Rumours this morning that they have asked Davy Fitzgerald to take over but this isn’t confirmed yet.

Yeah just saw that reported on setanta - http://sports.setanta.com/en/Sport/News/Other-sports/2008/06/06/GAA-Fitzgerald-favourite-to-take-Dese-job/ - They have eddie o’connor and jim greene as second favourites, couldnt either of them being up to it

I cant see anyone actually wanting to manage them at this stage

Sorry but do not agree nor do alot of fellow waterford men. Justin is a great coach but tactically he is completely niave, was made to look a fool by Clare last weekend and could not compete. he gets alotr of credit for bringing succes to waterford, desreved to a dgree but a good manager would have taken them alot further. we had players who could have achieved some of this this anyway reagrdless who was in charge, he also had a lot of help from senior pros who have acted as peacemakers on a number of occasions over the years. wish him well and thank him for his contribution but its 2 years to late. the golden generation has passed with a better manager, a ger loughnane or the type with a strong personality players whoa re on their last legs now could have achieved a lot more.

McCarthy ain’t perfect, by all accounts he’s not a great communicator, but his experience and knowledge make up for it. At some point the players have to deliver and it wasn’t McCarthy’s fault they shipped 5 goals to a mediocre limerick outfit last year or couldn’t get over cork the year before. It was the players who were made to look fools against clare for their lack of heart - as john mullane pointed out afterwards.

AS per usual Waterford have an excuse for failing on the big day. Justin McCarthy’s bad man management skills this year, the 3 games in 3 weeks last year. I was at the match last Sunday. The reason they were beaten was because they were beaten by the better team, FACT. Clare deserve credit for their display on the day. Justin McCarthy is a fine manager and did not deserve the treatment he got, to be stabbed in the back by his own players. The players he bought to 3 Munster titles and a National League.
The Waterford folks have very short memories, that was 4 titles in 7 year. Waterford had not won a title for nearly 40 years before Justin.
Ok he didnt get them the All Ireland they deserved but he gave Waterford some great days and you cant deny him that.
We all know how hard it is to break the stranglehold of the big 3. Gosh, how I miss the mid 90’s.

justin mccarthy has being very badly treated by his (ex) players. how a bunch of lads that every neutral would normaly shout for could turn around and behave like this is beyond me. being a tipp supporter i know about hard times recently and have seen managers come and go but what waterford acheived was on a long term level. okay maybe justin could have said good luck after last season but to be pushed after one game is a disgrace. as much as it pains me to say john mullane was spot on when he said players needed to look at themselves after the clare game. is he the only honest one of them. good luck to justin because he is a true hurling legend and let him know the people of cashel will never forget him!!!!

No one is blaming, Justin for the clare game, clare were hungry, superfit and determined, still think we could have beaten them if players tried properly though. despite only playing for 15 mins in the game with 10 mins to go was only 3 points in it. Fact is Justin did a great job for a number of years, but when we short numbers Eoin kelly was dropped, Brian Wall and James Murray omitted entirely, Tom Feeny should have been organising backs in Kens absence. All tactical decisions were made wrong. for a few years his tactic of switching forwards around worked great but once othe mangers came up with a system to deal with that he had no ideas. As i said no one deputes he has good coaching ability but he is completely incapable of reacting to changes in a game, w have seen it year after year after year and players performances have hidden his inadequacies. Clare had a simple tactic of sucking players into the middle of the park and our lads fell for it and as a result clare picked up easy scores. Everyone in the ground recognised it execpt Justin and his team, another managerw ould have changed things around to counter, his answer…come on, try harder. ‘inspirational words.’ The simple story is if players don’t want you & fans dont want you walk away, everyone was hoping he would do it before now, but he didn’t so he was pushed. No one disputes he has contributed but not much in the last few years, even his training sessions are stale at this point according to the players. Anyone who criticises his dismissal should take this into account, we gave im 7 years, how many other boards can say they have backed any manager that long?

Sorry but dont you think that the bad display against Clare should be blamed on the players and definitely not the management theres only so much they can do its up to the players after that.

Tones agree alot of players did not seem to be trying and blame ultimately lays on their doorstep, but it is like the Steve Staunton factor. if you are constantly sent out without a game plan against well organised teams, frustration can boil over. Believe firmly certain players liked the idea of a back door route. we have an older team a nd a slower bulid up with tougher finish might be preferable to tough munster and wait till semis/quarters.Antrim + Wexford/Dublin is preferable to Limerick + Cork/Tipp even if you end up with potentially a tougher game after, role on the quarters, we’ll still be heavily involved in the shake up. Not all justins fault but it had reached its end.

Fitzy has been named as Waterford boss, I just cant believe it!!

Had me very worried but saw 2 things that are very smart moves, 1) appointed only till end of season at which point both parties can decide if want to continue
2)and even more importantly, peter quelly has been appointed as a selector to assist him, hopefully fitzy has sense to listen to what im sure will be good advice from a man who know Waterford hurling insdide out. gonna be an interesting year

he’ll get them fired up anyway - if he doesnt get himself suspended in the process! no idea what he’s like tactically, i mean he done well with LIT but then he had Joe Canning there. If he can the keeper full of confidence and sort out the full back line they’ll be well back in it

And Eoin Kelly