Make or break at this stage. We need promotion to Division 1. All or nothing next year.

Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 21/09/2014 19:15:02    1654669

We need to be patient. I think we made progress this year. Need a couple of bigger forwards. SOR should be tried at full forward. The young talent brought in this year will have matured a bit. Try Tormey centre forward with some speedster wing men. What about full back? KR is a huge player but he is dogged with injury.

royalezy (Meath) - Posts: 9 - 21/09/2014 20:59:02    1654866

SOR

Too slow to get out and win his own ball at FF

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 21/09/2014 21:05:11    1654875

Tormey at CHF with the likes of Forde and O'Sullivan on the wings could be interesting.Fast players,but also willing to work back

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 21/09/2014 21:07:04    1654879

My team would be
Orurke
Keoghan
Menton
Judge
Tobin
Carroll
Dalton
Gillespie
Meade
Osullivan
Tormey
Reilly
Queeney
Newman
E wallace

Subs
S bray
C ward
Harnan
Burke
Mcmahon
D bray
S ororke
Mcdonagh
Young
Curran
Rowe
To be rotated as needed.
± 4 others

foreverroyal (Meath) - Posts: 349 - 22/09/2014 16:25:42    1655501

My team;
O Rourke
Keoghan
Menton
Judge
Tobin
Harnan
Dalton
Gillespie
Flanagan
E Wallace
Tormey
Reilly
D Bray
SOR
Newman

Subs
Carroll
Burke
Mcmahon
S bray
H Rooney
Mcdonagh
Young
Curran
Rowe
Forde

royalezy (Meath) - Posts: 9 - 22/09/2014 21:04:01    1655637

With no apparent game plan or consistency this year, how will MOD set out the team for the league? All men behind the ball? More handpassing?

bert09 (Meath) - Posts: 1790 - 23/09/2014 20:25:27    1656294

We need Div 1 football. Unless we are playing these teams on a regular basis we are not going to improve. Promotion is a must this year if we want to progress and become a top 8 team again.

Forglory (Meath) - Posts: 85 - 24/09/2014 10:09:38    1656385

My team would be

1.Paddy O'Rourke
2.Donal Keogan
3.Bryan Menton
4.Donnacha Tobin
5.Davy Dalton
6.Shane Melia
7.Padraig Harnan
8.Conor Gilespie
9.Andrew Tormey
10.James McEntee
11.Graham Reilly
12.Cillian O'Sullivan
13.Eamon Wallace
14.Michael Newman
15.Cian Ward
Subs:
16.Conor McHugh
17.Damien Carroll
18.David Larkin
19.Adam Flanagan
20.Brian Meade
21.Bobby O'Brien
22.Bryan McMahon
23.Joey Wallace
24.Brian Power
25.Mickey Burke
26.Shane O'Rourke
27.Sean Tobin
28.Nicky Judge
29.Seamus Mattemoe
30.Stephen Bray

Additional Panel Members worth a look:
Thomas McGovern(Don/Ash)
Daragh McGovern(Don/Ash)
Daragh Rowe(Syddan)

BigJoe14 (Meath) - Posts: 934 - 24/09/2014 12:13:32    1656472

Bigjoe. You'd have to include Nicky judge as at least one to have a look at. Very tight defender.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 25/09/2014 15:23:15    1656946

I have Judge on the panel. I think if we are to make any progress we should look at playing a Donegal type game plan. We don't have good enough players to go toe to toe with the likes of Dublin, Kerry, Cork, Mayo etc. We lost to Armagh because they had a vast superior game plan and they had it perfected down to a fine art, where as we had no apperant game plan apart from just leaving two men inside and hoping for the best. I believe that individualy we are as good Armagh, if not better in certain areas, but there strength and conditioning and game plan was far far superior than ours.

BigJoe14 (Meath) - Posts: 934 - 25/09/2014 16:18:40    1656964

Big Joe

What about Alan Forde?

ziggy320001 (Meath) - Posts: 2432 - 25/09/2014 18:17:25    1657011

Sorry bigjoe I totally missed that, old age etc :). For what its worth I agree with you on the style of play. We need to become more defensive.
Someone said that Kerry became a blanket defense in 3 weeks, so the malarkey of it been trained from u12 up is nonsense. I've said this before and I'll say it again, give or take one or two lads Donegal have a similar level of player on their panel as we do, play to your strength and develop a system to suit them. I don't think many a supporter would care if we beat dubs 4 points to 3. I know I wouldn't.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 25/09/2014 18:21:20    1657012