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Replying To Magpie2: "If that's true, why is he waiting so long to make a decision. The season is over for us and he has had plenty of time to make his mind up.
If he is departing the scene it should happen quickly. Then the cb can get on with the job of finding a new manager." My understanding is that work began before the Galway game.
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Replying To Doylerwex: "My understanding is that work began before the Galway game." I dont think thats true Doyler.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20048 - 12/06/2026 22:35:02
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Replying To Magpie2: "Just announced, Rossi has resigned.
Well done Keith, you gave it your all and unfortunately didn't get the success you deserved.
With retirements of key players and a plethora of injuries, the task was always going to be uphill.
Interesting to see who will throw their hat in the ring, if any." Absolutely. Fair play to him. I think he was continuously involved in some capacity with Wexford hurling every year for his entire adult life. Thanks Keith Rossiter.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20048 - 12/06/2026 22:39:36
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Replying To Magpie2: "Just announced, Rossi has resigned.
Well done Keith, you gave it your all and unfortunately didn't get the success you deserved.
With retirements of key players and a plethora of injuries, the task was always going to be uphill.
Interesting to see who will throw their hat in the ring, if any." Couldn't agree more . Met him just a handful of times always thought he is a pure gentleman. The very best of luck to him and his family in the future . He owes Wexford hurling nothing gave it everything he couldn't as player and manager .
Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 1107 - 12/06/2026 23:18:55
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I hope Rossiter goes back managing wexford underage teams, i think its a roll he is more suited for and fits in well
fathermurphy (Wexford) - Posts: 342 - 12/06/2026 23:28:45
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Best of luck to Keith. Took it at a tough time what will his legacy be a lot depends on the next team and managers performance . Will it be well we were nt /aren't good enough . Or will it be proven they let Keith down . Will players come back in and why they dud nt commit before .
Doubt there will be a best seller book on the era . Such is the level we are at .
I dont think the players gave him everything easy for us and them to put it down to his management .
If we are nt good enough so be it . But the team not all of them lacked pride in themselves or jersey . Will be no easy job to lift that level of complacency and lack lustre effort .
Whoever comes in . .
What motivates these young and old players involved because I dont know anymore .
Theres been rumours Davy been around and had couple informal meetings . Heard from few could be just rumours or coincidence. Don't know what to tinker on that one would it be good move i doubt it .
Would it dekay few players retirement
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All the best to Keith, he deserves nothing but respect for taking the role when we were at an all time low. I think history will judge him well in a few years because he's blooded a lot of players who will end up being the mainstay.
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I think keith will have learned alot what goes on at mangaging at senior inter county level. I think he would be a great fit for the minor set up. Hopefully we will ser him on the sidelines again. He looks like a guy thats down but NOT out.
Jimbob96 (Wexford) - Posts: 41 - 13/06/2026 22:51:13
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Replying To Formertownie: "Best of luck to Keith. Took it at a tough time what will his legacy be a lot depends on the next team and managers performance . Will it be well we were nt /aren't good enough . Or will it be proven they let Keith down . Will players come back in and why they dud nt commit before .
Doubt there will be a best seller book on the era . Such is the level we are at .
I dont think the players gave him everything easy for us and them to put it down to his management .
If we are nt good enough so be it . But the team not all of them lacked pride in themselves or jersey . Will be no easy job to lift that level of complacency and lack lustre effort .
Whoever comes in . .
What motivates these young and old players involved because I dont know anymore .
Theres been rumours Davy been around and had couple informal meetings . Heard from few could be just rumours or coincidence. Don't know what to tinker on that one would it be good move i doubt it .
Would it dekay few players retirement" During Davys time here and subsequent to this i thought he got a raw deal in regards to a lot of stuff that was said about him and his approach etc etc.
Having said that I feel it would be a disastrous move to look at bringing him back. That time is done.
tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1669 - 14/06/2026 09:29:30
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Replying To Formertownie: "Best of luck to Keith. Took it at a tough time what will his legacy be a lot depends on the next team and managers performance . Will it be well we were nt /aren't good enough . Or will it be proven they let Keith down . Will players come back in and why they dud nt commit before .
Doubt there will be a best seller book on the era . Such is the level we are at .
I dont think the players gave him everything easy for us and them to put it down to his management .
If we are nt good enough so be it . But the team not all of them lacked pride in themselves or jersey . Will be no easy job to lift that level of complacency and lack lustre effort .
Whoever comes in . .
What motivates these young and old players involved because I dont know anymore .
Theres been rumours Davy been around and had couple informal meetings . Heard from few could be just rumours or coincidence. Don't know what to tinker on that one would it be good move i doubt it .
Would it dekay few players retirement" Was chatting to one of the players over the weekend, sounds like Rossi had a lot to put up with re player commitment. Likely more to follow leaving the panel over the winter.
In terms of the next manager, Mullaly is going to be in the shake up for Waterford and KK too. Pat Bennett surely be in the frame for Waterford though might be difficult with his sons playing. Back to one of our own like Ruth or Hayes I guess.
Timbertony (Wexford) - Posts: 593 - 14/06/2026 11:18:22
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Replying To tearintom: "During Davys time here and subsequent to this i thought he got a raw deal in regards to a lot of stuff that was said about him and his approach etc etc.
Having said that I feel it would be a disastrous move to look at bringing him back. That time is done." Completely agree with you, it's better not to go back to the past.
YellowShadeOfPurple (Wexford) - Posts: 80 - 14/06/2026 11:41:08
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Replying To Timbertony: "Was chatting to one of the players over the weekend, sounds like Rossi had a lot to put up with re player commitment. Likely more to follow leaving the panel over the winter.
In terms of the next manager, Mullaly is going to be in the shake up for Waterford and KK too. Pat Bennett surely be in the frame for Waterford though might be difficult with his sons playing. Back to one of our own like Ruth or Hayes I guess." Ruth/O'Loughlin and Hayes/Cleary might not want the job apparently......
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20048 - 14/06/2026 17:13:53
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Replying To Timbertony: "Was chatting to one of the players over the weekend, sounds like Rossi had a lot to put up with re player commitment. Likely more to follow leaving the panel over the winter.
In terms of the next manager, Mullaly is going to be in the shake up for Waterford and KK too. Pat Bennett surely be in the frame for Waterford though might be difficult with his sons playing. Back to one of our own like Ruth or Hayes I guess." JJ Doyle might be the best Wexford man for the job who might want to do it. Winning Camogie all irelands when you are not winning them with Galway or Cork takes alot of doing according to a friend from Galway, and JJ won 3 in a row of them. Before being the manager for the 3 teams that won consecutive Leinster u21 titles.
Joe Fortune seems to want to do it, he'd maybe be considered also and has had some success in previous roles.
Im not sure Mulally would be seriously in the running for the Kilkenny job on account of his relationship with some of the Board up there apparently, and equally Im not sure he'd prefer to do the Waterford job either. I dont know him personally, so thats purely conjecture, but hes spent a large chunk of his coaching/managerial career being pretty successful here in Wexford, when he wasnt being very successful at club level in Kilkenny, Kildare and Carlow. And at county level with Carlow also. He has coached Wexford and Wicklow county teams with some success in the past as well.
Other good non Wexford managers with Wexford experience would be Jason Byrne and Derek Mcgrath, both of whom you would imagine would be in the running for their home county's top job also.
Hopefully the lads who are going to be making the decision opt for someone with a alot more managerial experience than the last 2 managers we had, and thats not meant in any way to be a cut at either Egan or Rossiter. Preferably successful managerial experience at different levels also.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20048 - 14/06/2026 17:43:41
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Replying To Timbertony: "Was chatting to one of the players over the weekend, sounds like Rossi had a lot to put up with re player commitment. Likely more to follow leaving the panel over the winter.
In terms of the next manager, Mullaly is going to be in the shake up for Waterford and KK too. Pat Bennett surely be in the frame for Waterford though might be difficult with his sons playing. Back to one of our own like Ruth or Hayes I guess." Don't want to go apportioning blame here but I do know the three Gorey lads who didn't play this year were never going to come back as long as Rossi was in charge
Now whether that's their fault or his fault, I don't know but there were issues there
I also think that James Lawlor might come back for a different manager (Might be in Australia anyway), think he left because he thought he wasn't given a fair crack of the whip more so than anything else
Going back a while now but Podge Doran didn't re-join the panel in 2019 because of Rossi back when he was in Davy's back room team
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Replying To ElGranSenor: "Don't want to go apportioning blame here but I do know the three Gorey lads who didn't play this year were never going to come back as long as Rossi was in charge
Now whether that's their fault or his fault, I don't know but there were issues there
I also think that James Lawlor might come back for a different manager (Might be in Australia anyway), think he left because he thought he wasn't given a fair crack of the whip more so than anything else
Going back a while now but Podge Doran didn't re-join the panel in 2019 because of Rossi back when he was in Davy's back room team" Neither of em world beaters and smacks.of a terrible attitude from some of them as well.
Loads.of.lads would die to put on a Wexford jersey whoever was the manager.
Podge Doran didn't play because of the up to 30 hours commitment needed per week. He couldn't commit or just didn't want to
WEXILE (Wexford) - Posts: 510 - 14/06/2026 20:24:49
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Replying To ElGranSenor: "Don't want to go apportioning blame here but I do know the three Gorey lads who didn't play this year were never going to come back as long as Rossi was in charge
Now whether that's their fault or his fault, I don't know but there were issues there
I also think that James Lawlor might come back for a different manager (Might be in Australia anyway), think he left because he thought he wasn't given a fair crack of the whip more so than anything else
Going back a while now but Podge Doran didn't re-join the panel in 2019 because of Rossi back when he was in Davy's back room team" Lawlor didn't want to go at all.
None of that really matters now though.
I do expect that we'll see a number of lads rejoining, including Lawlor.
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Just doing some digging....
5 games in Leinster and with 15 lads starting each game, that's 75 starts handed out
Out of those 75 starts this year, 22 of them were by lads who had never started Championship before this year
Corresponding figures for all years from 2014 onwards are as follows:
2014: 22 (6 games)
2015: 9 (3 games)
2016: 16 (4 games)
2017: 8 (4 games)
2018: 8 (6 games)
2019: 4 (6 games)
2020: 2 (2 games)
2021: 5 (3 games)
2022: 17 (7 games)
2023: 10 (5 games)
2024: 14 (7 games)
2025: 7 (5 games)
2026: 22 (5 games)
Worth bearing in mind that out of our other 53 starts this year, 17 of them went to Conor Foley, Richie Lawlor, Cian Byrne, Cian Molloy, Niall Murphy, and Darragh Carley. They had respectively 14, 9, 9, 4, 2, and 2 Championship starts coming into this year
ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1402 - 15/06/2026 11:35:22
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Replying To ElGranSenor: "Just doing some digging....
5 games in Leinster and with 15 lads starting each game, that's 75 starts handed out
Out of those 75 starts this year, 22 of them were by lads who had never started Championship before this year
Corresponding figures for all years from 2014 onwards are as follows:
2014: 22 (6 games)
2015: 9 (3 games)
2016: 16 (4 games)
2017: 8 (4 games)
2018: 8 (6 games)
2019: 4 (6 games)
2020: 2 (2 games)
2021: 5 (3 games)
2022: 17 (7 games)
2023: 10 (5 games)
2024: 14 (7 games)
2025: 7 (5 games)
2026: 22 (5 games)
Worth bearing in mind that out of our other 53 starts this year, 17 of them went to Conor Foley, Richie Lawlor, Cian Byrne, Cian Molloy, Niall Murphy, and Darragh Carley. They had respectively 14, 9, 9, 4, 2, and 2 Championship starts coming into this year" That's quite a remarkable stat. Be interesting to see how that compares to other teams in the province.
Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4581 - 15/06/2026 13:32:27
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Replying To ElGranSenor: "Just doing some digging....
5 games in Leinster and with 15 lads starting each game, that's 75 starts handed out
Out of those 75 starts this year, 22 of them were by lads who had never started Championship before this year
Corresponding figures for all years from 2014 onwards are as follows:
2014: 22 (6 games)
2015: 9 (3 games)
2016: 16 (4 games)
2017: 8 (4 games)
2018: 8 (6 games)
2019: 4 (6 games)
2020: 2 (2 games)
2021: 5 (3 games)
2022: 17 (7 games)
2023: 10 (5 games)
2024: 14 (7 games)
2025: 7 (5 games)
2026: 22 (5 games)
Worth bearing in mind that out of our other 53 starts this year, 17 of them went to Conor Foley, Richie Lawlor, Cian Byrne, Cian Molloy, Niall Murphy, and Darragh Carley. They had respectively 14, 9, 9, 4, 2, and 2 Championship starts coming into this year" Twas a very inexperienced team we had out this year. This year will hopefully have brought some of them on though all the same.
Hopefully whoever we get in as manager can convince a few of the more experienced lads who walked away to give it another good shot also.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 20048 - 15/06/2026 13:42:08
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Replying To Doylerwex: "That's quite a remarkable stat. Be interesting to see how that compares to other teams in the province." Galway be a similar number?
countyman2022 (Wexford) - Posts: 1027 - 15/06/2026 14:19:35
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