In these days of professional set ups and emphasis on sports science & data. I love that an Inter County management team got together and thought āok we are ultra defensive and therefore struggle badly to get scores, how about we fix this by moving Rory O Connor in to defenceā.
Takes me back to the days when the junior B team in the club canāt get a manager so they let the lad with mad notions take the team.
The Roc thing i dont get. Our best forward in the full backline hitting balls to his his brother. Absolute nonsense
Did they actually do that again today?
I gave them a pass for doing it in last league game away to Limerick on basis it was his one of his first starts (maybe actual first) in 10 months after injury. So I reasoned it could be fair enough to give him a free kind of role just to get moving & on the ball & to generally sharpen up his hurling ahead of the championship. But sticking him back there when weāre losing a game & when weāre without Chin & short on scoring threatsā¦
There is actually no logic to at all. If you have just 6 or 7 scores from play after 60 minutes of playing with 3 forwards, what goes through your head to move your best forward in to defence?
How can you not think that maybe the answer is to move a few players forward to support the vastly outnumbered attackers?
I honestly canāt believe that a manager at the highest level of the game is continuing with these tactics, despite how obvious it is that they canāt work.
O Keefe was sweeping and was decent until he went off with an injury, probably didnāt get forward enough overall.
McDonalds goal came from an mis hit McGovern shot and Gaeroid Mc slip, Mcinerney won that battle thereafter but the ball going in was average.
ROC seemed to be lurking around midfield or half forward line, Iād play him at 11 and feed him in a similar role to Donal Burke. On the plus side, his frees were good.
McGovern battled hard but his hurling lets him down as per usual. Hearne was disappointing midfield, missed a few chances.
Yer goalie looked solid and used the ball well but very difficult to spot any of yer younger lads contributing. Niland was MOTM but I taught Mannion was good for them and in reality they were 10+ points better.
The penalty should have been caught by Murphy.
So is it lack of belief in his players mixed with a dose of self-preservation by BDE? The frontline hurling counties donāt rate Wexford & his reputation wonāt be tarnished if we lose to the likes of Galway (as long as we donāt get annihilated). His mindset when it looks like the game is getting away from us & potentially heading towards hiding territory is to get numbers back & protect a 6/7 point defeat rather than go for broke & leave ourselves open to conceding more?
You could argue Davy played with similar tactics but he had better players.
Free count was Galway 16 Wexford 8.
Galway got anything that was going when it mattered. An absolute homer of the highest order.
The free just before half time v MOH was sickening.
Galway far better.
A miserable evening in Salthill. Nice place in the summer.
What was the injury?
What age is Liam Ćg McGovern? He played Fitzgibbon for what was then DIT in 2011. For a game but limited player he is there a long time
The result between Dublin and Antrim is probably the most important of the day. Avoid defeat against the Dubs and top 3 should be secured. Thankfully we have Antrim at home because Iād be very wary of a trip to Corrigan Park otherwise at present.
32 this year. He had awful hip injuries back around 2012 too. He did very well to recover and have such a long inter-county career.
Heās not that fuckin limited now chaps.
That template worked well for Davy. Lost by 9, 9 and 13 points against Galway in Leinster but that 2019 draw in Salthill stole the Waterford county boards hearts.
Yes.
Antrim away early in any competition is a difficult prospect.
Theyāve turned nearly everyone over in situations like that in the last 20 years.
The longer it goes on and the faster it gets the more they struggle.
And for whatever reason theyāre just not as good away from home.
Dublin will regret being Wexford to Croke Park.
Is there a rule that the free count should be equal?
Thats a shocker of a comment
Not sure, but he had a slight limp so likely lower body.
Sorry for saying fuck off to you auld pal. Went for walk along Curracloe. Just sick to teeth of us getting bet.
Dublin v Wexford is in Croke Park?! The seagulls will have to squawk bloody hard to create an atmosphere for that one.