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Replying To Fighting-Cocks69:  "Come here, I'm sure you've heard it all yes indeed, but if you read the report Damien Maher wrote on Westmeath inter-county expenditure, you'll see they received €254,212 in sponsorship, which is massive. This includes the companies I mentioned earlier, plus Clarke's Bar, Slevin Coaches, KC Sports, and Mullingar Autos. i was just pointing out majority is coming from one part of it."
250K is not massive for a county sponsorship. Kerry, Mayo, Donegal, Dublin all spent between 1 and 1.5 million last season on county teams. 250k wouldn't cover expenses from start of year to end of the league. Agree with you that the county board should be reaching out more to companies in Athlone such as PPD, 3M, Alkermes, Alexion (now Astra Zenecca).

Chops (Westmeath) - Posts: 787 - 02/04/2025 15:58:42    2600149

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Where does south vs North Westmeath Start can someone explain because i have been looking at the map and not clear,old maps broke it down south and north but Tyrellespass and rochfortbridge were south but i would consider this to be north even though there very close to Offaly. Also Rathconrath in the south of this Map if correct 11 of the u20s team who lined out last week are from the south of the county and 4 from the north and at senior level who started vs roscommon there would only be 5 from the south and 10 from the north. From the minor team that started vs Meath 4 from the south and 11 from the north of the county. In All of those 3 squads only 2 starter's from Athlone/ Garrycastle and only 1 more on any of the 3 panels, thats a worrying stat.

PowellJohn3 (Westmeath) - Posts: 75 - 02/04/2025 16:09:14    2600152

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Replying To Chops:  "250K is not massive for a county sponsorship. Kerry, Mayo, Donegal, Dublin all spent between 1 and 1.5 million last season on county teams. 250k wouldn't cover expenses from start of year to end of the league. Agree with you that the county board should be reaching out more to companies in Athlone such as PPD, 3M, Alkermes, Alexion (now Astra Zenecca)."
The CB should hold off approaching any of the pharma companies in Athlone until tomorrow.....Mr Trump might have an impact on their longevity tonight

ExiledCuCu (Cavan) - Posts: 253 - 02/04/2025 16:10:22    2600153

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Replying To Claretandblue:  "Let us know when Mullingar Town's underage system gets underway so. Must be twenty years since they had a team"
They have just started their second season ,with players from Shandonagh,The Downs,St Lomans ,Mullingar Shamrocks ,Ballynacargy,Bunbrona, Killucan,St Oliver Plunketts,Clonkill,Cullion,Raharney and all these clubs field GAA underage .

Thechick (Westmeath) - Posts: 264 - 02/04/2025 16:12:17    2600155

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Replying To Temple56:  "There are some great points regarding sponsorship. A significant portion of county boards' sponsorship comes from businesses based in Mullingar, so why is this the case? There are large companies in Athlone that support local teams. For example, AirCoach sponsored Athlone GAA last year, and now they are sponsored by Dead Centre Brewing. Ganly's Hardware has been sponsoring Garrycastle for years, while Caulry has Egans Pub, Tubberclair has Spollens, and Castleday has been sponsored by both Heavins and Duffy Contractors in recent years.

Do TUS Athlone (formerly Athlone IT) sponsor Westmeath GAA at all? When looking at Carlow GAA, their main sponsor is SETU Carlow (formerly Carlow IT). If TUS were based in Mullingar, there would likely be a strong connection between the college and the county board. So, why can't that happen since it's located in Athlone?"
Perhaps it's a self fulfilling prophecy, more mullingar sponsors lead to a perceived "mullingar bias" leading to more potential sponsors from south Westmeath not seeing it worth sponsoring our county. Good point r.e. the college as if I'm not mistaken the Midwest branch of TUS also sponsor the naming of the Gaelic grounds in Limerick. But once again could be due to almost none of the county's activities being in the colleges town (athlone)

Iakecounty90 (Westmeath) - Posts: 4 - 02/04/2025 16:32:10    2600161

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Big game for the u20s in Kinnegad this evening v Meath-hope a good crowd come out to support the lads

Bruno@1 (Westmeath) - Posts: 253 - 02/04/2025 18:01:58    2600172

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Replying To PowellJohn3:  "Where does south vs North Westmeath Start can someone explain because i have been looking at the map and not clear,old maps broke it down south and north but Tyrellespass and rochfortbridge were south but i would consider this to be north even though there very close to Offaly. Also Rathconrath in the south of this Map if correct 11 of the u20s team who lined out last week are from the south of the county and 4 from the north and at senior level who started vs roscommon there would only be 5 from the south and 10 from the north. From the minor team that started vs Meath 4 from the south and 11 from the north of the county. In All of those 3 squads only 2 starter's from Athlone/ Garrycastle and only 1 more on any of the 3 panels, thats a worrying stat."
Draw a line from Killuagh to Loughagar to Sonna to Laragh Hil.........every village above that line is North Westmeath......therefore, yes Rathconrath is in the south of the county.....and do you know what.......so is Mullingar :) .....now what are we going to argue about ?

ExiledCuCu (Cavan) - Posts: 253 - 02/04/2025 18:09:36    2600173

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Replying To Chops:  "250K is not massive for a county sponsorship. Kerry, Mayo, Donegal, Dublin all spent between 1 and 1.5 million last season on county teams. 250k wouldn't cover expenses from start of year to end of the league. Agree with you that the county board should be reaching out more to companies in Athlone such as PPD, 3M, Alkermes, Alexion (now Astra Zenecca)."
Ericsson too probably as big or bigger than them all put together.

Fighting-Cocks69 (Westmeath) - Posts: 69 - 02/04/2025 18:31:59    2600181

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Replying To Iakecounty90:  "Perhaps it's a self fulfilling prophecy, more mullingar sponsors lead to a perceived "mullingar bias" leading to more potential sponsors from south Westmeath not seeing it worth sponsoring our county. Good point r.e. the college as if I'm not mistaken the Midwest branch of TUS also sponsor the naming of the Gaelic grounds in Limerick. But once again could be due to almost none of the county's activities being in the colleges town (athlone)"
Didn't the county footballers use the colleges pitches for a while for training?

Chops (Westmeath) - Posts: 787 - 02/04/2025 19:24:22    2600188

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Disappointing first half-definitely an eye-opener and a reality check on where we're at. To be fair, we couldn't have expected much more after playing teams like Offaly, Carlow, Fermanagh, and Wexford in preparation-not exactly top-quality opposition by looking at scores in their opening games.

Honestly, we're lucky to be only 8 points down at halftime. Meath have some superb players-Armstrong, McIvor, Martyn, and Cokery are all flying it, especially McIvor, who's been outstanding. They should definitely have had another two-pointer too-that was a bad call by the ref.

On our side, I hate to be negative, but we look a bit soft and are getting bullied on our own kickouts. Ormsby and Connell are doing well, and Duncan and Corcoran have had plenty of chances but just can't seem to get it over the bar-same with Kelly, a few poor misses off the ground. the final pass is killing us as we have created chances.

The most disappointing part was right at the end when we had a goal chance on the last play of the half and didn't go for it. Being 8 points down, we had to go for the jugular there. Hopefully, things will change in the second half, but it's not looking great at the moment, unfortunately

Fighting-Cocks69 (Westmeath) - Posts: 69 - 02/04/2025 20:10:43    2600202

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