disparage me all you want, but lay off the great man.
The smashing new Wexford jersey is available for purchase on the O’Neill’s website.
From the little I can see, I’d agree wit this. Its Cavan away @Bandage.
Giloppy - are you based in Sydney (looking at your avatar?)
[quote=“Fitzy, post: 901593, member: 236”]From the little I can see, I’d agree wit this. Its Cavan away @Bandage.
Giloppy - are you based in Sydney (looking at your avatar?)[/quote]
If you count New Ross as being away then yes it’s Cavan away, Fitzy…
Can’t agree with you Kev. While he did a lot for tipp, he also fucked a lot up. Players hated him and were disillusioned by him after the first year. I know they got double promotion and he has to get credit for that but overall I wouldn’t rate him. His treatment of senior players was nothing short of disgraceful. I could go on but it winds me up no end when people say how good he was for tipp.
@stevie G, what time are you picking me up on Sunday? It’s a long old spin up to Ballycastle. 2pm throw-in.
I stand corrected, looks like we don’t actually play them in Cavan, though I’m taking my information from gaa.ie so its bound to be wrong.
[quote=“Fitzy, post: 901593, member: 236”]From the little I can see, I’d agree wit this. Its Cavan away @Bandage.
Giloppy - are you based in Sydney (looking at your avatar?)[/quote]
Ah he’s hardly in Sydney looking at his avatar. I’d say he has better things to be doing.
He was good for Laune Rangers and the people of South Kerry loved him for it.
His success rate is phenomenal. And he developed everywhere he went, not just training a team and taking the cash.
However if he got to big for his boots or arrogant about it then that’s no good either, and you’d know a lot more about it than me. I’ll take a PM if you get time. My Tipp football man loved him, but that was way back at the start.
Immensely looking forward to Sunday’s game. Aside from our final match, this is our most difficult encounter and Wexford need to win it to ensure that the last game away to Cork will be the promotion shoot-out we’re all expecting.
Unfortunately we have a number of injury concerns for Sunday. We’ll be without the Oulart trio of Sinnott (hamstring), Redmond (hip) and Moore (ankle). Podge Doran (calf) and Conor McDonald (medial knee ligaments) will also be absent along with long term injury victim Tomas Waters (cruciate knee ligament).
But we have several talented players returning like O’Hanlon, O’Keeffe, McGovern and Tomkins. And a clutch of last year’s provincial under-21 winning side including Chin and Byrne are on board also to complement mainstays like Rossiter, Kenny and Morris. Andrew Shore missed the Leinster game last weekend with an ankle injury but I’m not sure if he’s available.
We won’t be naming a team until later in the week (if at all) due to a series of college fixtures taking place midweek.
That’s mid-Kerry.
[quote=“Bandage, post: 901730, member: 9”]Immensely looking forward to Sunday’s game. Aside from our final match, this is our most difficult encounter and Wexford need to win it to ensure that the last game away to Cork will be the promotion shoot-out we’re all expecting.
Unfortunately we have a number of injury concerns for Sunday. We’ll be without the Oulart trio of Sinnott (hamstring), Redmond (hip) and Moore (ankle). Podge Doran (calf) and Conor McDonald (medial knee ligaments) will also be absent along with long term injury victim Tomas Waters (cruciate knee ligament).
But we have several talented players returning like O’Hanlon, O’Keeffe, McGovern and Tomkins. And a clutch of last year’s provincial under-21 winning side including Chin and Byrne are on board also to complement mainstays like Rossiter, Kenny and Morris. Andrew Shore missed the Leinster game last weekend with an ankle injury but I’m not sure if he’s available.
We won’t be naming a team until later in the week (if at all) due to a series of college fixtures taking place midweek.[/quote]
Conor Lehane will score more than all Wexford combined in that game. There is a massive gap in standard.
[quote=“Bandage, post: 901730, member: 9”]Immensely looking forward to Sunday’s game. Aside from our final match, this is our most difficult encounter and Wexford need to win it to ensure that the last game away to Cork will be the promotion shoot-out we’re all expecting.
Unfortunately we have a number of injury concerns for Sunday. We’ll be without the Oulart trio of Sinnott (hamstring), Redmond (hip) and Moore (ankle). Podge Doran (calf) and Conor McDonald (medial knee ligaments) will also be absent along with long term injury victim Tomas Waters (cruciate knee ligament).
But we have several talented players returning like O’Hanlon, O’Keeffe, McGovern and Tomkins. And a clutch of last year’s provincial under-21 winning side including Chin and Byrne are on board also to complement mainstays like Rossiter, Kenny and Morris. Andrew Shore missed the Leinster game last weekend with an ankle injury but I’m not sure if he’s available.
We won’t be naming a team until later in the week (if at all) due to a series of college fixtures taking place midweek.[/quote]
Didnt you hear? Division 1B has already been decided for the most part
[SIZE=4]No plan B in lopsided league[/SIZE]
Tuesday, February 11, 2014
It’s become a custom of the National League’s fixture makers to start the competition with a bang.
http://www.irishexaminer.com/media/images/h/HurlingSliotar.jpghttp://media.tcm.ie/media/house/ieauthors/johnfogarty.jpgBy John Fogarty
GAA CorrespondentJust as pitting Clare and Kilkenny, last year’s All-Ireland and Division 1 champions, against one another is the kind of fixture to whet the appetite, there would also appear to be plenty of logic in commencing Division 1B with a meeting of its two best teams, Cork and Limerick.
Just how big a deal is Saturday’s game? Enough for dual players Aidan Walsh and Eoin Cadogan to miss the footballers’ round two clash with Kildare, that’s how big.
Even though Brian Cuthbert stated he was satisfied those dividing their commitments would prioritise football, clearly Jimmy Barry-Murphy has persuaded his equivalent to make an exception.
Be under no illusions — what happens in Páirc Uí Rinn in four days’ time is worthy of an amendment to the bilateral agreement. Whoever wins will all but likely be promoted to Division 1A next season.
Presumptuous, you cry? Not as much as you might think. As there is no final this year, the team that finishes top after the five rounds is automatically promoted as well as picking up one of the four Division 1B quarter-final spots. The new competition regulation might suit Limerick who beat Dublin last year in the league proper only to lose out to them in the promotion final.
In 2011, they won all seven rounds as well as the final against Clare to earn a return to the top flight, but were then recast in a structural re-jig to Division 1B.
This is Limerick’s fourth season in the secondary division and since 2011 they have won 14 of 17 round games, losing just one. Being confined to Division 1B has become for them a bore as much as a chore.
Cork, meanwhile, face the other two teams likely to reach the quarters, Wexford and Offaly, at home. The long trip to Ballycastle in Antrim on March 16 might be a little tricky but nothing close to be anything beyond them.
If they begin this campaign as hot as they did last season’s at the same venue against Tipperary, they can start rubbing their hands at the prospect of rejoining the top table.
No competition worth its salt should be decided on its first day but the combination of a poorly thought-out format and fixture planning means barring a draw on Saturday the Division 1B winners will almost surely be known before 9pm that evening. For the losers there will be the consolation of a quarter-final place against Division 1A opposition. However, it will hardly act as compensation for the dread of another season in the lower tier.
The same prize is also on offer to the two teams who finish below them. Last year, Wexford finished fourth, winning just two of their five games. In 2012, it was Antrim when they lost three matches and finished with a score difference of minus 14 points. It makes a mockery of the league that such mediocrity will be rewarded with qualification to the knockout stages; that they should gain entry ahead of two teams who have been competing at a higher level and earned the right to do so. Expect a couple of lopsided results when the quarter-finals take place on March 30.
Sadly, that is what last year’s league mess has brought us. GAA director general Páraic Duffy was right to call for another look at this flawed structure, but in the end there were too many options for counties to consider such as the Michael Burns blueprint and the Carlow-Westmeath proposal.
In his annual report last month, Duffy wrote: “I accept the criticism that the process might have been handled better, but the uachtarán and I were striving to establish a wide consensus on the best structure for the league. One positive outcome is that we now have stability for a period of three years.”
The fact this system is in place until 2016 is nothing to cheer about. Cork and Limerick supporters are no fools. They’ll congregate in their droves in Páirc Uí Rinn because they and the players realise what’s on the line.
But when it’s settled, will there be much more to keep them engaged in a league their teams are too good for? Division 1B may start with a bang but the rest of it will be a whimper.
- Email: john.fogarty@examiner.ie
Has anyone seen the new Wexford jersey up close and/or held it and/or worn it? How tight is it? Trying to figure out what size to order. It’s a really cracking jersey. 
The people from the area consider themselves to be from south kerry.
Will win an all star this year of he continues to play the way he is at the moment.
Certainly seems to fulfilling some of his potential alright. As I said before, something dawned on him after the drawn final and he realised he really is up to it.
Not in a football sense I can assure you.