HoganStand GAA Football and Hurling

National Forum

Wexford Hurling Thread

(Oldest Posts First) - Go To The Latest Post

You need to Login to Post

Replying To Afinestick96: "Cant really blame pundits the bookies have Galway Kilkenny and Dublin as top 3 favourites and they are never too far wrong. Have to say though if we can get off to a good start with a win on Saturday I fancy us to cause at least one shock particularly in the park." What qualifies as a shock? We've gotten results against everyone over the last 8/9 years. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4439 - 13/04/2026 13:49:25 2666156 Link
Replying To Afinestick96: "Theres a lot of if buts and maybe's but if results go as expected this weekend and we win in Newbridge and Galway beat Kilkenny in Salthill it gives us a huge incentive going to Kilkenny next week. Its all to play for" It's unlikely but I'd love to see Kilkenny win well in salt hill. Don't really want to play them the week after they lose Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4439 - 13/04/2026 13:51:33 2666157 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "What qualifies as a shock? We've gotten results against everyone over the last 8/9 years." I think 99.9% of the country expects Galway Kilkenny and Dublin to be the top 3 but I have a feeling we might sneak in which may shock some people but not us. Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 960 - 13/04/2026 14:56:39 2666175 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "It's unlikely but I'd love to see Kilkenny win well in salt hill. Don't really want to play them the week after they lose" We have our own job to do in Newbridge first but I think Kilkenny will be a really tough game for us whatever happens. Always a one score game no matter what grade we seen that on Saturday with the under 20 Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 960 - 13/04/2026 14:59:27 2666177 Link
Replying To Afinestick96: "Cant really blame pundits the bookies have Galway Kilkenny and Dublin as top 3 favourites and they are never too far wrong. Have to say though if we can get off to a good start with a win on Saturday I fancy us to cause at least one shock particularly in the park." Said it last year and applies for this year - Will definitely need to be on at least 3 points from the first 3 games if we're to have a chance of getting through. Our championship more or less hinges on the game in Nowlan Park and probably more so the home game vs Dublin. OpenStandWall (Wexford) - Posts: 346 - 13/04/2026 15:06:43 2666183 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "It's unlikely but I'd love to see Kilkenny win well in salt hill. Don't really want to play them the week after they lose" Very defeatist line to take I reckon You have to play them sometime and you'll likely be coming off a win regardless of what KK do in Galway on Saturday. We are expecting it to be very tight but we are hopeful of a win and that would put Kilkenny under pressure immediately should that happen. If we lose we have Offaly second up which is a game we really ought to be winning Stool Pigeon (Galway) - Posts: 988 - 13/04/2026 15:15:13 2666186 Link
Replying To Viking66: "I dont think we had a poor League. We used nearly every player on the panel except lads who were injured, or sub keepers. Murphy acknowledged we had players coming back, though he didnt know who they all were! He didnt even know when Chin came back this year. Id say none of the 3 of them saw many minutes at all, if any in Murphy and O'Donoghues case, of our team this year." I'm not saying we had a poor league either but I think k there's a perception out there outside of Wexford that we had a poor league ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1050 - 13/04/2026 16:04:57 2666199 Link
Replying To OpenStandWall: "Said it last year and applies for this year - Will definitely need to be on at least 3 points from the first 3 games if we're to have a chance of getting through. Our championship more or less hinges on the game in Nowlan Park and probably more so the home game vs Dublin." Fully agree with you. Hoping for a good performance saturday to set us up for round 2 and 3. Kilkenny away and Dublin at home will have a massive bearing on our season if we can get into the top 3. Really think we owe Dublin one too. Cant wait for it now every game is intriguing but for us all eyes for us has to be on Saturday for now. We have to win then we can look forward to two huge games Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 960 - 13/04/2026 16:15:21 2666203 Link
Im very worried about Saturday, tight pitch in Newbridge, Kildare are gonna give all fathermurphy (Wexford) - Posts: 338 - 13/04/2026 21:02:23 2666256 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "What qualifies as a shock? We've gotten results against everyone over the last 8/9 years." A shock would be us doing it in the same year Doyler! Not beyond us..... Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19216 - 13/04/2026 22:26:10 2666270 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "It's unlikely but I'd love to see Kilkenny win well in salt hill. Don't really want to play them the week after they lose" Why not? Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19216 - 13/04/2026 22:26:29 2666271 Link
The league game against Kildare ended in a facile win for us but it's vitally important that we don't go to Newbridge on Saturday and give a lack luster performance and hope to win. We are well known to be a team that sometimes under performs against so called weaker teams. Kildare will know this and will give it a good lash on their own compact ground and a vocal local support. Will Jacko, Shane Reck and Molloy line out or maybe sprung from the bench if needed? According to previous reports by management Jippo will not play until later in the round Robin. He's badly missed and it's unfortunate that is the case but it's better he's fully fit before he makes an appearance. Looking forward to seeing the team selection . Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 660 - 13/04/2026 23:26:29 2666280 Link
Replying To fathermurphy: "Im very worried about Saturday, tight pitch in Newbridge, Kildare are gonna give all" It will certainly be a different game to the one in the Park a few weeks ago. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19216 - 14/04/2026 10:26:49 2666310 Link
Replying To fathermurphy: "Im very worried about Saturday, tight pitch in Newbridge, Kildare are gonna give all" We need to be clinical on Saturday. If we get chances in the first half particularly goal scoring chances we have to take them. The longer Kildare stay with us the more they will grow in confidence and it will become a real dog fight which we have to avoid Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 960 - 14/04/2026 10:43:47 2666316 Link
Replying To Afinestick96: "I think 99.9% of the country expects Galway Kilkenny and Dublin to be the top 3 but I have a feeling we might sneak in which may shock some people but not us." Wexford have such a poor record against Dublin you'd think on the law of averages they have to beat them sometime. Won't be much between them either way richiepmurphy (Kilkenny) - Posts: 67 - 14/04/2026 11:31:51 2666328 Link
Replying To Viking66: "It will certainly be a different game to the one in the Park a few weeks ago." I don't think it will be that different. Kildare be more up for it and are physically aggressive but Wexford should have too much for them. This - given its their home patch and their game against Offaly - will be the ones Dowling will have them most up for no doubt so any Wexford head staggers as shown against Westmeath and other in past would be potentially costly. I reckon Rossiter not going to walk into that. BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4178 - 14/04/2026 11:51:30 2666333 Link
Replying To richiepmurphy: "Wexford have such a poor record against Dublin you'd think on the law of averages they have to beat them sometime. Won't be much between them either way" Hope so! Haven't actually beaten them in a round-robin game since winning the first one back in 2018. But right that there's never much between them, and should have been even less if you consider the "goal" that Dublin were awarded last year when the ball clearly didn't cross the line: 2018 - Wexford by 2 2019 - draw 2020 - n/a 2021 - n/a 2022 - Dublin by 1 2023 - Dublin by 2 2024 - draw 2025 - Dublin by 4 Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3475 - 14/04/2026 11:51:40 2666335 Link
Replying To richiepmurphy: "Wexford have such a poor record against Dublin you'd think on the law of averages they have to beat them sometime. Won't be much between them either way" For many years we just about got over the line v Dublin . Said it at the time if they do beat us we ll struggle going forward against them as they will have the monkey off their back we won games that they really shoukd have won it was just a lack of belief on their part at the time . And it came true . Now we struggle to get one over on them any time we play but we can feat them fir sure . Like once we beat kilkenny it lifted our belief . Really cant see kikdare beating us surely after losing to westmeath we reset our minds from thinking we had the right to win . Now it should be go out and qin it no-one will do it for us . Formertownie (Wexford) - Posts: 570 - 14/04/2026 12:31:22 2666347 Link
Replying To Afinestick96: "I think 99.9% of the country expects Galway Kilkenny and Dublin to be the top 3 but I have a feeling we might sneak in which may shock some people but not us." No reason why you shouldn't qualify. Nowlan park doesn't faze Wexford and Dublin at home are hardly unbeatable either. Be careful that Newbridge or Tullamore doesn't become a banana skin. Triffic (Galway) - Posts: 171 - 14/04/2026 13:00:48 2666352 Link
Replying To richiepmurphy: "Wexford have such a poor record against Dublin you'd think on the law of averages they have to beat them sometime. Won't be much between them either way" For many years we just about got over the line v Dublin . Said it at the time if they do beat us we ll struggle going forward against them as they will have the monkey off their back we won games that they really shoukd have won it was just a lack of belief on their part at the time . And it came true . Now we struggle to get one over on them any time we play but we can feat them fir sure . Like once we beat kilkenny it lifted our belief . Really cant see kikdare beating us surely after losing to westmeath we reset our minds from thinking we had the right to win . Now it should be go out and win it no-one will do it for us . Formertownie (Wexford) - Posts: 570 - 14/04/2026 13:18:10 2666356 Link