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Replying To joej: "Are ye kidding me, I saw 2 old men walking out of your toilets because they could not see a thing Cop yourself on, read the posts, even your own county men admit the facilities are Cat" Are you just choosing to ignore the part of my post where I said all of us fans in Westmeath are crying out for better facilities? westmeathman99 (Westmeath) - Posts: 120 - 27/01/2025 18:57:04 2588029 Link
Replying To westmeathman99: "Are you just choosing to ignore the part of my post where I said all of us fans in Westmeath are crying out for better facilities?" No, but your obviously not crying hard enough. If the facilities are not up to scratch at CP, game should be moved or postponed. joej (Louth) - Posts: 1608 - 27/01/2025 20:11:22 2588044 Link
Weren't there decent plans in place for a new larger stand and generally upgraded facilities a few years ago? What happened to that. The plans looked impressive from what I recall. As regards the pitch , I thought the surface was decent given the awful weather. Lakecounty94 (Westmeath) - Posts: 73 - 27/01/2025 21:43:16 2588061 Link
County Fundraisers in recent years have been poorly supported. In general Westmeath GAA people do not seem to want to support County initiatives whether that be fundraisers or the County team. They seem to reserve their financial support to their Club teams. Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 667 - 28/01/2025 09:07:01 2588096 Link
Replying To Meridian: "County Fundraisers in recent years have been poorly supported. In general Westmeath GAA people do not seem to want to support County initiatives whether that be fundraisers or the County team. They seem to reserve their financial support to their Club teams." To be fair when you see how badly organised the Home in Spain is at the minute you can see why Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 200 - 28/01/2025 09:30:35 2588104 Link
Westmeath GAA have no ambition, why not approach Niall Horan a big GAA fan about getting involved like Shane Lowry in Offaly? He surely would be interested in getting involved.. dec (None) - Posts: 291 - 28/01/2025 10:31:33 2588120 Link
Replying To Bluelake: "To be fair when you see how badly organised the Home in Spain is at the minute you can see why" How do you ascertain that the Home in Spain is badly organised ? BigSur (Westmeath) - Posts: 1178 - 28/01/2025 11:46:44 2588141 Link
Replying To Bluelake: "To be fair when you see how badly organised the Home in Spain is at the minute you can see why" I dont think that is a fair comment.They have advertised the Home Draw for house in Spain on websites and other places so what else can they do -they are promoting it so its its to the publuc to respond. Bruno@1 (Westmeath) - Posts: 224 - 28/01/2025 12:07:55 2588147 Link
Replying To Meridian: "County Fundraisers in recent years have been poorly supported. In general Westmeath GAA people do not seem to want to support County initiatives whether that be fundraisers or the County team. They seem to reserve their financial support to their Club teams." Why is it that other counties similar to us can run hugely successful fundraisers and we can't deliver on anything noteworthy? Roscommon GAA through Club Rossie made a profit of over €900k from their win a home in London fundraiser that was launched in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic. It was so successful they gave away another house in Kildare last Christmas. Roscommon would have a similar profile to ourselves, we would have more clubs overall. They're in a strong position financially going forward. You said Westmeath GAA people seem to reserve their financial support to their club teams, maybe instead of county fundraisers. There's a reason behind it, I believe there's a lot of Westmeath GAA people like myself fed up with the lack of leadership for years and years, no deliverance. Hopefully we get the €1mill needed from the Spanish apartment draw but I wouldn't hold my breath. iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 117 - 28/01/2025 14:16:11 2588175 Link
Replying To Bluelake: "To be fair when you see how badly organised the Home in Spain is at the minute you can see why" In fairness, they're making a better job of promoting and advertising it than previous ventures. Unless you know exactly how many tickets have been sold? iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 117 - 28/01/2025 14:20:41 2588177 Link
Replying To iarmhiabu: "In fairness, they're making a better job of promoting and advertising it than previous ventures. Unless you know exactly how many tickets have been sold?" I think it was a real own goal having Frank Mescall do the video, no offence to the man it just came across as awkward. One of the players or even Conor Moore or somebody like that would have helped it a lot. The clubs are a long long away off their target of 100 from what I've been told. I was also told there's issues with the land in Spain and a lot of red tape, it'll be years before it's ready. I also think they'd have been better off if they did it with a house in Ireland, like Roscommon have done previously as you say. I know they've the best interest of Westmeath at heart and in fairness it's hard to get fundraising at the best of times. Hopefully it picks up. In fairness it's not for lack of trying, I'll give them that. Bluelake (Westmeath) - Posts: 200 - 28/01/2025 15:11:40 2588198 Link
Replying To Bluelake: "I think it was a real own goal having Frank Mescall do the video, no offence to the man it just came across as awkward. One of the players or even Conor Moore or somebody like that would have helped it a lot. The clubs are a long long away off their target of 100 from what I've been told. I was also told there's issues with the land in Spain and a lot of red tape, it'll be years before it's ready. I also think they'd have been better off if they did it with a house in Ireland, like Roscommon have done previously as you say. I know they've the best interest of Westmeath at heart and in fairness it's hard to get fundraising at the best of times. Hopefully it picks up. In fairness it's not for lack of trying, I'll give them that." No, I fully see where you're coming from. i think a lot of people felt the awkwardness of watching that video for the first time. They have been trying to sell tickets and encourage the clubs to take part which is great. However, I do agree with an earlier comment that we don't have a great history of fundraising compared to other counties. If you look at the 'QUID Games' fundraiser they did a year or more back, besides the contestants, there was a very poor turnout in the audience. I even remember talking to a few of the contestants who got knocked out quite early; they left straight after, saying it was a poor attendance and bad atmosphere, looking out at the crowd in the Park Hotel. Clubs like Lomans or Shandonagh doing 'Strictly Come Dancing' had far bigger turnouts in attendance. now i know others on this page will disagree but that was my experience from attending those events and seeing clips on social media. Fighting-Cocks69 (Westmeath) - Posts: 41 - 28/01/2025 15:48:40 2588211 Link
Replying To PowellJohn3: "First of all i really enjoyed the match for the first time in a while. A much better spectacle than any of the games i went to in the last 3 years maybe bar 1 or 2. The team looked very well set up under Mccabe and to think if we had those who stepped away i think we win that game by 5 or 6 points but anyway we dont have them and this is a big transition period for Westmeath. Who did well: Loughlin best player on the pitch. Wallace superb Mccartan Superb Guerin did well but not big enough the way the kickouts are gone, Connellan will need to up it big time big in the air but looked tired. Backs all done pretty good, Whiitaker played wing back and got through an awful lot of work A few under performed, Smith was too small and got turned over, Forde was turned over too much, Conor dillon maybe was marking somone but dont rememeber him doing anything. Gaffney and O'hara didnt really offer anything and looked out of there depth but only first game will learn a lot from that experience, Kevin O'sullivan didnt bring any impact off the bench. I was expecting more from Mccormack in attack, didnt look to penetrate but conditions were poor some wayward kickouts and i think a natural goalkeeper takes man and ball for there goal. Overall a good performance but need to pick up a result the next day. Other point: comment from Louth person he/she is not wrong toilets were a joke and it was baltic. Other thing was the westmeath crowd and supporters were very quiet, the team probably would have won if Cusack was a place where the crowd really got together id say crowd was 50/50" O hara didn't feature much for lomans during last year championship Mattyreilly (Westmeath) - Posts: 165 - 28/01/2025 16:20:26 2588217 Link
Has every poster here bought a €100 ticket? If not then pretty lame criticising the fundraising effort, there's a draw for an apartment plus €50,000 cash, tickets widely available, Rossie supporters buy them in droves. Why can't we? Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 1982 - 28/01/2025 16:26:04 2588219 Link
Replying To Bluelake: "I think it was a real own goal having Frank Mescall do the video, no offence to the man it just came across as awkward. One of the players or even Conor Moore or somebody like that would have helped it a lot. The clubs are a long long away off their target of 100 from what I've been told. I was also told there's issues with the land in Spain and a lot of red tape, it'll be years before it's ready. I also think they'd have been better off if they did it with a house in Ireland, like Roscommon have done previously as you say. I know they've the best interest of Westmeath at heart and in fairness it's hard to get fundraising at the best of times. Hopefully it picks up. In fairness it's not for lack of trying, I'll give them that." Fair point well made. iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 117 - 28/01/2025 16:28:12 2588220 Link
Replying To Mattyreilly: "O hara didn't feature much for lomans during last year championship" Totally unfair on the lad, thrown in at the deep end having not played a club Championship game in 5 years (2020 County Final)? iarmhiabu (Westmeath) - Posts: 117 - 28/01/2025 17:30:46 2588229 Link
Replying To iarmhiabu: "Why is it that other counties similar to us can run hugely successful fundraisers and we can't deliver on anything noteworthy? Roscommon GAA through Club Rossie made a profit of over €900k from their win a home in London fundraiser that was launched in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic. It was so successful they gave away another house in Kildare last Christmas. Roscommon would have a similar profile to ourselves, we would have more clubs overall. They're in a strong position financially going forward. You said Westmeath GAA people seem to reserve their financial support to their club teams, maybe instead of county fundraisers. There's a reason behind it, I believe there's a lot of Westmeath GAA people like myself fed up with the lack of leadership for years and years, no deliverance. Hopefully we get the €1mill needed from the Spanish apartment draw but I wouldn't hold my breath." My point exactly earlier in the week; i laid out several reasons why there's a huge disconnect between supporters and the county team and my own feeling is down to the county board not delivering anything to really get behind, I understand it's separate to the team but that's obviously how many feel. I'm not sure we even were outnumbered by Louth it just felt like when we scored no Westmeath supporters bothered applauding in comparison to Louth. I seen many familiar faces from around the county around me and like that they weren't overly invested in getting behind the team but the support was there. Where did the quid games money go? That's a genuine question and not insinuating anything, I don't feel like paying €100 when I'm not even certain what it's been used for. OverTheHill85 (Westmeath) - Posts: 15 - 28/01/2025 17:36:34 2588230 Link
There's no possible way anyone at the match could feel that the attendance was even close to 50-50, 70-30 at a minimum in favour of the Louth men and possibly even greater in their favour, the stand was virtually all Louth bar a few pockets of Westmeath people. Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 1982 - 28/01/2025 19:52:33 2588256 Link
Some people are still unsure about why Luke was allowed to bring his free out to the edge of the two-point area on Sunday. This happened because the Louth team broke the 3v3 rule. A free was awarded near the sideline on the 21-yard line for a foul on a Westmeath player. As the referee was jogging over to the incident to book the Louth player, the team broke the 3v3 rule. The linesman noticed this and informed the referee. The penalty for this infraction is that Westmeath is awarded a free on the 21-yard line in front of goal. Alternatively, Luke has the option to bring the ball out to the two-point area, which he chose to do. I understand why people in the crowd were confused, though. From what I heard over the weekend, the reason for the rule allowing the ball to be brought out to the two-point area is to prevent teams who are two points down late in the game from deliberately breaking the rule to reduce the other team's free to just a one-point opportunity. Temple56 (Westmeath) - Posts: 526 - 29/01/2025 15:15:58 2588375 Link
Great game on YouTube no matter result tus have had great run and whittaker a great player Gaaforlife2023 (Longford) - Posts: 555 - 29/01/2025 19:42:51 2588416 Link