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Replying To ExiledInWex:  "I didn't listen but it would be better if free tickets were given to every GAA club in the county and get thousands of children at the match than for Wexford Park to be practically empty on Sunday.
Same was said on Leinster Hurling thread, putting €5 on a childs ticket for a match where the ground is practically empty is a fools errand.
Get the children a free childs ticket in their pocket and they will get their parents to go."
I couldn't agree more. The fai are brilliant at that

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3669 - 22/05/2025 13:55:53    2611750

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Replying To wexford2012:  "Interesting comments on the Wexford hurling podcast from Michael Dignan re Offaly's approach:

1. They spend MORE than ANY other county on their development squads
2. They are looking to position their second level schools as hubs, possibly holding development squad sessions at schools straight afterwards hoping to make it easier to participate on players and their parents
3. He really emphasized the love of the jersey, passion, but turning this into action"
Is that really feasible in Wexford though? Offaly has a smaller area and a smaller population plus isn't hurling concentrated all in the one area as well? Can understand hubs but you'd realistically be talking about Gorey, Enniscorthy, Wexford, and New Ross as the four hubs, would be small enough training sessions if you went to split them four ways

Development squads will be doing a lot of their training between June and August when schools are off, is he talking about sessions on weekday nights during the winter/spring/autumn?

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 556 - 22/05/2025 14:41:21    2611759

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Replying To Viking66:  "In Ross District the complaint seemed to be that there were lads on the squad who weren't good enough playing, while other better lads couldn't play because of the quota system. One mentor thought it would've been better to have trials."
Maybe you're right to a certain extent, but at this age do we need to be really stressing on lads good enough… I'm not saying send everybody but I think there can be an obsession on this at times and I don't think it's necessary at such an age, the more things like this the better, give lads an opportunity. You go to a trial at 11 or 12 and don't get picked, the next trial becomes harder and so on, if you go at all! I've seen lads become county players who may not necessarily have been shining lights at underage all along. Another thing on the Ross district development would it be any harm to come to Ross for these things the odd time? Granted Ferns is great and that's its purpose but for a lot of clubs/parents in particular in the Ross district it's a good spin.

Longtimefirsttime (Wexford) - Posts: 3 - 22/05/2025 15:13:23    2611765

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Is that really feasible in Wexford though? Offaly has a smaller area and a smaller population plus isn't hurling concentrated all in the one area as well? Can understand hubs but you'd realistically be talking about Gorey, Enniscorthy, Wexford, and New Ross as the four hubs, would be small enough training sessions if you went to split them four ways

Development squads will be doing a lot of their training between June and August when schools are off, is he talking about sessions on weekday nights during the winter/spring/autumn?"
There's only around 8 weeks between the end of school and when the development squads finish up for the year. They start back in February. Other counties start earlier, or go all through winter.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16027 - 22/05/2025 15:28:20    2611768

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Replying To Longtimefirsttime:  "Maybe you're right to a certain extent, but at this age do we need to be really stressing on lads good enough… I'm not saying send everybody but I think there can be an obsession on this at times and I don't think it's necessary at such an age, the more things like this the better, give lads an opportunity. You go to a trial at 11 or 12 and don't get picked, the next trial becomes harder and so on, if you go at all! I've seen lads become county players who may not necessarily have been shining lights at underage all along. Another thing on the Ross district development would it be any harm to come to Ross for these things the odd time? Granted Ferns is great and that's its purpose but for a lot of clubs/parents in particular in the Ross district it's a good spin."
Agree with this. It wouldn't be a proper schools competition if all the schools aren't represented. The point he was making was there were schools with 3 or 4 lads, not all of whom were able to compete with the Wexford and Enniscorthy lads, while other schools could only send 1 boy, while they actually had 2 or 3 really good lads but couldn't send some of them as their school didn't progress as far.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16027 - 22/05/2025 15:58:41    2611771

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Don't know what way things are now but I was part of hurling and football development squads back in the early 2010s and the set-up was:

Trials in March

Then football was every Friday from the end of March to mid-August

Hurling was about every Saturday from the start of May to the end of June (Started in early April at U16), then the sessions switched to every Tuesday from then onwards

Saturdays were usually kept free for blitzes and because there were dual players, if the hurlers were playing on a Saturday, then the footballers were doing nothing at all and vice-versa

Might have been some training done on Saturdays by the hurlers when there were no hurling or football blitzes on

Then there was six weeks of S&C in November-December and then another four-six weeks in January-February

Wonder how much things have changed since then

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 556 - 22/05/2025 16:03:26    2611773

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Replying To StoreysTash:  "I used to play hurling, football and soccer for the winter.
For me, soccer was just to keep in shape. I used to hit a hurling ball for 10 minutes pretty much every day. All year round.
Most of my soccer team were hurling and football first, soccer was a bit of craic for the winter. I never cared about turning up to a soccer match in bad shape from the night before, something I never did for a GAA match.
If you are playing Premier League or Division 1 soccer in Wexford it was taken seriously but below that it is not."
Yeah that's true. I'm talking about chaps, U12s U14s.

WEX98 (Wexford) - Posts: 534 - 22/05/2025 21:13:23    2611806

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Replying To ExiledInWex:  "I didn't listen but it would be better if free tickets were given to every GAA club in the county and get thousands of children at the match than for Wexford Park to be practically empty on Sunday.
Same was said on Leinster Hurling thread, putting €5 on a childs ticket for a match where the ground is practically empty is a fools errand.
Get the children a free childs ticket in their pocket and they will get their parents to go."
Buy the child's ticket, if it beeps when they scan it your in.....they never check the ticket type. I always give they youngs lads ticket first to see if they check.... I do buy the 25 euro too by the way

WEX98 (Wexford) - Posts: 534 - 22/05/2025 21:18:42    2611808

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Replying To Doylerwex:  "I couldn't agree more. The fai are brilliant at that"
Not so sure about the FAI being "brilliant" at that.

There's an upcoming friendly v Senegal on Friday June 6th, which will hardly see a massive clamour for tickets and a sell-out. Sort of thing where you might expect cheap or even free children's tickets to swell the crowd if they really were "brilliant" at it. Instead, it's €22.95 for a child's ticket, plus of course the Ticketmaster handling charges.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2888 - 22/05/2025 23:35:26    2611817

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Replying To WEX98:  "Buy the child's ticket, if it beeps when they scan it your in.....they never check the ticket type. I always give they youngs lads ticket first to see if they check.... I do buy the 25 euro too by the way"
Hopefully there will be some open door policy for kids Sunday, would be a great gesture and encourage lads to come to the game. I've already bought my 4 kids tickets though!

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16027 - 23/05/2025 07:04:23    2611825

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https://x.com/OfficialWexGAA/status/1925522040745767238?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet

Some underage games if anyone wants to go support the lads. The u16a game away against Laois was postponed because Laois have some u16s playing for their Celtic Challenge team.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16027 - 23/05/2025 07:44:00    2611827

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I think the point about free tickets for kids is a good one, very few children are going to be there unless their parents are really loyal supporters.
The only way you will get children in to a culture of going to games is to get them in the gate, the AFL clubs are great at this with kids for a buck and stuff.
But if children came home from school with a free ticket for the match asking their parents to bring them I think this would have some effect on swelling the attendance.
100% of an empty seat equals €0 and even if they bought a bar of chocolate it is more than they will make off the empty seat.
It also makes children want to play the game and get out on the pitch at half-time.
The best promotion of our games are having children at them in the first place.
Its not as if the game will be sold out and it can easily be a game week decision.

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1845 - 23/05/2025 09:13:31    2611831

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Replying To Pikeman96:  "Not so sure about the FAI being "brilliant" at that.

There's an upcoming friendly v Senegal on Friday June 6th, which will hardly see a massive clamour for tickets and a sell-out. Sort of thing where you might expect cheap or even free children's tickets to swell the crowd if they really were "brilliant" at it. Instead, it's €22.95 for a child's ticket, plus of course the Ticketmaster handling charges."
They will contact the club delegates the week of the game and send about 20 free tickets to any club that wants them. The always do it.

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3669 - 23/05/2025 09:15:39    2611833

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Any team news for KK game? .. Training last night .. sad to think that after this weekend Minors / U20 / Seniors will probably all be finished

MyOhMi (Wexford) - Posts: 192 - 23/05/2025 10:09:30    2611838

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Kilkenny team named is interesting to say the least…experimental probably understating it.

Throughthemidfieldhewasstormin (Wexford) - Posts: 332 - 23/05/2025 10:54:04    2611849

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Replying To Throughthemidfieldhewasstormin:  "Kilkenny team named is interesting to say the least…experimental probably understating it."
Yes, but those lads will be fighting hard for places.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16027 - 23/05/2025 11:19:19    2611853

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Replying To Viking66:  "Yes, but those lads will be fighting hard for places."
Stop viking will you them lads know there not going to be on the team but its fair of Lyng to give the panel a run out when he has the chance .For us its the end of the road for this year so maybe should have experimented as much as possible as well with next year in mind cant keep putting out the same lads more or less and expect different results.

Tiger1 (Wexford) - Posts: 371 - 23/05/2025 11:51:26    2611857

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Replying To wexford2012:  "Interesting comments on the Wexford hurling podcast from Michael Dignan re Offaly's approach:

1. They spend MORE than ANY other county on their development squads
2. They are looking to position their second level schools as hubs, possibly holding development squad sessions at schools straight afterwards hoping to make it easier to participate on players and their parents
3. He really emphasized the love of the jersey, passion, but turning this into action"
Did he mention anything on the money Shane Lowry is pumping in?

goreyll (Wexford) - Posts: 163 - 23/05/2025 12:31:41    2611864

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Small crowd, non existant atmosphere, no jeopardy of any kind, Kilkenny very understrength,
Wexford likely to be experimental???
No exciting build up before the game,
No real joy if we win.
No real sadness if we lose.
No more intercounty games for another 8 months.
Likely to be more retirements on the cards.
Seniors gone. U20s gone and unlikely our minors will survive much longer. ( Hope that won't happen)
Management at risk of being replaced.
2nd tier hurling next year in the league.
Low public support expected for most games.
If we happen to win on Sunday against the cats Some will say " sure it wasn't a bad year really, didn't we beat the old enemy"
As a passionate and loyal Wexford supporter I will be in Wexford Park for our final game but in truth it's not a game I'm looking forward to.
Let's hope that 2026 will make us smile again bur I am not optimistic.

Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 501 - 23/05/2025 12:50:08    2611866

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Replying To Tiger1:  "Stop viking will you them lads know there not going to be on the team but its fair of Lyng to give the panel a run out when he has the chance .For us its the end of the road for this year so maybe should have experimented as much as possible as well with next year in mind cant keep putting out the same lads more or less and expect different results."
The 2 teams picked are around the same age.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16027 - 23/05/2025 13:51:18    2611886

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