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Replying To Doylerwex: "I know. When the whistle blew it felt like somebody made a mistake and it just couldn't be over. We were staying in Spanish point in Clare the week after and some auld lad just kept going on about how we blew it and it should have been ours...... Looking at cork and Limerick now it's hard to see the gap closing any time soon. We just need an absolutely mammoth effort at all levels. Coaching young lads I'm seeing a huge lack of ambition. They're not even dreaming of winning an all Ireland with Wexford which makes no sense to me." Suppose that's chicken and egg, they've no real ambition because they haven't seen much in the way of success to encourage any ambition You go to somewhere like Kilkenny and they've had such success that when they are struggling like they are now, there's huge move to make sure their strong culture doesn't fall apart ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 1519 - 05/09/2026 11:04:12 2692814 Link
Replying To Viking66: "We lost to Antrim in the u21 semifinal in 2013. But it was a great year for New Hope for sure. The start of many victories against the Empire over the following decade! Seriously though, some of those players like Chin probably have as good a win/loss ratio against Kilkenny at u21 and Senior over their careers as any Wexford hurlers ever had." I know. That was my point. It all kicked off in 14. I would need to look it up but I'd say that group would have the best record of any Wexford team against the old enemy. The difference is in the 50s Kilkenny were excellent but we were better. In the 10s Kilkenny were only very good and so were we. Anyone going to this dinner tomorrow evening? Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4662 - 05/09/2026 12:03:36 2692820 Link
Replying To Viking66: "We lost to Antrim in the u21 semifinal in 2013. But it was a great year for New Hope for sure. The start of many victories against the Empire over the following decade! Seriously though, some of those players like Chin probably have as good a win/loss ratio against Kilkenny at u21 and Senior over their careers as any Wexford hurlers ever had." They won 9 Leinster titles to our 1 Goreylad1985 (Wexford) - Posts: 68 - 05/09/2026 21:10:18 2692852 Link
Replying To Goreylad1985: "They won 9 Leinster titles to our 1" That's not what he said and they didn't win 9 in that period. Dublin won one and Galway won 2. He's talking about those Wexford player's record playing Kilkenny and he's right. They beat them in competition more times than we did in the 50s it just didn't end in titles often enough. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 4662 - 05/09/2026 23:12:39 2692857 Link
Replying To Viking66: "We lost to Antrim in the u21 semifinal in 2013. But it was a great year for New Hope for sure. The start of many victories against the Empire over the following decade! Seriously though, some of those players like Chin probably have as good a win/loss ratio against Kilkenny at u21 and Senior over their careers as any Wexford hurlers ever had." This is the kind of thing I end up doing late on a Saturday night. With a few cans inside me :) Am taking the example of Conor McDonald rather than Lee Chin, as Mac played in all three of those Leinster U21 campaigns (2013 to 2015) while Chin only played in the first one. And so, over the years 2013 to 2025, when he would have been involved with Wexford squads against Kilkenny (not saying he played every game, but he'd have been there or thereabouts anyway): U21: Played 3, won 3, including two Leinster Final victories, which themselves included a 17-point win in the final in 2015 Senior Championship (2014 to 2025): Played 10, won 5, drew 1, lost 4 National League (again, 2014 to 2025): Played 6, won 2, drew 1, lost 3 Overall: Played 19, won 10, drew 2, lost 7 Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3990 - 06/09/2026 00:21:28 2692862 Link