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We are no longer in position to expect to beat teams just by turning up, this applies to our senior team as well, hopefully we are heading in right direction. Was not at game on Wednesday night but events seemed to conspire aganist us; missing so many players, sending off, conceeding soft goal ect. All the plans in training go out the window on a night like that. Dont agree with the idea of lack of mental strength.
seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2136 - 24/02/2017 20:23:49 1960331 Link 9 |
I was at it, tbh you are right. Nothing you can do on training ground to compensate for what went on. And I am not been disrespectful of Wm, however not many from county expected them to.win. nothing to do with having a superior complex, just wm u21 are poor this year. That's why it was a shock.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 24/02/2017 21:00:31 1960332 Link 0 |
Wm won the game -usually the better team wins the match and silly mistakes can be the difference between winning and losing. Going forward good players will learn by their mistakes and reduce the number off same. Excuses win very little and sometimes the margin of victory is so small that gthe losing team may produce better players going into senior. Now the u21's are at least as good as the teams that went out other years. The county has won 1 AI u21 since its inception and about 4 of that team ended up being good senior inter county players winning 2 Al's. Not many players from minor and U21 county teams end up as very good club players and fewer as good inter county players. There are exceptions Kerry in the 70's being one and the present Dublin team being another. Two AI's were won in the 80's and as far as I know few had Leinster u21 or minor victories. Sometimes one can over analyse. The best of luck to all the players involved going forward and hard luck on the night. Someone posted about the competition not being important, or being of little value and I just wonder has he ever played in such a competition. Player like to play in competitions and there is something special about underage competitions. browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 25/02/2017 09:44:01 1960379 Link 9 |
dublin hammered westmeath tonight.. ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 01/03/2017 21:03:52 1962642 Link 0 |
As expected,
Meathmen (Meath) - Posts: 73 - 01/03/2017 21:57:17 1962656 Link 0 |
No surprise there. This panel for Westmeath is probably weakest in over a decade. The only shock in wm gaa circles was winning v us.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 01/03/2017 22:03:58 1962660 Link 0 |
Wouldn't say it was a massive shock considering meaths form in all levels in Leinster over the past few years jackser (Meath) - Posts: 37 - 02/03/2017 06:36:00 1962692 Link 0 |
which makes losing to them all the more worse. yes we have a lot of excuses on the night but we should be putting them away like Dublin did.
Meathmen (Meath) - Posts: 73 - 02/03/2017 07:34:39 1962695 Link 0 |
When I saw the championship panel I knew they'd loose to wm. Just to many of last year's minor not that these players aren't good footballers just mentally and physically not ready for inter county 21s. With a management team full of ex county players surely they knew that. That leads me to believe they where planning for next year. If not it would worry me about management. While some posters will blame injuries for squad plenty of 21 lads didn't make panel who weren't injured. username.if (Meath) - Posts: 67 - 02/03/2017 10:35:14 1962726 Link 0 |
yeah thats the point.
ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 02/03/2017 12:38:31 1962771 Link 0 |
All , Kildare won the Leinster Minor in 2013 & 2015 , Longford dealt with them last night in Newbridge, that was no mean feat . Meath_True (Meath) - Posts: 285 - 02/03/2017 16:34:08 1962878 Link 0 |
We do seem to have an obsession in meath that you have to have been a great county player to be involved in management. I would not agree with that but neither would I be blaming management for U21 this year. A keeper blunder and a moment of indiscipline cost us dearly
Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1467 - 03/03/2017 13:38:35 1963164 Link 9 |
Not sure where you get the idea that Meath have an obsession with ex county players being in management positions. Look at some of our most recent senior managers. Andy McEntee- decent club footballer - not a county man. Mick O'Dowd - good club footballer, on the fringes of the Meath senior team, but never a regukar county player. Seamus McEnaney - obviously never playeed for Meath. Eamon O'Brien - his career was before my time, but I'm not sure that he was a Meath regular. Eamon Barry - a county player all right, but not exactly a household name as a footballer - left the Meath panel before the glory years. Sean Boylan - a county hurler. So in fact the only regular county players that have managed the Meath seniors are Colm Coyle, and Eamon Barry - thats hardly an obsession. I don't have a good enough memory to go through the underage managers, but considering that I can immediately remember Andy McEntee, Sean Barry, Dudley Farrell, Paddy Carr all being in charge of Meath underage teams, I'm not sure that this "obsession" applies to underage teams either. anfearbeag (Meath) - Posts: 1134 - 03/03/2017 15:38:40 1963214 Link 9 |
Point taken but if you go through posts on this forum it's always ex county men that are touted to do the job. Remember that involved with those mangers you named were trevor giles, brendan murphy, Graham Geraghty, cormac sullivan, donal Curtis, Gerry mc entee, finian murtagh,Tommy dowd, Colm coyle, liam harnan , sean kelly and probably a few more I can't think of. The point was that just because we had 3 ex inter County players on the line with 21's, that to me doesn't really make a difference whether the played for meath or not. Once they are doing their best without bias to clubs or relatives then I am satisfied
Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1467 - 04/03/2017 09:57:48 1963407 Link 9 |
If you look through posts on this forum, you will see an awful lot of nonsense - I wouldn't pay too much heed to that! Whatever anyone might like to say about the u-21 set up this year, one thing they cannot be accused of is of favouring their own clubs, or even the bigger clubs. They picked based on what they saw as their best team. Whether that was in fact the best team or not, is of course open to debate, the same as with every other team ever picked. But they certainly couldn't be accused of favouritism or bias. anfearbeag (Meath) - Posts: 1134 - 05/03/2017 09:42:08 1963745 Link 9 |
Just to clarify I fully agree with you on that, when Callaghan was in charge of minors he had good players from lots of small junior clubs involved and the spirit and fight in that team was excellent. There are and have been others in charge of sides whose bias was blatant
Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1467 - 05/03/2017 12:54:50 1963797 Link 9 |
Anybody know why the minor team thread has been shut down ? LeitrimRoyal99 (Meath) - Posts: 1454 - 11/03/2017 20:04:30 1966222 Link 7 |
odd alright! not sure why it would be?
ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 11/03/2017 21:09:26 1966238 Link 0 |
Meath minor thread not removed ,it just moved out of the top 6 because there were no posts in a week. trappatoni (Meath) - Posts: 19 - 11/03/2017 21:32:47 1966249 Link 0 |
No it has definitely been closed. No further posting allowed. No idea why - I have read through it again and there did not seem to be anything objectionable on it.
anfearbeag (Meath) - Posts: 1134 - 11/03/2017 22:28:31 1966266 Link 8 |