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Replying To nadunta2025: "Any new Manager news? Lomans to add some coaching names to there management. The news of David Martin to Milltown i hear is Fake News. St.Josephs parted ways with another manager getting them to a final 2 years in a row ?" Hearing down here that David Martin to Ballymahon. Milltown might not be an attractive job if Daragh Hynes and Jack Murtagh going travelling. All very quiet in Tyrellspass Milltownpass Castledaly Ballymore Caulry coffey (Westmeath) - Posts: 32 - 04/12/2025 10:11:55 2646982 Link
Nigel Dineen to Caulry nadunta2025 (Westmeath) - Posts: 11 - 04/12/2025 10:40:06 2646989 Link
Replying To nadunta2025: "Nigel Dineen to Caulry" Caulry have great ambitions with there appointments. They have invested a lot into coaching and facilities. Shane Curran and Owen Mooney ( coached St Brigids to Connacht title at weekend). Pat Flanagan and Joe Quinn from Clara both have had plenty of success. Nigel Dineen has done good work with Roscommon underage teams. But would they be better served by going with an in house manager next. Bring in an outside coach to assist . Lomans, the Downs,. Kinnegad and Shamrocks all served well by in house managers this year. A_Chairde (Westmeath) - Posts: 358 - 04/12/2025 12:59:44 2647018 Link
2026 NFL fixtures: Sun Jan 25 Sligo home Sun February 1 Clare away Sat February 14 Down away Sun February 22 Fermanagh home Sat February 28 Laois away Sun March 15 Limerick home Sun March 22 Wexford away Its going to be far from easy getting back up to Div 2. Any news on the ins and outs for the new season? Obviously the Bear and Jamie are gone. Will Ronan O Toole be back from his travels?. A_Chairde (Westmeath) - Posts: 358 - 04/12/2025 13:17:28 2647023 Link
Replying To A_Chairde: "Caulry have great ambitions with there appointments. They have invested a lot into coaching and facilities. Shane Curran and Owen Mooney ( coached St Brigids to Connacht title at weekend). Pat Flanagan and Joe Quinn from Clara both have had plenty of success. Nigel Dineen has done good work with Roscommon underage teams. But would they be better served by going with an in house manager next. Bring in an outside coach to assist . Lomans, the Downs,. Kinnegad and Shamrocks all served well by in house managers this year." Completely agree with you . You cant beat a local man to go in with real passion for success for their club. Just look at Danny sammon at tubberclaire. Gary Dolan at Garrycastle . Paddy dowdall at Lomans. Even look at the lower teams, Foley at castledaly , Michael Ennis at ballinagore. Also if you do go local as manager, outside trainer is only real expense as local managers aren't as pricey Gaalover1989 (Westmeath) - Posts: 48 - 04/12/2025 15:20:22 2647045 Link
I also forgot my own club man , Eoin Jordan , what he brought to our club over last number if year was excellent. Gaalover1989 (Westmeath) - Posts: 48 - 04/12/2025 16:23:10 2647054 Link
Replying To A_Chairde: "2026 NFL fixtures: Sun Jan 25 Sligo home Sun February 1 Clare away Sat February 14 Down away Sun February 22 Fermanagh home Sat February 28 Laois away Sun March 15 Limerick home Sun March 22 Wexford away Its going to be far from easy getting back up to Div 2. Any news on the ins and outs for the new season? Obviously the Bear and Jamie are gone. Will Ronan O Toole be back from his travels?." I'll be very surprised if Westmeath don't finish in the top two with that set of fixtures. Drax_the_destroyer (UK) - Posts: 632 - 06/12/2025 14:59:37 2647207 Link
Replying To A_Chairde: "2026 NFL fixtures: Sun Jan 25 Sligo home Sun February 1 Clare away Sat February 14 Down away Sun February 22 Fermanagh home Sat February 28 Laois away Sun March 15 Limerick home Sun March 22 Wexford away Its going to be far from easy getting back up to Div 2. Any news on the ins and outs for the new season? Obviously the Bear and Jamie are gone. Will Ronan O Toole be back from his travels?." How would O'Toole be back when he has moved to Oz and is working there. Same as Sam Duncan… A very tough opening three games. The team are training very hard will be well prepared for the league. There will be a few new faces as is normal for any new season. Hopefully they can learn to close out tight games next season as otherwise they have learnt nothing from last season! Matthew (None) - Posts: 1096 - 06/12/2025 17:28:42 2647221 Link
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "I'll be very surprised if Westmeath don't finish in the top two with that set of fixtures." What would make you confident of winning in Down,Clare or Laois? Or indeed beating Fermanagh or Sligo at home.Id say they will be tight games and we haven't won one of those in years. I hope you are right but think it's going to be an upward struggle. jobber (Westmeath) - Posts: 1836 - 06/12/2025 18:06:36 2647225 Link
Fully agree Jobber, we have very tough fixtures in the early rounds and arguably our easiest games are the last two matches. Not sure how anyone would think we are certs to get promotion? We lost to Wicklow twice in successive championships Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 2489 - 06/12/2025 20:09:40 2647246 Link
Replying To Matthew: "How would O'Toole be back when he has moved to Oz and is working there. Same as Sam Duncan… A very tough opening three games. The team are training very hard will be well prepared for the league. There will be a few new faces as is normal for any new season. Hopefully they can learn to close out tight games next season as otherwise they have learnt nothing from last season!" Perhaps we're not all following ronan o tooles working arrangements as closely as you are and are curious about his return. People can come back from these places fyi Iakecounty90 (Westmeath) - Posts: 37 - 06/12/2025 20:36:37 2647252 Link
Who are some of the new names on the panel? Division 3 definitely going to be tough to get out of next year. Hoping that operating at a higher level in 2025 will stand to the lads Lakecounty94 (Westmeath) - Posts: 84 - 06/12/2025 21:14:37 2647262 Link
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "I'll be very surprised if Westmeath don't finish in the top two with that set of fixtures." It's all on the start. If we were to lose the first game, the next three are very tough and all of a sudden you might need to win the last 3 to stay up. However even two wins out of first 4 would put us a decent qualifying position. Very open division, we've failed to qualify with much better teams than this one Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 334 - 06/12/2025 23:38:58 2647280 Link
What will the starting 15 be for the first league game ????? Mooo (Westmeath) - Posts: 72 - 07/12/2025 13:00:25 2647302 Link
Replying To Mooo: "What will the starting 15 be for the first league game ?????" Jack Connaughton; Glenn Carolan, Kevin Maguire, Sean Clinton; Damien Dolan, Sean Murphy, Neil Clinton; Stephen Connolly, Tadhg Baker; Shane Lawless, Tiarnán O'Donovan, Oisin Shortall; Conor McCormack, Senan Baker, Luke Buckley Iakecounty90 (Westmeath) - Posts: 37 - 07/12/2025 15:49:47 2647331 Link
Any word on the goalkeeping situation?? Bruno@1 (Westmeath) - Posts: 287 - 07/12/2025 16:29:04 2647338 Link
Replying To Iakecounty90: "Jack Connaughton; Glenn Carolan, Kevin Maguire, Sean Clinton; Damien Dolan, Sean Murphy, Neil Clinton; Stephen Connolly, Tadhg Baker; Shane Lawless, Tiarnán O'Donovan, Oisin Shortall; Conor McCormack, Senan Baker, Luke Buckley" Ye could get you over the line Mooo (Westmeath) - Posts: 72 - 07/12/2025 17:03:12 2647347 Link