Leinster Hurling Thread *

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Boys

Who is Wexford captain .

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O’Hanlon and Chin are joint captains. Think Davy had the same joint captain @Malarkey in Clare.

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And Waterford and LIT

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Best of luck to Galway tomorrow. Plenty of shadow boxing in the first of the 3 championship games we’ll face off in this season

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:joy:

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Is o hanlon related to Shane o hanlon?

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Great to see Liam og back in the fold

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First cousin

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I haven’t asked Bandage for at least two years. I’ve been very good.
As an aside, is it a small pitch relatively?

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Galway unchanged from the last day apparently.

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Wouldn’t be surprised to see Wexford beat Galway this weekend. Galway put in a serious effort to strangle the life out of KK last week, don’t think they’ll raise it to those levels again this week. Wexford are stronger and better than KK and will be up for taking a serious run at Galway at this stage. Should be a great contest

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I don’t think this Galway team are capable of holding back or going at anything less than full tilt under this Polish fitness / s&c coaching guru.

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It’s wider than Croke Park but shorter than Cusack Park (I think)

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I think the Wexford starting team is quite a bit stronger and better balanced than last year’s Leinster Final team so looking forward to seeing how we get on tomorrow. That said, it’s still the round robin so it’s not decisive for overall championship prospects.

There’s been a quiet evolution since last summer. Damien Reck missed the championship last year after a brilliant debut league campaign and he’s back. Rory O’Connor only started the Waterford quarter final following his Leaving Cert. Paudie Foley was on a year out and Kevin Foley was a bit part player. They’re all key players now.

Reck v Conor Whelan was shaping up to be a great battle in the league quarter final in March before Reck was forced off injured in the first half. I’d say they’ll go at it again. We’ll need Liam Ryan to reverse the tables after Conor Cooney’s Tour de France on him last year and I’d say Donohoe will pick up Concannon.

P Foley adds much needed height in defence. Donohoe at wing back last year was giving away around 6 inches on Joseph Cooney and couldn’t cope as the game progressed. Murphy, O’Hanlon and O’Keeffe will be performing similar roles as last year. Murphy’s form has taken an upturn in the championship after an average league.

I think K Foley and Aidan Nolan is a better midfield combination than Chin and J O’Connor. An abrasive, hard working, strong chap with a clever, creative, scoring threat. Both mobile and cover a lot of ground.

Who will Galway want as their spare defender if Wexford play 5 forwards as usual? Presumably Harte? They had Harte marking J O’Connor in the league (can’t recall who was spare) and he was destroyed in the air, but he was good against us last year when spare. The other forwards will probably rotate a bit, but I think

J O’Connor, R O’Connor, Chin
Morris, McDonald

is stronger than

Morris, Nolan, H Kehoe
Guiney, McDonald

There’s a bit of a myth in the media about Wexford being a physically imposing team. It’s a team littered with small chaps - Fanning, Reck, Donohoe, Murphy, O’Keeffe, K Foley, R O’Connor and Morris.

I’ll stop now as some posters don’t like long posts.

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I’m really looking forward to it. The impression I had from the league games is that the pitch seemed very crowded. Hope there are no injuries on either side. It’ll be very close. Strange to think that if galway lose, as they may well, they’ll be a game away from going out, despite having dismantled Kilkenny. We will see what cornelius is made of today. By the way @fran, what did you make of him last week? You rudely ignored my polite enquiry, which doesn’t quite come close to the time galway played (and lost to) kk in an I televised league game,and I asked midshipman asha how galway looked, and she replied that she didn’t know as she was watching Kilkenny. :-/ It did nothing for my rosy tinted view of kk hurling.

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I hope bandage doesn’t sulk for the whole year again if Wexford lose like last year.

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He’ll never recover if the HOTY and GOAT shoves it up his bollox.

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I was in great form last year.

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You’re a great guy, kid. Don’t let these bastards get you down.

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Dublins team to play Offaly. Been unlucky the first 2 games.

Gilroy makes one change as Dublin look to get off the mark in Leinster http://the42.ie/4048934