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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Was at the match so didn't catch a replay of it but did anyone see what happened to Eoghan Nolan before their third goal?"
Just honw frome it. Disappointed for John and the lads.
We could've dropped 1 of the 3 forwards back couldn't we? Nolan was down in the Limerick half? Also thought mini Ryan didn't get a stonewall penalty. We maybe tried a little too hard to work goals instead of taking points also, especiallyin the 1st half. Overall though a great League, we achieved our primary goal. A win today would've been the cherry on the top, but it was always going to be a close game, and we just came out the wrong side of the result.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15327 - 29/03/2025 21:59:13    2599354

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Was at the match so didn't catch a replay of it but did anyone see what happened to Eoghan Nolan before their third goal?"
Just honw frome it. Disappointed for John and the lads.
We could've dropped 1 of the 3 forwards back couldn't we? Nolan was down in the Limerick half? Also thought mini Ryan didn't get a stonewall penalty. We maybe tried a little too hard to work goals instead of taking points also, especiallyin the 1st half. Overall though a great League, we achieved our primary goal. A win today would've been the cherry on the top, but it was always going to be a close game, and we just came out the wrong side of the result.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15327 - 29/03/2025 21:59:29    2599355

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Replying To alwaysasub:  "Haven't seen much of the footballers this year but it's been poor enough quality wise. Work the ball well up but shot selection has a lot to be desired. Also very small crowd from where it looks on tele which is also very disappointing. Probably should be played in a smaller venue."
There was a few thousand from Wexford there.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15327 - 29/03/2025 22:01:02    2599358

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Replying To WexMurph:  "Was poor in fairness. Too many players either afraid or told not too shoot. When did Eoghan Nolan start playing in the backs he would be one of our better forwards?? Limerick looked like they could get through every time they attacked and that's a Limerick team in development aswell. Hopefully they will put it behind them for the championship. Also why did Brosnan not start I thought lads here were saying he's playing out of his skin."
Glen Malone a loss there. And Sean Nolan up front was one of our better forwards til he got injured, hopefully he will be back to play a part in the Campionship/TC. Ben played very well against Tipp. Didn't today.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15327 - 29/03/2025 22:02:45    2599359

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Replying To Purpleandgold72:  "Goals win games and unfortunately the backs couldn't contain the Limerick forwards who got the scores that mattered. Such a pity as we had plenty of possession but not the same penetration where it mattered. The subs who came on up front didn't have the desired impact either."
Mini Ryan looked lively in fairness. Should've had a penalty as well.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15327 - 29/03/2025 22:03:26    2599360

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Replying To Lockerroomboy:  "Nolan should have been taken off his legs were gone with 10 mins to go, tom,full forward line very poor, not good enough, will struggle against laois"
Not sure Laois will be that much better than Limerick. Thought Byrne and Furlong wouldn't have been among the 1st 2 or 3 lads I'd of taken off, but in fairness the management have done a good job all year. Pettit was only back from injury, if he's fully fit for the Laois game that would be a huge plus also

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15327 - 29/03/2025 22:05:51    2599361

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Replying To Viking66:  "Mini Ryan looked lively in fairness. Should've had a penalty as well."
He had a zero percant conversion rate from shots

beano (Wexford) - Posts: 1474 - 29/03/2025 22:17:14    2599365

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Replying To beano:  "He had a zero percant conversion rate from shots"
Exactly, 4 shots, 4 wides. All were fairly scorable too apart from maybe the goal chance

Purpleandgold72 (Wexford) - Posts: 242 - 29/03/2025 22:33:42    2599367

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Replying To beano:  "He had a zero percant conversion rate from shots"
In fairness he was being fouled when he had one of his wides. Should've been a penalty. There were 20 other missed scoring chances between saved shots, short shots, blocked shots and wides.
At the end of the day there's no poi t to all the what ifs. We were missing a few starters, and still lost what was always going to be a 50/50 game by a single score. Inches, the last kick of the game. We'll done to all the lads for giving us all many good days out, and achieving what was our primary goal at the start of the season.
Time to regroup, get some of the injured lads back, and give the Championship/TC an almighty lash. Not for recriminations.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15327 - 29/03/2025 22:38:31    2599369

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Hard luck wexford. They left a few chances behind them, your forwards didn't do enough. Ye should be aiming for at least a Tailteann QF.

222 (UK) - Posts: 839 - 30/03/2025 00:15:44    2599379

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Replying To alwaysasub:  "Haven't seen much of the footballers this year but it's been poor enough quality wise. Work the ball well up but shot selection has a lot to be desired. Also very small crowd from where it looks on tele which is also very disappointing. Probably should be played in a smaller venue."
Agree 100%. Looks terrible when such a small crowd turn up in a massive stadium like croke park. No athmosphere. Resembles a challenge match. Watching munster and conacht in the rugby in mcHale park in Castlebar with 26,000 supporters says it all.
We were really poor today. Creaky defence. Leakung 3 goals. We had plenty possesion but could not penetrate the Limerick defence.
Limerick won the midfield battle hands down.and were much more composed.
I would be very worried about the Laois game next week. They are a mid table division 3 side and it will be hard to get a win. Maybe though the lads might produce a better performance in the park and rattle their cage a bit. Lets hope so.

Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 413 - 30/03/2025 00:24:05    2599380

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Replying To Viking66:  "Mini Ryan looked lively in fairness. Should've had a penalty as well."
He looked lively ok but his shooting was terrible.

I've just had a look back at the recording, I didn't realise at the game how poor & inconsistent the referee was. 2 jersey pulls, in the act of shooting, a nasty late hit on Eoghan Nolan in first half. Coleman got pinged for overcarrying (which was probably correct) but a Limerick player was awarded a free for a similar offence,

Overall though, a very good league campaign, onwards & upwards !!

Yellaman (Wexford) - Posts: 156 - 30/03/2025 08:12:12    2599390

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Typical that we saved our worst performance for the final.

Had one of those early goal chances went in I thought we would have won it easily enough. But then we started taking on goal chances that weren't really there instead of picking off points and keeping the score board ticking over.

We seemed to be running the ball more than we have been although I think that was due to the limerick set up probably more than anything, they were well set up and had their lessons learnt.

Would have been nice to get some silverware but not to be, hoping for a good run in taliteann cup, Laois have done well this year and we looked a little gassed last night. Isn't going to be easy.

tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1471 - 30/03/2025 09:25:13    2599397

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Replying To tearintom:  "Typical that we saved our worst performance for the final.

Had one of those early goal chances went in I thought we would have won it easily enough. But then we started taking on goal chances that weren't really there instead of picking off points and keeping the score board ticking over.

We seemed to be running the ball more than we have been although I think that was due to the limerick set up probably more than anything, they were well set up and had their lessons learnt.

Would have been nice to get some silverware but not to be, hoping for a good run in taliteann cup, Laois have done well this year and we looked a little gassed last night. Isn't going to be easy."
It will be another 50/50 game. I don't think they will be technically or tactically much better than the Limerick side we faced, but the worry is they have alot of pace in their team.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15327 - 30/03/2025 11:00:12    2599413

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Went up to the minor game in Aughrim, a nice crowd there in fairness. We have some good footballers on the team, and I thinn were missing a couple starters with injury, but like the u20 hurlers we were smaller and more passive than our opponents for most of the game. We weren't able to break through tackles with a couple of exceptions, lost most of both our and their kickouts, and defensively stood off our men too much, until the last 10 minutes or so. We did get level coming into injury time, but sadly lost the game with the last kick of the ball. Overall a good day out, but the wrong result. A bit like Croke Park yesterday evening.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15327 - 30/03/2025 21:34:58    2599563

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Laois are better than limerick, any one saying different are naive, wexford are poor, up against it next week

Lockerroomboy (Wexford) - Posts: 479 - 30/03/2025 22:33:37    2599576

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Replying To Lockerroomboy:  "Laois are better than limerick, any one saying different are naive, wexford are poor, up against it next week"
Of course Laois will be favourites. Warm ones at that. But they aren't unbeatable.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15327 - 31/03/2025 08:09:38    2599604

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Wexford Park will be a big help. They are probably hurting after that narrow defeat. That might be a good thing. Knowing that goal chances missed on Saturday last will make them determinedl to be more clinical when the opportunities arise.
Hopefully Glen Malone is okay. His strength and runs forward were badly missed. Also its vital that Martin O'connor lines out and that his injury is not serious.
John Hegarty was saying that Sean Nolan was a week away from full fitness, as that was last week it means he should be ready for action.
I would like to see Eoighin Nolan as a forward.
Made no sense to play him centre back.
Unfortunately he had to come off with an injury so he may be a doubtful starter as well.
Tough assignment against Laois but if we have a full deck to pick from I think we have a very good chance of causing an upset.
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Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 413 - 31/03/2025 11:20:14    2599648

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Its gonna be a big ask to try beat Laois, Loais with 2 weeks rest while we had 70 plus mins of heavy going in the wide open spaces of croker, lads looked completely out on their feet at the end of it,
very hard see malone been back he looked in a lot of discomfort saturday,
Sean Nolan wasnt even togged saturday so i cant see him been ready for action this weekend, hopefully back for TC,
Eoin Nolan has had a really good campaign at no 6, he could play anywhere else for sure but I think no6 has suited him really well,
TC is the aim now to have a right crack at that but the no1 goal this year was getting out of div 4 and they done that in style

lefty (Wexford) - Posts: 243 - 31/03/2025 14:43:17    2599721

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Replying To Magpie2:  "Wexford Park will be a big help. They are probably hurting after that narrow defeat. That might be a good thing. Knowing that goal chances missed on Saturday last will make them determinedl to be more clinical when the opportunities arise.
Hopefully Glen Malone is okay. His strength and runs forward were badly missed. Also its vital that Martin O'connor lines out and that his injury is not serious.
John Hegarty was saying that Sean Nolan was a week away from full fitness, as that was last week it means he should be ready for action.
I would like to see Eoighin Nolan as a forward.
Made no sense to play him centre back.
Unfortunately he had to come off with an injury so he may be a doubtful starter as well.
Tough assignment against Laois but if we have a full deck to pick from I think we have a very good chance of causing an upset.
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Niall Hughes didn't look 100%, and Shane Pettit certainly wasn't. I'd imagine both will be better come Saturday evening. Dylan Furlong likewise. Coleman too isn't 100% match sharp yet either, seems cautious to take a shot on still. Might also be better on Saturday after the experience of last weekend.
Martin O'Connor would be an important player, hope he's able to play.
Sean Nolan would be a big plus if fully fit.
Eoghan Nolan is definitely better in the forwards, but probably had to drop back when Glen Malone was injured in the warm up. Height and experience.
None of us know how the team will react to last weekend, they could be very flat. But this group have showed over the last year they can use a bad result to push themselves further, they went on an 11 game unbeaten league run after the Leitrim game.
Hopefully they will take the learnings from last weekend, try to stay brave in possession, be positive going forwards, and aggressive at the back. And take care of the Football, as Laois will be very fast on the counter attack if we get tuened over with too many bodies forward.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15327 - 31/03/2025 18:18:52    2599788

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