Congrats wexico on a very good win today..I always thought this would be difficult for limerick..Wexford always hard to beat down there..think for kiely the most disappointing aspect is the lack of scores from forwards..thought Wexford should have won a lot handier,mc Donald missed a sitter in 2nd half..some of the wides on both sides today were awful..I'd expect huge improvement as league moves on..apart from hego up front on threat..our backs did ok I thought as did Wexford backs..thought reffing was strange,fellas penalized harshly for over carrying but then some dodgy physical exchanges left go..great to have crowds back to,really adds to atmosphere..

CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2569 - 06/02/2022 16:30:16    2398598

Past hurler (None) - Posts: 970 - 06/02/2022 16:34:24    2398600

Blockandhook (Wexford) - Posts: 668 - 06/02/2022 16:36:06    2398601

PItch horrible, horrible, here in Parnell Park. Shane Bennett turned once and half the field came up causing him to fall in a hole. Dublin took great scores and it was a well contested bad game. Danny was lucky not to go also but better to see players on the field. The neck and head challenges are getting ridiculous.
Waterford have a lot more scope as that was about half the team. Dublin have a few to come in but less options. However on a given day they will pose problems for other teams.
I don't like criticizing refs but if you leave two margin calls close to each other against one team and they get turned over but then you call the margin one against them it looks bad. Especially all in the one sequence of play.

Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 3125 - 06/02/2022 17:56:09    2398625

Canuck (Waterford) - Posts: 3125 - 06/02/2022 18:06:35    2398633

Jack O Connor Hanlon and Liam Og played their best games in years.

Yellow (Wexford) - Posts: 589 - 06/02/2022 18:16:31    2398640

Canuck I'll comment on the hurling league rather than on Wexford one..

CTGAA10 (Limerick) - Posts: 2569 - 06/02/2022 18:24:57    2398642

I got it very wrong and happily so.

Chalk and cheese performances between this week and the Dublin game. I was very impressed with the hunting and the hassling that all players did. I do think we got the rub of the green at important times but a little bit of luck was just reward for the efforts that went in. Limerick had no clear goal scoring chance while we had at least 3.

Special mention I think goes to two newcomers Oisin Foley and Charlie McGuckien. Charlie did trojan work and Oisin provided a couple of new nice scores.

In the backs Matthew O'Hanlon seems to be suited to the full back line now as there isn't as much ground to be covered.

Overall plenty of positives to take from it but I'm not getting carried away yet.

Onfor15 (Wexford) - Posts: 533 - 07/02/2022 09:16:27    2398789

Brilliant performance yesterday lads. Full back line in particular were outstanding. This is the benchmark now and we have to try reach these levels of intensity every week now. We still have Kevin Foley, Lee Chin , Rory O Connor and Shane Reck to come back into the team. We are starting to build a squad now which is exciting. Particularly delighted for young lads like McGuckian, Dwyer and Connal Flood who showed yesterday they can compete at this level. Roll on Sunday now hopefully we can build on this

Afinestick (Wexford) - Posts: 999 - 07/02/2022 09:25:32    2398792

bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 07/02/2022 10:30:29    2398822

Don't post but had a look after the Walsh Cup match.
Love the way some posters who were all out in force last weekend, only contribute to clarify a blood line today. A chip on a shoulder
It was the first match I think Wexford were ever out numbered in our own turf. I was amazed at the Limerick crowd who travelled. Fair play, I remember a time circa 2010 when Wexford v Limerick had about 500 and 50 of them from Limerick.
Great performances all over the field, I don't think Wexford will be getting carried away as Limerick will be a different proposition in Summer time with a full deck with Cian Lynch, etc. At least we have Chin, Foley and ROC to come back too.
O'Hanlon hasn't hurled as well for Wexford for 3 years. He was outstanding.
Good performances all over the field, as Afinestick says the likes of MuGuckin, Foley and Dwyer emptied the tank and as the future of Wexford need to get lots of action.
It is round 1 in February and I judge team on a year not a match, but an encouraging start to the league. It is better that we are in that division as we need more hurling against top teams. We get 4 top matches in this group.

StoreysTash (Wexford) - Posts: 1890 - 07/02/2022 10:31:13    2398823

It was definitely a world away from how we set up in the Walsh cup and as was alluded to on the sunday game was the perfect way to set up against Limerick.

It was one of the best low scoring games ive seen in ages.

The most impressive thing yesterday was the sheer work rate, it was through the roof. Also a definite style of play emerging that looks very promising

Special mention for O hanlon who i thought was going to struggle as a corner back but quite the opposite and young Conall Flood, best 2 players on display for me.

tearintom (Wexford) - Posts: 1527 - 07/02/2022 10:44:20    2398828

Great performance from Wexford. Congratulations. Some monumental performances from the backs. I thought the game plan was good..mixing short and long..No matter what Davy says it was always only short with him.
Limericks backs were good. Nash was outstanding. The forwards were terrible outside of Hegarty. Morrissey needs lots of games normally to get up to speed..nomfear of him. However Young O Neill was poor..fell once and threw the ball up to a wexford man..gave a few overhit and then under hit passes . David Reidy and Pat Ryan were rash with tbe ball in hand. Pat Ryan has no composure. But it does show that when a team is slightly off they can be beaten.. no harm to lose to get them back working..
Forgot about Gillane..He didn't even get off the bus...he was that bad.

bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 07/02/2022 11:40:25    2398848

bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 07/02/2022 11:50:50    2398857

MOH seems to have slotted into corner back perfectly a position that was lacklustre for us over the last few years and now with him and Devitt and Reck we have a nice few options there. With Chin ROC and Foley to come back in as well you would have to be positive. Hopefully we can back this up with a solid performance against Clare, a team we have really struggled against in recent years.

ChinCanHurl (Wexford) - Posts: 302 - 07/02/2022 12:34:44    2398878

bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 07/02/2022 12:41:43    2398880

Well done to all involved.

I think the most impressive thing from yesterday was the attitude/work rate. Well done Darragh Egan.

Very good performances all on and off the field.
1 guy who I thought did a very good unglamorous and unseen job was Cathal Dunbar at midfield. He broke up a lot of Limerick's play, covered a lot of ground and did a lot of defensive work competing for the dirty ball.

On a different note, in the not so distant past, we over relied on a small number of forwards to get multiple scores regularly from play - we were in trouble if these lads had an off day or an opposition player played well.
The development (and contribution of scores from play) of Connal Flood, Charlie McGuickian, Oisin Foley and Mikie Dwyer is crucial as to how far this team can progress. All of them did well yesterday. The more game time they get the better.

Anyway ... well done to everybody involved!

Punter72007 (Wexford) - Posts: 318 - 07/02/2022 12:56:21    2398884

Onfor15 (Wexford) - Posts: 533 - 07/02/2022 13:20:16    2398896

I was one of many who said we didn't have a hope yesterday. Of course i am delighted to be so very wrong. I based my prediction on the Dublin game. In that match we were way off the pace and allowed Dublin to run riot. Perhaps on reflection maybe Darragh Egan told them not to over exert themselves as there was bigger fish to fry the following week. What we witnessed yesterday was just brilliant. They fought for every ball, and won a lot of the rucks. It was heartwarming to see a wexford back coming out with ball in hand and launching attacks. One man who has been criticised here and elsewhere was Matthew O'Hanlon. He was immense yesterday. I was delighted for him. In fact all the backs should take a bow. MAC Was in the thick of things much more than he was under Davy. This augers well for the future. Overall a great team performance but the question is, can we keep it up? Consistency has been our problem but with the tweaking of our style of play and with our three or four main men to return certainly there is every reason to be optimistic.

Blockandhook (Wexford) - Posts: 668 - 07/02/2022 13:24:19    2398899

Bon (Kildare) - Posts: 2418 - 07/02/2022 13:31:14    2398904