The Westmeath minor hurling manager, Johnny Greville, has, in the past hour, released a statement responding to the prior statement of the Westmeath county board.
First, for those of you who haven't been following the saga, Greville tweeted this evening that Westmeath would be withdrawing from the minor B championship and that the county board's reasoning was 'we don't have any jerseys to play in'.
This sparked hilarity and bemusement and the county board were swift to respond. Their statement (which you can read in full here) said that Westmeath had decided not to enter a team in the minor B championship following their Leinster exit and thus 'the question of us pulling out of a Championship that we did not enter is disingenuous'.
On the jerseys issue, the county board asserted that a set of jerseys had gone missing after the Leinster loss but re-stated their commitment to supporting all Westmeath teams by providing them with appropriate gear.
Johnny Greville has hit back with his own fairly barbed statement in the early hours. Most strikingly, he takes the County board to task for their failure to appreciate he is unskilled in the field of mind-reading and disputed that their non-entry to the minor b championship had been communicated to him. And he reiterates that he was told by club delegate that they wouldn't be entering the minor b because of the jersey issue. Though this may have been a throwaway comment and not the official position.
— johnny greville (@GrevilleJohnny) July 21, 2015
