Anyone read Martin McHugh's piece in the programme? In it he states that Sligo came agonisingly close to what probably been a match winning goal in the dying stages? Was the difference not 3 points at that stage? I wonder was Martin basing his piece on highlights from The Sunday Game?

oldsam_newsam (Meath) - Posts: 638 - 09/07/2017 11:00:47    2012850

bobjaffacake (Meath) - Posts: 1400 - 09/07/2017 11:26:19    2012860

nobull456 (Meath) - Posts: 1224 - 09/07/2017 12:06:04    2012882

Great second half and went down fighting against an average donegal team with 2 or 3 players that are better than any of ours....i will judge andy mc in 2019,he has a big job on his hands along with many other managers around the country.The day of GAA being a religion in counties is slowly dying away.I still believe their is a few better footballers in the county who just wont commit and can you blame them ? Croke park doing nothing for the lads with the exception of one county.As for the club players ?? they are been treated like dirt by our organisation in head quarters and by county boards.

thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 1047 - 09/07/2017 12:34:56    2012891

look we need to keep our best prospects and keept his team together. add the likes of newman(didn't really have this year),forde and rooney to that and the panel starts to look strong. forwards like rowe and conlon may be brought in too. andy will now have a better idea of what he wants,and now he has system to work on from an early stage in 2018. as a unit we should get better at the system the more we use it too.

ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 09/07/2017 12:37:20    2012892

oldsam_newsam (Meath) - Posts: 638 - 09/07/2017 12:54:44    2012903

Well that's the year over and done with. Disappointed the with the result yesterday we could have snatched a draw although Donegal were by far the better team.
On the game itself all the players stood up yesterday but I thought the losing of the game came from management. Donegal's management had a player to shadow Reilly everywhere he went and they man marked Lenihan out of the game. We didn't have someone to do that man marking job on McBeraty (Not many counties do) nor did management assign a player to shadow Murphy or McHugh. Donegal had three main go to guys yesterday and we let all three of them have the freedom of PT.

UsernameInvalid (Meath) - Posts: 355 - 09/07/2017 13:23:04    2012918

Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1467 - 09/07/2017 13:23:58    2012920

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 09/07/2017 13:25:07    2012922

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 09/07/2017 13:28:25    2012924

Few silly mistakes and a bit of naivety ultimately cost us but I find it very hard to fault our men. Gave it everything for the 70 mins. Someone mentioned that when we were 0-11 to 0-09 up we could've pushed on but instead Donegal hit 3 on the bounce. Murphy had a poor day from dead balls which kept us alive at times while McGill's block was nothing short of heroic. We hit a few wides very early on which could've changed the final outcome. Don't think there was more than a score between the sides throughout the game. We had 2 other sniffs at goal. A handpass from Keogan (I think) failed to stick and when Menton put us in front late on he really should've slipped Newman in on goal. But look, these are all ifs, buts and maybes.

Question. Why was Donnacha Tobin standing on the sideline for so long waiting to come on? Must've been there at least 5 mins and there were plenty of stoppages in play during that time. Can feel hard done by. Poor against Kildare but I've said on many occasions that he's a half back not a corner back.

All in all, we have improved certain aspects of our game but just aren't getting the results. This will hopefully come in time. Still a few passengers on the panel but with Rooney and Forde to return along with one or two from the juniors and development squads we should continue to build. Also I hope lads who were unable to make the commitment this year can give the time in 2018.

MarkMyWords (Meath) - Posts: 498 - 09/07/2017 13:47:39    2012932

Rome wasn't built in a day. It was great to see the fighting spirit in the team yesterday. At least we didn't go out with a whimper.

atta (Meath) - Posts: 698 - 09/07/2017 13:57:23    2012938

Brownepat (Meath) - Posts: 532 - 09/07/2017 14:41:06    2012967

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 09/07/2017 15:19:13    2012996

Meath were very unlucky yesterday as a bit of inexperience and a few mistakes cost us, but we should great battling qualities and with Rooney and Forde to come back and if we can unearth one or two more we have a makings of a seriously good team, but some players need to look themselves. We need a keeper with more asssurances with kickouts and handling of the ball. G. Reilly needs to live up to his potential, disappointed with COS but I think he needs relax more as he seems to trying to hard and making errors which cause to get frustrated and evidence of this was with Black card. I do think the signs are bright and with a league campaign next go to Division One and build it from there.

Foreveraroyal (Meath) - Posts: 34 - 09/07/2017 15:24:49    2013003

Sounded like a great game, hard luck to ye, but I think Meath football is on the way back. Go on now and get promoted next year. That has to be ye goal

joeblogs10 (Dublin) - Posts: 104 - 09/07/2017 16:57:14    2013127

meath1977 (Meath) - Posts: 534 - 09/07/2017 17:51:38    2013186

so it wasn't just me. andy far from impressed with the ref and what he let murphy away with..

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ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 09/07/2017 18:14:54    2013213

This was a game I honestly feel we left behind and if we had won I feel it would have brought our lads on a tonne and we would be looking at a game against Galway for a quarter final spot. Another game or two in this championship would have made all the difference but as it is I saw enough last night to make me feel proud of those players as I left Navan and confident that we have a team in the making. McGill, Power, Mention, Conlon, O'Coileann and Burke were the stand out players for me, but the team on the whole put their collective shoulders to the wheel in a big way, yes one or two underperformed but we found other avenues of success and other players stood up last night and showed what it means to them to wear a Meath jersey and what desire they have to succeed. As for the referee well I referred to him in some unsavoury language my opinion hasn't changed today and whilst our mantra has always been never to whinge it's getting to the point that you wonder is there an agenda against the county as some refereeing performances in our games have been poor in my own opinion. Anyway on with the club championship and here's to January and the O'Byrne Cup, cold damp nights in Pairc Tailteann harden the soul for the summer days, sure what else would we be at:-)

Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3734 - 09/07/2017 18:51:42    2013258

bert09 (Meath) - Posts: 1790 - 09/07/2017 19:01:03    2013264