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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Had a look at the names on the teams who made the Rackard League A Final

No prizes for guessing which team had players with the surnames Quigley, Codd, Barron, Higgins, and Ruth playing for them!"
Wouldn't one of those be more a Rapps surname historically?!!!

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19771 - 25/05/2026 12:18:43    2675329

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For next year, more than likely with new management if we can avoid injuries ( unlikely )
I really believe we might surprise many followers of the game.
It seems obvious but Cian Molloy looks like he has what it takes to be our new centre back.
Richie Lawlor could then play as a half forward which I think is his best position.
With Jippo full back and Patsy in centre back it would add enormous strength to our defensive spine. That has been a weakness for quite some time now and you won't beat any of the top teams if your central defence is lacking in physique and ball winning ability.
It's been said many times on here and elsewhere that it is hoped that the likes of Jippo,Chin,Jacko and Kevin Foley don't deside to hang up their boots at intercounty level.
All four still have a lot to offer for at least another year or two.
Cillian and Cian Byrne would add depth to the forward lines and I would have faith in Jack Redmond.
We are not by any means up to standard at the moment but if we can play like we did yesterday for 20 minutes and extend that throughout the 70+ minutes ( not easy I know) then we will be back in business and ready to take on the big boys.

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Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 696 - 25/05/2026 12:38:43    2675336

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Replying To Viking66:  "Wouldn't one of those be more a Rapps surname historically?!!!"
Yes although his mother's side of the family would be Rathnure royalty!

And if we want to get controversial, I think you could say it's more of a Shamrocks surname than a Rapps one….

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1309 - 25/05/2026 13:06:38    2675349

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Replying To Viking66:  "The gap at underage has narrowed appreciably at underage this year between Munster and Leinster. If we have a team capable of winning a minor or u20 Leinster title next year there's no reason they couldnt win an AI title."
FWIW, I think Tipp are probably #1 at Minor this year and there's not much separating anyone else, Westmeath weren't even that far off it either, whole lot of team around the same level if I had to guess

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1309 - 25/05/2026 13:08:43    2675352

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Replying To Magpie2:  "For next year, more than likely with new management if we can avoid injuries ( unlikely )
I really believe we might surprise many followers of the game.
It seems obvious but Cian Molloy looks like he has what it takes to be our new centre back.
Richie Lawlor could then play as a half forward which I think is his best position.
With Jippo full back and Patsy in centre back it would add enormous strength to our defensive spine. That has been a weakness for quite some time now and you won't beat any of the top teams if your central defence is lacking in physique and ball winning ability.
It's been said many times on here and elsewhere that it is hoped that the likes of Jippo,Chin,Jacko and Kevin Foley don't deside to hang up their boots at intercounty level.
All four still have a lot to offer for at least another year or two.
Cillian and Cian Byrne would add depth to the forward lines and I would have faith in Jack Redmond.
We are not by any means up to standard at the moment but if we can play like we did yesterday for 20 minutes and extend that throughout the 70+ minutes ( not easy I know) then we will be back in business and ready to take on the big boys.

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To play devil's advocate though, were we so good in the first twenty minutes or were they so bad?

I thought they were definitely very poor early on and then they played very well from there on in, their backs just dominated us physically, stop Chin winning ball and we've no-one else to win primary possession in the forwards

We played some nice stuff early on but they played with so little intensity at that stage that I don't know how much you read into it, we then went away from working it and resorted to going long where we proceeded to lose nearly every ball that went up there

Ball go up, ball come straight back

I don't know why we went away from it. Not good enough to do it against pressure? Too tired? Tactical instruction? Patsy and Carley have a lot of quality on the ball so we should be able to play out against pressure and we stopped doing it too early in the game to say we were tired, would say it was down to tactical instruction (Or lack thereof)

Limerick are hell-bent on working the ball short, they'd drop Hannon into the FB line to create a line of 4 and then they'd drop O'Donoghue and O'Donovan into the HB line to create a second line of 4; leave them as they are and they've the numbers to work the ball short and then launch into their FF line from their HB line, push up and you've a lot of players a long way away from play if they go long off the puck-out and they'd be in a lot of space too

I don't think anyone would look at us this year and say that they'd look to copy our tactics

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1309 - 25/05/2026 13:16:54    2675357

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "If Dublin are the standard bearers in Leinster right now, then we wouldn't be that far off if we had a full pick

Problem is getting anywhere close to a full pick, I don't know who comes back out of those who were unavailable this year and that's before we even mention how many of those who are currently in the panel will be unavailable next year"
Think we are deluding ourselves that we wouldn't be far off with a full pick. When most of those stayaway players did commit we were still losing to likes of Antrim, collapsing against Westmeath and taking a hiding usually in a QF. When was the last time we beat Dublin in a championship game? We tend to console ourselves with soft talk like "we beat ourselves" or "if we had a full pick". The results over a number of years don't lie. Dublin are routinely now in Leinster finals. We havent been near one since 2019. Second division of league and second worst team in championship by a distance, if there's a positive Id love to hear it!

Timbertony (Wexford) - Posts: 581 - 25/05/2026 13:28:55    2675366

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