The Westmeath county board is to wait before issuing a statement in response to Denis Glennon’s biting criticism of them.
Lake County football captain Glennon railed at the board in the Westmeath Topic this week, the Tyrrellspass clubman saying that a lack of financial support for Pat Flanagan's team played a big role in their disappointing season. Their qualifier campaign was ended early on by Antrim after they were well beaten by Wexford in Leinster.
Flanagan was reappointed on Wednesday night, at a meeting in which the board said that they would release a statement in response to Glennon’s attack.
However, they now say that could be up to three weeks away, with Westmeath chairman Tom Farrell quoted by the Irish Examiner as saying: "Everything will be responded to in full. In fairness we want to do it through the channel of county board meetings.”
While throwing his weight behind manager Flanagan, Glennon’s criticism went thus: "I'd be the first to admit that our championship displays this year weren't good but it's unfair to blame the management for that.
"We (the players) have to take responsibility and so too should the county board who didn't give us, or the management, much backing this year. When you don't have full support, it makes things a lot harder.
"Our gym membership was stopped after three or four months, we can't get physios at times and we didn't get any gear this year until just before the Wexford game.
"The county board won't allow us to train in Cusack Park for fear that the other county teams would want to train there as well. As a result, we have to train on a college pitch that isn't full size and is an obvious disadvantage when it comes to games. It's hard to reach the same level of intensity as the Kildares and Dublins of this world when you're not getting these basic requirements.
"I know there is a recession at the moment, but they should still have been able to put us up in a hotel the night before the Wexford game. Instead, we had a three-hour bus journey down that morning and it was the same for the Antrim game. It's very hard for players to be at their best after being stuck in a bus for that long."