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Shane Walsh Transfer - 6 Like(s)
Replying To zinny: "Some people on here should really crawl back under the rocks the came from - what Walsh wants to do is his own business. Nobody makes these moves lightly and the best of luck to him in his future career." Agreed . You didn't see anyone complaining when Shane Horan from Offaly joined kilmacud or when pat spillane originally of Kerry joined judes or when Eoghan o Gara moved down to shelmaliers in Wexford it's just because of how good Walsh is people are saying it's unfair understandably frustrating but Walsh is his own man and at the end of the day it's only an amateur sport It's usually all down to work commitments or studying really and even if It's not who cares. If other players are allowed to do it why can't Walsh ?
Westmeath213 (National) - 30/07/2022 21:39:30
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Limerick Vs Tipp - 3 Like(s)
Ref is playing a blinder
Westmeath213 (National) - 01/11/2020 17:22:38
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "Shane Dempsey was excellent this afternoon, scored at least 2 fine points, was fouled for 2 converted frees, he's in fantastic shape and a definite addition to the panel. If we drop players for misses then we'll have no team." Could definitely do with learning how to pass the ball a bit more then he could be a good addition.
Westmeath213 (National) - 08/01/2023 13:14:33
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Westmeath Football Managers 2022 - 2 Like(s)
Replying To mickcunningham: "absolutely not" One championship win last year coming in a dead rubber game . There team isn't getting any younger and have not much quality coming from underage
They had there chances over the years and unfortunately for them took none of them. They may get out of group 2 this year depending on how ger Egan performs but won't beat any of the top 4/5 teams when it matters
Westmeath213 (National) - 23/01/2022 21:13:39
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Mayo V Tipp - 2 Like(s)
Replying To tommy132: "Do Dublin even know who Westmeath are?" They know mayo well enough anyways .. how many all Ireland's have they beat ye in ?
Westmeath213 (Mayo) - 06/12/2020 17:37:55
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To mickcunningham: "Tyrrellspass by 2 lomans by 8 not bothered about the others" Well you won't be bothered about anything after this round of games so after tyrellspass are beaten !
Westmeath213 (National) - 21/09/2022 16:53:52
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Westmeath SFC Club 2021 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Temple56: "Q/Fs set for Sunday at 12:30 and 3:30
If you want to watch both games you will have to leave ground and come back in.
I can't understand why it isn't a double header? Full capacity is aloud so covid shouldn't be a reason.
Looks like the county board putting the cash ahead of the football again!!" Which came is on first ? And which is second ?
I'd say clubs would rather a big gap between the games as if you think back to pre COVID games would be at 2 and 4 or even 3:30 leaving very little time for the teams playing the second game to get a warmup done on the pitches. I fancy Lomans and the downs to take the spoils
Westmeath213 (National) - 23/10/2021 14:00:09
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Westmeath J.F.C. 2021 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To westmeathgaa11: "It's mad the amount of people in the county that can't see beyond lomans Garrycastle Athlone and the downs for the junior championship" Sure there better than any of the junior clubs. Proof of that is that 3 of those teams making jfc semis in 2020. But the main thing here is that there still of junior quality the second teams.
It's hard to give any "junior" clubs a shout with the majority of them ageing teams & without a doubt aren't better Quality teams than those teams you mentioned !. Only team that might have an edge on downs Lomans etc is bunbrosna in my eyes .
There is a chance of upset while playing senior second teams with junior club might be hungrier to win & some of the junior players for the senior clubs may go on to play senior.
Senior clubs junior team differs from year to year but with theses senior clubs having so many numbers in recent years I can't see them changing too much from 2020.
Westmeath213 (Westmeath) - 31/01/2021 18:44:10
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "No senior side is missing as many players as Loman's. They have six on the county panel. No other club as badly affected. They also have lads on county hurling panel and under 20s. The league loses respect if the top team in the county ends up in division 2 playing inferior teams." The downs minus 5 county footballers and two county hurlers so that makes it the same as Lomans who are missing 7. Kinnegad short 5/6 u20 footballers for a long period along with David Giles and Darren giles who is a long term injury both these teams are top and going to contest a final missing the same amount as Lomans the league loses no respect if there not in it especially because they haven't been good enough … definitely a Lomans supporter you are
Westmeath213 (National) - 15/05/2022 11:02:13
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Westmeath J.F.C. 2021 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To KooCullen: "Whoever wins the outstanding 2020 Junior 2 championship final, between Coralstown/Kinnegad and Killucan, will be in to the Junior 1 championship. These are 2 areas reaping the reward of recent urbanisation and i think are clubs for the future, whoever wins will come into J1 under the radar, so a possible dark horse there.
I know last year was a strange year, but based on last year's J.F.C. you'd have a hard job convincing me that the winner will come from Ballycomoyle, CFWC, St. Joe's, Ballinagore or St. Pauls." Ah I don't know. I was at killucan vs kinnegad game earlier in the junior 2 championship & I have to say the quality of that game was far off the quality of the junior 1 championship.
Westmeath213 (Westmeath) - 31/01/2021 20:40:53
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
The downs vs kinnegad in div 1 league final only division which final is guaranteed other leagues still all to play for . These two play eachother in the first round of championship be interesting to see what sort of lineups the clubs put out come the time depending on how close final is to the first round.
Westmeath213 (National) - 05/05/2022 21:31:44
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Westmeath J.F.C. 2021 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To BigSur: "Koo you are bigging up The Downs massively there. Potentially Lomans Athlone and Garrycastle would be in with a good shout too surely. It can vary from year to year depending on availability but you'd imagine numbers will be strong for the bigger clubs." Athlone never really do that well in the JFC so I would rule them out. I think The Downs are favorites to win it with bun been close seconds. Lomans And garrycastle are not too far off it either The downs have youth on their side like Lomans but I think the quality of footballers in the downs at junior level are better quality than those of Lomans. As ive said in a previous post C/F/C/W & Ballycoymoyle prove a test to the "favorites" and the favorites some times stumble at the challenge of either of those teams.
Westmeath213 (Westmeath) - 27/01/2021 12:53:24
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To PowellJohn: "Westmeath has get it all wrong with u19 timing playing it last week of June and first two weeks of July when every young lad in the country is going on a holiday after the leaving cert, for some clubs it is basically an u17 team with 2 or 3 lads thrown in because there missing 6 or 7 main players. I have spoken to a few teams on this and most are in the same situation. This competition needs to go back to u20 and scheduling needs to be better we had 4 months to play that championship off. Also running the risk of injury of playing 3 games in a week with the first two rounds of adult championship.
County board utterly clueless" This whole issue started when the county board accepted the change from u14,16,18 to u15,17,19 . Should've been kept at u18 which didn't have nearly any affect on teams as very few players who were 18 were playing senior in there last year minor bar the odd accepction and fixtures were fixed better. And then should've been kept at u21 which was played after the senior championships. U21 for some reason had a great incentive put in by clubs to win it and the quality of the competition was good. When they didn't keep that u19 should be played as an end of year comp after senior especially with championship finishing earlier and there will be decent conditions for games. Lads would have full interest then due to no other games being on
Westmeath213 (National) - 02/07/2022 16:53:15
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Bettyboo22: "That would be a great battle between the those two teams . Whenever they will be played" Finals originally fixed for month after last round of league games which are in last week of may with finals in end of June leading into championship. I wonder with the downs and kinnegad playing eachother in last round in the league would they play that as the league final ?
Westmeath213 (National) - 07/05/2022 15:23:34
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Westmeath J.F.C. 2021 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To CleanShoulder: "Not sure that this is a topic that warrants any sort of discussion at this stage" Why not ??
Westmeath213 (Westmeath) - 06/06/2021 12:52:23
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Westmeath Senior Football Championship 2020 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To KooCullen: "If, and thats a big if, there were rankings for teams for 2021 :
01. St. Lomans
02. The Downs
03. Garrycastle
04. Rosemount
05. Kinnegad
06. Tyrrellspass
07. Killucan
08. Athlone
09. Shandonagh
10. Shamrocks
11. Moate
12. Caulry" 1. St Lomans
2. The Downs
3. Garrycastle
4. Tyrellspass
5. Athlone
6. Rosemount
7. Kinnegad
8. Killucan
9. Mullingar shamrocks
10. Shandonagh
11. Caulry
12. Moate
Westmeath213 (Westmeath) - 10/10/2020 10:01:14
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Westmeath Hurling thread - 1 Like(s)
Rumour has it that aonghus Clarke is opting out of the county hurling set up for next season
Westmeath213 (National) - 15/11/2022 20:16:28
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "I've no problem with five Loman's players starting, the five are deserving of their place especially when we're missing other forwards but some of those starting are playing poorly for some time, the Cavan half back line destroyed Westmeath for 50 mins, physically powerful and attacking at will, in relation to The Downs players not playing, Niall Mitchell and Darragh Egerton are county hurlers, Conor Coughlan gone travelling, Kevin O' Sullivan dropped from panel last week, Mark Kelly cruciate, two others played, another is sub keeper, that's eight players, who else have we from The Downs?? Cavan were determined to get revenge for Tailteann and were easily 6-7 points better team, it's also dispiriting to see us massively outnumbered supporters wise in a home game, the entire stand seemed to have Cavan supporters, our support is among the worst in the country." Surely joe Moran would have been a good addition to that half back line ahead of any other downs player without a doubt up there as one of the best wing backs in the county and is still only young would bring strong powerful running to that line .. Did Jimmy Dolan even touch the ball today ?
Westmeath213 (National) - 29/01/2023 21:35:24
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Westmeath Footballer 2021 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Meridian: "In my opinion, John Heslin and Ger Egan. At a push maybe Ronan O'Toole being the 3rd. But that's it. The rest are not forwards. As i said, they certainly work hard but they are not going to keep the guy working the scoreboard busy at Inter County level. Luke Loughlin has potential but isn't involved long enough to know." Luke loughlin scored 0-3 and I would say that kept the guy working the scoreboard working right ? . & in the majority of games over the last few years he's has scored at least a couple of points.
In my eyes the only player who would push into say a Dublin side would be John heslin for obvious reasons but In my eyes loughlin , heslin Egan and toole would get into the majority of teams 15s maybe outside the top 6/7.
Westmeath213 (Westmeath) - 19/05/2021 09:44:22
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Westmeath Footballers 2020 - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Claretandblue: "Realistically he's a far better footballer than hurler. As a footballer he has lots of potential, hurling wise unless he concentrates solely on the small ball he's going to struggle at inter county level." Yeah I agree he's a far better footballer than hurler , but after giving 4/5+ years to the footballers and winning nothing you can't blame him for wanting a change of scenery can ya ? He might struggle at top inter county level if they were to win the joe mcdonagh but at joe mcdonagh cup level he would be well cut out for it & if he was to train with them for the year & concentrates on county hurling He wouldn't look out of place.
He played with the hurlers after the footballers exit last year and I couldn't imagine he would of done that unless he was actually interested in playing with the hurlers... the county hurlers play their (best) team and play an attacking game. The football mgmt team pick players like David Lynch etc.. to play a defensive style game so why would you be interested when your only playing 3 actual forwards especially when your playing against teams of a similar quality, it would be hard to enjoy it as a forward when your being double marked due to the way your team setS up .
Westmeath213 (Westmeath) - 12/01/2021 16:46:44
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