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Replying To Timbertony: "No way to Jacko starting! If Donohue wasn't even brought on in KK then Clarke might come into the corner. Thought he got nowhere near the pace of it either but KK were rampant at that stage. Is Niall Murphy on panel still? Carley and Foley can't play in there again anyway. I'd be reluctant to move D Reck out of where he has been playing very well. Don't have a 6. Expecting Molloy to be championship match fit is too much. Maybe Foley or Carley into midfield next to Hearne. Dublin are strong in midfield. Agreed on Chin to 12.
What's our sub keeper like? Fanning made some great saves but his distribution was terrible. Not comfortable at all finding a man around half back line and that's a big problem for a team that can't win a ball in the air." Keith seems to have preferred players. And not so favourites. He seems to be trying to get some lads onto the pitch even if its somewhere that doesn't suit them. And others arent getting gametime at all.
At the end of the day hes the manager, he picks who he wants to pick, as is his right, but its a results based job at the end of the day.
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Replying To ElGranSenor: "Oh, I wasn't saying there was an anti-Martin's agenda, my point was we only had two of their players starting on Saturday
Rory O'Connor away
Barry O'Connor away
Philip Dempsey injured
Darren Codd injured
David Codd on the matchday squad but not picked
Eoin O'Leary on the panel but not on the matchday squad
Joe Barrett won't play
The rest not considered good enough for intercounty
I don't think there is an agenda but the above shows that the strength of the Martin's isn't really feeding through to Wexford this year for various reasons (Not really the fault of either the Martin's or Wexford, it's just that these things happen now and again)" Sorry I misread your post before. Thats a fair list of players . Hopefully Rory and Barry will be available next year but I think its really disappointing lads like Joe Barrett and AJ Redmond who hurled all the way up for Wexford and dont commit for the seniors
Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 1009 - 27/04/2026 15:31:19
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Replying To Timbertony: "No way to Jacko starting! If Donohue wasn't even brought on in KK then Clarke might come into the corner. Thought he got nowhere near the pace of it either but KK were rampant at that stage. Is Niall Murphy on panel still? Carley and Foley can't play in there again anyway. I'd be reluctant to move D Reck out of where he has been playing very well. Don't have a 6. Expecting Molloy to be championship match fit is too much. Maybe Foley or Carley into midfield next to Hearne. Dublin are strong in midfield. Agreed on Chin to 12.
What's our sub keeper like? Fanning made some great saves but his distribution was terrible. Not comfortable at all finding a man around half back line and that's a big problem for a team that can't win a ball in the air." He went to bring on Donohue and the changed his mind for some reason.
goreyll (Wexford) - Posts: 179 - 27/04/2026 16:02:24
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Replying To ElGranSenor: "Yeah, tbf I'm not saying the Wexford team needs to be dominated by players from the one club, it's just that you'd naturally wonder how the Martin's could be so good and how we could be so bad with only two Martin's players
And the answer to that question is that it's down to various factors (Most lads on a very good club team won't be up to intercounty standard and then out of the ones who are good enough, some are injured, some are travelling, and some won't play)
Suppose the over-arching point I'm trying to make (Possibly clumsily) is that for various reasons, a lot of good hurlers in Wexford aren't hurling for Wexford
Not all of those will come back but solving that issue should be our biggest immediate priority" Some of them dont see the point of putting that effort in when there's little or no chance of an AI.
But that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy then, as without all your best players no county will win an AI.
Here's a list of lads who were current Senior intercounty championship, not just League, starters when they left the panel but arent currently injured afaik, and are still under 32-
Conor Mcdonald
Rory O'Connor
Paudie Foley
Oisin Foley
Ian Carty
Cathal Dunbar
Eoin Ryan
Then you have borderline lads who started Championship games but were dropped/not playing for the last few games before they left-
Charlie Mcguckin
Seamus Casey
Conor Firman
Joe O'Connor
Then there are a host of others who played League games, or underage for Wexford, who might or might not be good enough.
No doubt I mightve forgotten someone too.
All of the 1st 7 named there would likely be starters now if fully fit and in the panel training since November, and some would be some of our best starters. I dont think any other county is missing as many.
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Replying To Timbertony: "No way to Jacko starting! If Donohue wasn't even brought on in KK then Clarke might come into the corner. Thought he got nowhere near the pace of it either but KK were rampant at that stage. Is Niall Murphy on panel still? Carley and Foley can't play in there again anyway. I'd be reluctant to move D Reck out of where he has been playing very well. Don't have a 6. Expecting Molloy to be championship match fit is too much. Maybe Foley or Carley into midfield next to Hearne. Dublin are strong in midfield. Agreed on Chin to 12.
What's our sub keeper like? Fanning made some great saves but his distribution was terrible. Not comfortable at all finding a man around half back line and that's a big problem for a team that can't win a ball in the air." Not sure Derry Mahon would be better at puckouts or not. All I felt whenever I watched him play was that he was too slow with them. Lads who were open were usually marked up by the time he pucked the ball. I havent seen him play in a while though.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19359 - 27/04/2026 16:25:50
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Replying To ElGranSenor: "Oh, I wasn't saying there was an anti-Martin's agenda, my point was we only had two of their players starting on Saturday
Rory O'Connor away
Barry O'Connor away
Philip Dempsey injured
Darren Codd injured
David Codd on the matchday squad but not picked
Eoin O'Leary on the panel but not on the matchday squad
Joe Barrett won't play
The rest not considered good enough for intercounty
I don't think there is an agenda but the above shows that the strength of the Martin's isn't really feeding through to Wexford this year for various reasons (Not really the fault of either the Martin's or Wexford, it's just that these things happen now and again)" Out of all those players listed rory is the only one worth talking about,the rest are at the same level as the lads that are on team and panel!!! We only have 4 or 5 proper intercounty hurlers really i think,our club standard is really poor!!! We just dont have enough above average or a bit better than that hurlers around to have a cut at leinster really!! The size of our team isnt helping either!!! Cant really knock rossi or the players because they are trying,its just they are not a good team,or good enough,bit better than kildare carlow,probably in and around the same level as offaly but not at the level as anyone else in the country!! Just have to keep plugging away at it!!!
theboys (Wexford) - Posts: 302 - 27/04/2026 16:44:13
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Replying To theboys: "Out of all those players listed rory is the only one worth talking about,the rest are at the same level as the lads that are on team and panel!!! We only have 4 or 5 proper intercounty hurlers really i think,our club standard is really poor!!! We just dont have enough above average or a bit better than that hurlers around to have a cut at leinster really!! The size of our team isnt helping either!!! Cant really knock rossi or the players because they are trying,its just they are not a good team,or good enough,bit better than kildare carlow,probably in and around the same level as offaly but not at the level as anyone else in the country!! Just have to keep plugging away at it!!!" Barry would walk into that wexford team. His workrate is off the charts. No point in being a lovely tidy hurler if you can't win your own ball. He would win ball and make it stick. Wont be coming back out at ease anyway thats for certain. Dempsey had tj reid in his pocket for the leinster club final. Big physical specimen also. Lads wouldn't walse by him too easy.
Joe barrett is an exceptional man marker when it comes to keeping top forwards quiet and is very athletic with a really good hurling brain.
Joe o'connor was probably st martins main player before his injury.
To say none of them would be an addition after watching wexford this year is wild.
If we keep plugging away at it with rossi then its a case of how low can we go after watching us nearly get beaten by struggling joe mc teams.
Waltermitty2 (Wexford) - Posts: 302 - 27/04/2026 17:31:33
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Replying To Viking66: "Some of them dont see the point of putting that effort in when there's little or no chance of an AI.
But that becomes a self fulfilling prophecy then, as without all your best players no county will win an AI.
Here's a list of lads who were current Senior intercounty championship, not just League, starters when they left the panel but arent currently injured afaik, and are still under 32-
Conor Mcdonald
Rory O'Connor
Paudie Foley
Oisin Foley
Ian Carty
Cathal Dunbar
Eoin Ryan
Then you have borderline lads who started Championship games but were dropped/not playing for the last few games before they left-
Charlie Mcguckin
Seamus Casey
Conor Firman
Joe O'Connor
Then there are a host of others who played League games, or underage for Wexford, who might or might not be good enough.
No doubt I mightve forgotten someone too.
All of the 1st 7 named there would likely be starters now if fully fit and in the panel training since November, and some would be some of our best starters. I dont think any other county is missing as many." Yeah, tbh I think when Anthony Daly started off with Dublin, he wouldn't take no for an answer from players, that's what we need to do, would've had a good team this year had we had a full pick but unfortunately, we were dealt this hand and we have to play it
ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1124 - 27/04/2026 17:34:21
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Replying To theboys: "Out of all those players listed rory is the only one worth talking about,the rest are at the same level as the lads that are on team and panel!!! We only have 4 or 5 proper intercounty hurlers really i think,our club standard is really poor!!! We just dont have enough above average or a bit better than that hurlers around to have a cut at leinster really!! The size of our team isnt helping either!!! Cant really knock rossi or the players because they are trying,its just they are not a good team,or good enough,bit better than kildare carlow,probably in and around the same level as offaly but not at the level as anyone else in the country!! Just have to keep plugging away at it!!!" Joe Barrett is surely good enough to be worth talking about?
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I think in retrospect, either Derry Mahon or Cian Byrne should've been given some time in goal during the Walsh Cup or arguably in the league game against Kildare
ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1124 - 27/04/2026 18:38:41
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