Quote from: Zulu on June 07, 2008, 11:45:49 PM
I only saw the highlights, but is it fair to say that Westmeath are the most defensive-minded team to ever take to a football field? They seemed to have 2/3's of their team behind the ball whenever Offaly attacked, maybe I'm doing them a dis-service but if they are as negative as they appear I hope they are knocked out sooner rather than later.
Again What a statement to make - If Westmeath were not good at defending surely they would concede a lot of scores?
"If I was a WM man and we were winning games I'd be ok with it I'd say but I do like to see football played positively " - If you are defending a lead and are trying / working hard to get a ball out of defense is this not playing the game positively???
Personally speaking i was happy with WM performance in the second half yesterday - The penalty i felt was a little harsh. I was down that end of the field and the ref definitely signaled a free before the penalty. Looking at it on the highlights last night the offaly player seemed to be barely fouled just outside the square and he fell in. Maybe a clever forward taking advantage of the situation
Offalys shooting was also worse than disastrous. From what i seen of Dublin today i would not be one bit afraid of them in the semi-finals. In the first half Louth had some lovely moves that really exposed the Dublin defense. I hope tómas was keeping a close eye on this game.
