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Replying To RoylerKing:  "Hats off to St Loman's, Mullingar. That was some comeback. Simonstown, on the otherhand, will be kicking themselves after such a promising opening."
Hard luck to simonstown today, devastating, lomans are a serious side and will be hard stopped. Baffling how lomans scored 7 or 8 from frees (some very harsh) and simonstown got 1(missing none). For all the talk on here about the demise of our club championship I doubt anyone could argue that simonstown brought a bit of pride back to the meath jersey and delivered the most accomplished performances from the county champions in years, took a very good side to beat them and good luck to lomans.

Northsidegaels (Meath) - Posts: 227 - 26/11/2017 22:41:12    2063690

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Replying To Jimin10:  "What way do they operate their club?"
Royaldunne just has a serious hatred for anything Westmeath related!! Even though he is living In Westmeath years now. It's kind of getting embarrassing now..

Matthew (None) - Posts: 922 - 26/11/2017 23:04:05    2063693

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Replying To Jimin10:  "What way do they operate their club?"
Not really going to get into it, let's just put it like this, lot of lads from clubs around but outside mullingar would be appreciated by lomans and would be told this at young age, none of the rural clubs have a chance of keeping their potential stars as lomans is in every school offering opportunities that the rural club can't.
Look I don't blame them, they are the dubs of westmeath club football, them and garycastle don't get me wrong , there is no parish rule in westmeath which adds to all of this. But the rural clubs miss out.
Sorry if that seemed a long winded round about post. It's totally personal opinion.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 17035 - 27/11/2017 00:58:54    2063702

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Better team won yesterday, it was a fine game of football in poor conditions. Sadly Meath football seems to no longer hold any fear for Westmeath teams.

RoylerKing (Meath) - Posts: 809 - 27/11/2017 08:33:54    2063718

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Having seen St Vincent's beaten I expected to Moorefield to win the Leinster and I see no reason to change my prediction- the beat Rathnew in their home patch and with 14 players for most of the game. The Simonstown match was a home tie for St Lomans and the result may have been different if it was played in Navan

browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2189 - 27/11/2017 10:15:41    2063733

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Now only Kilmessan standing.

MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 742 - 28/11/2017 12:48:25    2063888

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Replying To browncows:  "Having seen St Vincent's beaten I expected to Moorefield to win the Leinster and I see no reason to change my prediction- the beat Rathnew in their home patch and with 14 players for most of the game. The Simonstown match was a home tie for St Lomans and the result may have been different if it was played in Navan"
Tough one for simonstown. Not a lot between the two teams on the day by all accounts.
Can we expect a few simonstown lads to be called in to the senior set up ?

Meathmaverick (Meath) - Posts: 95 - 28/11/2017 16:47:34    2063913

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Replying To Northsidegaels:  "Hard luck to simonstown today, devastating, lomans are a serious side and will be hard stopped. Baffling how lomans scored 7 or 8 from frees (some very harsh) and simonstown got 1(missing none). For all the talk on here about the demise of our club championship I doubt anyone could argue that simonstown brought a bit of pride back to the meath jersey and delivered the most accomplished performances from the county champions in years, took a very good side to beat them and good luck to lomans."
I'll be the one to argue so!

Beating a Wexford team before losing to a Westmeath team is a middling performace. Not humiliating by any measure, but in no way is it something for all of Meath to be proud of.

CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1391 - 28/11/2017 18:33:16    2063925

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Replying To CastleBravo:  "I'll be the one to argue so!

Beating a Wexford team before losing to a Westmeath team is a middling performace. Not humiliating by any measure, but in no way is it something for all of Meath to be proud of."
Maybe you are right but the Leinster intermediate champions are from Wexford and junior from Westmeath.

jobber (Westmeath) - Posts: 830 - 28/11/2017 23:59:51    2063954

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Replying To royaldunne:  "Not really going to get into it, let's just put it like this, lot of lads from clubs around but outside mullingar would be appreciated by lomans and would be told this at young age, none of the rural clubs have a chance of keeping their potential stars as lomans is in every school offering opportunities that the rural club can't.
Look I don't blame them, they are the dubs of westmeath club football, them and garycastle don't get me wrong , there is no parish rule in westmeath which adds to all of this. But the rural clubs miss out.
Sorry if that seemed a long winded round about post. It's totally personal opinion."
royaldunne, you are completely misinformed about how Lomans run their club. More than likely you were told this by someone in Westmeath who is not fond of Lomans. When a team is successful in any sport it always pans out that that rival supporters end up hating that team. The facts are that 13 of the starting 15 for lomans all came through the underage system and furthermore all those 13 would be from areas of Mullingar that would be considered either Mullingar Shamrocks or St Lomans football areas.
Its true that Lomans do go into the local schools to intice players to the club but only in schools in the Mullingar area. Plus the other clubs in Mullingar do this also so the players would have a choice. Most young fellas and girls end up going to the club where most of their friends and classmates go, so it would be unlikely that someone would go to club where they know no one.
Lomans just happen to have a very good team right now with an exceptional player in John Heslin, the current success is down to that fact only and nothing to do with poaching players.

cantona7 (Westmeath) - Posts: 133 - 01/12/2017 14:07:25    2064221

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Replying To cantona7:  "royaldunne, you are completely misinformed about how Lomans run their club. More than likely you were told this by someone in Westmeath who is not fond of Lomans. When a team is successful in any sport it always pans out that that rival supporters end up hating that team. The facts are that 13 of the starting 15 for lomans all came through the underage system and furthermore all those 13 would be from areas of Mullingar that would be considered either Mullingar Shamrocks or St Lomans football areas.
Its true that Lomans do go into the local schools to intice players to the club but only in schools in the Mullingar area. Plus the other clubs in Mullingar do this also so the players would have a choice. Most young fellas and girls end up going to the club where most of their friends and classmates go, so it would be unlikely that someone would go to club where they know no one.
Lomans just happen to have a very good team right now with an exceptional player in John Heslin, the current success is down to that fact only and nothing to do with poaching players."
Just to be clear. I live and have for a very long time in westmeath, lomans go to schools in loghagar Turin dysert (John heslin home area) even drifting out to multy (except they ran very quickly) etc they are not exactly in mullingar now are they?
I also am proud to coach in westmeath at underage. Lomans aggressively target the rural clubs surrounding mullingar. This is a known fact.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 17035 - 01/12/2017 21:05:35    2064246

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Best of luck to Dunboyne and Kilmessan ladies today.

Ratoath Royal (Meath) - Posts: 1198 - 03/12/2017 12:01:54    2064300

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