Moment of truth for two teams with so much to prove

TOMORROW’S meeting of Wexford and Offaly at Nowlan Park is much more than a Leinster senior hurling championship semi-final.

It is about two teams at a crossroads with plenty to prove.

In the last three championship seasons, Wexford have been to the All-Ireland semi-finals twice, in 2003 and 2004, to the quarter-final last year (losing heavily in all three, eventually).