A wet evening might not be good for our lads but it will be the same for both teams. Hope we can get over the line and give us a big boost after a few weeks of turbulence.

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1923 - 09/05/2022 11:25:12    2415856

Afinestick (Wexford) - Posts: 999 - 09/05/2022 12:52:36    2415919

Best of luck to the lads tonight, can't make it as I had to change my flights home last minute. Hope they turn KK over and bring home some silverware, would bring a feel good factor back to the county after a bad start to the campaign by the seniors.

Fulgrim (Wexford) - Posts: 270 - 09/05/2022 13:41:22    2415940

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1923 - 09/05/2022 14:41:07    2415974

I see the same team has been picked that beat Dublin, which is no surprise. Although i thought Kinsella mght have started. He looked good when coming on the last day.
To be honest i don't think we'll beat Kilkenny tonight, based on the two semi finals. The intensity was far greater in the Kilkenny v Galway game and their physique and height will be an advantage.
High ball into the forwards may not be the best plan as they will be better in the ariel battles.
We do have good players in Scallan,Molloy, AJ Redmond, Dunbar, Jack Redmond and Cian Byrne.
Hopefully we can stay with them and prevent them from scoring goals but i really don't think we have enough forward power to win this game. I sincerely hope i am very wrong.

Samson55 (Wexford) - Posts: 103 - 09/05/2022 14:56:51    2415983

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 2036 - 09/05/2022 15:34:12    2416006

Heading up to carlow tonight weather is atrocious so will be a bit of a lottery could be decided by a slip or a ball dropping out of a keepers hand so best of luck to both sets of players tonight hope they give us a leinster final to be proud of with a wexford win hopefully.

Tiger1 (Wexford) - Posts: 410 - 09/05/2022 16:57:18    2416043

6 minutes in and we getting robbed already.

Want to pick it up a bit all the same

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3875 - 09/05/2022 19:38:38    2416064

Sick to death of our lads being treated like this at every grade

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3875 - 09/05/2022 20:50:49    2416076

How did we lose that, sickening, kk always just do bare enough to get over the line against us. Sick of it. Another Leinster final thrown away tonight. Plenty of positives but too sick to talk about it now.

hunting (Wexford) - Posts: 1150 - 09/05/2022 20:56:00    2416081

Past hurler (None) - Posts: 975 - 09/05/2022 21:14:34    2416083

Sickened. We just lack composure at the right times, that's the difference. Too slow a start cost us as well. Took us 20 minutes to get going but we were a better team from then on IMO. Just gutted. How do they do this though! Outhurled for large portions of the game and they still pull it out!

Anyway I really like this crop of players. Arguably all 6 of our backs could be our backline for the senior panel one day, which is a fantastic return. Ritchie Lawlor looks like he could be a superstar while Jack Redmond looks decent as well. If you at our two underage teams, the minor forwards looking good while the U20 backline are a serious prospect. Put them together and we might be onto something.

Well done and hard luck to the lads tonight. Better team lost but how many times have we said that against Kilkenny.

Finchfurlong996 (Wexford) - Posts: 255 - 09/05/2022 21:22:18    2416084

Gutted but proud

Yellow (Wexford) - Posts: 589 - 09/05/2022 21:44:34    2416090

Very game effort from the U20s, unfortunate not to get a draw at the death. First 15 minutes of the game probably cost us in the end, Kilkenny pretty much won every singly physical battle and dirty ball in the first quarter. If there is one consolation, it is that a lot more of those Kilkenny lads were filled out than the Wexford lads. If those Wexford lads do fill out over the next few years, an awful lot of the side today are going to make their mark as Wexford Seniors. Would've thought coming into the year that this was going to be one of our better U20 sides given that we won Leinster Minor three years ago. Going into today, I would've thought that Conor Foley, AJ Redmond, Conor Molloy, Kyle Scallan, Darragh Carley, Richie Lawlor, Corey Byrne-Dunbar, Oisín Pepper, and Cian Byrne all stood good chances of being Senior starters in the future. Now some of them didn't have the best night tonight but I'd still back them to learn from this and to physically develop from now onwards. Wexford may have lost the battle tonight but we certainly have a lot to look forward to with this U20 crop

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 618 - 09/05/2022 21:49:03    2416092

Really well done and hard luck to our u20s. Some great performances all over the pitch. AJ, Barrett, Molloy, Foley, Scallan, Lawlor, Jack Redmond all played very well while Cian Byrne was good at the frees too. Great heart, tackling, running and passing especially in the last quarter the lads were by far the better team. Overall it was a good team performance with everyone doing their bit. Shame it came up just short. A matter of inches. I'd have fancied our chances had it gone to extra time.
Some of these lads might make a contribution to the senior panel now the u20s is finished. Certainly there will be a number of these lads make the step up to Senior over the next couple of years. Real feel of the early 90s this season across the grades. Losing matches by the odd point or two. Hopefully it leads on to the same end.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16772 - 10/05/2022 07:51:24    2416098

Tough night last night but a very proud Dad of this group of young men and how they responded this year collectively after last year. Some really bright signs for wexford hurling for the future and really tough on Jack at the end. Early non start killed us but showed real fighting spirit to get back in the contest. Thought our line were slow to react at the start and make changes when needed but players did respond. You'd imagine Limerick based on last week will be overwhelming favourites.

96andproud (Wexford) - Posts: 34 - 10/05/2022 09:08:24    2416107

Afinestick (Wexford) - Posts: 999 - 10/05/2022 09:44:56    2416115

HurlingBuzz (Wexford) - Posts: 556 - 10/05/2022 09:50:51    2416117

Oldtourman (Limerick) - Posts: 4521 - 10/05/2022 09:51:48    2416120

Personally I'm annoyed after last night, really annoyed.

Not with the players, I thought they were magnificent, talented, skillful and above all a bunch of lads with guts and fight to claw themselves back into a game when at the start they looked like they could get over run. Every last one of them deserves all the credit they get and more because I believe these players are being let down.

First off I thought the line were slow to make changes, little bit of a light in the headlight approach, in fact to me it looks like the players were instigating a lot of the tweaks and changes themselves but that can happen, we got back into it despite the slow start.

Secondly I looked at the 2 teams and there was a difference in them, in terms of conditioning, not size. These Kilkenny lads were better conditioned, not bigger physically but obviously the work done that we hadn't. Now that's something within our control so why? Another case of our players taking to the field effectively already behind and operating with one hand behind their back, not acceptable.

And lastly looking at a close game like that where scores are a premium and thinking of a talented young hurler like Oisin Pepper on the sideline and thinking what difference might he actually make compared to being effectively sacrificed for what exactly? How does his treatment benefit either him or Wexford underage hurling.

Those players of ours are stars and deserve better imho.

tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1544 - 10/05/2022 10:07:22    2416128