Relegation would be a disaster for Wexford and further weaken an already lopsided championship dominated by Kilkenny and Galway
This might sound like a mad statistic, but Galway have never beaten Dublin in the championship in Croke Park. People were wondering why Michael Donoghue wanted to play Dublin’s home games against Wexford and Galway in Croke Park, but he would have been very aware of a statistic like that.
Dublin were only beaten by six points in Nowlan Park last weekend, but they didn’t look like winning at any stage in the second half and Derek Lyng wasn’t that happy with his team’s performance afterwards. Kilkenny expected to win and they expected to play better. The big problem for Leinster is Wexford’s decline. To make sure of their place in next year’s Leinster championship they need to beat Kilkenny on Sunday and I can’t see that happening. They might stay with them for 40 or 50 minutes, but that will be the height of it.
I wonder if this group of players have moved on properly from the five years they had under Davy Fitzgerald. It was always going to be a huge challenge for Darragh Egan coming in after a manager who has such a big personality and who seemed to have a great relationship with those players. Davy’s teams also have a very distinct style of play that would have been drilled into Wexford over that five-year period, and it was going to be hard for Egan to come in and put his own stamp on it. They believed in Davy’s tactics; I’m not so sure they believe in Egan’s, and that’s not necessarily his fault.
In Munster, the margins have been tiny in most of the games and every team has been going flat out. You wonder what toll that will take on them down the road. It was obvious when Clare got to the All-Ireland semi-final last year that they didn’t have much left in the tank and that’s the risk for the team that loses the Munster final.
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