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Replying To Viking66: "If a team from div 3 or div 4 makes a Provincial Final they will jump ahead of ourselves and Down also." Yup. That's why I said 15th might get in. But the way I understand it right now, 16th definitely won't.
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Replying To Pikeman96: "Yup. That's why I said 15th might get in. But the way I understand it right now, 16th definitely won't." It wont Pikeman!
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19041 - 23/03/2026 16:36:28
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Congratulations to Darragh Brooks on making the GAA FTOTW
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Replying To Stmunnsriver: "more good news heard martin o conner is back training, now iv no idea what stage he is at but its a good sigh" Supposed to be back in action next month
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19041 - 23/03/2026 16:37:34
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Replying To beano: "I have had a couple of whatsapp recordings sent to me of the live radio commentary and someone spliced that together with the TG4 coverage today too. Its wonderful stuff." Any of them put up on YouTube yet Beano?
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19041 - 23/03/2026 16:38:54
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Replying To Formertownie: "I meant to sam mc guire" Ah ok
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19041 - 23/03/2026 16:51:10
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Replying To Viking66: "Congratulations to Darragh Brooks on making the GAA FTOTW" Great to be getting recognition but he has had better kickong days, although his 2 successful kicks in 2nd half were a game-changer. Well done Darragh.
Yellaman (Wexford) - Posts: 223 - 23/03/2026 17:42:01
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Replying To Viking66: "Would've been great if more had come. Still, the lads who didnt were the ones who missed out.
Think we have had that strip awhile, not sure how long.
It was very disappointing to read in the wake of the win a post online put up by a former Senior Football player complaining that we have 140 lads on the u14 hurling panel and that 30 can't play both.
Firstly there are 48, or maybe now 49, lads on the u14 hurling development squad. The regional idea with 120, not 140, lads was one I pushed for for a few years, as firstly there was demand for it, there were way more lads wanting to try for the u14 hurling development squad than the football one, and secondly the more successful counties at underage have similar numbers at u14, Clare, Cork, Tipp etc. As it was it was only partially adopted, there were 3 training sessions and a couple of short games on Paddy's Day for the 72 lads who arent on the 48. Might be another couple at Easter and in the summer. And ironically it was a man from a hurling club who didnt agree with the idea.
There are currently only 40 on the Football Development Squad at u14 as there werent enough lads deemed good enough by the Football men running the programme. There will be additional lads invited based on club/school form to fill the other 8 places. So where you would get 120 boys to fill a similar programme for Football is a big problem. There werent even 120 lads apply to try out for the u14 Football development squad in total in the firat place.
The idea behind only doing 1 or other from u14 to minor is to maximise contacts in both. When lads were dual from u14 to minor they were missing training sessions and matches where these clashed, which turned out to be quite often with pitch availability etc, which didnt help their personal development in either code, or help other panel members and coaches of either either.
The aim for both the Hurling and Football development squads is to try to produce elite hurlers and footballers for our Senior teams. Its sad when GAA people are trying to stoke divisions in the county, when there are increasingly more elite young sportspeople in the county pursuing soccer and rugby instead.
At the end of the day if young lads dont want to be elite Footballers its up to Football men in the county at grassroots level to try get more young people interested in playing the game. Our club promotes both codes evenly, we would traditionally be a more Football leaning club, but we can't force our young people to prefer one over the other, and interestingly we have lads on the u16, u15 and u14 hurling development squads, but only lads on the u14 Football development squad." Do Clare, Cork, and Tipp have 120 hurlers each at 14? Thought I had read that it was more like 72 in Clare
And how long have we been trying to run two teams for each age group in football? Only used to be one team over 10 years ago if my memory serves me correctly
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special mention to the medical crew who got eoghan nolan match fit in a few days
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Replying To ElGranSenor: "Do Clare, Cork, and Tipp have 120 hurlers each at 14? Thought I had read that it was more like 72 in Clare
And how long have we been trying to run two teams for each age group in football? Only used to be one team over 10 years ago if my memory serves me correctly" No its over 100 in Clare at u14 these days. Football squads and hurling squads are the same size here in Wexford the last few years.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19041 - 23/03/2026 22:08:18
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Replying To ElGranSenor: "Do Clare, Cork, and Tipp have 120 hurlers each at 14? Thought I had read that it was more like 72 in Clare
And how long have we been trying to run two teams for each age group in football? Only used to be one team over 10 years ago if my memory serves me correctly" No its over 100 in Clare at u14 these days. Kilkenny have nearly 80, and Galway nearly 90.
Football squads and hurling squads are the same size here in Wexford the last few years.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19041 - 23/03/2026 22:09:01
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Minors got a wallowing from Wicklow last night.
Scoreline says it all. Wicklow 0.14 Wexford 0.03.
Expected a lot better than 0.03. That's averaging
0.01 point every 20 minutes. Pathetic really.
Hopefully they can do much better in the games to come. But a dreadful opening game.
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Replying To Magpie2: "Minors got a wallowing from Wicklow last night.
Scoreline says it all. Wicklow 0.14 Wexford 0.03.
Expected a lot better than 0.03. That's averaging
0.01 point every 20 minutes. Pathetic really.
Hopefully they can do much better in the games to come. But a dreadful opening game." Correction-- Typo error. Meant to say walloping.
Not "wallowing"
Sorry about that.
Magpie2 (Wexford) - Posts: 658 - 25/03/2026 14:40:45
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And to make it even worse, two of those points for the Minors were from frees. Only one point scored from play in the entire match.
And while I don't want to be pessimistic in what's a great week for Wexford football overall, I'd be fearful of what might happen the U20s against Dublin tonight too. But have to be realistic about it, all the same.
Pikeman96 (Wexford) - Posts: 3464 - 25/03/2026 14:59:35
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Replying To Magpie2: "Minors got a wallowing from Wicklow last night.
Scoreline says it all. Wicklow 0.14 Wexford 0.03.
Expected a lot better than 0.03. That's averaging
0.01 point every 20 minutes. Pathetic really.
Hopefully they can do much better in the games to come. But a dreadful opening game." Poor result. Poor performance. Wasnt expecting the lads to win the game, its a strong Wicklow group this year, but we only managed 3 points with a strongish wind in the 1st half, and only attempted 6, six, shots the entire half. The lads need to be more confident in themselves. Nothing ventured, and all that. Next up is Kilkenny so likely a much changed team, but hopefully we can get a win against Carlow in our last group game. Alot of work to do before then, and hopefully the lads will be alot more positive than they were last night.
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Replying To Viking66: "Poor result. Poor performance. Wasnt expecting the lads to win the game, its a strong Wicklow group this year, but we only managed 3 points with a strongish wind in the 1st half, and only attempted 6, six, shots the entire half. The lads need to be more confident in themselves. Nothing ventured, and all that. Next up is Kilkenny so likely a much changed team, but hopefully we can get a win against Carlow in our last group game. Alot of work to do before then, and hopefully the lads will be alot more positive than they were last night." It's a strong Wicklow group we beat only 7 Months ago at U16 level. No excuse for that performance. And why do we have to go with 5/6 younger players again.
Plus play a sweeper and 5 forwards with a gale in the 1st half.
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Replying To Magpie2: "Minors got a wallowing from Wicklow last night.
Scoreline says it all. Wicklow 0.14 Wexford 0.03.
Expected a lot better than 0.03. That's averaging
0.01 point every 20 minutes. Pathetic really.
Hopefully they can do much better in the games to come. But a dreadful opening game." To be honest I hate saying it but the set up of the team and tactical approach was chronic.
If you get beat, you get beat but at least have a go. Defenders sitting in all game even with a sweeper in place, only means of attack is solo runners with no one coming off the shoulder and everything slow and side to side, its almost fhe opposite of how our senior team play. I know thats a very young minor team with a lot of them minor next year but its like a team set up to play under the old rules.
The u20s will be up against it particularly with the few injuries they have but then again its Dublin here so they'll always be up against it.
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Replying To tearintom: "To be honest I hate saying it but the set up of the team and tactical approach was chronic.
If you get beat, you get beat but at least have a go. Defenders sitting in all game even with a sweeper in place, only means of attack is solo runners with no one coming off the shoulder and everything slow and side to side, its almost fhe opposite of how our senior team play. I know thats a very young minor team with a lot of them minor next year but its like a team set up to play under the old rules.
The u20s will be up against it particularly with the few injuries they have but then again its Dublin here so they'll always be up against it." Are Rossiter and Hughes going to be out for long? Is Gethings in with them too?
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19041 - 25/03/2026 17:11:35
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Replying To Paull: "It's a strong Wicklow group we beat only 7 Months ago at U16 level. No excuse for that performance. And why do we have to go with 5/6 younger players again.
Plus play a sweeper and 5 forwards with a gale in the 1st half." Not sure about last year at u16, or how relevant that is either. But going on this years results Wicklow beat Carlow by 12, who beat Limerick by 12. We lost a close game to Limerick.
Agree 100% there needs to be a way more positive approach from our team. Let the lads play more Football.
Viking66 (Wexford) - Posts: 19041 - 25/03/2026 17:14:24
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Replying To tearintom: "To be honest I hate saying it but the set up of the team and tactical approach was chronic.
If you get beat, you get beat but at least have a go. Defenders sitting in all game even with a sweeper in place, only means of attack is solo runners with no one coming off the shoulder and everything slow and side to side, its almost fhe opposite of how our senior team play. I know thats a very young minor team with a lot of them minor next year but its like a team set up to play under the old rules.
The u20s will be up against it particularly with the few injuries they have but then again its Dublin here so they'll always be up against it." Heard the same unfortunately. Can never understand the logic of going out and not having a go.
WexMurph (Wexford) - Posts: 346 - 25/03/2026 18:03:51
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