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Replying To hunting:  "Don't agree at all.Westmeath are really struggling this year, a depleted armagh team hammered them last week and they have a few injuries for today."
I was wrong they were a good bit better in my opinion. They kick something like 16/17 wides. Well done to the lads for battling away though.

hunting (Wexford) - Posts: 943 - 11/02/2018 17:21:46    2075876

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Replying To hunting:  "I was wrong they were a good bit better in my opinion. They kick something like 16/17 wides. Well done to the lads for battling away though."
I'd have to agree there hunting, Westmeath were better than I expected. They were always in control and when wexford threatened briefly in the second half they were able to knock over 3 or 4 points. They really should have won by a lot more, their shooting was poor.

It's going to be a long, slow rebuilding job for our lads. The commitment involved at inter county level now is savage, and at least these young fellows are committing themselves to the future of wexford football. We'll just have to be patient with players and management and hopefully the long-term results will be worth the wait.

yelowbelly (Wexford) - Posts: 409 - 12/02/2018 13:30:22    2076218

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A game Wexford could have won , scored first 2 pts of second half to draw level but conceded a v sloppy goal, waters straight red, end of. Brian Malone had a great game, waters v good til sending off along with Stafford and Benji. Seriously unimpressed with management on sideline, could be a bit more encouraging, young bunch doing their best.

dumptruck1 (Wexford) - Posts: 206 - 25/02/2018 18:40:41    2080145

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The number of times our footballers get a man sent off is not acceptable

890202 (Wexford) - Posts: 1278 - 25/02/2018 20:00:09    2080187

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Bearing in mind that Longford have been a bogey side for us for a few years now (and were when all the recent retirees were active too) that Westmeath have held the edge over us too, and that the two other games were arduous away journeys, including one to a Fermanagh side fancied to get promoted, then the most encouraging thing has been the fact that we are remaining competitive in each outing.

We are in the midst of a serious rebuilding job and its hard for most counties to balance introducing new blood with winning matches. The young lads are improving with the exposure to the big time and have had to grow up quick, which is a good thing with succession planning in mind. The only worry is our indiscipline- three straight red cards in four games by three of our most experienced players means we haven't had all our leaders on the field at the same time yet. Daithí has been a mountain of a man so far and will be a huge loss next day out.

beano (Wexford) - Posts: 1421 - 25/02/2018 20:11:16    2080198

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Replying To beano:  "Bearing in mind that Longford have been a bogey side for us for a few years now (and were when all the recent retirees were active too) that Westmeath have held the edge over us too, and that the two other games were arduous away journeys, including one to a Fermanagh side fancied to get promoted, then the most encouraging thing has been the fact that we are remaining competitive in each outing.

We are in the midst of a serious rebuilding job and its hard for most counties to balance introducing new blood with winning matches. The young lads are improving with the exposure to the big time and have had to grow up quick, which is a good thing with succession planning in mind. The only worry is our indiscipline- three straight red cards in four games by three of our most experienced players means we haven't had all our leaders on the field at the same time yet. Daithí has been a mountain of a man so far and will be a huge loss next day out."
Couldn't agree more. I honestly felt we could get a fair few trimmings this year. At the moment we just need that one lucky break to get a win. But we are doing ourselves no favours with our lack of discipline.

Hopefully against offaly next weekend could be the one

wexcore (Wexford) - Posts: 740 - 25/02/2018 21:08:25    2080231

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Replying To beano:  "Bearing in mind that Longford have been a bogey side for us for a few years now (and were when all the recent retirees were active too) that Westmeath have held the edge over us too, and that the two other games were arduous away journeys, including one to a Fermanagh side fancied to get promoted, then the most encouraging thing has been the fact that we are remaining competitive in each outing.

We are in the midst of a serious rebuilding job and its hard for most counties to balance introducing new blood with winning matches. The young lads are improving with the exposure to the big time and have had to grow up quick, which is a good thing with succession planning in mind. The only worry is our indiscipline- three straight red cards in four games by three of our most experienced players means we haven't had all our leaders on the field at the same time yet. Daithí has been a mountain of a man so far and will be a huge loss next day out."
Will Daithi be in ( more ) trouble because of this ? He got a straight red against Carlow in the championship, is there some kind of "accumulation" process ?

yelowbelly (Wexford) - Posts: 409 - 26/02/2018 06:28:14    2080315

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Offaly will tell a lot. They've been beaten by everyone so far I think. If we lose, or worse lose well, then we are in a lot of trouble. Not just in this league, but in general. So far we have shown ourselves, sadly, to belong in Division 4. A win against Offaly would at least be a bit of a boost.

icehonesty (Wexford) - Posts: 2553 - 26/02/2018 11:21:54    2080402

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Offaly game fixed for 3 on Saturday so clashing with the rugby...

bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 05/03/2018 14:56:19    2081942

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Replying To wexico15:  "Offaly game fixed for 3 on Saturday so clashing with the rugby..."
brain boxes knocking around,there wont be 200 people at it.3pm on a saturday suits no one,least of all us who work at weekend.
could it not have been played at 7pm in bellfield or something?

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 05/03/2018 16:35:12    2081969

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Replying To perfect10:  "brain boxes knocking around,there wont be 200 people at it.3pm on a saturday suits no one,least of all us who work at weekend.
could it not have been played at 7pm in bellfield or something?"
with all due respect, they could schedule it anytime in any location and have free entry and you'll still only get 200 at it. A dark reality of a crap situation.

I'll head in anyway, and like the previous games I'm still more looking at performance than results. The lads are doing ok. Its a seriously young team that needs time to develop and their commitment if nothing else has been remarkable. It would be nice to beat Offaly, moreso for the players and the effort they have put in to a league campaign that has I would reckon the longest travelling distances of any county this year (discounting trips to London by Div 4 teams). We knew it wasnt going to be easy, and hot favourites for the drop, but the lads have put in a good effort and workload into the games, and thats the least you would expect. Far too often we have teams who give up on things early on, but the team has fought through all games.

james2011 (Wexford) - Posts: 602 - 06/03/2018 09:10:35    2082126

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Replying To 890202:  "The number of times our footballers get a man sent off is not acceptable"
Good man 890202, too many guys on here incapable of being objective. Couldn't agree with you more. It's always the refs fault or somebody as well.

gahfan (Wexford) - Posts: 636 - 06/03/2018 16:28:19    2082247

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james2011,you are right enough re the crowd,but putting up against a huge sporting occasion,when many of us are working,is just really poor planning.

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 06/03/2018 16:34:44    2082253

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Another narrow loss, another red card

890202 (Wexford) - Posts: 1278 - 10/03/2018 16:41:25    2083195

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I couldn't make the match again today due to a prior engagement but hoped to catch it on South East radio on the way home. Must say I thought it scandalous that they didn't bother broadcasting it live. It's their duty to instill a bit hype and publicity into the game, and surely had no excuse NOT to broadcast it. No wonder the footfall to the games is so low- there is absolutely no effort being made at county board level, and by extension local radio, to promote football.

Now I understand that the hurling is riding the crest of the wave right now, and as a Wexford man I am as delighted as anyone that we are relevant again, but its borderline dereliction of duty to allow the footballers fester in the shadows. Even when Spratt is on commentary duty it's laced with pessimism and the odd sarcastic comment and he always seems to be at pains to mention how low the crowds are week on week. No doubt he'll mention that he was at the rugby in the Aviva during some lull in play at the KK game tomorrow!

The effort and application of the players cannot be faulted. With a bit of luck we may well have a couple of wins on the board. The least they deserve is some backing from the top table down.

beano (Wexford) - Posts: 1421 - 10/03/2018 18:53:24    2083222

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Replying To beano:  "I couldn't make the match again today due to a prior engagement but hoped to catch it on South East radio on the way home. Must say I thought it scandalous that they didn't bother broadcasting it live. It's their duty to instill a bit hype and publicity into the game, and surely had no excuse NOT to broadcast it. No wonder the footfall to the games is so low- there is absolutely no effort being made at county board level, and by extension local radio, to promote football.

Now I understand that the hurling is riding the crest of the wave right now, and as a Wexford man I am as delighted as anyone that we are relevant again, but its borderline dereliction of duty to allow the footballers fester in the shadows. Even when Spratt is on commentary duty it's laced with pessimism and the odd sarcastic comment and he always seems to be at pains to mention how low the crowds are week on week. No doubt he'll mention that he was at the rugby in the Aviva during some lull in play at the KK game tomorrow!

The effort and application of the players cannot be faulted. With a bit of luck we may well have a couple of wins on the board. The least they deserve is some backing from the top table down."
hard to argue with that. But I'm not sure how the county board can influence or tell Liam Spratt how to commentate. But the level of effort in promoting the game of football by the county board at the moment is shocking. As you say, hurling is ruling the roost, but it doesnt mean the football should be thrown aside.

I made it to Eniscorthy, and it wasnt too bad a game. I am highly confused by what happened with the red card, despite the silly comment above about another game another red card. The umpire called the ref in to book the full back. And then went off when all of a sudden the linesman called over the ref and told him to send off Brosnan. I didnt see any incident, so I cant say if he deserved it or not, but surely if the umpire calls a yellow only to a player involved in a tussle, how does the linesman then intervene to give one of them a red card? Brosnan was flattened off the ball, his opponent gets a yellow and he gets a red? Very hard to understand.

Anyway, on the game itself. Started slowly, against the wind, and wen in 5 down. Played ok, but our defence is weak enough on players running direct lines through them. Played very well in the second half and kicked some very good scores. But we had a great chance to put one in it, a free 40m out, fairly central and missed. Offaly won the kickout and scored and put 3 back in it again and that finished it.

All in all, a good performance, a man down and Daithi suspended too for this one. They are playing well. They are very determined and never have their heads down. They have been competitive in all the games and if luck went their way, they could have won a couple. Considering we were red hot favourites to go down, they have performed well. I'm more disappointed for them in losing this one than the supporters, it would have been encouraging for them to get a win on the board, but at least they have been working hard and havent collapsed in any game. It's a long road, but its not that discouraging right now, there are decent signs there through what has been a relegation and 100% losing campaign.

james2011 (Wexford) - Posts: 602 - 12/03/2018 10:12:39    2083825

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i know it is neither here nor there but fixing the game for the same time as the rugby only hurt the team and the level of support.saturday evening at 6-7 surely would have been better than saturday afternoon?
i made neither match but whatever hope i would have of making it on a saturday evening,saturday afternoon where the country is glued to an international rugby match is a sure-fire way of shrinking the crowd.
maybe they didnt want traffic bedlam around pats park and they sure achieved that by the looks of it!!

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 12/03/2018 11:27:51    2083872

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i know it is neither here nor there but fixing the game for the same time as the rugby only hurt the team and the level of support.saturday evening at 6-7 surely would have been better than saturday afternoon?
i made neither match but whatever hope i would have of making it on a saturday evening,saturday afternoon where the country is glued to an international rugby match is a sure-fire way of shrinking the crowd.
maybe they didnt want traffic bedlam around pats park and they sure achieved that by the looks of it!!

perfect10 (Wexford) - Posts: 3929 - 12/03/2018 11:27:51    2083873

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Wow. Lost the dressing already by the looks of these comments.

"We are not learning from each game, which is disappointing. We were simply not good enough against Offaly, we're not good enough.

I'm not going to continue to make excuses. We're simply not good enough, not learning from each game, to make the progress. We just have to bring our game to another level.

We've two huge games ahead, Derry next weekend, and then Armagh at home. We could not have asked for a more difficult finish."

I know if I was a player I'd be disappointed with that. All blame loaded onto players. Describes them as not good enough and not able to learn. Very poor.

Offaly are a very poor team yet we lost again. One can point to the number of red cards, but that's part of a manager's remit, to instill discipline in the team.

This will be a one year experiment, and I hope it doesn't set us so far back that it'll be 4 or 5 years until we get back out of Division 4.

icehonesty (Wexford) - Posts: 2553 - 16/03/2018 21:23:35    2084987

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Replying To icehonesty:  "Wow. Lost the dressing already by the looks of these comments.

"We are not learning from each game, which is disappointing. We were simply not good enough against Offaly, we're not good enough.

I'm not going to continue to make excuses. We're simply not good enough, not learning from each game, to make the progress. We just have to bring our game to another level.

We've two huge games ahead, Derry next weekend, and then Armagh at home. We could not have asked for a more difficult finish."

I know if I was a player I'd be disappointed with that. All blame loaded onto players. Describes them as not good enough and not able to learn. Very poor.

Offaly are a very poor team yet we lost again. One can point to the number of red cards, but that's part of a manager's remit, to instill discipline in the team.

This will be a one year experiment, and I hope it doesn't set us so far back that it'll be 4 or 5 years until we get back out of Division 4."
I would agree to a point.

I honestly don't know what that comment is meant to achieve the young lads are trying it's just little things aren't going our way. But their spirit is extremly admirable and we are performing at a fa4 better rate then I taught we would.

I don't agree with the management should have instilled discipline 3 players to have been sent off are waters malone and brosnan they have been around long enough to to know better. And we need to be the leaders they are for these young lads.

Lastly PLEASE GOD leave naomhin Rossiter centre back. I have been saying this for 2 years now as I was with Graham molley. He is to good of a ball.player for full back and could be an extremly useful link player. I know he can look at physically weaker then most CBs but just give him time

wexcore (Wexford) - Posts: 740 - 17/03/2018 10:17:22    2085039

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