Lee Chin is thriving under the guidance of Davy Fitzgerald. The Clare man is in his second year in charge at Wexford and he constantly impresses the 25-year-old.
Chin sees him as a friend as well as a manager and feels he has learned a lot from Fitzgerald both as a hurler and a person.
"There’s a lot of sides to Davy, and a lot of sides that people might not know him for or see him for," he said.
"I’d look at Davy and would call him a great friend of mine. A lot of lads on the panel would too.
"He’s very good at creating that friendship relationship too, as well as a manager. I know a lot of managers like to keep friendships aside, but lookit Davy is just one of those guys.
"He’s very sincere and he’s very honest. That’s what we love about him as well. As a manager, I can’t fault him for anything. He’s the best guy I’ve ever worked under, and as a person as well he’s one of the most interesting guys I’ve ever met.
"So he’s a great mixture of different characters, and do you know, a lot of people mightn’t see the other soft side of Davy, but he has that in abundance.
Chin has also enjoyed working with Fitzgerald from a coaching persepctive, he gives his players plenty of feedback and areas to improve on.
"Davy has made a lot of improvements because he came in at first with a lot of honesty to a lot of individual players, and then as a panel as a whole, he identifies where we can improve on, and where an individual can improve on.
"His approach is very good about it also. He’s really interested in working on it, and helping them work on it.
"And then myself, it’s the simple little things – it might just be your attitude sometimes. It might just be your work-rate.
"It mightn’t be always something to do with hurling. He’s very good at finding that bit inside you that’s going to make you tick that little bit better"
But it's Fitzgerald's ruthless streak and winning mentality that has the biggest effect on the Wexford player.
Wexford finished third in the Leinster championship round-robin and will face Westmeath in the All-Ireland quarter-final preliminary round on Saturday in Mullingar.
"I haven’t seen a whole lot of them, because not many of the Joe McDonagh games were televised," he said.
"We were probably out the same weekends as well when we were hurling.
"Obviously we know they are going to be a good force, we played them in 2015, where they gave us a serious game up in Mullingar, and the game is going to be there this week.
"We know it’s going to be a tough test, and one we’re treating with the utmost respect. It’s something we’re really looking forward to getting back into Championship action as well.
"They’re going to get a packed stadium full of their own fans. It’s probably a game they’re looking towards – they’ve nothing really to lose, the fact that they were beaten last weekend.
"They’re going to come into this game with an attitude, and they’re going to really look to progress into an All-Ireland series."
Wexford have had a lay off of over a month since their last game against Kilkenny in the Leinster championship, they have taken some time off, went to Portugal on a training camp and are now going feel steam ahead to their next game.
"For ourselves we would have came into the Leinster championship at a high level of fitness, in the four weeks that he we had off we took training down a small bit and built it back up again.
"You try to let yourself dip so you can bring it back up. I think coming into the last phase teams are going to be at the peak of all fitness.
"With the couple of breaks they get in between, after this weekend and next weekend there is a two week break then into the semi finals and that kind of stuff.
"Even that week off is huge, this is what I mean about it going to be a struggle, that Leinster final loser will have three consecutive weeks going into a quarter-final. I think it will be about mindset, everyone will be ready physically it’s about being ready upstairs."
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