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Replying To Yuptipp:  "Was in St. Flannan's this morning watching our u20 v your seniors. You seem to have gone back a lot since we last met in the league a few years back. Carlow and Antrim also seem to be on the back foot. This appears concerning for hurling in general. Just wondering what is the local viewpoint"
Huge amount of retirements and we've been hit by emigration like every other county to be fair. Some of the panellists would struggle to break into the Castletown senior team - it's just where we're at right now.

There's a lot of building to do with such a young squad in their early 20s, so we've our work cut out for us. There is good talent coming through CBS which is encouraging, but it'll be tough for a few years yet.

We're probably better off in 2A and the Joe McDonagh for the next couple of years to blood new players and build properly.

Fighting-Cocks69 (Westmeath) - Posts: 162 - 07/04/2026 18:36:00    2665144

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Replying To Yuptipp:  "Was in St. Flannan's this morning watching our u20 v your seniors. You seem to have gone back a lot since we last met in the league a few years back. Carlow and Antrim also seem to be on the back foot. This appears concerning for hurling in general. Just wondering what is the local viewpoint"
We are on a serious downward curve at the moment. We were always going to fall back to the pack but we now have too many Junior and intermediate players on our panel. Nett result our county team would seriously struggle against the top 3/4 senior teams in the county.

Loughlenegale (Westmeath) - Posts: 24 - 09/04/2026 10:15:34    2665378

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