Ryan: Hurling in Croker is what we want

Acceptance and defiance were the themes of TJ Ryan’s post-match conference.

Acceptance that he may have ran his players too heavy before the Munster final. Defiance against the perception of the team after losing to Cork.

While he acknowledged asking Wexford to play four weeks in a row wasn’t fair — “God, you’d want to be a machine” — he had a sense his charges were going to come out on top regardless.