The holidays are over and it’s back to the grindstone for the Waterford
Intermediate ladies football team who open their campaign with a home match in
the Kennedy Cup against Limerick, the team they beat in this year’s Munster
final. This will also be the first match for the ladies under the new manager
Pat Sullivan. It is a very early start in the year for the team but with the
new league campaign just around the corner the girls will relish getting in
some match practice before they face last year’s All Ireland Junior champions
Wexford in the first round of the league in early February.
Limerick in the Kennedy Cup, will be a good test and both management
teams will use the game to experiment and try out some new players and these
two teams invariably provide a close contest for each other .They met twice in
last year’s championship with Waterford prevailing on both occasions. In the
Munster final we saw an exhibition of sharp shooting in the first half by the
Déise girls when fifteen scoring chances resulted in fifteen points. This
however is a new season and both counties will be out to improve on the
disappointments of last year. Limerick will be buoyed by the success of the
Murroe Boher club who won the All Ireland Junior club championship in emphatic
fashion early in December.
This match is a hard one to call and much will depend on the various
line outs put out by both management teams. Throw In for the match which will
be Waterford’s only home game in the Kennedy Cup competition takes place at
7:15 pm on Wednesday night 7th January in the Dungarvan GAA grounds
at 7:15
Waterford’s other Kennedy Cup fixtures are as follows:
Wednesday 14th Jan UCC V Waterford at 8pm in UCC
Friday 16th Jan UL V Waterford at 7:30 in UL
Sunday 25th Jan Mary Immaculate College V Waterford
at 1pm in Mary I
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