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Replying To seadog54: "Details of the Allianz Football League Division Two game Down v Tipperary will be scheduled when CCCC meet on Tuesday. Taken from GAA.ie" Our match might not go ahead either. As far as i know all final round matches have to throw in at same time, in interest of fairness. Did i not read somewhere that the Division 2 final would be weekend after Easter? David (Meath) - Posts: 567 - 18/03/2018 23:48:53 2085609 Link
Replying To meath1977: "the fact he wants the job is one reason and what a player for this county. Seamus kenny is another man who is doing a lot of work at the moment why not get these lads together and let them try and get Meath back where we belong. it's Andy's chance now but at this stage it's not working and I don't buy this ## that we don't have the players. it's up to the manger to get players to buy into what they are trying to do" We don't belong anywhere we won things when we were good now were not,, I don't like Andy but we are simply so far behind in everything even paric taiteanns redevelopment is about 20 years behind when it should of been,, I personally tink no matter who does the job we are not going to go forward for awhile I think we still have alot of going back to do otherlad (Meath) - Posts: 137 - 19/03/2018 10:16:22 2085674 Link
Anyone know what happens to pre-bought tickets if the replacement date doesn't suit? oldsam_newsam (Meath) - Posts: 638 - 19/03/2018 11:54:07 2085746 Link
Was today's postponement a bit hasty? Great weather there at the minute and 99% of the snow is gone and still hours to go. Jinxie (Meath) - Posts: 6342 - 19/03/2018 12:29:51 2085761 Link
Replying To meath1977: "when a manger loses controll what do you do leave him there is it and hope for the best. I get a three man management team Barry Callaghan graham Geraghty Trevor Giles or Darren Fay hopefully they will get everyone playing for us . no matter what anyone says the 25 players or so we have are not the best 25 players in Meath" A great player doesnt make a great manager , have you seen any of them in action on the sideline esp Geraghty . I think it would be a disaster. We dont have the players . as one pundit said you cant do nothing with a garden for 20 odd yrs and then expect roses to grow. last need to stop living in the past and look at ways of improving and support the team. Not constantly knocking the county manager. We need to invest in the underage structure, the mindset needs to start from the u14 and work its way up. dnewlad (Meath) - Posts: 137 - 19/03/2018 12:39:05 2085771 Link
Replying To Jinxie: "Was today's postponement a bit hasty? Great weather there at the minute and 99% of the snow is gone and still hours to go." I think your right i was below in Drogheda this morning it was a grand fresh morning. Not much snow there yesterday either ......... dnewlad (Meath) - Posts: 137 - 19/03/2018 12:41:01 2085773 Link
This was a bad call. The game could have easily gone ahead. The forecast was fine for today and if snow was on the pitch at 9am it would be long cleared by 2-3 this afternoon. I would imagine the other games cancellation is a reason as it leaves 4 teams to play 2 games so makes the C.C.C.C.C.C.C.C's decision easier for pushing a round of games out. Royalio11 (Meath) - Posts: 757 - 19/03/2018 13:22:45 2085793 Link
Why wasn't the game changed to Navan ? Would that make to much sense ? bobkarlgees (Meath) - Posts: 1263 - 19/03/2018 13:42:10 2085808 Link
Is crime park not for things like this. Play tipp v down and Meath v Louth there. That call could have been made yesterday. Jinxie (Meath) - Posts: 6342 - 19/03/2018 13:49:42 2085813 Link
Its dry and sunny in Drogheda. No reason at all for game to be postponed again. Joke joej (Louth) - Posts: 1599 - 19/03/2018 14:07:47 2085821 Link
Replying To dnewlad: "A great player doesnt make a great manager , have you seen any of them in action on the sideline esp Geraghty . I think it would be a disaster. We dont have the players . as one pundit said you cant do nothing with a garden for 20 odd yrs and then expect roses to grow. last need to stop living in the past and look at ways of improving and support the team. Not constantly knocking the county manager. We need to invest in the underage structure, the mindset needs to start from the u14 and work its way up." Hear alot of this invest in the underage structure and your probably right..but at the end of the day how would Meath go about it..What would be a Plan of attack..Just Curious?? grahamc9897 (Meath) - Posts: 1174 - 19/03/2018 14:08:35 2085823 Link
Replying To joej: "Its dry and sunny in Drogheda. No reason at all for game to be postponed again. Joke" in Drogheda now shopping and not a bit of snow now it's all gone and the sun is shining meath1977 (Meath) - Posts: 534 - 19/03/2018 14:30:22 2085832 Link
Replying To nobull456: "Agree 100%...........good footballers do not necessarily make good managers. Forget about the personality ,and focus on the skill set required for the job. Most critical in my view is the ability of any potential manager to assess his own strenghts and weaknesses., His willingness therefore to improve without having to be pushed to do so. Without that ability to self assess and self develop you are not management material anyway. Admittedly a manager may need assistance in measuring his key skills such as management style, delegation, using resources wisely human and material. setting realistic targets. identify when help is required ,and report on ongoing needs as required. etc. etc." What Meath lack and what Andy needs to realize is that he needs to bring in outside coaches. Why outside, well because there are none good enough at Development Level for one. Any good ones are pushed out at a Development Level in favour of the promotion of nepotism and good old chronism. It's quite clear to me that this squad of players whilst not having perhaps Division 1 potential, there certainly not Division 3 or fighting relegation material at the bottom of Division 2. Meath are under performing. Defensively they are very fragile but have height and pace up front. Meath need to go defensive, like top Ulster teams, only problem is that Meath coaches can't coach this system, no more than they can break it down. The other issue is pride. The Meath faithful want to play the traditional Meath way and change is hard. But if Meath want to go places they need to change how they setup, and their manager needs to pull in outside coaches and be allowed to coach the players in a much more counter attacking system that acknowledges Meath weaknesses but plays to their strengths. Live in hope Talking_Sense (Meath) - Posts: 209 - 19/03/2018 22:03:36 2086040 Link
Replying To Talking_Sense: "What Meath lack and what Andy needs to realize is that he needs to bring in outside coaches. Why outside, well because there are none good enough at Development Level for one. Any good ones are pushed out at a Development Level in favour of the promotion of nepotism and good old chronism. It's quite clear to me that this squad of players whilst not having perhaps Division 1 potential, there certainly not Division 3 or fighting relegation material at the bottom of Division 2. Meath are under performing. Defensively they are very fragile but have height and pace up front. Meath need to go defensive, like top Ulster teams, only problem is that Meath coaches can't coach this system, no more than they can break it down. The other issue is pride. The Meath faithful want to play the traditional Meath way and change is hard. But if Meath want to go places they need to change how they setup, and their manager needs to pull in outside coaches and be allowed to coach the players in a much more counter attacking system that acknowledges Meath weaknesses but plays to their strengths. Live in hope" Good point about outside coaches and obviously you could look at Galway where they brought in Paddy Tally and he would appear from here at least to have got some improvement. ROYALOPTIMIST (Meath) - Posts: 179 - 19/03/2018 22:29:58 2086050 Link
So reading between the lines of what is coming out here, Louth players refused to play that match on Monday, they done a full training session on Sunday in knowledge that game was not going ahead, but Meath set up only informed on Monday morning... very poor form longroadback (Meath) - Posts: 325 - 21/03/2018 12:02:53 2086577 Link
If GAA at head office level are only interested in using players to serve their own requirements ,And have no interest in player welfare or even showing respect to players like how the Meath Team were treated w.r.t. Cavan and Louth matches then how can management motivate or even retain players. At some point either players will get militant in an organized way to demand a share of rewards or they will just stop playing inter county. Croke Park paid officials need to perform much better. Andy is right again Ashrules (Dublin) - Posts: 518 - 21/03/2018 15:35:37 2086655 Link
Replying To Ashrules: "If GAA at head office level are only interested in using players to serve their own requirements ,And have no interest in player welfare or even showing respect to players like how the Meath Team were treated w.r.t. Cavan and Louth matches then how can management motivate or even retain players. At some point either players will get militant in an organized way to demand a share of rewards or they will just stop playing inter county. Croke Park paid officials need to perform much better. Andy is right again" 100% agree. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 21/03/2018 17:42:56 2086715 Link
Ashrules (Dublin) - Posts: 146 - correct, the guys who are paid large salaries expect guys who have day jobs to be available to play a match at 12 hours notice. What type of morons have we in Croke Park. browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 21/03/2018 20:05:10 2086763 Link
Pity this game was postponed when it was. Considering Louths form I expected a win which would have helped before we played Down. bdbuddah (Meath) - Posts: 1349 - 22/03/2018 12:38:22 2086932 Link
So now attention turns to this game. I expect Down to beat tipp, so we know a win or at worst a draw is needed here. Can't wait tbh. Hon the royal royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 25/03/2018 19:52:49 2087894 Link