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Westmeath Football thread - 5 Like(s)
Absolutely blessed to win that. If sligo had a few forwards they'd have won easy. Although it was great to be lucky rather than unlucky.
Bluelake (National) - 25/01/2026 15:57:46
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Westmeath Football thread - 4 Like(s)
Mark McHugh in Cusack this evening. Make of that what you will
Bluelake (National) - 06/09/2025 16:22:29
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Westmeath Football thread - 4 Like(s)
Replying To Dazzler30: "Gallagher would be miles better than Wall. Was never convicted of anything and a top team will take him again. He would get Westmeath further than lar wall if you were to talk only on football terms. The outside stuff is a major issue but would be a great chance to land a top manager." I'd happily be bottom of division 4 for the next 20 years than have Rory Gallagher as manager. It won't be him anyways but anybody here cheerleading for Rory Gallagher would wanna take a long hard look in the mirror.
Bluelake (National) - 23/09/2024 13:49:15
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Westmeath V Armagh - 3 Like(s)
Replying To Bruno@1: "Hopefully Dessie and co takes the defensive shackles off and lets Westmeath play an attacking game on Saturday evening. If we try and match Armagh's defensive play they will murder us on the counter. Give it a go and if we fail at least we tried to take the game to them. Also if there a breeze and we win the toss please take the advantage of the wind and none of the rubbish we witnessed in Portlaoise against Wicklow with the captain on the day being hung out to dry. Take a draw at this stage" We frustrated Armagh last season by being defensively solid and holding onto the ball for long periods. We did this well against Down and they in turn were very unlucky not to get a result against Armagh playing the same way. Surely this is the way to go again.
Bluelake (National) - 23/05/2024 15:43:22
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Westmeath Football thread - 3 Like(s)
Replying To lakecounty90: "Mchugh needs to get on the fone to Conor McCormack.
2nd most best forward in the county sitting at home
Wont win anything if best players not playing" Has to be a parody account
Bluelake (National) - 20/12/2025 19:42:51
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Another one that got away today. Unlucky with a few refereeing decisions but thought the game still could have been won. McCormack is giving us nothing out the field to warrant his poor kickouts and the fact he's not a shot stopper. Ray connellan gave a terrible ball away for the goal. We also butchered a goal chance and took a few crazy shots in both halves (even with the strong wind in the first half). Relegation is a certainty now unfortunately. Also the decision to bring on Kieran Martin was questionable to say the least in a game where you needed legs
Bluelake (National) - 23/02/2025 16:06:09
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Longford GAA thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Gaaforlife2023: "Poor enough kiloe and colmcile match struggling for scores colmcile .
Also bad news Christie back I think it was confirmed on commentary" Absolute madness. Goes to show there's no ambition from the county board
Bluelake (National) - 16/07/2024 22:03:01
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
I know they beat us last year but I think that's the best draw we could have got. There's no excuse for complacency after last year
Bluelake (National) - 09/06/2025 09:23:02
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To lakecounty90: "What games are you be watchin
Jack Connaughton is the best goalie in the county
Conor is wasted in goal
Luke wouldnt be under so much pressure if had Conor in the forward line with him." Will you stop, if McCormack was worth his place outfield he'd be playing outfield simple as . I won't argue with Connaughton as a goalie but Jason Daly and Trevor Martin are both easily good enough to start on this team. Bizarre that they persisted with McCormack since the rule change
Bluelake (National) - 05/06/2025 13:39:23
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Matthew: "Were you even at any of the games? Did you go to Newry; I expect not? A handful of people there again tonight.
Yes it was a very tough loss. We didn't get any calls from the referee tonight. Yes it was another hard luck loss… some of the points scored tonight were phenomenal from Westmeath. Luke got one of the best points I've ever seen tonight. I suggest people check it out!! Cooney got some very good 2 pointers also. Forde was outstanding aswell. McCormack generally did well with his kickouts and he is improving game by game with his kickouts.
Our bench is a little weak and we could do with getting Baker back as another option upfront. We had a few goal chances but we didn't take them and that was probably the difference in the end.
It would be a big boost if a few of the injuries clear up for the Kildare game and that game is the priority now. A big difference in how the footballers are losing and the hurlers…" I was actually at the game. Good man, I see you're able to have a mature conversation about it. I've said there's loads of positives I'm just saying losing tight games isn't all hard luck. It's not all coincidence. That's not to say it won't come over time, young team and all.
Bluelake (National) - 15/03/2025 21:00:36
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Fair play to Kieran Martin, a modern Westmeath legend. Gave us some great days and a huge servant to the county. Will never ever forget the roasting he gave Donald Keoghan in croke Park
Bluelake (National) - 21/11/2025 11:41:23
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Mark McHugh in. In fairness county board moved fairly quick on this one. Interesting to see his backroom team
Bluelake (National) - 09/09/2025 09:03:16
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Westmeath Football thread - 2 Like(s)
Replying To Fighting-Cocks69: "Another problem is the expense. I know the Leinster board or Croke Park control the prices, but if you're a family of five, it'll be 20 euros each for the adults. If all your three kids are students, that would be 15 euros for each of them. That adds up to 85 euros for a family of five to watch a game in Cusack Park. Imagine if they were to go to every game-it would be a total of 595 euros over the seven league games. I know there are loopholes in buying season passes and such, but whichever way you look at it, it's going to be very costly." Can't hide behind the expense thing. It's the same price for Louth
Bluelake (National) - 27/01/2025 15:45:01
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Ronan Wallace absolutely outstanding today. Luke as well stood up. Brilliant win in the circumstances. However, it doesn't matter a bit if we don't beat Sligo in Cusack park but positive signs so far
Bluelake (National) - 16/01/2026 22:44:02
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To GAAHQ1: "Anyone have the next round of Senior football fixtures handy? Can't find it on the website" Won't be out just yet. Fairly sure the top group is
Lomans vs Caulry
Kgad vs Athlone
Tpass vs Tang
Bluelake (National) - 29/07/2024 12:53:08
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To ear2ground: "David Geoghan what an inspiring appointment for u17 county manager. After the last management team which by all accounts was very weak and full of excuses, wouldn you think the county board would try headhunt someone with some pedigree. His experience at adult level is carrying water bottles for Lomans. Anyway with that said best i do wish them luck we need to start been competitive again at this level." Bit of respect. Can tell you first hand he does a lot more than "carry water bottles", has great knowledge of football. I'm not saying he's the right appointment and if you think somebody else then fair enough, but don't throw out inflammatory comments for no reason.
Bluelake (National) - 25/08/2024 16:22:48
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Chops: "House draw pushed out by a month anyone buy ticket lately? How many sold now? Jarlath Brurns after popping up on my Facebook feed pushing the Waterford one. Advertisement very low key at the moment" In fairness I'm seeing it a lot more lately. Had heard it picked up a bit but not sure how much
Bluelake (National) - 13/05/2025 12:56:44
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To Temple56: "There are no young quality keepers in the county. The best two are Jason Daly and Sean Brennan from Garrycastle. Both men are in their mid 30s.
Conor McCormack played well yesterday. You couldn't really blame him made two brilliant saves in the 1st half to keep us head. The big players out the field McCartan, Loughlin, Wallace and Connellen went missing when the going got tough. All players went hiding on his kickouts the last 10.
With the new rules I see Conor McCormack as the 2nd best forward in the county after Luke Loughlin. With the new rules he will dominate the club championship and if rumours are true he will head off to Australia after. If only McCabe gave him a chance at centre forward." This is surely a joke. Trevor Martin is well capable of being the goalie for Westmeath but McCabe wanted nothing to do with him.
Maybe we should drop Loughlin , walllace, McCartan etc and just play the entire Caulry team, we'd probably win Leinster!
Bluelake (National) - 16/06/2025 11:00:24
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Tomorrows intermediate final now to be played in Lomans
Bluelake (National) - 27/10/2024 16:19:45
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Westmeath Football thread - 1 Like(s)
Replying To WmeathWarrior: "St. Lomans and Garrycastle can both win their respective Leinster Club Championships. Garrycastle had an all round super performance and finished the game brilliantly, James Sheerin made a big difference with the ball needing to stick inside in the closing stages. He's a huge asset to have with conditions getting worse as the weeks go on. St. Lomans can march on to a final easily if they play in any way up to their potential. Caula are not world beaters on the opposite side and St. Lomans have the most experience of any team left in Leinster. This might well be their year and Garrycastle also should have no fear of Leinster especially at intermediate level. Next stop is Lakepoint park tomorrow evening and I'm going with St. Lomans to win by 7+ points in the end." Thought Cuala were excellent Saturday myself. There are very few poor teams when you get to provincials. Talk of Leinster is a bit premature
Bluelake (National) - 11/11/2024 16:49:28
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