Waterford v Wexford - The battle for armchair supporter moral high ground

[balbec]

The limerick half back way

[carryharry]

Lined out in the Cahill cup against your crowd last weekend. His knee looks to be heavily strapped still so I imagine he is way off the fitness required to face Galway regardless.

[carryharry]

Fishy fingering?

[myboyblue]

Certain players are allowed shoot from anywhere they like in that system, some days they’ll all sail over, other days you’ll bang over a few cheap annoying wides, but you take the good with the bad.

[Mac]

@Gman

yeah true enough, but as you mention the Kilkenny game, it was by a distance his best game of the year where he seldom made bad choices in it. The Galway and Waterford game bypassed him somewhat and he had some of those poor decisions in it. When he plays a complete game (like the Kilkenny one) he is excellent. Those 2 or 3 shots to nothing and not passing or the mazy dead end solo runs are what brings him back to being average in games. As I said, I’m being overly critical of him here. I just think he has the skills and talent to be at the very top of hurlers in the country, taking away those poor decisions in games brings him closer to being that.

Chin was quite involved for all the right reasons in the Galway game until he got the bang in the eye. It did bypass him after that though.

[Bandage]

@Bandage

PM O’Sullivan reckons Waterford and Tipperary will win handily enough this weekend.

I’ve taken to reading PM’s pieces in The Examiner in recent weeks. He has a lovely little tradition of referring to a text received from a friend in his articles. It’s usually when he wants to have a snide dig at someone. A friend from Ennis texted during the game to say…

This week PM references bumping into an acquaintance who met a Wexford player last week. The Wexford player told PM’s acquaintance they wouldn’t win last Sunday as they’d nothing left in the tank after Davy’s tough winter training regime. I’m already looking forward to next week’s instalment.

[backinatracksuit]

And to think there was a time that any old gobshite with an AFR account could digitally converse with the greatest living hurling mind.

[Midshipman_Asha]

Have you ever met him? I’d say he considers himself to have one of the greatest minds of his generation.

[ciarancareyshurlingarmy]

You don’t like him.then?

I had a few conversation a long time back and did him a turn. No.issues

[Midshipman_Asha]

I don’t dislike him but he does rate his own intellect highly.

[balbec]

He was a million times more intelligent than us.

[backinatracksuit]

How did he get into the Examiner? Had it something to do with his contributions to an Internet forum?

[balbec]

He must have been talent spotted

[backinatracksuit]

‘Poached’ as it were?

[Gman]

fucking hell but he writes some awful drivel. In his quest to sound intelligent and using as many big words as he can to say a simple thing, he makes it almost unreadable. He has points at times. As mentioned here about the forwards lack of impact and as a result the defenders get forward to score. But fuck me he goes some way to say such a simple point.

I think a lot of his shit against it is the mention of his Ballyhale god Shefflin. That straight away set his targets on Fitzgerald. He spoofed on and on last week or the one before about the tactics he used in some club game for Ballyhale as if it was revolutionary.

If he actually saw the point Davy said, instead of playing the man, to use an oft used phrase around here, he would actually agree with him. Davy wants to see proper analysis and proper discussion of hurling. What we get now is bullshit cliches, stupid stories and loads of guffawing.

There is also a serious amount of snobbery, particularly from Kilkenny folk lately, about the sweeper. It is seen as the death of hurling and defensive shite. But you play the hand that is given to you and make the best of it that you can. The fact that Kilkenny are on a downward slope is probably adding fuel to their ire that these shit teams are beating them with the shitty sweeper system. His reference to Cork and Tipp shows he only has any respect for the “big three”. His point about Clare winning in 2013 has fuck all relevance to the piece, but yet he throws it in.

his anecdote about the player who “trained nearly every day in January” is some horseshit too. Like you, I am looking forward to seeing what madeup fanciful story of a friend of his to corroborate his story he has next week.

[Midshipman_Asha]

He is good friends with Enda McEvoy, maybe he passed on his CV?

[balbec]

They can keep him

[balbec]

I wonder will there be much demand for his KK spiel in their upcoming ten year famine?

[Ashman]

He had previous columns with the IT .

[Gman]

I’d say even more so. He’ll be seething and spitting bile and it’ll be even better reading that than some of his shit now. How upset he was because he didn’t think Kilkenny got enough credit over the past ten years gives you an indication of how he’ll be when they are shit for the next ten.