Waterford Hurling (now incorporating intermediate football) 2013 and subsequent years

[Fagan_ODowd]

@carryharry

Are they Pat Fitz’s of Kill Agri fames sons?

That I don’t know. I didn’t realise that Kill Agri was famous.

[carryharry]

Pat is a nationwide household name in any roaster household

[Fagan_ODowd]

@endakenny

@Fagan_ODowd

Drove up to Tullamore from South East Waterford today. Lovely drive. Parked in the Tullamore GAA Grounds (€5). Adjacent to the ground.
Met a Waterford county board apparatchik in the ground who told me that between the two court they had sold 500 tickets as of 6 pm last night. In fairness by throw in there might have been double that number in the ground.

Game was even enough for about 20 minutes. Offaly with the wind in the first half bizarrely played a sweeper. They let Waterford have every puck out uncontested. I counted 8 puck outs in a row to our corner back Mark Fitzgerald who wasted every one of them. Maybe there was method in their madness.

Midway through the first half new boy Sean Walsh (who apart from a 5 minute spell was poor enough) scored a goal. Then five minutes later Stephen Bennett scored two goals in a minute. The first was of the farcical variety. Stephen missed the lift on a free and in the confusion that followed he buried a shot for a goal. The second goal was a better affair all round though the Offaly goalie was of the jump out of the way variety.

That was the game more or less. Waterford played poorly with the breeze and had a horror show on the frees but eventually settled and reeled off the last 8 points for a 12 point win.

I don’t think we’ll win the All Ireland this year.

Ye left me down for -12 ye useless gits. Can you explain what happened in the third quarter?

Shit show. Classic Waterford. Assumed the game was won and switched off. Also missed 4 very scoreable frees in this period.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@carryharry

Pat is a nationwide household name in any roaster household

That would explain why I had never heard of him.

[endakenny]

@Fagan_ODowd

@endakenny

@Fagan_ODowd

Drove up to Tullamore from South East Waterford today. Lovely drive. Parked in the Tullamore GAA Grounds (€5). Adjacent to the ground.
Met a Waterford county board apparatchik in the ground who told me that between the two court they had sold 500 tickets as of 6 pm last night. In fairness by throw in there might have been double that number in the ground.

Game was even enough for about 20 minutes. Offaly with the wind in the first half bizarrely played a sweeper. They let Waterford have every puck out uncontested. I counted 8 puck outs in a row to our corner back Mark Fitzgerald who wasted every one of them. Maybe there was method in their madness.

Midway through the first half new boy Sean Walsh (who apart from a 5 minute spell was poor enough) scored a goal. Then five minutes later Stephen Bennett scored two goals in a minute. The first was of the farcical variety. Stephen missed the lift on a free and in the confusion that followed he buried a shot for a goal. The second goal was a better affair all round though the Offaly goalie was of the jump out of the way variety.

That was the game more or less. Waterford played poorly with the breeze and had a horror show on the frees but eventually settled and reeled off the last 8 points for a 12 point win.

I don’t think we’ll win the All Ireland this year.

Ye left me down for -12 ye useless gits. Can you explain what happened in the third quarter?

Shit show. Classic Waterford. Assumed the game was won and switched off. Also missed 4 very scoreable frees in this period.

Ya with due respect if it was anyone else it would have been 20 points and a nice day at the office.

[Fagan_ODowd]

@endakenny

@Fagan_ODowd

@endakenny

@Fagan_ODowd

Drove up to Tullamore from South East Waterford today. Lovely drive. Parked in the Tullamore GAA Grounds (€5). Adjacent to the ground.
Met a Waterford county board apparatchik in the ground who told me that between the two court they had sold 500 tickets as of 6 pm last night. In fairness by throw in there might have been double that number in the ground.

Game was even enough for about 20 minutes. Offaly with the wind in the first half bizarrely played a sweeper. They let Waterford have every puck out uncontested. I counted 8 puck outs in a row to our corner back Mark Fitzgerald who wasted every one of them. Maybe there was method in their madness.

Midway through the first half new boy Sean Walsh (who apart from a 5 minute spell was poor enough) scored a goal. Then five minutes later Stephen Bennett scored two goals in a minute. The first was of the farcical variety. Stephen missed the lift on a free and in the confusion that followed he buried a shot for a goal. The second goal was a better affair all round though the Offaly goalie was of the jump out of the way variety.

That was the game more or less. Waterford played poorly with the breeze and had a horror show on the frees but eventually settled and reeled off the last 8 points for a 12 point win.

I don’t think we’ll win the All Ireland this year.

Ye left me down for -12 ye useless gits. Can you explain what happened in the third quarter?

Shit show. Classic Waterford. Assumed the game was won and switched off. Also missed 4 very scoreable frees in this period.

Ya with due respect if it was anyone else it would have been 20 points and a nice day at the office.

Correct

[Ovalau1]

They are

[PhattPike]

@Fagan_ODowd

The second goal was a better affair all round though the Offaly goalie was of the jump out of the way variety.

Was watching Joanne et al there on +1, jaysus I thought I was viewing camogie highlights there for a second.

[StoneCold]

Sounds like a grand way to spend a Sunday mate

[Fagan_ODowd]

@StoneCold

Sounds like a grand day to spend a Sunday mate

Yeah I had Powery with me in the car. It was a grand jaunt.

[ChairmanDan]

@Fagan_ODowd

I’d say Waterford were down 9 championship starters today. So it wasn’t that bad of a performance. Looking at the respective teams I thought we’d be beat by 5-10 points. But Davy seems to have a bit of a spirit going in the panel. Of the team that started I’d say only Shaun o Brien, Mark Fitzgerald, Conor Ryan, Stephen Bennett. Neil Montgomery and Michael Kiely will start in championship.

The fundamental problem with Davy’s sweeper system is it’s very hard to post a competitive total. 1-16 today, which is about par for Davy teams. They seem to hover around the 20 point mark. In last year’s Munster championship, Waterford posted 0-19, 0-18, 0-16 and then after they were already eliminated 1-24 in their final match against a half arsed Tipperary.

They did scrape and fight hard today in a low quality match. Waterford forward play and movement was very ordinary.

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Cant wait for Derek mcgrath to pronounce the new name.

https://twitter.com/ExaminerSport/status/1757086776017989998?t=Ibw3jlxDgVYUm92ghnV39w&s=19

[endakenny]

John Mullane be even better… Hooyyahhh boyyy

[fenwaypark]

He will espouse its benefits and quote some war general in the process

[Heyyoubehindthebushes]

Still wouldnt have the ring of supervalue park

[neilld]

“Pairc Ui Supervalu” - best of both names there sure

[Julio_Geordio]

Huawei in Chinese translates to splendid achievement, and I was reminded upon hearing the announcement of Waterford’s new sponsors of one of my Waterford teams splendid achievements.

I will tell it in a way that will appear humble initially deflecting the credit onto the players, but you will ultimately realise the point of the story is how I was the architect behind it all. In fact the only reason I told the story in the first place was my own self aggrandisement

[Thornhill]

https://www.rte.ie/sport/hurling/2024/0213/1432125-i-just-wasnt-enjoying-it-gleeson-opens-up-on-break/

[SlippyStevie]

@Thornhill

https://www.rte.ie/sport/hurling/2024/0213/1432125-i-just-wasnt-enjoying-it-gleeson-opens-up-on-break/

"Waterford fans are great when they’re going well but when things are bad they’re probably the worst around, that’s being completely honest with you.

Seems to be a strange fish, Ozzy. Very talented player on his day, which has been increasingly few and far between in recent years. Not sure if it’s immaturity or an inability to deal with expectation or criticism.

[balbec]

Maybe he’s just tired of it?