Wexford Footballers

Toby has a post  elsewhere on the forum about the Wexford footballers , they actually have quite a decent record and in my experience have always tried to play stylish football , sometimes pretty well . Plus a few brilliant fooballers who would grace any team in the land historically .

But like all dual counties , the total GAA effort gets marginalised in success terms by split allegiances . Never affected my own county a lot , the hurlers nearly all come from the "Ards" , and can only think of 3 or 4 hurler/ footballers falling into the "dual " category in the recent past.

Cork is the prime example of a county with "double" aspirations yearly , my own observation is that the Cork followers would prefer a hurling All -Ireland to a football All-Ireland success , given only one .

I grew up , like Wildman I suspect , with Wexford hurling pre eminent , Rackards et al . Not sure where they rank nowadays , but only Tipp seem to have the ( occasional ) fire power to challenge the Cats , who are undoubtedly close to being the "best ever" if not actually , debate sparked possibly . Hurling requires completely different skills to football , good physical athletes are beneficial in both codes , but there is still more room for the smaller , skilful player in hurling than in football . Hard to sustain highest level participation in both codes though , not sure of exact reasons for that , but history tends to re-enforce that view .

My reply is to the hapless Rocketfingers.

One man never made a team, i could have said the same about Declan Browne a few years a go, google him if you've never heard of him

You had never heard of Mattie Forde even though he was an All Star,just like you never knew that Wexford won four football All Ireland's in a row in the Great War years.

Stick to scouring obscure football forums and plagiarising stuff you find there.

Of course i know of Mattie Forde, You've never heard of Declan Browne Wildman? He's from Tipp as we could have said the same thing about Tipp a few years ago that you're saying about Wexford now. Now i believe that is game, set and match

Wimbledon is not for a few weeks yet , rocket . But it is the only real tennis event worth watching continuously .

Tipperary hurling is going well and hard as their footballers tried they never got close to the hurlers whereas in Wexford they are doing better than the hurlers.

Tipperary reached a few Munster finals but there are only six counties in Munster but twelve in Leinster.

I did hear of Declan Browne which is why unlike you I can spell his name correctly,admit it your not trying.

It's not that hard to get to a Munster final as there are only six teams although in fairness the last time they were only beaten in a replay.A lot harder to get to a Leinster final with twelve teams and some strong Gaelic counties ( okay eleven if you don't count Kilkenny) but that kind of makes the original point.

I used to travel to work by bus during the 1998 World Cup. On the bus I got talking to a German fellow. We would discuss the previous evening's football and would give our opinions on the relative merits of the teams.

One morning as we travelled along, after another football discussion, he said to me forcefully, pointing at a horse in a field that we were passing :

"You see zat horse in zat field ? "

Me : Yes

Him :  I say it is a horse. YOU SAY IT IS A COW !

Wexford hurlers will be competitive again within the next 5/6 years. The post 96 years were a disaster but a lot of work has been done at underage level and the minor and u-21 teams have been steadily improving. They will come again.

Footballers are a decent bunch and should really have won a leinster title at this stage. Pity Forde not still on board, he is still the best forward in the county.

That's an over sensitive interpretation of my post,I also used the word maybe.

It's a contributory factor,there is a huge Dub population in North Wexford and they would be used to the big ball so far easier for them to switch from soccer to Gaelic football.

I don't understand you point, where does Dubs being used to playing soccer with a big ball, therefore making it easier to switch to Gaelic football tie in with Wexford hurling on the decline?

The Dubs down there won't play hurling leading to a decrease in hurling players but accept its only a minor contributory factor and think el gatos reasons are more valid.

Your inability to follow is causing you trouble again.

Acknowledging El Gatos point is better is not a climb down neither is stating my point is a minor contributory factor.

Hurling is perceived by many mothers as dangerous so tradition is hugely important.

He seems to hate people from Dublin, i'm from Sligo Goretski and when he was 'trying' to insult me he would call me a Dub or say i was from there. It showed how his tiny little 'pea' mind functioned or tried to function.

Again you are confused its other posters know where you are from but you seem embarrassed to be from Dublin and you keep slagging Workrider for being from some part of Dublin you deem below you.

You are very sensitive,I wasn't insulting anybody.