The problem is there’s a little committee largely made up of twee simpletons involved. One of the other gobshites was bestowed the “honour” of Hogan Stand doing an article to commend him for his very witty* tweets during the recent Wexford-Westmeath and Wexford-Laois double header.
*not actually witty.
I noticed that. While it was incredibly twee, it was at least a marginal step up on previous stuff.
Marginal at best.
I’m heading, bringing the to kids on their first trip to Croker. Heading more in hope than expectation, going on the league over-all I’d say Westmeath are probably 3-4 points the better team.
The team named looks a bit suspect, can’t see which of the forwards will play Banty’s top secret sweeper position.
Have a good day out regardless of the result buddy. Make sure you tell the kids you love them.
Dummy team so.
Will Curtis play that role or is he more of a link man who drops into deeper positions than an outright sweeper?
I think Curtis would be seen more as a link man, not sure he’d have the defensive nous/experience for the sweeper role. To date Banty has played either John Leacy (started wing forward) or James Stafford (started full forward) in the role. Who knows…
John Tubritt played county minor at centre back and was for the past couple of years playing there at club level too. Could be an option, although would be very surprised if he did drop back
Westmeath 1-11 Wexford 1-4. HT.
My first time bothering to go to see the senior footballers this season. A defensive system which doesn’t track runners, mark tightly or condense the space. Fairly grim. Westmeath are pouring through at their ease and could have another few scores. Sharry and Martin are having field days. It’s all slow and lateral for Wexford apart from Kevin O’Grady driving onto the ball at pace from wing back - he has 1-1. Really poor display so far though.
Woeful.
That was a terrible performance today. Presumably they’ve been much better in other games but it was way below the level required. They’d lose to Carlow in the championship playing like that.
Well that was pretty abismal
Way too much space in defence, most of the team bunched between the two 45s, slow build-up, not enough players staying up-front and some terrible shooting/free-taking.
Kevin O grady and dahiti waters (in bursts) being the only two to shine for wexford
Back to the drawing board
Only league
Interview with Eoin Morrisey, Wexford’s games development manager http://www.gaa.ie/features/feature/encouraging-times-for-wexford-gaa/
I’ve been hearing on the grapevine that all is not rosy behind the scenes, funding has been cut back for the development squads, with coaching hours restricted and under age squads still waiting on gear, etc. Some serious penny pinching going on. Looks like the senior teams are costing a fortune…
indeed.
Sure now that we are back at the big time in Senior, why would we need to keep the investment going at underage? It’s not like the past few years of concentration on underage set ups and investment there has produced much? Other than the current senior teams obviously, but sure they are there now, we can ease off for another few years again and then start the process all over again once these senior teams run out like before and there is fuck all coming through. It’s all cyclical, may as well just call a halt to the underage coaching and investment into it and wait a few years until we need it again.
Lets kill off football while we’re at it
That’s been the plan for quite some time. Only for the odd results from the likes of St Peters or the 21s who won leinster then it would all have been fine. Idiots going out and winning football games and doing well.
Time to invest in more penknives
Billy big shot wanting to waste even more money! The broken end of hurls would be OK to use