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Replying To ExiledInWex: "No offence intended but that team of the 90s were stacked with top hurlers who would walk in to any team. They were just mentally fragile when the chips were down. I think Wexford have top players in Chin and Rory O'Connor and those 2 are the only 2 players who would get in to say the Cork team. Maybe Liam Ryan before injuries but after that I think Wexford are an average team and no amount of psychology is going to change that." I think Damien Reck would start for Cork too and maybe Conor Hearne. Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 555 - 30/04/2025 13:21:42 2605669 Link
Replying To ExiledInWex: "No offence intended but that team of the 90s were stacked with top hurlers who would walk in to any team. They were just mentally fragile when the chips were down. I think Wexford have top players in Chin and Rory O'Connor and those 2 are the only 2 players who would get in to say the Cork team. Maybe Liam Ryan before injuries but after that I think Wexford are an average team and no amount of psychology is going to change that." I think an argument can be made for Damien Reck. He's the best hurler we have. On current form Conor hearne would also enter the discussion and I think Cian Byrne would having been in with a shout for yhoth if we got to a semi final last year. Regardless, the sum of the parts is supposed to be better than the individual which is what we're struggling with right now. In the 90s , who other than Fitzy, Dunne, O Gorman or Storey would have walked onto any other team? This is a how long is piece of string type question because you could debate it all day. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3539 - 30/04/2025 13:36:17 2605670 Link
I see in the Wexford People Rossiter confirmed Conor Mac will be back in the squad for the Galway game. Jacko should also be available to start and hopefully Liam Ryan is fit enough now to start . We should have a stronger starting 15 and bench for Salthill Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 555 - 30/04/2025 13:51:37 2605674 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "I think an argument can be made for Damien Reck. He's the best hurler we have. On current form Conor hearne would also enter the discussion and I think Cian Byrne would having been in with a shout for yhoth if we got to a semi final last year. Regardless, the sum of the parts is supposed to be better than the individual which is what we're struggling with right now. In the 90s , who other than Fitzy, Dunne, O Gorman or Storey would have walked onto any other team? This is a how long is piece of string type question because you could debate it all day." Fenlon would have walked on to any team, he was a colossus, Paul Codd too. Top class hurlers. Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2279 - 30/04/2025 14:14:19 2605691 Link
Replying To Viking66: "I'm not blaming those on officials Bon. But we would've won the game in Nowlan Park last year despite those if the officials had got the big calls right. And we might have won Saturday also. Those 2 calls aren't a matter of interpretation. The ball either crosses the line or it doesn't. And a foul is either in the area or it isn't. Both calls weren't marginal, the ball wasn't even slightly over the line never mind wholly over it. And the foul for the penalty wasn't inches outside the area, it was nearer yards. We had an u13 7 aside tournament at the club, and we lost the semifinal by a point. We scored a goal, but the ball only went around 4 inches over the line, the referee wasn't sure that it had fully crossed the line, so he didn't give the goal, and we lost. Noone had too many complaints, as everyone felt that it would be unreasonable of a referee to give a goal when he wasn't 100% sure the sliotar had crossed the line." I agree with you about bad calls and interpretation 100%, they are black and white, ye got ** with that goal on Saturday, it was brutal officiating, and it's not good enough at any level never mind senior intercounty, something similar happened between Cork and tipp in munster U20 hurling last year. I know your not blaming the losses on officials, those decisions shouldn't be talking points after a game. But all I'm saying is that there was chances to get something from that game but the missed chances cost ye too. Bon (Kildare)** - Posts: 2279 - 30/04/2025 14:26:54 2605702 Link
Replying To Afinestick96: "I see in the Wexford People Rossiter confirmed Conor Mac will be back in the squad for the Galway game. Jacko should also be available to start and hopefully Liam Ryan is fit enough now to start . We should have a stronger starting 15 and bench for Salthill" Any word on Chin hand or finger injury? He was constantly looking at it on Saturday. Maybe it was just a cut WEXILE (Wexford) - Posts: 371 - 30/04/2025 14:56:13 2605719 Link
Replying To WEXILE: "Any word on Chin hand or finger injury? He was constantly looking at it on Saturday. Maybe it was just a cut" Larry O said on the Wexford Hurling podcast he was talking to Chinner and he had just a bit of skin off the knuckle and Larry said he often got a bigger cut shaving! By the sounds of that he should be fine hopefully Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 555 - 30/04/2025 15:13:56 2605732 Link
Replying To Bon: "Fenlon would have walked on to any team, he was a colossus, Paul Codd too. Top class hurlers." Felon was excellent. Codd wasn't really 90s. His prime was 01-03 Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3539 - 30/04/2025 15:19:59 2605734 Link
Replying To Afinestick96: "I agree with you we have good hurlers but seem to lack the confidence when its comes to a tight championship game. Do we not have a sports phycologist to help with this sort of thing?" Yes we do have a sports psychologist but it's up to the players to do it on the pitch. Do the players buy in to what he says to them? Niamh Fitzpatrick was instrumental in helping us in 1996. John Kiely was full of praise for their psychologist during their successful years. It all boils down to the attitude of the players. I'm no expert in psychology but their job is to get them thinking positively about the way they play. To get them to believe in themselves. Getting them to concentrate during a game and helping them to overcome mental fatigue. Of course no psychologist can help a lad to put a ball over the bar or prevent an opponent beating him in a race for possession but he can improve his way of thinking before and during a game. Therefore I believe it's well worth having someone with expertise in the above. As they say, every Little helps. Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 439 - 30/04/2025 15:56:59 2605758 Link
Replying To alwaysasub: "I see Paudie Foley is home, see his name mentioned on twitter last night? Is he home for good or just the summer months again." Here we go again. Yawn. Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 439 - 30/04/2025 15:59:06 2605761 Link
Replying To alwaysasub: "I see Paudie Foley is home, see his name mentioned on twitter last night? Is he home for good or just the summer months again." Heard both the Foleys want nothing to do with inter County. Yellowhelmet (Australia) - Posts: 134 - 30/04/2025 16:30:49 2605778 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Just did Leinster there and we make the Leinster Final by just getting into 2nd place by a 1 point score difference. We end up plus 17, Dublin plus 16. Kilkenny end up on 8 points also, but have a score difference of plus 44." All to play for..... WEX98 (Wexford) - Posts: 483 - 30/04/2025 16:32:14 2605779 Link
Replying To Magpie2: "Here we go again. Yawn." Agreed the Foleys come home to play for Crossabeg every summer we know that. There is no point in talking about them unless they decide to commit next year. All that matters now is getting behind the squad of players who are there right now. Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 555 - 30/04/2025 16:36:14 2605783 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "Why and how did you choose those years? 15-20 years has no relevance to the current team. There's a player on the panel that wasn't born on 05. If you're going to a period where none of the current players were involved it's a waste of time. During the round robin era we've only not qualified from Leinster on 1 occasion in 23, a season where we lost to Dublin by a score and beat Kilkenny on the last day. In round robin fixtures Kilkenny have only beaten us once. In 22 and 24 we were a score away from a Leinster final. There's nothing certain of course, but it's not beyond our reach to get a result in Galway, although we'll need a massive performance. Offaly I am very wary of. They'll treat Wexford park as their all Ireland final so we can't be messing, but we can win that. Kilkenny in the park on the last day, there's a good chance they'll already be in a Leinster final." OK, since the introduction of the round robin in 2018. We won 3 from 7 against Kilkenny. 1 from 6 against Dublin and 1 from 6 against Galway. So, 5 wins from 19, that's a 26% win rate in Leinster championship games........no point talking about the rest. WEX98 (Wexford) - Posts: 483 - 30/04/2025 16:43:33 2605788 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "Felon was excellent. Codd wasn't really 90s. His prime was 01-03" He came on as a sub in the 96 final, he was some boyo, great freetaker Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2279 - 30/04/2025 17:38:39 2605810 Link
Replying To Viking66: "So you are saying that, if you lose a close game by a point on account of an officiating error that cost you 3 points, you weren't good enough to win the game? I'm not saying that about last Saturdays game, we don't really know how that mightve panned out in the end if that penalty hadn't been given as a score. But it definitely wouldn't have resulted in a restart from a puckout, it would've been a sideline to them. So their next goal from the next puckout might not have happened either. So it definitely affected the course of the game as it changed the restart, never mind the 3 points on the board that shouldn't have been on the board, and the resultant lift it gave Dublin." Unfortunately Viking you are still missing the point, stop looking at the outcome and look at the cause. zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 1950 - 30/04/2025 17:40:24 2605812 Link
Replying To Bon: "I agree with you about bad calls and interpretation 100%, they are black and white, ye got ** with that goal on Saturday, it was brutal officiating, and it's not good enough at any level never mind senior intercounty, something similar happened between Cork and tipp in munster U20 hurling last year. I know your not blaming the losses on officials, those decisions shouldn't be talking points after a game. But all I'm saying is that there was chances to get something from that game but the missed chances cost ye too." Agree 100% Bon. It's just very annoying when you lose a tight game and that has happened. At the same time I've been to dozens of close losses where we left the game behind us also. We are experts at it. Viking66 (Wexford)** - Posts: 15545 - 30/04/2025 18:31:36 2605826 Link
Replying To WEX98: "All to play for....." Absolutely Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15545 - 30/04/2025 18:31:55 2605827 Link
Replying To WEX98: "OK, since the introduction of the round robin in 2018. We won 3 from 7 against Kilkenny. 1 from 6 against Dublin and 1 from 6 against Galway. So, 5 wins from 19, that's a 26% win rate in Leinster championship games........no point talking about the rest." How many starting players are on each team that were starting in 2018? Probably less than half. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15545 - 30/04/2025 18:33:43 2605829 Link
Replying To WEX98: "OK, since the introduction of the round robin in 2018. We won 3 from 7 against Kilkenny. 1 from 6 against Dublin and 1 from 6 against Galway. So, 5 wins from 19, that's a 26% win rate in Leinster championship games........no point talking about the rest." The facts dont lie. Yellowhelmet (Australia) - Posts: 134 - 30/04/2025 19:00:18 2605836 Link