Just reading on the supporters site there that Paul Roche has been dropped from the squad. Anyone have any more details on this?
Football team for the weekend vs MBBâs midland inbred coonts
Wexford Manager Jason Ryan has re-jigged his forwards for their NFL Division 2 bottom of the table clash with Laois.
Shane Roche returns for the first time in 2009 at wing forward. Adrian Flynn moves from corner forward to centre forward while Paddy Colfer also comes into to the full forward line. Those to lose out are Shane Cullen, Graeme Molloy and Thomas Howlin.
Wexford (NFL v Laois) - Anthony Masterson, Damian Carter, Philip Wallace, Brian Malone, Colm Morris, David Murphy, Aindreas Doyle, Brendan Doyle, David Fogarty, Shane Roche, Adrian Flynn, Diarmuid Kinsella, Ciarn Lyng, Paddy Colfer, Matty Forde
Hurling team for the weekend. Gizzy and Quigley donât start. M Jacob back in midfield. Would worry for him there.
Wexford have rung the changes for their NHL Division 2 game with Down on Sunday.
Andrew Shore and Paul Carley are retained after performing well against Westmeath last weekend. David âDocâ OâConnor is handed the full back slot with Richie Kehoe moving to the wing back. Eoin Quigley and Diarmuid âGizzyâ Lyng have to settle for a place on the bench.
Peter Atkinson is named at corner forward with Nicky Kirwan the one to lose out.
Wexford (NHL v Down) - Damien Fitzhenry, Brendan OâLeary, David OâConnor, Malachy Travers, Richie Kehoe, Stephen Nolan, Ciarn Kenny, Colm Farrell, Michael Jacob, Stephen Doyle, Andrew Shore, Paul Carley, Rory Jacob, Stephen Banville, Peter Atkinson
Hope to fook its temporary or a dummy team or something.
Tis ball winning forwards that we need, the return of Stamp and Rossy will help the backs, so what the hell is Stephen Nolan doing at centre back (I know he plays there for UCD) Get him under puck outs in the half forward line. (although I think Full forward is the spot of him)
Glad to see Shore get a few games, championship might be a bit to soon for him this year in the end.
If Down put more than 2-12 up us, then we need to dismantle the team and possibly stop playing hurling in Wexford forever.
scalder had this posted on the Wex Supportersâ website. Not sure of the source:
[SIZE=2]Experimentation continues as hurlers chase final spot
By Ronan Fagan
WHILE THEIR own close-shave against Westmeath allied to Carlow shocking of Antrim has put the Wexford hurlers back in control of their own fate in the National League, manager Colm Bonnar says he wont be just rolling out the big guns in the next few games in order to get the job done.
Antrims slip up down in Carlow saw them topple from second to fourth spot in Division 2 on five points, with Wexford (+37) recovering from their third round loss to the Glens-men to regain secondplace from Laois (-2) on points-difference, with Offaly top on a maximum eight-points.
Thus, with Wexford following next Sundays clash away to Down with home games against Offaly and Carlow, the Slaneysiders are in a strong position to seal a Division 2 final clash with Offaly and only one team will be promoted.
Although victory over Down could ultimately be crucial in that regard, Bonnar insists that Wexford cannot afford to neglect some emerging talent by instead packing their lines with more experienced figures. Looking back to last Sundays game, he points out that: Andrew Shore came in to the team unexpectedly when Toms Waters injured himself in training.
It was a big opportunity for Shore, especially considering hes only just coming out of minor. But he did exceptionally well, and that is the response were looking for from the players if someone is on the sideline for two or three games and then gets the opportunity, they must be positive and have a genuine cut at it.
We are carrying 30 players on the panel, and it is hugely important that we bring more of them into the games, because we cannot have a situation where weve only been focussing on 15 players and yet when it comes to a championship game against the likes of Offaly that well be found wanting.
This is all a huge learningcurve for all of us, and well ensure that were properly armed for the months ahead.
Well be fielding four of five more of the new players against Down, and then selecting a stronger team against Offaly, consisting of the players who have shown up best for us during the league.
But the game against Down is hugely important, he adds with regard to a side who followed their opening day home defeat to Antrim (1-18 to 0-16) with victory away to Westmeath (4-18 to 4-10), before falling back into the relegation trap with losses away to Laois (1-13 to 010) and home to Offaly (221 to 0-14).
We need to beat Down so as to help set up the crunch clash with Offaly (the group tie in Wexford Park on April 5th). But, when we see Carlow beating Antrim it shows just how competitive this group is, so well need to very sharp against Down.
The selectors tried some of Wexfords up-and-coming talent against Westmeath, and with Bonnar pointing out that we had to call on some of our bigger guns in the end to steady the ship, he wants to see much greater focus from now on. We were happy being up by seven points at half-time against Westmeath. But they really rattled us in the second half, and our composure left us for a while. That is definitely a cause for concern because when an opposition gets a run on you it can be very hard to turn the tide again.
Wexford and Down havent clashed in the small-ball game since the National League of 2007, when Wexford romped to a facile 3-31 to 0-6 home victory in Division 1A.
That was a campaign which saw the Slaneysiders eventually finish third, while Down were relegated on zero points.
The Ardsmen also endured a forgettable campaign in that years Christy Ring Cup (secondary All-Ireland championship) when managing only one win out of four qualifying games, beating Mayo, but losing to Westmeath, Kerry and Meath.
Under the charge of former Antrim boss Jim McKernan, they improved last year to make the Division 2 semi-finals in the League. In the group stages they beat Armagh, Meath and London, while losing to Derry and drawing with Carlow. They then bit the dust in the last four against Westmeath (2-24 to 2-15). [/SIZE]
[quote=âMenapianâ]scalder had this posted on the Wex Supportersâ website. Not sure of the source:
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Itâs The Echo, not sure if any other paper would have the bould Ronan Fagan
Apparently the People are after him. Rumours that contract negotiations with Alan Ahearne have broken down.
Iâd imagine that Ronan Fagan will soon make the step up to one of the national dailies. I also reckon it must be annoying having a surname that people regularly misspell - take Alan Aherne for example.
Heard Eoin Quigley is out for the year after damaging his knee in training Thursday night. Another disaster
Yep, heâs done both his cruciate and medial ligaments and with that goes our chances of winning the All Ireland this year.
In more positive news, Good Counsel are through to the All Ireland Senior âAâ Colleges hurling final after beating Gort Community school today. 1-12 to 0-11 according to South East Radio.
Was hoping Gort would win thatâŚFuck it anyway
Thurles won the other semi beating Castlecomer by 11 or 12 pointsâŚthey have a serious team by all accounts and will be hard betâŚ
Ah FFS! 
Another awful performance and heavy defeat today. We were completely out of sorts again and were in trouble all over the park and got what we deserved. Our scoring difference is now -62 after 6 games so thereâs not even the consolation of being on the wrong side of some tight matches. Weâre basically getting the shit kicked out of us, weâre playing terribly and weâre also not trying hard enough.
We lined up like this:
Masterson,
Wallace, Carter, Malone,
Morris, D Murphy, N Murphy,
D Bradley, Fogarty,
Roche, Flynn, Kinsella,
Lyng, Colfer, Forde.
Wallace moved to the corner to pick up Kingston, with Carter taking Munnelly. Niall Murphy and David Bradley started instead of Aindreas Doyle and Brendan Doyle respectively.
We played with a strong wind behind us in the first half and Forde kicked a lovely point from our first attack and you thought weâd go on from there. Unfortuntely, he became bad Matty for the rest of the game and spent most of it acting petulantly and needs to cop the fook on.
We were 1-3 to 0-5 down at half time, which was always going to leave us in trouble facing the elements in the second half. Our handling was poor and so was our decision making. We also spent large chunks of the game passing the ball laterally and backwards and werenât incisive enough at all.
Kingston got their first goal when Masterson could only parry/fist a point attempt that was dropping short out to the edge of the square and the big child rifled a first time volley back past him.
We briefly showed a bit of determination after the break and were battling away at 1-6 to 0-7 but then their second goal killed the game. Tierney played a lovely pass from a free at half way over the top with the outside of his foot and the wing back McMahon, who had bombed forward, collected it at pace and buried it.
He scored 1-2 from play and that characterised Wexfordâs workrate. Shane Roche kicked a couple of good points but thereâs absolutely no excuse for not being arsed tracking back. The goal came from a free as well and there was a stoppage before it was taken and yer man was running forward with Roche lagging 10 yards behind him. I know itâs singling him out but the effort was again questionable all over the park.
Darren Foran kicked a couple of points to bring us back to 2-9 to 0-9 but they popped over another raft of points before the end to run out comfortable winners. Foran had replaced Lyng very early on after he got a yellow for shouldering one of their defenders through the advertising hoarding after yer man had already fumbled the ball over the sideline.
Our scorers were: Forde 0-4 (0-3F), Roche 0-3 (0-2F), Foran 0-2, Kinsella 0-1.
There was no real positives to take out of the game, Iâm afraid. The full back line toiled away and you couldnât really blame them for the score Laois ran up. The problems were everywhere else around the field. David Murphy showed some steel and fight and had a good game. Nobody else was up to much. I was just looking at the league table and, if my calculations are corrrect, I donât think we can get promotion now. However, I believe itâs actually crucial that we beat Fermanagh in our last game just to end this losing streak before the championship. Thatâs 9 defeats in a row in competitive games. Fooking hell.
Commiserations on the relegation fellas, two poor poor teams there yesterday.
summed it up there fairly well bandage. poor poor stuff. game started so slowly as well. Lyng was unfortunate to be yellow carded. Happened right in front of me. His man was fumbling the ball as he was going to the sideline, and lyng didnt even make full contact with him, just kinda nudged him, and the centre back was off balance and hopped off the hoarding and seriously injured himself. but Lyng went away and no Laois player or the ref said anything until they realised the Laois player was badly injured. So after the ref looked at the player, he decided to yellow card Lyng. It was a terrible injury, but a nothing tackle. The hoarding is about a meter away from the sideline so is far too close to the pitch.
Matty was at his usual shite complaining to the ref and trying ot get his man yellow carded. diving and going down easy and trying to get an easy free rather than play the ball. doesnt seem in any form at the moment and was substitued near the end.
One thing about hte league was that after such a poor start, I was hoping for some improvement, but it isnt happening whatsoever. Laois in the second half broke from our stupid passing and scored after making really quick breaks, whereas we were ambling around the middle doing fook all. The free in the second half on our 21 that Morris took quickly playing it backwards to one of their players and within 10 seconds over the bar at the far end summed up our day.
Is Jason Ryan under pressure at all lads ?
are Wexford just a summer team or were they just a flash in the pan?
shocking reversal for them this year so far.
Is it just Jason Ryan? Perhaps players are to blame, sitting back on last years achievements?