Quite a night indeed, a golden opportunity missed!
For me nights like that show up the sham that is to be passionate about a team you’ve no connection with, a la the epl or even the spl. Let hurling not be your sport - the eircom league is a joke because of you Bandage and your ilk. Ditch Man City and Celtic and get to Newcastle to follow the Youths.
Provincial rugby is fast losing whatever pride of people/place it once had but at least it has something - as opposed to the circus of Sky Sports who cater for people with an “affinity” to global corporations.
I fully recognise that I am an idiot but I’d like clarification as to what particular reason you are citing in this instance.
George O’Connor appears to be getting really stuck into the Director of Hurling role and with the U-14s and U-16s progessing nicely and the likes of Liam Dunne involved in coaching these teams there’s good reason to be optimistic.
Really don’t like Griffin and his ‘hurlers are warriors’ shite
Can cut you some slack because he led you to an All-Ireland and you will naturally look upon him in a favourable light.
To me though he just like Vincent Hogan and that Star ad where they talk of long ago where warriors played the ancient game and it was commented upon by the bards - now the warriors are hurlers and the bards are Ger Loughnane and Martin McHugh
Really don’t like Griffin and his ‘hurlers are warriors’ shite
Can cut you some slack because he led you to an All-Ireland and you will naturally look upon him in a favourable light.
To me though he just like Vincent Hogan and that Star ad where they talk of long ago where warriors played the ancient game and it was commented upon by the bards - now the warriors are hurlers and the bards are Ger Loughnane and Martin McHugh
Is fearr on Star
You’ve gone right down in my estimation with that comment Farmer, right down. Griffin is a legend and to put it in words for you to understand: he’s our Bob Paisley and Bill Shankly all in one.
Bandage - that speech is f**kin class, brings the hair up on the back of your neck. Unfortunately missed a great sporting weekend in the model county as I was in France researching training methods and looking for inspiration for our Astro league kick-off, but starting to feel some optimism for the coming summer.
That Wexford team always had the talent. But after years of near misses, misfortune and collapses their self esteem was nil. They had no belief. Most Wexford people consider the 1993 team as being better than the All-Ireland winning team. But confidence had hit rock bottom after losing the National Hurling League Final to Cork after 2 replays and then losing the Leinster Final to Kilkenny also after a replay when we were 4 points up with 5 minutes to go in the first game. It was going to take something special to build the players up. We felt inferior to the other counties, especially Kilkenny and Offaly, our main rivals in Offaly. We had no pride in ourselves. We had lost our passion. Who brought it back? It was Griffin.
He called on our history and heritage to show that we should have pride in ourselves. He infused us with belief and we came from the depths to win the ultimate prize. The man is a legend. Even when he resigned due to his wife’s ill-health we returned to win Leinster in 1997. Coming from 5 points down early in the 2nd half to beat Kilkenny by 6. These comebacks were going totally against the grain. It was meant to be Kilkenny doing that to us. But Griffin had instilled the belief and the pride in our jersey. Everything was set up to build a dynasty for the future. The shame is that the chance was lost.
But we are rising from the embers yet again. There is life in Wexford yet.