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Are you nuts?? Lawlor isnt even a back in my mind
theboys (Wexford) - Posts: 301 - 19/04/2026 14:42:26
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Replying To OpenStandWall: "Now that the sand has settled… was impressed yesterday by Hearne, Wickham and OLeary who has been effective since the Clare game.... Lawlor played much better in the second half also once he seemed to get to grips with their puck out strategy, two Jacks and Simon were quiet enough. Carley wasn't too bad either, when he went off saw him holding his hamstring a bit alright. Subs definitely bolstered us, Cillian Byrne in particular, Cian is out for a while with a hamstring injury so I saw on twitter.
Moving on to next week, only saw highlights of match in Salthill on YouTube. I'm stuck in two minds as to what to think, part of me thinks we're going to be on the receiving end of a backlash while the other part of me thinks we can go up there and get a result, but we'll need to improve big time on the first 45 mins. Donnelly will be a big loss for them as well as having no Mullen, id expect Murphy to be back in the goal.
With Jippo not getting any game time yesterday, do you put him in from the start now next week?" Depends how he is going in training.
Just on Hearne hes one of our best players in general, but I thought he was poor enough by his standards.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19254 - 19/04/2026 15:19:19
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Replying To beano: "On Jippo, it might be a bit premature to stick him in from the off, but we need to do SOMETHING. Because looking at Kildare's goal, we were badly exposed and isolated for it. And by all accounts TJ had a field day on Galway despite an awful day for Kilkenny, so the prospect of route one ball could be damaging.
I wonder could Lawlor be a left-field option solely to compete aerially with Reid? Freeing up Foley to play in the half-back line. Moving Chin back would take too much from us up front." Tbh, I'd nearly consider going for a surprise sweeper, worked well in 2022
I think they were playing their traditional game a few years ago and weren't winning and thought they needed to move to a more modern style but they're playing this modern style and they're not suited by it, think a lot of people in KK would rather that they revert to that more traditional style
Our spine can be got at too and they have the players to go after it, play a surprise sweeper and they either rain ball down on our spare man or else they work the ball around short which hasn't been going that well for them recently
Kevin Foley probably the man for the job IMO
Think they can be got at with speed, problem for us is that ROC isn't playing this year, Cian Byrne is out injured, and Seán Rowley wasn't brought on yesterday and probably needs time, hard to play a two-man forward line successfully without having pacy options inside
ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1067 - 19/04/2026 15:20:50
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Replying To OpenStandWall: "Now that the sand has settled… was impressed yesterday by Hearne, Wickham and OLeary who has been effective since the Clare game.... Lawlor played much better in the second half also once he seemed to get to grips with their puck out strategy, two Jacks and Simon were quiet enough. Carley wasn't too bad either, when he went off saw him holding his hamstring a bit alright. Subs definitely bolstered us, Cillian Byrne in particular, Cian is out for a while with a hamstring injury so I saw on twitter.
Moving on to next week, only saw highlights of match in Salthill on YouTube. I'm stuck in two minds as to what to think, part of me thinks we're going to be on the receiving end of a backlash while the other part of me thinks we can go up there and get a result, but we'll need to improve big time on the first 45 mins. Donnelly will be a big loss for them as well as having no Mullen, id expect Murphy to be back in the goal.
With Jippo not getting any game time yesterday, do you put him in from the start now next week?" Depends how Jippo is going in training. If hes flying Id start him.
Just on Hearne hes one of our best players in general, but I thought he was poor enough by his standards yesterday.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19254 - 19/04/2026 15:22:11
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Replying To ElGranSenor: "Think Galway beat them in Nowlan Park in 2019 if I'm not mistaken" We did.
And we finished 4th on score difference and went out early
Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 1003 - 19/04/2026 16:39:06
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Replying To Doylerwex: "To be fair I think it was 10 frees chin got." Yep fairly spot on there 9 frees and a 65
Ryanworld (Wexford) - Posts: 53 - 19/04/2026 16:50:40
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Replying To Stool Pigeon: "Poorer Wexford teams have beaten better KK teams in the relatively recent past.
Watch the Galway V KK game, and unless you think Galway are up there with Limerick et al. (we aren't) you'll be comforted by how ordinary the stripey men are these days.
Go up there to win and be disappointed if you don't." 100% agree.
Rather than focusing and worrying about a KK backlash we shojld be heading up the road with our heads up and chests out ready to bury them.
Because if the shoe was on the other foot thats exactly what they would be doing.
This is where the ruthlessness comes in, no talk about what ifs, go for it up in their faces for 70 minutes, your record is good enough against them over the years, time for a bit of arrogance.
tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1645 - 19/04/2026 18:03:29
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Next week is a massive game; us, KK, Dublin, and Offaly is almost like a mini-Round Robin, whoever comes 1st in it will make a Leinster Final with Galway and whoever comes 2nd will come 3rd in Leinster IMO
Lose and we're under the pump and would realistically need to win our last three games (Possible as Dublin and Offaly are probably 50/50 games and Galway will probably be qualified by the time we play them, could very easily lose all three games at the same time)
Win and we'd be sitting in a very good position, would be a massive psychological boost too and you'd imagine we could get a good crowd in then for the Dublin game
Need to bring massive intensity from the get-go, KK are in a similar enough position to us two years ago going into the Galway game in Wexford Park, we know how that ended so we'll have to be prepared for a backs against the wall performance against KK
This mightn't be the greatest KK team there has ever been but they'll be much better than they were yesterday and while we still might be capable of beating them even if they bring in, a Lord of the Rings quote seems very appropriate: "One does not simply walk into Mordor"
Nothing is ever easy in Nowlan Park but at the same time, this is what Championship hurling is all about, Wexford players should be champing at the bit for the game on Saturday
ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1067 - 19/04/2026 19:06:16
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I know it was said by a good few of us after the League game but the game last night was always going to be very different from the March game and Kildare were always going to be a different sort of animal
Tbh, I think intensity is more important than skill in hurling and if you don't blow Kildare away early on (Like Dublin did in the league), then they become a very difficult team play against, they're just very dogged and the game gets very sticky
Their S&C work is very good, they have a clear tactical plan, they have a lot of belief in themselves, and they play with massive intensity, put that altogether and they're just a very hard team to play against
Once we weren't able to build that early lead, they just hung in there and made us grind it out, have to remember that we didn't grind out wins against Westmeath in 2022 and 2023 and then Antrim in 2024 so this in a way represents progress
Tbf, they beat Antrim and Carlow handily in the league at Newbridge and gave Clare a tough enough test at home as well, they're just a difficult team to play against in Newbridge, Kilkenny only pulled away from them late on in the Walsh Cup as well, they're just a tough team to play against and the game last night was played on their terms, not on ours
I suppose it's important to be able to win ugly and this game and the two games against Antrim and Down in the league would fall under the same bracket. Nothing beats winning and at least we have two points on the board now, need to improve our touch as we were a good bit off where we needed to be plus we struggled physically against their backs, those are the two main areas to work on but at least we'll be able to work on them off the back of a win
ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1067 - 19/04/2026 22:02:10
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Job done yesterday and I was very happy coming home with two points on the board. We were poor though in fairness and need a vast improvement if we are going to get out of Leinster. I start Liam Ryan full back on Tj next week. If he is fit enough to be on the bench he should be fit enough to start. Any word on donohue, molloy, Byrne, dempsey and codd injuries or if any will be back next week? It is a real pity we missing so much from last year because I think if we had everyone we could probably beat kk on Saturday. We can still beat them but it is a big ask. On to the under 20 and a must win game on wednesday night. It was lovely to see wexford supporters outnumbered kildare supporters yesterday evening.
hunting (Wexford) - Posts: 1201 - 19/04/2026 22:28:06
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