True RR,but remember they had to play with 14 men in the second half,they showed great character when Dunsany scored the goal to go level..

ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 26/10/2015 14:58:54    1801974

Mcentee different class to anybody else on the pitch. Shane Brennan did best for dunsany but RR is spot on about lack of two footed forwards.

showforit (Meath) - Posts: 156 - 26/10/2015 18:57:43    1802047

To play mcentee in defence for county is another example of how stone mad our county set up is. Incredible performance from the little man. Dragged his team over the line

royalperro (Meath) - Posts: 21 - 26/10/2015 20:36:19    1802079

Agreed Perro. We take our best corner back (Keoghan) and put him at centre half back. We take a natural centre half back (Harnan) and put him at centre half forward. And we take a natural half forward (McEntee) and put him at corner back. Its just crazy stuff. If MOD did nothing else next year but pick the best fifteen and put them in their natural positions, it would be an improvement from this year.

anfearbeag (Meath) - Posts: 1134 - 26/10/2015 21:29:53    1802095

anfearbeag

Absolutely crazy stuff indeed!

Add to that by playing Tobin corner back

ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 26/10/2015 21:59:12    1802102

Eh we can add a lot more ziggy....mcmahon was played at cf, carroll placed at corner forward,mike Burke played at corner back, menton at full bak etc. Was at game yester n happened t stand beside a chap who plays intercontyl football in division one.(not gonna name bomb!) He was asking me few quest and simply wouldn'tbelieve that mmcentee was played in the backs for the county

royalperro (Meath) - Posts: 21 - 27/10/2015 08:19:23    1802106

Well done to Curragh and great for such a small club. Hard luck to Dunsany. anfearbeag - we do not have any natural centre back and the player you have mentioned is nowhere near a CB. Of course McEntee is a forward and not a defender. I would have thought Keoghan could perform there if he had wing backs who could defend (which he did not have). There is a huge gab in standard between playing in a junior final and a senior final which most of the posters appear not to realise. The best of luck to Curragh in Leinster.

browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 27/10/2015 10:07:29    1802128

Well done to the 'Haaaaa, a few sore heads about Swans today id say.......

Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3734 - 27/10/2015 15:43:43    1802347

Browncows- I don't disagree with you on Keoghan - I think he is a class act and could play anywhere in the backs. Against Wicklow this year he looked all at sea at centre half back - but that was no surprise considering he had Judge and Dalton on either side of him. Another big problem was (and still is) that we have no defensive plan. Every team in Ireland knows how to beat Meath - get the ball in your half back line and tear up through the middle with two or three players. No-one will track back with you, you can coast through midfield, and pass it around the centre-half back. There is not a centre-half back in Ireland now, or ever before, who could manage if there are two or three lads coming at him. The sad thing is that this has been going on for years in Meath, and we still haven't learned. It took Westmeath until half time before the copped on how to beat us. Once they did, we were all at sea.

But I still don't think that Keoghan should be at CHB. He is a really good corner back. By some distance the best corner back we have. So put him there and don't keep messing him about. Find another centre half back. Play two or three centre half backs if we have to. Make the back line solid and the forwards will manage.

You are possible right about Harnan. The old memory isn't what it should be, but I thought he did fairly well when he came on the scene initially as a half back. Did he not play at CHB in the Leinster final a couple of years ago and did ok?

anfearbeag (Meath) - Posts: 1134 - 27/10/2015 16:46:40    1802379

The curry haa for relagation nxt year,,very poor junior at the mo,, an only Bective left in it after that not a good team to be seen,, if we're all honest it's the truth

otherlad (Meath) - Posts: 137 - 28/10/2015 19:42:26    1802722

good performance by the Haa and should win Leinster. They have not played near to their potential (nerves probably). I also thing their neighbours will win the intermediate and could go further. Navan O M will be eaten alive.

pretender (Meath) - Posts: 358 - 30/10/2015 08:05:20    1803021

congratulations to both sides in the final for putting on a cracking game curraha shading it but overall deservedly great credit to dunsany to claw back that 7 point deficit they will be back

srgt_slaughter (Meath) - Posts: 462 - 30/10/2015 12:42:45    1803094

Dunsany must be sick of the sight of Curraha

seasiderblues (Meath) - Posts: 344 - 19/11/2015 08:59:30    1808371