Honestly need about 4 players on last year.. would like to see new blood once the Under 21 season is over and they are released - but the heel of the hunt is we will always be there or there abouts like yourselves, Mayo and Tyrone.. Cork could rattle this year but Tyrone will be one to watch in the long grass

Horsebox77 (Kerry) - Posts: 5491 - 13/01/2016 21:06:07    1816453

Expectations are at a all time low in Meath so can't really say, look to beat Louth next week and a sot at dubs in O'Byrne is about as far as we can look at minute. One game at a time and pray that mod has finally learned is best we can hope for.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts:8428 - 10/01/2016 20:59:12 181

well according to HS, Meath are one of the five teams to watch in 2016 (along with Armagh,Roscommon,Cavan and Tipperary)

personally, I think Down and Fermanagh will be the teams to watch in Ulster this year.

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 14/01/2016 10:02:03    1816495

I expect Kerry to win the All ireland!
We will be there or thereabouts again but so will Dublin, Tyrone,Donegal, and Mayo. Plenty of other teams such as Cork and Monaghan will be there too and well able to beat any of the top teams but prob lack the consistency to beat 3 of them from 1/4 final to the final in a row.

As I said I expect (well more hope) Kerry to win the AI, but it is a big year for Fitzmaurice. In my opinion and many people I have talked to, he badly let himself down with his performance on the sideline in the final.
Galvin should never have come on, Moran was injured, perfect replacement in Sheehan to start instead. Left Gooch get the run around by Phily McMahon.
So Fitzmaurice has a lot to do to re earn the trust as a lot of the Kerry media were heralding him as the best Kerry manager since Micko which was foolish to say the least.

woops (Kerry) - Posts: 2073 - 14/01/2016 10:24:21    1816504

Your right whoops, but sure its a learning curve for young managers too: Gavin looked pretty hapless when McGuinness outfoxed him in 2014.

I also think Galvin has become the fall guy for the All Ireland, which is very unfair. If you can bear to watch it back from when he came on, he actually played some excellent balls into Star which were causing havoc in the Dublin full back line, but we just couldn't convert the chances.

My biggest problem with Fitzmaurice was not starting Donaghy, he was the captain, he was playing well, the conditions suited him. Moreover than that, he should have been given the honour of leading his men out on All Ireland final day, he deserved that. I think a lot of people were upset down here about it. A bad call tactically and symbolically.

Look this is Kerry: you win or you're gone. Fitzmaurice earned a lot of plaudits for what he managed in his first two years, but 2014 is forgotten now after last year and if we don't win Sam back he will be gone.

He knows it and we know it.

That's just comes with the white heat of being in the Kerry hotseat

TheHermit (Kerry) - Posts: 6354 - 14/01/2016 11:04:03    1816524

I think you named the semi finalists there more than likely.
Cork tree only threat but 2nd bite at cherry will always favour the strongest teams even if they do Munster.

SLLY (Dublin) - Posts: 463 - 14/01/2016 11:27:21    1816543

I agree with you Hermit Donaghy should have started and indeed Galvin did put in some great balls to Donaghy in fact if both started could have been different result entirely.

panamasam (Australia) - Posts: 2782 - 14/01/2016 11:39:57    1816546

so someone has stuck their neck out here and declared that the 4 semi-finalists will be Dublin,Kerry,tyrone and Mayo..

I think you will see a new champion in Ulster this year. (not Donegal,Monaghan or Tyrone)

s goldrick (Cavan) - Posts: 5518 - 14/01/2016 11:56:17    1816559

Win Ulster would be a start which I think we will. We looked tired last year after a dirty run through Ulster .

I don't think Donegal are finished whatsoever . We would beat Tyrone if we played them in an Ulster final .

TheRightStuff (Donegal) - Posts: 1688 - 14/01/2016 15:55:45    1816650

Picking Dublin, Mayo & Kerry as provincial winners is not going to win anyone a fortune at the bookies.

Picking a winner from Ulster is a different matter with Donegal, Tyrone & Monaghan sharing equal claims for the favourites tag & most of the other counties capable of making life very difficult.

Truth be told, I think that an early exit for one of the favourites would give them a better chance of a good run at Sam, as Tyrone showed last year, but for my own part an Ulster title will always be a good summer's work.

MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 14/01/2016 16:11:26    1816658