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Replying To Claretandblue: "Always rely on Chick to defend his club despite his protests that he's not Loman's!!!" Common knowledge to anyone who knows what's happening in senior football circles, you need to get yourself a hobby , grasping at straws isn't working Thechick (Westmeath) - Posts: 268 - 15/06/2023 14:30:45 2486682 Link
Nonsense Chick, at least admit where your loyalties lie. In depth knowledge of the Loman's squad. You a blow in to the Blues or homegrown?! I'd say blow in seeing you defend the outsiders so regularly Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 2151 - 15/06/2023 15:49:21 2486709 Link
Replying To Upforthegame23: "Another interesting match Sunday. We have been very competitive v armagh and galway, which was brilliant to see. Sam Duncan will be a big loss Sunday if unavailable. Is there any other injuries. What I have noticed in the most recent games is westmeath are a bit behind the top counties physically and in conditioning, but the will hopefully come, tactically and ability wise, we are right up there. Outside the 2nd half performance v louth and down, westmeath are definitely going in the right direction.. best wishes to dessie and players the weekend." Sam is certainly a massive loss given his performance in Armagh. Jack Smith went off injured in Galway game and Kevin Maguire hurt his back in game but should be fit. Lets get behind Dessie and team. I believe well win but might need to be by 4 points plus?? A_Chairde (Westmeath) - Posts: 294 - 15/06/2023 15:55:16 2486712 Link
Replying To A_Chairde: "Sam is certainly a massive loss given his performance in Armagh. Jack Smith went off injured in Galway game and Kevin Maguire hurt his back in game but should be fit. Lets get behind Dessie and team. I believe well win but might need to be by 4 points plus??" its almost time for the club championship . good luck to all teams in all grades . the county will be finished their season on sunday in breffni park mickcunningham (Westmeath) - Posts: 1898 - 16/06/2023 08:54:54 2486769 Link
Hopefully we pull off an upset on Sunday but should we not, is there an indication of when the club champ will start? Isn't there a min 7 day rule to allow county players back to the clubs? thus leaving the first weekend of july the likely start date. anyone know any different? trooper (Westmeath) - Posts: 58 - 16/06/2023 10:09:38 2486784 Link
Replying To trooper: "Hopefully we pull off an upset on Sunday but should we not, is there an indication of when the club champ will start? Isn't there a min 7 day rule to allow county players back to the clubs? thus leaving the first weekend of july the likely start date. anyone know any different?" Fixtures for 1st round down for next weekend (24th/25th) the champ will start next weekend that's one thing for sure because god forbid we'd give lads training and playing since November, to represent this county, and 2 week break to settle, recover and integrate back into the club set up! It's a no brainer to push the fixtures back a week but I'd bet you any money they won't. Edman78 (Westmeath) - Posts: 100 - 16/06/2023 10:57:59 2486793 Link
Replying To trooper: "Hopefully we pull off an upset on Sunday but should we not, is there an indication of when the club champ will start? Isn't there a min 7 day rule to allow county players back to the clubs? thus leaving the first weekend of july the likely start date. anyone know any different?" This is known for some time now... If WH dont advance to prelim qtr, the club champ starts 24th/25th and all weekends for club games are known ...which was option 4... i think. This was released in spring time (around March?) to all clubs. As mentioned above, what is a little unfair IMO, is that we dont know the exact day of the club game until sunday night. So students working in shops, players working Saturday's, management organising their training week have to decide all of that on Monday... WH Fixtures are v busy and fair play to them... but it wouldn't be an insult to WH team/mgt to provisionally release clubs dates/venue/time so clubs and players can get their affairs in order! Good luck to WH... i hope you cause an upset and we get to look fwd to a Prelim Qtr final. Laker1500 (Westmeath) - Posts: 20 - 16/06/2023 11:19:14 2486803 Link
Replying To Edman78: "Fixtures for 1st round down for next weekend (24th/25th) the champ will start next weekend that's one thing for sure because god forbid we'd give lads training and playing since November, to represent this county, and 2 week break to settle, recover and integrate back into the club set up! It's a no brainer to push the fixtures back a week but I'd bet you any money they won't." ... it is very unfair on county players to expect to come back 6 days later. Their collective heads will be melted id say!. They need a week off, then a week with the club.... Fixtures cant be moved on now. The master schedule has been ratified back earlier in the year by club delegates. So in the event WH dont make Prelim Qtr final the club starts on the 24/25 and all other weekends are already agreed right out to county finals. As i said earlier... what is a shame that exact dates and draws are not done. (Plus... again, agreed... v unfair on county players.) If anyone took time to look at the master plan and options which is signed off...we are all going to be on giving out about the Fleadh and fixtures BTW ... thats going to be another touchy one! Laker1500 (Westmeath) - Posts: 20 - 16/06/2023 11:29:45 2486811 Link
Option 4: assuming WH dont make it to the P Qtr Final. (Which is now likely) is:\ Rnd 1 - 24th - 25th June Rnd 2 - 8/9th July Rnd 3 -22/23rd July Rnd 4 -5/6th Aug Rnd 5 - 26/27 Aug  Qf- 2/3rd Sept Semi - 16/17 Aug Finals - 1st w/e Oct The above are the championship weekends for football... Laker1500 (Westmeath)* - Posts: 20 - 16/06/2023 11:31:23 2486812 Link
Replying To Laker1500: "This is known for some time now... If WH dont advance to prelim qtr, the club champ starts 24th/25th and all weekends for club games are known ...which was option 4... i think. This was released in spring time (around March?) to all clubs. As mentioned above, what is a little unfair IMO, is that we dont know the exact day of the club game until sunday night. So students working in shops, players working Saturday's, management organising their training week have to decide all of that on Monday... WH Fixtures are v busy and fair play to them... but it wouldn't be an insult to WH team/mgt to provisionally release clubs dates/venue/time so clubs and players can get their affairs in order! Good luck to WH... i hope you cause an upset and we get to look fwd to a Prelim Qtr final." The county player is penalised ,last year there was alot of giving out last year about lads going straight from the Tailteann Cup into championship without a break and having played 4/5 weeks in a row. It was being talked about in the local papers and at meetings about it being unfair. So what happens this year as a result ..the same thing Thechick (Westmeath) - Posts: 268 - 16/06/2023 12:32:29 2486837 Link
U19 football championship fixed for next Thursday in the middle of the Leaving Cert and potentially the night before clubs are out in the first round of senior/intermediate championship! Wmeath2 (Westmeath) - Posts: 182 - 17/06/2023 10:55:28 2487035 Link
Proud Westmeath man Yesterday! A kick away from making it to the knockout stages. Who would have thought that when the draw was made. Heslin kicks that free 99 times out of 100. Dessie and the players proved a lot of people wrong over the last few weeks. Now onto the club championship, need younger players to have good championships and put their hands up for Dessie next year. As seen with Senan Baker (our best underage player since Heslin) it takes a lot of time to adjust to intercounty football he looked out of his depth in all of the last 3 games. Some people on this forum wanted younger players to be just put into the team but its not that easy at this level. To the 2 or 3 players that played their last game for Westmeath yesterday they will go down as legends of Westmeath Football for what they have done over the last 10/15 years Temple56 (Westmeath) - Posts: 547 - 19/06/2023 10:05:08 2487096 Link
Replying To Temple56: "Proud Westmeath man Yesterday! A kick away from making it to the knockout stages. Who would have thought that when the draw was made. Heslin kicks that free 99 times out of 100. Dessie and the players proved a lot of people wrong over the last few weeks. Now onto the club championship, need younger players to have good championships and put their hands up for Dessie next year. As seen with Senan Baker (our best underage player since Heslin) it takes a lot of time to adjust to intercounty football he looked out of his depth in all of the last 3 games. Some people on this forum wanted younger players to be just put into the team but its not that easy at this level. To the 2 or 3 players that played their last game for Westmeath yesterday they will go down as legends of Westmeath Football for what they have done over the last 10/15 years" Who are the players retiring? Agreed plenty on that panel have given huge service. Very unlucky yesterday better team for large portions of the game. Dazzler30 (Westmeath) - Posts: 46 - 19/06/2023 11:01:33 2487165 Link
Excellant performance from Westmeath yesterday-great to see them competing right up to the final whistle-we were the better team throughout the gane and were 1 kick away from qualifying.Very tough and close group which came diwn to the last 60 seconds-if John Heslin and Shane Walsh(Galway) both score with the last kicks the whole group changes.well done to Dessie /management and squad. Bruno@1 (Westmeath) - Posts: 257 - 19/06/2023 11:21:47 2487189 Link
Fantastic performance from Westmeath yesterday and throughout the round robin AI series. Very unlucky not to win at least 1 game. Well done to the management team and players especially given the tough group. Hopefully we can build on this for next year and hit some realistic targets. londoner (UK) - Posts: 110 - 19/06/2023 11:39:28 2487210 Link
Brilliant performance from Westmeath this season had an uphill task of playing three div 1 teams, and put it up to two of them and should have been three only for that red card against galway armaghfan02 (Armagh) - Posts: 39 - 19/06/2023 11:50:26 2487223 Link
What a performance yesterday. So close and yet so far. As Dessie said it's fine margins. Gutted for the players and management and especially John Heslin. So proud to be a Westmeath man. Thank you to our players for that As for the county board! Head scrathing decision to start playing U19 championship this Thursday. Looking forward to Club championship starting this weekend. Feel sorry for our county players in having to lift themselves for this weekend. They have time to take a break between club games but the fact the county board have decided to give them no break, just like last year, shows a distinct lack of respect for what those players give to the county jersey Mountlin (Westmeath) - Posts: 59 - 19/06/2023 12:12:32 2487246 Link
Replying To Mountlin: "What a performance yesterday. So close and yet so far. As Dessie said it's fine margins. Gutted for the players and management and especially John Heslin. So proud to be a Westmeath man. Thank you to our players for that As for the county board! Head scrathing decision to start playing U19 championship this Thursday. Looking forward to Club championship starting this weekend. Feel sorry for our county players in having to lift themselves for this weekend. They have time to take a break between club games but the fact the county board have decided to give them no break, just like last year, shows a distinct lack of respect for what those players give to the county jersey" Regarding u19 championship: Have to agree with you. Junior B fixed for Tuesday, U19 Fixed for Thursday, Junior fixed for Friday and Senior fixed for the Weekend. Add the leaving cert into this. Majority of these players haven't trained the last few weeks as they prepare for their exams and some lads don't finish exams until next week. Hope these games get delayed for the benefit of the players. I'd say some senior managers will not be letting u19 players play at their own grade on Thursday because they might have an important game 2 days later. Temple56 (Westmeath) - Posts: 547 - 19/06/2023 12:42:13 2487269 Link
Replying To Temple56: "Proud Westmeath man Yesterday! A kick away from making it to the knockout stages. Who would have thought that when the draw was made. Heslin kicks that free 99 times out of 100. Dessie and the players proved a lot of people wrong over the last few weeks. Now onto the club championship, need younger players to have good championships and put their hands up for Dessie next year. As seen with Senan Baker (our best underage player since Heslin) it takes a lot of time to adjust to intercounty football he looked out of his depth in all of the last 3 games. Some people on this forum wanted younger players to be just put into the team but its not that easy at this level. To the 2 or 3 players that played their last game for Westmeath yesterday they will go down as legends of Westmeath Football for what they have done over the last 10/15 years" i would hope that none of the team retires . the priority will be to get to division 2 . lets hope the club championship produces a few players for management to look at mickcunningham (Westmeath) - Posts: 1898 - 19/06/2023 13:56:52 2487340 Link
Absolutely proud of the players for another wholehearted performance against a Division 1 team. We have shown in this All Ireland series that we can mix it with the best of them. Clear progress has been made on the back of winning the Tailteann so well done to all involved . Stength conditioning coach Joe Nagle deserves a lot of credit also. Promotion from Division 3 is paramount next year if we are to keep building. John Heslin will bounce back like all great players do. A_Chairde (Westmeath) - Posts: 294 - 19/06/2023 14:24:40 2487355 Link