Everything
2 goals, set up a load of scores, won a few frees. Fairly standard MOTM decision
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Hilarious
Who would you have given it to?
Or piss to a shit fight.
Your mother, twice.
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Dodgy time for Waterford now. Sometimes a defeat like that can be more damaging then a hammering. Big expectations for next year but McGrath will have a lot of grounding to do
Come off the hard stuff. It doesnāt suit you
Derek McGrath is lovely man. Iād say a hug from him is like a warm familiar blanket.
But it could also make them. Theyāve a steady progress going and havenāt peaked. In contrast to Clare who got their all Ireland and have fallen one completely since, if Waterford manage it well they have the bones of a team that could be at the top end of things for ten years.
Waterford will probably win u21 .
Agree totally. I look to Limerick 2014 and see what happened. The point being that Waterford must not just assume it will happen just because they came so close
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Lolz
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Now Iāve calmed down, that was a great game. Congratulations to kk lads. They did it again.
The problem as I honestly see it, is that to beat kk, the only way to do it is to play like them, to grapple, spare arm grab, high tackle, hurley grab, shove in the back, hit late etc etc.
This is how cody has dictated the game will be played.
The gaa have acceded to this, and clearly will lean whichever way cody blows.
The Barry Kelly affair is absolute proof of this.
Now thatās all well and good, but over the last two close games, the refereeing has constantly nudged kilkennyās way, with kilkennys getting away with things pretty consistently that Waterford were pulled up for, often resulting in a one, or even two-point swing.
We have all played games like this, and the handicap is huge.
Kilkenny, whether itās cody, the county board, the general aura, their supporters being able to whine and complain at high volume throughout (always the victims springs to mind), or a combination of all the above, seem to be in a position currently where they get the balance of decisions. Even jj delaney alluded to it today, and it was a pivotal factor in their victory.
I cannot see how a side can beat kk in these circumstances. Itās nigh on impossible. Play fair, and they will run over you. Play as they do, and they get significant advantage.
I just canāt see Tipp, Galway or anyone else being able to overcome a formidable and ruthless side with the officiating we are witnessing.
Kk all the way for the final.
Who they play is irrelevant.
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Wahey, Iāll have flights home for September booked in a few minutes.
Fair play to the lads, dug deep for it and saw it through. Waterford were great again, Gleeson is outrageously good, a little bit more maturing and improvement in decision making and heāll be unstoppable. I feel for them and woul dlove to see them go all the way, just not at our expense.
That could be the last time we see Mick Fennelly in a Kilkenny jersey if itās a bad ligament injury. He was good tonight, then again, a few of them stepped it up from last weekend. Fair steam to young Blanchfield for showing what heās capable of.
The ref made poor decisions for either side but was he the difference between the teams? Of course not.
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See my post above. I think he went a long way to kk winning.
Waterford backed up with a second big show . Lk would have been well beat if there was a second day .
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Three words Flatty. Nineteen. Eighty. Seven. Draw them into an all-out timberfest. Let every blow be a funeral, etc. etc. etc.
Yeah, I did after I posted.
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Lowering the blade is the only way I think. But fully lowering Greg Kennedy style and hoping the ref will bottle it.