I see on social media that Tom Cribbin has resigned as senior manager - who is likely to replace him?

Will there be a Westmeath man in charge for the first time in decades?

Personally, I think Cribbin will be remembered very well. Although the league performances weren't stellar, he came in and steadied the ship after an awful 2014 season and managed to beat Meath and Kildare and get to two Leinster finals, something that would have been unrealistic a few seasons ago.

Morty (Westmeath) - Posts: 209 - 15/07/2017 17:03:16    2017005

XPAC (Westmeath) - Posts: 86 - 15/07/2017 17:33:09    2017021

Paddyfla19 (Westmeath) - Posts: 114 - 15/07/2017 17:44:23    2017028

Tom was a relative success with a couple of big scoops - first 2 Leinster finals in a row and first manager to beat Meath! Thanks for this, well done and good luck with the future. You did well with what you got!

Redslayer (Westmeath) - Posts: 100 - 15/07/2017 18:41:19    2017056

Tom Cribbin

Tom thanks for all the good days, and good luck in the future.
It can be seen the lads on the team have great respect for you, as you had for them.
Thanks again.

Kuga (Westmeath) - Posts: 52 - 15/07/2017 21:16:39    2017154

Thanks Tom. Beat all opposition in Leinster Championship bar Dublin for his 3 years. He was asked to improve Championship form and he did that much anyway.

Jack_Sparrow (Westmeath) - Posts: 1018 - 15/07/2017 22:04:51    2017188

Tom got us to two leinster finals in a row . How many did we reach in the previous ONE HUNDRED + years? !! Marvelous job.

jfd (Westmeath) - Posts: 240 - 15/07/2017 22:59:29    2017218

New Senior manager ## Lads Tom is in the past fair play to him for everything he did good or bad, time to move on now, my question is do we have faith in our county board to do the right thing

Moorehead (Westmeath) - Posts: 143 - 16/07/2017 18:40:29    2017570

Don't think anyone has confidence in the CB. Will they set up like a sub committee type thing with maybe a past player etc to interview the new manager - not even sure what the process is ? Not sure how they will go about it, or even who they could go after.... will it be an inside manager or will they go outside the county again . Time will tell I suppose, hopefully they act quickly.

badger11 (Westmeath) - Posts: 36 - 16/07/2017 20:37:57    2017676

They'll set up a sub committee

Clubs will nominate a few potential managers at a meeting, but the CB will only let their candidate go forward as the clubs have voted for the sub committees recommendations.

valley84 (Westmeath) - Posts: 1890 - 17/07/2017 08:15:33    2017829

footiemad (Westmeath) - Posts: 733 - 17/07/2017 09:24:08    2017870

Disagree we have the players big time. I think whats more important here is a quality trainer more so than a manager. I think a county manager in the modern game just manages the environment, THE trainer trains how they play. I mean you can have any gameplan you want the trainer has to teach the players how to impliment that game plan. Thats where Tom lacked he needed a top quality trainer. We have good trainers in this county home grown ones Cooney is Rhode trainer Leahy is tullamore manager and trainer, james davit is lomans trainer, alan mangan and damien gavin do a great job at tyrellspass so what I am saying is we have lots of trainers what about a manager. If we are to look for a home manager as in managers doing a good job at home well then dempsey is the number one followed by Mangan then tom Coffey. I think anthony cunningham would be super but alas no way we can afford him. I dont know the solution but I would love to see them go back for Dempsey with maybe mangan and gavin. Tom coffey and Leahy would be a huge option as they both train attractive attacking football but rumour has it they are both well up the pecking order for the Offaly job together or seperate I am not sure. So Dempsey must be asked end of story

Paulknows (Westmeath) - Posts: 114 - 17/07/2017 10:00:55    2017902

this thread has turned into the cribben appreciation . this is about the new manager . it will be from inside the county and should be done very
quickly so as to assess players in club championship .my choice would be jack cooney but im not sure he will go for it

mickcunningham (Westmeath) - Posts: 1806 - 17/07/2017 10:02:20    2017904

Not 100% sure what way it went the last time exactly .Maybe someone on here can help me. Was something along the line of 5/6 names where put forward. Then Leahy's name topped the list. Clubs voted against him and Sean Sheridan came back with Cribbins name who wasn't even among the original 5/6 names. The new manager wont be a big name simple as that. Like the last manager, nothing against him personally but it will come down to money again. As a poster above says we don't have the players anyway but hopefully we could get someone in to play a better quality of football with a small bit more confidence. The basis of the team we have now is the 2010 u21 team. They only have 1 or 2 years left at the top of their game. We haven't had a decent underage team since apart from was in 2013 when we got to a minor final. The future is very bleak.

the21yardline (Westmeath) - Posts: 178 - 17/07/2017 10:21:43    2017918

Disagree we dont have the players i think we are as rich as any other county on players i just think we need better coaching. we all agree it should be a local man and i think whoever it is we should get behind it and give it everything. i would rather be lead by a local man who knows all the players knows what the county has to offer and more important be realistic with what finiances we have available. i think its time to change the way we look at how we play and to form a emthod of play for all our senior and underage teams. Lets get behind the process and whoever is put forward lets back him 100% regardless what we think of the appointment

Djkray (Dublin) - Posts: 152 - 17/07/2017 11:03:20    2017959

Paul knows the only decent thing you said was Anthony Cunningham might be worth a punt,alan mangan are you for real,tyrellspass have the best footballer in the county in ger egan and have a good core of county players ,so they are always going to be around the semi final or final of the championship no matter who manages them,was this not the same manager who decided not to put a man marker on shane dempsey last year and hence lost the county final for his team?cooney and leahy are just not suitable,we need to go outside again,w have some good guys in the county but we need someone with intercounty experience to push on or else we'll be back in div 4

footiemad (Westmeath) - Posts: 733 - 17/07/2017 12:23:40    2018042

In regard to footiemad's comment on the players, you'd have to ask the question, the players for what exactly? It wouldnt matter what manager we had, we do not have the players to compete with the top tier teams - end of story? We have to be happy with our lot in that we are a Div 3 team who may compete somewhat for Div 2 but thats it. Thats not down to the Manager, its down to the quality of player we possess.

Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 601 - 17/07/2017 12:38:50    2018064

Get Cunningham to help with the hurlers...woukd be a great coup for them

preddan (Kildare) - Posts: 740 - 17/07/2017 14:19:11    2018165

i really dont think that id agree with paulknows earlier post. we need a big enough name to take over and maybe have a few young coaches in with whoever this is to get experience. id get john keane, martin flanagan, fergal wilson and i would have alan mangan in there. dont think the county final was his fault seen tyrrellspass' have a poor defence. jamie gnoud the only exception and he was on heslin. think he will eventually a very good coach like the above names ive mentioned. think footiemad was a little harsh. them four selectors with a good outside manager would be a very ghood team in my opinion

bosco11 (Dublin) - Posts: 7 - 17/07/2017 15:15:48    2018207

What exactly has Jack Cooney done or won as a manager? Don't know anything about him so just wondering why his name has been rolled out every time manager has come up over the last 8 years.
I think whoever it is should have John Keane as manager to have continuity between U20 team and senior team. Maybe a little bit inexperienced to take on senior job yet.

Wmeath2 (Westmeath) - Posts: 176 - 17/07/2017 15:26:55    2018216