Meath GAA discussion thread

Exactly, and like a lot of professionals he would have the time to do some part time study as well, it really is a no brainer.

Good result for Dunsany yesterday, I watched the second half on Clubber and they done really well to come back. Harkin was excellent and I forget the name now but their 7 got through some serious amount of ball and drove them on.

Bru na Boinne won the regional too. Another one watched on Clubber, wasn't a bad game. They had Jim Gavin on for an interview during the second half about the new rules etc. It was certainly a different approach to commentary. It will be interesting to see where the Regional goes next year, there is some talk about people wanting the regions in the Feis Cup, but with the county players not available early in the year I'm not sure that would work in terms of clubs also having games. For me the tweak that needs to happen is reduce the regions by a maybe 2 and make it more competitive. Ardbraccan were bolstered this year by development player panels. I done the line for the last group game between Boyne Valley and An Tuisceart and Boyne Valley only had 16 players. Over on the other pitch one of the teams had to rope in Mickey and Harry Newman to make up numbers. I think 8 regions spreads it too thin, and coming back to 4 or 6 would mean better panels or even more players available for them.

I've alternative access to it Hammer but it would be worth the cost, there's a massive amount of games from all counties on it and they can play back too so you could get to them during the week. For anyone not able to get to games I think its great.

from an outsider looking in its great , but it didnt show a huge amount of meath championship games until the business end , in my opinion its cheep and brilliant because of what ruperfield said it covers so many counties and underage games , but it would be better from a meath point of view if it showed more games locally

Will he last longer than one season Hammer?!!

made the trip down to Cork yesterday. There were some positives and obviously with the result, some negatives. . Menton, Keoghan and Flynn played well though Flynns shots were way off! When Ronan Jones came on he made a huge difference. Back line as a whole were easily opened up though as per 2 cork goals…. We also had so many missed chances but I was still glad to see lads giving it a go, unlike last year when they seemed to be petrified to shoot. Will take a few games to get into the new rules. Midfield did fairly well, great to see much high catching from both sides. We’d want to be beating Cavan next week. was extremely hard to see the 40m arch in Cork, they need to fix that!

personally the new rules is what meath football has been waiting for, for the past 20 years , look at the club championship for example and see how open it is , 19 points away to anyone is good scoring and eoin fryene is flying it in sigerson and the new rules , the more open the football the more it suits ye

Very positive stuff all round(even from the Cork game). I think avoiding injury in the last of the Sigerson games to the likes of Jordan Morris and the guys pushing for places is key to keeping this momentum, long range kicking replacements in particular needed for chasing two pointers at the end of games.

That beeing said, what is the story with Moriarty? Just not figuring in the squad? And Jack O'Connor, had he some sort of injury? Was convinced he would throve under the new rules, but is not on the panel as far as i can see.

Finally got to a match yesterday and its great to see the improvement in the team. I thought the patience in the first half in particular was excellent, it was probably the key to winning the match. There was a few long spells where the ball was kept instead of doing something rash and turning it over, which playing into the wind was good.

Keogan and Jones were excellent, I just hope the Jones injury isn't bad. Probably unfair to pick the two lads out as there was a good few brilliant performances.

Played brutal, rode all match by the ref n go home with the win - I'll take it!

If any season ticket holder can't make the Monaghan game, I'll give the ticket a good home. Would be much appreciated. Cheers.

Grade 3 hamstring tear. Out for 12 weeks