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Still can't believe either that the Antrim GK not only fouled the ball once off the puck-out but did so twice

And both times with us down to 14 and us conceding the puck-out

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 445 - 20/04/2025 11:23:20    2603002

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The most important thing yesterday was getting the win. We started very poorly and when O'Connor got sent off I had a sinking feeling that Antrim would take control but our lads have to take great credit that they never let that happen. They all worked incredibly hard, led by Chin, who's just an absolute machine, we should enjoy him while we can because we're in big trouble when he decides to call it a day, he's literally the only player we have that has the physical attributes to compete against anyone he's up against and that's a big worry but let's leave that for another time. I thought the full back line did ok, I think Ryan will be excellent once he fills out a bit, Conor Foley just oozes class, hopefully get Liam Ryan back and that's a good line. Half back's is a definite issue, McGuckian has had a fair amount of starts over the past few years and he just hasn't done it for me. I get that he's a hard worker but he coughs up possession way too easily. Was impressed with Molloy yesterday, caught a couple of cracking high balls and had a great barnstorming run in the second half. Midfield was only functioning at 50% because I didn't think Lawlor had a great time of it yesterday, I'd move him back to take Charlie's shirt next day.
Thought Rory was quiet enough as someone else alluded to but scored a couple of lovely points. I definitely think it's in the forwards where we have the most issues, depth isn't good and what we have starting wouldn't have most teams worrying too much, bar Lee and Rory. I think Cian Byrne will turn into a very good player in time though.
Dublin next week will be a different thing altogether, be very little in it, just hope we come out on top.

YellowShadeOfPurple (Wexford) - Posts: 41 - 20/04/2025 12:37:56    2603018

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We have to be happy with the finishing also, from.memory we had 2 goal chances and we buried both of them. Cian Byrnes was from a tight enough angle

WEXILE (Wexford) - Posts: 348 - 20/04/2025 12:58:15    2603024

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A case of job done yesterday for you with bigger fish to fry.
Best of luck for next Saturday.

ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1320 - 20/04/2025 13:37:55    2603042

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Very happy with the win yesterday. Thought McGuckin and Molloy were very good. Hearne was consistent as ever . Chin was Chin and Rory was good in patches . Not sure who will replace Jacko . We need Jippo , Shane Reck and Max back if we are to really compete against the top teams . Was dissapointed with the impact of our bench . Massive game in Dublin on Saturday . A win would be huge

Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 526 - 20/04/2025 13:54:43    2603047

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Watching the minor match at moment.very disappointing they are in for an awful hammering. 1 13 to 5 points at half time, wexford full forward send off after 10 minutes. Could lose by 20 points or more. Which is a real pity, gave away a goal and two points by trying to play out from puck outs.

hunting (Wexford) - Posts: 1106 - 20/04/2025 14:34:15    2603054

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Minors getting absolutely cleaned out of it in the physical stakes, way too many mistakes in possession as well

Was always going to be very difficult but the red card and handing them a few scores from our own puck-outs is not what we needed

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 445 - 20/04/2025 14:35:06    2603055

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All the work they say that is put into wexford underage and then you see that today. A long hard look at themselves that the worst I ever seen at minor level, shocking stuff. We are going nowhere fast

hunting (Wexford) - Posts: 1106 - 20/04/2025 15:21:02    2603066

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That was an absolute humiliation, only positive is that it surely can't get any worse than that

Feels like we lost 95% of all physical duels and felt like they had a five-man advantage in the second half, they could lose the ball and you just knew they'd win it back

We would've lost heavily anyway but we gave away a shocking number of scores to them trying to work the ball short

My understanding is that this team's underage results were an awful lot better than this and with the way the format is, it's not the end of the world given we're guaranteed at least a QF. Let's hope they turn it around next week

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 445 - 20/04/2025 15:21:27    2603069

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That's a seriously worrying result for the minors. What is going on in underage in the county? One observation I'd have is frees are given way too handy at club level and makes our players soft at intercounty level. In Kilkenny they don't give frees very easily in club games and it shows, they are tougher and dominate us physically. Probably one factor among many

I was happy with the senior performance yesterday, the workrate was very good especially after going down to 14 men. We are still overly reliant on Chin and even yesterday without him it could have been a real dogfight. Nervous about the trip up to Parnell next week but hopeful of a good result.

Ancamánbriste (Wexford) - Posts: 1 - 20/04/2025 16:07:42    2603080

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Replying To hunting:  "All the work they say that is put into wexford underage and then you see that today. A long hard look at themselves that the worst I ever seen at minor level, shocking stuff. We are going nowhere fast"
As bad a performance as it was, it's only one game, you can't say "we're going nowhere fast" off the back of one game

ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 445 - 20/04/2025 16:46:03    2603088

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Replying To hunting:  "All the work they say that is put into wexford underage and then you see that today. A long hard look at themselves that the worst I ever seen at minor level, shocking stuff. We are going nowhere fast"
I suppose its the same amount of work that put 5 lads under the age of 23 on the senior team yesterday.

This is a trend that people think it's OK to go online and criticise young lads. Let's see how the respond to.this and isn't the reason we have underage teams is to supply players that go on to play senior, as long as we get a few through then what does today really matter as disappointing as it is

WEXILE (Wexford) - Posts: 348 - 20/04/2025 17:09:08    2603094

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Ah come on, I never mentioned any names at all, any time in my posts, so don't try that old line. I talking about the work been done at county board level, we are hearing all the good work been put into wexford underage and then u see results like that today. Does it not make you wonder no??

hunting (Wexford) - Posts: 1106 - 20/04/2025 17:26:10    2603101

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Replying To hunting:  "Ah come on, I never mentioned any names at all, any time in my posts, so don't try that old line. I talking about the work been done at county board level, we are hearing all the good work been put into wexford underage and then u see results like that today. Does it not make you wonder no??"
Thats a very good kk team so a bit of perspetive we might not be as bad as todays game showed.

Tiger1 (Wexford) - Posts: 326 - 20/04/2025 18:27:08    2603125

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Replying To WEXILE:  "I suppose its the same amount of work that put 5 lads under the age of 23 on the senior team yesterday.

This is a trend that people think it's OK to go online and criticise young lads. Let's see how the respond to.this and isn't the reason we have underage teams is to supply players that go on to play senior, as long as we get a few through then what does today really matter as disappointing as it is"
In fairness, criticism has to be expected after results like today. We can't bury our heads in the sand and sweep this under the carpet. Questions must be asked whether of management, team selection or individual performances. We usually only get a few through to senior but that's the problem really as the likes of Cork, Kilkenny, Tipp etc expect to get at least half a dozen through. In fairness to Wexford we have been fairly competitive at senior level down through the years with some exceptions like 2009-12 but we need strong and successful minor teams to be the bedrock for senior success not just happy to be competitive

Purpleandgold72 (Wexford) - Posts: 247 - 20/04/2025 19:16:03    2603166

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Replying To WEXILE:  "We have to be happy enough with yesterday's performance all things considered. Mostly positive with a few areas we need to improve on.

Discipline again letting us down with Jacko. In fairness we didn't concede too many silly frees although we weren't under serious pressure either. Liam Ryan and Reck will only make our defence even stronger.

Slow start seems to be a habit, we always seem to get going tho. We won't get away with starting slow against better opposition.

Spread of scores. That's a little worrying but we've seen better spread of scores against better opposition before so hopefully it won't all come down to Chin. We will miss Jacko. But that's an opportunity for someone else now to take. Let's hope someone takes it with both hands. Jack Redmond didn't seem like he could run yesterday when he came on. Hope Mac gets back soon and Jacko avoids a big ban. On any other day I'd be hoping ROC and Byrne can chip in with more scores.

We did well when down to 14 for the guts of the contest basically. Great attitude snd stuck at it. Winning the physical battles consistently was something I qas happy with. Typical Davy muck.....extra man and played him in defence when they were losing. We cut down on the wides which qas pleasing also.

It was our first day out so I'd expect us to tighten some things up for the next day. It would be great to get out of Parnell with a result. We can do it.

All in all Good performance yesterday and we can beat the team in front of us. We did that comprehensively"
Jack Redmond turned his ankle straight after coming on. Hopefully it will be OK.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15466 - 20/04/2025 19:18:08    2603169

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Replying To YellowShadeOfPurple:  "The most important thing yesterday was getting the win. We started very poorly and when O'Connor got sent off I had a sinking feeling that Antrim would take control but our lads have to take great credit that they never let that happen. They all worked incredibly hard, led by Chin, who's just an absolute machine, we should enjoy him while we can because we're in big trouble when he decides to call it a day, he's literally the only player we have that has the physical attributes to compete against anyone he's up against and that's a big worry but let's leave that for another time. I thought the full back line did ok, I think Ryan will be excellent once he fills out a bit, Conor Foley just oozes class, hopefully get Liam Ryan back and that's a good line. Half back's is a definite issue, McGuckian has had a fair amount of starts over the past few years and he just hasn't done it for me. I get that he's a hard worker but he coughs up possession way too easily. Was impressed with Molloy yesterday, caught a couple of cracking high balls and had a great barnstorming run in the second half. Midfield was only functioning at 50% because I didn't think Lawlor had a great time of it yesterday, I'd move him back to take Charlie's shirt next day.
Thought Rory was quiet enough as someone else alluded to but scored a couple of lovely points. I definitely think it's in the forwards where we have the most issues, depth isn't good and what we have starting wouldn't have most teams worrying too much, bar Lee and Rory. I think Cian Byrne will turn into a very good player in time though.
Dublin next week will be a different thing altogether, be very little in it, just hope we come out on top."
Lawlor played halfback most of the game?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15466 - 20/04/2025 19:19:13    2603170

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Replying To YellowShadeOfPurple:  "The most important thing yesterday was getting the win. We started very poorly and when O'Connor got sent off I had a sinking feeling that Antrim would take control but our lads have to take great credit that they never let that happen. They all worked incredibly hard, led by Chin, who's just an absolute machine, we should enjoy him while we can because we're in big trouble when he decides to call it a day, he's literally the only player we have that has the physical attributes to compete against anyone he's up against and that's a big worry but let's leave that for another time. I thought the full back line did ok, I think Ryan will be excellent once he fills out a bit, Conor Foley just oozes class, hopefully get Liam Ryan back and that's a good line. Half back's is a definite issue, McGuckian has had a fair amount of starts over the past few years and he just hasn't done it for me. I get that he's a hard worker but he coughs up possession way too easily. Was impressed with Molloy yesterday, caught a couple of cracking high balls and had a great barnstorming run in the second half. Midfield was only functioning at 50% because I didn't think Lawlor had a great time of it yesterday, I'd move him back to take Charlie's shirt next day.
Thought Rory was quiet enough as someone else alluded to but scored a couple of lovely points. I definitely think it's in the forwards where we have the most issues, depth isn't good and what we have starting wouldn't have most teams worrying too much, bar Lee and Rory. I think Cian Byrne will turn into a very good player in time though.
Dublin next week will be a different thing altogether, be very little in it, just hope we come out on top."
Lawlor played halfback most of the game?

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15466 - 20/04/2025 19:19:22    2603172

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Replying To Afinestick96:  "Very happy with the win yesterday. Thought McGuckin and Molloy were very good. Hearne was consistent as ever . Chin was Chin and Rory was good in patches . Not sure who will replace Jacko . We need Jippo , Shane Reck and Max back if we are to really compete against the top teams . Was dissapointed with the impact of our bench . Massive game in Dublin on Saturday . A win would be huge"
We didn't bring on any sub til nearly 10 minutes to go. Very hard to make an impact in that time in fairness.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15466 - 20/04/2025 19:20:22    2603173

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Replying To ElGranSenor:  "That was an absolute humiliation, only positive is that it surely can't get any worse than that

Feels like we lost 95% of all physical duels and felt like they had a five-man advantage in the second half, they could lose the ball and you just knew they'd win it back

We would've lost heavily anyway but we gave away a shocking number of scores to them trying to work the ball short

My understanding is that this team's underage results were an awful lot better than this and with the way the format is, it's not the end of the world given we're guaranteed at least a QF. Let's hope they turn it around next week"
On a positive note Galway got hammered by KK in the 1st round ladt year and almost made the AIF. Hope for us yet if the management learn their lessons. I like the fact they tried to establish a short game, I'd go as far as to say it's 100% necessary these days. But it's a means to an end, not an end in itself. You have to use the space you make further up the field when playing that way, which we didn't. And when the lad got himself sent off it made using that space even harder.

Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 15466 - 20/04/2025 19:23:47    2603177

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