Drink driving is wrong and if he was stupid enough then he deserves the punishment that comes with it. Same thing happened Larry OāGorman when he was still on the hurling panel.
MBB - the sun would make any type of a story out of anything. Shows how little readership is has among the likes of us when you were the only one that saw it. The only time Iād ever read a rag like that would be when Iām waiting to get my haircut and its either the sun or some womens mag.
[quote=āMacā]Drink driving is wrong and if he was stupid enough then he deserves the punishment that comes with it. Same thing happened Larry OāGorman when he was still on the hurling panel.
MBB - the sun would make any type of a story out of anything. Shows how little readership is has among the likes of us when you were the only one that saw it. The only time Iād ever read a rag like that would be when Iām waiting to get my haircut and its either the sun or some womens mag.[/quote]
Its funny, cos I picked it up as I waited at a Deli Counter yesterday, the queue was long so I ran through the back pages pretty quickly and had to revert to the front pages then.
Complete fucking rag. Knew I guy n college who now writes for them, theyāre well suited.
Wexford team for NFL game against Kildare in Newbridge on Sunday:
A Masterson,
D Walsh, P Wallace, B Malone,
D Carter, A Doyle, C Morris,
B Doyle, D Fogarty,
A Flynn, S Cullen, C Byrne,
C Lyng, P Colfer, M Forde.
That defence is pretty weak looking yet again.
Iād be worried about the half forward lines especially. Is that Andreas Doyle at centre back? We are fucked if he starts there.
Yep, Aindreas Doyle is centre back. Jason Ryan has picked dummy teams for the first two league games (which seems completely needless to me by the way) so itās not a definite starting side.
Wouldnāt be suprised to see diarmaid kinsella togging out there, Andreas is way too small for that position
who is the carter fella playin wing backā¦
Damian Carter of St Patās, Ballyoughter. He didnāt feature in the OāByrne Cup but showed up well for the Gorey District in those trials before Christmas. He played up in Monaghan and was one of the better defenders apparently.
Good Counsel College(New Ross) play favourites Birr CS in the Leinster Colleges A Hurling semi final at Nowlan Park,Kilkenny tomorrow at 1pm.This GCC outfit is the first challenging for hurling honours for a long while which is dominated by Wexford hurlers,they have 9 on the starting 15.The other 6 are made up of 5 Kilkenny men,Joe Lyng and James Cassin(Rower/Inistioge),Ian Duggan(Mullinavat),Walter Walsh(Tullogher/Rosbercon) and Ger Aylward(Glenmore).Carlow have a sole representative in goalkeeper Keiran Kehoe(St Mullins),the Kilkenny lads will be crucial here imo,only joking i dont know much about the Wexford contingent other than that Matt O Hanlon is a class act and that ML O Hanlon is a huge loss to GCCs set up,ill be there anyway,anyone else going?
is Michael OāHanlon still not back playing after his illness over Christmasā¦ from what i gather from reading reports most of the GCC team were on the loosing side in the Football final against Edenderry last week so will be eager to win this one
when is the new geansai on sale ?
March 14th if you pre-order with sports savers you can win a set of all-ireland tickets
Kildare 2-16 Wexford 0-8
So, another hiding today and Wexford were utter scutter yet again. Basic errors, poor decision making, bad execution of skills and questionable workrate were features of the performance and itās pretty concerning that weāve been well below par in all the league games so far.
Brendan Doyle and Matty Forde were unavailable through injury so Eric Bradley and PJ Banville came into the team and we made a few positional changes too so our starting line-up was:
Masterson,
Walsh, Wallace, Carter,
A Doyle, Malone, Morris,
Bradley, Fogarty,
Byrne, Colfer, Flynn,
Lyng, Cullen, Banville.
We went three points down early on and Anthony Mastersonās kick-outs were contributory factors for two of them. Gradually, we began to settle and Shane Cullen and Collie Byrne got us on the board and there was a period of stalemate for a while but we completely collapsed in the 15 minutes before half time.
Stray handpasses out of defence resulted in giveaway points and the concession of sloppy frees allowed Johnny Doyle to add to his tally too. He also got a few from play and was giving David Walsh quite a torrid time and the lead had been pushed out to 0-10 to 0-3 just before half time when we conspired to hand them a goal.
Collie Byrne won a free near midfield and a few of our defenders sprang forward to make themselves available for a pass but he pretty inexplicably screwed it straight to a Kildare player standing right in front of him. They were able to carry it forward and, with our players caught ahead of the ball, they drew the last defenders before popping it to Alan Smith. The former Arsenal striker made no mistake slotting it past Masterson.
Half time, Kildare 1-10 Wexford 0-3 and it was insipid rubbish from us. The first five minutes of the second half was the only period of the game where we showed anything approaching an acceptable standard and we kicked the first three points but it was a false dawn.
Doyle won and scored a couple of frees to settle Kildare down and Callaghan and OāNeill pointed too and they were coasting midway through the second half. Doyleās final tally was actually 0-11, with 0-4 from play. Wexford didnāt rally or threaten a fightback in the latter stages, even after they had a lad sent off, and the game was petering out when Eamonn Callaghan rose to fist a free that was dropping short into the top corner.
All in all, we didnāt defend well enough, were too sloppy in possession and didnāt carve out that many opportunities either. We conceded several cheap frees and gave scores away with misplaced passes in our own half and from sloppy kick outs. We spent far too much time passing the ball laterally and carrying it into contact and the inside forwards struggled to create space and long deliveries were generally mopped up by the Kildare defence.
Scorers: Shane Cullen (0-3, 0-2F), Paddy Colfer (0-2, 0-1F), Ciaran Lyng (0-2), Collie Byrne (0-1).
Damian Carter and Aindreas Doyle performed decently enough and Philip Wallace made a solid return. Colm Morris tried to carry the fight to them but he was troubled by Callaghanās pace. We didnāt offer much threat upfront but Paddy Colfer worked very hard.
Weāll certainly be relegated on this form but three of our remaining four games are at home so thereās a possibility of escaping the drop, albeit a small one. But we need a performance pretty quickly to give our season some positive momentum.
Itās been said that weāre the only county not to start training before January so maybe its having an effect as were probably only doing the heavy stuff now when most have theirs for months now. Still, disappointing that we are so sloppy. Our decision making seems to be poor but weāve chopped and changed our players so maybe itās time to start settling on a team to avoid relegation.
Jason Ryanās been using that excuse but we were training in the closed period too.
Well we donāt seem to be fit. Ger Doyle mentioned it also at the Chelt Preview the other night. Donāt know what to believe. Hope we get it right for the Summer.
Gerās happy to go with Jasonās spin and heās living off the glory of appointing him given how our year went last year. I think weāre seeing that we lack strength in depth and I definitely donāt think these performances can be ascribed purely to fitness. The attitude wasnāt great today and the commitment was questionable in Clones too apparently.
I dunno what to believe. It was the reason Bealin left in the first place wasnāt it? CB called for training to be started in January last year as theyād heard HQ were going to bring it in in the future and so started the fall out with the Dub.
in better news for the county Good Counsel College are in the Leinster Final in the Hurling after a good win over favourites Birr CS yesterday
Good jesus what a hiding. Kildare are awful muck.
Dublin to win leinster is 5/4. Price should be 1/2