they might aswell blew up now as galway have thrown in the towel. Dismal display from galway.
I thought the Dublin game was the worst Iâd seen from a Galway team but we have a new winner after this.
Disgraceful stuff.
I donât agree with Duignan and Canningâs take that itâs Joe Canning v Waterford. Heâs as culpable as the rest of the Galway players. Itâs fine bringing out the bag of tricks in qualifier games but heâs been posted missing as this game has progressed. Not sure what his record is like in championship games from quarter final stage onwards but I donât think itâs up to much.
i agree
i dont
Kevin Moran and Shane Walsh have been really exceptional here.
fair play to davy and the waterford players. great character to come out and put in a performance like that after the hammering versus tipp.
his body language has being shite in my opinion
Rotten pull by the Galway defender there. Sums them up nicely.
Cowardly and rotten.
Davy crying ffs
we wont be seeing mcintyre again
Wd fans around me were singing Sacked in the Morning at McIntyre from about 45 mins
How bad are Cork now?
At the end of every game you can say:
Were the winning team that good or were the losing team that bad?
Now weâre gonna hear tonight from RTE that the Waterford are full of heart and that they are back. Most hurling teams with any respect would want to put Galway to the sword today.
TomĂĄs Mulcahy talking a load of bullshit there. âWaterford needed to get back to playing with flamboyance and forget about tactics and drift defences and open the shoulders and get on with it.â That is exactly the kind of attitude that would see Waterford get another serious beating in the semi-final. Davy saying the same nonsense âThrow off the shackles and playâ.
Galway spent most of the match not even contesting puck outs. I saw it in the first half with Gantley. He just looked at the ball, didnât even address it with a hand or his hurl. God forbid he make it anyway difficult for his marker. Same was the case all over the field. Between that and poor short puck outs. One late in the second half was particularly hilarious.
Between that and incorporating a short game of over-elaborate hand passes played right into Waterfordâs hands. Once in the first half Galway played the ball around with some good hand passes and ended in a good point for Canning. The rest of the time they were running into dead ends and being dispossessed with ease. I alluded to this at half time. Tipp created a template of how to dismantle Waterford. Quick ball into the full forward line and move your forwards around to make space. Tipp didnât invent this, it is a simple tactic that has been used for years. But they executed it perfectly. It looked like Galway specifically decided to do the opposite of this. It looked like they had no forward movement and their over-elaboration negated even the idea of quick ball. It looked as though Waterford had their half back line playing deep. But all the Galway forwards did was stand still.
Waterford scored 2-23 and did so under very little pressure from Galway. Tipperary put them under so much pressure in the Munster Final that Waterford attackers could not get a clean shot off and hit a series of poor wides. Today, players like Shane Walsh and Stephen Molumphy were totally free to tip over little shots for points. The start of the second half saw them score 5 points before Galway even realised it. Between lack of effort and stupid frees it accounted for most of the Waterford scores.
Again, I still donât get the placing of some players and tactics by McIntyre.
Joe at half forward, Hayes at centre forward. Square pegs in round holes.
âGalwayâs attitude was not wrong todayâ. I beg to differ bro. Best of luck, John. The next guy will have to deal with the same weak minded players and the same capitulation but at least they might put Joe full forward, create some space for him to do some damage and hit some ball into him. It will work until they lay another egg in a quarter final.
Were Waterford that good or were Galway that bad? Galway didnât even try.
Iâm annoyed watching Galway. God only knows what Galway fans make of it.
This Galway team are some bunch of absolute losers. They can count themselves lucky they didnât get to a semi-final and play like that. Tipp and Kilkenny would both take pleasure in wiping the floor with them.
I truly feel like today shows that the gap between the top 2 and the rest is enormous.
I can see 2 very one-sided semi-finals.
You seem strangely obsessed with Cork. Now I donât particularly mind this, since when weâre going through a spell where we are basically an irrelevance at senior hurling itâs good to see that some people still seem to care. Itâs a bit weird on your part though.
On todayâs games, agree with the general drift of conversation here. Limerick threw it away, and Galway were bafflingly awful. They looked like they werenât competing for ball pretty much from the off, and seemed to give up entirely midway through the second half. Canning continuing to play at half forward when they clearly needed goals in the second half seemed entirely bizarre.
Galway were a disgrace today.
I would have thought that Galway fell into the classic favourites trap. Totally complacent at the start and got blown out of it at the start. Got back into it and must have thought at half time that theyâd just kick on and win. However they were blown out of it again at the start of the second half and they were in tatters then. There were bad signs early on though. Andy Smith got into a shoving match with Kevin Moran and took a dive holding his face. Scandalous prick acting and not a good sign. Also Waterford sacrificed a scoreable free to have a good ruckus after about 25 minutes and Galway backed down.
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You seem strangely obsessed with Cork. Now I donât particularly mind this, since when weâre going through a spell where we are basically an irrelevance at senior hurling itâs good to see that some people still seem to care. Itâs a bit weird on your part though.
On todayâs games, agree with the general drift of conversation here. Limerick threw it away, and Galway were bafflingly awful. They looked like they werenât competing for ball pretty much from the off, and seemed to give up entirely midway through the second half. Canning continuing to play at half forward when they clearly needed goals in the second half seemed entirely bizarre.
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Just in the door from Thurles. Galway were fcuking disgracefull today.
Why train all year and then throw in the towel after 2 mins of the 2nd half.
Gutless, Ruderless, Leaderless, shambolic cowards.
Iâd meet the cunts at the county border with pitchforks and torches if I was you mate. I sincerely hope they didnât get out of Thurles without a serious amount of abuse from their fellow county folk.
Todayâs matches were shown up for what they were - an utter irrelevance in the grand scheme of things. Tipp or KK would prob beat a selection panel from today. Either way, Dublin can only hope to not get Waterford-ed by Tipp and Waterford can hope they play like today and not the Munster final
On another note : Waterford have, quite possibly the ugliest population I have ever had the misfortune to come across
FĂłgra eile: was shocked to hear Limerick people cheer when Niall Moran came off. Whatever yeâre thoughts on the chap, he didnt deserve that