Urban myth. One player was consistently troublesome. The rest were fine.
Lies
Truth.
thought as much …they never seemed stuck for fitness in fairness…
They have even corrupted some of the KK players who lover near the border around ferrybank.
Not at all. Stuck for a full back was what they were.
Aren’t you the lad that said Waterford were stuck for a goal scorer moments before Gleeson scored the goal of the season?
I said it at halftime yes.
Are you going to rely on him doing that every game?
Team yesterday were cramping up like teams in extra time in FA Cup Finals in the 1980s when boozing before matches was not unusual
Some of the Waterford youngsters seemed to cramp up, but I wonder was that simply because they didn’t pace themselves as they might have done with more experience, and ran themselves into the fround, rather than being unfit? It would seem odd that a senior IC team, in with a shout of going a long way in the championship, would not be fit enough to hurl for seventy minutes.
The way GAA is set up it’s nearly a good thing to let the hair down a bit. 3 days might be a bit much, but is probably exaggerated anyway.
Jaysus, I can’t believe fellas still don’t understand things like this. A young fella doesn’t have the muscular endurance (in a match fitness type of way) that older experienced players have. It has to be built up, both mentally and physically.
It’s not that they can’t hurl for 70 minutes, it’s that’s they can’t match the pace the opposition are setting.
The younger Waterford players probably wouldn’t have a lot of conditioning work behind them. It takes time to catch up with the condition of players who’ve been training at that level for four or five years.
+1. And of course it didn’t help that we spent two years bating tyres in training instead of building up our fitness.
The score.ie’s resident statistician has Aidan Walsh as the second most influential player in the Cork v Waterford game.
I very much doubt that’s true
Small steps Fagan, you have to be able to hit a tyre before you can think about fitness
Cork need to learn from scoring 1-10 to 0-4 in last twenty minutes when they went to an unconventional line up and put Horgan out around the middle
Lovely shoulder charge from Cahalane here that was penalised
DC showed up well and had 2 men taken off him.
Waterford have no fear of Cork in replays. They haven’t beaten us since 1965 in a replay. In the meantime we beat them in 1989, 2007 and 2010 in replays. In fact we have a good record generally in replays. 1998 was the last time we lost one that evil day down in Thurles that Ger Loughnane finally parted company with reality and sent his team out in a state of frenzy to beat us like cattle and ultimately cost themselves the All Ireland.
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I have done more conditioning than anyone else on here I’d imagine and endurance work over the years. I could last a full game much better as a youngster though. You can call it dumb all you like. It’s true for me.