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Replying To Throughthemidfieldhewasstormin: "There in lies probably one of the biggest problems of the Wexford team over the last 11/12 years the fact so many lads taken frees. Probably only county during the 10s/20s who didn't have a set free taker like TJ, Horgan, Canning, Donal Burke etc. Forget how much Chin has improved on the frees from around 19/20 time. Mac had a the penalties for a long time before Fanning took over around 19 time. I think Cian Byrne is a very very good free taker and in time probably will take over from Chin. Young O'Brien coming up through minors is a very very good free taker and hopefully one for future." Cian Byrne yes, not sure about O'Brien tbh. Simon Roche would be better right now. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15466 - 18/04/2025 12:25:45 2602574 Link
Replying To Afinestick96: "I thought they changed it to he cant play the same week as under 20 I could be wrong?" Yes Afinestick on reflection I remember something about that all right. So if that is the case then he can play as a week has passed since the U20 game. Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 428 - 18/04/2025 13:01:35 2602580 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Cian Byrne yes, not sure about O'Brien tbh. Simon Roche would be better right now." O'Brien is still in 5th year in Good Counsel and is one of the best players in Ireland for his age, if not the best, but is still only a minor so we can't tell yet what he will be like at Senior level. He is an incredible all round minor though including freetaker. Past hurler (None) - Posts: 907 - 18/04/2025 13:03:58 2602581 Link
Best of luck to the hurlers as they start their Leinster Championship. Hope they can give us something to shout about. Won't book the flight home for the All-Ireland yet but hope we can have a long Summer. StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1817 - 18/04/2025 13:27:02 2602586 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Who have Antrim lost by way of big players? Cunnings injured, McManus retired." Conor McCann? ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 445 - 18/04/2025 13:30:10 2602589 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Who have Antrim lost by way of big players? Cunnings injured, McManus retired." Team named is more or less same as what lined out in Belfast last year apart from Cunning and McKenna that got the first goal isn't on the panel either. https://x.com/aontroimgaa/status/1913207250954465283?s=46 OpenStandWall (Wexford) - Posts: 241 - 18/04/2025 13:52:46 2602597 Link
Good team named. Be suprised if Lawlor plays midfield after playing well wing back. Would have been great to have Mac to bring on for last 15. Great to see Molloy starting too. Weather could even it up a small bit but we should have enough to win by 6!! Best of luck lads WexMurph (Wexford) - Posts: 270 - 18/04/2025 13:56:05 2602599 Link
Replying To Past hurler: "O'Brien is still in 5th year in Good Counsel and is one of the best players in Ireland for his age, if not the best, but is still only a minor so we can't tell yet what he will be like at Senior level. He is an incredible all round minor though including freetaker." Hold fire on Sean till after this Saturday. Can't get much of a bigger test than Kilkenny away. He is up there in the top ranks of minor hurlers along with the top 1/2 of each of the tier 1 Counties and probably a Tier 2 minor at his level somewhere aswell. Jake Mullen from Kilkenny was equally as impressive last year as Sean and same age. I really hope he is all you say he . Paull (Wexford) - Posts: 196 - 18/04/2025 14:47:23 2602606 Link
Replying To ElGranSenor: "Conor McCann?" Only in and out of the their team the last few years. Not a bad player, but didn't score against us last year and was subbed off. He did look a great prospect earlier in his career though. He must be mid 30s now. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15466 - 18/04/2025 16:17:53 2602622 Link
Replying To Past hurler: "O'Brien is still in 5th year in Good Counsel and is one of the best players in Ireland for his age, if not the best, but is still only a minor so we can't tell yet what he will be like at Senior level. He is an incredible all round minor though including freetaker." Seen him play for school and county numerous times. He's our best all round prospect in years. But I've seen him miss more scoreable frees and 65s than you would expect for a top freetaker. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15466 - 18/04/2025 16:19:22 2602623 Link
Replying To Past hurler: "O'Brien is still in 5th year in Good Counsel and is one of the best players in Ireland for his age, if not the best, but is still only a minor so we can't tell yet what he will be like at Senior level. He is an incredible all round minor though including freetaker." Also pretty sure OBrien is only in 4th year. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15466 - 18/04/2025 16:21:20 2602624 Link
Any chance the pitch will not be playable? goreyll (Wexford) - Posts: 148 - 18/04/2025 21:11:21 2602656 Link
Replying To goreyll: "Any chance the pitch will not be playable?" Should be ok Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15466 - 18/04/2025 21:59:05 2602666 Link
Replying To goreyll: "Any chance the pitch will not be playable?" Was just about to ask the same question…Rained all night aswell as yesterday.. it's also lashing down now in gorey..don't know what Wexford town like id imagine there wil be a pitch inspection soon.. if game doesn't go ahead could it be moved to tomorrow or Monday?? gannett83 (Wexford) - Posts: 309 - 19/04/2025 09:18:34 2602699 Link
Best of luck to the lads today. Hopefully it dries up for match time Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 528 - 19/04/2025 10:10:03 2602707 Link
Hasnt really lashed in Wexford town all morning, drizzled on anniff alright. Its meant to be dry around game time. I hope the wind doesn't pick up, its blustery. I'd imagine the game goes ahead WEXILE (Wexford) - Posts: 349 - 19/04/2025 11:21:25 2602721 Link
Replying To gannett83: "Was just about to ask the same question…Rained all night aswell as yesterday.. it's also lashing down now in gorey..don't know what Wexford town like id imagine there wil be a pitch inspection soon.. if game doesn't go ahead could it be moved to tomorrow or Monday??" It's stopped raining here in town a while ago. Hopefully the game will go ahead. Fulgrim (Wexford) - Posts: 264 - 19/04/2025 11:54:54 2602733 Link
Replying To gannett83: "Was just about to ask the same question…Rained all night aswell as yesterday.. it's also lashing down now in gorey..don't know what Wexford town like id imagine there wil be a pitch inspection soon.. if game doesn't go ahead could it be moved to tomorrow or Monday??" It's not that bad in town. There was heavy rain yesterday afternoon but only really misty since and it's not raining currently. Forecast is dry until 5 Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3514 - 19/04/2025 12:24:51 2602743 Link
Have to be happy with that considering our shaky start and the red card. Chin is an all-time great, not just for us but in the game, but it might be a concern that we were too reliant on his scoring today. All the other forwards were quiet more or less. Solid debut for Patsy, and Hearne continues to be in the top bracket of midfielders around. Lawlor and McGuickan not really mentioned on commentary so don't know how they fared in the flesh. Wasn't a great advertisement for Jacko being a nailed-on starter though. I wouldn't be surprised if Davy pin-pointed him as someone that could be 'got at'. Already in a far better spot than last year coming up against our recent bogey team next week. beano (Wexford) - Posts: 1479 - 19/04/2025 15:30:27 2602766 Link
Really happy with that performance, were terrible in the first ten minutes and were a man down from the 20th minute to around the 58th minute which makes the performance even better Good hunger, good physicality, good intensity, very few wides, clever balls into the corner, good on the frees, good attitude Jacko and Maskey seemed to be shaking hands after so you'd hope Antrim would be honest and admit that it wasn't a red card, only other issue outside of that was that Jack Redmond looked to injure himself just after coming on Thought Cian Molloy was outstanding, other counties might not respect us and think we've nothing coming through but today we had five U23s starting (Molloy, Conor Foley, Eoin Ryan, Cian Byrne, and Richie Lawlor), that's a good group of players to build around ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 445 - 19/04/2025 15:47:13 2602772 Link