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[The Runt]

[Fagan ODowd]

Bandage, on 07 June 2011 - 21:15, said:

Correct. We won this with half our panel tied up winning provincial football championships. We also have the best young player in the county in Lee Chin unavailable due to soccer commitments. Yet we beat a team whose players bring their hurls out with them on Saturday nights so they have a puck around in the beer garden in Langton's. Still we were better than them. They are finished. We will fucking destroy them on Saturday night too.

Finally Wexford's natural demographic advantage beginning to tell.

[Locke]

Fagan ODowd, on 07 June 2011 - 21:12, said:

End of Empire stuff in Kilkenny I'd imagine

You're right there. Kk are fucked. Wx should feel favourites for Saturday too...

[Turenne]

Hang on, why do Wateford UTD let Lee Chin play club hurling but not inter-county?

[Mac]

That KK team won the minor AI 3 years ago while our lads were beaten by a 13 man Galway team in Thurles. Seems to be some sense of togetherness among the team. Sounds as if the football title has made them believe they can beat anybody. The win won't be worth a shite if we don't beat Laois though.

On a separate note, how many of this team should be starting in the senior team? O'Hanlon and Kehoe are the only 2 at the moment I think. Tony Dempsey mentioned they'll be back in training on Thursday evening. You'd just hope the lads involved in both squads won't be overtrained and will be managed properly.

[count of monte cristo]

liam og looked tidy again tonight...kent played well also i thought.

how many dual u21 players? hanlon,reagan,kent,mcgovern,breen is that it?

[SHANNONSIDER]

The free men of Limerick salute the Gaels of Wexford on this great night.

[Lazarus]

The Runt, on 07 June 2011 - 21:18, said:

I only wish Pikeman was here to share in this groundbreaking moment in sporting history

[Mac]

count of monte cristo, on 07 June 2011 - 22:41, said:

liam og looked tidy again tonight...kent played well also i thought.

how many dual u21 players? hanlon,reagan,kent,mcgovern,breen is that it?

Was James Gahan on the football panel?

[SHANNONSIDER]

When did Pikeman pass away, Lazarus? Very sad news.

[Bandage]

Wexford 1-16 Kilkenny 2-12

Wexford Scorers Paul Morris (1-1), John Leacy (0-3, 0-2F), Emmet Kent (0-3F), Shane Tomkins (0-2), Harry Kehoe (0-2), Liam Óg McGovern (0-2), Michael O'Regan (0-1F), Pádraig Doran (0-1), Shaun Murphy (0-1).

A well deserved win for the good guys. A couple of fluky first half goals kept Kilkenny in the game and it would have been a travesty had they brought us back to a replay in Nowlan Park, which we would have won anyway.

Wexford started excellently with the aid of a strong wind blowing from the Clonard (*bastards*) End and quickly went 0-4 to 0-0 ahead through a wonderful opening point by Doran falling over with his back to goal, a long range O'Regan free, a closer one from Leacy and super point from Tomkins after a neat dispossession by Shore and a quick movement of the ball through McGovern to the scorer on the run.

Then a Kilkenny lad dived or slipped into O'Regan's leg as he sprinted over to challenge him and the ref awarded a ridiculous free and an even worse yellow card. The free was drilled in low against the wind and Aylward skillfully flicked it past Fanning with O'Hanlon going up with his hand instead of batting it away or winding on the cunt. Undeserved.

We responded immediately with Paul Morris coming across from the right corner to take a ball at pace before shaking off his marker, like a woman fleeing a sex attacker, and burying the ball home. We made it 1-5 to 1-0 before they struck for their second goal just as one of the most torrential outbursts of rain I've ever witnessed at Wexford Park poured down.

Eoin Moore actually won a line ball but the sliotar squirted from his hands and some cunt gathered and buried it. I'm not sure who scored it because I was busy cosying up against St Anne's double county championship winner from 2000 John 'Bart' Simpson who had kindly offered myself and Bandage Senior shelter under his ample blue and white golf umbrella.

Wexford, however, contined to hurl very well with excellent decision making and short, crisp passing to better placed colleagues a feature of our game. Harry Kehoe knocked over two good points from midfield, the bustling Leacy scored from another free and from play and set up Morris for one and Tomkins added his second too. Kilkenny eventually added some points before half time too; they were probably scored by lads that are uninteresting and lack personality but are fairly talented hurlers - much like their senior counterparts - but I wasn't arsed noting down the individual scorers.

I almost forgot the contentious sendings offs. O'Regan went for a second yellow when it was around 1-5 to 1-0 after a Kilkenny player emerged from a ruck of players with the ball and was met by O'Regan standing his ground. A yellow on its own would have been extremely harsh but a sending off without giving him a warning / benefit of the doubt was the worst decision made in Ireland since Seán Quinn decided to top up his shareholding in Anglo Irish Bank. Aylward was sent off a while later when dropping his shoulder into Willie Devereux's head at pace when Devereux was in the act of completing a jab lift. Not sure what his first yellow was for but there you go.

The wind died down a bit for a while when the rain was pissing down and then it was half time. Wexford 1-11 Kilkenny 2-4. The second half began, as it usually does, after half time and Kilkenny were level within the first 5 minutes with 4 unanswered points by a range of different pricks. Both sides were playing with a spare man in defence but the breeze picked up again so the Kilkenny man was able to push out further to supplement his half back line while Eoin Moore was Wexford's spare man with O'Hanlon and Devereux continuing their man marking jobs.

Wexford had rejigged with Kent going to half back, McGovern to midfield and Breen coming out to half forward leaving Doran and Morris inside but they were quite isolated at times. McGovern got a good point to edge Wexford back in front before Tomkins was denied by a decent save from the keeper. Shaun Murphy went on a barnstorming run from the resulting clearance after gathering possession at half way and ended up drop hitting an inspirational point. Come on to fuck, I was heard to utter.

But we just couldn't shake the fuckers off. They were sticking to us as annoyingly and stickily as ex GAA President Seán Kelly does to dignitaries at high profile events. The half forward line was struggling to win primary possession as puck outs were holding up and only reaching half way. It was nip and tuck on the scoreboard and we were always either 1 or 2 points ahead right up to the end before they struck level in the last minute and the crowd was very tense and nervous. Wexford had a goal correctly disallowed at one stage when Shane Tomkins caught the ball 3 times before flicking it across to Paul Morris to finish.

The management team had made some astute decisions as the half progressed. Andrew Shore went across to wing back on the very tall Walter Walsh - they were utilising the tactic often used by their seniors of having a tall, ball winning wing forward but his aerial threat from Kilkenny wind aided puck outs was neutralised by the move.

John Leacy had been impressive from play and frees in the first half but hadn't had as much joy from dead balls in the second half. I think it was Laffan that ran on and told Emmet Kent to hit the frees from midway in the second half and he pointed our last 3 critical scores from 3 quite difficult frees.

The last one was in the second minute of injury time and it pushed us back in front by 1-16 to 2-12. The referee played at least another 90 seconds but Shore, McGovern and finally Devereux all won really important battles for possession and we saw it out deservedly in the end.

The Kilkenny players were as shocked, upset and dismayed as Dominic Strauss Khan was when dragged off his recent Air France flight in John F Kennedy Airport. And I was delighted seeing their tears of regret and pain merge with the rain water already on the pristine Wexford Park surface as the Wexford players became immersed in an ocean of happiness. I tried to write that last line like that clown Vincent Hogan.

For Wexford it was a very merited win. The quite fortunate first half goals had given Kilkenny a lifeline when they were being thoroughly outplayed and, though they had that good spell after half time, Wexford were the better and more balanced side. Still you can never rule them out being jammy cunts so it was great to beat them.

All in all, I was delighted. Well done to the squad and management - it was a skillful and determined display. The effort and commitment was absolutely total and you can ask for no more than that.

[Lazarus]

SHANNONSIDER, on 07 June 2011 - 22:53, said:

When did Pikeman pass away, Lazarus? Very sad news.

Pikeman lives SS

[SHANNONSIDER]

The only report worth reading on the game, outstanding

[Bandage]

Turenne, on 07 June 2011 - 22:15, said:

Hang on, why do Wateford UTD let Lee Chin play club hurling but not inter-county?

He would have to commit fully to the U21 set up to get a place on the team and they won't give him permission to miss football training/matches to fulfil hurling commitments. The Harriers are just happy to have him whenever he can play.

[caoimhaoin]

Well done to Wexford.

[Fitzy]

Bandage, on 07 June 2011 - 23:03, said:

Wexford 1-16 Kilkenny 2-12

Wexford Scorers Paul Morris (1-1), John Leacy (0-3, 0-2F), Emmet Kent (0-3F), Shane Tomkins (0-2), Harry Kehoe (0-2), Liam Óg McGovern (0-2), Michael O'Regan (0-1F), Pádraig Doran (0-1), Shaun Murphy (0-1).

A well deserved win for the good guys. A couple of fluky first half goals kept Kilkenny in the game and it would have been a travesty had they brought us back to a replay in Nowlan Park, which we would have won anyway.

Wexford started excellently with the aid of a strong wind blowing from the Clonard (*bastards*) End and quickly went 0-4 to 0-0 ahead through a wonderful opening point by Doran falling over with his back to goal, a long range O'Regan free, a closer one from Leacy and super point from Tomkins after a neat dispossession by Shore and a quick movement of the ball through McGovern to the scorer on the run.

Then a Kilkenny lad dived or slipped into O'Regan's leg as he sprinted over to challenge him and the ref awarded a ridiculous free and an even worse yellow card. The free was drilled in low against the wind and Aylward skillfully flicked it past Fanning with O'Hanlon going up with his hand instead of batting it away or winding on the cunt. Undeserved.

We responded immediately with Paul Morris coming across from the right corner to take a ball at pace before shaking off his marker, like a woman fleeing a sex attacker, and burying the ball home. We made it 1-5 to 1-0 before they struck for their second goal just as one of the most torrential outbursts of rain I've ever witnessed at Wexford Park poured down.

Eoin Moore actually won a line ball but the sliotar squirted from his hands and some cunt gathered and buried it. I'm not sure who scored it because I was busy cosying up against St Anne's double county championship winner from 2000 John 'Bart' Simpson who had kindly offered myself and Bandage Senior shelter under his ample blue and white golf umbrella.

Wexford, however, contined to hurl very well with excellent decision making and short, crisp passing to better placed colleagues a feature of our game. Harry Kehoe knocked over two good points from midfield, the bustling Leacy scored from another free and from play and set up Morris for one and Tomkins added his second too. Kilkenny eventually added some points before half time too; they were probably scored by lads that are uninteresting and lack personality but are fairly talented hurlers - much like their senior counterparts - but I wasn't arsed noting down the individual scorers.

I almost forgot the contentious sendings offs. O'Regan went for a second yellow when it was around 1-5 to 1-0 after a Kilkenny player emerged from a ruck of players with the ball and was met by O'Regan standing his ground. A yellow on its own would have been extremely harsh but a sending off without giving him a warning / benefit of the doubt was the worst decision made in Ireland since Seán Quinn decided to top up his shareholding in Anglo Irish Bank. Aylward was sent off a while later when dropping his shoulder into Willie Devereux's head at pace when Devereux was in the act of completing a jab lift. Not sure what his first yellow was for but there you go.

The wind died down a bit for a while when the rain was pissing down and then it was half time. Wexford 1-11 Kilkenny 2-4. The second half began, as it usually does, after half time and Kilkenny were level within the first 5 minutes with 4 unanswered points by a range of different pricks. Both sides were playing with a spare man in defence but the breeze picked up again so the Kilkenny man was able to push out further to supplement his half back line while Eoin Moore was Wexford's spare man with O'Hanlon and Devereux continuing their man marking jobs.

Wexford had rejigged with Kent going to half back, McGovern to midfield and Breen coming out to half forward leaving Doran and Morris inside but they were quite isolated at times. McGovern got a good point to edge Wexford back in front before Tomkins was denied by a decent save from the keeper. Shaun Murphy went on a barnstorming run from the resulting clearance after gathering possession at half way and ended up drop hitting an inspirational point. Come on to fuck, I was heard to utter.

But we just couldn't shake the fuckers off. They were sticking to us as annoyingly and stickily as ex GAA President Seán Kelly does to dignitaries at high profile events. The half forward line was struggling to win primary possession as puck outs were holding up and only reaching half way. It was nip and tuck on the scoreboard and we were always either 1 or 2 points ahead right up to the end before they struck level in the last minute and the crowd was very tense and nervous. Wexford had a goal correctly disallowed at one stage when Shane Tomkins caught the ball 3 times before flicking it across to Paul Morris to finish.

The management team had made some astute decisions as the half progressed. Andrew Shore went across to wing back on the very tall Walter Walsh - they were utilising the tactic often used by their seniors of having a tall, ball winning wing forward but his aerial threat from Kilkenny wind aided puck outs was neutralised by the move.

John Leacy had been impressive from play and frees in the first half but hadn't had as much joy from dead balls in the second half. I think it was Laffan that ran on and told Emmet Kent to hit the frees from midway in the second half and he pointed our last 3 critical scores from 3 quite difficult frees.

The last one was in the second minute of injury time and it pushed us back in front by 1-16 to 2-12. The referee played at least another 90 seconds but Shore, McGovern and finally Devereux all won really important battles for possession and we saw it out deservedly in the end.

The Kilkenny players were as shocked, upset and dismayed as Dominic Strauss Khan was when dragged off his recent Air France flight in John F Kennedy Airport. And I was delighted seeing their tears of regret and pain merge with the rain water already on the pristine Wexford Park surface as the Wexford players became immersed in an ocean of happiness. I tried to write that last line like that clown Vincent Hogan.

For Wexford it was a very merited win. The quite fortunate first half goals had given Kilkenny a lifeline when they were being thoroughly outplayed and, though they had that good spell after half time, Wexford were the better and more balanced side. Still you can never rule them out being jammy cunts so it was great to beat them.

All in all, I was delighted. Well done to the squad and management - it was a skillful and determined display. The effort and commitment was absolutely total and you can ask for no more than that.

Outstanding, a template for all match reports (I'd put the clapping smily in here X 10 if I could, but its not showing on my screen for some reason)

[myboyblue]

I believe Laois are waiting in the long grass.

[Julio Geordio]

Lazarus, on 07 June 2011 - 23:11, said:

Pikeman lives SS

You know thats a Kerry Pikeman right?

[Piles Hussain]

Locke, on 07 June 2011 - 21:24, said:

You're right there. Kk are fucked. Wx should feel favourites for Saturday too...

Yep. Some hard times ahead for us Im afraid.

[turfcutter]

Hon the yella bellies

Bandage, on 07 June 2011 - 23:03, said:

Wexford 1-16 Kilkenny 2-12

Wexford Scorers Paul Morris (1-1), John Leacy (0-3, 0-2F), Emmet Kent (0-3F), Shane Tomkins (0-2), Harry Kehoe (0-2), Liam Óg McGovern (0-2), Michael O'Regan (0-1F), Pádraig Doran (0-1), Shaun Murphy (0-1).

A well deserved win for the good guys. A couple of fluky first half goals kept Kilkenny in the game and it would have been a travesty had they brought us back to a replay in Nowlan Park, which we would have won anyway.

Wexford started excellently with the aid of a strong wind blowing from the Clonard (*bastards*) End and quickly went 0-4 to 0-0 ahead through a wonderful opening point by Doran falling over with his back to goal, a long range O'Regan free, a closer one from Leacy and super point from Tomkins after a neat dispossession by Shore and a quick movement of the ball through McGovern to the scorer on the run.

Then a Kilkenny lad dived or slipped into O'Regan's leg as he sprinted over to challenge him and the ref awarded a ridiculous free and an even worse yellow card. The free was drilled in low against the wind and Aylward skillfully flicked it past Fanning with O'Hanlon going up with his hand instead of batting it away or winding on the cunt. Undeserved.

We responded immediately with Paul Morris coming across from the right corner to take a ball at pace before shaking off his marker, like a woman fleeing a sex attacker, and burying the ball home. We made it 1-5 to 1-0 before they struck for their second goal just as one of the most torrential outbursts of rain I've ever witnessed at Wexford Park poured down.

Eoin Moore actually won a line ball but the sliotar squirted from his hands and some cunt gathered and buried it. I'm not sure who scored it because I was busy cosying up against St Anne's double county championship winner from 2000 John 'Bart' Simpson who had kindly offered myself and Bandage Senior shelter under his ample blue and white golf umbrella.

Wexford, however, contined to hurl very well with excellent decision making and short, crisp passing to better placed colleagues a feature of our game. Harry Kehoe knocked over two good points from midfield, the bustling Leacy scored from another free and from play and set up Morris for one and Tomkins added his second too. Kilkenny eventually added some points before half time too; they were probably scored by lads that are uninteresting and lack personality but are fairly talented hurlers - much like their senior counterparts - but I wasn't arsed noting down the individual scorers.

I almost forgot the contentious sendings offs. O'Regan went for a second yellow when it was around 1-5 to 1-0 after a Kilkenny player emerged from a ruck of players with the ball and was met by O'Regan standing his ground. A yellow on its own would have been extremely harsh but a sending off without giving him a warning / benefit of the doubt was the worst decision made in Ireland since Seán Quinn decided to top up his shareholding in Anglo Irish Bank. Aylward was sent off a while later when dropping his shoulder into Willie Devereux's head at pace when Devereux was in the act of completing a jab lift. Not sure what his first yellow was for but there you go.

The wind died down a bit for a while when the rain was pissing down and then it was half time. Wexford 1-11 Kilkenny 2-4. The second half began, as it usually does, after half time and Kilkenny were level within the first 5 minutes with 4 unanswered points by a range of different pricks. Both sides were playing with a spare man in defence but the breeze picked up again so the Kilkenny man was able to push out further to supplement his half back line while Eoin Moore was Wexford's spare man with O'Hanlon and Devereux continuing their man marking jobs.

Wexford had rejigged with Kent going to half back, McGovern to midfield and Breen coming out to half forward leaving Doran and Morris inside but they were quite isolated at times. McGovern got a good point to edge Wexford back in front before Tomkins was denied by a decent save from the keeper. Shaun Murphy went on a barnstorming run from the resulting clearance after gathering possession at half way and ended up drop hitting an inspirational point. Come on to fuck, I was heard to utter.

But we just couldn't shake the fuckers off. They were sticking to us as annoyingly and stickily as ex GAA President Seán Kelly does to dignitaries at high profile events. The half forward line was struggling to win primary possession as puck outs were holding up and only reaching half way. It was nip and tuck on the scoreboard and we were always either 1 or 2 points ahead right up to the end before they struck level in the last minute and the crowd was very tense and nervous. Wexford had a goal correctly disallowed at one stage when Shane Tomkins caught the ball 3 times before flicking it across to Paul Morris to finish.

The management team had made some astute decisions as the half progressed. Andrew Shore went across to wing back on the very tall Walter Walsh - they were utilising the tactic often used by their seniors of having a tall, ball winning wing forward but his aerial threat from Kilkenny wind aided puck outs was neutralised by the move.

John Leacy had been impressive from play and frees in the first half but hadn't had as much joy from dead balls in the second half. I think it was Laffan that ran on and told Emmet Kent to hit the frees from midway in the second half and he pointed our last 3 critical scores from 3 quite difficult frees.

The last one was in the second minute of injury time and it pushed us back in front by 1-16 to 2-12. The referee played at least another 90 seconds but Shore, McGovern and finally Devereux all won really important battles for possession and we saw it out deservedly in the end.

The Kilkenny players were as shocked, upset and dismayed as Dominic Strauss Khan was when dragged off his recent Air France flight in John F Kennedy Airport. And I was delighted seeing their tears of regret and pain merge with the rain water already on the pristine Wexford Park surface as the Wexford players became immersed in an ocean of happiness. I tried to write that last line like that clown Vincent Hogan.

For Wexford it was a very merited win. The quite fortunate first half goals had given Kilkenny a lifeline when they were being thoroughly outplayed and, though they had that good spell after half time, Wexford were the better and more balanced side. Still you can never rule them out being jammy cunts so it was great to beat them.

All in all, I was delighted. Well done to the squad and management - it was a skillful and determined display. The effort and commitment was absolutely total and you can ask for no more than that.