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Replying To goreyll: "Do all centra and SuperValu shops have access to the same tickets? Or do they all get a different allocation? Need to source on stand ticket for someone" All the same depends whats on their system at the time. Tiger1 (Wexford) - Posts: 326 - 23/04/2025 16:53:23 2603903 Link
Do people here think rory played poor against antrim? The man scored with nearly every chance and won numerous frees that were converted. Pretty sure he drew a few yellow cards also. Not easy play in the full forward line when a man down either. Him and byrne done alot of work that day Waltermitty2 (Wexford) - Posts: 266 - 23/04/2025 17:20:57 2603909 Link
Replying To ExiledInWex: "Counties and supporters react to success or a sign of it. In Munster, the grounds are full because they all belive they could win something. And a good game and atmosphere is guaranteed. In Leinster, most of the games are fairly tedious and lack atmosphere. Across the province. The long distances between counties does not help. Like, The Nell is 2 hours for most Wexford people allowing for Saturday traffic. Galway in Kilkenny on Easter Saturday, I could see why people did not travel. These games need to be Saturday night or Sunday games. Saturday afternoon does not help the appeal of the fixtures at all, its like "get them played and over with" rather than an occasion. But even marketing the games. If you were driving through Wexford, how would you have known there was a Wexford match on? Could Liam Griffin, a man synonymous with complaining about promoting the game, put a bill board at Ferrycarrig listing the Wexford games each weekend through the season? You might get a few hundred casuals or those wanting to see a match. Even the Wexford soccer team have when their games are on next. I always say the same in Dublin city, instead of 40k empty seats for a Leinster Final where is the billboard at O'Connell Bridge saying "Hurling, Croke Park, Sunday, 4pm, tickets gaa.ie" Wexford and Leinster need to promote the games better, particularly when the product does not sell itself." Marketing and promotion of intercounty is done and finished with the introduction of the intercounty split season. We can't even have a proper build up to an aireland final but hey at least a fella in the club knows when he can take a holiday and we can throw a few concerts into croke park in the height of the summer, that's way more important. There isn't time to do what you advocate, we have superstars of the game and they're almost an inconvenience, something to get out kf the way ASAP tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1478 - 23/04/2025 17:24:08 2603910 Link
Replying To countyman2022: "No disrespect intended but its some dump. Apologies." It is. But my favourite. Rivals Nowlan Park for proximity to bar. Not that this is my main readon of course! Great venue. Crowd worth a few points when coming down straight. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 3437 - 23/04/2025 18:02:53 2603912 Link
Replying To StoreysTash: "There is a real vibe off that post. Both of them gave plenty of service to Wexford. Paudie in particular. They are young lads expanding their horizons and seeing another side of life. Good on them. Hurling is not the be all and end all." In fairness, there's far more of a vibe off your post. What did Magpie say that's so offensive? He's only stating facts. The lads want to travel so fair enough. We use the lads we have. Purpleandgold72 (Wexford) - Posts: 247 - 23/04/2025 18:08:49 2603913 Link
Assuming Jippo is fit and neither Shane Reck nor Jack Redmond are, I think we could see.... Fanning Eoin Ryan Jippo Conor Foley Molloy Damien Reck McGuckian Hearne Donohoe Lawlor Kevin Foley Chin Dunbar Rory Cian Byrne ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 443 - 23/04/2025 18:48:26 2603915 Link
Looks like jack Redmond could be a doubt too. I wonder will they consider putting Richie lawlor in the half forward line as he's capable of winning his own ball.. juan31 (Wexford) - Posts: 166 - 23/04/2025 21:08:37 2603930 Link
Replying To zinny: "It's something that some on here have been going on about ever since Dublin came back into Hurling, sure they are just big fit lads, the Wexford players would always have too much skill for them. There are some people who just cannot accept that Dublin could be better than Wexford." You totally on the ball there Zinny, I heard that BS about Dublin going on for last 20 years, yet if you take Minor, U21/20 and senior I wouldn't be surprised if the won 75% of the games? Years thinking we better than we are, dosent get you anywhere…. Tox73 (Wexford) - Posts: 180 - 23/04/2025 21:32:33 2603932 Link
Shane reck trained fully last Saturday morning, according to Rossiter. hunting (Wexford) - Posts: 1104 - 23/04/2025 22:09:32 2603940 Link
Replying To Tox73: "You totally on the ball there Zinny, I heard that BS about Dublin going on for last 20 years, yet if you take Minor, U21/20 and senior I wouldn't be surprised if the won 75% of the games? Years thinking we better than we are, dosent get you anywhere…." I am guilty of it myself and I stand by it. It's hard to put into words but I'll try. In my view, Wexford produce more natural hurlers. What I mean when I say that is lads who are instinctively good at the wristy stuff. At senior level in particular, I believe our ceiling is higher than there's. However, Dublin teams are always good athletes, who do the simple things well, and make few mistakes. The compound of that is they are very consistent, which amounts to better team performances. Last season as actually a really great example. We were excellent against Kilkenny and Galway. So so against Dublin, but really poor in the second half against Antrim. That put us in an awful position. Dublin weren't great in any game. But were good enough to plug away in every game, which got them crucial points and a place in the Leinster final which they absolutely deserved. In short, Dublin were reasonably good over 5 games. We were great for a total of about 130 minutes in 5 games, at fairly weak for 40 crucial minutes which cost us badly. Namely 10 minutes against Dublin and Antrim, and 20 vs Kilkenny. Chin, Rory, Reck and jippo are absolute superstars. Burke is very good. O Donnell is class. Collectively Dublin are a solid team, but ultimately Wexford have better players. I hope that gives you some context. It's not arrogance, it doesn't mean we have a divine right to beat them. It is reality. It is also reality that Dublin are better than us at doing just enough to sneak close games than we are. We can consistently hurl them off the field for 59 minutes each year and somehow find a way to not win. That's extremely frustrating and I dread playing them above all others in Leinster. They've 100% gotten inside my head and have been doing it since 2007. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3512 - 23/04/2025 22:24:16 2603945 Link
Replying To Waltermitty2: "Do people here think rory played poor against antrim? The man scored with nearly every chance and won numerous frees that were converted. Pretty sure he drew a few yellow cards also. Not easy play in the full forward line when a man down either. Him and byrne done alot of work that day" Agree 100%. Both had to work hard. And they did. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15451 - 23/04/2025 22:34:28 2603948 Link
Is there any word on Sutcliffe and Burke? OpenStandWall (Wexford) - Posts: 237 - 23/04/2025 22:43:07 2603954 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "I am guilty of it myself and I stand by it. It's hard to put into words but I'll try. In my view, Wexford produce more natural hurlers. What I mean when I say that is lads who are instinctively good at the wristy stuff. At senior level in particular, I believe our ceiling is higher than there's. However, Dublin teams are always good athletes, who do the simple things well, and make few mistakes. The compound of that is they are very consistent, which amounts to better team performances. Last season as actually a really great example. We were excellent against Kilkenny and Galway. So so against Dublin, but really poor in the second half against Antrim. That put us in an awful position. Dublin weren't great in any game. But were good enough to plug away in every game, which got them crucial points and a place in the Leinster final which they absolutely deserved. In short, Dublin were reasonably good over 5 games. We were great for a total of about 130 minutes in 5 games, at fairly weak for 40 crucial minutes which cost us badly. Namely 10 minutes against Dublin and Antrim, and 20 vs Kilkenny. Chin, Rory, Reck and jippo are absolute superstars. Burke is very good. O Donnell is class. Collectively Dublin are a solid team, but ultimately Wexford have better players. I hope that gives you some context. It's not arrogance, it doesn't mean we have a divine right to beat them. It is reality. It is also reality that Dublin are better than us at doing just enough to sneak close games than we are. We can consistently hurl them off the field for 59 minutes each year and somehow find a way to not win. That's extremely frustrating and I dread playing them above all others in Leinster. They've 100% gotten inside my head and have been doing it since 2007." We beat them in 2008, and 2018. Only another 3 years to wait Doyler!!! Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15451 - 23/04/2025 23:29:46 2603963 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Agree 100%. Both had to work hard. And they did." On reflection what you say is correct. Rory is capable of much more but with Jacko gone he was never going to be the threat he normally is. Hopefully we'll see the real Rory on Saturday. Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 427 - 24/04/2025 00:16:02 2603968 Link
Replying To Tox73: "You totally on the ball there Zinny, I heard that BS about Dublin going on for last 20 years, yet if you take Minor, U21/20 and senior I wouldn't be surprised if the won 75% of the games? Years thinking we better than we are, dosent get you anywhere…." They're historically better than as at minor. We've the upper hand at 20/21 We're pretty much neck and neck for the last 20 years at those grades. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3512 - 24/04/2025 07:15:54 2603977 Link