Meath GAA discussion thread

A nice away trip and a good team in Navan would be great. And hopefully the neutral venue game not in Croker!

From 2013 to 2018, every time we could draw Tyrone, we did. Our run in 2019 was pleasant enough though; Offaly, Carlow, Laois in Leinster, before the inevitable hammering from Dublin, but then drawing Clare in the qualifiers.

A good draw for Meath this time. It's amusing seeing people trying to straddle two stools of simultaneously claiming Louth will be heavy favourites against us, but they're are also confident that we can compete with Kerry.

Anyone hear any reports of a challenge between Meath & Cavan the other evening? I’m hearing Meath won but it was a heavily biased Meath man told me that!!

Having gone to Kerry league games in Inniskeen, the stewards are top class. They divert you away from the village and have parking along the road near the pitch, operating a 1 way system, (bar the odd gobsh!te) and then after you just go through the village.

Its a great system that works well when the alternative would be complete chaos.

Happy to see Kerry playing in Navan too. Will be great having our away game on up the road.

in my opinion we need to start looking at who is in county board, what their jobs are and are they anyway qualified to do them. if not then start looking at getting in professional advice on how to thinngs are done in the likes of tyrone or even mimic some of dublins good practice. i now firmly believe that we dont have the knowlodge or expertise in meath football circles to make the changes required for a good inter county team to flourish. if this was longford, rosscommon or monaghon you would be inclined to say why bother with a tiny population but thats not the case . we are a pretty much football only county with heading for a quater of a million population. but time is of the esscence now. we need to act before anymore apathy sets in. Apathy towards our football team is the enemy. it happened in both louth and cavan in 1960s for some reason, maybe older people could tell us what happened from those places.Louth were very dominant in leinster in 1940s and 50s . cavan from 20s to early 70s. almost 50 years of domination in ulster and got 5 sam maguires too. thats where were going. but we can stop the rot now. first id start questioning the people in county board id give them a few weeks to come back with a vison and blueprint for meath football ove the next 10 years. need to sort out whos there to pass the time and whos there to do a job. thats first staging post

well thats what id hope that this train has been set in motion from 2018 at least i think we knew then that the drubbings off dublin in 2014/16/19/20 were not just "off days". if these things are being done then thats a good help, id be inclined to go on information missions to tyrone and dublin and see what can be gathered. im sure in a county like meath with peopple from every county in ireland involved in football that there will be some links into the inner sanctum of these two counties.

Since yesterday I've seen Colm call for patience and also bemoaning the lack of quality at club level. On the first one how much patience do you need to show? There's been no progress since last year I honestly thought the extended run in the Tailteann would stand to the team in terms of having them together for training and confidence. In all honestly you could still have Andy Mc on the line and it would be no different.

On the club scene I obviously see enough of it and yeah, its probably a mixed bag at best. But I've also been around club games in Louth and the standard there is no better than in Meath, yet they can produce performances at county level. This might seem like I'm reacting to a defeat in a game we wouldn't win anyway, but in all honesty there hasn't been one performance this year you could say was good for the majority of the game. In fact in the championship its been four pretty poor ones.

See there is no reason for Meath being as poor as they are. They should of got a Jim McGuinness or Mickey Harte when they were available, you'd see a huge difference in organisation and intensity, that's what Meath need. The talent is there, there's no excuse for them being so poor. They need a spark, a leader, something to click. The makings of a great team are there, completely rudderless!

Not too bothered about playing the likes of Kerry, Dublin etc. but when we're getting beat by 10 by louth and drawing with fermanagh day 1 we are going nowhere.

Didn't expect to get promoted over Armagh n Donegal but thought we'd be next behind them.

Heard cathal o bric wants one more year with the 20's and would go senior then. I'd put up with another turgid year if this proves true.

Yeah, not surprising that O'Rourke got the boot after this year; I can't say I'm sorry for him though, I always thought he was a sneery aul f*cker as a pundit. That said, he deserves credit for taking the job and at least giving it a go. It's more than can be said for some other pundits.

I know he's out of the picture now, but would Harte have been a good fit for Meath?

I have great respect and time for Colm and Meath football. I for one of many Dubs think he was making progress albeit slowly. It appears some people were muddying the waters on him for the last year

You have to look at where Meath were at. They have some very good players but Physically seem way behind and when Colm spoke about a 5 year project he was right. They were doing well but it seemed to me the legs just went. They done a serious amount of training and really a lot of them have had no break for over 2 years. The base where Colm was coming from was very low and to develop the players physically and mentally were his biggest challenges. They certainly have ability. I dont think all the players fully bought into it and some thought with Colm and Sean involved success would follow.(That was a serious problem in Dublin from 1993 for a decade). From talking to a few Meath lads a serious overhaul of coaching and especially the juvenile coaching structures also needs to take place.

I dont know where Meath go from here. The county board have serious questions to answer as to why as you say it took so long and put pressure on him 2 days before a Co Board meeting. Whoever comes in will have similar problems.

I hope 2025 will see a resurgence in Meath football. The GAA need it and so do Dublin.