Ah come on, think of the Ballaghaderreen club situation, Mayo and the Rossies fucking despise each other. Or the Rossies despite Mayo anyway.
All of Connacht despise those horrible sheep stealing Rossie cunts with a passion.
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No idea what you’re on about here
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“Forking it in”. A stone cold classic from Brendan Cummins.
“Davy Fitzgerald cuts a very animated figure down on the sideline.”
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Try the “Give Ballagh back” thread on another forum. It’ll pass an hour - loaded with parochial tribalism and a smattering of history going back about 150 years.
We were canvassing there about 20 years ago and it was educational for the hour or so we stuck it out before scurrying back across the river. Mad bastards.
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Got a smile when I heard that there’s rivalry alright but FFS
Ken McGrath referred to it just there and Jackie Tyrell said it on the radio earlier about Wexford Park being an awful hard place to get a result. I’ve no stats to hand but I’d take a good guess that we’ve lost more games than we’ve won against top 6 counties in Wexford Park.
Kilkenny in 2017 and 13 man Clare in 2014 are the 2 standout wins. Kilkenny beat us by about 20 points in 2011 and Limerick beat us in the pissings of rain around 2009 I think. Cork destroyed us in the qualifiers at home under Liam Dunne around 2015. Kilkenny and Galway beat us at home last year.
Handy cliche from lazy analysts.
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Davy now stands at the crossroads of 2 great GAA cliches.
If Wexford win on Saturday and secure a Leinster Final spot, the media will report on how their battling spirit against Dublin & Galway laid the foundations for them given they were so far behind in both games and never gave up. The points secured in those games will be classed as being ‘vital’ and ‘key’
If Wexford lose on Sunday and don’t get through then it will be all about the lost opportunities by letting Dublins soft goal in to level things or how they didn’t kick on and beat Galway and Cathal Dunbars missed opportunity at the end where he could have taken a point.
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Sunday Times article yesterday saying Wexford have 57% home record win rate in Championship since 1930
Bit of pointless star since dont think Wexford played any home championship games in 80/90/00s.
Cmon Davy
Munster is a minefield 
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An “attractive” double-header.
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“extremely attractive” or “mouthwatering” can also be used
Cliche 1: An INTERNET one - “Just back from Innovate Wexford Park/Pairc Tailteann/Glennon Brothers Pearse Park/Netwatch Cullen Park/Kingspan Breffni Park/wherever”
Cliche 2: The inability of GAA match goers to judge the size of a crowd
People claiming that the attendance for a match was considerably more than the officially announced figure, despite the officially announced figure being obviously correct
ie. re Limerick v Clare last week: “I assumed when the attendance was announced over the loudspeaker that the fella had said 39k, but I found out later he’d said 29k when there was clearly at least 40k in the ground”
“There looked a lot more than 15 thousand in Wexford Park last night”
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Discussions about a “tiered championship” have developed some great cliches.
“Players just want to play”
“Players are crying out for games against teams on their own level” - they’re always “crying out”
“If the competitions were MARKETED properly they would be a great success” - yeah, because marketing competitions that the public have no interest in always works, doesn’t it
Imagine 20k coming from Wicklow and Carlow coming to Croke Park to watch the Leinster intermediate final.
Imagine, unreal, indeed.
The “importance of the provinicials” has gotten a good auld airing in the last couple of weeks. You could see last weekend with Roscommon and this weekend with Donegal what a provincial title means to the players and the fans. Strangely, the Duds and the Yerrahs don’t seem to care so much.
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“Working the ball through the lines”
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“Novel pairing”
Was often used in the early years of the back door system when teams that had never or rarely previously played each other were drawn against each other, eg. Wicklow v Galway 2001, Dublin v London 2004, Leitrim v Dublin 2004.
This has largely fallen out of use due to the fact there aren’t many pairings that haven’t happened at this stage, and also due to the increased gap between stronger and weaker teams, which means any such pairings which happen now are turkey shoots.
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“Focal point” is emerging in a big way this summer
I even used it meself today
Wouldn’t be like you