Match Thread - Meath v Kildare, Croke Park, Sunday, 2.00pm

Clareman

I am getting very tired of the bickering dominating the Meath & Kildare threads so this is the ONLY place to discuss the game tomorrow.

RTE's preview can be found here

I haven't being following the teams in the league this year, but Meath have had 3 games after almost being caught by Carlow while Kildare have being waiting for this day for a while, the bookies have Kildare 1/4 favourites and they rarely get it wrong, the handicap of 4 points looks a good bet as well.

Diego Maradona

Kildare win will this handy, Meath are a very poor team. Meath are a team on a downward spiral and their fans will get their just deserts.

LowOdour

Diego Maradona wrote: »

Kildare win will this handy, Meath are a very poor team. Meath are a team on a downward spiral and their fans will get their just deserts.

you are needed back on the Scottish girl thread

Clareman

And a reminder to all that you have to abide by the rules of the forum & site when posting in here, any trolling will result in a ban till after the match.

Diego Maradona

Teams

Kildare (SFC v Meath) S Connolly H McGrillen M Foley P Kelly; E Doyle M O Flaherty O Lyons; E Bolton R Kelly;J Kavanagh M Conway P O Neill; J Doyle T O Connor E O Flaherty.

Meath (SFC v Kildare) - D Gallagher, D Keogan, B Menton, C Lenehan, D Tobin, S McAnarney, M Burke, C Gillespie, B Meade, A Forde, D Carroll, G Reilly, B Farrell, J Sheridan, C Ward.

Dcully

Kildare should win but so often we have lost games we thought we should have won, All Ireland Final 98 springs to mind painfully.

Id love a crack at the Dubs again

Hammer Archer

Welcome back Cill Dara/Micky :pac:
Just desserts for what exactly? What've we done now
Honestly though, with the ridiculous amount of injuries we have, Kildare should win this at a canter if they play to their potential. A good few of the players that have come in have never played a senior game in Croke Park as far as I know. Hopefully at least Kevin Reilly will be back for the next game. Though looking at the winning teams in today's qualifiers, there's very few who I'd be confident in beating.

Lemlin

Kildare to win but I hope Meath at least make it competitive for some of the game.

markie29

Kildare to win by 5 points..Meath have way too many injuries plus poor form in the league has me dreading the game tomorrow.

hopefully Meath can give a good performance though.

Royal Legend

Honest opinion, and by the way mods this is an opinion, not trolling.
I have yet to see in my lifetime a Cavan county footballer that would have been good enough to get on a top class county side. And the best two Kildare footballers I have seen so far played for Cork.

As for tomorrow, I wont be suprised if Kildare beat us handy, but at the same time, we could have beaten Kildare last year, Cian Ward had a shot blocked on the line that could have changed the outcome of that match, so I wont be suprised if we put ot up to them (Physically , Meath are not in the same league IMO, Football wise, Always)

Meath Wexford Leinster final

themandan6611

Royal Legend wrote: »

Meath Wexford Leinster final

:pac:

ArielAtom

Royal Legend wrote: »

Honest opinion, and by the way mods this is an opinion, not trolling.
I have yet to see in my lifetime a Cavan county footballer that would have been good enough to get on a top class county side. And the best two Kildare footballers I have seen so far played for Cork.

As for tomorrow, I wont be suprised if Kildare beat us handy, but at the same time, we could have beaten Kildare last year, Cian Ward had a shot blocked on the line that could have changed the outcome of that match, so I wont be suprised if we put ot up to them (Physically , Meath are not in the same league IMO, Football wise, Always)

Meath Wexford Leinster final

Might as well dream here as in bed😉

Lemlin

Royal Legend wrote: »

Honest opinion, and by the way mods this is an opinion, not trolling.
I have yet to see in my lifetime a Cavan county footballer that would have been good enough to get on a top class county side. And the best two Kildare footballers I have seen so far played for Cork.

As for tomorrow, I wont be suprised if Kildare beat us handy, but at the same time, we could have beaten Kildare last year, Cian Ward had a shot blocked on the line that could have changed the outcome of that match, so I wont be suprised if we put ot up to them (Physically , Meath are not in the same league IMO, Football wise, Always)

Meath Wexford Leinster final

Dermot McCabe? All star winner in 97. Jason O'Reilly? Used to be known as goal a game Jayo. James Reilly? Twice nominated for an All Star in his good years.

And if you reckon Doyle or Earley aren't good enough for a top class team then there really is no point even replying further to you.

Good attempt at some stirring though. I really ahouldn't be taking the bait.

DARK-KNIGHT

CILL DARA ABÚ

rpurfield

well the day is upon is i just hope it doesnt rain and the bloke minding me car minds it.im afraid of saying anything else really because i expressed a fairly mild opinion else where and certain people nearly fell off their high horses

To Alcohol

I think Kildare will have way too much for a very weak Meath side. Competitive for the first 20 mins and just as it's looking like Meath can live with Kildare, bang game over.

DARK-KNIGHT

To Alcohol wrote: »

I think Kildare will have way too much for a very weak Meath side. Competitive for the first 20 mins and just as it's looking like Meath can live with Kildare, bang game over.

Agree, can see Meath fighting hard as they always do but Kildare should power through.. Unless Meath play fantastic football and Kildare are not at there sharpest there's only gonna be one result

Royal Legend

I thinks Kildare can go a long way this year, they are in my opinion one of the best teams in the country. That they seem to have gone about looking for the services of another forward, seems to imply that they feel they need another forward who can finish, he maybe the missing piece or he could be the player to de-stabilise the good setup McGeeney has built up over the last few years.
As for today, we might put it up to Kildare, we might even pull off a shock result, but all it does is extend the inevitable.

blackbelt

Kildare to win by 6.I would suspect Kildare to come out of the blocks early on and build up a lead including a goal within the first 20 minutes only for Meath to start coming back into it later on into the first half. The second half will start with Kildare building on their lead again before Meath tag on another few points to get the gap down before Kildare finish it off with a brace of points.

Kildare need a tough game to prepare them for Dublin who you would expect to beat Wexford.

daddydick

Is Seanie starting?

blackbelt

daddydick wrote: »

Is Seanie starting?

Doubt it but then again with the pains they took to get him eligible, nothing surprises me.

Dcully

blackbelt wrote: »

Doubt it but then again with the pains they took to get him eligible, nothing surprises me.

You mean the pains he was forced to jump through.

TheRedDevil10

Whats the estimated attendance in Croker today ?

blackbelt

Dcully wrote: »

You mean the pains he was forced to jump through.

And I retort... he wasn't forced, he chose to pursue it til the death.

Diego Maradona

The word going around here is that Seanie will not be involved at all today. Hope that its not true because it will only prolong the hype and it would be much better to get it over and done with.

Anyway Kildare by 15.

Dcully

blackbelt wrote: »

And I retort... he wasn't forced, he chose to pursue it til the death.

He made a decision to go with Kildare, he was then forced to jump through hoops, what do you suggest he should have done?
No surprise to see this Lemlin chime in to have yet another go at anything Kildare.
Then again hes entitled to on an open forum i guess :P

breffni666

TheRedDevil10 wrote: »

Whats the estimated attendance in Croker today ?

50K + which seems a bit small. Kildare always a big crowd, Meath not as big as the old days but the Dubs seem to be down 20k on normal games.

Lemlin

Diego Maradona wrote: »

The word going around here is that Seanie will not be involved at all today. Hope that its not true because it will only prolong the hype and it would be much better to get it over and done with.

Anyway Kildare by 15.

It doesn't make much sense then that they went to the extreme of yesterday's tactic to not even give him a run.

markie29

ffs!! this is the Meath vs Kildare match thread...lets not turn it into another Seanie Johnston thread please

Diego Maradona

Lemlin wrote: »

It doesn't make much sense then that they went to the extreme of yesterday's tactic to not even give him a run.

That's what I was thinking, it could be complete bull but thats what I heard.

Diego Maradona

markie29 wrote: »

ffs!! this is the Meath vs Kildare match thread...lets not turn it into another Seanie Johnston thread please

Cool the jets there will you, Johnston could be involved today so we are well within our rights to talk about him.

Diego Maradona

Here we go Ciaran "the saint" Whelan getting his sly digs in early. And Brolly is just been Brolly :rolleyes:

Red Crow

Diego Maradona wrote: »

Here we go Ciaran "the saint" Whelan getting his sly digs in early. And Brolly is just been Brolly :rolleyes:

Its cringeworthy from Whelan taking the moral high ground. We all remember how he liked to keep in code with the ethics of the GAA.

Johner

Is there anywhere to watch online in the UK?

full_irish

Johner wrote: »

Is there anywhere to watch online in the UK?

If you find somewhere pm me. I'm not tech savvy enough to go down the irish ip address proxy thing

Diego Maradona

Johner wrote: »

Is there anywhere to watch online in the UK?

Since RTE can't be viewed outside of Ireland, I doubt it.

Diego Maradona

Lemlin wrote: »

In fairness he hit the nail on the head Brolly. Johnston is a great man to score against Wicklow and Armagh but it'll be interesting to see how he does against top teams.

For a start the players he had around him while playing for Cavan wouldn't be fit to lace JD's, TOC's, EOF's, Lepers boots!

And When did Cavan ever play the so called big teams? Not very often I would imagine.

full_irish

found this but it costs $120. Actually seems to be a legit-ish one to boot. but ****ed if i'm paying that

Just realised I stupidly posted link. Mods, feel free to remove

pcworldisajoke

Johner wrote: »

Is there anywhere to watch online in the UK?

<mod snip to remove link> and maybe vip box show the gaa at times. look in the rugby section too if you cant find it

Diabhal Beag

Hoping for a big Joe Sheridan masterclass today.

Diego Maradona

Decent start from Kildare, Meath getting a lot of players behind the ball.

full_irish

Did the Meath player with the yellow (Linehan, i think) just get taken off?

Diego Maradona

full_irish wrote: »

Did the Meath player with the yellow (Linehan, i think) just get taken off?

Yes, Lenehan.

Diego Maradona

I wish Ger Canning would stop trying to be funny!

DARK-KNIGHT

For play to Meath seem to be playing good football

markie29

ref is unbelievable to blow up after cian ward kicked it...lucky it didnt go over.

Meath have played very well so far!

Paully D

What was the referee doing blowing up there?

NufcNavan

Would have been uproar if it went over. Very strange refereeing.

johnson85

Ridiculous time to blow the whistle, he was grinning like an eejit going off at half time as well.

full_irish

Brolly said "do do" :D

Paully D

Paully D wrote: »

What was the referee doing blowing up there?

Ha ha i was just thinking isnt Ollie Murphy famous for saying to that very ref 'They shot the wrong Michael Collins' ? i imagine Ollie is looking at that saying i told you so