Wexford management have insisted that Jack Guiney remains part of their plans for 2016 and that the reason he missed the opening league game against Limerick was down to a hamstring injury.

“We were fierce unlucky, weren’t we?” Only Liam Dunne could open with a line like that after a 24-point haunting.

The Wexford hurling management and players want Jack Guiney more than he wants to be part of the county set-up, manager Liam Dunne has claimed.