(Oldest Posts First) - Go To The Latest Post
HurlingBuzz (Wexford) - Posts: 444 - 29/05/2023 10:39:06 2482480 Link 0 |
The only thing worse than a sore loser is a sore winner. Wexford and Antrim had their backs against the wall and fought hard to get out of it. Fair dues to both team for pulling It off. Disappointing for Westmeath. 35OLT (USA) - Posts: 72 - 29/05/2023 10:44:32 2482482 Link 0 |
Have to disagree there lots of kilkenny people did not want Wexford to go down didn't think it would be good for leinster hurling.Thats not saying they would do us any favours though.
Tiger1 (Wexford) - Posts: 175 - 29/05/2023 10:51:07 2482485 Link 0 |
Don't want to say I got it right but last Sunday evening I had a feeling that the unpredictable was going to happen and that Westmeath were going to HAVE to beat Antrim to stay up. As for the Kilkenny performance? Well Offaly thought they played it cute by putting out a shadow team against Carlow in the round robin game and it came back to bite them in the rear end. Never pays to be too smart. The game against Wexford shows what can be achieved but then the focus must switch to the next game, I feel that this may not have been the case yesterday.
MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 986 - 29/05/2023 12:26:53 2482517 Link 0 |
Kilkenny supporters around me didn't fall into that group.
HurlingBuzz (Wexford) - Posts: 444 - 29/05/2023 12:41:25 2482525 Link 0 |
What exactly are implying about Kilkenny in that cryptic post?
Joe1 (Kildare) - Posts: 43 - 29/05/2023 13:09:17 2482537 Link 0 |
Did I see you at the match or did someone just tell you that?
Joe1 (Kildare) - Posts: 43 - 29/05/2023 13:21:18 2482544 Link 0 |
Kilkenny started their best team and 3 of their better players had to go off injured. That wouldn't have happened if they were taking it easy. Shame it wasn't on TV it was as tough a game as any I've seen in Munster so far this year. And nothing like Galways games against us or Kilkenny.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 8437 - 29/05/2023 13:28:24 2482547 Link 0 |
Wexford's point difference over the 5 games was -4, Westmeath's was -80 which says it all, realistically Wexford took their eye of the ball at half time vs Westmeath and fair play to ye for taking advantage of that. Joe McDonagh will be tough next year but ye have the tools to come straight back up and from what I saw vs Wexford plenty of talent on your u20 team who can hopefully come through over the next few years.
TerribleFootwork (Wexford) - Posts: 922 - 29/05/2023 13:36:34 2482551 Link 1 |
I have the height of respect for Joe Fortune, won division 2 and kept us there this year. Kept us in the Leinster championship last year, wouldn't be surprised if he moves on to his native Wexford for 2024. Antrim were always going to beat us, we'd struggle to beat Dunloy, especially without Killian & Aonghus. As for this year we finished on -80, that's an average beating of 19.5 points in the 4 games we lost. Carlow & Offaly look ahead of us too, a playoff against Carlow would be interesting. Would a round robin Leinster championship and then go into a knockout Joe McDonagh be the answer to playing good teams every year?
stonemadbeany (USA) - Posts: 480 - 29/05/2023 13:40:18 2482556 Link 1 |
You eliminate provincial championships and move 100% to a tiered All Ireland model with promotion/relegation (same as Senior/Intermediate/Junior). No play-offs. Get rid of Div1 A/B in the league and make a single Division 1 group. Drop several teams to Div 2 (Dublin, Antrim, Wexford). Make relegation mean something and also give more competitive games for the likes of Westmeath/Laois/Carlow/Kerry with Wexford, Antrim and Dublin. In the current format, you occasionally see Westmeath/Antrim/Laois/Carlow will scare or trim a "big" team in Div 1, but they're being brushed aside the rest of the time. Hurling is a bit like the 6 nations in that it's the same big teams under no pressure. Italy on the odd occasion like this year stand up and have a good group of players. However, they've no threat of relegation at all. There's a small chance of relegation in hurling for a big team but it really is small. gedupoutofit (Westmeath) - Posts: 156 - 30/05/2023 11:24:46 2482822 Link 1 |