Heard first round game fixed for the 19th July
Money must be tight 
Of course money is tight ffs. And itâs a farce that only 200 people can attend a hurling match. An arbitrary number in a big outdoor space.
County board should really have pushed things back a week. Think clubs getting about 40 tickets each for those not involved and most of these will be taken up by people with season tickets.
Wexford GAA announced last night that they received no response to their attendance proposal from the coalition of chaos. As a result, theyâre proceeding with max capacities of 200 for this weekendâs games.
what they are getting in TV money would cover a lot of the attendance shortfall for the first weekend anyway. But they are right, 200 allowed this week and 500 next week? In a ground that can hold 20 odd thousand that doesnt have individual seats anyway. And the GAA have since closed down all indoor activities now too, so the 7 a side games that started back are now all fucked again.
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The Covid Cups.
A clusterfuck.
St Martins v Oulart on telly tonight. Other games available online over the weekend. John Meyler in charge of the Martins this year and Liam Dunne managing Oulart. I heard talk early in the year that there was mutiny in Oulart and several senior players wanted to be regraded to intermediate and didnât want to play under Dunne. Not sure whatâs happened in the intervening period. Martins remain the strongest team in Wexford on paper.
I enjoy the way Wexford people put âtheâ in front of certain club names. The Martinâs, The Rapps, The Harriers.
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Ha, never really noticed that before, it just seems to be the teams that end in a S, the Annes, the Fintans, etc
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I hadnât really noticed it before either (cc @binkybarnes).
Having a think about it - the best one is probably Buffers Alley.
As in:
âWere you over in the park earlier? Jaysus, the Alley were absolutely filthy. The Shels* didnât want to know when they lowered the blade.â
*Shelmaliers
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The Vols and The Joeys in the town too. Hadnt noticed it myself either, but a lot there that way! Even playing Bannow Ballymitty, weâd be more likely to say weâre playing The Hogs.
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Not to mention perennial senior football relegation champions the Sars.
Credit to Wexford GAA for the online programme for the weekendâs games.
http://www.wexfordgaa.ie/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Hurling-Round-1-programme.pdf
Iâm taken by the Maryâs Rosslare corner forwards on Page 10, the two Reeces, but in particular Reece de la Cour.
Rory Jacob not involved for Oulart. Heard him and Dunne donât get on. But is there another reason for his absence? Any other high profile Oulart absentees?
The Harriers have last yearâs 3 county minor starters in at 8-10. Wayne Mallon and Jim Berry carrying suspensions forward from last year and Eoin Roche and Daniel Lynch out with hand injuries.
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Great work by county board on the programme in fairness
The Harriers operating off a big panel
I see both of them lining out midfield for the second team though in that utterly stupid ruling where if you get sent off, you are only suspended in the competition you get sent off in. Not their issue obviously, but highlights the problem with it that two senior players suspended get to line out midfield for the junior side now. It happened recently too where a player was sent off for a pretty serious incident and the following year was free to line out against the same club in a junior game, even though he got a big suspension.
Big call on the Harriers to have their minor lads start midfield, big ask in their debut, but maybe throwing them in the deep end early might make them, with no pressure of relegation either this year leaves them do it without any worries about losing.
Oulart seem to be a shambles from what I heard too. A big vote at the start of the year for the management set up and all the senior players wanting Dunne out. Only barely scraped through that vote. Interesting to see will that galvanise the remaining players and Dunne. Again, with no relegation to worry about, they are lucky enough with the year that it happened. Iâd have them right in the mix for going down this year had it been a normal year.
Yeah, itâs a counter-intuitive rule alright. That Martins junior team has plenty of strong players too. Willie Devereux, Patrick OâConnor, Kyle Firman to name a few. Canât recall if any of them are serving senior suspensions from last season or if theyâve regraded for other reasons.
Deveroux and O Connor named in first 24, so probably just not making the first team rather than a suspension. Joe Coleman not starting either for their seniors, not sure why. An abundance of depth really they have there.
Mick DâArcy one of the max 200 permitted to attend in order to sing AmhrĂĄn na bhFiann live. I guess heâs from the Martins in fairness.