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Good report on Football Thanks Castlletown.


Hurlers play Tipp in Cashel next Sunday

They had a workout last Sunday last against the U21's and were much to strong

castletownman

The quickest draw in administerial history was made tonight, and it brought up some interesting groups.

Senior football:
Group A: St.Anne's, Shelmaliers, Sarsfields, St.Fintan's, Fethard, Adamstown. Four Wexford district derbies, including a chance for Shels to avenge their semi final defeat to the Anne's, and Fethard avenge their under-21 final loss to Shels makes it a very intriguing group.

Group B: Gusserane, Castletown, St.Martin's, Horeswood, St.James, Starlights. Again it affords Castletown the chance for revenge on Gusserane, and Martin's on Castletown. Gusserane met Martin's and Starlights in last year's group stage, and Horewood played Castletown and the Intermediate champions in the group stage last year too.

Senior hurling:
Group A: St.Anne's, Rapparees, Glynn Barntown, Rathnure, St.Martin's, Cloughbawn. St.Anne's close to winning it out last year, Rapps and Martin's share the last four Premier minor titles between them, Glynn a developing side who pulled off the shock of all shocks last year. Will be tough for Cloughbawn.

Group B: Shelmaliers, Ferns, Oulart, Buffers Alley, Faythe Harriers, Shamrocks. Tough on Shamrocks, seeing as four of the teams in this group have all either won or finished runner up in each of the last three finals.

Inter hurling
Group A: Duffry Rovers, Crossabeg Ballymurn, Askamore, Ballygarrett, Oylegate, Oulart. Even enough. Nearly harder to call the two that won't qualify

Group B: Adamstown, Craanford, Naomh Eanna, HWH Bunclody, Blackwater, Rathgarogue Cushinstown. Again it's anyone's guess who'll advance from that.

Inter football:
Group A: Glynn Barntown, Taghmon Camross, HWH Bunclody, Ballyhogue, Craanford, Ferns. Hurling aspirations will impact on the likes of Craanford and Ferns, so you'd imagine they'd be the favourites not to qualify.

Group B: Kilarnerin, Kilmore, Bannow Ballymitty, St.Mary's Rosslare, St.Mary's Maudlintown, Clongeen. Interesting to see how both Kilarnerin re-adjust and Maudlintown fit in to life in Intermediate football.

mullinr2

What happened to the wexford supporters discussion forum? Who won the Tipp Wex challenge?

Clonmel1000

mullinr2 wrote: »

What happened to the wexford supporters discussion forum? Who won the Tipp Wex challenge?

Tipp by 5 points

The Slobs

Tipp 2.15 to 00-16 Wex

Mixed bag for Wexford who had the wind in first half and played well after a slow start only to ship a late goal goal before half time to lead --10 to 1.03.

Tipp scored a goal early in the second half when the Wexford wing back Foley was struck in the head by a hurl when under a dropping ball with the Tipp player going uncarded. Wex player had to leave pitch injured and when play resumed wexford were down a man and the spare Tipp player scored the goal. Wex subs had being warming up on a back pitch and were late comning on. Callanan only played the second half and for ten minutes threatened to win the game on his own before Wexford backs contained him

Chin was outstanding at centre back Redmond and Kehoe went well midfield with the two wing forwards Byrne and Morris very lively . Breen saved the one on one penalty and young wing back Foley has a big presence in the air before going off injured. On a heavy pitch and difficult weather conditions the rest of the forwards struggled at times to be consistent.

A second wexford selection had beaten CIT on Saturday by 5/6 points with an impressive Aidan Nolan suffering a broken bone in his hand

Wexford have again have two matches for the comning week end with a selection playing Clare on Saturday and another selection playing UCD in Gorey on sunday

The locals will have a decision to make as UCD have Conor Mc Donald Eoin Conroy and Conor Devitt on board as well as Matthew O Hanlon Jack O Connor and Sean Murphy (Buffers Alley) plus match reporter Michael Dwyer !!!

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Wexford 4--16 to 1.20 Clare played today

The Slobs

Liam Dunne has announced his panel for round 3 of the Bord Na Mona Walsh Cup away to Laois this Sunday.



Tomas Waters has been named as captain for the day.



1 MARK FANNING GLYNN BARNTOWN
2 LIAM RYAN RAPPAREES
3 TOMAS WATERS ST MARTINS Capt.
4 EOIN MOORE OULART THE BALLAGH
5 RICHIE KEHOE FAYTHE HARRIERS
6 PAUDIE FOLEY CROSSABEG/BALLYMURN
7 CIARAN KENNY BUFFERS ALLEY
8 BENNY BARRON SHELMALIERS
9 GARRETT SINNOTT OULART THE BALLAGH
10 JOE KELLY SHELMALIERS
11 DAITHI WATERS ST MARTINS
12 IAN BYRNE FERNS ST AIDANS
13 CIARAN O’SHAUGHNESSY SHELMALIERS
14 SHANE TOMKINS ASKAMORE
15 KEVIN FOLEY RAPPAREES
16 NIALL BREEN TARA ROCKS
17 ANDREW KENNY BUFFERS ALLEY
18 DAVID REDMOND OULART THE BALLAGH
19 PAUL MORRIS FERNS ST AIDANS
20 HARRY KEHOE CLOUGHBAWN
21 SIMON DONOHOE SHELMALIERS
22 SHANE O’GORMAN ADAMSTOWN
23 WILLIE DEVEREUX ST MARTINS
24 AIDAN CASH SHELMALIERS
25 PODGE DORAN OYLEGATE/GLENBRIEN

thinkstoomuch1

Yere playing cork Saturday week challenge match cit

homeofhurling

didn't see that coming today well beaten by laois who have came on a ton over the last two years.

Fireball07

homeofhurling wrote: »

didn't see that coming today well beaten by laois who have came on a ton over the last two years.

Hardly the strongest Wexford team though:

No Lee Chin, O'Keeffe, McGovern, Rossiter, O'Hanlon, Conor McDonald, Guiney; Redmond & Morris only on the bench.


Laois weren't quite at full-strength either, I don't think, and they are moving well in the right direction but I doubt it will worry Liam Dunne that much tbh.

Fireball07

What happened to your footballers today? Bit of a shock to lose so badly.

nobody told me

A team in transition and will be for a while with little to no talent coming through. Guys like joey wadding and rob tierney as dedicated as they are, are well exposed at this level and just not good enough. Maybe there isn't guys coming through that are better than them. Daithi will also be a huge loss

The Slobs

Wexford underage has gone back to hurling and it has being that way for the last decade,

There is a vibrant club underage football scene that goes hand in hand with hurling

But

when it comes to county football squads nobody wants to know

gizmo23

I dont think losing to clare was a shock more the manner of it... We missed at least four guilt edge goal chances in the first half.. The wheels came off badly in the second.. we just lost all sense of what the right option was.

we were out graham molloy and a fully fit brian malone ( i know he played second half but he is not 100%)... we need to take this on the chin.. the game against armagh has now takin on a huge signiffince if we get another trimming it could start to effect us confidence wise.

The Slobs

Interesting to see Kevin O'Connor of the Shels came on as a sub for the footballers V Armagh last Sunday

I tought he had gone to Hull , Must of being a trial

Hopefully he can play a part with Wexford footballers in the future . Kevin and his club mates Simon Donohoe and Eoghan Nolan represent a new generation of footballers.

bruschi

The Slobs wrote: »

Interesting to see Kevin O'Connor of the Shels came on as a sub for the footballers V Armagh last Sunday

I tought he had gone to Hull , Must of being a trial

Hopefully he can play a part with Wexford footballers in the future . Kevin and his club mates Simon Donohoe and Eoghan Nolan represent a new generation of footballers.

I find it odd how players wont play minor for their county but yet will play U21/senior the year out of minor. Its an odd trend that seems to be happening more and more often.

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1 MARK FANNING GLYNN BARNTOWN
2 EOIN MOORE OULART THE BALLAGH
3 TOMAS WATERS Capt. ST MARTINS
4 CIARAN KENNY BUFFERS ALLEY
5 PAUDIE FOLEY CROSSABEG/BALLYMURN
6 LEE CHIN FAYTHE HARRIERS
7 DAVID REDMOND OULART THE BALLAGH
8 PAUL MORRIS FERNS ST AIDANS
9 GARRETT SINNOTT OULART THE BALLAGH
10 IAN BYRNE FERNS ST AIDANS
11 DAITHI WATERS ST MARTINS
12 DIARMUID O’KEEFFE ST ANNES
13 KEVIN FOLEY RAPPAREES
14 JACK GUINEY RATHNURE
15 LIAM OG MCGOVERN ST ANNES
16 NIALL BREEN TARA ROCKS
17 LIAM RYAN RAPPAREES
18 RICHIE KEHOE FAYTHE HARRIERS
19 EOIN CONROY NAOMH EANNA
20 EANNA MARTIN SARSFIELDS CORK
21 HARRY KEHOE CLOUGHBAWN
22 JOE KELLY SHELMALIERS
23 WILLIE DEVEREUX ST MARTINS
24 SHANE TOMKINS ASKAMORE
25 PODGE DORAN OYLEGATE/GLENBRIEN
26 CONOR DEVITT BALLYFAD

Team for Sunday V Antrim I B Hurling

Injured Conor Mc Donald , Aidan Nolan
Suspended Matthew O Hanlon

The Slobs

bruschi wrote: »

I find it odd how players wont play minor for their county but yet will play U21/senior the year out of minor. Its an odd trend that seems to be happening more and more often.

Simon Donohoe and Kevin O Connor played Minor football

Eoghan Nolan did not due to leaving cert

bruschi

The Slobs wrote: »

Simon Donohoe and Kevin O Connor played Minor football

Eoghan Nolan did not due to leaving cert

they didnt play the year they were up to the age which was a much better team. they played on the side that lost to Carlow. all 3 would have been big additions to that team that was also missing other players who didnt commit either.

homeofhurling

only Joe Kelly from Shelmaliars on the panel from the county champions.

westsidestory

The Slobs wrote: »

1 MARK FANNING GLYNN BARNTOWN
2 EOIN MOORE OULART THE BALLAGH
3 TOMAS WATERS Capt. ST MARTINS
4 CIARAN KENNY BUFFERS ALLEY
5 PAUDIE FOLEY CROSSABEG/BALLYMURN
6 LEE CHIN FAYTHE HARRIERS
7 DAVID REDMOND OULART THE BALLAGH
8 PAUL MORRIS FERNS ST AIDANS
9 GARRETT SINNOTT OULART THE BALLAGH
10 IAN BYRNE FERNS ST AIDANS
11 DAITHI WATERS ST MARTINS
12 DIARMUID O’KEEFFE ST ANNES
13 KEVIN FOLEY RAPPAREES
14 JACK GUINEY RATHNURE
15 LIAM OG MCGOVERN ST ANNES
16 NIALL BREEN TARA ROCKS
17 LIAM RYAN RAPPAREES
18 RICHIE KEHOE FAYTHE HARRIERS
19 EOIN CONROY NAOMH EANNA
20 EANNA MARTIN SARSFIELDS CORK
21 HARRY KEHOE CLOUGHBAWN
22 JOE KELLY SHELMALIERS
23 WILLIE DEVEREUX ST MARTINS
24 SHANE TOMKINS ASKAMORE
25 PODGE DORAN OYLEGATE/GLENBRIEN
26 CONOR DEVITT BALLYFAD

Team for Sunday V Antrim I B Hurling

Injured Conor Mc Donald , Aidan Nolan
Suspended Matthew O Hanlon

First Rapparees player to play for Wexford in long time ? Since Adrian Fenlon even ??

The Slobs

bruschi wrote: »

they didnt play the year they were up to the age which was a much better team. they played on the side that lost to Carlow. all 3 would have been big additions to that team that was also missing other players who didnt commit either.

Simon Donohoe did

Kevin O Connor had signed for Soccer that year ( Many Wexford footballers travelled that route before returning to gaelic) He has yet to play senior for his club.

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westsidestory wrote: »

First Rapparees player to play for Wexford in long time ? Since Adrian Fenlon even ??

Declan Ruth , Liam Ryan even ?

westsidestory

The Slobs wrote: »

Declan Ruth , Liam Ryan even ?

Should of known Skippy, oversight. Is hurling and football in Enniscorthy making any headway again? (born and dragged up there for a bit)

The Slobs

westsidestory wrote: »

Should of known Skippy, oversight. Is hurling and football in Enniscorthy making any headway again? (born and dragged up there for a bit)

The Rapps have just had a good run at Minor winning three in a row hurling titles up to 2013 and the football as well that year.

There are hopes for two huge talents from those years with Liam Ryan a 19 year old in 2014 the first making a breakthrough in last years championship.

The second is Kevin Foley who will make his first league start V Antrim on Sunday next and is the same age as Liam Ryan.

The Rapps have high expecations for this group, but town teams find it difficult to hold on to their players and to date at U21 they have not converted any of the minor titles into u21's

westsidestory

The Slobs wrote: »

The Rapps have just had a good run at Minor winning three in a row hurling titles up to 2013 and the football as well that year.

There are hopes for two huge talents from those years with Liam Ryan a 19 year old in 2014 the first making a breakthrough in last years championship.

The second is Kevin Foley who will make his first league start V Antrim on Sunday next and is the same age as Liam Ryan.

The Rapps have high expecations for this group, but town teams find it difficult to hold on to their players and to date at U21 they have not converted any of the minor titles into u21's

Thanks for that. Rapps and Starlights should probably have the biggest pick of any clubs in Wexford I'd guess, with so many clubs in Wexford town and country clubs always doing better with lesser numbers.

Great to see the young bucks coming through.

bruschi

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Simon Donohoe did

Kevin O Connor had signed for Soccer that year ( Many Wexford footballers travelled that route before returning to gaelic) He has yet to play senior for his club.

dont want to drag this out any more than necessary, but Simon didnt, 100% certain of that. And Kevin could have played had he wanted, but he made a choice that he hoped would help him progress with soccer, so more power to him for that. It just adds to a very long list of players who play/have played for Wexford seniors but didnt play minor when up to the age. nothing against them personally or anything, its their own choice, but its a common occurrence.

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1 MARK FANNING GLYNN BARNTOWN
2 LIAM RYAN RAPPAREES
3 MATTHEW O’HANLON ST JAMES
4 CIARAN KENNY BUFFERS ALLEY
5 PAUDIE FOLEY CROSSABEG/BALLYMURN
6 LEE CHIN FAYTHE HARRIERS
7 EOIN MOORE OULART THE BALLAGH
8 DAVID REDMOND OULART THE BALLAGH
9 GARRETT SINNOTT OULART THE BALLAGH
10 IAN BYRNE FERNS ST AIDANS
11 DAITHI WATERS ST MARTINS
12 DIARMUID O’KEEFFE ST ANNES
13 PAUL MORRIS FERNS ST AIDANS
14 JACK GUINEY RATHNURE
15 LIAM OG MCGOVERN ST ANNES


Team for Offaly game Sunday 22nd Feb 2015

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Wexford u-21 football manager Kevin Kehoe has named the Wexford u21 football team for Wednesday night’s game against Laois in Bellefield, throw in 7:30pm.U 21 football Bellefield

1 – Luke Rafter
2 – Robert Vaillejo
3 – Jim Rossiter
4 – Paul Curtis
5 – Naomhan Rossiter
6 – Darragh Barden
7 – Graham Staples
8 – Syl Byrne
9 – Jim White
10 – Eoghan Nolan
11 – John Tubritt ( Captain)
12 – Simon Donohoe
13 – Kevin O Connor
14 – Jamie Carty
15 – Padraig Conway
16 – Mick O Toole
17 – Paudie Barden
18 – Walter Furlong
19 – Niall Hughes
20 – Ryan Nolan
21 – Edward O Byrne
22 – Robert Freaney
23 – Eoin Roche
24 – Johnny Connor’s
25 – Peadar Cody
26 – Anthony Roche
27 – Jack O Connor
28 – Sean (Minnie) Ryan
29 – Darragh Doyle
30 – Jonathan Kelly

Management: Kevin Kehoe/David Power

Selectors : Syl Doyle, Mick Walsh

Trainers: Brendan Kehoe, Gavin Morris

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