Replying To rogerdodger: "How many of the new faces on the Westmeath team today will we see in the league, very few I'd imagine take the contingent playing in u21 final yesterday and other players not available before Christmas, it will be the same old story fringe players will get their "chance" and that will be as good as it gets the team should be competing in the Walsh Cup I don't buy into this more game's thing in the Kehoe Cup, we have won it and contested finals in it so many times over the years and it never did us any good we need serious competitive games to progress its just a quick fix for the new management to get some silverware (not garunteed) the manager has stated the league is not top priority but it should be we have to get to a higher standard of league hurling and promotion should be first on the agenda this McDonagh Cup is fine but both Offaly and Laois will take serious full attention from our lads in that we have listened to too many excuses the last few years about this lad and that not available or we were unlucky because of a mistake it was great to beat Offaly a couple of years ago but then we didn't follow it up when they blitzed us last year in cusak, gaels are fed up being patient and that needs to be corrected for them in the coming league there won't be too many in cusak today but if it was Walsh Cup hurling it would serve a better purpose all round"
How did the new lads from Brownstown get on? You know, the lads personally called up by the county chairman.