Waterford GAA Discussion Thread 3 ***Updated Mod Note Post 1***

KevIRL wrote: »

By the time we play again (barring replays) there will be only 6 teams left in the championship. The qualifiers will be finished the night before the munster final and the Leinster final is the week before it.

A nice thought. There have been times when I've was grateful that Waterford were one of the 6 teams left in Munster.

I'm fed up of people giving out about our style of play, other teams play a similar system but we seems to get the most stick, we scored 1-21 which is certainly not bad scoring when you consider we hit a lot of wides, We scored 3 goals in the league SF against Limerick, everyone agrees the first day against Clare was poor but that happens, can anyone honestly say they did not enjoy our hurling yesterday especially in the second half. It's just typical negativity about Waterford people think we should still be playing wide open hurling and having to score 4 goals to win a match, Some of the points we scored yesterday were as good as you will see if you want to see a negative and boring game then watch Cork against Tipp but to suggest that scoring 1-21 in a Munster championship is playing negative is ridiculous.

Good job on yesterday's performance and did a very KK thing with the surge after half time. No final for me as on hols in France so will have to find a venue to get a score when I'm up a mountain side. Wearing the jersey though

robopaddy2 wrote: »

Shur look theres only 7 or 8 teams in the championship that are realistic contenders anyway. Whoever is left is going to be tough to beat.

Fair point. What I was getting at is that a whole lot of hurling will be played before we are on the field again. Who knows, maybe even one of the big guns might be out. Its a nice position to be in.

Limerick vs Tipp is on the 19th June and both minor semi finals are on 29th June (Wat vs Lim, Cor vs Tipp) so imagine munster final tickets will go on sale the 30th June /1st July

hoping for Thurles but dont think we would give tipp home advantage 2 years in a row. Limerick or Killarney bound if its Waterford vs Tipp and Thurles bound if its Waterford vs Limerick

hope Micky D Higgins stays away from the final as we always lose or draw when he meets us lol

tomwaterford wrote: »

I hope it's not in Limerick...fcuking hole to get outta

Either way....it's a good test as I felt they should've been closer to tipp/left it behind last year and would have no fears of playing tipp in thurles tbh


(Not meaning to dismiss Limerick..but I'd fancy tipp to have the measure of them by a bit)


Either way...all they need Is win their next three matches....

Take the tunnel.. easy way out of Limerick.

I think it's crazy giving Tipp home advantage in Thurles. Our record against them there is awful. Gaelic grounds is a pain but it's still the smarter option.

Looks like a lot of Waterford people have forgotten 07

just a word too about Kevin Morans second half performence, Majestic, jesus he was everywhere, and making all the right decisions with ball in hand, has had a Poor enough year by his own standards, but he fair led from the very first ball in the second half, his timing of his runs, back and to get on the end of developing plays, his shooting, his outright determination to chase and block and hook, When he's in this form, very few better, and it was as selfless as what usually you get from brick, but added the scoring threat, i'm usually giving out about him, but he left it out there, animal of a performence, and again brick is some man to win ruck ball, and the simple and always the correct pass, fair lucky to have him, still doing it.
Dara fives and i've been banging this drum for three four years , is top top Drawer, his brother shane , Coughlan, Connors , Sokky[Made probably the biggest individual play of the game], Phillip, Aussie,and on and on, all gems ,all for the jersey, no All Stars just All Irelands, you can see their focus, Maurice Back to his best[that last point under the old stand,No right to hit it, other than a massive belief in his own ability, never left the black spot], some lift, Barron, probably the best dinky bits and pieces midfielder around, top quality stick man, with an engine, and all at top pace, we're blessed lads, Shane Bennett and Patrick, neither at their best in fact first time since arriving, that nothing was working, but still balls out, doing the work, and Paudie , does everything right, big surprise was he missed one shot at goal from play , when everything he hits goes over, but again always make's the right decision faster than everyone else, Clever Clever player, O Halloran must be pushing, Dillon super score, was trying to hard though unfamiler to him, coming on , just needs to steady down a bit but did his bit, Devine, bit like jake tried to hard, had the decision made in his head before getting control of the ball, but an animal, and has all the right stuff, and Colin, will have a massive role to play still this year, with stephen Bennett now back flying, we have now what was always our achilies , a serious Panel, and game changers on and off, very easy to go over the top, very un waterford like[HA HA], but if we bring this everyday anyone who beats us will be winning something serious, and will deserve it, and no more of this apologising for playing a game that relies on lads emptying the tank, of hard work, married with self expression and smatherings of Genius, We are heading into the unknown, a Waterford Panel not bending the knee , not relying on siege mentalities or being victims, just relying on the honesty and ability , that we are lucky enough to have within our county , if anyone thinks i'm over the top , why not ?, we are Waterford baby, and we've Arrived.

Lads, fantastic win but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Clare were poor. In fact Waterford was poor in the first half but Clare were atrocious. We will need a better first half to win a Munster final cos that last Sunday will not do. We picked it up in the second half where Moran put in a huge shift. Looking at the game again he was the clear man of the match. Gleeson scored three cracking pints in the first half but was largely anonymous apart from those three balls.He is tremendously gifted and we need him involved in the game constantly. We picked it up a gear in the second half and Moran, Darragh and Burke really drove on. Shanahan had a good game but was isolated at times. His only fault and I'm being picky, is that he probably lacks a half yard of pace and it can be very frustrating for him leading the line with two or three players hanging off him. Paudie played well, was surprised after his injury. Jes he is a beautiful striker of a sliothar.

Waternut wrote: »

Lads, fantastic win but lets not get ahead of ourselves. Clare were poor. In fact Waterford was poor in the first half but Clare were atrocious. We will need a better first half to win a Munster final cos that last Sunday will not do.

This!! While it was an incredibly satisfying victory Clare were very poor. And not in a way that we could claim we caused them to be poor, they missed some really simple chances.
I think we could do without the likes of Mullane tipping us for All Ireland already. Tipp, KK, Galway all loving the attention that we're bringing on ourselves. I think if we are to get to September we need to manage that side of it carefully to keep a lid on things. Don't want to be getting carried away at this stage of the year.
Huge positive was the performance of Moran who had struggled a little for form before this game. Similar with Maurice and Pauric Mahony, they delivered when we really needed it and Bennett and Curran were struggling. Those lads will bounce back from that disappointment I have no doubt.
Hopefully the attention quickly switches to another team now, Limerick, Tipp, Dublin, KK. Don't particular care who but would much rather avoid the hype and focus.