Manager Jason Ryan says that Wexford's current strength in depth helped push them over the line in yesterday's Leinster SFC quarter-final replay win over Longford in Tullamore.

BARRY O’GORMAN kicked the winning point four minutes into injury time as Taghmon-Camross secured a 0-16 to 2-9 victory over St. Mary’s (Rosslare) in their Wexford SFC tie at Wexford Park on Saturday.

Wexford football trainer John Hegarty has lashed the standard of football punditry — and The Sunday Game in particular — for what he believes is a lack of knowledge about teams and players beyond the leading All-Ireland contenders, the Irish Examiner has reported.

WEXFORD football trainer John Hegarty has lashed the standard of football punditry — and The Sunday Game in particular — for what he believes is a lack of knowledge about teams and players beyond the leading All-Ireland contenders.

WEXFORD boss Jason Ryan could hardly contain his satisfaction after his powerfully built charges dismissed Offaly with consummate ease in this disappointingly one-sided Leinster SFC opener watched by 2,900 at O’Connor Park, Tullamore on Saturday evening.

Championship newcomer Rory Quinlivan will partner Daithí Waters in Wexford's engine room when they take on Offaly this evening in Tullamore (throw-in 5pm).

JASON RYAN regretfully shut the door on hopes of a Matty Forde retirement u-turn after witnessing Wexford’s second massive defeat in a week.

CORK’s backdoor rehabilitation continues to progress in a brisk manner after they fashioned their latest success in Wexford Park yesterday.

All-Ireland SFC Round 3 Qualifier

THE catalogue of senior football championship clashes between Cork and Wexford is far from extensive, yet not even their league meetings are of relevance in informing Michael Shields about his opponents in this Sunday’s All-Ireland qualifier tie.

FEW in the 5,000 at the Galway SFC semi-finals last September who gave Joe Kernan a rapturous welcome when, in an impromptu moment by football board chairman John Joe Holleran, he was introduced to the crowd, could have envisaged the Tribesmen’s 2010 championship would implode in such a dramatic fashion.

DAVID MURPHY and his Wexford comrades are entitled to ponder on how this football weekend may have been shaped for them.

JOHN MISKELLA has been recalled by Cork for tomorrow’s All-Ireland second round football qualifier against Cavan in Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

London 0-9 Wexford 4-22

PAT GILROY may or may not succeed in his attempt to usher in a bright new dawn for Dublin football but, if he does, it seems he will do so with the help of some familiar old faces.

Wexford manager Jason Ryan has given a vote of confidence to the same 15 players that started against Dublin for Sunday's All-Ireland SFC qualifier against London in Ruislip.

THE feeling of relief among the Dublin hordes was palpable.

DUBLIN have been Ireland’s most schizophrenic football team for longer than they would care to remember but never before have they paraded both sides of their character as baldly in the one afternoon.

Wexford have been handed a major boost with the long-awaited return of Matty Forde to their team for Sunday's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Dublin at Croke Park (throw-in 4pm).

THEY may have been impossible to separate last Sunday, but Cork and Kerry have enjoyed very different fortunes this week with Jack O’Connor forced to delay naming his starting 15 until hours before Sunday’s game.

WEXFORD football boss Jason Ryan is facing a number of injury worries ahead of the crunch clash with Dublin on Sunday week.

WEXFORD football boss Jason Ryan looks set to have to plan without ace forward Matty Forde for the Leinster Championship clash with Dublin, on June 13.

JOE KERNAN has insisted Paraic Joyce will play football for Galway this year.

WEXFORD star Keith Rossiter has admitted that not having the county’s dual stars available to the senior hurlers is hampering the team’s prospects.

THE numbers of inter-county GAA players emigrating in search of work is set to spiral in the coming off-season, a leading GPA official warned yesterday.

Wexford 1-8 Roscommon 0-11 (aet)

WATERFORD’S injury woes have deepened ahead of the Munster SHC final on July 12 as joint-captain Stephen Molumphy and veteran defender Tony Browne suffered major setbacks on Tuesday night.

Kildare 2-12 Wexford 0-11

JASON RYAN would love to look into a crystal ball and see what will have unfolded for him and the Wexford footballers by 8.30pm in Dr Cullen Park.

KILLIAN YOUNG makes a return, Darragh O Sé gets a starting place at midfield and Tommy Walsh is fit to play in the full-forward position as a new-look Kerry team prepare to take on Cork in the Munster SFC semi-final replay at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Saturday.

DERMOT EARLEY senses a worrying hype building in Kildare about a possible Leinster football title triumph.

STAR players Anthony Lynch, Graham Canty and James Masters return to the Cork team for Sunday’s Allianz NFL clash with Armagh at Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

GALWAY manager John McIntyre is forced to make two changes for Sunday’s crucial Allianz NHL clash against his native Tipperary at Pearse Stadium. Midfielder David Tierney is getting married on Saturday, while corner-forward Ger Farragher is ruled out with an ankle injury.

Mickey Harte has named an almost unchanged Tyrone team to face Kerry in Omagh on Sunday in a replay of last year's All-Ireland football final.

Kilanerin 1-12 Gusserane O'Rahilly's 0-12

FORMER Australia boss Kevin Sheedy has blamed the Irish team for inciting the violence which erupted in the 2005 International Rules Test in Melbourne.

The Gaelic Players Association have unveiled the nominees for the 2008 Opel Gaelic Players Awards for football.

Ten players from Tyrone have been nominated for this year's Vodafone GAA Football All-Stars, which will be announced on October 15, two days prior to the All-Stars Banquet at Citywest Hotel.

IT’S official.

WHEN Pat McEnaney blew his whistle for the last time yesterday afternoon, Jason Ryan called his panel into a huddle on the Croke Park pitch determined to put his own punctuation mark to the end of Wexford’s season.

SO much for the Dublin/Kerry All-Ireland football final the romantics were hoping for.

BRING on the Dubs! Nobody was saying it on the record after this extraordinary result in Croke Park on Saturday, but Wexford are itching for the chance of redemption against their Leinster final conquerors at the end of the month.

ARMAGH 0-12 WEXFORD 1-14

WEXFORD fans will want to take more home from Croke Park this afternoon than the memory of a first ever championship meeting against Armagh.