Injuries to key players and poor league form signalled danger but only a collective breakdown can explain surrendering a 17-point lead to Westmeath
Wexford were still five points clear with about five minutes to go when Tom Dempsey started to see the crash in slow motion. In the live commentary on South East Radio he turned to Liam Spratt and said, “I wish this was over”. In the time that remained the dregs of Wexford’s 17-point lead spilt from the glass.
Westmeath had lost their three previous championship matches by an average of 22 points; at half-time in Wexford Park they trailed by 16. Tempers flare during the Leinster SHC game between Westmeaht and Wexford. Photograph: Laszlo Geczo/Inpho Against Westmeath, the goals came: four in all, two of them so late that the air-raid sirens had been blaring for at least six or seven minutes. When something happens in a flash, though, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it is out of the blue; of the 12 teams in Division One of this year’s league, only Laois and Westmeath had inferior defensive records, and neither of those teams won a match.
Before that wave of talent came along, Matthew O’Hanlon, Diarmuid O’Keeffe and Liam Óg McGovern were already established on the senior team. For the last decade they have been the heart of this group, all warriors. But for how much longer can the weight of this team rest on their shoulders? Damien Reck, the only Wexford defender to get an All Star nomination last year, has missed this season through injury and his loss is enormous; Paudie Foley, who was Wexford’s second best defender last year, has gone travelling. They don’t have like-for-like replacements. But none of that can explain surrendering a 17-point lead. That was a collective breakdown.
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