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Replying To lakecounty76:  "What a stupid and unnecessary comment. Brandon's been fantastic, a complete revelation for us this year and I'd be delighted for him to get an all star. I just felt on the balance of the year that Whittaker was our best and most consistent. To try and diminish his season by bringing up injury forced substitutions is classless and embarrassing. You can support all our players without trying to bring some down."
Agreed, obviously someone with an agenda.

I think it's fair to say he was our most consistent championship (and league) performer, followed closely by the likes of Drumm, McCartan, Wallace etc.

DelaneyCup2026 (Westmeath) - Posts: 3 - 26/06/2026 14:32:43    2682073

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It will be difficult enough to get an all star as all Ireland winners and finalists often get 9/10/11. When you factor in the other 6 teams that reached semi finals and quarters, there aren't a whole lot of places left. Hopefully we get one as a provincial finalist but it might not happen.

Iarmhisamhi (Westmeath) - Posts: 59 - 26/06/2026 22:16:11    2682153

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I'd imagine Westmeath will get one All Star, as they are provincial champions when nobody would have expected it at the start of the championship, but definitely not any more than that. Over the last 10 years there has been max 1 or 2 players that didn't reach a semi final that got one. And in a lot of those years the semi finalists accounted for all 15. I can't remember any team that didn't reach a semi final getting more than one in recent times.

It will probably be Whittaker or Wallace. Kelly was excellent but there's a lot of top forwards that got through to the quarter finals, and with the new rules and high scores, they're likely to stand out more over the rest of the championship. Connellan and Drumm might get nominated but my money would be on one of Wallace and Whittaker winning one.

anon (None) - Posts: 365 - 27/06/2026 11:00:01    2682179

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