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An absolute joke a leister team having to play a quarter in a munster back garden Pairc ui caoime The gaa need to look at this and the 2 teams should meet halfway.Why should wexford pay for Cork stadium. THEY would not even play there themselves because of concerts.Let the cork boys pay for it themselves. The quarter should be in nowlan pairs then we will see how good munster hurling is.What a joke.Same story every year this needs to be looked at.Maybe have 1 semi final in cork if they are 2 munster teams in it accept cork. Wexpurebred (Wexford) - Posts: 205 - 02/06/2022 11:22:36 2421755 Link
Replying To Wexpurebred: "An absolute joke a leister team having to play a quarter in a munster back garden Pairc ui caoime The gaa need to look at this and the 2 teams should meet halfway.Why should wexford pay for Cork stadium. THEY would not even play there themselves because of concerts.Let the cork boys pay for it themselves. The quarter should be in nowlan pairs then we will see how good munster hurling is.What a joke.Same story every year this needs to be looked at.Maybe have 1 semi final in cork if they are 2 munster teams in it accept cork." Agree 100% . In 2018 just 10k attended ourselves and Clare in Pairc Ui Caoimh and it made for a brutal atmosphere in a ground not even a quarter full. Afinestick (Wexford) - Posts: 999 - 02/06/2022 12:04:36 2421764 Link
I think conal flood is a good hurler but he causes untold problems when he plays wing back way too loose and too far up the field snd forgets to track bzck quick enough . Firstly against killkenny in the Walsh Cup in the Park they created several goal chances just did nt convert them through the space left open by conal flood . Secondly v Dublin in championship several scores csme from his wing by him not being in position . I only commented on these fames as had attended watching on TV yiu can't judge positional sense of a player . If I were opposing manager it certainly would be an area I would target if he was playing wing back. He deserves a place on squad team but not as a wing bzck though will upset the balance of whole back line covering fur him we will get exposed again . Formertownie (Wexford) - Posts: 394 - 02/06/2022 12:43:34 2421775 Link
Replying To WEX98: "When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said "Let us pray." We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land." Not sure what that has to do with hurling Wex98 but it's a very good summation of what the Brits, French, Spanish, Portuguese and to a lesser extent the Dutch, Germans, Italians and Belgians were up to for a few hundred years : ) Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16841 - 02/06/2022 12:58:21 2421778 Link
Replying To Formertownie: "I think conal flood is a good hurler but he causes untold problems when he plays wing back way too loose and too far up the field snd forgets to track bzck quick enough . Firstly against killkenny in the Walsh Cup in the Park they created several goal chances just did nt convert them through the space left open by conal flood . Secondly v Dublin in championship several scores csme from his wing by him not being in position . I only commented on these fames as had attended watching on TV yiu can't judge positional sense of a player . If I were opposing manager it certainly would be an area I would target if he was playing wing back. He deserves a place on squad team but not as a wing bzck though will upset the balance of whole back line covering fur him we will get exposed again ." I'd agree if Conall is going to start it would have to be half forward or midfield Afinestick (Wexford) - Posts: 999 - 02/06/2022 13:56:37 2421789 Link
Replying To beano: "I agree with K.Foley not being in form to be a starter as of now, but O'Hanlon should be on any 15. I'd bring him instead of JOC and move Flood up to wing-forward. Provided we get over the next obstacle, I'd be ear-marking Matt to pick up David Fitzgerald or Ian Galvin if it's Clare, or Gearoid Hegarty if it's Limerick (however unlikely)." That was his team for the next game Beano! Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16841 - 02/06/2022 15:04:57 2421806 Link
Replying To Formertownie: "I think conal flood is a good hurler but he causes untold problems when he plays wing back way too loose and too far up the field snd forgets to track bzck quick enough . Firstly against killkenny in the Walsh Cup in the Park they created several goal chances just did nt convert them through the space left open by conal flood . Secondly v Dublin in championship several scores csme from his wing by him not being in position . I only commented on these fames as had attended watching on TV yiu can't judge positional sense of a player . If I were opposing manager it certainly would be an area I would target if he was playing wing back. He deserves a place on squad team but not as a wing bzck though will upset the balance of whole back line covering fur him we will get exposed again ." Flood was always a forward underage Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16841 - 02/06/2022 15:05:57 2421807 Link
Replying To Wexpurebred: "An absolute joke a leister team having to play a quarter in a munster back garden Pairc ui caoime The gaa need to look at this and the 2 teams should meet halfway.Why should wexford pay for Cork stadium. THEY would not even play there themselves because of concerts.Let the cork boys pay for it themselves. The quarter should be in nowlan pairs then we will see how good munster hurling is.What a joke.Same story every year this needs to be looked at.Maybe have 1 semi final in cork if they are 2 munster teams in it accept cork." Only team we seem to play in Nowlan Park is Waterford. Thurles would be fair if its Clare we are playing. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16841 - 02/06/2022 15:07:27 2421808 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Flood was always a forward underage" From what I know of hom he was the main man on club abd played mostly a free roving role . Might be the reason his defensive awareness lacks but certainly worth his rile in squad just not as a straight up wing back . Midfield may still be too much as needs to defend as well. Wing forward. But if on attacking wing bsck I d still be concerned with overlaps. Impact sub may just be his best role at moment. When game us more broken up and space more obvious Formertownie (Wexford) - Posts: 394 - 02/06/2022 16:09:12 2421823 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Only team we seem to play in Nowlan Park is Waterford. Thurles would be fair if its Clare we are playing." We'd take Thurles Viking. Always liked big match days there. It's about time we got a win there too! Afinestick (Wexford) - Posts: 999 - 02/06/2022 16:21:08 2421828 Link
Well I will bring the young lads to Thurles but I will not drive to Cork no matter how much they want me to. As said above by others, if Cork put concerts on in Pairc Ui Chaoimh that is their loss. After them having their "Pairc Ui Rinn or nowhere", they can't really take a high moral ground about being promised a quarter final. Wexford and whoever loses the Munster final supporters will vote with their feet and dead right to do that. Wexford do seem to always get the raw deal when it comes to fixtures. The Co. Board should dig their heels in. ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1461 - 02/06/2022 18:06:37 2421845 Link
Replying To ExiledInWex: "Well I will bring the young lads to Thurles but I will not drive to Cork no matter how much they want me to. As said above by others, if Cork put concerts on in Pairc Ui Chaoimh that is their loss. After them having their "Pairc Ui Rinn or nowhere", they can't really take a high moral ground about being promised a quarter final. Wexford and whoever loses the Munster final supporters will vote with their feet and dead right to do that. Wexford do seem to always get the raw deal when it comes to fixtures. The Co. Board should dig their heels in." Follow the team 2 hours down the road come on lads just get behind the team a couple of weeks ago we thought we were gone now we are complaining about playing in Cork voting with our feet only effects the team and gives the impression we are bad supporters so let's all go. Tiger1 (Wexford) - Posts: 410 - 02/06/2022 18:45:25 2421850 Link
Team to play against Losers in MO would be: Fanning, Donohoe, Ryan, Devitt, P Foley, D Reck, M O Hanlon, D O Keeffe, L Og McOvern, J O Connor, L Chin...... R O Connor, C McDonald always inside the opposing 21,and K Foley as a free man in the half back/Midfield line, or sweeper if you like, best man to distrubute the ball we have itsybitsy (Wexford) - Posts: 1 - 02/06/2022 18:54:55 2421852 Link
The fact is Cork is Irelands second city and the Stadium is amazing. Its a fantastic facility. Iv always loved going to Cork on the train for Munster Championship . Its definately understandable that Wexford would be put out with the travel but you guys didn't make it through the front door.. To be honest the Wexford hurling support this year has been poor over all. Id love to see the band wagon back like 96 bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 02/06/2022 19:04:05 2421856 Link
We need to dig in the heels and say NO to Pairc Ui Caoimh. Thurles is a huge advantage to Clare too and their supporters and I cannot remember ever winning there. Nowlan Park or nowhere We always play well there Yellow (Wexford) - Posts: 589 - 02/06/2022 20:31:00 2421867 Link
Replying To ExiledInWex: "Well I will bring the young lads to Thurles but I will not drive to Cork no matter how much they want me to. As said above by others, if Cork put concerts on in Pairc Ui Chaoimh that is their loss. After them having their "Pairc Ui Rinn or nowhere", they can't really take a high moral ground about being promised a quarter final. Wexford and whoever loses the Munster final supporters will vote with their feet and dead right to do that. Wexford do seem to always get the raw deal when it comes to fixtures. The Co. Board should dig their heels in." Unfortunately for us apart from Kilkenny and Waterford all the other main hurling counties are a good trek away. Cork is the same distance as Dublin. Antrim are even more unlucky! Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16841 - 02/06/2022 21:37:04 2421875 Link
Replying To Afinestick: "We'd take Thurles Viking. Always liked big match days there. It's about time we got a win there too!" Our record at either in big games wouldn't be great in the time I'm going to matches! Will likely bring the kids to either I suppose. Cork is a fairly handy spin from South Wexford and my eldest lads godfather lives there so probably would make a weekend of it. If it's Thurles I'll go up and back. Thinking I'll go to Killarney or Belfast first just in case we don't make it to the QF. We are fast running out of intercounty games to go to. Even if we make the AIF, still a longshot I feel, we only would have 4 games left before its championship hurling and football games usually in Bellefield to round out the year. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16841 - 03/06/2022 08:08:48 2421884 Link
Replying To Afinestick: "We'd take Thurles Viking. Always liked big match days there. It's about time we got a win there too!" We beat Cork there under Liam dunne. Can't think of too many others for the seniors in my time Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3884 - 03/06/2022 08:38:44 2421887 Link
Replying To bloodyban: "The fact is Cork is Irelands second city and the Stadium is amazing. Its a fantastic facility. Iv always loved going to Cork on the train for Munster Championship . Its definately understandable that Wexford would be put out with the travel but you guys didn't make it through the front door.. To be honest the Wexford hurling support this year has been poor over all. Id love to see the band wagon back like 96" Wexford support has been anything but poor this year, and especially relative to the expectation of where the team can go. The Saturday evening game v Galway was a poor time yet there was a good Wexford crowd and a few from Galway. It was said here a while back by someone that every county has a 10k support and that is accurate for me. The exceptions to that are Dublin (4-5k), Waterford (7-8k) and Kilkenny in the early stages. The Wexford crowd was poor against us, but then in Kilkenny Wexford comfortably outnumbered Kilkenny by I'd say 2-1 in Kilkenny. I even remember going to Dublin Wexford matches in the 90s and Wexford were by a long way the best supported team in Leinster. I would say the Leinster finals in the 90's had around 30-40k at them provided Wexford were in them. There was a huge crowd at the Leinster final in 96 I would guess. So its not like a big band wagon turned up in 96, something which Limerick would know all about. I'm a neutral view here with a leaning towards Wexford having lived here and bringing the chaps to the matches. The fact of the matter is with regard to Cork, Google Maps tells me it is 2 hr 30 minutes from my home right now with no traffic. So add at least an hour, each way, plus the walk down to the Pairc, you need to leave a minimum of 4 hours before the match. It is the wrong stadium, in the wrong place and it was the GAA's worst ever decision to build it. If they had modernised Thurles or Portlaoise or Tullamore to that standard, it might have made sense for many neutral venue games. Ireland's second city or not. It is still in the corner of Ireland and let Ed Sheeran play for the next 20 years if they want. Imagine telling Cork they are playing Kilkenny in Wexford Park in the quarter, what would they say? ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1461 - 03/06/2022 09:49:06 2421896 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "We beat Cork there under Liam dunne. Can't think of too many others for the seniors in my time" I am trying to remember the games where Wexford played in Thurles, I remember Wexford being hammered by Limerick in an All-Ireland quarter final. I remember them beating Cork, losing to Cork (?), losing to Waterford circa 09-10. Too much is made of that though for me. It doesn't matter to the team of today what happened 10 years ago? Or at least it should not? ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1461 - 03/06/2022 09:58:35 2421900 Link