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Replying To longroadback: "Fixtures have been sent to the clubs for round 2" Not true,no fixtures till all round one games are played mid-week thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 1047 - 11/04/2018 09:31:52 2092280 Link
Replying To thelutch: "Not true,no fixtures till all round one games are played mid-week" My club got our fixture anyway. Maybe your out of the loop... TakeYourPoints6 (Meath) - Posts: 230 - 11/04/2018 09:44:01 2092283 Link
Replying To TakeYourPoints6: "My club got our fixture anyway. Maybe your out of the loop..." wouldn't surprise me thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 1047 - 11/04/2018 09:49:13 2092284 Link
Replying To Brownepat: "East Meath am I reading you wrong I would say Na fIANNA and Summerhill are as about South Meath as possible Na Fianna purple patch days are gone for a few years and with Summerhill underage are not like they were a few years ago add in the loss of Richie Hatton who has retired and Brian Ennis transferred out will severely hamper their chances, they where two major players" South Meath of course. Toney (Meath) - Posts: 298 - 11/04/2018 11:17:27 2092307 Link
Replying To thelutch: "Not true,no fixtures till all round one games are played mid-week" true..... longroadback (Meath) - Posts: 324 - 11/04/2018 12:30:29 2092327 Link
Replying To TakeYourPoints6: "My club got our fixture anyway. Maybe your out of the loop..." got it at 12 noon thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 1047 - 11/04/2018 12:46:49 2092338 Link
Dunboyne juniors on at 5.30 in Dunsany and Seniors on at 7 in Trim, same day. Surely thats a mistake? Id say theres a good 10/12 players on both squads at the minute? One team is going to suffer. Also not very fair expecting fans to pay into both games, considering theyll probably be late for the senior game if they watch the junior. TakeYourPoints6 (Meath) - Posts: 230 - 11/04/2018 13:28:37 2092353 Link
Replying To TakeYourPoints6: "Dunboyne juniors on at 5.30 in Dunsany and Seniors on at 7 in Trim, same day. Surely thats a mistake? Id say theres a good 10/12 players on both squads at the minute? One team is going to suffer. Also not very fair expecting fans to pay into both games, considering theyll probably be late for the senior game if they watch the junior." Thats the whole idea. Split up Senior and Junior teams and milk the supporters for all they can. We are now in the minority of counties where there is no weekend pass available for people who like to attend multiple matches. Couple this with pedestrian lack lustre fare which is what we have in these 6 team groups and attendance levels will plummet. Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1467 - 11/04/2018 13:47:29 2092363 Link
Replying To Analyst: "Thats the whole idea. Split up Senior and Junior teams and milk the supporters for all they can. We are now in the minority of counties where there is no weekend pass available for people who like to attend multiple matches. Couple this with pedestrian lack lustre fare which is what we have in these 6 team groups and attendance levels will plummet." Fair enough milk the supporters, but do it on separate days. Very poor on players on management involved in both squads. TakeYourPoints6 (Meath) - Posts: 230 - 11/04/2018 14:11:04 2092377 Link
Replying To Aloblack: "Not involved in the club anymore but I go to all the games and it's hard to put ur finger on it but obviously just a mental fragility there. Re the blow ins I'll give u robbie Mccarthy and maybe our opinions differ on this but the lowdnes brothers no they didn't play underage for Dunboyne I accept that but all their family on their fathers side are Dunboyne thru and thru. The lads dad grew up and lived in Dunboyne until he moved up to blanch and the rest of the family still live here and have been supporters and regulars at the games for years so in my opinion they've plenty of Dunboyne in their blood to not be tagged as blow ins. That's only my opinion of course maybe I'm way off." Fair enough I did not know that about Lowndes. Still puzzles me that Dunboyne are not serial contenders/winners. I thought once David Geaney joined a few years back that would have made the difference. With him and Lenihan up front at the time they really should have a Keegan medal in the pocket. I know there's a lot of newer people in the parish, the town has grown a lot. Is there a them and us mentality with the newer members vs the traditional at all? On a separate note any idea why Lowndes never made it with Meath? The couple of times I saw him for Dunboyne he looked a class apart and as others have correctly observed lots of our county lads don't. Did he not fancy it? If I had to pick between him and Shane McEntee I know which one I'd choose, but that's on limited viewing. pauk123 (USA) - Posts: 189 - 11/04/2018 14:34:12 2092385 Link
Are you surprised Dunboyne Seniors and Juniors are on different places only 2 hours apart. I'm not it is happening to every club for the past number of years. It means the really loyal supporter will have to rush from one game to the other and pay twice as well. No thought for the lads who are togged out as subs for the Seniors and then have to dash to the other game to play. It's an absolute disgrace. Don't expect the county board to change things though. Just look at the County lads still forced to train with the county even though there's a clear directive from Croke Park that April is free for them to concentrate on club games. How can Clubs like Ratoath prepare for the Championship with half their team tied up with the county. The Tail is definitely wagging the Dog now. latouche25 (Meath) - Posts: 520 - 11/04/2018 15:29:34 2092401 Link
If that's true and Andy is still training away this month then that's nothing short of a disgrace and a total lack of respect for players and clubs RoylerKing (Meath) - Posts: 809 - 11/04/2018 15:58:13 2092410 Link
Replying To latouche25: "Are you surprised Dunboyne Seniors and Juniors are on different places only 2 hours apart. I'm not it is happening to every club for the past number of years. It means the really loyal supporter will have to rush from one game to the other and pay twice as well. No thought for the lads who are togged out as subs for the Seniors and then have to dash to the other game to play. It's an absolute disgrace. Don't expect the county board to change things though. Just look at the County lads still forced to train with the county even though there's a clear directive from Croke Park that April is free for them to concentrate on club games. How can Clubs like Ratoath prepare for the Championship with half their team tied up with the county. The Tail is definitely wagging the Dog now." Great post! Royalblufill (Meath) - Posts: 473 - 11/04/2018 16:18:22 2092417 Link
Very poor fixture planning from the CB for Dunboyne players and supporters. How couldn't they fix Blackhall vs Don/Ash for Trim. Walterstown vs Trim for Simonstown and Simonstown vs Dunboyne for Dunshaughlin. Then bring the Dunboyne junior game forward to 5pm. Leaving the players on both panels and supporters a 10 minute drive from Dunsany to Dunshaughlin. But having experience of trying to deal with fixtures with the CB their answer will more than likely be, "don't tell me how to do our jobs!" Jackpauric30 (Meath) - Posts: 19 - 11/04/2018 16:45:15 2092426 Link
Replying To latouche25: "Are you surprised Dunboyne Seniors and Juniors are on different places only 2 hours apart. I'm not it is happening to every club for the past number of years. It means the really loyal supporter will have to rush from one game to the other and pay twice as well. No thought for the lads who are togged out as subs for the Seniors and then have to dash to the other game to play. It's an absolute disgrace. Don't expect the county board to change things though. Just look at the County lads still forced to train with the county even though there's a clear directive from Croke Park that April is free for them to concentrate on club games. How can Clubs like Ratoath prepare for the Championship with half their team tied up with the county. The Tail is definitely wagging the Dog now." Oh it's certainly not just a dunboyne issue that's for sure but I don't think I've ever come across this before. Where the 2nd team playing and 5.30 and the 1st team playing 15 kilometers away at 7. How is that even possible. For the lads who play the 2nd team and would be on the bench for the 1st team by the time their game is over it'll be 6.50 at the earliest and their expected to get to trim from dunsany for a 7pm start??? What I see happening is the senior management won't be willing to start the game with no subs so they'll just bring their full panel to their game therfore there could be 4 or 5 lads who will miss out on playing football that weekend because of this decision by the county board. Aloblack (Meath) - Posts: 265 - 11/04/2018 18:04:04 2092441 Link
Replying To pauk123: "Fair enough I did not know that about Lowndes. Still puzzles me that Dunboyne are not serial contenders/winners. I thought once David Geaney joined a few years back that would have made the difference. With him and Lenihan up front at the time they really should have a Keegan medal in the pocket. I know there's a lot of newer people in the parish, the town has grown a lot. Is there a them and us mentality with the newer members vs the traditional at all? On a separate note any idea why Lowndes never made it with Meath? The couple of times I saw him for Dunboyne he looked a class apart and as others have correctly observed lots of our county lads don't. Did he not fancy it? If I had to pick between him and Shane McEntee I know which one I'd choose, but that's on limited viewing." He got injured pretty much straight away when he went in and missed most of the pre season with them and then was kinda playing catch up and picked up a few more niggles so was always behind. I wasn't at the game at the weekend but my brother tells me it was his best game since he broke his jaw v rataoth 2 years ago so hopefully he's starting to find the kinda form that got him noticed in the 1st place Aloblack (Meath) - Posts: 265 - 11/04/2018 18:07:45 2092443 Link
Replying To Jackpauric30: "Very poor fixture planning from the CB for Dunboyne players and supporters. How couldn't they fix Blackhall vs Don/Ash for Trim. Walterstown vs Trim for Simonstown and Simonstown vs Dunboyne for Dunshaughlin. Then bring the Dunboyne junior game forward to 5pm. Leaving the players on both panels and supporters a 10 minute drive from Dunsany to Dunshaughlin. But having experience of trying to deal with fixtures with the CB their answer will more than likely be, "don't tell me how to do our jobs!"" Has to be a mis print Junior game must be in Trim before Senior game, makes no sense to put 2 games into a wet Dunsany pitch Brownepat (Meath) - Posts: 532 - 11/04/2018 20:07:30 2092464 Link
No mis print. Just look at all the football games being brought to Kildalkey. Totally out of the way. Not even a football club. Yet all the good football grounds in the county that never get a match. latouche25 (Meath) - Posts: 520 - 11/04/2018 20:42:32 2092469 Link
Replying To RoylerKing: "If that's true and Andy is still training away this month then that's nothing short of a disgrace and a total lack of respect for players and clubs" This is apparently true, but don't criticise cos if we didn't keep this level of commitment we would just be a poor div 2 side who struggle to stay in that division and we would not be the threat to Dublin that we currently are Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1467 - 11/04/2018 20:42:54 2092470 Link
Is it not the case that senior teams are allowed to train with county management? As I know a couple of counties are certainly still training, the ban is only for games or am I wrong? royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 11/04/2018 21:09:08 2092475 Link