It's looking unlikely that we'll progress to the final and attain promotion at this point. Laois are almost certainly in the final and promoted barring they lose twice to both Meath and London, which is very unlikely. So really there's only the runner up spot in the group that's left up for grabs and us, Meath and Kerry are all vying for it.
Kerry and us are tied on points at 5 a piece. The main thing is Westmeath have to win against Mayo and Derry in the last 2 games. The problem is our scoring difference is awful compared to Kerry who absolutely annihilated Derry in one of the early league games by 26 points. Kerry play Mayo next and will likely win that one well too, but you'd hope Mayo keep the score a bit tighter than Derry did. That probably means that we have to put up an absolute cricket score in both our last games to have the any shot of reaching the final ahead of Kerry.
Meath are still in the mix on 6 points, but they have the other two top teams to play in Laois and Kerry in their final two games, which you would think might be a tough ask for them to win both. If they did win both it actually would make it mathematically impossible for us to reach the final as they'd end up on 10 points and the max we could get right now is 9 points by the end of the league.
Ideally, what Westmeath would want to see is Meath losing to Laois and then they bate Kerry which would allow us to sneak ahead of both Meath and Kerry on 9 points without the scoring difference coming into play. Anyway the main thing is go out and win the games against Derry and Mayo, get to 9 points and then if possible do a demolition job and win both by about 20 points.
We need to focus on beating Derry by 1 point. Have been in 5 successive Christy Ring finals. We are not good enough to play division 1B. Win last 2 matches and it's been a thoroughly decent league campaign. Building nicely and blooding youth and get promoted next year and stay up.
Replying To Blackjack: "We need to focus on beating Derry by 1 point. Have been in 5 successive Christy Ring finals. We are not good enough to play division 1B. Win last 2 matches and it's been a thoroughly decent league campaign. Building nicely and blooding youth and get promoted next year and stay up."
Agree wholeheartedly. Win by a point or two against a physical Derry with their Slaughneil contingent back and get game time into Dara Egerton and Peter Clarke. Then beat Mayo and hopefully have David O'Reilly,Kilian Doyle,Bermingham and Keyes getting game time Win away v London in first round of Mcdonagh and give everything in the two home matches v Carlow and Laois and then see how we get on with the two Ulster teams. I think that are the short term aims we have to go for.