Hard luck to the lads. They gave it their all and just came up short. Hopefully next year the lads who are still there again will get a shot at a final.

Well done to Galway and good luck in the final.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19557 - 13/05/2026 22:59:10    2672882

It is getting grimmer and grimmer, After the last 2 senior games, our minors the weekend and unable to beat a Galway team without Niland and Murphy while Rabbitte and Killeen only came on, just hard see where the bottom is, are we close to it? When are they going to look at who is actually coaching our underage teams? So far off it with structures. Bit embarrassing and a plight on those who done good work in the past.

countyman2022 (Wexford) - Posts: 989 - 14/05/2026 08:46:35    2672895

Hard luck to the 20s last night they gave it absolutely everything and that's all we can ask for. The lads will know we left that one behind us in normal time. We had too many wides from good positions in the first half in particular which ultimately cost us a place in the Leinster final. It's disappointing as we really could have done with a boost after the last few weeks we've had but I am hopeful a lot of those lads can push on and become top players for our seniors. If im not mistaken I think the majority of the team is underage for next year again so I would keep the same management team in place who in fairness made good strides this year and the aim next year has to be to get to a win a Leinster final.

Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 1068 - 14/05/2026 09:17:52    2672898

wendellgee (Wexford) - Posts: 32 - 14/05/2026 09:21:02    2672899

Gutted for the 20's, it was a gallant effort and can't fault anything in terms of effort, workrate and dying on their sword. I thought we were going to do it but conceded stupid free at the end.
It was desperately stop start, when I saw the video was over 2hrs at the start I had an idea something re extra time had happened. I fasted on many of the frees, stoppages, etc and watched it in a little over 1hr. My girlfried was watching the Tipp Clare game at the same time and it was a world apart in terms of frees, once a Galway player got the ball he charged at anything he could be it a high hurl or a player. These weren't been given in Limerick. What is the defender supposed to do? We need to get cuter at this. Charging is not a free that is blown any more, we need to start just running at players, falling, etc because everybody else is.
But Niland and Jason Rabbite are generational players. I think Sean O'Brien is one for us and he is young and underage for 2 more years? Galways record of transferring underage brilliance in to senior success is not great, some times hunger and drive makes the player.

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 2042 - 14/05/2026 09:48:18    2672904

One other point, why did we opt to play against the wind in extra time? We won the toss. Play with every advantage you can. We were out on our feet, whatever chance we had of getting a lead and killing the clock was gone. We were gassed in the last 10 and were too far behind.

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 2042 - 14/05/2026 09:55:02    2672906

Draw after normal time was a fair reflection of the game, Galway were missing Niland and Murphy and then Rabbitte and Killeen only came on early in the second half so if you put it that way, they were essentially down three senior inter-county starters + panellists at U20 level (Niland = 1, Murphy = 1, Rabbitte = 0.5, & Killeen = 0.5)

Flip side is that this is supposed to be Galway's best team at this level in years and they had carried all before them at Minor level in Leinster three years ago

Suppose the way we could look at it is that for us to have a top-class team and be AI favourites at this level, we'd need to take this team and then add three X-factor talents to it. O'Brien probably the one X-factor talent there in time IMO, I like the half-back-line and think they all could have senior intercounty ability but not sure any have the X-factor

Team competed well physically, think we'd need to improve the skill level of the team, could argue that other more technical players were on the bench/extended panel/not on the squad and that more physical players were preferred, feel like the choice was between physical but not technical and technical but not physical players, we really need to be developing technical AND physical players

Lads put in a massive effort last night but don't like going on about how valiant it was, 100% effort is supposed to be the baseline and we need to have very high standards, people from KK/Tipp/Cork wouldn't describe last night as a valiant effort if they were in our position

The quality of this team needs to be the minimum level acceptable going forward, even your bad teams have to be OK/decent enough teams if you want to progress

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1205 - 14/05/2026 10:31:18    2672913