Meath GAA discussion thread

Hammer Archer · 30-09-2019 8:43am

O'Rourke must have been injured but I don't know for sure why he didn't play.
But I couldn't believe how awful Skryne were. Honestly, we got a better game from Rathkenny. They just didn't show up in any way. Gives me a bit of confidence for the semi final as I'd wonder exactly how good/bad the rest of the teams in group A were.

Worrying that 3 of the 4 games were very one sided while I don't think Kells were exactly too troubled against Donaghmore/Ashbourne.

Hammer Archer · 03-10-2019 12:22pm

NFL Fixture list revealed. 3 home and 4 away unfortunately.

Round 1: Tyrone v Meath (away)
Round 2: Meath v Donegal (home)
Round 3: Meath v Mayo (home)
Round 4: Kerry v Meath (away)
Round 5: Meath v Galway (home)
Round 6: Dublin v Meath (away)
Round 7: Monaghan v Meath (away)

You'd be looking at the Galway home game and Monaghan away as our best chances (unless Monaghan dish out yet another hammering against us). Was hoping for Dublin early and in Navan for us to have a bit of a chance.
Going to be exceptionally difficult to stay up.

Cavan_King · 03-10-2019 8:37pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

O'Rourke must have been injured but I don't know for sure why he didn't play.
But I couldn't believe how awful Skryne were. Honestly, we got a better game from Rathkenny. They just didn't show up in any way. Gives me a bit of confidence for the semi final as I'd wonder exactly how good/bad the rest of the teams in group A were.

Worrying that 3 of the 4 games were very one sided while I don't think Kells were exactly too troubled against Donaghmore/Ashbourne.

I was at the Donaghmore/Ashbourne vs Kells game and thought Kells were poor enough. I was surprised to hear they are one of the favorites for the Meath championship.

Their own discipline will be their undoing. They look like a team that if the opposition don’t fight with them, they’ll just fight each other! Donaghmore/Ashbourne quite negative in their tactics - surely they have a forward out of their six starters could kick a 21 metre free rather than bringing the keeper up?

Summerhill looked the most impressive team there to me. Looked a lot bigger than than Kells in terms of conditioning.

Hammer Archer wrote: »

NFL Fixture list revealed. 3 home and 4 away unfortunately.

Round 1: Tyrone v Meath (away)
Round 2: Meath v Donegal (home)
Round 3: Meath v Mayo (home)
Round 4: Kerry v Meath (away)
Round 5: Meath v Galway (home)
Round 6: Dublin v Meath (away)
Round 7: Monaghan v Meath (away)

You'd be looking at the Galway home game and Monaghan away as our best chances (unless Monaghan dish out yet another hammering against us). Was hoping for Dublin early and in Navan for us to have a bit of a chance.
Going to be exceptionally difficult to stay up.

It’s a pity the first game against Tyrone is away. The usually aim to peak around game 3 or 4 of the League so yas may have caught them on the hop at home. Can’t see that happening down there though.

I would expect the game vs Monaghan away at the end to be a relegation battle unless both of ye are going down. It’s unfortunate that it’s another away game for ye.

Will the game vs Dublin be in Croker under lights?

RoyalCelt · 05-10-2019 2:03am

Massive reward on the line for staying up. And that is 4 home games the next year which will probably include Dublin and Kerry. Navan would be some craic for a Dublin meath match early in the year.

Hammer Archer · 05-10-2019 8:41pm

Clann na nGael won the Intermediate Hurling Championship 2-14 to 1-8 against Dunderry.

Hammer Archer · 06-10-2019 2:58pm

Seneschalstown were very nearly relegated. They needed 1-3 without reply in the last 10 minutes to see off Longwood 1-11 to 0-11.

Hammer Archer · 06-10-2019 5:09pm

Kildalkey just cannot seem to get over the line against Kiltale. 5 up with 3 minutes to go and they still needed a point with the last puck of the game to force a draw.

Hammer Archer · 07-10-2019 12:08pm

We will play the winners of Wicklow or Wexford in next year's Leinster quarter finals. In a change to the usual draw, they won't do the draw for the semi finals until after the quarter finals have been played. Presume it's so that no one knows if they're on Dublin's side of the draw when they play their quarter final.

snowgal · 07-10-2019 12:27pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

We will play the winners of Wicklow or Wexford in next year's Leinster quarter finals. In a change to the usual draw, they won't do the draw for the semi finals until after the quarter finals have been played. Presume it's so that no one knows if they're on Dublin's side of the draw when they play their quarter final.

Thats a strange one. I dont really see the benefit or reasoning behind that??

RoyalCelt · 07-10-2019 12:29pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

We will play the winners of Wicklow or Wexford in next year's Leinster quarter finals. In a change to the usual draw, they won't do the draw for the semi finals until after the quarter finals have been played. Presume it's so that no one knows if they're on Dublin's side of the draw when they play their quarter final.

There was me thinking we avoided dublin FFS.

CrabRevolution · 07-10-2019 1:56pm

snowgal wrote: »

Thats a strange one. I dont really see the benefit or reasoning behind that??

I'd imagine counties hated knowing for months in advance that if you won your QF your reward was a tanking from Dublin. While I know in sport you're trying to go as far as you can and have to play the best,it would definitely be a shadow hanging over a team.

Alternatively it's so that Meath can accuse the GAA of bias and wanting Kildare in the Leinster final if Meath draw Dublin, and vice versa.

rpurfield · 07-10-2019 2:34pm

Be more craic if it was an FA cup style draw, have all the rounds on the same weekend and do the draw at the end of it. Actually like the qualifiers

Hammer Archer · 07-10-2019 3:20pm

Didn't realise that the first of the Junior Football semi finals was played at the weekend. Moylagh beat Dunsany 0-13 to 0-10 after extra time.
Being a Dunsany supporter must be tough. They've lost so many Junior finals over the years and would have been promoted to the Intermediate championship regardless had they made the final this year.

Hammer Archer · 12-10-2019 1:12pm

How do we see the semi finals going this weekend? Can't see anything but a Simonstown win against Summerhill. Simonstown just seem to be peaking at the right time.
Very hard to call the Kells v Ratoath game. If Ratoath can keep the likes of Mattimoe and Hanlon quiet, we have a great chance. On the other hand, the forwards can be quite inaccurate at times which just kills us in tight games. Think this will be the year Kells finally take the step to the final.

In the Intermediate, can see whoever wins the Oldcastle v Trim game winning the final. They should have enough to see off the winner of Nobber and Castleton. See it being an Oldcastle V Nobber final.

Ballivor should complete the Junior A final lineup and go back up to Intermediate unless they lose players for the hurling.

Junior B semi finals sees Kilbride v Boardsmill and Slane v Ratoath. Hoping Kilbride can finally win an adult title again for the first time in nearly 50 years (their last senior title). Obviously assuming that we don't win it ourselves.

Hammer Archer · 12-10-2019 4:37pm

Draw game in the first IFC semi final between Nobber and Castletown 2-10 to 1-13.
Cracking game. Nobber were 3 down and a man down at half time with Ross missing a penalty for Castletown. But they dominated most of the second half and went 4 up with around 5 minutes left. Then they seemed to retreat into their shell and Kevin Ross equalized with a free 4 minutes into injury time (Nobber got a second red card shortly before). Castletown had a chance to win it with a free by the touch line but didn't have the accuracy. Extra time to come with Nobber back to 15.

Hammer Archer · 12-10-2019 7:04pm

Nobber pulled away in extra time to win by 4.
Cracking game in the senior semi final too. Summerhill with a late goal and a point to win by 2.
And to prove I know feck all, Clann na nGael beat Ballivor in the Junior semi final by 3 points to go back up to intermediate.

Local derby between Ratoath and Kilbride in the Junior B final.

ChikiChiki · 12-10-2019 8:16pm

Surprised how bad the crowd is in Dublin SFC QFs. You would see better in a Carlow club hurling game. Whats happening?

Hammer Archer · 13-10-2019 5:35pm

Fcuking YES!!!

mattser · 13-10-2019 5:52pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Fcuking YES!!!

Nice one hammer. Best of luck in the final. Haven't been to a county final in years, but I'm going to this one and rooting for Ratoath.
Thanks as usual for the updates.

rpurfield · 13-10-2019 9:50pm

Fair play Hammer, wasn't expecting that to be honest.

Cavan_King · 13-10-2019 10:30pm

Anyone have odds for County final?

No offence to Ratoath but I’ll be lumping on Summerhill. Saw them in the quarter final and don’t think they’ll be beaten.

Bryan Ennis that used to play for them picked up a second county medal in Cavan with Castlerahan today.

Shane McAnarney, former Meath captain, was coaching Ramor (Virginia) who lost the final by a point.

Jody Devine led Laragh to intermediate glory last week.

Hammer Archer · 14-10-2019 12:49pm

Cavan_King wrote: »

Anyone have odds for County final?

No offence to Ratoath but I’ll be lumping on Summerhill. Saw them in the quarter final and don’t think they’ll be beaten.

Bryan Ennis that used to play for them picked up a second county medal in Cavan with Castlerahan today.

Shane McAnarney, former Meath captain, was coaching Ramor (Virginia) who lost the final by a point.

Jody Devine led Laragh to intermediate glory last week.

Not saying that they won't win, but how come you're basing it on the quarter final? Na Fianna wouldn't really be up to much at the moment, like Skryne in our quarter final.

Technophobe · 14-10-2019 1:48pm

If they both go toe to toe concentrating on their own strengths and the weather is good, should be a cracking final....

rolling boh · 14-10-2019 4:51pm

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Surprised how bad the crowd is in Dublin SFC QFs. You would see better in a Carlow club hurling game. Whats happening?

Crowds generally poor until maby the final dont really understand it myself as some of the clubs have a large membership and will put in for a lot of all ireland tickets .The last couple of finals have got good crowds but I have been to some with about 4000 there .Dublin fans really only bother with the senior team as crowds for other grades are usually tiny .

Cavan_King · 14-10-2019 6:38pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Not saying that they won't win, but how come you're basing it on the quarter final? Na Fianna wouldn't really be up to much at the moment, like Skryne in our quarter final.

They looked an impressive team. I had heard Kells were favourites for the Meath senior title ahead of the game but Summerhill looked a level above them.

dobman88 · 14-10-2019 6:39pm

When will the final be on lads? Seems like it should be a cracker for my first trip to a Meath SFC final.

Cavan_King · 14-10-2019 6:40pm

dobman88 wrote: »

When will the final be on lads? Seems like it should be a cracker for my first trip to a Meath SFC final.

Sunday week I believe.

dobman88 · 14-10-2019 6:42pm

Cavan_King wrote: »

Sunday week I believe.

Thanks. That's Unfortunate. Bank holiday weekend is busy for me. Oh well.

Rock Lesnar · 15-10-2019 5:35pm

In recent years anyway, its always been on the october bank hol weekend, i hope the intermediate final is on the same day like in the old days, but not so much in the last few years, when they realised 2 big finals on separate days are better then 2 big finals on the same day

Edit: just been told the intermediate final is on the bank hol saturday, antbody know if this is true?

CrabRevolution · 15-10-2019 6:51pm

The fixture planner has the Intermediate on the Saturday and Senior on the Sunday.

Hammer Archer · 16-10-2019 8:37am

The curtain raiser for the senior final will be the minor football final as far as I know. Not sure if there's a curtain raiser for the intermediate final.

Edit: Junior football final is on before the Intermediate final.

Hammer Archer · 16-10-2019 12:29pm

Given that it's coming close, here are the draws for Meath teams in their respective Leinster championships:

Leinster Senior Club Football Championship
Summerhill/Ratoath v Garrycastle (Westmeath) or Killoe Emmet Óg (Longford) - November 10th

Leinster Intermediate Club Hurling Championship
Kiltale/Kildalkey v Seir Kieran/Clodiagh Gaels (Offaly) - November 2nd

Leinster Intermediate Club Football Championship
Trim/Nobber v Caulry (Westmeath) or Dunlavin (Wicklow) - November 9th

Leinster Junior Club Football Championship
Clann na nGael/Moylagh v Ballynacargy (Westmeath) or An Tochar (Wicklow) - November 9th/10th

Leinster Junior Club Hurling Championship
Clann na nGael v Maynooth (Kildare) - October 19th

rpurfield · 16-10-2019 6:06pm

County board will be doing a weekend pass for finals weekend so if you're heading both days you can save a few bob. Hopefully they also roll this out for group games next year.

Dickie10 · 16-10-2019 10:35pm

who do u think will win the hurling replay?

Hammer Archer · 17-10-2019 9:06am

Think Kildalkey left it behind them last time. 5 points up with 3 minutes to go and against 14 men and they still needed a last minute point to force a replay. I think Kiltale have more scope to improve on Sunday and will make it 6 in a row.

Hammer Archer · 19-10-2019 8:39pm

Ratoath beat Kilbride 2-15 to 1-9 in the Junior B final.
Clann na nGael beat Maynooth 4-17 to 1-10 in the Leinster JHC preliminary round. They'll play Cullion of Westmeath in the quarter final.

dobman88 · 19-10-2019 8:58pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Ratoath beat Kilbride 2-15 to 1-9 in the Junior B final.
Clann na nGael beat Maynooth 4-17 to 1-10 in the Leinster JHC preliminary round. They'll play Cullion of Westmeath in the quarter final.

Back to back championships for that team after winning the C last year.

Hammer Archer · 20-10-2019 11:50am

dobman88 wrote: »

Back to back championships for that team after winning the C last year.

Yeah to be fair, it was a bit bad for a senior teams second team to be in junior C. There was a good bit of commitment issues for a while that resulted in them going down from junior B to C (after getting in the junior B final to Clonard in 2011). Be interesting how the reserve championship pans out next season. Regardless of losing yesterday, it'll do Kilbride the world of good to play against higher quality opposition next year.

dobman88 · 20-10-2019 12:00pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Yeah to be fair, it was a bit bad for a senior teams second team to be in junior C. There was a good bit of commitment issues for a while that resulted in them going down from junior B to C (after getting in the junior B final to Clonard in 2011). Be interesting how the reserve championship pans out next season. Regardless of losing yesterday, it'll do Kilbride the world of good to play against higher quality opposition next year.

Speaking of the new structures, can you explain it to me? I play for DonAsh junior side since moving here and this new structure seems like it's going to kill teams like that or am I totally wrong? I just want to play ball before I finish up and have no interest in playing for a senior team. Is it the end of 3rd and 4th teams for clubs?

Hammer Archer · 20-10-2019 4:29pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Think Kildalkey left it behind them last time. 5 points up with 3 minutes to go and against 14 men and they still needed a last minute point to force a replay. I think Kiltale have more scope to improve on Sunday and will make it 6 in a row.

Shows how much I know. Kiltale hammered 1-17 to 0-11, only scored 3 points in the second half.
Excellent performance by Kildalkey and fully deserved.

Hammer Archer · 20-10-2019 4:31pm

dobman88 wrote: »

Speaking of the new structures, can you explain it to me? I play for DonAsh junior side since moving here and this new structure seems like it's going to kill teams like that or am I totally wrong? I just want to play ball before I finish up and have no interest in playing for a senior team. Is it the end of 3rd and 4th teams for clubs?

I'm pretty sure there's still going to be third and fourth teams. Not entirely sure how it's going to work though.

Littlehorny · 20-10-2019 8:52pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Shows how much I know. Kiltale hammered 1-17 to 0-11, only scored 3 points in the second half.
Excellent performance by Kildalkey and fully deserved.

So happy to read of this result today, my Dad comes from and played for Kildalkey. Couldn't make it to the game but will ring him tomorrow.
There will be some session in the Village for the next few days

rpurfield · 21-10-2019 9:27am

Hammer Archer wrote: »

I'm pretty sure there's still going to be third and fourth teams. Not entirely sure how it's going to work though.

My understanding of the Premier Junior is it will be second teams of Senior clubs. Don/Ash, Dunboyne and Group C of this year's Junior A. I'm not sure if it means clubs second teams operating at Junior B and below come up to it though. I can't see it affecting third and fourth teams at all.

Technophobe · 23-10-2019 1:49pm

Summerhill in the Minor final on Sunday too..Great win over Skyrne after being 11 points down at one stage in 1st half

Hammer Archer · 23-10-2019 6:07pm

So it turns out that the Senior final can't be streamed live on the Meath GAA app because the Cork senior football final and the Kilkenny senior hurling final are being shown on TG4 at the same time. Supposedly the GAA have a rule that counties can't stream their own games when there's games in any county being shown live on TV.
That's an utterly stupid rule.

Hammer Archer · 25-10-2019 9:38am

Missed this on Wednesday: Ladies goalkeeper Monica McGuirk has been nominated for Intermediate players' player of the year.

Hammer Archer · 26-10-2019 4:36pm

Draw game in the Junior final, 1-8 apiece. Replay next weekend probably.
Half time in the Intermediate final and 3 first half goals (2 from Jordan Morris and 1 from Brian Farrell) have given Nobber a commanding 3-5 to 8 point lead over Trim.

Hammer Archer · 26-10-2019 5:31pm

4-16 to 0-13 it finished. What on earth happened to Trim?? Just didn't show up by the sounds of it. Nobber only had 4 scorers but Jordan Morris got 2-5 and Brian Farrell got 1-7 while Seán Meade and Niall Farrell got 1-1 and 0-3 respectively.
Nobber now play Dunlavin of Wicklow in the Leinster Intermediate championship.

dobman88 · 26-10-2019 6:42pm

Hammer Archer wrote: »

Draw game in the Junior final, 1-8 apiece. Replay next weekend probably.

Replay on Wednesday in Ashbourne..8pm throw in

Hammer Archer · 26-10-2019 6:56pm

dobman88 wrote: »

Replay on Wednesday in Ashbourne..8pm throw in

Yeah saw that. Forgot that Clann na nGael are in Leinster hurling action next weekend and then the Junior football winners play Leinster the following weekend.

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