Weâre in the long grass for next year, it suits us grand.
Who knows if Cork are âbackâ but itâs been an encouraging year nonetheless and theyâve exceeded expectations so weâll call it progress, they wonât be down forever either way.
What was the story with Corkâs use of Harnedy yesterday? Hard to get a proper read on TV but was he left inside for the entire first half? They seemed to play with a traditional 3-man full forward line or close to it anyway.
Meade, Lehane, Kingston;
Cadogan, Harnedy, Horgan.
Open to correction but it appeared to be S Fives on Horgan and Coughlan on Harnedy but D Fives did a great job as the spare defender and there wasnât any space for Harnedy in particular.
Did he play deeper in the second half then when they took Meade off and brought off Cahalane? He didnât really get into the game in the second half either though.
Did Harnedy play well in any game this year?
No.
If you watched any hurling you wouldnât have to ask.
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He is clearly not fit and struggling with a long term injury issue
That would be a total disaster.
The amount of people who can do a good job, have skills AND can placate the CB is extremely limited.
In fact without know how KK would go i felt there was nobe 2 years ago
Ah it was the wrong lad was it not that got red???
Think Kingston should have been sent off rather than Horgan.
Another game turns on poor refereeing and yet Owens is praised.
If Gleeson was sent off for the faceguard pull then itâs a different game and a different result.
Has he been praised? I thought he was very poor yesterday. No free to Waterford for first 23 minutes of the game. He was indecisive numerous times, constantly checking with linesman and umpires-while this should be a good thing if theyâre in a much better position, it looked to me like he was trying to abdicate responsibility. He was constantly putting his whistle to his mouth yesterday and then taking it back down. Seemed fucking clueless to be honest.
Only in parts. Yesterday was his worst performance this year. He isnât the player he was under JBM and hasnât been for a while.
He played further out in the second half with Micheal Cahalane in the full-forward line and Meade off.
Youâd have gotten ratty as well Fagan if youâd been told for the last month you only had to show up.
James Owens was excellent as usual yesterday.
De Burca is a much more important player for Waterford than Austin Gleeson. Obviously Gleeson is ridiculously talented but heâs doing his own thing more than playing with the rest of the team.
Austin Gleeson is rarely the most important Waterford player on the pitch and wasnât yesterday either. He is a good lad to do something special once or twice a game however.
Waterford would have won without him yesterday