Tom Dempsey and Wexford supporters have every right to feel hard done by. Just watching it back there last night, it did seem that Colm Lyons was very reticent to penalise the lawyered up and litigious Clare team. Liam Spratt on the commentary on South East radio mentioned that the free count was close to 2 to 1 in Clare’s favour.
Bottom line, that was a stonewall penalty for Lee Chin on the 70 minute mark, which Cian Nolan should have got a black card for. Goal for Wexford there and facing 14 men, Wexford win.
Wexford players were well inside the square for goals two and three. Nobody appears to want to make reference to the fact that both should have been disallowed. Very different complexion on the game then. Wexford gor 17 scores in close to 80 minutes hurling, that was their primary issue. Stop fucking about with sweepers and listening to snakeoil salesmen like Davy and Wexford will be far better off.
In fairness to Denis i dont think thats sour grapes. Cork fucked it away with missed chances and shit goalkeeping. Most of the Galway posters here said as much.
Cork had no luck either, but I’m not really sure they earned any. He was right, it was a strange game. Galway were much more competitive in a second half they lost by four points.
How do the Carkies classify yesterday? I believe that previously they’d never lost to Galway when they had a good team. Does that record still stand after a game that Cork effectively fucked away?
Wexford leathering the ball long for the last twenty minutes also hurt them on this front. Drawing handy frees in that stage of a game is crucial. O’Donnell got a few of them out of carrying the ball into tackles. But Wexford almost entirely stopped running the ball going down the stretch meaning those frees weren’t going to be won. Would have been worth bringing out Chin for that reason alone.
From watching it fairly close to pitch level yesterday Clare fairly ate Wexford in the tackle for the most part, was a big of the reason they ran out of legs and I suspect partly why they were going long coupled with the two quick fire goals they got from direct ball.
