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Replying To lakecounty90: "Not what you want to see before county semi final, who were Cauly playing?" Clann Na geal, who will struggle to get through the quarters in Roscommon. sourmilk93 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1184 - 11/09/2023 12:56:41 2503786 Link
Replying To lakecounty90: "Possibly Heslin missing too but still should have enough in tank to beat Tyrrellspass regardles off injuries and suspension. Lomans and Tyrrellspass dont get on that well, expect a fearocious battle I feel Caulry have been holding back all year and could blow Kinnegad away. They have very strong spine down the middle, Maguire, Grennan, Connolly, Mc Cormack and Baker. Clinton, younger Baker wing backs and O Donovan, tipped to make Westmeath break thru next year. 3 months ago I tipped Caulry to make final, those 33/1 odds are looking good now!! Be good to see a new team in the final, should be two cracking semi finals hopefully." For St.Lomans, seemingly, Jack Geoghegans injury not as serious as once feared and will in contention for a semi final start. John Heslin is is cleared to play. Peter Foy is suspended for the remainder of championship however, and that will have bigger ramifications for St. Lomans, should they get to a Final. They will beat Tyrellspass without him but it's a huge loss if it turns out to be a Kinnegad/St.Lomans final. Caulry can challenge Kinnegad in a major way if they bring Senan out to Centre forward. When he plays deeper he is far more dangerous in club football in my opinion. If Maguire can shore up the defense a lot better than he has in previous games, they have a big chance. This is a closer championship than we originally expected I feel. Edman78 (Westmeath) - Posts: 100 - 11/09/2023 13:09:34 2503792 Link
Replying To westmeathgaa11: "I hope you don't mean no equality in the sense that male GAA players are treated preferably, the mess with dual camoige and lgfa is largely down to women themselves, why the GAA would want to merge with them is beyond me when the two associations can't even cooperate between themselves for the betterment of their players" Interesting that on Sunday, both teams with the most dual players lost, Killucan and The Downs. The teams with none or a few dual players all won. Fatigue from playing camogie championship on the Saturday plus the warm humid weather all played a factor I am sure. Westmeath LGFA and Westmeath Camogie, get your act together for the betterment of the dual players, no more fixtures within 24 hours of each other, the men's side of the game have a tried and tested workable solution with alternating weekends which may be too obvious to you. If the games need to be played same week, at least have 72 hours between games. The girls need time to recover and recharge between games. If this player welfare situation is allowed continue, there will be more fatigue, more injuries, more burnout, and the results will swing to the clubs with the least amount of dual players, and potentially discourage girls from playing both camogie and football or choosing one sport only. Westmeath LGFA and Westmeath Camogie, get your act together!!! Fix the fixtures!!! Look after your dual players!!! JoxerDaly (Westmeath) - Posts: 24 - 11/09/2023 13:24:01 2503796 Link
Replying To sourmilk93: "Clann Na geal, who will struggle to get through the quarters in Roscommon." Roscommon champ stronger than Westmeath champ? Hard to gauge on challenge match I suppose lakecounty90 (Westmeath) - Posts: 109 - 11/09/2023 13:55:37 2503806 Link
I think Lomans will prove to be to strong for Tyrellspass -their squad in depth is just to strong.The Pass will give it a good go and fancy game will be close enough heading into the final quarter but this is where Lomans will pull away and win by 4 or 5 pts Second semi will be much closer-all the pressure is on Kinnegad as most expect them to win easily enough but maybe people are underestimating Caulry.Shane Curran and Eoin Mooney will have them set up to beat Kinnegad at their own game.Caulry have 3 wins 1 draw and 2 losses in championship so they cannot be written off.I fancy them to win by 2 pts Bruno@1 (Westmeath) - Posts: 208 - 11/09/2023 14:35:24 2503824 Link
Replying To lakecounty90: "Roscommon champ stronger than Westmeath champ? Hard to gauge on challenge match I suppose" True you cant read anything into challenge matches but Caulry were poor in that Challenge match last Friday and will need a massive improvement to trouble Kinnegad. Clann have Boyle to play to next day last years beaten finalists that's why they probably wont go past the quarters. On paper Loman's every bit as good as strongest in Ros. Not sure if there is much different between overall strength of either Champ. sourmilk93 (Roscommon) - Posts: 1184 - 11/09/2023 14:42:07 2503826 Link
Replying To sourmilk93: "True you cant read anything into challenge matches but Caulry were poor in that Challenge match last Friday and will need a massive improvement to trouble Kinnegad. Clann have Boyle to play to next day last years beaten finalists that's why they probably wont go past the quarters. On paper Loman's every bit as good as strongest in Ros. Not sure if there is much different between overall strength of either Champ." Caulry are seen as team to trouble Lomans with all there young talent coming thru mixed in with county players like Kevin Maguire, Conor Mc Cormack and Senan Baker. Bit off Lomans level but would be fancied to beat Kinnegad on Sunday, a lot will depend on form of Mc Cormack and Baker, theyre like what O Toole and Heslin are for Lomans. A good league team Kinnegad beat Caulry in first champ game this year but were missing Mc Cormack and 6 other starters so different result expected this time. Caulry have never been in final before, 77 years since last final, massive chance to break duck but I dont see them troubling Lomans (expected to beat Tyrrellspass) yet lakecounty90 (Westmeath) - Posts: 109 - 11/09/2023 15:09:08 2503833 Link
Replying To lakecounty90: "Caulry are seen as team to trouble Lomans with all there young talent coming thru mixed in with county players like Kevin Maguire, Conor Mc Cormack and Senan Baker. Bit off Lomans level but would be fancied to beat Kinnegad on Sunday, a lot will depend on form of Mc Cormack and Baker, theyre like what O Toole and Heslin are for Lomans. A good league team Kinnegad beat Caulry in first champ game this year but were missing Mc Cormack and 6 other starters so different result expected this time. Caulry have never been in final before, 77 years since last final, massive chance to break duck but I dont see them troubling Lomans (expected to beat Tyrrellspass) yet" Missing 7 starters?? Was the Caulry masterstoke in action back then too?? Meridian (Westmeath) - Posts: 655 - 11/09/2023 16:58:27 2503859 Link
Thoughts on this weekends semi finals Personally I'd expect Lomans to beat tyrellspass but I don't think it's a foregone conclusion , it's well within the armoury of tyrellspass to beat lomans and a lot of people are sleeping on tpass I for one won't be but I wouldn't be atall surprised if they did edge out the boys in blue from Lakepoint park Caulry V kinnegad what a game that promises to be,so hard to call so hard to predict , could go either way I am very excited for this one Sunday , I'll stick my neck on the line and predict caulry by 4 points Both promise to be very exciting encounters and only strengthens the county going forward having so many different competitive clubs within the championship. Milltownpass v Milltown haven't seen much of either but it seems after a slow start momentum is flowing with the men from milltownpass added by the return of Brandon kelly, looking forward to seen both teams and how they play , milltownpass purely because of the momentum they having behind them currently Tubberclair v Malachys what a Sunday in Westmeath gaa HQ we have with this and caulry kinnegad double header , tubberclair just for me and I fancy them to go all the way. I fancy st Joseph's to just edge st lomans in the junior along with kilbeggan to beat ballycomoyle TheGaaMan77 (Westmeath) - Posts: 55 - 11/09/2023 16:58:53 2503860 Link
People on here still blowing caulry up something shocking what have they actually ever done at senior level bar get to a semi final without beating a decent team & when they did they struggled (Lomans , kinnegad & even the downs and how bad they were this year ) mind boggling Westmeath213 (Westmeath) - Posts: 336 - 11/09/2023 17:16:33 2503863 Link
Replying To Meridian: "Missing 7 starters?? Was the Caulry masterstoke in action back then too??" Mc Cormack, Emmet Nally, Ben Moran, Damien Dolan, Sean Murphy and Sean Connaughton and Sean Clinton I really think Caulry are coasting into a final without reaching any great heights yet and who knows in one off game with Lomans?? You and others might take my posts serious then lakecounty90 (Westmeath) - Posts: 109 - 11/09/2023 17:30:07 2503870 Link
Weekend predictions: Senior Lomans to beat TPass by 5-6 points Kinnegad to beat Caulry by 2-3 points Inter Milltown to beat Milltownpass by 3-4 points Tubberclair to beat Malachys by 5-6 points Junior Josephs to beat Lomans by 1-2 points Kilbeggan to beat Ballycomoyle by 5-6 points Left Full (Westmeath) - Posts: 250 - 12/09/2023 08:05:18 2503921 Link
Senior Lomans to beat TPass by 8 points Caulry to beat Kinnegad by 2 points Inter Milltownpass to beat Milltown by 6 points Malachys to beat by Tubberclair 2 points Junior Lomans to beat Josephs by 3 points Kilbeggan to beat Ballycomoyle by 3 points Temple56 (Westmeath) - Posts: 490 - 12/09/2023 10:20:21 2503936 Link
Weekend predictions: Senior Lomans to beat Tyrellspass by 6 Kinnegad to beat Caulry by a point Inter Milltownpass to beat Milltown by 3 Tubberclair to beat Malachys by 1 Junior Lomans to beat Josephs by 2 Kilbeggan to beat Ballycomoyle by 5 Junior 2 Rosemount to beat Delvin by 4 Kinnegad to beat Mullingar by 5 martyW (Westmeath) - Posts: 333 - 12/09/2023 10:34:56 2503941 Link
Weekend predictions: Senior Lomans to beat Tyrellspass by 3 Caulry to beat Kinnegad by 2 Inter Milltownpass to beat Milltown by 3 Tubberclair to beat Malachys by 3 Junior Josephs to beat Lomans by 2 Kilbeggan to beat Ballycomoyle by 3 Junior 2 Rosemount to beat Delvin by 3 Kinnegad to beat Mullingar by 3 JoxerDaly (Westmeath) - Posts: 24 - 12/09/2023 13:40:10 2503980 Link
Senior Lomans to beat Tyrellspass by 5 Caulry to beat Kinnegad by 3 Inter Milltownpass to beat Milltown by 3 Tubberclair to beat Malachys by 1 Junior Lomans to beat St Josephs by 3 Kilbeggan to beat Ballycomoyle by 5 A_Chairde (Westmeath) - Posts: 232 - 12/09/2023 13:49:02 2503982 Link
Replying To JoxerDaly: "Weekend predictions: Senior Lomans to beat Tyrellspass by 3 Caulry to beat Kinnegad by 2 Inter Milltownpass to beat Milltown by 3 Tubberclair to beat Malachys by 3 Junior Josephs to beat Lomans by 2 Kilbeggan to beat Ballycomoyle by 3 Junior 2 Rosemount to beat Delvin by 3 Kinnegad to beat Mullingar by 3" ger egan dean mcnicholas dennis and david glennon nigel harte jamie gonoud not a bad group of players who no one gives a chance to mickcunningham (Westmeath) - Posts: 1865 - 12/09/2023 14:10:39 2503989 Link
Why did you only name six players Mick? Looks like you don't have much faith yourself? If another poster named six Tyrrellspass players you'd be quick to point out that ye have other important players Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 1869 - 12/09/2023 14:28:57 2503996 Link
Replying To Claretandblue: "Why did you only name six players Mick? Looks like you don't have much faith yourself? If another poster named six Tyrrellspass players you'd be quick to point out that ye have other important players" always have faith mickcunningham (Westmeath) - Posts: 1865 - 12/09/2023 15:11:51 2504008 Link
Senior Tyrellspass by 2 Caulry by 2 Inter Milltown by 3 Tubberclair by 10 Junior Lomans by 3 Kilbeggan by 2 Captainfantastic (Westmeath) - Posts: 48 - 12/09/2023 21:56:28 2504058 Link