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Replying To ExiledInWex: "Were Dublin in any of these competitions Viking? Good results in general but the Wexford u16s were badly beaten by Tipp? 3rd best, etc implies that there are two better. Need to be the best. Laois and Offaly were in an A final from the looks of it." They've changed things up a lot, don't think that A Final at U15 was the best teams in the country, looks like Offaly had beaten Westmeath in the SF and Laois has beaten Kilkenny's second side ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 634 - 31/08/2025 14:57:19 2634342 Link
Replying To ElGranSenor: "They've changed things up a lot, don't think that A Final at U15 was the best teams in the country, looks like Offaly had beaten Westmeath in the SF and Laois has beaten Kilkenny's second side" Wexford unluckily lost to Galway by 1 pt in the U15 A quarter final . (Arrabawn). This put them into the Arrabawn Shield which they won by 1 pt and judging by the scoreline probably lucky to do so. Galway won the A final beating Waterford and then Tipperary. So all in all I reckon there are 5/6 teams all equal standard but most importantly we are 1 of those. Paull (Wexford) - Posts: 212 - 31/08/2025 16:16:35 2634346 Link
Replying To Magpie2: "Anyone know who won the masters hurling all ireland final between Wexford and Tipperary? No result or report from Wexford Gaa. Can't find any account in the Sunday papers either. It is an all ireland final so surely it deserves some sort of mention. I suppose it's regarded as nothing more than an exhibition game of no importance. The players I'm sure take it seriously or do they see it as a game to stroll around and have a laugh.0" Hit the home button and you will see the article on it in the hoganstand.. I am in two minds on this competition, one its great to see these lads still playing and this is a reward for the hours they put in with the county but is this competition benefiting Wexford GAA, I am sure there is not much spent on it but across the GAA is it something we really need. Its like sometimes we want to mimic other sports without really thinking of the actual need and benefits zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 2060 - 31/08/2025 16:43:07 2634348 Link
If we're consistently Top 6 at under-age level and there's not much between us and whoever is #1, then we're in a decent enough place, you end up getting a steady supply-line of good hurlers then which is hard to do, you see the likes of Offaly having success right now but that could just be one really good team, a golden generation so to speak, getting a golden generation is just luck really, it's much harder to develop that steady supply-line Just need to win something though to break the mental block ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 634 - 31/08/2025 17:12:42 2634350 Link
Replying To Magpie2: "Anyone know who won the masters hurling all ireland final between Wexford and Tipperary? No result or report from Wexford Gaa. Can't find any account in the Sunday papers either. It is an all ireland final so surely it deserves some sort of mention. I suppose it's regarded as nothing more than an exhibition game of no importance. The players I'm sure take it seriously or do they see it as a game to stroll around and have a laugh.0" Tipp Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17008 - 31/08/2025 18:07:03 2634357 Link
Replying To ExiledInWex: "Were Dublin in any of these competitions Viking? Good results in general but the Wexford u16s were badly beaten by Tipp? 3rd best, etc implies that there are two better. Need to be the best. Laois and Offaly were in an A final from the looks of it." Laois and Offaly nowhere near the A final. The top u16 tournament was the Eugene Carey. Yes we lost badly to Tipp, but at least we beat Cork. Galway won it. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17008 - 31/08/2025 18:10:14 2634359 Link
Replying To ExiledInWex: "Were Dublin in any of these competitions Viking? Good results in general but the Wexford u16s were badly beaten by Tipp? 3rd best, etc implies that there are two better. Need to be the best. Laois and Offaly were in an A final from the looks of it." Dublin were in these competitions but didn't make the finals. You have to qualify for them. This was the 1st year in a good while that Wexford beat Dublin at u14, u15, u16, minor and u20. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17008 - 31/08/2025 18:12:04 2634360 Link
Replying To ElGranSenor: "They've changed things up a lot, don't think that A Final at U15 was the best teams in the country, looks like Offaly had beaten Westmeath in the SF and Laois has beaten Kilkenny's second side" Arrabawn was the tournament for the top u15 sides. John Doyle the Junior competition. Cork got 2 sides qualified in A, both in the Shield. We beat both. List in order- A Cup winners- Galway. Tipp beat Kilkenny in their Semifinal but lost to Galway in the Final. Kilkenny beat Waterford in the 3rd/4th playoff. A Shield winners- Wexford, beat Cork A in the final. B Cup winners- Dublin (although there were rumours that they played A players as their As had already been eliminated from their competiton. Not sure that's true BTW) B Shield winners- Kerry John Doyle A Cup final- Offaly beat Laois. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17008 - 31/08/2025 18:38:29 2634364 Link
Replying To ElGranSenor: "They've changed things up a lot, don't think that A Final at U15 was the best teams in the country, looks like Offaly had beaten Westmeath in the SF and Laois has beaten Kilkenny's second side" Arrabawn was the tournament for the top u15 sides. John Doyle the Junior competition. Cork got 2 sides qualified in A, both in the Shield. We beat both. List in order- A Cup winners- Galway. Tipp beat Kilkenny in their Semifinal but lost to Galway in the Final. Kilkenny beat Waterford in the 3rd/4th playoff. A Shield winners- Wexford, beat Cork A in the final. B Cup winners- Dublin (although there were rumours that they played A players as their As had already been eliminated from their competiton. Not sure that's true BTW) B Shield winners- Kerry John Doyle A Cup final- Offaly beat Laois. Laois beet Kilkenny B in the SF. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17008 - 31/08/2025 18:39:51 2634366 Link
Replying To ElGranSenor: "If we're consistently Top 6 at under-age level and there's not much between us and whoever is #1, then we're in a decent enough place, you end up getting a steady supply-line of good hurlers then which is hard to do, you see the likes of Offaly having success right now but that could just be one really good team, a golden generation so to speak, getting a golden generation is just luck really, it's much harder to develop that steady supply-line Just need to win something though to break the mental block" Winning something at u14 would be nice for sure. Or u15 or u16 or minor. But at the same time you have to remember lads at those age grades aren't even 5th years in school. Plenty of u14 county players never even play club adult, never mind intercounty. The only grade apart from Senior that I'd really like to see us win an AI in is u20. Apart from that as regards the lower age groups I'd rather we started producing exceptional individual players, a few in each age group, who will stay hurling and be good enough one day to win a Senior AI. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17008 - 31/08/2025 18:55:50 2634373 Link
Replying To countyman2022: "Will honestly take the best part of a decade." True, but I think we are on the right track. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17008 - 31/08/2025 18:57:03 2634376 Link
Replying To zinny: "Hit the home button and you will see the article on it in the hoganstand.. I am in two minds on this competition, one its great to see these lads still playing and this is a reward for the hours they put in with the county but is this competition benefiting Wexford GAA, I am sure there is not much spent on it but across the GAA is it something we really need. Its like sometimes we want to mimic other sports without really thinking of the actual need and benefits" Thanks Zinny. Looked it up on Hogan stand but it just mentioned it as a fixture. No match report or even a score. My guess is that there was no reporter at the game. If there was, he must be keeping his report to himself. Total disrespect by all concerned. Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 551 - 31/08/2025 19:06:33 2634379 Link
There was a report on masters final on tipperary Gaa.. CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2593 - 31/08/2025 19:51:21 2634388 Link
Replying To Magpie2: "Thanks Zinny. Looked it up on Hogan stand but it just mentioned it as a fixture. No match report or even a score. My guess is that there was no reporter at the game. If there was, he must be keeping his report to himself. Total disrespect by all concerned." Thing about the Masters All-Irelands (both hurling & football) is that they're not official competitions. Neither the County Boards nor GAA HQ in Croke Park have anything to do with the running of them. And whatever bridges the Wexford Masters might have been able to build with official Wexford GAA were probably burned last year, when they included a player who was serving a lengthy suspension from actual GAA. Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3066 - 31/08/2025 20:30:10 2634398 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Ah I'm only going on secondhand info tbh Bon, we had our club fun day so I couldn't make it up. I was talking to a few lads from down here who were there though. And even a friend from Kilkenny reckoned he was poor." Im only winding you up, Its in every grade unfortunately. Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2505 - 31/08/2025 20:37:23 2634400 Link
Replying To Magpie2: "Thanks Zinny. Looked it up on Hogan stand but it just mentioned it as a fixture. No match report or even a score. My guess is that there was no reporter at the game. If there was, he must be keeping his report to himself. Total disrespect by all concerned." Update --- Got the final score. Tipperary 3. 24 Wexford 0.12. This information was supplied by somebody from the Raparees club. Thanks Viking for letting us know who won. Reliable as ever. Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 551 - 01/09/2025 03:37:25 2634423 Link
Replying To Magpie2: "Update --- Got the final score. Tipperary 3. 24 Wexford 0.12. This information was supplied by somebody from the Raparees club. Thanks Viking for letting us know who won. Reliable as ever." Impressive Tipperary too strong for Wexford in Masters All-Ireland hurling championship final \| Irish Independent https://share.google/Cv982xzrYQcnCOvoj Another write up Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 17008 - 01/09/2025 11:05:40 2634450 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Winning something at u14 would be nice for sure. Or u15 or u16 or minor. But at the same time you have to remember lads at those age grades aren't even 5th years in school. Plenty of u14 county players never even play club adult, never mind intercounty. The only grade apart from Senior that I'd really like to see us win an AI in is u20. Apart from that as regards the lower age groups I'd rather we started producing exceptional individual players, a few in each age group, who will stay hurling and be good enough one day to win a Senior AI." Underage results over the weekend looked positive overall am I right in saying Viking? Hopefully we are on the right track long term and with the new improved hurling plan being designed by Kinnerk and co we can continue to build. Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 695 - 01/09/2025 12:03:29 2634460 Link
Replying To zinny: "Hit the home button and you will see the article on it in the hoganstand.. I am in two minds on this competition, one its great to see these lads still playing and this is a reward for the hours they put in with the county but is this competition benefiting Wexford GAA, I am sure there is not much spent on it but across the GAA is it something we really need. Its like sometimes we want to mimic other sports without really thinking of the actual need and benefits" Don't see why this competition needs to benefit Wexford GAA in any way. It is zero to do with the GAA - it's their own competition. To be honest I think it would be better if it was associated and endorsed by the GAA. That said you have a man managing Wexford that wants zero to do with Wexford GAA! MyOhMi (Wexford) - Posts: 219 - 01/09/2025 12:23:53 2634461 Link
29 years today… I can't even imagine what it must've been like, not even winning it but just the whole day and weeks after. OpenStandWall (Wexford) - Posts: 291 - 01/09/2025 12:41:53 2634469 Link