Confirmation bias. RTE is riddled with it.
Its very hard to get things out of your head about a team or a player when you start believe it.
Very important point. These lads are not analysts. They are pub talkers
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Whats Keith Rossiters role? Is he injured or just helping out?
Davy took out the only analyst who might give away his secrets
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Heās a part time defensive coach. Heās still hurling with Oulart so apparently didnāt have time to come on board full time. He finished up playing with Wexford in 2014 if I recall correctly.
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Iām sure whoever was looking after the Wexford Gaa twitter account doing score updates would have seen Duignanās tweet.
People wondering how Davy got wind of the tweet so quickly 
It seems to me that teams that deploy sweeper have a greater proportion of wides than those that do not. Maybe that is because you have backs and midfielders taking shots from long range than actual attackers.
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I liked Duignanās use of the word āsinisterā.
Makes Davy sound like a Bond villain. Can picture him at home stroking a cat as he ponders his next move.
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Duignan came across as very rattled this morning. He was trying to play it down but veered into rant mode fairly quickly - heās obviously been seething about this since Sunday.
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Or they do not practice the scenarios and conditiins enough. I donāt believe misses has anything to do with the position you play. Its are you willing to (or alliwed to) practice those most likely scenarios.
Duirmuid Sullivan was a full back but was very accurate at no.11 for Cloyne. Why? He practiced shooting.
I think its that simple. You play how you practice, especially in terms of what you can control.
It made for an enjoyable drive to work anyway.
Duignan got the small talk about Barrett and the U-21 match out of the way quickly.
Then when it came to Davy - ālook, we donāt have much time and I donāt want to get into a tit for tat row about itā before proceeding to do just exactly that as he went on about it for a few minutes.
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In Wexfords case last weekend the wides were most annoying as the shooters more often than not had players running off them. If the shots hit wide had been passed on again I think Wexford could have caused WDās fb line trouble.
I wouldnāt be overly harsh of the sweeper system for those wides as it is basically down to poor decision making but to be fair the team are working a new system. They will improve with it next season.
It could well be that, but as Kev points out, it might not be training enough with shooting. It still astounds me, at all levels, that there is such a distinct lack of shooting incorporated into trainings. The aim of the game is to train, yet teams will go out and do a hape of small sided games working possession, tackling drills, passing drills, but in terms of actual shooting, never have game scenarios to have players shooting often during training.
On Sunday, at one stage Wexford had 5 shots drop short. The players who dropped them short were Murphy (sweeper) Morris, Guiney, (forwards) Chin, O Connor (midfield/forwards). Thats just from recollection. There were plenty of wides, but Iād say for the most part, it was forwards who hit the wides. Chin hit one particularly bad wide when he had a free player in a better position to lay the ball off to. As mentioned above, sometimes it is just incorrect decision making rather than an incorrect player taking the shot.
This is up on the rte1 site now
Wasnt apparent from the press conference. Its available in full on a NT podcast from after the game with oisin langan and tommy walsh. I cant recall 100% but i think davy brought it up himself
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Who is wondering? Duignan is the only person wondering
Duignan is really looking an utter idiot in all this. He had a chance to whitewash Davy and make him look like a fool, but instead is looking a dope himself. Him continuing on in it is only making it better for Davy. Utterly seething over the whole thing and makes Davy look calm and measured with his responses. Davy thinks they should analyse better and realise the game changes. Duignan is going on about underage games he is coaching and paying for his children in college.
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Davy has rattled the living shit out of the gormless fuckwit.
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Thatās it in a nutshell. Babbling on about losing his business and having to put the kids through college.
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That was at 1-12 to 0-13 with Eoin Moore having careered forward from defence (cc @Michael Duignan) and in acres of space just outside him around 30 yards out. Moore would have been able to pop it over like he did for our first score of the match when Rory OāConnor set him up or even try to work a goal chance. Waterford then responded with 3 points in succession.