Replying To Viking66:  "Not wanting to be negative but some of those lads, excepting the lads who are now only 21/22, will be hitting their prime years aged 24/25 next year. Most didnt really kick on in their second or 3rd season this year. Next year we need them to make a big step forward, or otherwise we will have to draw the conclusion that they arent Senior intercounty standard and likely wont ever be. Hopefully we have some lads in their mid/late 20s return to the panel to offer some leadership, and hopefully the lads who are that age in the current panel stick around, the Recks, Donohue etc.
And hopefully lads like Eoin Whelan and David Codd who didn't get a real shot at this year come back fully fit and firing next year.
Also hopefully some of our decent u20 team from this year can step up also. Apart from the up to the age lads with potential, Lads like Quigley, Carley, O'Brien, Nolan, and Donohue who will still be u20 next year might be worth bringing in also.
As regards the u20s other lads who played this year but will still be u20 next year include Fanning, Kennedy, Moore, Reilly, Dunne, Ryan, Hyland and O'Connell Byrne. So thats 13 lads who played this year who will still be u20 next year. Add in some of this years better minors, and some of the better lads off our u19s, and we should have a decent u20 team next year."

Replying To ElGranSenor:  "Again, Offaly are driven by one underage team and one underage team alone, I wouldn't say they really fixed anything, just happened upon a very good team out of nowhere"

Replying To Formertownie:  "Are the dev squads detrimental to underage hurling .
Squads of say 45 for hurling and 45 for football . Who are nt permitted to play in development leagues u16 or 18 . Leaving clubs without big numbers at a stretch across 2 ages to to fill teams fo dev leagues .
If u cant field teams how can you keep players playing.
I see a couple of walkoves or concedings in football dev finals . Not necessarily related could be exams school trips etc .
But if 90 players are taken out of equation for dev leagues cant be good for clubs and intensity in those games .
Club players go backwards . Dev squad players get better . Come back to clubs and play championship and can dominate as club players standards dropped .
Which has the knock on of dev squad players get complacent as they don't have to try as hard their standard drop. It's all related . Go back to dev squads and year on year they drop their standards of skill/intensity level as they dont get challenged enough at club level . It's a recurring cycle .
Our drop in underage age intercounty competiveness is related to the expansion of the intercounty underage championship competition . Which affects club championship which then affects stands of dev squads .
Theres Too much emphasis on intercountyy at underage.
Should not take away from club"

Replying To Bryson:  "They have fixed plenty but u obviously dont want to see that. 2 U 20 Leinster championships 1 U 20 All Ireland. 1 Minor Leinster Championship and thats just Hurling. In Football 2 Leinster Minor titles and 1 U 20 Leinster title and 1 U20 All Ireland title but they have fixed nothing. We are in complete denial how bad we are down here and i dont like saying that."

Replying To Spuds&GAA:  "I am beginning to think they are. Or the very least it ain't working for Wexford. Last 10 years of players going onto play Senior intercounty, numbers or quality is not there. To all the Club players left behind, they don't get any quality hurling sessions unless you get Minors and Juveniles to train with the Adults? Good and Bad there too. It ain't easy picking a road to go down, the one thing I am nearly sure of is that we should try something different for 3 years and see where that brings us, we gotta be patient kids there is no magic wand. The County is crying for something to cheer about, it's not easy where we at. What about an Inter District competition for u14s, u15s and u16s. We get people from the district to take over a team and get some money behind to hire good coaching, S&C ,set it up as you were setting up a county side. We would have 3 years of raising the standard of coaching, implementing S&C, working with chaps that may not as gifted as others but the type of player that would really blossom if he's a part of these teams. All players play at their own age group. 4 District teams would pull in 80-90 players for each year. Run it Professionally, no half arsed approach, County Board role in behind you for funding etc. Everyone play one another and then semi 1 V 4, 2 V 3. ..Issue 1 is working around Schools and Clubs depending on what's in place already for them. Pick the right time of year, layer it with past intercounty or Current Intercounty players. Get them the proper introduction for Adult hurling??? We need schools, Clubs, District Officials and County Board to buy in?? What ye think?? You are getting 3/4 chaps from most clubs or more depending on their numbers. What you think FormerTownie??"

Replying To Bryson:  "They have fixed plenty but u obviously dont want to see that. 2 U 20 Leinster championships 1 U 20 All Ireland. 1 Minor Leinster Championship and thats just Hurling. In Football 2 Leinster Minor titles and 1 U 20 Leinster title and 1 U20 All Ireland title but they have fixed nothing. We are in complete denial how bad we are down here and i dont like saying that."

Replying To Doylerwex:  "Fair play to them, but all they've achieved is based on one team that were lucky to beat us. We're competitive most years.

Now that the Rossi era us over we need to take stock.

What has actually happened in the last couple of years?

Decent teams at 14, 15 and 16.

Minors were decent in 24, shocking in 25 and better in 26. Should have beaten cork but didn't. So what. There are good hurlers on that team.

Same story for the 20s. Could have had Galway in the 60 minutes who will most likely win the all Ireland.

Seniors were a dodgy penalty away from a Leinster final in 24. A dodgy penalty away from 3rd last year, and just poor on every level this year.

On the positive side, a lot of new players have gotten championship game time. Carley, Lawlor, Redmond, Byrne etc.

Whoever comes in now needs to get our best players playing. We need to be patient with them.

I can accept losing if you've done everything you can and are beaten by a better side. Sadly we've got everything wrong. S and C, set up, selections, tactics, everything.

I saw enough in Croke park in the league and the first half in tullamore and the park to know we're not as far off as we think we are."