Replying To richiepmurphy:  "" we're just a little more successful " please tell me you're joking. Wexford have 1 senior all Ireland in the the last 50 years, 0 u21 or 0 minor.
Galway have 4 senior in last 50 years, plus have multiple u21 and minor all Irelands. Must have won 9 or 10 minor since 2000 alone. Add in being the top of the roll of honour at all Ireland club titles"

Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "Nobody said there was any correlation, let alone a strong one, between minor and senior success. On the other hand, there is strong correlation between u21 and senior success, as I've already outlined. This is very obvious in the last 10-15 years even, with the Munster takeover of the u21 allireland series 2012-2025 (KK pipped one), and now this is bearing fruit in the senior championship, with the current jibing about Leinster being a bit of a B championship, compared to the real GAA jewel in the crown, the MHC.

There's exceptions too. Offaly 1994-98 won 3 minors, no u21s, and 2 seniors, even if they needed a monumental Limerick collapse, and some unfortunate time keeping from the late Jimmy Cooney to pull it off."

Replying To foreveryoung:  "That's true. They care and their parents care also.

But Viking is right. All Ireland senior titles won is the yardstick by which counties are judged. Nobody keeps count of titles in minor or U-21 or whatever it is now.

So, to settle matters. In senior hurling Wexford has 6 titles, Galway has 5. They are almost even, but Wexford is the more prominent hurling county with a stronger hurling history. Who can ever forget all those great battles with Kilkenny over the years, some won, some lost, with great names like Quigley, Doran, Jacob, and Storey?

It is different story in Galway, being isolated in Connacht for years, and the allowing them a free ride into the AI semi-final for years and years, militated against the development of a comparable hurling psyche and culture to Wexford. We don't hear of titanic battles like The Diamond Heyden versus Nicky Rackard. We got it in the 1980's alright, with the exploits of Sylvie on Nicky English, and Bredan Lynskey on just about anyone. The 1980's laid a good foundation for a hurling culture in Galway, but by the 1980's a hundred years of hurling had already been done in places like Kilkenny, Wexford, Limerick, Cork, and Tipperary. There is a hurling culture there in Galway, but it never ignited after the 80's in a way that many anticipated.

So, when I think of Galway, I think of Gaelic football: 9 AI football titles, the great teams of the 1960's, the terrible twins, Purcell and Stockwell from the 1950's, but going back even to the 1930's through the Donnellan's, with AI titles won by the family in the 1930's, the 1960's and the 1990's. When Galway football is mentioned, names fall off the tongue, just like the Rackards, Dorans, and Quigleys of Wexford hurling.

Wexford has 5 AI senior football titles, yet few of us consider it to be a footballing county. Five, the exact same number as Galway has in senior hurling. So, can you see my drift?"