Cribbin knew in his heart rout was likely

Disappointed. Embarrassed. Outclassed.

Tom Cribbin didn’t try to contextualise or mitigate after watching his Westmeath side crumble to a 31-point defeat in this car crash of a Leinster semi-final.

There was no poor mouthing, no blaming the fact this was their third game in as many weeks after the replay required to see off Offaly.