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Wexford Club Hurling 2026

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Replying To hownow1: "Are you saying players training/playing matches/gyming minimum 2 or 3 nights a week since February/March don't deserve some sort of leeway for a weekend off after most of which playing 9 weekends in a row of championship matches?" See the post above that I was writing around the time you were writing this one :) The players and clubs want the structure that gives so many matches and therefore so many opportunities to qualify for the knock-out stages. People would no doubt complain if County Board went against this and changed to something like groups of four or even groups of three. But when it comes to having to line out for so many weekends in a row to get so many matches played, then there's a different complaint, that it's all too much and players need a break. Again, can't have it both ways unless our county teams go out of their own championships early, and nobody wants that either. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3979 - 04/09/2026 12:33:09 2692692 Link
Replying To tearintom: "Was talking to a club manager over the weekend. 2 players went to EP, a couple of others took the week for their own holidays not EP. But 4 players now are informing him they've tickets for Katie Taylor fight next Saturday and not sure of availability! Maybe we should get another weekend off?" Tail wagging the dog comes to mind! Timbertony (Wexford) - Posts: 600 - 04/09/2026 13:05:09 2692702 Link
Replying To Pikeman96: "See the post above that I was writing around the time you were writing this one :) The players and clubs want the structure that gives so many matches and therefore so many opportunities to qualify for the knock-out stages. People would no doubt complain if County Board went against this and changed to something like groups of four or even groups of three. But when it comes to having to line out for so many weekends in a row to get so many matches played, then there's a different complaint, that it's all too much and players need a break. Again, can't have it both ways unless our county teams go out of their own championships early, and nobody wants that either." I'm not sure if players really do want that structure, albeit as a player I don't attend too many meetings so that's on players to make more of an effort there. I think it is no coincidence that Castletown in football and St. Martins are becoming so dominant within the structure. They are dual clubs to be fair but they have 20+ players more than equipped for senior football/hurling whereas some clubs are extremely dependent on the same 17/18 players and all the group games take their toll and by the time the business end comes around makes surprise results far less likely. hownow1 (Wexford) - Posts: 8 - 04/09/2026 13:25:12 2692709 Link