Just heading now. Best wishes to team and management. We need this for those of us particularly mad to be in Croke park. Hon the Royal.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 02/08/2014 14:52:20    1629850

cant remember being this nervous before a game, was even more confident before the dubs match. hopefully we can put last match behind us & stand up to armagh, and in the process put a bit of pride back in the jersey. HON THE ROYAL

royal69er (Meath) - Posts: 96 - 02/08/2014 15:15:51    1629857

Best of luck lads.hope the rain holds off

bobjaffacake (Meath) - Posts: 1400 - 02/08/2014 15:17:41    1629859

No Kevin Reilly or Graham Reilly ? Young Adam Flanagan starting.

All very interesting.

waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 02/08/2014 17:00:28    1629914

Half time 1 point down , I can't believe how bad we are .

mmc (Meath) - Posts: 268 - 02/08/2014 17:44:44    1629936

47mins gone 12armagh 10 mhi
Mmc- they had 4 points in 4 mins after greilly came on at 30mins
Very close

RoyalSt.Pat (Meath) - Posts: 333 - 02/08/2014 18:06:34    1629944

What an embarrassment

Header33 (Meath) - Posts: 233 - 02/08/2014 18:26:09    1629953

a SAD day for Meath. You'd have to expect manager to step down having proved he knows little. As for most of the players (not all mind you) they could only be called soft. and thats been kind.

strawmcilroy (Meath) - Posts: 16 - 02/08/2014 18:36:10    1629964

I disgusted I wasted another evening traveling up to dublin to watch that rubbish . And I don't say this lightly , MOD and his selectors haven't a clue .

mmc (Meath) - Posts: 268 - 02/08/2014 18:36:21    1629966

Here here it's bad bringing back on a lad that was taken off would hardly c it in junior club football

Header33 (Meath) - Posts: 233 - 02/08/2014 18:48:27    1629992

Here here it's bad bringing back on a lad that was taken off would hardly c it in junior club football

Header33 (Meath) - Posts: 233 - 02/08/2014 18:50:28    1629996

Tragic, worst year I've seen

LobinstownMan (Meath) - Posts: 125 - 02/08/2014 18:50:51    1629997

Well soaked to skin haven't got stomach to stay for second match. And have to say disappointed beyond belief. No game plan didn't push up on kick out. Graham Reilly and keoghan played well Reilly should have started. Don't know what the future holds for this particular set up. I'm devastated. Where to from here??? The most alarming thing is we are so unfit. Life goes on and its only football but you'd have to wonder with the poor support for Meath today what does the future hold?

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 02/08/2014 18:58:20    1630007

That was another very poor display by a meath team in Crokepark, the changes made were very poor, some of the players on this panel are not good enough for inter county football, I don't think our side line are good enough either , to watch some players for seventy minutes today make the same mistakes was hard to take,

baker (Meath) - Posts: 36 - 02/08/2014 19:02:47    1630011

Today proves that MOD as I said all along has no idea who his best team is . The amount of changes in his team selection for every game is shocking . I think today proves he is totally out of his dept . Today also proves that D. Keoghan is one of the best backs in the country and MOD played him out off position to often . I cant see anything in MOD as to why he should be Meath manager next year .

mmc (Meath) - Posts: 268 - 02/08/2014 19:03:58    1630012

Epic failure !

royalpainter (Meath) - Posts: 874 - 02/08/2014 19:24:44    1630021

It seems to me Meath players aren't prepared to work. It's all talk and no action from a lot of them, particularly the older set. How many championship games now is that that your so called captain couldn't play in? When the chips are down he seems to run for cover despite talking plenty to the contrary. Also, bit of an embarrassment now to think back to MOD interviews mid league talking up his rebuilding and bringing back the old Meath. Naive yet arrogant in equal measure.

straightup (Cavan) - Posts: 22 - 02/08/2014 19:42:16    1630035

I started this thread and stated Meath would lose.

People need to wake up and smell the coffee. This team is going nowhere and of spending money and wasting my time supporting such uncredible players.

Management or not - most people are deluded. Results ovrr the years say nothing to list Meath as a decent outfit.

The dark days are around to stay.
No fight, no grit, no steel, no determination, no plan

Godnight and goodluck

Royalio11 (Meath) - Posts: 757 - 02/08/2014 19:56:44    1630059

Today proves yet again that Mick O Dowd has not got a clue what he is doing as Meath manager and must resign. For the last number of years we have questioned the fitness levels of players such as Joe Sheridan, Peadar Byrne, Brian Farrell, Caomhin King, Jamie Queeney, and Cian Ward and rightly so due to popular demand they were dropped.

These players were all deemed past it even though many are still in there late twenties. All players were booted off the panel to be replaced by younger legs, players we were told that would bring about a new running style of football.
Now we have young athletic players but still the problem remains so who exactly is to blame. That is just one of the many issues I have with this management.

Today he dropped Graham Reilly to show who was boss, perhaps make an example of him; it backfired big time and I'm glad Reilly proved a point.
With twenty minutes remaining, he replaced Carroll with Harrington. Why?
Fifteen minutes remaining Stephen Bray with Dalton McDonagh. Why?
Ten minutes remaining David Bray with Joey Wallace. Why?

In all seriousness how would anyone expect a Meath comeback with that.
I left the game not long after.
Time for a change again.

Royal_Truth (Meath) - Posts: 8 - 02/08/2014 20:13:56    1630076

Obviously very disappointing result but more so bad performance in most aspects but I don't agree management should go.In fairness to them injuries have played a big part this year including today with K Reilly out.But we are reaping what we've sown over last decade.If we can't win Leinster or even be competitive at minor or u21 level it's hardly a shock we can't progress at Senior.Also a lot were calling for major change needed in regards to the type of players we have used especially in the forwards moving towards a more mobile unit so MOD and his team are trying to change what plainly hasn't worked in the past.Ok we have definitely gone back from last year but give them a chance.The same was said in the early days of the Boylan era.We have chopped and changed every couple years recently and this doesn't work.We're a long way off the top at the moment so it's a long term project so talk of change is wrong I think.

runnerin (Meath) - Posts: 202 - 02/08/2014 20:14:34    1630078