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Replying To Magpie2: "I did watch the game viking
Just had a senior moment." Happens to me all the time Magpie and I dont even consider myself old :-D
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19764 - 24/05/2026 10:13:29
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Replying To Goreylad1985: "May as well retire this forum now for the year as that's every Wexford hurling team done before a swallow has even hatched.
Just a shame we didn't beat Cork today. We normally get a few years value out of that ;D" Hopefully the Footballers can give us something to cheer about up in Brewster Park!!!
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19764 - 24/05/2026 10:15:00
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If you want to improve imo
Make the dev and underage squads more fluid . Carry thirty players max .
But if the players are nt reaching the standard release them and bring in someone who is showing well in club or school games I m not talking at the end of each year I am talking during the year itself .
It will give lads not in squads a reason to keep pushing and lads in the squad that little bit of if I dont keep my efforts up I ll be gone .
A regular review or assessment system . And more regular district games .
Of course the problem.being parents and connections of some players . You make it clear from the start panels are fluid and players out of form or are nt putting in the work going back to club amd will be continuously assessed and when they do improve bring them back in . And bring in players in form .
Of course for that to work you need proper competition which at present is non existent at the older underage groups .
Formertownie (Wexford) - Posts: 598 - 24/05/2026 10:44:42
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Watched the minor match this morning, disappointed with how it finished. We were the better team throughout but you only need to lead once.
Some really good players on that minor team but Wexford now need a crop a la 2014/15 to come through. We can't have only 1-2 from these teams.
A difficult winter ahead.
I did have a thought this evening. We want to keep these minors and u20's interested and playing hurling. Have we ever considered asking businesses in Wexford to "sponsor a player" to help them through college or through an apprenticeship?
Could we (with support from businesses in Wexford and further afield) develop a fund in Wexford where every year the minor players in the county are supported financially with their studies or apprenticeship provided they are available and part of the U20 squad say?
Hardly any Wexford hurlers these days are getting scholarships in any of the universities. But we want them to travel up and down the road. To get buy-in, we need the players to think "the people of Wexford care about me and are dipping their hand in their pocket to do so".
It also might help with player retention if players think "these people backed me, I owe them something in return". Obviously, some will take the money, get their college education and go. We can't do anything there. Unlike Andy Comerford, I don't think Curracloe is the same as St. Kilda for a year or two in any young mans life.
But some will take a year out, might come back and go again like Rory hopefully next year.
Before people take my head off "you haven't thought this through, what about A, B, C, etc". I haven't. I just think we need to start to value our most valuable commodity - players - better than we do at present and anything that keeps players involved and not opting out needs to be considered.
It would need a lot of thinking about how to make it work. In Wexford, I think lots of players feel the people of Wexford don't care, so why should I.
Maybe some of this exists already. I don't know. But we want players to have something to show for their years of effort and something to fall back on at the end of their career. Its time we looked at how well we back them, and how we can do this better to make sure players know "this is all worth it". At the moment, players are looking at the cost/value and saying no.
We have to change that ourselves.
StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 2062 - 24/05/2026 10:52:24
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Do we look like having good u17 & u20 teams next year lads? Feel like we need a big breaktrough at underage for things to start moving in the right direction
Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 1080 - 24/05/2026 11:25:03
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Few Galway supporters knocking around, will there be anyone in the park. Going as it's likely a few of the lads last game
goreyll (Wexford) - Posts: 186 - 24/05/2026 12:34:22
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Strangest feeling of dread around the park now. This is really really disappointing
Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4528 - 24/05/2026 12:57:35
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Heard there will be a few changes to the named team .
Paull (Wexford) - Posts: 282 - 24/05/2026 13:19:12
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Replying To Doylerwex: "Strangest feeling of dread around the park now. This is really really disappointing" Ghost town
goreyll (Wexford) - Posts: 186 - 24/05/2026 13:22:36
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Replying To goreyll: "Few Galway supporters knocking around, will there be anyone in the park. Going as it's likely a few of the lads last game" With a bit of luck. James Lawlor be back the end of the yes which will solve a lot of our problems.
Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4528 - 24/05/2026 15:09:08
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Black card rule is in need of reform, a penalty and a black card were too harsh a punishment for both their and our black card today
ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1304 - 24/05/2026 15:48:58
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Replying To Doylerwex: "With a bit of luck. James Lawlor be back the end of the yes which will solve a lot of our problems." Goalie is the least of our problems imo
goreyll (Wexford) - Posts: 186 - 24/05/2026 15:50:52
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Good effort from the lads today. That type of application for the last 6 weeks and we could have been in a Leinster final.
Jippo and chin probably finished now.
At least there'll be a new Leinster champion this year.
Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4528 - 24/05/2026 16:05:01
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Galway were rancid for the first 20 minutes or so and that allowed us to build up a big lead, they had the upper hand the rest of the way though, we were just overwhelmed in the end, they were very good tbf to them from that point on although if I would question why they they didn't hurl like that from the get-go
I think two things above all else came back to bite us: lack of any real clear style of play and our inability to win primary possession in our forwards. We were able to work the ball well on the first 20 minutes but they were miles off the pace, resorted to going long when they upped their intensity
Chin is our only real ball-winner, Jacko has a big frame but has never been a big ball-winner, take Chin out of the game and it's not hard to physically dominate our forwards in duels for possession
In fairness to the defenders, I thought they did alright enough, thought Murphy did a respectable enough job on Whelan and Donohoe the same on Rabbitte, hard to keep them under wraps when they've such quality and when our forwards can't win ball and Galway can just send in good ball after good ball into their forwards
Cillian Byrne very good, needs to fill out but has a lot of potential, hopefully Stephen Martin can establish himself as a starter next year, good also to see Patsy at #6, has massive potential there if he can get a full pres-season and league into him there next year
Had Darragh Carley, Stephen Martin, Niall Murphy, Patsy, Richie Lawlor, Diarmuid O'Leary, Ross Banville, Cian Byrne, Cillian Byrne, Conor Foley, James Byrne, Jack Redmond, and Darragh Kehoe all playing today at some stage, that's a lot of youth and inexperience in the team and that's with Simon Roche and Seán Rowley out
ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1304 - 24/05/2026 16:16:27
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13pts up and lose by 8 what a shambles we are thats a 21 point turn around and should have been more a total shambles. If a few more of older lads retire we definetely in Joe McDonagh and thats where we deseeve to be at the moment. It can be fixed just look at Offaly but dosent seem to be the will to do anything about it in Wexford.
Bryson (Wexford) - Posts: 52 - 24/05/2026 16:50:16
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We out-scored Galway from play by 2-16 to 1-18 but they out-scored us by 1-13 to 1-04 from play
18 frees conceded to 7, I think the fact we get dominated physically is one big reason why we're getting killed on frees, can't win our own ball and can't force teams to pull us down when we run at them
ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1304 - 24/05/2026 16:55:10
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Replying To Bryson: "13pts up and lose by 8 what a shambles we are thats a 21 point turn around and should have been more a total shambles. If a few more of older lads retire we definetely in Joe McDonagh and thats where we deseeve to be at the moment. It can be fixed just look at Offaly but dosent seem to be the will to do anything about it in Wexford." The lads played well up to a point, but the line were very slow in freshening things up when some of the lads started tiring. We need to get some of our better players back for starters. Our long puckouts were better, in general we got lads on the quarters for breaking ball for a change this year. We still made too many individual errors at the back, and when the game was in the melting pot we didnt take points, tried to force goal scoring chances, got turned over, and Galway went up the other end and scored. Each off those instances were 2 point or 4 point turnarounds. Think we should have had another penalty also.
We werent miles off it, but as they say a miss is as good as a mile.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19764 - 24/05/2026 17:14:21
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Replying To ElGranSenor: "Galway were rancid for the first 20 minutes or so and that allowed us to build up a big lead, they had the upper hand the rest of the way though, we were just overwhelmed in the end, they were very good tbf to them from that point on although if I would question why they they didn't hurl like that from the get-go
I think two things above all else came back to bite us: lack of any real clear style of play and our inability to win primary possession in our forwards. We were able to work the ball well on the first 20 minutes but they were miles off the pace, resorted to going long when they upped their intensity
Chin is our only real ball-winner, Jacko has a big frame but has never been a big ball-winner, take Chin out of the game and it's not hard to physically dominate our forwards in duels for possession
In fairness to the defenders, I thought they did alright enough, thought Murphy did a respectable enough job on Whelan and Donohoe the same on Rabbitte, hard to keep them under wraps when they've such quality and when our forwards can't win ball and Galway can just send in good ball after good ball into their forwards
Cillian Byrne very good, needs to fill out but has a lot of potential, hopefully Stephen Martin can establish himself as a starter next year, good also to see Patsy at #6, has massive potential there if he can get a full pres-season and league into him there next year
Had Darragh Carley, Stephen Martin, Niall Murphy, Patsy, Richie Lawlor, Diarmuid O'Leary, Ross Banville, Cian Byrne, Cillian Byrne, Conor Foley, James Byrne, Jack Redmond, and Darragh Kehoe all playing today at some stage, that's a lot of youth and inexperience in the team and that's with Simon Roche and Seán Rowley out" Not wanting to be negative but some of those lads, excepting the lads who are now only 21/22, will be hitting their prime years aged 24/25 next year. Most didnt really kick on in their second or 3rd season this year. Next year we need them to make a big step forward, or otherwise we will have to draw the conclusion that they arent Senior intercounty standard and likely wont ever be. Hopefully we have some lads in their mid/late 20s return to the panel to offer some leadership, and hopefully the lads who are that age in the current panel stick around, the Recks, Donohue etc.
And hopefully lads like Eoin Whelan and David Codd who didn't get a real shot at this year come back fully fit and firing next year.
Also hopefully some of our decent u20 team from this year can step up also. Apart from the up to the age lads with potential, Lads like Quigley, Carley, O'Brien, Nolan, and Donohue who will still be u20 next year might be worth bringing in also.
As regards the u20s other lads who played this year but will still be u20 next year include Fanning, Kennedy, Moore, Reilly, Dunne, Ryan, Hyland and O'Connell Byrne. So thats 13 lads who played this year who will still be u20 next year. Add in some of this years better minors, and some of the better lads off our u19s, and we should have a decent u20 team next year.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19764 - 24/05/2026 18:24:26
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Replying To Bryson: "13pts up and lose by 8 what a shambles we are thats a 21 point turn around and should have been more a total shambles. If a few more of older lads retire we definetely in Joe McDonagh and thats where we deseeve to be at the moment. It can be fixed just look at Offaly but dosent seem to be the will to do anything about it in Wexford." Again, Offaly are driven by one underage team and one underage team alone, I wouldn't say they really fixed anything, just happened upon a very good team out of nowhere
ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1304 - 24/05/2026 18:37:34
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Replying To Viking66: "Not wanting to be negative but some of those lads, excepting the lads who are now only 21/22, will be hitting their prime years aged 24/25 next year. Most didnt really kick on in their second or 3rd season this year. Next year we need them to make a big step forward, or otherwise we will have to draw the conclusion that they arent Senior intercounty standard and likely wont ever be. Hopefully we have some lads in their mid/late 20s return to the panel to offer some leadership, and hopefully the lads who are that age in the current panel stick around, the Recks, Donohue etc.
And hopefully lads like Eoin Whelan and David Codd who didn't get a real shot at this year come back fully fit and firing next year.
Also hopefully some of our decent u20 team from this year can step up also. Apart from the up to the age lads with potential, Lads like Quigley, Carley, O'Brien, Nolan, and Donohue who will still be u20 next year might be worth bringing in also.
As regards the u20s other lads who played this year but will still be u20 next year include Fanning, Kennedy, Moore, Reilly, Dunne, Ryan, Hyland and O'Connell Byrne. So thats 13 lads who played this year who will still be u20 next year. Add in some of this years better minors, and some of the better lads off our u19s, and we should have a decent u20 team next year." Sorry that shouldve read the Recks, Hearne, Donohue etc. Would be great if Chin, Jippo, Kevin Foley and Jacko could give it at least one more year also.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19764 - 24/05/2026 18:41:26
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