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Hardly outsiders. Its going to be 40 odd 15-17 year olds playing in the game. Hard to say who will rise to it, and who will shrink from it.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19448 - 05/05/2026 13:04:25 2671096 Link 0 |
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I'm expecting Wexford to give us plenty of it here. On day 1 the gap on the final scoreboard was far bigger than the gap between the teams on the grass. Wexford have since drawn with Kilkenny (4 down with 2 mins left and goaled twice) and walloped both Kildare and Laois, and while neither of the latter two are up to much at this level, hammering them can only be good for confidence. You'd imagine Wexford will be better prepared for Niland the next day also and we can't rely on their shooting being so rotten either. Perhaps my expectations are too high but I've been somewhat underwhelmed by what I have seen from the U20's this year so far, Niland was essentially the difference on day 1, Kildare was meh and we were fortunate enough to beat a very understrength KK side (TBF we didn't have Niland and Rabbitte came on after HT and he did make an impact) But a repeat of the first 25 minutes of the KK game wouldn't be a good look and it would mean we wouldn't be in much danger of winning anything. Let's hope we improve on the grass and on the line. We need to. Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 1013 - 05/05/2026 18:02:19 2671189 Link 0 |