National Forum

Wexford Hurling 2025

(Oldest Posts First) - Go To The Latest Post


Replying To Doylerwex:  "I'm not saying we're miles ahead or anything. That's obviously not the case. It is my belief that we have more technical hurlers. If you were to pick a combined 15 I think it would have more Wexford players on it.

On the other hand I don't disagree. Dublin absolutely have more guts and that's more important for winning matches."
Damien would be far more of a technically good hurler than Shane would. That's not to say Shane isn't a very effective hurler.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16410 - 26/06/2025 15:08:55    2621274

Link

Replying To Viking66:  "Damien would be far more of a technically good hurler than Shane would. That's not to say Shane isn't a very effective hurler."
Damien is the best all rounder we have in my opinion, or a toss up between him and Rory

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3772 - 26/06/2025 15:17:36    2621278

Link

Replying To Doylerwex:  "Damien is the best all rounder we have in my opinion, or a toss up between him and Rory"
Think Damien is more consistent than Rory. I think a team of 15 Damiens would beat a team of 15 Rorys most days. Then the odd day the Rorys would click and beat the Damiens by 30 points.
Definitely our 2 best hurlers under 30 by quite a wide margin.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16410 - 26/06/2025 15:55:03    2621291

Link

Replying To ElGranSenor:  "I agree that there's the lack of intensity in the team but I don't think it's quite the case that this current team are completely incapable of providing it. Intensity may look like it's a physical thing but it's really a mental thing (Does Limerick's fall-off in the absence of Caroline Curtis showcase this?), whether Keith is the man to bring it out in the players, I don't know although at the same time, as much as I believe this group of players can play with the intensity needed, there's no guarantee that they will"
It's completely a mental thing. I was sitting directly behind Keith Rossiter in Parnell Park this year. He spent most of the first 15 minutes telling lads like Dunbar, Mcguckin etc to calm down. Being as we were hardly raising a gallop at the time, and the lads werent flying into tackles hotheaded, I can only assume he was telling them this because they were nervous.
I already posted a longish post about fear, I'm not going to bore you with it again. But you can't do anything in life if you are half frozen with fear.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16410 - 26/06/2025 16:01:19    2621293

Link

Replying To Doylerwex:  "Damien is the best all rounder we have in my opinion, or a toss up between him and Rory"
Rory would skin Damien.

countyman2022 (Wexford) - Posts: 831 - 26/06/2025 16:18:59    2621300

Link

Replying To countyman2022:  "Rory would skin Damien."
How do you mean? If you threw a ball between them a dozen times I wouldn't say Rory would win them all.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16410 - 26/06/2025 16:24:37    2621306

Link

Replying To Wexfordgaa:  "Recks Shane barely hurled. Damien is injury prone aswell this year Jack probably best year but wasn't great Rory was not great chin different gravey Byrne was poor lack of supply I think cbd one game in a none rubber foleys aren't around Mac out only for a few mins. Yer point is more or less mute. How many will be here next year."
Conor and Kevin Foley hurled all year....

Injuries or form don't come into this discussion. The context is lads who have mastered all the core skills of the game to the point of being second nature.

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3772 - 26/06/2025 16:43:32    2621312

Link

Replying To countyman2022:  "Rory would skin Damien."
I decided a good while ago I'm not engaging with you.

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3772 - 26/06/2025 16:44:56    2621313

Link

Replying To ElGranSenor:  "I agree that there's the lack of intensity in the team but I don't think it's quite the case that this current team are completely incapable of providing it. Intensity may look like it's a physical thing but it's really a mental thing (Does Limerick's fall-off in the absence of Caroline Curtis showcase this?), whether Keith is the man to bring it out in the players, I don't know although at the same time, as much as I believe this group of players can play with the intensity needed, there's no guarantee that they will"
The change in Limerick is quite interesting to watch.

I called out several times how she was always held in the same esteem as Kiely among the players.

I said two years ago that momentum and muscle memory would get them through another all Ireland because the building blocks were there but there was a risk of them falling back.

Lads laughed at me.

This is an unbelievable case study to argue the importance of a top class psychologist. The value of it is incalculable.

It's more important than any athletic metric because all of our limitations are self imposed in our own minds.

Anyone who is a success at anything understands this and not always consciously.

Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3772 - 26/06/2025 16:49:09    2621314

Link

Just reading the latest we have better players than Dublin Post. Lads it's time to stop that it's.not helping anyone.

Dublin a team we can beat only once in the last God knows how long years and we are meant to better than em.

They've just beaten Limerick without Eoin O'Donnell who's not committed this year to hurlers and also Donal Burke.

Not only that they had 14 men for most of it. They also traditionally had some serious hurlers that go with the footballers and that's still the case.

Comparatively I don't see how we are the same. They bring Hetherton out of relative obscurity and he changed a.few of the games including the one v Wexford.

Who could we bring in? Martin Storey maybe. All joking aside we are comparatively not even close

WEXILE (Wexford) - Posts: 427 - 26/06/2025 18:15:18    2621335

Link

Replying To Doylerwex:  "I'm not saying we're miles ahead or anything. That's obviously not the case. It is my belief that we have more technical hurlers. If you were to pick a combined 15 I think it would have more Wexford players on it.

On the other hand I don't disagree. Dublin absolutely have more guts and that's more important for winning matches."
Don't know about that, we have some very limited stickmen on the team. Not really a problem for the likes of Shane Reck who is a fantastic athlete and main job is to stop the best forward from playing. But it's a real problem for us with accurate deliveries from the HB line and long distance shooting. We also have the opposite problem, some of our most talented players have very little workrate or resilience to dig in during tough spells.

Timbertony (Wexford) - Posts: 430 - 26/06/2025 18:17:45    2621336

Link

Replying To Doylerwex:  "The change in Limerick is quite interesting to watch.

I called out several times how she was always held in the same esteem as Kiely among the players.

I said two years ago that momentum and muscle memory would get them through another all Ireland because the building blocks were there but there was a risk of them falling back.

Lads laughed at me.

This is an unbelievable case study to argue the importance of a top class psychologist. The value of it is incalculable.

It's more important than any athletic metric because all of our limitations are self imposed in our own minds.

Anyone who is a success at anything understands this and not always consciously."
Yeah, if you keep on telling yourself not good enough and hold doubts as to your own ability, you're at nothing, most high-achievers tend to back themselves no matter what, some people may laugh at others because of their self-belief and think they're deluded but those who laugh at that sort of stuff tend not to win much

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 584 - 26/06/2025 18:21:32    2621337

Link