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Replying To Viking66:  "The middle 8 spend all game transitioning backwards and forwards and have done for years in Football. Eoghan Nolan is very skilful, but I'm not sure he has the steel for centreback. If we had another Tom Byrne I'd play the 2 of them 6 and 8. As it is we haven't, so I'd go, assuming everyone except Shane and Darragh Brooks are fit-
D Brooks
M O'Connor, G Sheehan, M Furlong,
G Malone, E Nolan, E Porter,
T Byrne, N Hughes,
L Coleman, P Hughes, M Rossiter,
K O'Grady, S Nolan, B Brosnan/Ryan.
And ask Ben to empty the tank for the 1st 35 minutes and then bring Mini on, tell Ben play like he did against Tipp. Or the other way around.
Subs on would be 4 of D Furlong, Higgins, Brooks, Carty, C Hughes, Kinsella, L O'Connor, depending who looked tired or injured and what line they played in. And definitely start rotating in lads around the 45 minute mark. Have 3 lads on by around the 50 minute mark. Then 1 more around the mid 50s. Keep 1 back for injuries."
Eoghan Nolan definitely out.

Paull (Wexford) - Posts: 204 - 06/06/2025 16:36:27    2615385

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Replying To Paull:  "Eoghan Nolan definitely out."
Maybe Porter at 6 then?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16144 - 06/06/2025 20:33:18    2615422

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Replying To Viking66:  "Maybe Porter at 6 then?"
I'm not sure about Porter at 6, but the whole defensive set-up needs remedial surgery. Whoever is listed at 6, or any other position, doesn't really matter if we continue to leave ourselves exposed when the opposition run at us. It's been a problem the last few games, we are capable of running up a decent score
( sometimes with limited possession) but leave ourselves exposed at the back. The last 2 games, Carlow & Fermanagh, we seemed to lack pace when retreating. Hopefully John and his management team can solve this problem. BTW, this isn't meant as a criticism, just my own observations!!

BTW, anyone else see the div.1 league final on Fri?
Cian Hughes only played second half but was enough to get a man of the match. Scored 2 goals, made the 3rd, and generally caused mayhem for the Glynn defence.

Yellaman (Wexford) - Posts: 171 - 07/06/2025 11:23:55    2615467

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was at league final yesterday evening, good game very enjoyable, was worried how club football would adopt to the new rules but from what i saw there is no problems, both teams did very well with them, no doubt players will need to be very fit to take full advantage of them, glynn looked like they were going to win the game at one stage but ran out of steam

Stmunnsriver (Wexford) - Posts: 2988 - 07/06/2025 11:55:24    2615472

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Replying To Yellaman:  "I'm not sure about Porter at 6, but the whole defensive set-up needs remedial surgery. Whoever is listed at 6, or any other position, doesn't really matter if we continue to leave ourselves exposed when the opposition run at us. It's been a problem the last few games, we are capable of running up a decent score
( sometimes with limited possession) but leave ourselves exposed at the back. The last 2 games, Carlow & Fermanagh, we seemed to lack pace when retreating. Hopefully John and his management team can solve this problem. BTW, this isn't meant as a criticism, just my own observations!!

BTW, anyone else see the div.1 league final on Fri?
Cian Hughes only played second half but was enough to get a man of the match. Scored 2 goals, made the 3rd, and generally caused mayhem for the Glynn defence."
I just watched the second half of that League Final on Clubber.

Cian Hughes played an absolute stormer all right. Pity he's been out of the county scene so much through injury for the past year or two, but the prospect of having him back there next year is definitely exciting.

Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 2919 - 07/06/2025 12:24:21    2615474

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Replying To Yellaman:  "I'm not sure about Porter at 6, but the whole defensive set-up needs remedial surgery. Whoever is listed at 6, or any other position, doesn't really matter if we continue to leave ourselves exposed when the opposition run at us. It's been a problem the last few games, we are capable of running up a decent score
( sometimes with limited possession) but leave ourselves exposed at the back. The last 2 games, Carlow & Fermanagh, we seemed to lack pace when retreating. Hopefully John and his management team can solve this problem. BTW, this isn't meant as a criticism, just my own observations!!

BTW, anyone else see the div.1 league final on Fri?
Cian Hughes only played second half but was enough to get a man of the match. Scored 2 goals, made the 3rd, and generally caused mayhem for the Glynn defence."
Cian Hughes definitely has X factor......

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16144 - 07/06/2025 15:39:37    2615521

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Replying To Yellaman:  "I'm not sure about Porter at 6, but the whole defensive set-up needs remedial surgery. Whoever is listed at 6, or any other position, doesn't really matter if we continue to leave ourselves exposed when the opposition run at us. It's been a problem the last few games, we are capable of running up a decent score
( sometimes with limited possession) but leave ourselves exposed at the back. The last 2 games, Carlow & Fermanagh, we seemed to lack pace when retreating. Hopefully John and his management team can solve this problem. BTW, this isn't meant as a criticism, just my own observations!!

BTW, anyone else see the div.1 league final on Fri?
Cian Hughes only played second half but was enough to get a man of the match. Scored 2 goals, made the 3rd, and generally caused mayhem for the Glynn defence."
I would agree the half back line is being overwhelmed as we are not staying with the runners coming from the midfield back and that's where other teams with pace can hurt us, Glen does to other teams what they do to us but I think the problem is for us is that we don't have the pace in the middle third to cut down those runners.

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1992 - 07/06/2025 15:41:18    2615522

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Replying To Pikeman96:  "I just watched the second half of that League Final on Clubber.

Cian Hughes played an absolute stormer all right. Pity he's been out of the county scene so much through injury for the past year or two, but the prospect of having him back there next year is definitely exciting."
He started against Tipp and Longford. Played well up in Longford.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16144 - 07/06/2025 15:42:52    2615526

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Replying To Viking66:  "He started against Tipp and Longford. Played well up in Longford."
Agreed watched the game last night as a neutral and he was excellent. Checked my notes and he played the league final, did he walk?

222 (UK) - Posts: 860 - 07/06/2025 16:20:49    2615547

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Replying To 222:  "Agreed watched the game last night as a neutral and he was excellent. Checked my notes and he played the league final, did he walk?"
Subbed off at halftime

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16144 - 07/06/2025 17:19:08    2615562

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Let's hope the trend of the 2nd place team winning continues tomorrow. Something gone badly wrong in Laois.

zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1992 - 07/06/2025 18:22:16    2615575

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