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Wexford Hurling thread 2024

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "I certainly haven't forgotten but there's a difference between respecting a team and worrying about a team, neither Limerick nor Kilkenny would ever worry about Antrim, I'd say most KK people would refer to this KK team as a poor enough one by their standards and yet the absolutely horsed Antrim, Antrim then bet us but we pretty much go toe-to-toe with KK every time we play them, something's wrong there and Antrim aren't the only county this applies to, also applies to our performances against Westmeath as well

The last three years, we've played both Antrim and Westmeath twice in the Championship and all four times, we put in very poor performances, it seems like we only raise our game against KK but we then mess around and play with fire against Westmeath and Antrim and ultimately, we keep on getting burned

Everyone here and in the camp wants Wexford to win an All-Ireland but the one thing above all else that is holding us back is not technical ability nor physical ability nor tactical ability, it's mental ability and until we change how we think about facing the likes of Antrim and Westmeath, we won't be winning All-Irelands"
I'm still convinced that Kilkenny threw the match to Wexford in '23. Remember if Wexford lost that day they were in the Joe McDonagh Cup. Now that wouldn't suit the narrative and Kilkenny want to control that narrative. Ah but who cares, Castletown Geoghegan had their day in the sun last Sunday. Small fry one might say but tasty all the same.

MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 1080 - 23/11/2024 18:40:58    2580864

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Replying To MillerX:  "I'm still convinced that Kilkenny threw the match to Wexford in '23. Remember if Wexford lost that day they were in the Joe McDonagh Cup. Now that wouldn't suit the narrative and Kilkenny want to control that narrative. Ah but who cares, Castletown Geoghegan had their day in the sun last Sunday. Small fry one might say but tasty all the same."
"Threw" the match, on a scoreline of 4-23 to 5-18, and with Kilkenny having a goal disallowed after three minutes of injury time because the pass that led to it was deemed a throw instead of a legitimate handpass.

I think you're being ridiculous, and I expect others would share my view.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2622 - 23/11/2024 19:35:41    2580879

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "I certainly haven't forgotten but there's a difference between respecting a team and worrying about a team, neither Limerick nor Kilkenny would ever worry about Antrim, I'd say most KK people would refer to this KK team as a poor enough one by their standards and yet the absolutely horsed Antrim, Antrim then bet us but we pretty much go toe-to-toe with KK every time we play them, something's wrong there and Antrim aren't the only county this applies to, also applies to our performances against Westmeath as well

The last three years, we've played both Antrim and Westmeath twice in the Championship and all four times, we put in very poor performances, it seems like we only raise our game against KK but we then mess around and play with fire against Westmeath and Antrim and ultimately, we keep on getting burned

Everyone here and in the camp wants Wexford to win an All-Ireland but the one thing above all else that is holding us back is not technical ability nor physical ability nor tactical ability, it's mental ability and until we change how we think about facing the likes of Antrim and Westmeath, we won't be winning All-Irelands"
Antrim didn't even play their best team against Kilkenny.
And as regards the 2nd part of your post it's nonsense. We are only catching up physically with the top teams now, and until we sort out our underage we also have a technical deficit. We have lads on our team who started in last years championship who should be playing football for the county where they would be a huge addition.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13884 - 23/11/2024 20:30:21    2580893

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Replying To MillerX:  "I'm still convinced that Kilkenny threw the match to Wexford in '23. Remember if Wexford lost that day they were in the Joe McDonagh Cup. Now that wouldn't suit the narrative and Kilkenny want to control that narrative. Ah but who cares, Castletown Geoghegan had their day in the sun last Sunday. Small fry one might say but tasty all the same."
Also CTG have a great team with good intercounty experience. Much more intercounty experience than Thomastown had. It wasn't a shock that they won.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 13884 - 23/11/2024 20:32:56    2580895

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Replying To MillerX:  "I'm still convinced that Kilkenny threw the match to Wexford in '23. Remember if Wexford lost that day they were in the Joe McDonagh Cup. Now that wouldn't suit the narrative and Kilkenny want to control that narrative. Ah but who cares, Castletown Geoghegan had their day in the sun last Sunday. Small fry one might say but tasty all the same."
Nadine. Kilkenny don't mess around ever and would loved to have beaten us that day. It's a massive rivalry. Why would they have wanted us to stay up?

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3148 - 23/11/2024 21:10:13    2580905

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "I certainly haven't forgotten but there's a difference between respecting a team and worrying about a team, neither Limerick nor Kilkenny would ever worry about Antrim, I'd say most KK people would refer to this KK team as a poor enough one by their standards and yet the absolutely horsed Antrim, Antrim then bet us but we pretty much go toe-to-toe with KK every time we play them, something's wrong there and Antrim aren't the only county this applies to, also applies to our performances against Westmeath as well

The last three years, we've played both Antrim and Westmeath twice in the Championship and all four times, we put in very poor performances, it seems like we only raise our game against KK but we then mess around and play with fire against Westmeath and Antrim and ultimately, we keep on getting burned

Everyone here and in the camp wants Wexford to win an All-Ireland but the one thing above all else that is holding us back is not technical ability nor physical ability nor tactical ability, it's mental ability and until we change how we think about facing the likes of Antrim and Westmeath, we won't be winning All-Irelands"
All things considered we should be beating Antrim.

However we were unconvincing in 23 and got caught last year. Davy will have them primed for that game as the highlight of their year and would love to put one over on kieth. He also knows our players inside out.

It's the ultimate banana skin that as you outlined were extremely prone to.

If we're not on it we'll get caught.

The last couple of years I've been far more worried about the ones we're expected to win than Galway, Dublin or particularly Kilkenny against whom we always get a performance.

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3148 - 23/11/2024 21:13:36    2580907

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