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Lot of lads breaking down from Davy time in charge.no one will be shouting and roaring about leinster titles etc.. if by some miracle we do win tomorrow, don't be silly now, come on.. that team will do well to come within 10 points of Cork tomorrow and that the truth. Best of luck to all the lads and management for the year ahead. Tough year ahead but let's hope things will look brighter by the end of the year. hunting (Wexford) - Posts: 1040 - 24/01/2025 15:14:52 2587348 Link
Replying To StoreysTash: "And there lies the problem. No player wants to hurl or play football all year round. The Martins were going until before Christmas and people in March or April will whinge that Rory is looking tired. The problem as I have said before is that the lack of down time for top players is killing them all. Their bodies never recover, they've an overly long pre-season which serves nobody. Cork are probably just back and Wexford have done nearly 2 months. Cork are planning for July, Wexford are planning for what and when exactly? As I have said before, an Australian S&C coach laughed at me when I told him the pre-season in GAA is as long as it is. And he is getting players fit for a game where players need to be even fitter than GAA. But it never seems to occur to GAA people. If Wexford win tomorrow, there'll be whoopers and hollers and talk of Leinster titles and by the time it comes around the team might be flat and injury ridden and out of gas. Does nobody ever ask why?" From the rumours we hear Cork are training like dogs. Looking forward to tomorrow and seeing how our debutants get on . Would like to see Cian Molloy , Jack Redmond, Sean Rowley and Tucker Kinsella get plenty of game time off the bench if they arent starting Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 415 - 24/01/2025 15:26:53 2587351 Link
Think it's worth noting the team we started last year against Kilkenny in the league Mark Fanning Eoin Ryan Conor Foley Niall Murphy Charlie McGuckin Damien Reck Conor Hearne Corey Byrne Dunbar Cian Molloy Jack O'Connor Lee Chin Kevin Foley James Byrne Richie Lawlor Seamus Casey From that team, we've lost Damien Reck, Jack, and Lee for tomorrow and gained Rory and Cian Byrne There's a lot of doom and gloom on here at the moment, if the players have the same attitude as those on here, we may as well not turn up tomorrow We need to blood these young players in anyway but at the same time, we don't want to be throwing them to the wolves so we need some experience in there Yes, we have a full-back problem at the moment, yes, there are players there who've probably already have enough chances but when you consider injuries, retirements, unavailability, and Fitzgibbon, it's not as if Keith had a huge amount of other options ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 365 - 24/01/2025 15:35:53 2587354 Link
Really not looking forward to tomorrow and think cork at minus six is a steal. See if I can get a double on it and it breaks my heart saying it Wexfordgaa (Wexford) - Posts: 328 - 24/01/2025 19:03:36 2587387 Link
Replying To Afinestick96: "From the rumours we hear Cork are training like dogs. Looking forward to tomorrow and seeing how our debutants get on . Would like to see Cian Molloy , Jack Redmond, Sean Rowley and Tucker Kinsella get plenty of game time off the bench if they arent starting" Do you think our lads are supping pints up in Ferns? They are training very hard fair play to them. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14387 - 24/01/2025 19:04:20 2587388 Link
Replying To ElGranSenor: "Think it's worth noting the team we started last year against Kilkenny in the league Mark Fanning Eoin Ryan Conor Foley Niall Murphy Charlie McGuckin Damien Reck Conor Hearne Corey Byrne Dunbar Cian Molloy Jack O'Connor Lee Chin Kevin Foley James Byrne Richie Lawlor Seamus Casey From that team, we've lost Damien Reck, Jack, and Lee for tomorrow and gained Rory and Cian Byrne There's a lot of doom and gloom on here at the moment, if the players have the same attitude as those on here, we may as well not turn up tomorrow We need to blood these young players in anyway but at the same time, we don't want to be throwing them to the wolves so we need some experience in there Yes, we have a full-back problem at the moment, yes, there are players there who've probably already have enough chances but when you consider injuries, retirements, unavailability, and Fitzgibbon, it's not as if Keith had a huge amount of other options" Spot on. I'm not going into the Park expecting anything less than a fully committed performance on and off the pitch. As Afinestick said there are lads named on the bench who I hope will get decent gametime, if not starting, then playing most of the 2nd half. Hopefully we get a result, but if some of the newer lads play really well I couldn't care less if we lose tbh. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14387 - 24/01/2025 19:07:21 2587389 Link
Great to have it back. With both teams now named I honestly can't see this Wexford team getting anything today and I think Cork will cover the handicap handily. Obviously we will improve as the league goes on and as we get closer to full strength. As for the rest of the year if we can keep everyone fit I don't see why we can't challenge for Leinster. Hopefully I'm wrong and we get a good game and performance today. Loch Garman Abu ChinCanHurl (Wexford) - Posts: 294 - 25/01/2025 12:19:42 2587446 Link
Bullied. Off. The. Ball. OpenStandWall (Wexford) - Posts: 170 - 25/01/2025 17:29:40 2587477 Link
Very poor all-round and very lucky to be only 10 down Having the wind in the second half should help but won't be enough to offset the fact we've been non-existent in contests for possession, the ball goes up from Fanning to the half-forward line and the Cork half-back line just send the ball straight back There are some senior players who have been particularly disappointing and you'd have to question why we are still persisting with them at this stage (Other than the fact we can't play a full team of youngsters) Conor Foley, Eoin Ryan, and David Codd probably the best so far but that's not saying much ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 365 - 25/01/2025 17:41:50 2587479 Link
Backing Cork to beat handicap probably the easiest money one could make all year. 15 point defeat at home to start the year is grim. Timbertony (Wexford) - Posts: 327 - 25/01/2025 18:36:07 2587485 Link
Went as I expected really. Eoin Ryan was decent not many other highlights. Horrible night for hurling ChinCanHurl (Wexford) - Posts: 294 - 25/01/2025 18:41:18 2587486 Link
Men against boys. We have zero physical presence. No Strength in depth when big players missing. Fear for this year tbh. However it is a rebuilding process. I've no expectations for the year. Yellowhelmet (Australia) - Posts: 118 - 25/01/2025 18:45:40 2587489 Link
Not much to say about it really. Match went as expected. Ya are too small to win our own ball in the forwards. Maybe we get a few of our bigger players back we might be more competitive but otherwise looking like a tough 5-6 years ahead. alwaysasub (Wexford) - Posts: 460 - 25/01/2025 18:56:20 2587491 Link
Well, if there's one positive that we can take from that game, it's that it's over I want to avoid a knee jerk reaction as it's still January and this would have been one of our three hardest games but we'd want to improve hand over fist going forward if we've any ambition of doing anything positive this year I think there were some hurlers playing who aren't good enough, some who were good enough once but aren't good enough anymore, and some who are good enough but just put in a very poor performance today We were cleaned out of it physically, we played with zero intensity, we made mistake after mistake in possession, pretty much every single thing we did was wrong On a separate note, I couldn't fully see it but does a player not have to be dragged down for a black card to be given? Didn't look to me like Barrett had been dragged down but maybe I didn't see it properly Also, ROC getting sent off hurts us badly for next week, he should be capable of an awful lot better than what he showed in the first half but at the same time, we don't really have anyone available right now to replace him and you'd have thought that Tipperary along with Kilkenny and Galway would've been the games we had the best chance of winning For me, two yellow cards would have sufficed But I think the biggest worry for me is whatever S&C work we have been doing. To a man, we were pretty much smaller than Cork across the pitch and we still have too many young players who still haven't filled out their frame. This was understandable last season but the best time to develop S&C is in the offseason and a lot of our young players look the same as last year physically, just means that they get bullied around the place the whole time. You'd nearly question watching it whether we are doing any S&C work at all ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 365 - 25/01/2025 19:01:38 2587492 Link
Anyone at the under 20 game?how did it go hunting (Wexford) - Posts: 1040 - 25/01/2025 20:48:58 2587506 Link
Replying To alwaysasub: "Not much to say about it really. Match went as expected. Ya are too small to win our own ball in the forwards. Maybe we get a few of our bigger players back we might be more competitive but otherwise looking like a tough 5-6 years ahead." You would seriously have to question what S&C work these players have been doing to get themselves ready for senior level. Timbertony (Wexford) - Posts: 327 - 25/01/2025 21:01:39 2587508 Link
Hard times ahead for Wexford I'm afraid. It's no time to kick players when they are down, every one of em are putting their time in and working like dogs. Hard time for the state of the game inntje county on the whole. I proposed that we might be staring at Joe McDonagh over the next few years and I was bamboozled with stats and other nonsense about the great underage teams we have etc. Sometimes I wonder what planet posters are on at all or what's the point posting at all. You can't look at hurling in Wexford on the whole and be optimistic in the short term. WEXILE (Wexford) - Posts: 316 - 25/01/2025 21:16:07 2587510 Link
Replying To hunting: "Anyone at the under 20 game?how did it go" We won by 1 missing around 5 or 6 starters. Should've won by more. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14387 - 25/01/2025 21:29:01 2587514 Link
Replying To ChinCanHurl: "Went as I expected really. Eoin Ryan was decent not many other highlights. Horrible night for hurling" Thought Eoin was poor in the first half, better in the 2nd. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14387 - 25/01/2025 21:29:33 2587515 Link
Replying To ElGranSenor: "Very poor all-round and very lucky to be only 10 down Having the wind in the second half should help but won't be enough to offset the fact we've been non-existent in contests for possession, the ball goes up from Fanning to the half-forward line and the Cork half-back line just send the ball straight back There are some senior players who have been particularly disappointing and you'd have to question why we are still persisting with them at this stage (Other than the fact we can't play a full team of youngsters) Conor Foley, Eoin Ryan, and David Codd probably the best so far but that's not saying much" Thought Conor Hearne was excellent all through tbh. Fanning is too slow on the puckouts. Dunbar did ok of the lads in their mid to late 20s, and didn't fade out of the game for long periods as he often does, the lads who have been poor enough the last few years still looked pretty poor. Jack Redmond did ok when he came on, and as you say so did David Codd, Eoin Ryan improved as the day went on after a poor start, Murphy was ok, Cian Byrne was ok, as was Carley. Kevin Foley also. Thought Rossiter could've brought on more lads, and given Flood and Tucker longer. CBD had an off day. We were missing Jippo, Chin, the 2 Recks, our 4 best players apart from Rory, who seriously needs anger management classes, and also Jacko, Dwyer and Mac. The big negatives apart from the result was our 1st touch was shocking, especially in the 1st half, and Rowleys injury. Hopefully it isn't as bad as it looked. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14387 - 25/01/2025 21:41:50 2587518 Link