RTÉ GAA analyst Shane McGrath feels the time is now for Wexford to provide a fervent response as they aim to kickstart their Leinster SHC campaign.
The Model County started with a hard-fought win in Kildare before surrendering meekly to Kilkenny last time out.
They have their first home game of the campaign against Dublin on Saturday [live on RTÉ2] and another defeat here would leave them on the brink of elimination.
For McGrath, after the tameness against the Cats, he feels that emotion is sure to play a part this weekend.
"It’s on down in Wexford, the home crowd, and if there’s one man that can stir the emotions it would be Keith Rossiter," he told the RTÉ GAA podcast.
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"I’m sure he’s a 'when he speaks, everyone listens’ kind of guy for what he did when he was playing himself and the passion he brings to it.
"If there isn’t (a response) the year is more or less done for them."
Dublin too have a win over Kildare banked, but a draw with a youthful Offaly side was a setback so there’s plenty on the line for them too.
For McGrath, Dublin’s hopes of extending their Leinster unbeaten run over Wexford to six games – having clocked up three wins and two draws in their last five meetings – still remain heavily linked to one man, Lee Chin.
"From a Dublin point of view, is that draw with Offaly going to come back and haunt them as the thing goes on?
"It was a great performance by Offaly but I’m sure they’ll be thinking they just didn’t get to the pitch of the game that day either and didn’t play well.
"If you’re Niall Ó Ceallacháin you’re looking at Wexford and obviously how we’re going to set up structurally and what we're going to do, but really what this comes down to is how well can you tie down Lee Chin.
"He is the go-to guy for them, his scoring record for them is brilliant, averaging maybe 10, 11 points a game and if you can tie him down, I feel you do go a long way to getting a result.
"Whether the rest of the players take offence to that, and they probably should, and if they want to use it for motivation that ‘everyone concentrates on Lee Chin and they’re not thinking much of the rest of us’ but that’s way it’s been.
"Who would that be for Dublin? I’m just thinking would it be something Eoghan O’Donnell would really, really relish, a challenge like that.
"He probably hasn’t been at his brilliant best from what we’ve seen, he was with the footballers last year, and I wonder does he (Ó Ceallacháin) say to Eoghan O’Donnell, who on his day is one of the best defenders in the country, ‘here’s your job, you’re going after Chin.’"
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