Meath GAA discussion thread

rpurfield · 23-10-2018 2:59pm

Gary Rogers and Colm Nally are in the backroom team for next season with the seniors. https://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/gaelic-football/rogers-gets-goalkeeper-coaching-role-with-royals-37448106.html

Hammer Archer · 27-10-2018 9:19pm

Two defeats for Meath teams in their respective Leinster championships. Long wood were beaten after extra time by St. Mochta’s 1-10 to 0-11. St. Vincent’s were beaten by St. Brigid’s of Offaly 2-7 to 9 points.
Dunboyne up against Shelmaliers in Wexford Park tomorrow.

Pighead · 28-10-2018 12:14am

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Two defeats for Meath teams in their respective Leinster championships. Long wood were beaten after extra time by St. Mochta’s 1-10 to 0-11. St. Vincent’s were beaten by St. Brigid’s of Offaly 2-7 to 9 points.
Dunboyne up against Shelmaliers in Wexford Park tomorrow.

Revenge for the Mochs. The future is bright. Bright blue and yellow.ðŸ˜Ž

Hammer Archer · 28-10-2018 8:05pm

^Heard Longwood were robbed... :pac:

Dunboyne easily beat Shelmaliers 1-12 to 1-2. Either Kilmacud Crokes or St. Jude's in the next round.

rpurfield · 30-10-2018 7:06pm

Just had an email in that the first house draw is postponed from tomorrow to December 29th. I'm genuinely concerned they haven't been selling great, you know when you get a sense of something without putting the finger on it. Even the email doesn't sound very clear, I'll copy it below. I know it's a harder sell when the senior team isn't going well but they need to come out and tell supporters exactly what's happening.

Date: October 31st 2018

Meath GAA has announced that it is extending the deadline for its Royal House Draw. The draw for the €275K home at Cois Glaisin in south Navan had been due to take place on the 31st of October but it has now been decided to defer it until December 29th.

The draw is the first of three for three new houses through which Meath GAA plans to raise €1.5m for the redevelopment of Pc Tailteann.

Peter O’Halloran, Chairman of Meath GAA said while feedback to the draw had been extremely positive, they had underestimated the amount of time required to put the logistics for the draw in place.

“Running a draw like this is a major operation and it took us longer than planned to put the framework in place. As a result, we started a little later than planned. The reaction of the clubs has been very enthusiastic, but their feedback was that they needed more time to sell their tickets.”

“Extending the time period will also enable us to take advantage of the Christmas period as these tickets will make ideal festive gifts for anyone who supports Meath GAA or indeed for anyone who would simply like to start 2019 by walking into their new home”, he said.

Tickets for the draw are €100 each but all those paying in advance for the three draws will be able to avail of a special discount rate of €250. Tickets are available from local clubs and online www.royalhousedraw.com/ The maximum number of tickets sold for each draw will be 12,000.

Various options and ‘easy pay’ methods are available to facilitate the purchase of tickets while an incentive scheme for clubs is also in place. The other draws will take place in mid and late 2019.

Hammer Archer · 31-10-2018 9:06am

Had my stuff all ready to move in and all...
Did think that they were a bit optimistic in aiming to sell 12000 tickets in 3 months or so.

whatnext · 01-11-2018 1:24am

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Had my stuff all ready to move in and all...
Did think that they were a bit optimistic in aiming to sell 12000 tickets in 3 months or so.

36000 tickets the way I read it, 12000 per draw

CrabRevolution · 03-11-2018 3:59pm

CrabRevolution wrote: »

Does anyone have any idea what the format of the Brendan Davis cup is meant to be? So far it made sense with the teams knocked out in the senior + inter championship group stages playing each other, with the winners of those games playing the losing quarter finalists, and the winners of those games playing the losing semi finalists etc.

But it seems to just go haywire after that. Ratoath and Kildalkey both exited the championship at the same round, but Kildalkey only played 2 games to get to the final while Ratoath would have to play 3 matches to reach the final, assuming they won them all. I'm not usually one for the "Kildalkey get all the breaks" line, but that's ridiculous.

It's also a bit suspicious how Kildalkey's path to reach the final was a fairly handy one vs. Rathmolyon and Navan, yet Ratoath "drew" Blackhall Gaels, Kilmessan and if they win that, Trim. A far harder path by any measure.

Also Gaeil Colmcille, Na Fianna and Kiltale all appear not to even take part. I'm aware it's a third rate competition and most players I know wanted to lose ASAP, but at least it could be transparently organised rather than being treated as the property of Kildalkey, just because that's where Davis was from.

And following on from my original complaint about the competition, tomorrow's Davis Cup final has been cancelled because apparently Kiltale have lodged an objection to Leinster Council about not being involved.

Looking at the Feis cup and Corn na Bóinne, it seems the champions in each grade aren't taking part. But Longwood and Dunboyne musn't have that same issues with it as Kiltale do.

Hammer Archer · 04-11-2018 12:27am

Surely they asked Kiltale whether they wanted to participate? Though both the Feis Cup and BD Cup finals were scheduled within hours of each other when Ratoath still had a chance of making both finals so it wouldn’t surprise me. I’m sure Kiltale would have appreciated a competitive game or two in the four weeks after their title win.
Speaking of which,they were surprisingly knocked out of the Leinster IHC today by Fethard of Wexford 2-9 to 2-5. Disappointing that they haven’t really performed to the standard they’re used to in Leinster in the past two seasons.
No such problems for Na Fianna as they easily beat Crookedwood of Westmeath 6-14 to 1-10 in the Leinster JHC quarter final. They’ll likely play Taghmon-Camross of Wexford in the semi final.

CrabRevolution · 04-11-2018 4:02am

I'm willing to bet a pint that if/when Kiltale get reinstated to the Davis Cup, they'll be "drawn" against Trim in a new semi final, with Kildalkey still straight into the final of their own competition.

Hammer Archer · 07-11-2018 3:18pm

CrabRevolution wrote: »

I'm willing to bet a pint that if/when Kiltale get reinstated to the Davis Cup, they'll be "drawn" against Trim in a new semi final, with Kildalkey still straight into the final of their own competition.

Well the first part of your post has come true. Can't see any of the beaten teams coming back so I'd assume that it'll 'officially' be a three team tournament.
What an absolute mess.

Hammer Archer · 07-11-2018 4:26pm

Scratch that. Canceled completely.

Felexicon · 08-11-2018 9:33am

Great idea to raise funds.

https://www.dublingaa.ie/news/dubs-face-meath-in-charity-match-for-injured-sean-cox

paul71 · 11-11-2018 6:28pm

Nice documentary on TG4 about Trevor Giles.

What a super player player he was.

CrabRevolution · 11-11-2018 7:28pm

With only a month (!) to go till the inter county season starts again, does anyone know what the format for the Kehoe Cup is for 2019?

I had assumed we'd still be in the Walsh Cup but it seems we've been demoted. I can understand why they stopped promoting every team to the Walsh Cup and relegated ourselves, Kildare and Wicklow after some of the tankings we got, but they've sent Westmeath and Antrim down to the Kehoe Cup as well despite them being Joe McDonagh teams.

I also take it then that Louth and Longford are out of the competition?

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/sport/gaa/articles/2018/09/27/4162599-meath-to-open-defence-of-obyrne-cup-against-laois/

Hammer Archer · 17-11-2018 6:43pm

Na Fianna with a great win in the Leinster JHC semi final against Taghmon Camross of Wexford. Last minute goal won it for them 3-12 to 2-13. As per usual, Kilkenny champions (Dunamaggin) in the final.

rpurfield · 18-11-2018 6:36pm

Seniors played Leitrim in Oldcastle today (shorter season how are ya) Mickey Newman started full forward, Sean Tobin on the bench. They won 1-20 to 1-10, I'm only robbing the info off twitter. Here's the team sheet

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Hammer Archer · 26-11-2018 9:43am

Two camogie All Irelands for Meath teams yesterday in Navan.
Kilmessan won back to back Junior All Irelands by beating Four Roads of Roscommon 3-12 to 1-12.
Ratoath won the Junior B All Ireland championship by beating Clontibret of Monaghan 1-12 to 0-03.
Congrats to both teams! It's been an excellent few years for camogie in the county.

The senior team beat Louth 1-15 to 1-11 yesterday with Mickey Newman returning to the team and scoring 1-6. James Conlon scored 2 points and was fouled for the penalty that Newman converted.

Hammer Archer · 29-11-2018 10:47am

Meath have been awarded home advantage for the championship game against Offaly next summer. However, the work on PT is due to start in May. Not sure when the game is due to be played, but it could be the last one before it's redeveloped.

Hammer Archer · 01-12-2018 10:34pm

Na Fianna beaten by Dunamaggin in the Leinster JHC final 3-17 to 1-11.
Dunboyne all but sealed their Club of the Year title by beating Ratoath in the U21 final.

Hammer Archer · 08-12-2018 9:21pm

3-11 to 6 points. Good score in bad conditions I'd imagine. Anyone make the trip?

clint_silver · 14-12-2018 12:45pm

Meath playing Longford in the O'Byrne cup in ashbourne tomorrow sat 15th
Throw in 5pm.

rpurfield · 30-12-2018 12:47pm

First house draw took place yesterday. Fair play to the county board for streaming it on Facebook, that's how I picked it up. Still laughing at those commenting on the live stream calling it a fix because Paddy O'Dwyer that won it puts in the yards with Dunshaughlin. The results are in this tweet if ye missed them: https://twitter.com/MeathGAA/status/1079048616436740098

CrabRevolution · 30-12-2018 7:49pm

Well I didn't win so it must be a fix!

Also, I've a sneaky feeling that they are counting all money collected so far as being for this one draw, even if a lot of it was people paying upfront for 3 draw entries. If so they will see a large drop in income for the next 2 draws, and if they've a minimum target to hit like this draw, there could be trouble.

Hammer Archer · 30-12-2018 8:27pm

Had me stuff all ready to move in and all!!!
Did they mention how much they've made so far?

rpurfield · 30-12-2018 10:07pm

I haven't seen figures mentioned for sales to be honest folks and I'm curious myself. If I remember rightly either We Are Meath or LMFM had an interview with Seamus Kenny where targets were mentioned and it was on a three draw basis.

Hammer Archer · 07-01-2019 10:42pm

Restructure of the championships was passed today by 45 - 18. Let's see if it sticks this time.

CrabRevolution · 07-01-2019 11:13pm

You'd imagine it will since they've watered it down to appease clubs who like a cosy one win a year existence. Hopefully in a few years they'll revisit and reduce intermediate to 16 as well.

I think the proposal to segregate 2nd teams is a backwards step too. It's more appeasement of clubs who dislike a challenge. In addition to some good 2nd teams containing good footballers, the top first teams from junior are being removed in order to bloat intermediate, further weakening the junior grade.

This also pretty much spells the end of any hope of silverware for the likes of Boardsmill or St. Mary's. Where they had a good shot at the junior B, they're not going to win the Junior football championship.

I'd throw St.Paul's in there too but they're doomed no matter what format is there.

Has anyone any idea what happens junior C + D now? Or are all 2nd team competitions now renamed (bizarrely) "Premier"?

rpurfield · 08-01-2019 2:07pm

It's a step in the right direction but they will need to revisit the IFC in a couple of years. Having a 20 team IFC is just moving the current problem with the SFC down a grade. I think the method of relegation from SFC is a bit much too. The bottom two in each group go into a play off with 5th from one group playing 6th from another. The three losers go down then. Would've been simpler to just relegate the three bottom teams.

sc86 · 09-01-2019 10:43am

can they not do anything right?

rpurfield · 09-01-2019 10:47pm

A league fixtures out today: http://meath.gaa.ie/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/ACFL-All-Divisions-2019.pdf

Start January 27th 11am

Hammer Archer · 12-01-2019 10:08pm

1-12 apiece at full time. Lost 3-1 on penalties. 4 penalties taken by us and only SeTobin scored. Dublin scored all three of theirs.

Jamemid · 12-01-2019 10:24pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

1-12 apiece at full time. Lost 3-1 on penalties. 4 penalties taken by us and only SeTobin scored. Dublin scored all three of theirs.

Know it's early in the season but bad enough result considering it was basically the dubs 3rd/4th choice team.

CrabRevolution · 12-01-2019 10:37pm

Taken in isolation, drawing with a 3rd string Dublin team who are playing their first game is very disappointing. 8 of the Meath team today played vs. Tyrone last year, and Reilly came on as a sub.

I don't think it means anything in the long run or that it's a sign of what's to come but it's not a great result.

Sonny678 · 12-01-2019 11:08pm

CrabRevolution wrote:

Taken in isolation, drawing with a 3rd string Dublin team who are playing their first game is very disappointing. 8 of the Meath team today played vs. Tyrone last year, and Reilly came on as a sub.

CrabRevolution wrote:

I don't think it means anything in the long run or that it's a sign of what's to come but it's not a great result.

But Dublins third team wud beat must teams in leinster.
We have never in the history of gaelic football seen a county with so many inter county players as Dublin have now. In the past even a great All-Ireland winning team would have had 18 , 19 and 20 players of good inter county standard. Dublin currently have 45 to 50 maybe more good quality inter county players. Their first 15 is the best team in the country by a mile. Dublin's second team would be good enough to win leinster reach super 8 and compete in div 2. While a Dublin third team wud compete in div 3 and would probaly win leinster also. Players like Conor McHugh would walk onto any team in the country.

This Dublin third team is going for its second byrne cup in three years. It has reached 2 Byrne cup finals in 3 years. The Bynre cup is now played without Dublin first and second team. It is basically the leinster championship without the All Ireland winning Dublin team. And yet the Dubs are probaly going win 2nd Bynre cup title in 3 years.

In 2017 Dublins third team comprehensivly defeated Kildare first 15 in the Bynre cup final. That kildare team basically , the same 15 went onto be promoted from div 2 in the 2017 by winning their first 5 games and in the summer reached the leinster final. Meath kildare Westmeath Laois Offaly and the rest of leinster could all be beaten by Dublins third team. They all have been. And if Dublin win their 2nd byrne cup in.three years that looks like the reality of the situation. That Dublin third team would definitely compete at div 3 or 4 level and probaly even div 2 level. Dublin could enter 3 teams in the All Ireland championship and the 3 of them cud potentially reach the Super 8s. That team that played Meath tonight could beat every team in leinster and every team in div 3 or 4. That Dublin team is probaly third or 4th best team in leinster. Thats how strong the talent pool is in Dublin currently.

EICVD · 12-01-2019 11:22pm

I’d be very disappointed with that if I was a Meath fan. Couldn’t beat that very inexperienced Dublin team with defensive tactics & physicality. Ref was awful in the first half & the usual Meath tactic of hitting bad wides looks like it’ll never go away.

EICVD · 12-01-2019 11:25pm

Sonny678 wrote: »

But Dublins third team wud beat must teams in leinster.
We have never in the history of gaelic football seen a county with so many inter county players as Dublin have now. In the past even a great All-Ireland winning team would have had 18 , 19 and 20 players of good inter county standard. Dublin currently have 45 to 50 maybe more good quality inter county players. Their first 15 is the best team in the country by a mile. Dublin's second team would be good enough to win leinster reach super 8 and compete in div 2. While a Dublin third team wud compete in div 3 and would probaly win leinster also. Players like Conor McHugh would walk onto any team in the country.

This Dublin third team is going for its second byrne cup in three years. It has reached 2 Byrne cup finals in 3 years. The Bynre cup is now played without Dublin first and second team. It is basically the leinster championship without the All Ireland winning Dublin team. And yet the Dubs are probaly going win 2nd Bynre cup title in 3 years.

In 2017 Dublins third team comprehensivly defeated Kildare first 15 in the Bynre cup final. That kildare team basically , the same 15 went onto be promoted from div 2 in the 2017 by winning their first 5 games and in the summer reached the leinster final. Meath kildare Westmeath Laois Offaly and the rest of leinster could all be beaten by Dublins third team. They all have been. And if Dublin win their 2nd byrne cup in.three years that looks like the reality of the situation. That Dublin third team would definitely compete at div 3 or 4 level and probaly even div 2 level. Dublin could enter 3 teams in the All Ireland championship and the 3 of them cud potentially reach the Super 8s. That team that played Meath tonight could beat every team in leinster and every team in div 3 or 4. That Dublin team is probaly third or 4th best team in leinster. Thats how strong the talent pool is in Dublin currently.

That Dublin team couldn’t beat Offaly or Wexford in last years O’Byrne Cup

Ali Bomaye · 12-01-2019 11:29pm

I thought that was a fairly awful performance. So many shots dropped short and bad wides.
Scrappy enough game. Less said about those penalties the better. Newman's was a shocker considering he'd be the main penalty taker there.

Sonny678 · 12-01-2019 11:59pm

EICVD wrote:

That Dublin team couldnâ€™t beat Offaly or Wexford in last years Oâ€™Byrne Cup

That Dublin team won the byrne cup v kildare first 15 two years ago and are now in their second final in 3 years. If they entered the leinster championship instead of Dublin first and second team they wud be more then competitive. If they win their second byrne cup in three years , a competition that is a sort of leinster championship without the All Ireland winning Dubs , that indicates they are definatly inter county team that could beat every team in leinster and beat teams in div 3 and 4 seen most leinster teams r in these divisions. You ignore the two years they have reached the final. Instead the year they didnt win. If any team wins 2 out of 3 years in competition they r usually considered strong opposition in that competition in any sport. Dublin will probably win 2 out of last 3 Bynre cup with their third team. What does that say about leinster football. What we can say about Dublin is they have a reservoir of football talent we have never witnessed before.

Sonny678 · 13-01-2019 7:02am

EICVD wrote: »

I’d be very disappointed with that if I was a Meath fan. Couldn’t beat that very inexperienced Dublin team with defensive tactics & physicality. Ref was awful in the first half & the usual Meath tactic of hitting bad wides looks like it’ll never go away.

Dublin inexperienced team played Meath inexperienced team last night.

Meath also played an experimental, inexperienced team. Meath had 6 players starting who have never played a league or championship match for Meath before eg Ronan Ryan, Niall Kane, Barry Dardis, Niall Hickey, Danny Quinn and Darragh Campion. While Marcus Brennan, James Conlon and Gavin Mcoy came on as subs. None of these have played league or championship match for Meath before. Thats 9 players that played that were Meath debutants really. It was very inexperienced Meath team also.

wellpastit · 13-01-2019 11:40am

This s##te about Dublin's third team really bugs me. We've seen their 3rd team win in 2017 on the road again in 2019. I'm still searching the fixtures every week to watch the 2nd team. Someone please tell me what competition they play in

CrabRevolution · 13-01-2019 2:01pm

wellpastit wrote: »

This s##te about Dublin's third team really bugs me. We've seen their 3rd team win in 2017 on the road again in 2019. I'm still searching the fixtures every week to watch the 2nd team. Someone please tell me what competition they play in

Well I'd imagine the first 35 or so were on holidays, so that's the first 2 teams there.

sc86 · 13-01-2019 2:17pm

long year ahead for footballers - or mayby short year , depending how you look at it

Rock Lesnar · 13-01-2019 4:17pm

I honestly dont care what Dublin team we played last night, we are way way way off worrying about them, im only concerned about Meath, i actually taught we played ok last night, and compared to the last couple of years, we seemed to be a bit more attacking, moved the ball alot quicker, and left players in the opposition half instead of dropping them all back, keep that up in the league, try and be more competitive and show improvement in kicking scores, thats all i'll be looking for

rpurfield · 13-01-2019 9:09pm

We need to stop comparing ourselves to the Dubs, we're miles off them. The league will show us where we are at.

EICVD · 14-01-2019 5:07pm

Sonny678 wrote: »

Dublin inexperienced team played Meath inexperienced team last night.

Meath also played an experimental, inexperienced team. Meath had 6 players starting who have never played a league or championship match for Meath before eg Ronan Ryan, Niall Kane, Barry Dardis, Niall Hickey, Danny Quinn and Darragh Campion. While Marcus Brennan, James Conlon and Gavin Mcoy came on as subs. None of these have played league or championship match for Meath before. Thats 9 players that played that were Meath debutants really. It was very inexperienced Meath team also.

Took the bait I see. This was also Meaths 4th game of the OBC to Dublin’s first & with Newman & Menton starting & Reilly playing the majority of the game Meath were definitely the more experienced. Could only saw the Dubs 6 & 7 as leaders purely having senior panel experience. As I said, I’d be disappointed if I was a Royal. Avoided relegation will be a good season.

Sonny678 · 15-01-2019 5:25am

EICVD wrote:

Took the bait I see. This was also Meaths 4th game of the OBC to Dublinâ€™s first & with Newman & Menton starting & Reilly playing the majority of the game Meath were definitely the more experienced. Could only saw the Dubs 6 & 7 as leaders purely having senior panel experience. As I said, Iâ€™d be disappointed if I was a Royal. Avoided relegation will be a good season.

Its a fact 9 players who played for Meath on saturday have never played a single game , a single second for Meath in the championship or league before. 9 players played who have never played an competitive inter couny game for Meath before. Yes Meath had more first time players then Dublin. But basically 9 Meath players, half of the players that played for Meath on Saturday, around 50% of the players who togged out to play for Meath on Saturday have never played senior football for Meath in championship or league. 7 of them are only on the Meath panel for the first time ever in the last few weeks. If any county at the weekend say Galway hurlers in Walsh Cup or Clare footballers in their games had played 9 players who had basically never played a league or championship match before, that team wud be considered an inexperienced team. Thats a fact.

Sonny678 · 15-01-2019 1:53pm

1 For me beating Tipp is essential. If we dont beat Tipp our chances for promotion our dented. We need a good start. We need to beat Tipp first game at home and beat Armagh team at home in 3rd game. We cud lose both games. But we r capable of beating both counties. If we dont win both we will not be promoted. We need at least 4 points out of 6 after first 3 game. I wouldnt be surprised we really put it up to Donegal and then we cud lose to Fermanagh. We are so inconsistent. We need a good start. We always finish well. But start poorly. This is the key a good startand we are in the driving seat. Lose and we are on the backfoot, playing catchup from the beginning.

2 We have to start the league well. We are very consitent in the league in recent years. 4 out of the 5 last years we were 1 win away from promotion. We have been contenders and we can be contenders this year. But we always seem to finish the league strongly winning our last 3 or 4 games. We always seem to start slowly. If you lose ur first game u r playing catch up from the start. So victory over Tipp is incredibly important. Here below r league starts for this whole decade. We r slow starters. The best league we had was in 2015 when we lost out to Roscommon on head to head. In that league in 2015 we started really well. Its no coincidence that is the year we got closest to promotion in 2015, was the year we started our first few games really really well, and won our first three games

A Decade of Meath league football in the Early Rounds

2010 League Meath Div 2
1st Game Won v Armagh
2nd Game lost v Down
3rd Game Won v Westmeath
4th Game lost v Tippearey

2011 League Meath Div 2
1st Game Lost v Laois
2nd Game Won v Sligo
3rd Game lost v Antrim
4th Game lost v Donegal

2012 League Meath Div 2
1st Game Won v Monaghan
2nd Game Won v Westmeath
3rd Game lost v kildare
4th Game lost v Galway
5th Game lost v Derry

2013 league Meath Div 3
1st Game Lost v Monaghan
2nd Game Won v Wicklow
3rd Game lost v Cavan

2014 League Meath Div 2
1st Game Won v Galway
2nd Game lost v Monaghan
3rd Game lost v Armagh

2015 league Meath Div 2 ( The best start of any Meath league campaign in this decade)
1st Game Won v Galway
2nd Game Won v kildare
3rd Game Won v Westmeath

2016 league Meath Div 2
1st Game Won v Armagh
2nd Game lost v Fermanagh
3rd Game lost v Cavan

2017 league Meath Div 2
1st Game lost v kildare
2nd Game Won v Derry
3rd Game lost v Down

2018 league Meath Div 2
1st Game Draw v Roscommon
2nd Game Win v Clare
3rd Game lost v Cavan
4th Game lost v Tippearey

3 We finished strongly in 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 and 2018 leagues. We can wins game back to back in the league in the later roundz. But we are poor starters.

4 We have started the league badly in first few games in the campaigns of 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 2018. The only league campaign really started well was 2015 when we won our first three games. Thats the closest we have to got to promotion to div 1. If the GAA didnt change the rules and did take into scoring difference, not head to head we wud have being promoted , instead of Roscommon.

5 A good start is essential. If we can win game 3 or 4 games back to back at the end of the league. Why not at the start?. We lost 2 out of our first three games in the league 5 times in this decade in the years 2011 2013 2014 2016 and 2017.

6 But the most important weekend in league football is week 3. This is when the teams who are going to be promoted break into one group and the others break into relegation fight. Week 3 is a big big week in league football. In week 3 we have lost 7 times out of 9 years in this decade. We lost game 3 in the years 2011 2012 2013 2014 2016 2017 and 2018. The last year we won game 3 was 2015, the closest we got to promotion.

7 So we need to beat Tipp but we need also to beat Armagh in week 3. A good start and we have a great chance of promotion. Donegal in Ballybofey in week 2 is on paper the toughest game on paper. But we are capable of really testing Donegal and go for toe to toe with them for 70 mins and then lose to Armgh , Clare and Fermanagh. Meath v Donegal are always close games. We do up our game v the top teams eg Donegal Roscommon in 2017 , Roscommon Tyrone in 2018 and Dublin twice in the last month. Our problem is v div 2 or div 3 teams eg Tippearey Cavan Longford. If we can be more consistent v div 2 or div 3 teams this will be massive.

Hammer Archer · 19-01-2019 10:01pm

I see that the county board have finally come round to allowing kids on the pitch at half time. About time.

Sonny678 · 26-01-2019 2:11pm

The team that plays v Tippearey tomorrow has 6 changes to the team that started v Tyrone last year eg Ronan Ryan Niall Kane Ethan Devine Daragh Campion Thomas Reilly and Michael Newman. 5 of those players werent even on the Meath panel last year.

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