Senior Football
We play Gaultier this Tuesday night, 21st
June at 7:30 P.M. at home in our final league match. A win here would still
leave us in with a chance of qualifying for the league semi-final, depending on
other results.
We play St. Saviours in the semi-final of the Phelan
cup on the following Tuesday night, 28th June, at 7:30 PM at a venue
to be decided.
Senior Football
Championship
As has been widely publicised the full round of senior
football championship matches scheduled for this coming weekend, has been
called off by the county board following a request from the Waterford senior
hurling management team. This is very disappointing for the large number of
people involved with football in the county, especially when all clubs were
informed at the start of the season that the fixtures were set in stone and
that they would not be changed for any reason.
The 2nd round match will now be played on
either the weekend of the 24th or 31st July, depending on the result
of the Munster senior hurling final. The 3rd round, which was due to
be played on the 24th July, is now scheduled for the weekend of the
28th August, again depending on the progress, or not, of the county
senior hurlers. All of this uncertainty makes it very difficult for clubs to
organise the preparation of its teams, not to mention for people to organise
holidays & other aspects of their life around their sport.
It appears that the county board officers do
not have “any word” when it comes to such matters. When you view this alongside
the farce that was the voting on the structure of the senior football
championship at the start of the year, when the clubs voted in favour of two 6
team groups, instead of three 4 team groups, before a re-vote was called for by
the county board officers, & somehow the result was overturned, you would
wonder if the county board officers have the best interests of all GAA members
in the county, both football & hurling, at heart. John Kiely from
Kilrosanty, spoke very well on the matter on WLR last Saturday, when he pointed
out a number of things that are going on which are inhibiting the development
of football in the county. Its time to remind the county board that Waterford
are not, & never will be, Kilkenny. We have a vibrant football scene in
Waterford that is the equivalent of a lot of counties in Ireland, & just
because we are not in a position to win All-Ireland’s, doesn’t mean the county
board & the whole GAA organisation in the county shouldn’t give football
it’s full support. Perhaps its time that we had a separate football board as
they have in Tipperary & some other counties, whose sole interest is in
supporting football in the county. The current situation cannot be allowed to
go on without some changes taking place.
Munster Final Tickets
Anyone who is interested in buying tickets for the Munster
senior hurling final between Waterford & Tipperary should get orders in to
club secretary, David Vaughan this week.
