Official 2011 All Ireland Hurling Championship Thread

At least Eoin Kelly will be able to say he scored a point with his last puck of a ball in championship hurling.

Surely Molumphy realised a goal was required there.

A clever and cynical foul by Tyrell there too.

He will surely have a blast

Another poor wide for Waterford

Even though they are going to win, the second best team of the 00’s are a pale shadow of what they were.

Eddie Brennan is carrying a fair gut there.

Christ but kilkenny really do get away with some amount of dirty strokes.

Kilkenny seem to be disintegrating. Is there still a chance here?

mullane is a legend in fairness

Unreal. Every passage of play is full of reckless strokes that they get away with.

A goal will make it interesting, the one thing Waterford do have is fitness

Liam Lawlor has had a solid enough game for Waterford and has handled both Larkin and Power fairly well

Some Waterford players happy to pad up their own personal tally rather than hunt the goal that’s actually required.

was thinking that aswell

Surely this has been a missed oppprtunity for Waterford?

Very poor game. Waterford should have been an awful lot closer.

Waterford with 5 defenders back on 2 Kilkenny forwards for the last 5 minutes as they landed clearances down on top of the spare men that had retreated into the Kilkenny half.

Not really after the second goal they never got closer than 5 points I believe. Even when they got it back to that with 10 left Kilkenny upped it a bit and Waterford couldget get the ball past the kilkenny 40 metre line. Kilkenny were poor by the standards they have set for themselves but they got the job done and for the most part were in control

Job done but I fear for us against chipp.

Waterford should take plenty of encouragement from that. They aren’t at the stage where they could beat a team of Kilkenny’s calibre yet but a lot of their younger lads showed the right attitude today.

The wides they hit in the second half were shocking though Puke. Never put pressure on Kilkenny. If they had it would have made it a little more interesting. But we will never know.