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Anyone attend the Coaching meeting in Whites last night or what was the jist of the plan outlined?

MyOhMi (Wexford) - Posts: 398 - 11/11/2026 14:46:36    2700087

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Yes. Its a very good plan, but its success will depend on all the clubs buying in.
There will be 7 regions with 7 clubs each in them, one will have 6. There will be a huge effort to upskill club coaches, more coaching workshops will be offered at a local club and region level, all the secondary schools will have Wexford GAA staff giving weekly coaching in hurling and football for first years and second years, GDCs will be visiting every National School in the county to coach teachers and pupils, and there will be u13 regional development squads running weekly from January to July to provide a bridge between the u12 ASH scheme and the u14 development squad and extended panel.
Hopefully if the standard of coaching at every club rises then the standard of all our club players will get better, eventually all the way up to adult. Its a club first plan.
This should then lead to a larger base number of elite players to play for the county.
But it needs every club to help push it forwards to raise the standard of our players from grassroots upwards.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20987 - 11/11/2026 17:06:06    2700108

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Any story on who won between CBS mullingar and Good Counsel in junior?

Hurler20 (Wexford) - Posts: 22 - 11/11/2026 18:12:55    2700118

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Replying To Hurler20:  "Any story on who won between CBS mullingar and Good Counsel in junior?"
Marys Mullingar won a good game by a point. 2-25 to 4-18.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20987 - 11/11/2026 20:18:56    2700137

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Replying To Viking66:  "Yes. Its a very good plan, but its success will depend on all the clubs buying in.
There will be 7 regions with 7 clubs each in them, one will have 6. There will be a huge effort to upskill club coaches, more coaching workshops will be offered at a local club and region level, all the secondary schools will have Wexford GAA staff giving weekly coaching in hurling and football for first years and second years, GDCs will be visiting every National School in the county to coach teachers and pupils, and there will be u13 regional development squads running weekly from January to July to provide a bridge between the u12 ASH scheme and the u14 development squad and extended panel.
Hopefully if the standard of coaching at every club rises then the standard of all our club players will get better, eventually all the way up to adult. Its a club first plan.
This should then lead to a larger base number of elite players to play for the county.
But it needs every club to help push it forwards to raise the standard of our players from grassroots upwards."
It is a very good plan but our region is a little isolated.

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4693 - 12/11/2026 08:11:14    2700161

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Replying To Hurler20:  "Any story on who won between CBS mullingar and Good Counsel in junior?"
CBS won by 1 point I think in the end - GCC were 5 up at half time

MyOhMi (Wexford) - Posts: 398 - 12/11/2026 08:46:31    2700162

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Replying To Doylerwex:  "It is a very good plan but our region is a little isolated."
You are in with Clonard and Shels and 4 Football clubs, so it should benefit you more in some ways, such as you will be able to have more lads on your u13 development squad than a club in a rwgion with 7 dual clubs.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20987 - 12/11/2026 11:05:06    2700177

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Replying To Doylerwex:  "It is a very good plan but our region is a little isolated."
What are the 7 regions going to be and what clubs are in them

Hurler20 (Wexford) - Posts: 22 - 12/11/2026 17:16:34    2700221

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Kilkenny CBC beat Kieran's by 0-21 to 1-10 in their first group game, Good Counsel are in the same group

Think Counsel have CBC a bit of a beating in the league and Peter's ran Kieran's to two points, hard to know how much stock to put into that, probably not much

Think Kieran's might have been at home but wherever it was looked like a great set-up, state of the art artificial pitch, looked to be floodlights there as well and a little stand

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1627 - 12/11/2026 17:44:53    2700223

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Replying To Hurler20:  "What are the 7 regions going to be and what clubs are in them"
The 7 regions are arranged geographically. They dont have names, maybe they should have?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20987 - 12/11/2026 18:42:08    2700226

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Kilkenny CBC beat Kieran's by 0-21 to 1-10 in their first group game, Good Counsel are in the same group

Think Counsel have CBC a bit of a beating in the league and Peter's ran Kieran's to two points, hard to know how much stock to put into that, probably not much

Think Kieran's might have been at home but wherever it was looked like a great set-up, state of the art artificial pitch, looked to be floodlights there as well and a little stand"
Its the new Astro they have up at Kierans. They were very lucky to get it done when they did as it turned out. I watched the game on clubber, astro hurling is quite a bit different from grass.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20987 - 13/11/2026 07:16:02    2700252

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Kilkenny CBC beat Kieran's by 0-21 to 1-10 in their first group game, Good Counsel are in the same group

Think Counsel have CBC a bit of a beating in the league and Peter's ran Kieran's to two points, hard to know how much stock to put into that, probably not much

Think Kieran's might have been at home but wherever it was looked like a great set-up, state of the art artificial pitch, looked to be floodlights there as well and a little stand"
Counsel should be decent this year, Peters and Marys arent bad either. Alot will depend on them all having real belief on the day, as in knowing they will win rather than hoping that they will, and hopefully they will then play their best.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20987 - 13/11/2026 07:24:56    2700253

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Replying To Viking66:  "The 7 regions are arranged geographically. They dont have names, maybe they should have?"
Could name them after the baronies maybe

Ballaghkeen, Bargy, Forth, Shelburne, Shelmalier, Bantry, Scarawalsh, and Gorey

One name too many there though

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1627 - 13/11/2026 08:54:17    2700255

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Could name them after the baronies maybe

Ballaghkeen, Bargy, Forth, Shelburne, Shelmalier, Bantry, Scarawalsh, and Gorey

One name too many there though"
The group with Martins, Barntown, Kilmore, Annes, Rosslare, Fintans and OLI could get called Forth and Bargy?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20987 - 13/11/2026 10:25:12    2700264

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Replying To Viking66:  "Its the new Astro they have up at Kierans. They were very lucky to get it done when they did as it turned out. I watched the game on clubber, astro hurling is quite a bit different from grass."
Yeah, very different game to the game in Pat's Park alright, higher scoring by a good bit but that's to be expected

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1627 - 13/11/2026 12:02:48    2700279

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Replying To Viking66:  "Counsel should be decent this year, Peters and Marys arent bad either. Alot will depend on them all having real belief on the day, as in knowing they will win rather than hoping that they will, and hopefully they will then play their best."
I don't know if KK have the same fear factor as before because we have been able to get results against them in the last 10-15 years at underage and Senior level, was fairly slim pickings against them in the 10-15 years prior to that!

Kieran's on the other hand probably do still have that fear factor though, maybe not for Counsel but it must be a long time since Peter's beat them in championship

Don't know if this is the best Kieran's side though and I thought looking at them yesterday, Peter's may have a size and athleticism advantage over them or at least they wouldn't be physically dominated by them

Think Enniscorthy CBS beat them last year in Junior so that might give them belief, would guess they've never really played them all that often, Peter's running them close in the league might give them som belief, I dunno

Counsel might have a shot at winning Leinster alright, long way to go but if they beat Kieran's, that's them straight into the SFs, Mullingar could take some beating as that's basically the Westmeath minor hurling team from this year

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1627 - 13/11/2026 12:08:32    2700280

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You can't compare St.Kierans to any other hurling school in Leinster though, your talking about a school that has top hurlers from not only 30min away in Ballyhale and South Kilkenny willing to travel but top hurling teenagers from Waterford, Tipperary, Laois, Carlow willing to make the journey everyday to become an even better hurler in St.Kierans. It is a hurling academy in every sense of the word, but it is a top school academically too so that helps draw them in too.

If you make the starting 15 for St.Kierans on any given year, you have fought off a lot of competition to get that jersey.

Past hurler (None) - Posts: 1049 - 13/11/2026 13:49:32    2700285

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "I don't know if KK have the same fear factor as before because we have been able to get results against them in the last 10-15 years at underage and Senior level, was fairly slim pickings against them in the 10-15 years prior to that!

Kieran's on the other hand probably do still have that fear factor though, maybe not for Counsel but it must be a long time since Peter's beat them in championship

Don't know if this is the best Kieran's side though and I thought looking at them yesterday, Peter's may have a size and athleticism advantage over them or at least they wouldn't be physically dominated by them

Think Enniscorthy CBS beat them last year in Junior so that might give them belief, would guess they've never really played them all that often, Peter's running them close in the league might give them som belief, I dunno

Counsel might have a shot at winning Leinster alright, long way to go but if they beat Kieran's, that's them straight into the SFs, Mullingar could take some beating as that's basically the Westmeath minor hurling team from this year"
Marys and Counsel both beat Kierans at Junior last year, but all those lads will only be 5th year now, if not still TY.
Marys Mullingar is half a good county minor team ok, but they have been putting in savage work the last few years, all their teams were in A the last couple of years, unlike Peters.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20987 - 13/11/2026 14:44:28    2700289

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