Heās wearing Wexford GAA shorts in his Facebook cover picture while playing hurling in Croker (I think).
Thatās good enough for me.
Well sure lookit. The profile would indicate a company man. Bit like a career politician being taoiseach. But sure weāll give him a chance.
Heāll be ok until Christmas.
Those 3 weeks will tell alright! He doesnāt take up the role until December
Handed over after the convention?
I knew that before I posted. 22 days should be enough for him.
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Gearoid played some Junior hurling for Na Fianna in recent years while working in Croke park. A real gent. Heāll do a good job Iād say.
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Lee Chin says he does not regret decision to go full-time
Paul Keane
October 3 2018, 12:01am, The Times
Chin, front, said that he lacked confidence after deciding to turn professionalLASZLO GECZO/INPHO
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Lee Chin was sitting in a corporate box in Croke Park last July when his mood darkened.
He was asked, for what seemed the umpteenth time across the summer, how full-time hurling with Wexford was panning out. His reply was blunt.
āIām sick of talking about it,ā Chin said. āItās not something that I want to go back into again. Itās been talked about a lot and probably been blown out of proportion.ā
The snarky response was in marked contrast to last January when, days out from the start of the National League, Chin broke the news that he had no day job and was not looking for one. Instead, he would live off the income stream from a number of sponsorship deals he had struck and concentrate almost exclusively on being successful with Wexford.
For a player at the peak of his powers, who had played and scored in every league and Championship game Wexford played in 2017, earning an All-Star nomination along the way, it was an exciting move.
Yet that day in July, Chin was fresh off Championship defeats to Galway and Kilkenny and approaching the end of a season that never quite took off. The uncomfortable truth was that his form actually dipped as a professional.
āThe bridge I have to cross is to try and not let things affect me as much,ā Chin said. āI can be very hard on myself that way. I think if I can get a grip on that, I think Iāll hopefully get back on the horse again this year coming.ā
The 25-year-oldās form improved when he returned to club action and he reckons he may simply have put too much pressure on himself this year.
āItās hard to figure out where things go wrong sometimes but more than likely, when you come down to the bottom of it, itās mostly in your head because the work is done but your mind can play tricks on you sometimes,ā Chin said. āI had one or two bad games coming to the end of the league and the end of the Championship, that I mightnāt have been as happy with, so that continued for me the lack of confidence.ā
Chin is not the first GAA player to try his hand at full-time hurling. In fact, Matthew OāHanlon, Wexfordās other joint-captain this year, left his job before the Championship and decided he would shelve his plans to look for another one until the Championship was over and he had gone travelling.
Chin wants to see Wexford become much more ruthlessTOMMY DICKSON/INPHO
In OāHanlonās case, moving back home from Dublin, where he had been working, came loaded with benefits.
āJust from a stress point of view,ā OāHanlon explained. āWhen youāre in Dublin and training is in Wexford, youāre training on a Tuesday and Thursday, youāre thinking on Monday evening, āI have to get my gear ready because Iām going to be out the door at half seven or eight, I have to get my lunch ready, my meal ready for the way down to training and then also have my lunch ready for the Wednesdayā, because youāre not going to get back up until 11 or half 11 on the Tuesday night. Then you have to get up and repeat it for Thursday training.ā
Chin and OāHanlon ultimately failed to get their hands on summer silverware and having enjoyed a strong first season under Davy Fitzgerald, three defeats in their last four Championship games this year amounted to a difficult second summer.
From Chinās perspective, it was still the right choice to shelve his career and he cannot understand those who suggest it was not a healthy move to put all his eggs in the hurling basket.
āI think my life is a very healthy balance,ā he insisted. āI play the game and Iāve other things to do as well, Iāve other interests. Some people may not see that side of things. But I donāt think Iām living a lifestyle thatās unhealthy or anything like that.ā
Chin, like Fitzgerald last week, trumpeted the fact that while Wexford hoped to go further in the Championship, they still won more games than they lost overall in 2018; seven compared to six. Another way of looking at Fitzgeraldās two-year tenure is that they played ten Championship games and won five, a 50 per cent win rate that is only marginally better than the 45 per cent experienced under Liam Dunne.
Wexfordās best form has come in the league, with ten wins from 14 there under Fitzgerald though Chin acknowledged that in the bigger Championship games, they have not been good enough.
āWe obviously want to be a team that becomes more ruthless,ā Chin said. āAnd thatās an area for us to grow because in the games weāve had this year, letting the Kilkenny game slip in the Championship and other games throughout the year that weāve lost by small margins, itās an area to improve.ā
Next monthās Fenway Classic in Boston, the Super 11s tournament in conjunction with Aer Lingus and Fenway Sports Management, is a first opportunity to show a hardened exterior. Then it will be on to pre-season preparations and a third year under Fitzgerald having successfully secured the Clare manās services.
Chin, meanwhile, will continue to be a full-time hurler. āIt fits well with my lifestyle at the moment,ā he said.
Jps 100k sorts Davy out for the year.
Fethard and Cloughbawn sealed their places in the intermediate hurling final today.
Senior hurling semi-finals tomorrow.
Faythe Harriers today bridged an 18-year gap by winning the minor hurling championship, defeating Rapparees in a cracker by 4-18 to 3-16.
I went to the senior semi finals today.
Meh.
Wexford psychologist next year from Mary i
Congrats Joe. Davy will have them hopping physically and youāll have them hopping mentally
I pm you his name
Money 
money
He could bring in Dr Phill then cunts will wiln nothing
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No stopping us now Joeš
Gorey fan club out in force on Twitter re Dunbar red.
A lot of comments to the effect that heās been their best player all year. Some lad then points out that he only joined in March so not even there all year.
Karma is a bitch. Be great to see a Gorey win though.
Iāve had great fun in the last week or so winding up the locals about the karma element. But as you say, it would be great to see them win.
13 of the starting 15 played in the Intermediate A football final at the weekend and the celebrations of that victory were put on hold with a view to this weekend. I was surprised they took the risk in letting so many of them line out in a shitty football game.