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Or Connolly
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14472 - 23/01/2025 23:20:25 2587251 Link 0 |
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Split season is gone a year now lad
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14472 - 23/01/2025 23:21:35 2587253 Link 0 |
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Two man mountains in their half back line at 6'3 and 6'5 in OMahony and Downey, Fanning will have no options past our half back line to go long on puck outs. Sorry to say but we're not near enough physical around the middle third if we're going to even think about getting a result. Different year, same problem and the answers probably aren't out there I'm afraid. OpenStandWall (Wexford) - Posts: 175 - 24/01/2025 00:36:14 2587257 Link 0 |
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Eoin Ryan and Darragh Carley started in the Fitzgibbon Thursday night.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14472 - 24/01/2025 02:36:28 2587259 Link 0 |
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Very disappointing. I guess we don't know who is carrying injuries etc but there are players named to start who keep getting multiple chances to impress. Is Whelan injured? Donohue at 3 isn't going to be the answer, to be fair to the lad he gets moved around a lot. ROC at 11 if he plays there is interesting.
Timbertony (Wexford) - Posts: 332 - 24/01/2025 08:32:52 2587265 Link 0 |
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Hopefully the game goes ahead the storm doesnt seem to have effected us in Wexford as bad as other parts of the Country. Id agree would have liked to have seen Molloy and S Reck start. Wouldnt be surprised to see one or two changes before throw in Keith always seems to make a few changes to the named 15
Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 421 - 24/01/2025 09:04:36 2587267 Link 0 |
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That team very inexperienced as we thought it would be!!! I fear big time for us in this game,cork are strong!!! This has to happen to us and will continue to happen to us for the league,we might get close to one or two teams but I don't see us winning a game!!! It will do one or the other to wexford,we will learn the hard lessons and improve for it or the opposite and the majority of the young lads will leave or have the mentality of sure I hurl for wexford and the actual will to win won't be there to compete!!! Even when our senior lads come back,I think I won't have as big an impact as we hope,these lads best day are behind them really!!! Rory O'Connor is the man to lead the team now and as good as he is he's wish washy at the best of times!!! I hope we improve for the lessons ahead and lads keep the faith!!! This is really a whole new era for wexford hurling and I hope it won't be down in joe mc theboys (Wexford) - Posts: 243 - 24/01/2025 09:45:32 2587270 Link 0 |
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Good few of our younger lads who got game time in the earlier challenges are with UCC, MTU and UL who are still in Fitzgibbon. Would be expecting them all to get plenty more game time over the 6 league games. Ben Cunningham, Micheál Mullins, Darragh O Sullivan, Alan Walsh, William Buckley, Diarmuid Healy, Jack Leahy and Brian O Sullivan all played Fitz this week. As did Alan Connolly and Ciarán Joyce with MTU. Eoin Downey is with UCC but hasn't played any Fitz so possibly injured. Looking forward to the trip tomorrow evening. Relative playing football for London so hoping for a Cork/London double!! Great to be back at it all the same. Avondhu86 (Cork) - Posts: 12 - 24/01/2025 10:27:35 2587273 Link 0 |
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In fairness, I think he meant the split season between inter-county and club, not the form of the split season we used to have in our own club championships. However, I don't see how it's hugely relevant to his point, because the county players who are flat out during the inter-county part of the year have to continue pushing themselves during the club part of the year as well. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2672 - 24/01/2025 10:34:28 2587277 Link 0 |
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I'd say those 2 will start instead of Ryan and Carley, who played Fitzgibbon last night.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14472 - 24/01/2025 10:40:28 2587278 Link 0 |
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They have to push themselves all year round now. Even if they only play one code for their club.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14472 - 24/01/2025 10:42:34 2587280 Link 0 |
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I don't see many options for short puck outs either really with a sharp first touch and ability to break a tackle. Can be easy blame a keeper in that scenario. Kevin Foley around the middle will help and ball into Casey and Byrne will have to be low and in front of them. Weather might turn game into a bit of a lottery but sure if the team is competitive I'll be happy enough.
Timbertony (Wexford) - Posts: 332 - 24/01/2025 12:00:09 2587294 Link 0 |
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Yes, and that was my point. :)
Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2672 - 24/01/2025 12:09:42 2587297 Link 0 |
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I think we will go better against Cork than most people are predicting. If we don't concede too many goals I think there won't be much in it. Kevin Foley and Rory will have to play well, Dunbar will have to look deep inside himself and find his inner dog, and I'd like to see Sean Rowley and Jack Redmond come on for more than just a few minutes at the end. Hopefully CBD will play well, and Patsy if he gets on the pitch. Hearne and Codd in the middle have plenty of bite in them, and no little skill, that might well be our starting championship midfield if Codd really gets up for this game and grasps his opportunity. Byrne will know he was poor against them last year, he won't be as bad again I imagine. Fullback line will have to be on the ball, and Fanning quicker and more accurate on the short puckouts, but if they are we have every chance. It's League hurling, the pitch will be tacky. Let's all get in there and back the lads, be that 16th man. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14472 - 24/01/2025 12:32:31 2587302 Link 0 |
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I was talking about the split season the bigger picture in Gaa generally of Club v county NOT Hurling v Football within the county ..lad !
Jimbob96 (Wexford) - Posts: 21 - 24/01/2025 13:00:30 2587305 Link 0 |
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Not great for injury prevention and freshness tbh but it is what it is. Pikeman, what do you think of the narrative that we are more injury prone than most? Is the pressure put on lads coming up to Senior to get bigger physically quickly too much of a thing nationwide? Not just here. Should intercounty go back to u21 rather than u20? Just to name some of the standout young hurlers in other counties, Screeney is currently out injured, Aaron Niland is out injured, Drennan missed large chunks of time the last 2 years injured after putting on 10kg the winter he came out of u20.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14472 - 24/01/2025 13:01:52 2587306 Link 0 |
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And there lies the problem. No player wants to hurl or play football all year round. The Martins were going until before Christmas and people in March or April will whinge that Rory is looking tired. The problem as I have said before is that the lack of down time for top players is killing them all. Their bodies never recover, they've an overly long pre-season which serves nobody. Cork are probably just back and Wexford have done nearly 2 months. Cork are planning for July, Wexford are planning for what and when exactly? As I have said before, an Australian S&C coach laughed at me when I told him the pre-season in GAA is as long as it is. And he is getting players fit for a game where players need to be even fitter than GAA. But it never seems to occur to GAA people. If Wexford win tomorrow, there'll be whoopers and hollers and talk of Leinster titles and by the time it comes around the team might be flat and injury ridden and out of gas. Does nobody ever ask why? StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1797 - 24/01/2025 14:10:14 2587326 Link 0 |
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So what's your solution? By the way, you say "Cork are planning for July" - even if they're not taking the League too seriously, have you forgotten how Munster Hurling Championship starts in April? Do you not think they'd be planning for that? Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2672 - 24/01/2025 14:42:43 2587334 Link 0 |
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With the split season nationally, and now with the split season gone at club level, our intercounty hurlers who dont play club football are hurling all year round with no break. Before last year all the dual club players who hurled for the county were playing all year round anyway between hurling and football. Are you suggesting they shouldn't play for their clubs?
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14472 - 24/01/2025 14:46:36 2587336 Link 0 |
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Cork were back at the beginning of December same as everyone else. That's once they aren't one of the counties the GPA wouldn't name.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 14472 - 24/01/2025 14:48:50 2587337 Link 0 |