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Replying To Left Full: "Obviously a kinnegad supporter with all your recent posts. CTG hot favorites in the hurling & look what happened. Kinnegad have a huge chance on Sunday, no point talking about a leinster campaign until sunday evening." I am really sorry to burst your bubble, I have no connection to Kinnegad. I have backed The Downs to win the Championship from the very start. If they were playing the St Loman's team in their pomp on Sunday I would be saying the very same things about The Downs. As I said before no other team in Leinster has been doing what The Downs have been doing, obliterating teams by an average margin of 12 points. Naas were mentioned but they actually lost a game before the Kildare Final. iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 259 - 21/10/2025 08:13:44 2640901 Link
The Downs are now second favourites in the bookies to win Leinster, so obviously a good bit of cash being lumped on them, that's confidence for you. Kinnegad are not even listed online. CleanShoulder (Westmeath) - Posts: 386 - 21/10/2025 09:48:48 2640908 Link
To suggest that a team with one championship title would beat St. Loman's in their pomp is just off the mark. Loman's won 8 titles including a three in a row, reached a Leinster final and always competed well in Leinster campaigns. Their best side with Heslin, Dempsey, O' Toole, Reilly, McCartans by 2, Daly, Whelan, Geoghegan and others deserve to be ranked alongside Garrycastle, Shamrocks and Athlone sides of the past. The Downs need to win a lot more than one title in 20 years to achieve such status Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 2414 - 21/10/2025 10:38:21 2640917 Link
Replying To iarmhiabu: "I am really sorry to burst your bubble, I have no connection to Kinnegad. I have backed The Downs to win the Championship from the very start. If they were playing the St Loman's team in their pomp on Sunday I would be saying the very same things about The Downs. As I said before no other team in Leinster has been doing what The Downs have been doing, obliterating teams by an average margin of 12 points. Naas were mentioned but they actually lost a game before the Kildare Final." Iarmhiabu you have had some wild takes over the last few weeks! The Downs are quality and will go into Sundays game heavy favorites but Kinnegad have good of chance as anyone. They have the experience of playing in the final 2 years ago. If they can knock over a few two pointers early it will be an interesting game. Regarding The Downs in Leinster, if they win on Sunday they wont fear many. However round 1 is against Offaly which will probably be Tullamore who themselves fancy their chances in Leinster. Semi final is then against Ballyboden who in my opinion are 5-8 points better than The Downs. Temple56 (Westmeath) - Posts: 583 - 21/10/2025 11:25:24 2640927 Link
Replying To Claretandblue: "To suggest that a team with one championship title would beat St. Loman's in their pomp is just off the mark. Loman's won 8 titles including a three in a row, reached a Leinster final and always competed well in Leinster campaigns. Their best side with Heslin, Dempsey, O' Toole, Reilly, McCartans by 2, Daly, Whelan, Geoghegan and others deserve to be ranked alongside Garrycastle, Shamrocks and Athlone sides of the past. The Downs need to win a lot more than one title in 20 years to achieve such status" The St Loman's team in their pomp would be the one that won the 3 in a row in 2017, reached the Leinster final, that was obviously their best side. I don't know where you're going by naming the 2 McCartan's and Geoghegan, they were still in their nappies. It took The Downs just 1 year to reach the Leinster final, they were beaten by the team who went on to win the All Ireland. Yes, I think this present team from The Downs would beat the 3 in a row St Loman's team but you would disagree anyway. iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 259 - 21/10/2025 14:30:22 2640968 Link
Replying To Temple56: "Iarmhiabu you have had some wild takes over the last few weeks! The Downs are quality and will go into Sundays game heavy favorites but Kinnegad have good of chance as anyone. They have the experience of playing in the final 2 years ago. If they can knock over a few two pointers early it will be an interesting game. Regarding The Downs in Leinster, if they win on Sunday they wont fear many. However round 1 is against Offaly which will probably be Tullamore who themselves fancy their chances in Leinster. Semi final is then against Ballyboden who in my opinion are 5-8 points better than The Downs." Kinnegad probably should have won the final 2 years ago and they were very good to beat a faltering St Loman's. No, I can't see The Downs tripping up. They have just walked through every team so far. iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 259 - 21/10/2025 14:39:05 2640969 Link
Replying To CleanShoulder: "The Downs are now second favourites in the bookies to win Leinster, so obviously a good bit of cash being lumped on them, that's confidence for you. Kinnegad are not even listed online." I give kinnegad a good shout sunday as it's a local derby and a county final but if they were to pull of a win I wouldn't expect them to give leinster much of a rattle at all, neverminded win it Ayardout (Westmeath) - Posts: 16 - 21/10/2025 15:29:30 2640975 Link
Replying To PowellJohn3: "My stance maybe a bit controversial, i was in the stand both days saturday and sunday and sitting pretty close to the middle along with my nephew. The Miltownpass player struck out twice and got a deserved second yellow to be sent off, the supporters then jeered at him as any opposition support would do and his actions deserved jeering, but there was no direct foul singularity language that i heard, nothing you wouldnt hear at any game, the player obviously took this to heart and he incited the entire thing simple as and his selector who tryed to help initially made things worse. The game sunday the player who got hit should also should have been sent out for his involvement accoring to the rules, no sledging anymore, sent off because already on a yellow and continued to go at Kiernan as he was already sent off. I think any sub who was in the stand and came onto the pitch should also be punished, to run down a flight of steps and jump a gate to go onto a pitch to get involved in a shoving match should be cited, they werent running onto the pitch to stop a row or calm a situation. one of those was already red carded so will that player no miss the final for entering the field of play after a red card. County Board need to do a proper review of both games and if there was direct abuse to that miltownpass player found then them supporters should be banned also, but from my view i didnt hear anything abnormal but video evidence could be different." I didnt hear of any suspensions out of these games or maybe i missed it. Or perhaps they just havnt been dealt with just yet. Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 699 - 22/10/2025 08:49:42 2641041 Link
Replying To CleanShoulder: "The Downs are now second favourites in the bookies to win Leinster, so obviously a good bit of cash being lumped on them, that's confidence for you. Kinnegad are not even listed online." The confidence is clearly coming from within The Downs camp. Listened to Luke Loughlin's interview on radio, he said "we're not too worried about Kinnegad", then going on about how they will have 8 or 9 players involved in the county set up next year. Are they over confident? gaelicgab (USA) - Posts: 882 - 22/10/2025 11:57:16 2641075 Link
Replying To gaelicgab: "The confidence is clearly coming from within The Downs camp. Listened to Luke Loughlin's interview on radio, he said "we're not too worried about Kinnegad", then going on about how they will have 8 or 9 players involved in the county set up next year. Are they over confident?" The downs are not over confident what he said was they were not worried about Kinnegad because they were concentrating on their own game I read it in the Westmead examiner Mick1234 (Westmeath) - Posts: 40 - 22/10/2025 12:55:46 2641086 Link
This has been driving me mad on this forum the last few days. The downs are totally focused on Kinnegad and will not take them lightly, id imagine they'll win by 5-6 points slightly less than they've done all year, as it's a final and a local derby. However, the downs also definitely have Leinster at the back of their minds, they made the final three years ago when they were much a weaker side and a lot of heavyweight teams are gone this time around. My points is, It is absolutely possible to think about Leinster without taking Kinnegad lightly which I'm sure is what they're doing. It's ok to say the downs should win without saying that the Kinnegad are being "disrespected" Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 327 - 22/10/2025 14:24:57 2641100 Link
Replying To Bluelake: "This has been driving me mad on this forum the last few days. The downs are totally focused on Kinnegad and will not take them lightly, id imagine they'll win by 5-6 points slightly less than they've done all year, as it's a final and a local derby. However, the downs also definitely have Leinster at the back of their minds, they made the final three years ago when they were much a weaker side and a lot of heavyweight teams are gone this time around. My points is, It is absolutely possible to think about Leinster without taking Kinnegad lightly which I'm sure is what they're doing. It's ok to say the downs should win without saying that the Kinnegad are being "disrespected"" So you're saying that the Downs think they have Kinnegad beat already CleanShoulder (Westmeath) - Posts: 386 - 22/10/2025 15:34:31 2641113 Link
Replying To Bluelake: "This has been driving me mad on this forum the last few days. The downs are totally focused on Kinnegad and will not take them lightly, id imagine they'll win by 5-6 points slightly less than they've done all year, as it's a final and a local derby. However, the downs also definitely have Leinster at the back of their minds, they made the final three years ago when they were much a weaker side and a lot of heavyweight teams are gone this time around. My points is, It is absolutely possible to think about Leinster without taking Kinnegad lightly which I'm sure is what they're doing. It's ok to say the downs should win without saying that the Kinnegad are being "disrespected"" I wouldn't say The Downs are a much weaker side from the Leinster final 3 years ago. It's the same team without Darragh Egerton, Mark Kelly had been starting for obvious reasons. Absolutely, The Downs have a Leinster title on their minds. iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 259 - 22/10/2025 16:29:16 2641130 Link
Tough reading these last few weeks; I don't think anyone really believes The Downs are looking beyond Sunday. Can we end it there. OverTheHill85 (Westmeath) - Posts: 150 - 22/10/2025 16:40:07 2641132 Link
Congratulations the Downs lakecounty90 (Westmeath) - Posts: 152 - 22/10/2025 18:28:47 2641145 Link
Replying To iarmhiabu: "I wouldn't say The Downs are a much weaker side from the Leinster final 3 years ago. It's the same team without Darragh Egerton, Mark Kelly had been starting for obvious reasons. Absolutely, The Downs have a Leinster title on their minds." Much weaker was probably a bit strong but Moran, Lynam, O Sullivan, Nolan etc have gone to a new level since Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 327 - 22/10/2025 19:04:30 2641150 Link
Are the downs home or away in the first round of lenister Mooo (Westmeath) - Posts: 66 - 22/10/2025 20:11:48 2641166 Link