sc86 wrote: » Makes some farce of club championship when county players already unavailable for club training 4 months out from leinster championship. Club gets punished for having top players. Are these guys brain dead ? No back door this year, pointless stuff.
Hammer Archer wrote: » Got a link to the tweet(s)?
dobman88 wrote: » Saw this one a day or 2 ago. I've seen the Meath team training on a pitch in Milltown in Ashbourne (which i thought was an open secret for county teams) while I've been doing my own work. Not sure why if they're banned from their clubs or not, dont see why they would be.https://twitter.com/birdie8hill/status/1277220879806730242?s=19
Hammer Archer wrote: » That's not on if that is the case. No doubt they're not alone among intercounty teams. Would I be correct that they'd have no insurance in place so if a player was seriously injured, they'd be screwed. For the championship, it's basically a case of when we get knocked out by Dublin. We really should be beating either Wexford or Wicklow regardless. Then we're gone if we're drawn against Dublin in the semi final. No amount of training's going to change that.
rpurfield wrote: » Avoiding the Dubs till the Leinster final based on the draw. But you're point still stands.
Hammer Archer wrote: » I think they've changed the format so that there will be a separate semi final draw made after the quarter finals are completed. So no one knows which side of the draw Dublin are on. At least that was the case pre-Covid-19.
Obrieski wrote: » As far as I have seen, we play Kildare (presuming we both win our respective quarters first) in the semi final. Dublin the other side of the draw. It's a pity the GAA just didn't rip it up and go with a complete open draw, just for the one year with no provincials. It's all change anyway, why not give it an extra bit of spice for 2020. Westmeath play Dublin in the first round, no back door for them...goodbye and good luck. Year over!
Cavan_King wrote: » Completely agree with you re the open draw. Cavan play Monaghan in the first round that we played last year and have played 5/6 times in championship in the last decade. If we win that, it’s a game against potentially Armagh that we’ve also played numerous times. An open draw would have introduced a bit of novelty to proceedings with some potentially unusual ties.
Obrieski wrote: » Such as Meath vs Cavan!! They could sell out Croke Park at full capacity, twice over, for that one!! :cool:
Dickie10 wrote: » yeah i think that meath v cavan game in 2005 (awful excuse of a game) was first since 1952, so they have only met once in 68 years in a championship game, i think they mey in84 in centenary cup. thats why theres no rivalry with cavan even though we border them. compared to the rivalry we have with kildare.
The Golden Miller wrote: » If Meath met Cavan in say an All-Ireland quater-final, it would be a very bitter affair. Same as with Louth. Moreso than with Kildare or even Offaly, regardless of who considers it a rivalry anymore
smelly sock wrote: » Fair point. The Dublin Meath thing has been dead for years. Its a North Meath thing though? Like Kildare and Laois, I dont really get it tbh. It's always been Meath v Kildare for me. And we are at the same level pretty much for the best part of 2 decades now.
rpurfield wrote: » Anyone go to a game last night? I didn't myself because the young lad had a match himself. Just wondering how the 200 worked etc
The Golden Miller wrote: » I'm from south Meath myself so don't really care for Cavan. But there definitely is an undercurrent of bitterness towards Meath from themselves and Louth, that you don't get with Kildare or even Dublin.
paul71 wrote: » Thats a direct result of the relative standings. Meath people no longer really see either Louth or Cavan as rivals, because neither have been anything other than a sporadic threat since the 1950s even at our current low, they'd like to be rivals but don't merit it, Kildare do merit it. Unfortunately the converse applies to us against Dublin, we would like to think of ourselves as rivals but we are not good enough.
Obrieski wrote: » Was in Ratoath myself. Complete mismatch on the main pitch v Syddan. Hard to gauge numbers but was just good to have matches back again. Clan na nGael beat a very youthful Ratoath seconds convincingly.
Cavan_King wrote: » �� I think you’ll find Cavan have a superior record to Meath in league games over the last decade. We’ve played Meath a lot and I only remember one loss in Navan in 2015. We beat ye in 13, 16 and 18. Of note, only one of those games (18) was in Cavan. In both 16 and 18, we were promoted ahead of Meath so not sure how you don’t see us as rivals. Other than Roscommon, we have probably played Meath more than anyone in the League over the past decade as we’ve regularly been in the same division. I can only imagine a lot of the posters here are not from the North side of the county as there is a real bitterness between Cavan and Meath in the border areas. We did end Sean Boylan’s reign in 05 too!
