While I agree with much of your sentiments it is also well known that Wexford have been training hard since last October while many teams are only really beginning their assault on the season now⌠Wexford and Davy have achieved their goal for the year and won promotion but the downside to that is being able to sustain and even improve current standards as the season enters the championship. Itâs a very big ask for amateur sports teams to sustain those levels particularly with so few games.
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Thatâs because the clip you have doesnât show the full incident.
Yeah
But Iâm not making any assessment of the state of hurling in wexford. Just think today for what it was shouldnât be completely written off. Lot to be said for building up a teams confidence early into new managers reign and working from there
Fuck all wrong with that. Tipp players could technically get suspended for getting involved with a non player which is generally viewed very dimly.
Not sure it was worth reporting tbh.
100% agree with that.
As much of a bluffer as i think Davy is, the approach taken to date is the only approach to take.
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If you get off to a bad start coaching there is no comeback. Promotion and a good run in Leinster wouldnât be bad. I wouldnât fancy cork against Wexford now either
I wouldnât fancy Cork against anyone
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Fact. Itâs fucking sad
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Did we have a free to level it? I thought the free was at 2-12 to 0-16. Iâve been posting all season about us not having a reliable free taker but McDonald was actually better than usual on frees today (despite missing that one). Chin didnât strike the first half ones from distance into the wind all that well though.
Agreed on Cathal Barrett. He was being an eejit in the first half in particular.
Tipp are clinical though. The McGraths got 2-2 apiece but were actually outplayed by their direct markers for most of the game. Itâs a bit mental. Johnâs first goal was when James Breen was on him and he missed the ball but Liam Ryan got the better of him from then on until very late on. I donât blame Ryan for his second goal as he was drawn to McCormack rampaging through.
As mentioned, Damien Reck had a fantastic game on Noel McGrath. I loved how he won the first ball that came in early on, was upended with a massive shoulder (that eventually forced him off in the second half) which resulted in Callanan opening the scoring but then came bursting out and won the next few balls that came in anyway. He did his Irish leaving cert oral on the Monday after we defeated Kilkenny.
Iâm open to correction but I donât think weâre just a âdrillsâ side under Davy. Heâs got his way and we have our training camp in Portugal in May to refine our hurling too.
Also agreed that our first touch and ability to cleanly take the ball let us down at times - there was about 4 or 5 starters from defence through to attack who were afflicted and it cost us at various stages. As you say, from Murphy not snapping up that ball and clearing before Breen was fouled for their second goal to Redmond not gathering the ball on the run before half time and a few other occasions.
This may come across as nitpicking but I didnât like Fanning lying down for a few goals today. Heâs improved beyond all recognition in the last 12-18 months, and I know it wasnât pivotal today, but running out to Maher and lying down for the last goal irked me. He was coming through at a very acute angle and a defender was closing in - stay on your line and stand up and the likelihood was heâd have been able to block a tame enough effort.
You can guarantee that Kilkenny will be looking at how to take Shaun Murphy out of the game or to âtargetâ him after his excellent game against them. Hammer the hammer as lazy RTĂ pundits say so weâll need to have more than drills for that game anyway. Weâll also need our forwards to stop them taking the short puck out and picking out passes that bypass our sweeper.
That Kilkenny game in the park should be a superb occasion and great match practice for our first ever Leinster Final against Galway.
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The interesting thing about the incident was Jason Forde getting involved, probably the least physical player on the Tipp panel. Forde hadnât touched the ball at that stage and it actually woke up and he had a decent game after that. Reminds me of Conor OâMahony in his pomp. Mahony would take a while to get going but a slap off a fella usually brought the best out of him; I remember in particular a very dirty strike he got across the hand across Wexford in 2010 and he went on to have a stormer after.
It was silly of Davy (but silly was all it was) to enter the pitch and to go halfway across it. Iâm not sure he could have avoided the Tipp players at that stage. Bill OâMeara (who Iâve a feeling would have a bit of needle in him) probably told him to fuck off the pitch and that probably started that little jostle. At the end of the day, nobody got hurt and perhaps the ref should have sent him off (might have been harsh) and it would have been done with there. Instead, the ref was terrified of him and hardly gave a Tipp free again (and there were a couple of obvious ones from where I was sitting in the ground)
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Are you sure? There is no gap in time on that clip and it shows Forde Nolan and the linesman, when were all of them in the one frame again that isnât on that clip?
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The pic is totally misleading.
As I said previously, itâs a superbly timed picture. I canât make out at all any time Fitzy is touching Fordes helmet (insert other joke here)
Itâs just the Clare lads continuing to knife one of their greatest sons.
They must be delighted he lost yesterday, imagine the dread if he had managed to beat Tipp?
Some lads are still obsessed with him unfortunately. Davy is the boogeyman for them.
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Tipp scored 5-18 yesterday. Not one point from a free. 5-17 from play and 0-1 from a 65. The free count was 16-3 in favour of Wexford.
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I believe Seamus Callanan got âWexfordedâ yesterday. Broken thumb.
Was he dunne ??
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