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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.

RadioactiveTan (UK) - Posts: 37 - 05/03/2026 18:10:18    2660191

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