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Wexford Hurling 2025

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Replying To Viking66:  "What progress do you want to see? We have more young lads turning into decent Senior Intercounty players than any other county right now. I agree we don't have many X factor, star type, hurlers coming through right now but neither do any other county. In any case I think you need to be born with that to a certain extent.
Other posters keep mentioning Dublin and Offaly but we have beaten Dublin at minor and u20 this year, the last 2 years our minors beat Offalys by double digits, and this year our minor hurlers beat a good Laois minor team who beat Offaly by 31 points in the previous round to us beating them. We beat Kilkenny and Cork well at minor last year also.
I agree it would be nice to see us win a minor title, but we would need a particularly good crop of lads with a particularly good management team over them, as every year there are very good teams playing for one county or another, though, with the exception of Clare the last 4 years, not the same counties every year."
I'd like us to have something to shout about Viking...something to give us hope. I know we beat those teams in this convoluted system but at the end of the day we weren't the ones in contention in those competitions when it came to the business end.

It makes.it worse for me because I'm living in Dublin involved with Lucan Sarsfields and the momentum building in Dublin hurling is incredible. They're only gpoing to improve. I don't begrudge em it but I'd love to see us with the same positivity

If we've only a small enough group pitting the time in with coaching and playing then I feel we will be also rans.

For most of my life we've been second-rate, why us it ever going to be any different I suppose. Regardless of programs and structures there's still a huge element of luck and timing involved. In the early to late 90s we'd a good team that more or less came at the same time.

That team Liam Dunne ushered in also.came.more or less at.the same time and I feel we massively underachieved with them. Will we ever have a good crop come overca few years again?

I mentioned before I've a few contacts in Naas. Their u12s are playing in Dublin and their over 12s are in Kilkenny leagues. They also run their own championship or go games whatever.

I don't see that level of commitment or ingenuity in Wexford. All I see is negativity and same old stuff repeating.

WEXILE (Wexford) - Posts: 424 - 24/06/2025 15:08:39    2620724

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Replying To Doylerwex:  "That is one thing we firmly agree on."
Me too

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16387 - 24/06/2025 15:08:49    2620726

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Replying To Doylerwex:  "Hard to spot in real time but I. Slow motion the one on chinner looked worse"
the one on Lee Chin was scandolous, and the linesman was looking directly at it and 5 yards away.

countyman2022 (Wexford) - Posts: 826 - 24/06/2025 16:26:48    2620763

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I don't really get the idea of comparing to Dublin clubs to the vast majority of clubs in Ireland, never mind Wexford. Doesn't even have to be the super-clubs, you still can't really compare the teams on the next tier down in Dublin to anyone in Wexford.

And you can't really compare Naas either as they're on their way to being a super-club in time, only really Gorey in Wexford have the capacity to become a super-club and I don't think they're at that stage now

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 579 - 24/06/2025 17:04:28    2620773

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Replying To Viking66:  "Don't understand the 1st part of your post. "Very very poor year when you look at the progress Dublin have made". There wasn't much in our game against Dublin, we had just stretched 3 points clear before the goal that didn't cross the line, despite a good few players not playing to their potential.
Dublin beating Limerick is a great result for them, and credit must go to their players and management. But why does that make our year very very poor instead of just poor? We have never got more than 6 points in a Leinster Round Robin, which is what we got this year.
We are well used to having poor years at this stage. Barring only a few years nearly every year has been a poor year since 1968. And nearly every year before 1955."
Barring only a few years nearly every year has been a poor year since 1968

Cant agree with that, We were very good in the 70's, had a few good teams in the 80s, were very good in the 90s. Whilst we didn't win much in those years we were competitive with the best teams around. They were different eras when there was fewer games so comparisons are difficult. This year was very poor (as were the previous few years) by any standards. What's most concerning is that we are likely to get worse rather than better. Take Chin out of the team and we are beyond ordinary.

FearBeag (Mayo) - Posts: 92 - 24/06/2025 17:29:05    2620779

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Replying To FearBeag:  "Barring only a few years nearly every year has been a poor year since 1968

Cant agree with that, We were very good in the 70's, had a few good teams in the 80s, were very good in the 90s. Whilst we didn't win much in those years we were competitive with the best teams around. They were different eras when there was fewer games so comparisons are difficult. This year was very poor (as were the previous few years) by any standards. What's most concerning is that we are likely to get worse rather than better. Take Chin out of the team and we are beyond ordinary."
We've spent alot of those years in the 2nd tier of the League. We havent won a League since 1973. We have only won Leinster 6 times since then. Most of those years Galway weren't in Leinster either. At underage we haven't won any AI u21s or minors in that time either.
The fact that we had good teams in some of those years doesn't change the fact that mostly they were poor years. If anything it makes those years even poorer in terms of under achievement.
Lads need to take the rose tinted glasses off. Comparing our current lack of success to previous years when in reality we weren't much more successful then than we are now isn't going to help us get more successful going forwards.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16387 - 24/06/2025 21:58:00    2620829

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "I don't really get the idea of comparing to Dublin clubs to the vast majority of clubs in Ireland, never mind Wexford. Doesn't even have to be the super-clubs, you still can't really compare the teams on the next tier down in Dublin to anyone in Wexford.

And you can't really compare Naas either as they're on their way to being a super-club in time, only really Gorey in Wexford have the capacity to become a super-club and I don't think they're at that stage now"
Population fallacy. It is everywhere in GAA.
Ballyhale disprove it in a heart beat.

ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1395 - 24/06/2025 22:06:29    2620831

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Replying To countyman2022:  "the one on Lee Chin was scandolous, and the linesman was looking directly at it and 5 yards away."
I thought Crummey deserved to be sent off v Wexford. It was stupid.
Saturday was careless more than malicious but Hegarty made sure he saw red. Yes I know he gave the referee a decision and that was stupid.
The one issue I do have is whether the top counties get an easier time of referees than us, Wexford, and so on?
The worst hit I saw was Daithi Burke, how he did not walk I will never know.
Rory O'Connor, sent off for nothing v Clare last year and many similar tackles go unpunished in the Munster championship each year.
I believe referees lack the cajones to send off players from the Munster counties and Kilkenny but they don't think twice about the middle of the road counties. I don't believe Hegarty would have hit the deck v Cork for example because he wouldn't have been as sure of a red card being given and the replay would have laughed him out of the joint.

ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1395 - 24/06/2025 22:13:17    2620833

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