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hunting (Wexford) - Posts: 1174 - 15/02/2026 10:39:56 2656497 Link 0 |
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Last inter county player I can remember going to college down here was Cian Byrne and Cathal Doyle (involved with 20s at some stage?) at Mary I for a couple of years. I wouldn't get too caught up too much in whether lads are playing for UL or not, their bread and butter is nearly always going to be Munster counties, granted they do have Screeney and a few others from Leinster counties that are a lot easier to get to I.e. Offaly. I don't think going studying/playing in UL and playing at any level for Wexford whether that be 20s or senior are compatible nor feasible tbh, if you're having to travel to Ferns 2 or 3 nights a week from here as a student you'd want to be well looked after. OpenStandWall (Wexford) - Posts: 335 - 15/02/2026 15:50:46 2656566 Link 0 |
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When Cathal Doyle was with the u20s Davy Fitz used to bring him down and back, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to hurl county u20. Cian Byrne dropped out of Mary I to do an apprenticeship instead. College, and the careers it leads to, isnt for everyone.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18380 - 15/02/2026 16:52:40 2656589 Link 0 |
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Interesting my reply to a post wasn't posted.
Jedobi (Wexford) - Posts: 273 - 15/02/2026 21:24:17 2656677 Link 0 |
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I wouldn't either. UL recruitment is clearly a world apart. But what I would worry about is how good UCD, DCU and Waterford were. Because these 3 colleges are where Wexford, Kilkenny, Dublin, Offaly and so on go. DCU made semi, UCD annihilated by 18 points, Waterford by 7. What happens in group stages doesn't matter, when the chips are down and places in competition on the line is what matters. DCU I know put good effort in on recruitment front and I know someone involved in this but you won't get many top hurlers in with UL, Mary I and the others on the western seaboard offering better opportunities closer to home. ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1559 - 15/02/2026 21:39:15 2656680 Link 0 |
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UL beat Mary I by 13 points in the final last week. They are currently a class apart in colleges hurling. Well if you look at their 2018 starting 15 for the final they were even better!!!!- David McCarthy (Limerick); Aidan McGuane (Clare), Conor Cleary (Clare), Seán Finn (Limerick); Barry Heffernan (Tipperary), Gearóid Hegarty (Limerick, 0-01), David Fitzgerald (Clare, 0-02); Tony Kelly (Clare, 0-01), Ronan Lynch (Limerick, 0-02); Ian Galvin (Clare, 0-01), Kevin O'Brien (Limerick, 0-02), Tom Morrissey (Limerick); John McGrath (Tipperary, 0-02), Jason Forde (Tipperary, 1-10, 0-07f, 0-01 65), Barry Murphy (Limerick) Then, like now, they mainly recruit lads from the counties around them though. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18380 - 15/02/2026 22:03:13 2656684 Link 0 |
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Happens to all of us Jedobi. Sometimes if you re word it it gets posted ok.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18380 - 15/02/2026 22:29:16 2656688 Link 0 |
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That was some team! They'd give Munster a right rattle!
BarneyGrant (Dublin) - Posts: 4022 - 15/02/2026 22:45:59 2656689 Link 0 |
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Wouldn't they?!!!
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18380 - 16/02/2026 07:22:33 2656709 Link 0 |
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They mainly recruit from around them because that is where the best young hurlers in the country all are. No other reason.
ExiledInWex (Dublin) - Posts: 1559 - 16/02/2026 11:51:40 2656752 Link 0 |
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Any news from the squad ahead regarding injuries etc? Challenge game v tipp sounded like a decent game last week. Really looking forward to Saturday hoping for a decent Wexford support and for our lads to really tear into the Dubs Afinestick96 (Wexford) - Posts: 874 - 16/02/2026 12:00:29 2656755 Link 0 |
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Think ther was only 1 Limerick player on siegerson winning panel . Not One on the team . 6 or 7 mayo I think .. fairly unusual i d imagine Formertownie (Wexford) - Posts: 538 - 16/02/2026 13:15:04 2656781 Link 0 |
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Think ther was only 1 Limerick player on siegerson winning panel . Not One on the team . 6 or 7 mayo I think .. fairly unusual i d imagine . Formertownie (Wexford) - Posts: 538 - 16/02/2026 13:17:55 2656782 Link 0 |
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All of them? From the whole country? Thats an interesting take. So that rules out any AI for Cork, Galway, Waterford, Dublin, Wexford and Kilkenny in the coming years? Hardly any lads from those counties go to UL. And the ones that do arent the strongest players their counties have. And also that implies that anyone who doesn't go to college, at all, or drops out, can't be a top hurler either! Just out of interest why didnt Cian Lynch and Aaron Gillane go there then? Or Shane O'Donnell? Or Ronan Maher? Darragh Fitzgibbon? Lee Chin? Eoin Cody? Huw Lawlor? While they do get some top players for sure, they don't get all the top players, plenty of other top players choose to go elsewhere. And its a fact that noone from the East Coast goes there generally, and never did. I watch a few Fitzgibbon Cup games every year, they are great games to watch. But its a completely different kind of hurling to Senior Intercounty. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18380 - 16/02/2026 13:29:20 2656786 Link 0 |
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All of them? From the whole country? Thats an interesting take. So that rules out any AI for Cork, Galway, Waterford, Dublin, Wexford and Kilkenny in the coming years? Hardly any lads from those counties go to UL. And the ones that do arent the strongest players their counties have. And also that implies that anyone who doesn't go to college, at all, or drops out, can't be a top hurler either! Just out of interest why didnt Cian Lynch and Aaron Gillane go there then? Or Shane O'Donnell? Or Ronan Maher? Darragh Fitzgibbon? Lee Chin? Eoin Cody? Huw Lawlor? While they do get some top players for sure, they don't get all the top players, plenty of other top players choose to go elsewhere. And its a fact that noone from the East Coast goes there generally, and never did. I watch a few Fitzgibbon Cup games every year, they are great games to watch. But its a completely different kind of hurling to Senior Intercounty. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18380 - 16/02/2026 13:36:28 2656790 Link 0 |
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Since 2010- twice a Leinster team have won an u-20 All ireland and once a Leinster team has won a minor All Ireland. Scary.
countyman2022 (Wexford) - Posts: 933 - 16/02/2026 13:46:53 2656793 Link 0 |
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Yeah but aside from the GAA, a Limerick college will have a very significant share of Limerick students and those from surrounding counties, it's the same for any Cork college or any Dublin college Sure, the strength of Munster helps but UL have always been Limerick-heavy with a good few then from Tipperary and Clare ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 883 - 16/02/2026 14:26:41 2656804 Link 0 |
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Had a look at the WIT team who won the 2006 Fitzgibbon just to see the county breakdown ElGranSenor (Wexford) - Posts: 883 - 16/02/2026 14:48:23 2656809 Link 0 |
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Its scary for hurling in general ok. We need more competitive counties, not less. From our own point of view I couldn't care less about the other Leinster counties winning AIs or not tbh. I want to see us win some. Apart from a 5 year period from 1963 to 1968 we havent won't one ever, in near enough 100 years of the minor hurling championship. Those 3 wins came in the decade following a relatively successful decade for our Senior hurlers. We won 3 Senior all irelands from 5 appearances between 1954 and 1962. Interest in hurling in the county was at an all time high. From talking to great Wexford hurlers from the 60s and 70s the whole county was full of young lads with hurls in their hands during the late 50s and 60s. This almost certainly lead to our Minor successes in the mid 60s. It was also reflected in Schools hurling, with St Peters winning 3 Croke Cups from 5 appearances between 1960 and 1968. At the same time for all that underage success in the 1960s we didnt win a single Senior AI during the 1970s, mainly because Cork and Kilkenny were so strong. Problem is I'm not sure you can get that type of Senior success these days without having some sort of underage success first. We are maybe caught in a chicken and egg situation. We possibly wasted an opportunity after 96. I wasn't involved at any level back then so I don't know what we as a county were doing at underage in terms of any sort of coordinated underage structures and coaching at club or county level, but I do know there was a surge in young lads pucking a ball around on the streets at that time. The 2 Leinster titles this millennium were great but not the same as winning an AI. We also didnt back either of them up. Maybe on account of both involving a little luck. We reached the 2019 final despite only winning 1 game, against Carlow. We actually only won 2 Championship games all that year, although the flip side of that is we went through the whole year unbeaten until the AISF. And Im sure everyone remembers Mick Jacobs goal in the semifinal in 2004, when we snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. All we can do is keep trying to come up with new ideas, keep working hard, try to keep young lads hurling. And hope that something good comes out of it all. The only thing I do know is that collectively if we all give up trying we won't ever win another one. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18380 - 16/02/2026 15:39:29 2656821 Link 0 |
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Think they had 7 Limerick lads in the Fitzgibbon this year.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 18380 - 16/02/2026 15:41:53 2656823 Link 0 |