Chin and Wexford ready to go to the well once more

The 2022 season has thrown everything at Lee Chin and Wexford - but they are still standing.

Plagued with injury since the start of the year, his side lost to Dublin, drew with Westmeath, hammered Laois, battled back from the brink to draw with Galway and put in their best performance last time out to beat Kilkenny and save their championship status.

"We've had a bit of everything in there," Chin admits. "Now it’s about finding consistency."

The margins were tight all along.

"Yes, we were walking a tightrope there near the end of Leinster but that pressure will stand to us, I think."

That pressure did indeed stand to Wexford. They beat Kilkenny at Nowlan Park in the championship for the first time.

The win was remarkable in that it came so soon after the disappointing draw to Westmeath.

"During the week, there was an element of frustration involved in it, knowing that we’d left ourselves in the position that it was a knockout championship from thereon in," Chin recalls.

"We did a bit of soul-searching as well. We did a lot of work on Kilkenny; we knew what threat they posed. We’ve had great battles over the last number of years, and we were going to Nowlan Park and it was a big incentive for us obviously to remain in the championship.

"We used what we could as well."

Wexford now play Kerry in Tralee in Saturday's All-Ireland preliminary quarter-final.

Chin knows Kerry management members Stephen Molumphy and Pat Bennett well – they were previously involved with Wexford when Davy Fitzgerald was in charge.

The Kingdom showed last weekend – when they came back from the dead on a number of occasions against Antrim – that they don’t lack in conditioning, belief, skill or scores. They will be intent on taking a scalp.

"We have to be well