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Replying To lakecounty76:  "What a stupid and unnecessary comment. Brandon's been fantastic, a complete revelation for us this year and I'd be delighted for him to get an all star. I just felt on the balance of the year that Whittaker was our best and most consistent. To try and diminish his season by bringing up injury forced substitutions is classless and embarrassing. You can support all our players without trying to bring some down."
Agreed, obviously someone with an agenda.

I think it's fair to say he was our most consistent championship (and league) performer, followed closely by the likes of Drumm, McCartan, Wallace etc.

DelaneyCup2026 (Westmeath) - Posts: 3 - 26/06/2026 14:32:43    2682073

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It will be difficult enough to get an all star as all Ireland winners and finalists often get 9/10/11. When you factor in the other 6 teams that reached semi finals and quarters, there aren't a whole lot of places left. Hopefully we get one as a provincial finalist but it might not happen.

Iarmhisamhi (Westmeath) - Posts: 59 - 26/06/2026 22:16:11    2682153

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I'd imagine Westmeath will get one All Star, as they are provincial champions when nobody would have expected it at the start of the championship, but definitely not any more than that. Over the last 10 years there has been max 1 or 2 players that didn't reach a semi final that got one. And in a lot of those years the semi finalists accounted for all 15. I can't remember any team that didn't reach a semi final getting more than one in recent times.

It will probably be Whittaker or Wallace. Kelly was excellent but there's a lot of top forwards that got through to the quarter finals, and with the new rules and high scores, they're likely to stand out more over the rest of the championship. Connellan and Drumm might get nominated but my money would be on one of Wallace and Whittaker winning one.

anon (None) - Posts: 365 - 27/06/2026 11:00:01    2682179

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Replying To Claretandblue:  "Brandon has exceeded by miles any expectations we had of him, delighted for him and his family who are fantastic Westmeath and Milltownpass Gaels but there were two other forwards in Clones who were on a different level to him and it's a huge doubt that both of those will get All Stars. Jack McCarron was poetry in motion off both feet, Stephen O' Hanlon was the man of the match, he tore shreds in our defence repeatedly. All Stars are very hard to win and if we get one it reflects well on the entire squad"
Silly comment. really, exceeded your expectations and whoever else your talking about.he just didn't come good all of am sudden.if he had played against Wexford we would be playing division 2 next year.

Class comment about Monaghan forwards. Talk about throwing your backs under the bus.plus none of them forwards that your saying are on a different level to Brandon. 1 is 7th on the scoring list from play the other not sure is top ten on the list, up until last week.

A lot of jealousy in tour comments.

Joeynyc (Westmeath) - Posts: 30 - 28/06/2026 14:41:51    2682407

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Replying To Temple56:  ""Leinster may not be a strong province"
Westmeath best Cavan
Louth beat Armagh
Meath beat Derry
Dublin best Donegal.

Fair play on your win today. Our injuries and inexperience around the middle caught up with us today. Better team won today. However take Beggan out of your team and yee are on par with likes of Kildare and Cavan who we played this year."
Think I may have been right. Got some backlash for saying this last weekend.

Beggan didn't play today and couldn't beat 14 man Louth team. Fair play to Louth, great to see a Leinster team which come from a "province that is not strong" reach a semi final!

Temple56 (Westmeath) - Posts: 657 - 28/06/2026 15:31:20    2682418

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Can anyone find the Westmeath Junior 1 football championship draw? They've posted every other adult football draw, but I can't seem to find the Junior 1 one anywhere on the Westmeath website.

Fighting-Cocks69 (Westmeath) - Posts: 183 - 28/06/2026 15:44:32    2682431

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