New Buggy is currently operating out of his old premises down the button of the town somewhere… although his other shop is closed for refurbishments at the minute… it was a good shop for a while but the last few years it was pure muck you wouldnt think of going in there for looking for sports gear hardly… unless it was a jersey…
I reckon I’m in a minority of not really caring what our jersey looks like. Anyone going to Clones or Wexford Park on Sunday?
was hoping to get to Wexford park but not looking like i will again this week… unless plans happen to change
Fair enough, you’d only end up watching Zane and Dayne cutting loose.
Football team for the weekend thanks to Puke
Wexford (NFL v Monaghan) - Anthony Masterson, David Walsh, Philip Wallace, Brian Malone, Colm Morris (Capt), Paddy Colfer, Shane Cullen, Brendan Doyle, David Fogarty, Adrian Flynn, Diarmuid Kinsella, Collie Byrne, Ciarn Deely, PJ Banville, Matty Forde.
Comments?
Good to see Philly Wallace back. Still doesnt resolve the problem of who plays if he’s gone. Good to see Kinsella starting. Cullen at wing back is a strange one. He’s played there before but is a much better forward. Wouldnt be surprised to see him and Collie Byrne switching positions. Presume Deely will be corner forward in number only?
Hurlers are unchanged for the Laois game.
Couldnt give a toss how the jerseys look and wont be able to make either game this weekend.
[quote=“Mac”]Football team for the weekend thanks to Puke
Comments?
Good to see Philly Wallace back. Still doesnt resolve the problem of who plays if he’s gone. Good to see Kinsella starting. Cullen at wing back is a strange one. He’s played there before but is a much better forward. Wouldnt be surprised to see him and Collie Byrne switching positions. Presume Deely will be corner forward in number only?
Hurlers are unchanged for the Laois game.
Couldnt give a toss how the jerseys look and wont be able to make either game this weekend.[/quote]
And Paddy Colfer at centre back-hasn’t played intercounty there for a while.
Thinking of heading to Clones alright and no way the team picked will be be the one starting. Good to see Walsh and Wallace back in the fold all the same.
seriously
U21 Football Result:
Wexford 0-4 Kildare 0-17.
Fook sake. After all my talk about how Kildare were certainties and free money at 1/2, I forgot to back them this morning.
The game completely slipped my mind until I got a text about the result.
Seems pretty shambolic really.
Facile win for the hurlers over Laois in front of a paltry attendance at Wexford Park today, 4-22 to 1-13 and it could’ve been a wider margin. I don’t think i’ve ever witnessed a team as ahambolic as that Laois team. Utterly incompetent and devoid of any desire to make a game of it. The fact that our defence leaked 1-13 to a team who looked like they’d barely have the motivation to get out of bed in the morning shows that we’re no world beaters either, but then it’s difficult to maintain focus against such a pathetic outfit. I hope Bonnar has some good challenge games lined up for after the league because outings like today will tell him very little.
Richie Kehoe was solid although he didn’t have a lot to do. Doc was his usual timid self under the high balls and failed to dominate. Colm Kelly was decent and made a good few powerful runs forward to score / set up scores. Stephen Doyle was masterful at times. He took some great scores and his vision was quality as he picked out numerous clever passes. Quigley, Gizzy and Rory Jacob worked some nice scores with little crossfield passes and intelligent runs but they were given a ridiculous amount of time and space to do it.
It will be the Offaly championship game before we can ascertain if there’s been any improvement.
[SIZE=3]From today’s Indo:[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]Wexford stroll unveils worrying gap in standard[/SIZE]
WEXFORD 4-22 LAOIS 1-14
Monday February 16 2009
WEXFORD humiliated Laois as they cruised to a 17-point victory in a hugely one-sided encounter at Wexford Park yesterday afternoon.
Although it was a second successive victory for the Model County side, it was a sloppy second-half performance after a hugely-impressive opening 15 minutes that left Laois wondering what hit them.
The game was over as a contest inside nine minutes, by which stage the home side led 2-3 to 0-1, the goals coming after three minutes and seven minutes through Rory Jacob and Nicky Kirwan.
Wexford did not have to exert themselves too much for the remainder of the game, but manager Colm Bonnar would have liked a more clinical second-half display. In saying that, it must have been difficult for the players knowing the points were secure at the break.
The Laois flag never fluttered, even briefly, as they were totally outplayed, and at no stage did they ever look like salvaging anything from this game. Their overall display must have been a huge disappointment to manager Niall Rigney, as he saw his side struggle with even the simple things where, poor ball control, wayward striking, and a lack of cohesiveness hampered their play.
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Wexford corner-forward Stephen Doyle pointed inside 60 seconds, when he should have found the net, while Stephen Barnville added a second point one minute later.
Within 30 seconds, Eoin Quigley picked out Rory Jacob in space, and the corner-forward easily beat 'keeper Patrick Mullaney from close range. Wexford were in total control, with Colm Farrell pointing, before Nicky Kirwan goaled after Mullaney had beaten out a Diarmuid Lyng shot, leaving the home side leading 2-3 to 0-0 after just seven minutes.
Most of the hurling was coming from Wexford, with Laois eventually opening their account through a Brian Campion pointed free after nine minutes.
The Wexford dominance was to continue to the break, however, by which stage they led by 2-13 to 0-8.
It was apparent early in the second half that the trend was to continue as Laois had not the skill levels or any influential players to spark a recovery. Although substitute Zane Keenan pointed within two minutes of the restart, Wexford responded with a point from a Lyng free and one from play from Jacob, before they added their third goal in the 42 minute, when Kirwan pounced to find the net after 'keeper Mullaney beat away a low Eoin Quigley shot, leaving the home side with a 3-15 to 0-9 lead.
There were to be no positives for Laois, for within one minute Jacob added his side’s fourth goal. Laois did manage a goal on 46 minutes when a low cross-shot from Willie Hyland beat Dermot Flynn, reducing the deficit to 4-15 to 1-10.
Laois were largely overrun at midfield where David Redmond and Colm Farrell were in control for the home side, and with Bonnar using his full compliment of substitutes, it was the Model men who held sway to the finish as they continued to pick off scores at will.
They were allowed the freedom of the pitch in a hugely disappointing contest played out before no more than five hundred spectators.
While Bonnar will be grateful for the points he must wonder, with such a dearth of real competition in Division 2, how his side will be able to raise their game for the big championship tests ahead. For Rigney and Laois, however, it’s very much back to the drawing board.
- WEXFORD 4-22 LAOIS 1-14
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From today’s IT:
NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE DIVISION TWO:
Monaghan 2-17 Wexford 1-12:
MONAGHAN MADE it two victories from two outings in Division Two when they proved much too potent for Wexford in Clones yesterday. Monaghan effectively wrapped up things in a scintillating six-minutes spell midway through the final quarter when they blitzed Wexford with two goals and two points.
Prior to that the game was close enough but Monaghan seemed to have that bit more in reserve and when in full flight Wexford found them difficult to contain. Wexford enjoyed their best spells in the opening 10 minutes at the end of which they led by 1-2 to 0-1, Matty Forde crashing in the goal as the defence misjudged a centre by PJ Banville, and in the early part of the third quarter when they brought the margin down to two. After that early flurry Monaghan settled down and by the 19th minute they were level with four unanswered points between the 14th and 19th minutes.
The lead changed hands twice between the 20th and 26th minutes with Monaghan hitting another purple patch that yielded four points between the 28th and 31st minutes to open a four-point lead. An exchange of points between Forde and Conor McManus late in the first half gave Monaghan a four-point lead at half-time, 0-12 to 1-5.
McManus extended Monaghans lead to five points in the third minute of the second half but by the 12th minute Wexford had the margin down to two. That though was as close as it got as Monaghan took control, particularly at midfield, to fashion a strong period between the 19th and 28th minutes when they outscored the visitors by 2-3 to 0-1.
Paul McGuigan fisted in Monaghans opening goal in the 22nd minute, Tomas Freeman got their second five minutes later, with substitute Damien Freeman (2) and Rory Woods landing points. Wexford outscored Monaghan by three points to one in the final minutes.
MONAGHAN: P McBennett; D McArdle, V Corey, K Hughes; C McManus (0-3), G McEnaney (0-1), D Hughes; D Clerkin (0-1), E Lennon; S Gollogly (0-1), P Finlay (0-3, one free), M Downey; C Hanratty, R Woods (0-3), T Freeman (1-3). Subs: D Mone for K Hughes, D Freeman (0-2) for M Downey, P McGuigan (1-0) for C Hanratty, S Smith for P Finlay, B McKenna for T Freeman, M McNally for C McManus.
WEXFORD: A Masterson; D Walsh, D Carter, B Malone; C Morris, P Colfer, S Cullen; B Doyle, D Fogarty; A Flynn (0-1), D Kinsella (0-1), C Byrne (0-1); C Deely, PJ Banville (0-2), M Forde (1-6, one 45, one free). Subs: A Doyle for D Fogarty (yellow card), C Lyng (0-1) for D Kinsella, T Howlin for C Deely, B Brosnan for S Cullen, G Molloy for A Flynn, N Murphy for D Walsh.
Referee: M Sludden (Tyrone).
2 Lucky goals for Monaghan according to Spratt.
Still a very experimental team which is no harm I suppose but could do with picking up a win. Good to see Matty flying too.
We need to find defenders badly in football and we need to find players badly in hurling. I reckon we have about 8 or 9 really good footballers but about 6 of them are attack minded. We have a lot of players training with the panel but there’s a difference between having lots of players and having strength in depth. We’re quite lucky to have 4 of our 7 games at home and we’ll need to win at least 2 of them.
Wexford defeated Dublin in a senior hurling challenge in Ferns today. No other information to hand unfortunately. We’re away to Antrim next Sunday, which will be a test.
Not a bad result given Dublin’s current good form. Only a challenge match though, so there’s no point in Wex supporters getting carried away with ourselves.
Next Sunday away to Antrim will be the first real test for Bonnar’s management. Defeat in the same fixture last year set Wexford on the slippery slope to relegation.
I was chatting to a couple of fuckers who were in Clones last week and they said some of Forde’s points were sublime and it was a bit of a masterclass and one man salvo in defeat. What a player. Jason Ryan attributed the loss last week to not being as fit as Monaghan - I don’t think we should be lacking in fitness compared to other sides and I’d expect us to have a similar amount of work done.
I see that Good Counsel College beat St Peters in the Leinster Colleges A hurling 1/4 final on Friday,2-15 to 0-12 was the score,i dont know much about the game other than that Ger Aylward scored 1-3,a D Murphy scored 1-2 and my fellow Rower/Inistioge club man James Cashin hit 0-6.Anyone at this or have teams etc?
Think GMan was at it-if he’s about he’ll throw up a report.
Will Antrim have the Cushendall lads back for next weekend? How many of them would be on the Antrim team?