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Ye i was up at that one and we could have won it that day. I still think this Meath team is not finished this year yet. I think we still have a big perfomance in us hopefully its today. Apart from Dublin and kerry i wouldnt fear anyone else
SheridansTry (Meath) - Posts: 180 - 08/07/2017 09:32:33 2012272 Link 0 |
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I am finding it hard to see how Meath win this game unless Donegal have gone backwards quite a bit. Regardless of what style of football both teams play,Personally I think Donegal have better players and more options available to them. They can play men behind the ball and yet if they want to use Murphy as a target man they have the option of putting high balls on top of the square and he can do damage. Likewise they have players who can run direct at our defense and we have been weak when teams do this to us. ROYALOPTIMIST (Meath) - Posts: 179 - 08/07/2017 09:48:13 2012276 Link 1 |
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On the basis of how weak this current Donegal team are I think we will win by 3 points. Donal Lenihan has to be more mobile in the forward line and be more active in winning his own ball as Donegal will not only employ a sweeper but will defend in numbers. We need to silence Michael Murphy (in the friendliest way possible!) and limit their scoring threat. Hopefully Mickey Newman will have an impact off the bench if needed. I read that this will be Meaths all ireland final I disagree I still believe we can go far just need to stay grounded and hope we don't pick up any injuries. Jimin10 (Meath) - Posts: 783 - 08/07/2017 10:47:09 2012288 Link 0 |
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Royaloptimist................from one of the more pessimistic persuasion i agree with you....We simply have not got the players. I reckon we have 7 or 8. ANDY,Mc, Mick o Dowd or anyone else cant work miracles. Club football in the county confirms that.. Yeh......Donegal....no great shakes either!,but th ey have better players than we have for sure. Still this is Meath we are talking about. Maybe some of the ould fighting spirit,belief, and determination will return, and we pull it off very much against the odds. An awful lot of HOPING . .The younger players untested like JONES, Conlon, etc. may alter things in our favour. Just cant see a win though. But it would be great to be proven wrong!
nobull456 (Meath) - Posts: 1223 - 08/07/2017 10:50:24 2012290 Link 0 |
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Just can't see us wining this to be honest. Going on our performances so far I would think Donegal will get at least 2 goals which will put us under serious pressure to get scores given their defensive set up. We haven't been able to find the net either and if we set up defensively the way we did against Sligo scores will be hard come by. Donegal are a long way down the road playing this way and at present are comfortable with it. Donegal by 4 hopefully I'm wrong. Royalace (Meath) - Posts: 121 - 08/07/2017 11:01:36 2012293 Link 0 |
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Agreed McBrearty is the danger man. Murphy has been given a role around midfield this year takes away from his threat in my opinion. Hope he stays out there today.
royalfollower (Meath) - Posts: 77 - 08/07/2017 11:05:51 2012295 Link 0 |
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"Apart from Dublin and Kerry. " are you having a laugh ? We are generally rated in the bottom 10 teams in the country ,so I cannot see where this bombshell has come from ! Even the back room boys would not be this optimistic ! We are struggling badly at present ,and I cannot see this changing this season anyway ,as no depth to our squad ,and very limited . Having said that I see no real options on the club scene that have not been tried at this point so I think it will take a few years for new talent to come through .
noluso (Meath) - Posts: 164 - 08/07/2017 12:00:03 2012307 Link 0 |
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Really looking forward to this game this evening. Should be an electric atmosphere. Both sets of supporters don't seem to know what to expect from their teams today. If anything the donegal supporters seem more negative about their chances today than us. I just hope meath have one big performance in them for today. Think it will go to the wire. Meath by 2 points in a battle. Let's get behind the team today lads no matter what. royalfollower (Meath) - Posts: 77 - 08/07/2017 12:23:17 2012317 Link 0 |
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Jones is out, I'd assume toher starts now redser123 (Meath) - Posts: 402 - 08/07/2017 14:59:04 2012350 Link 0 |
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not good news. toher was poor the last day and doesn't look great in midfield imo.
ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 08/07/2017 15:20:07 2012353 Link 3 |
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would be tempted to put conlon midfield.
ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 08/07/2017 15:21:04 2012354 Link 1 |
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Is that confirmed?
royalfollower (Meath) - Posts: 77 - 08/07/2017 15:32:06 2012359 Link 0 |
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Jones is defintly out, do not know the replacement, I'm only guessing toher
redser123 (Meath) - Posts: 402 - 08/07/2017 16:03:13 2012373 Link 0 |
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That's a big blow. Hope conlon starts ahead of toher as replacement
royalfollower (Meath) - Posts: 77 - 08/07/2017 16:29:16 2012378 Link 0 |
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In situ, dont think been this nervous before a game in long while. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 08/07/2017 17:18:06 2012390 Link 0 |
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In situ, dont think been this nervous before a game in long while. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 08/07/2017 17:18:59 2012391 Link 0 |
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Disappointed we didn't get the win today. Also gutted the season is over by July. At least Harry Rooney might be back next season. GlasgowRoyal (Meath) - Posts: 293 - 08/07/2017 19:43:25 2012454 Link 0 |
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Well done today did us proud. Very unlucky and a few dodgy frees the differance SheridansTry (Meath) - Posts: 180 - 08/07/2017 20:00:02 2012473 Link 0 |
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Hard luck to Meath, royaldunne. Thought ye might get a draw at the end. Just caught bits of the game on the Radio. Seemed to be very close all the way.
lilywhite1 (Kildare) - Posts: 2990 - 08/07/2017 20:14:22 2012486 Link 0 |
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We deserved extra time then if we were bet then fair enough numberedjerseys (USA) - Posts: 348 - 08/07/2017 20:18:39 2012488 Link 0 |