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

Are we looking at a Patsy Fanning type year under Peter Queally and his big nose?

That was the one thing I remembered about Peter Queally as a player, his big nose.

True but extremely boring story: At the 1994 All-Ireland hurling final (very back corner of Hill 16 beside the new half finished Cusack Stand, you had to get down on your knees to see the play when it was in the Canal/Cusack corner) when Damien Quigley of Limerick was running riot, me oul’ fella kept referring to him as Damien “Queally”. I knew it was Quigley and tried to correct him, but I ended up going with the flow. “Another goal by Damien Queally. Another point by Damien Queally. Queally has got 2 goals and 3 points now!”

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Patsy had better players and got a tune out of them in the league. It didn’t go to shit until the championship.

u didnt have much to say in the 2nd half so?! Queally didnt raise too many flags

He got one lovely point in the second half which could/should have been a goal where he pulled on a loose ball somewhere between the 14 and the 21 and hit it “too well” and directed it up towards the Toyota clock and over the bar rather than into the back of the net which surely would have killed the game.

Quigley as you say was to blame for Limerick losing that day due to him not hitting 2-2 in the second half as he had done in the first.

ah now I didnt mean to blame him for the defeat either, just pointed out he wasnt scoring in the 2nd half

Waterford had enough good players with experience of big games at club and county to beat carlow. Jamie barron, prendergast, Bennett, Mark Fitz, Patrick Fitz, conor Sheehan etc.
After all Chris Nolan and Kavanagh contributed 2-13 between them so they carry lot of lads.
If ballygunner played carlow I’d be backing ballygunner every time.

New Ballygunner manager is Jason Ryan supposedly.
A DLS man.

The ex-Wexford manager ?

Yeah the very same.
Football

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Yeah, ratified last night seemingly. Think he was part of Keith Rossiter backroom team in Wexford last year.

I was surprised to hear Hartley turned it down a while back but perhaps understandable with a son/nephew looking to break into the forwardline.

Wonder will Franks be kept on now. Big Darragh had created a very good environment and they’d want to be very careful about ripping it up.

I’d say Franks is gone. There was talks previously that he was only going to stay so long as he had ambitions himself he wants to follow. Will be a huge loss.

Be interesting to see who Ryan brings in with him. Budget would be very big in Ballygunner.

I heard they sounded out Sheedy and Cusack for the manager role too.

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My sources tell me the players wrote a letter to the club chairman telling him they didn’t want Fergal as manager, so perhaps that’s why he turned it down.

There was always tension between the Sullivan/Mahonys and the Hartleys as to who actually ran the club.

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Sheedy was to go in with Hartley.

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I’d have always felt Hartley’s demeanor on the sideline was too frenetic. Best suited to training young lads.

Ouch. “The players” is often a misleading term too, without saying how many of the players did or didn’t want him. Player groups, even in high performing setups, can often be lead by a handful of individuals.

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The Sullivan/Mahonys in this case.

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Probably some cabal of cunts in a dreaded sidegroup plotting away…
Those sidegroups are endlessly plotting someone’s removal…

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The Sullivans run that club. Fergal Hartley’s sister is married to Rory O’Sullivan.

Jason Ryan is coaching Wexford with Franks, so there is a strong chance he is still involved.