Well if it goes the way everyone is predicting, Waterford could get 3 chances to take em down.
To be honest in and around Waterford there doesnāt seem to be that much hype.
All focus is on the Tipp game. Itās the biggest game of the year by far. If we donāt win that at home then we are as good as gone imo.
Yes we were delighted to win the league. But leading up to it, it was all about performance and leaving the result take care of itself. So long as we played well and didnāt pick up injuries people were happy with that.
We have lost a lot of finals so it was good to get that monkey off this teams back but the eye has to be on Tipp. Nothing else. Cahill I am sure will have them fully focused on that.
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What hype?? All the āhypeā since the start of the league has been about Corkā¦most hurling people could see what that was, hype about nothing, most hurling people will see Saturday night for what it was too, beating a poor Cork side in a league finalā¦
A little over two weeks ago Waterford were coming off the back of a beating and poor performance v KKā¦
Waterford have ābeen here beforeā but not under Cahill
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Thats a very good post in fairness.
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Well you just saw what Derek Mcgrath is after saying. Fairly idiotic to be banging your chest out like that after a league final win, no?
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Take that up with Derek so, heās not the voice of Waterford hurling
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It was Derek trying to position himself to take credit for where they are at the moment. I doubt very much if Liam Cahill gives two fucks about McGrath and I think Waterford supporters are grounded enough at this stage.
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I donāt think he does at all. Looks like he has built a seriously hard working and motivated team, I donāt think theyāll lack anything in mentality. I told everyone a year ago Waterford would be better again this year for the added year with Cahill and I think will continue to improve the longer he is with them until they win one. Bit similar to tipp under Sheedy first time around. Actually a lot of parallels there with limerick in the dominant position kk were then.
A major thing for Waterford is their forwards, they have three marquee level forwards in Bennett, Gleeson and Hutchinson. As good or better than Gillane, Lynch and Hegarty? Some fellas here rate Gleeson better than Lynch, Bennett arguably better than Gillane now too.
Generally speaking we donāt put a whole lot of currency in anything McGrath comes out with now, Itās hard to see anything of substance beyond the flowery words at this stage.
I know I am being harsh on the man but he lost me and many others years ago with all this stuff.
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Hego is a pure muckler compared to the rest.
If it goes belly up for one or both on the 17th then one of them could effectively be knocking the other out in the second game.
That would make for some night in Limerick.
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And is also very possible. Happened to Limerick in 2019 . Limerick more so than Waterford I suspect could well be heading into that game looking for their first points
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Come back to me when any of the others come near his scoring records in all Ireland finals.
2-9 in 2 AIFs. He can muckle all he wants if he keeps those stats up
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Cc @Ralphie
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I think form lines are hard to read going into this years championships. Limerick handles Waterford with relative ease last August but the caveat on that was that Waterford were playing their fourth week on the trot and it seemed as though they simply didnāt have the power in the legs to live with Limerick once the adrenaline wore off after 20 minutes or so.
They have a handful of lads back from injury and good depth to their panel now and a continuity to them that most sides donāt. If there is a team to stop Limerick this year then they look like the side best placed.
Cork on the otherhand got a number of breaks and rode them to an A/I final but donāt seem to have learned all that much from the final defeat. They are a fine side when they get their running game going and a bit of momentum but the structural issues are still there. If they can play on their terms they will put up a score but how likely will that be in the championship. They are really short a ball winner at half forward, industry at midfield and a couple of defenders who can hold things together when the going gets tough. Putting Joyce to centre back and Millerick to wing back might well make their half backline a more solid unit but then you are only shifting lads like Coleman and Fitzgibbon up the field and addressing the symptom rather than addressing the cause. I think both Coleman and Fitzgibbon have bags of talent but I find it rather perplexing that both are now in and around 25 yet look to be the same size and shape they were when they burst on the scene in 2017. I donāt know if they have naturally light frames or what but there are just too many lads in that middle third for Cork who simply donāt want to know consistently about the hard yards. I think they may well raise it for one of the early games but I think the round robin and elimination of a potential soft draw doesnāt play to their strengths.
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Heās like a lad texting his ex and waxing lyrical about her relationship with the new fella.
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If Limerick do in fact come back to the pack, it really is wide open. Big if though
They wonāt beat Limerick 3 times in the one championship though. Ideally theyāre waiting for them in the long grass in the All-Ireland and catch them on the hop. Thatās the time you want to be beating Limerick, not in the Munster Round Robin like Clare in 2018 or Tipp/Cork in 2019.
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Coleman Iād say has put on muscle but heās neither a big man nor a physically aggressive one