Meath GAA discussion thread

Any rumours on how the behind closed door challenge match against Galway went yesterday?

Anyone heading into Navan tomorrow? I think a win is a must to get up and running. With Armagh and Donegal in the Division I don't think we'll be going up this year but absolutely no reason to see why we can't be "best of the rest". 4 home games is huge in that regard too.

we wont beat Cavan away anyway thats a certainty. best we can hope for is a 2 wins from 3 at home v kildare louth or cork.i cant see us winning the three

Two contenders for goal of the year anyway! Kildare seem to be on the floor altogether, no harm having them next week.

Ive never heard such a strange crowd noise for a goal before! The Louth one, there was just this gasp when it went in.......Costellos goal was absolute class

i cant make it down to cavan saturday night, does anyine know if any pubs have access to channells showing it live? were on a good run of form but id be shocked of we won. havent beaten cavan since 1965 in breffni park, high time that stat was erased though.

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It would make you wonder why they even send cameras to these games, and the value of it. Same for the match against Kildare, the only televised footage of that game was a 90second highlight reel showing mostly scores from the losing team, and none of the clutch moments in the game(with the exception of a black card incident). Danny Dixons catch, leading to the equaliser for example.

I expect that it will be the same amount of coverage for the Cavan game.

I wonder how modern management get to study opposition if the footage is so limited? Hopefully Colm has an arrangement with someone in RTE for the tapes(i would hope that this is the case)-marginal gains and all that!

Sent out by Cavan CB after ten:

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Following a pitch inspection this morning Cavan County Board v Meath GAA will go ahead aslong as the weather does not deteriorate. 

A further pitch inspection will take place at 2pm

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Pack the under armour and if you want a seat in the stand, you’d nearly want to be leaving Meath now.

Fairly shocking match. Looked like neither team wanted to win it at the end. We’d both have no business in Division 1.

i haven't seen ye this year other then the louth game , but i disagree with being off the top ten , huge win last week against kildare , convincing the week before against louth , the set up is much improved from the mcintee days , the condition stuff will improve if boylan gets his way , the football will improve if colm gets his way , i see huge improvements from the last few years , it will go to the wire for the game in ballybofey

An amazingly frustrating match to watch from a Meath supporter point of view, given the the chances and one or two of the refereeing decisions towards the end, but from a team progress point of view, the fundamental building blocks continue to stack up and for me this is a cause for enthusiasm. Any team that spends more than one season in Division 1 has a minimum standard of dogging out results and a strong defence while the attacking talent and the finer skills are honed.(Galway, Monaghan and Roscommon as examples). If we keep up the same standard for Cork and Donegal, we will be almost unrecognisable from the MOD era teams, and will be more of a reflection of the AMcE team of 2019, albeit, with a much younger age profile and therefore, greater potential.

The injuries and unavailability of so many major players(from last year) has enhanced the competition amongst the previously unestablished and the ones who came back from long term injuries to find their feet. When the inevitable injuries do come round again(I was amazed we seem to have come away unscathed given the conditions on Saturday), we will have a resilience beyond any expected development projection from the management.

Are there any outrageously talented (Cú Chulainn Esq.) players around 17 or 18 yet to break into the panel who could become a marquee forward?

Have a look at the teams below from the likely Division 1 teams next year;

Derry (Shane McGuigan)

Kerry(David Clifford)

Dublin(Con O'Callaghan)

Tyrone(Darragh Canavan)

Galway(Shane Walsh)

Mayo(Tommy Conroy or Ryan O'Donoghue)

Donegal(Paddy McBrearty)

Armagh(Rian O'Neill)

Almost without exception, all these teams have a go-to forward, who on their day account for the majority of scores. I wonder when we will get one, or who from the current crop could become more consistent? Our own Shane Walsh(if he ever gets to play summer or an extended period of football!) has some potential.