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Correct that County Development squads generally train once a week, or maybe twice a week around the time of their "proper" tournaments in summer. Idea is that this time of year, they're also training and playing with schools. In summer, they're also training and playing with their clubs. If you're an U16 player who's training twice a week with the club in summer and playing a match most weeks as well (alternating between hurling & football matches), going to Development Squad training twice a week would mean organised GAA activity on five days per week, and even senior inter-county players hardly do that. Squad selection still works that way by trials all right, but important to point out there's no limit to how many players a club can send to trials. Not the case that they're limited to just four, for example. The only sort of restriction is that they keep it to players who they genuinely believe might be of the required standard, instead of sending all sorts along. So, Martin's or Oulart, for example, could send even eight or ten players. Some other club might only send one or two. It's not the case that fifth-best in St. Martin's (for example) would lose out on account of the club only being allowed to send four. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2720 - 10/02/2025 14:51:42 2590437 Link 0 |
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Agree about training more often, even Wicklows u16 hurlers have more collective training than our u16 hurlers do. But it's the clubs that are stopping this. As regards the 30 lads, I disagree. I'd be more inclined to go with the Clare and Limerick models at those age groups, get as much good skills and pitch based training, nutrition, and S and C into as many boys as possible. The best 30 at u14 aren't even going to be the best 30 at u15, never mind minor. Lads develop at different paces, they grow at different paces. Age at which PHV occurs is different for different boys. Also some lads don't start hurling til 10 or 11 but are better than others who started at 5 by the time they are 14 or 15. Your last sentence is absolutely the most important sentence posted on this forum by anyone today. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14978 - 10/02/2025 14:53:11 2590438 Link 0 |
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It's still done that way in general, but if you have 8 really good lads you can send 8 in. Just ask. Someone from Games Development will already have noticed them at u12 or in their schools in any case.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14978 - 10/02/2025 14:54:49 2590439 Link 0 |
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They were very competitive against everyone except Cork who gave them a good trimming.
Paull (Wexford) - Posts: 192 - 10/02/2025 14:59:39 2590442 Link 0 |
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Cool thanks for the update! Hopefully this year's underage teams will go well again this year. Last day of u14 hurling trials is Saturday, apparently the standard has been higher than it was a few years ago.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14978 - 10/02/2025 15:07:25 2590444 Link 0 |
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Looks like the Galway Wexford hurling game will be a big game for both as both will be targeting it big time you would be thinking. Tribesmen121 (Galway) - Posts: 6 - 10/02/2025 15:25:14 2590452 Link 0 |
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Just had a look at the website. They were all listed in a news post all right, but not until middle of August, in a sort of a round-up of how the various squads did during the year. They weren't all named at the start of the year.
Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2720 - 10/02/2025 16:26:53 2590468 Link 0 |
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They were listed in the run up to the finals. Would be great if they listed them earlier like some counties do Pikeman ;-)
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14978 - 10/02/2025 17:04:51 2590473 Link 0 |
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Is eanna Martin with the team as a selector. Jason Ryan has gone to ballygunner is he still involved. Wexfordgaa (Wexford) - Posts: 346 - 10/02/2025 20:08:33 2590493 Link 0 |
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As others have said we were missing loads early in the league last year too. Chin had to limp off v Clare but the players battled away like hell afterwards. On a heavier pitch and in rotten conditions. We had commitment and a game plan. We had none of that on Saturday night. Even the tempo of the warm up was crap. Body language of experienced players from the first whistle incredibly poor. Just like Clare two years ago. Unacceptable on every level. I'm glad Rossiter didn't sugar coat it afterwards. Every team are missing players, maybe we really can't afford to right now, but we battle from the first whistle to the last. That's the bare minimum. Many of these lads were involved in Antrim last year, that Clare defeat two years ago, Westmeath twice, even Clare in Thurles was embarrassing really. The hard question needs to be asked before Ennis of a number of them, are they going to commit or not. I refuse to believe S&C in our senior or u20 setup is way worse than likes of KK, so hard questions need to be asked of the players themselves. Management also needs to look at themselves. Our game plan has been a mess since the end of the league last year. What are we even trying to do with the ball? Without the ball, it's every man for himself it looks like, no defending as a team. Dunbar wing back, Reck still at 6, we are making things hard for ourselves. Season needs to reset in Ennis, Chin back and a few more. Couldn't care less about the result but either we front up or a real season of struggle awaits. Timbertony (Wexford) - Posts: 367 - 10/02/2025 22:36:54 2590512 Link 1 |
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Watched it back. Hearne was good in the 1st half. Our best player by miles. Fanning was our next best player. 2nd half we were actually pretty good. When the weather got worse our basic hurling and movement actually got better. Think Redmond had another solid start both halves, probably our best forward overall.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14978 - 10/02/2025 23:08:56 2590517 Link 0 |
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Our hurling will be better come Leinster.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14978 - 11/02/2025 06:39:19 2590532 Link 0 |
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Playing with full intensity should be a given when any lad pulls on any county jersey. Unfortunately its still not down here in Wexford, although in fairness to Rossiter and the players themselves they did man up in a big way in the 2nd half. We aren't making the space up front that we used to this time last year, our half forwards are 2 far up the pitch. Also in those early League games last year we had Chin, Kevin Foley, Jacko, and Damien Reck to add some leadership and experience. This year Keith looked to other longterm panel members, Dooley, Dunbar and Rory, instead. Rory has looked tired, he never got a break with our own split season being gone and Martins run in Leinster, while Dooley and Dunbar aren't the leaders this year that Chin, Reck, Jacko and Foley were last year. Tbh Conor Hearne has been by far and away our best player, and he only became a regular championship starter in the last year and a half. He's only 27 this year. It's also really noticeable that only Clare are putting out teams that don't contain at least 10 of their championship starters, including most of their best players. Galway did it once, against Tipp, got hockeyed, and made 10 changes for the next day. I genuinely believe that what Keith is doing will stand to us next year and the year after, maybe even this year come championship. At least Damien is back now, and hopefully Chin and Shiner will be soon too. Hopefully Jacko and Dwyer will play more as the League progresses, and Jippo and Mac will be back for the start of the Championship. And hopefully Kevin's foot isn't too bad. And the most important hope of all is that the group of lads like Patsy, Redmond, Richie, Charlie, Conor Foley, Byrne, Ryan, Flood, Codd, CBD etc will be able to compete even better this championship than the last after getting a long hard run of League games played, and that lads like Cillian Byrne, Roche and Rowley will be able to make the step up next year easier after this year's experience. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14978 - 11/02/2025 10:26:32 2590550 Link 1 |
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My concern is, and this isn't just over the past 3 games, is that we don't seem to have any great game plan .. especially in our forwards. We move the ball through the lines to a certain extent but then we don't seem to know what to do once it gets to our half forward line. Last year for the League we played a 2 man full forward line but they seemed to have no plan . We are struggling to get scores and regardless of who we are and aren't missing we are not getting enough scores. Our shot selection is brutal at times - Lawlor got a beautifully worked point on Saturday when Corey Dunbar held onto the ball and worked it back out. Lawlors first point was a great score but 80% of time it would have went wide. I always admired Rossitor as a player - but the jury is still very much out on him as a manager. Yes I understand what he has at his disposal but all the excuses are around the retirements and injuries. Who cares if we are relegated to Div 1B of the League - as long as we are building a panel of players and putting a game plan in place. MyOhMi (Wexford) - Posts: 168 - 11/02/2025 10:29:33 2590551 Link 0 |
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What is our best team looking like if we can have a full bill of health for championship v Antrim (unlikely but who knows) Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 448 - 11/02/2025 12:09:04 2590573 Link 0 |
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I think in the 2nd half when we upped the intensity we won more ball, both in the backs and the forwards. So the backs could clear more ball and the forwards had more ball, as more was coming in, and they were winning a higher percentageof it also. That meant we played more of the game in their half in the 2nd half, and that's why we then outscored them. I know that sounds very simplistic, but it's really common sense. If you play more of the game in your opponents half, then you will have more time in scoring range than they will. I would like to see us make more space for the forwards to operate in, our half forward line were too far forwards alot of the time because we were playing too many longer balls in, and that meant we didn't have as much space in forward areas as last year. Of course all that is only relevant if you have inside players who are fast enough to get out in front and get to the ball 1st, and whose touch is good enough to get it up quickly. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14978 - 11/02/2025 12:35:30 2590580 Link 0 |
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Have heard Mac is finished. anyone else hear the same?
btwex90 (Wexford) - Posts: 34 - 11/02/2025 12:43:57 2590582 Link 0 |
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I agree for the most part but we're in desperate need of a goalkeeper
Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3412 - 11/02/2025 14:18:05 2590603 Link 0 |
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His puckouts can be frustrating but I think we have bigger issues
Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 448 - 11/02/2025 14:35:29 2590611 Link 0 |
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The puckouts are a big part of our current issues. We need to play a shorter game to suit our shorter players. A short game starts with the keeper.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14978 - 11/02/2025 16:12:50 2590633 Link 0 |