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Replying To Onfor15: "Shane Reck is 100% in our best 6 backs." Think he's ahead of Simon d to be honest. We're also forgetting Devitt who's flying. Would personally drop mogie for Dunbar or Dwyer. All in all it's great to have this problem. Imagine being in the position we were in against tipp in 19, or extra time with kk last year and having Dunbar, mogie, Morris, Foley to come in and steady the ship Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3823 - 03/03/2022 12:04:27 2403603 Link
Replying To Onfor15: "Shane Reck is 100% in our best 6 backs." You could make a case that he did the best man marking job of any player in the country on Tony Kelly in championship in the last 2 years bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 03/03/2022 12:14:53 2403606 Link
Replying To Onfor15: "Shane Reck is 100% in our best 6 backs." 100% LarryOBrother (Wexford) - Posts: 412 - 03/03/2022 12:22:44 2403609 Link
Replying To wexico15: "You could make a case that he did the best man marking job of any player in the country on Tony Kelly in championship in the last 2 years" He did. Very close between him and Simon. MOH unstoppable on this years form. Theres a good few lads on the bench who wouldnt weaken the team at all if selected to start. Long time since any of us could say that. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16534 - 03/03/2022 13:03:38 2403620 Link
Replying To Viking66: "He did. Very close between him and Simon. MOH unstoppable on this years form. Theres a good few lads on the bench who wouldnt weaken the team at all if selected to start. Long time since any of us could say that." Undroppable Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16534 - 03/03/2022 13:53:39 2403639 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Undroppable" Undroppable and unstoppable on this years form so far:) bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 03/03/2022 14:00:58 2403642 Link
Replying To Yellow: "What is our best team at the moment if everyone is fit? Id go with Fanning Hanlon Ryan Donohue Flood P Foley D Reck K Foley D O Keefe O Foley Chin J O Connor R O Connor Mac Liam Og" I'd have Shane Reck for Donohoe aswell. Donohoe has plenty of experience and is a good option too. Also think I'd have Dwyer in for Liam Og or Oisin Foley. Plenty of competition for places which is great to see Afinestick (Wexford) - Posts: 999 - 03/03/2022 15:12:13 2403659 Link
Replying To Yellow: "What is our best team at the moment if everyone is fit? Id go with Fanning Hanlon Ryan Donohue Flood P Foley D Reck K Foley D O Keefe O Foley Chin J O Connor R O Connor Mac Liam Og" Has Mac done enough to get in there - he has shown just how good he can be in flashes but is will Egan be happy with his workrate? You would if the last couple of years and what would look like an apparent lack of fitness can be fixed in a short period of time. Hopefully come championship he will be ok as he is still lethal when he gets the ball. zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 2025 - 03/03/2022 16:15:48 2403678 Link
Replying To zinny: "Has Mac done enough to get in there - he has shown just how good he can be in flashes but is will Egan be happy with his workrate? You would if the last couple of years and what would look like an apparent lack of fitness can be fixed in a short period of time. Hopefully come championship he will be ok as he is still lethal when he gets the ball." His aerial threat makes him an automatic for me, arguably his aerial ability is as good as any FF line player in the country. bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 03/03/2022 16:27:17 2403680 Link
Replying To zinny: "Has Mac done enough to get in there - he has shown just how good he can be in flashes but is will Egan be happy with his workrate? You would if the last couple of years and what would look like an apparent lack of fitness can be fixed in a short period of time. Hopefully come championship he will be ok as he is still lethal when he gets the ball." I think Mac is a vital cog in this team. He's not the fastest but with the new style of play under Egan there will be a lot more opportunities for him compared with the constant short ball that Davy insisted on. With more close to goal action the better our chances of scores. Mac is clever and it would be silly to leave him sitting on the bench. Blockandhook (Wexford) - Posts: 668 - 03/03/2022 16:40:55 2403685 Link
Replying To Blockandhook: "I think Mac is a vital cog in this team. He's not the fastest but with the new style of play under Egan there will be a lot more opportunities for him compared with the constant short ball that Davy insisted on. With more close to goal action the better our chances of scores. Mac is clever and it would be silly to leave him sitting on the bench." Agree. Mac may not have the pace of a lot of inside forwards but I'd say he's feared by opposing players and management. He got his fair share of scores under Davy even if the game plan often made him a peripheral figure. Himself and Rory in the full forward line could cause havoc or at least I hope they will. Get quality ball into them and they'll score HurlingBuzz (Wexford) - Posts: 554 - 03/03/2022 16:56:59 2403687 Link
Replying To wexico15: "His aerial threat makes him an automatic for me, arguably his aerial ability is as good as any FF line player in the country." Mac is very good at weaving and turning and getting the ball over the bar or in the net. Lethal even. Right up with the best. He isnt great under a high dropping ball so I dont think he has aerial ability as such. He always seemed better when getting low diagonal ball in. Hes not fast maybe he should go on whatever program MOH was on last winter. Would still pick him though. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16534 - 03/03/2022 17:31:11 2403692 Link
Fanning S Reck Jippo MOH D Reck P Foley C Flood DOK K Foley O Foley Chin JOC Dwyer Mac ROC I think that's our best team but their is competition and that is great to see. Dwyer has to be in there for me his pace is electric and it was hard to leave Dunbar out as well. Shane Reck is well ahead of Simon for me but Egan seems to prefer Simon. Mac is in there all day and is an automatic starter ChinCanHurl (Wexford) - Posts: 302 - 03/03/2022 18:40:04 2403696 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Mac is very good at weaving and turning and getting the ball over the bar or in the net. Lethal even. Right up with the best. He isnt great under a high dropping ball so I dont think he has aerial ability as such. He always seemed better when getting low diagonal ball in. Hes not fast maybe he should go on whatever program MOH was on last winter. Would still pick him though." His 2 points against Clare a few weeks ago if you remember them show his talents, picked the defenders pocket for the 1st with a fantastic piece of skill, for the 2nd brilliant fetch in the air and popped it over the shoulder between the posts, as was mentioned earlier his threat worries defences. Funnily on Matt, Harry Kehoe mentioned in his interview a few weeks ago that people don't realise how quick he is. bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 03/03/2022 21:39:19 2403715 Link
Strong enough team named! Strong spine- MOH, Damien Reck in his preferred spot at 6, DOK and Kevin Foley, Mac and ROC up top. Great to see Bailey back for his 1st start of the year! Nice mix of 1st teamers and young extended panel lads on the bench too! Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16534 - 04/03/2022 08:34:11 2403730 Link
Replying To wexico15: "His 2 points against Clare a few weeks ago if you remember them show his talents, picked the defenders pocket for the 1st with a fantastic piece of skill, for the 2nd brilliant fetch in the air and popped it over the shoulder between the posts, as was mentioned earlier his threat worries defences. Funnily on Matt, Harry Kehoe mentioned in his interview a few weeks ago that people don't realise how quick he is." He looks 2 stone lighter this year and is noticeably quicker in the turn and over the first 5 yards. That's where he had lost pace by bulking up. And that's where you really need your speed. Mac was and is still a lethal finisher. Macs was a good catch in thr air for that point but Cleary won most of the high aerial ball into the 2 of them over the course of the game. I still think he prefers lower ball into him. He has the size to win that kind of ball. We have to find ways of getting more ball into his hand. Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 16534 - 04/03/2022 09:43:42 2403735 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Strong enough team named! Strong spine- MOH, Damien Reck in his preferred spot at 6, DOK and Kevin Foley, Mac and ROC up top. Great to see Bailey back for his 1st start of the year! Nice mix of 1st teamers and young extended panel lads on the bench too!" Yeah hoping there just been careful with Ryan and Chin that's close enough to what I would have picked, if I was nitpicking I wouldn't have minded Dee getting a rest and playing 1 of Dunbar, Dwyer or Casey, if it was Dwyer or Casey I would have played Hearne in midfield. If the 15 named start I think 5 players (MOH, D Reck, Jacko, Dee and McGuckin) would have started the 4 league games. Actually think Jacko started all the Walsh Cup games and the challenge game vs Tipp too while MOH and McGuckin have started every game bar Laois in the Walsh Cup. bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 04/03/2022 10:36:07 2403741 Link
Replying To Viking66: "He looks 2 stone lighter this year and is noticeably quicker in the turn and over the first 5 yards. That's where he had lost pace by bulking up. And that's where you really need your speed. Mac was and is still a lethal finisher. Macs was a good catch in thr air for that point but Cleary won most of the high aerial ball into the 2 of them over the course of the game. I still think he prefers lower ball into him. He has the size to win that kind of ball. We have to find ways of getting more ball into his hand." The beauty of having an aerial threat close to goal is he doesn't need to win every ball to be effective and his presence there will always worry opposition, we could drive 3 balls in over the game the full back could win 2 but Mac could pick the other and a goal come off it. bostonredsox (Wexford) - Posts: 4368 - 04/03/2022 10:38:28 2403742 Link
Replying To Viking66: "Mac is very good at weaving and turning and getting the ball over the bar or in the net. Lethal even. Right up with the best. He isnt great under a high dropping ball so I dont think he has aerial ability as such. He always seemed better when getting low diagonal ball in. Hes not fast maybe he should go on whatever program MOH was on last winter. Would still pick him though." I wouldn't often disagree with you, but I think mac's Ariel ability is among the best in the game. We haven't seen it a lot in the last few years as he was so often totally isolated where teams put 2 or 3 men on him and he still won his fair share. In a one v one situation he's almost unstoppable as he's demonstrated hundreds of times. Doylerwex (Wexford) - Posts: 3823 - 04/03/2022 10:39:00 2403743 Link
Replying To Doylerwex: "I wouldn't often disagree with you, but I think mac's Ariel ability is among the best in the game. We haven't seen it a lot in the last few years as he was so often totally isolated where teams put 2 or 3 men on him and he still won his fair share. In a one v one situation he's almost unstoppable as he's demonstrated hundreds of times." I am not sure I buy into the reason he hasn't been great on the last couple of years is down to how Davey wanted the game played. A modern 14 should be able to play all versions of the game. In my it wasn't the tactics but blind loyalty. zinny (Wexford) - Posts: 2025 - 04/03/2022 11:15:30 2403756 Link