Leinster Hurling Thread *

[gaillimhmick]

Fuck Wexford too

[Joe_Player]

No shit Sherlock

[Ashman]

No shit .

[Locke]

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@Locke

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[Bandage]

@Bandage

3rd will play the Munster runner up in a quarter final, as far as I know. Similarly, beaten Leinster finalist will play 3rd in Munster. Provincial winners straight through to AI SFs.

I’ve seen some posts about the 2nd and 3rd placed Munster teams potentially being battle weary / burnt out and therefore ripe to getting picked off by their Leinster equivalents.

I know the round robin games entail teams playing 4 games in 5 weeks (or 4 in 4 if you have a bye in week 1), but isn’t there a big gap then before provincial finals and AI QFs? This should leave ample recovery time.

Actually, I think I’m wrong here. Do the Christy Ring finalists, or at least the winner, get parachuted in after the provincial championships and before the quarter finals?

Jack Guiney no longer part of Wexford hurling panel

That Guiney news has been rumoured for a few days. Despite his injury, he was with the squad for all the league games I was at - casually pucking around pre game with other injured players in his jeans - so the timing seems odd given he’s back playing with Rathnure. He played centre back at the weekend in their first championship group game. I’m not aware of any of the other long-term injured players officially being released from the panel. What’s the story here @padjo, @wexico14?

[PhattPike]

@Bandage

Actually, I think I’m wrong here. Do the Christy Ring finalists, or at least the winner, get parachuted in after the provincial championships and before the quarter finals?

The Joe McDonagh finalists play the third-placed teams in either province (I’m presuming there will be some sort of nail-biting draw on Radio 1 on a Monday morning). The winners of those games go into the quarter-finals against the provincial final losers.

[wexico14]

@Bandage I have no idea what the craic is here? Why drop him off panel now if he was playing for Rathnure last weekend, and according to reports he played well. I was at all league games and Jack pucked around with the subs and sat on the bench, he was definitely part of the panel for league.

[Bandage]

Yep, came on and got an important late long range free against Cork before his injury too.

[Bandage]

Is it this week the squad’s in Portugal? Is that why Seoirse Bulfin and the injured David Dunne represented us at the championship launch today?

[wexico14]

I think they fly out tomorrow. Bulfin was certainly dressed for warm weather. How are the other injured players coming along?

[Breaking_my_balls]

When is Bulfin not dressed for warm weather, the bollix is never out of shorts

[anon61956325]

Davy must have over 2m spent by now — I believe the Wexford lads are nearing 6000 days straight training/playing … think they hit it next Tuesday.

[padjo]

No idea @Bandage, sorry

[padjo]

So much for April being for clubs

My club’s first championship game was postponed at the start of the month. Game was meant to be played in Ferns at 2pm, but they cancelled it at 11am (after lads had travelled from Cork, Galway and Dublin). Ostensibly because pitch was unplayable, however, they somehow manged to play two other games in Ferns later that day. Club were fuming. General belief was that they cancelled our game because neither club have anyone on the hurling panel and so a late April re-fixture wouldn’t clash with the training camp abroad. Match was re-fixed for this Friday evening. Low and behold they’ve gone an cancelled it again. This time because it clashes with a Wexford senior footballers versus Wexford U-20 footballers practise game. For Fucksake

[Aristotle]

[quote=“padjo, post:35, topic:25991, full:true”]This time because it clashes with a Wexford senior footballers versus Wexford U-20 footballers practise game. For Fucksake
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Ah lads…

To be fair to the Limerick County Board + both senior managements; we have managed to run 2 rounds of hurling & 2 rounds of football in April.

We didn’t have access to all county players during that time, the Limerick hurlers were on a training camp 2 weeks ago and the footballers were back training fully once the rounds of football were over. But look, they’re less than a month out from Championship, they obviously need to prepare too. The April thing in general is a disaster, but I think they’ve made the best of a bad situation here tbh.

[Appendage]

You couldn’t make it up. That u20 v senior thing is a disgraceful reason to cancel a club championship match.

[balbec]

Woolly was on about that on the podcast. He rang the Wexford county board for an explanation. They hummed and hawed a bit.

[flattythehurdler]

[Bandage]

No new injury concerns for Wexford according to the local press. O’Hanlon has been back in full training after missing some club championship matches after the end of the league with a knee injury. He wasn’t quite at his best in the league so hopefully he’s injury free. David Dunne has/had an ankle problem for a while so not sure if he’s ready. What will our starting team be? It’s a disgrace that we haven’t a team listed between us compared to the activity of the Limerick posters. Liam Rushe v Liam Ryan should be interesting on Sunday.

[Wexford1996]

Think Willie Devereux is ruled out so Donohoe and Reck will be the 2 corner backs. Won’t be any major surprises I believe.