Where next for Davy Fitzgerald? Who next for Wexford?

The Wexford players mightn’t have made the journey west as they did following the 2018 All-Ireland quarter-final loss but they lobbied Fitzgerald to reconsider

Davy Fitzgerald is and will always be held in the highest of esteem by all in Wexford GAA, says county chairman Micheál Martin.

No mini-bus full of Wexford players was going to convince Davy Fitzgerald to stay at the helm this time. After five seasons, the drives to Ferns and Wexford from Sixmilebridge had finally caught up with him.

It wasn’t that Fitzgerald believed he had taken them as far as he could. From the outside looking in, back-to-back Leinster semi-final and qualifier defeats after that glorious 2019 season spelt the end but there was the nagging doubt the excruciating extra-time loss to Kilkenny had illustrated how close they were to another Leinster title.