Jinxie. Absolutely agree the last thing we need is to get rid ofanother manager. And yeah iI pointed out the obvious, he is inexperienced that is more to the point as to why we have to give him time. Jesus its two years, wouldn't want internet around when Sean took over. These things take time year one was a learning curve year two we IMO will get to last 8 that is improvement. And yes I pointed out negatives that have happened to preemt what would obviously be said.
I do think a extra new voice might be a good idea going forward for year 3 but if anyone looks at main forum I have been one of very few to be supremely confident of victory on sat. Glass you can throw your line somewhere else. As I ain't biting and anyone looking at your post clearly sees you wum.
I'll go one step further and say that even after next year mod should remain. IMO 5 years is needed for the task that he faced.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 28/07/2014 12:17:52    1627174

Agree with Jinxie

Mod is learning as he is going along,do we need want the likes of McEntee to come in and put us two years behind again? Really hope we beat Armagh,because if we don't some people will be calling for his head(not me)

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 28/07/2014 12:39:20    1627196

Micko needs about 5 years,then people are free to judge...

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 28/07/2014 12:40:35    1627200

Just on the subject of the armagh game and the place we are in going into the game.

Many people are being very negative and think it will be very difficult for the lads to lift themselves. I disagree tho. Look at Galway and cork.
Both teams got bad beatings against their arch rivals. Both teams failed to play to their potential. Meath are no different as far as I'm concerned.

Too much hard work done that we as fans never see for them to become a bad team overnight.

And as a final comment on Mod, I am 100% happy with his as our manager and hope he's here for the long term.

Jinxie (Meath) - Posts: 6344 - 28/07/2014 13:17:24    1627240

Jinxie

Agree with you to an extent,but Cork were playing Sligo and Galway were at home to Tipp,I think we have a much tougher game,Galway didn't get a bad beating against Mayo.

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 28/07/2014 13:48:14    1627262

yeah agree not helpful to be talking about MOD sacking but the MOD has showen nothing tactics wise against the top team ie Against Monaghan 3 times we where wiped out and aginat dublin twice i was hoping that we would have learned something this year but it doesn't look like it for me i just keep hoping we will learn ...the tactics against kildare where a joke and should never have worked but they did thanks to Jason Ryan been slow off the mark. worrying again is we got our tactics all wrong against Aramgh in league played to many players in our forward and leaving them to much space inside ..

bobkarlgees (Meath) - Posts: 1263 - 28/07/2014 14:14:02    1627293

Ziggy

Galway v tipp was in tullamore and while Galway weren't beaten by the same score as Meath, they were equally as poor and the game was never really in any doubt from midway in the first half.

I think people can read too much into a bad performance like Sunday week.

Jinxie (Meath) - Posts: 6344 - 28/07/2014 14:28:40    1627305

i would put this armagh team on a par with tyrone last year so if we have improved ( which i think we have ) we should be capable of beating them. so lets focus on that & dont be speculating about managements future HON THE ROYAL

royal69er (Meath) - Posts: 96 - 28/07/2014 16:09:18    1627400

this is comical. some clowns who are offering the humour with there 'sack the manager' claims

Lads I think anyone who knows anything about football(which to be fair, the majority on this forum seem to-or at least claim to)

We all want stability, most can see that Mick O is building for future, he has brought in loads of young talent. (10/15 starters v dubs under age of 25)

Don't let the minority rile you. This notion of HAVING to reach the qfinal?? We are missing 3 definite starters and others are still not fit.
MickO IS safe regardless of saturday

dubsout (Meath) - Posts: 220 - 28/07/2014 16:42:36    1627416

Armagh are a better side now, than the one we played in the league. We need to see it more along the lines of a Monaghan-like challenge, because that is the type of physical game it could prove to be.

GlasagusOr (Meath) - Posts: 1348 - 28/07/2014 17:26:37    1627461

A lot of nonsense being talked about manager and replacing. Any manager building from a low base (div 3) needs 5 years to build. About Armagh, the have improved significantly from the league and are better now than Tyrone were last year. All is needed is a good performance from the team against Armagh- win or lose. The best of luck to all involved next Saturday.

PS Most of the teams left in the championship would have difficulty beating Armagh (Dublin being the exception)as the are on a roll

browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 28/07/2014 17:26:53    1627463

Let MOD take care of business. Need to start winning at underage before looking at change of manager

bert09 (Meath) - Posts: 1792 - 28/07/2014 20:17:59    1627643

Back to matter at hand. Meath to win it by 4.
Hon the Royal.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 29/07/2014 09:03:56    1627750

Agree with RoyalDunne that we need a 5 year term to see this to fruition, and with Dubsout MOD did a good job finding new lads.

But what we also need is :
> not to take on Armargh in a man-to-man game (like we tried with Dublin)
> more linkage of midfield ball to the forwards - they are more than capable to take the scores
> reduce the training this week! It opens possibility of injuries , and the lads seemed tired in Croker after 10 minutes (overtraining?)

...do that against Armagh and we are back in business IMO.

RoyalSt.Pat (Meath) - Posts: 333 - 29/07/2014 10:10:58    1627781

Seems to me when I predict the opponent to beat Meath we win,so...........

Armagh by 10 points :P

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 29/07/2014 13:04:23    1627874

Meath to scrape by.......will be interesting to see the reaction from the players, its not how hard you fall, but how high you bounce!

sob (Meath) - Posts: 492 - 29/07/2014 14:00:32    1627923

I think Armagh will physically dominate Meath! perhaps push them around at the start and have a little tussle to try and intimidate the oppisition just like they did with the likes of Tyrone and Cavan

RossiesRock (Meath) - Posts: 369 - 29/07/2014 14:04:57    1627925

I see Kev Reilly has had a bit of a moan about critism the team got,but to be fair what does he expect? Best way to answer that,is to win sunday and do the talking on the field.As far as I can see,none of the critism was over the top..

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 29/07/2014 17:14:45    1628065

In my opinion Meaths 6 forwards are better than Armaghs 6 forwards with the exception of Jamie Clarke and maybe Tony Kernan (I havnt seen enough of him to rate him in recent years). That said Armagh will be very defensive and we tend to struggle against blanket defences. If we can get our midfield a bit more balanced than the last day i.e one attacking mid (SOR/Tormey) with a defensive one (Meade/Menton) and get it quickly into our forwards like the Kildare game we have a very good chance. Meath by 2.

royalfan4life (Meath) - Posts: 76 - 29/07/2014 17:59:03    1628090

After the disappointment of the Leinster Final I can't get my head around the fact that we're playing in an All-Ireland Quarter Final on Saturday. Huge game! They don't come any bigger than this

JohnJoeRoyal (Meath) - Posts: 56 - 29/07/2014 18:44:35    1628113