipp hadn't got all them goals the game would have gone to a replay.Bill Clinton Hennessy was very unlucky for all the goals.What people don't know is that Bill Clinton has a rare condition that means he falls over at completely random times.He's on tablets for it and everything.But he got his tablets mixed up on Saturday night before he went to bed and he took Solpadeine by mistake.So it just so happened that the seven times Tipp shot at goal,he fell over due to his medical condition.He would have stopped them otherwise.It was very unfortunate timing.I saw it happen to him once before,in a junior hurling game with Ardmore.He left in 23 goals that day against the Geraldines.Being hinest and on balance,I thought we deserved to win it,but Tipp deserved to win it too.

Galway are next.I think they are very beatable.I mean,they have Ger Canning playing full forward for them.Ger Canning is useless.He is a terrible commentator and just as poor as a hurler.He had one good game once and now everyone makes out that he's Leonardo da Vinci or Donatello or one of the other turtles.He's very average.We'll win handy.But we need everyone to keep the faith.This Waterford team is only as good as its weakest link.And by Jesus,I'm not going to be that weakest link.So I'm going,I'm bringing the family and as many people as I can fit in the Datsun.And everyone should do the same.Except Chris Doran.He can stay and lock up the public toilets down the quay.

Tomkelly99 what a hero. In stitches laughing here