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Replying To Jinxie: "Last kick. Ref blew up as kickout was taken. All our own doing after getting in front we went ultra defensive with 10 to goal and led them on to us." better to happen now,hopefully we learn from that. ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 07/05/2017 20:30:58 1985040 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Good to hear you had a nice evening. Pity I couldn't make it. No Reilly for 2 games running? Injured? Hopefully not" Reilly out for a few weeks, had to get some stitches after Mayo game seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2142 - 07/05/2017 20:44:51 1985042 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Good to hear you had a nice evening. Pity I couldn't make it. No Reilly for 2 games running? Injured? Hopefully not" biggy is injured,hurt his knee after a bad fall,but apparently he will be ok in a week or 2. rest might actually do him good! ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 07/05/2017 20:46:49 1985043 Link
Replying To LeitrimRoyal99: "Newman on the frees but missed a handy one, was taken off at half time. Lenihan scored 1-5 I think. Menton very good, Jones pretty good. Keoghan, Tobin and McGill good. O'Coilean off the bench. Can't figure out how we lost tbh" Lenihan 1-5 from play? TakeYourPoints6 (Meath) - Posts: 230 - 07/05/2017 20:58:28 1985046 Link
RD, I think I saw your golden boy having a kick about at half time. I was sitting down in the sun so couldn't see much. http://www.hoganstand.com/Meath/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=269824 Jones looks like a good option for centrefield. Meath did better when they pushed up on Cavan's kickouts rather than dropping deep and making it easy for them to build from the back. Some poor shooting second half cost them victory. Also, they had an easy enough chance to level the scores in the first half, but took a quick free instead, lost possession and Cavan counter attacked and got their second goal. GlasagusOr (Meath) - Posts: 1348 - 07/05/2017 21:03:48 1985048 Link
Replying To TakeYourPoints6: "Lenihan 1-5 from play?" no, 3 frees I think LeitrimRoyal99 (Meath) - Posts: 1458 - 07/05/2017 21:15:02 1985050 Link
Replying To LeitrimRoyal99: "no, 3 frees I think" did brian conlon come on? ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 07/05/2017 21:18:24 1985051 Link
Replying To ziggy32001: "did brian conlon come on?" yeah but only with about 15 left, didn't really make any impact but hard to judge in 15 mins. O'Reilly came on at half time, kicked a few wides and was beaten to the ball by his man a few times. Didn't have a good day LeitrimRoyal99 (Meath) - Posts: 1458 - 07/05/2017 21:44:44 1985065 Link
I know its only a challenge but we had probably our 6 backs that will start next month and they shipped 3 goals against cavan. Not looking good SheridansTry (Meath) - Posts: 180 - 07/05/2017 21:50:40 1985066 Link
Jones impressed again today. Getting more from Menton too when he plays alongside him. Championship pairing sorted. Full back line is fairly settled. Still have an issue with the half back line. Newman was rusty and overcomplicated things at times. O'Reilly won his fair share of ball but just had an off day with the shooting boots. O'Sullivan takes too many risks which we ultimately get punished for when we lose possession. Lenihan really stepping up this year. Wallace still not back to his best. But again, the most encouraging thing for me is the emergence of Jones. Conlon could also have a big part to play this year. After starting badly and just about keeping in the game in the first half, I felt we took control in the second and should've put the game well beyond Cavan's reach. Butchered several goal and point scoring opportunities. Nothing new there. Literally a smash and grab from Cavan with the goal at the end but maybe it'll do us no harm. Need to kill these teams when we get ahead. Even though it was a challenge match I'd imagine everyone will be disappointed but will hopefully learn from this. Wouldn't be too despondent at all. Good summer in prospect MarkMyWords (Meath) - Posts: 498 - 07/05/2017 22:43:11 1985076 Link
Replying To LeitrimRoyal99: "yeah but only with about 15 left, didn't really make any impact but hard to judge in 15 mins. O'Reilly came on at half time, kicked a few wides and was beaten to the ball by his man a few times. Didn't have a good day" prob too early for o'reilly. how did mcmahon do? ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 08/05/2017 07:57:53 1985095 Link
Replying To MarkMyWords: "Jones impressed again today. Getting more from Menton too when he plays alongside him. Championship pairing sorted. Full back line is fairly settled. Still have an issue with the half back line. Newman was rusty and overcomplicated things at times. O'Reilly won his fair share of ball but just had an off day with the shooting boots. O'Sullivan takes too many risks which we ultimately get punished for when we lose possession. Lenihan really stepping up this year. Wallace still not back to his best. But again, the most encouraging thing for me is the emergence of Jones. Conlon could also have a big part to play this year. After starting badly and just about keeping in the game in the first half, I felt we took control in the second and should've put the game well beyond Cavan's reach. Butchered several goal and point scoring opportunities. Nothing new there. Literally a smash and grab from Cavan with the goal at the end but maybe it'll do us no harm. Need to kill these teams when we get ahead. Even though it was a challenge match I'd imagine everyone will be disappointed but will hopefully learn from this. Wouldn't be too despondent at all. Good summer in prospect" remember cavan are not a bad team either. beat mayo in mayo and drew with kerry in the league. what impressed you about jones? ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 08/05/2017 08:00:06 1985096 Link
Graham Reilly is out with fairly bad injury to knee after foul on him playing for Colmcilles. I believe he will be lucky to be ready to go for the Championship. Loyalroyal17 (Meath) - Posts: 627 - 08/05/2017 08:34:51 1985107 Link
Replying To Loyalroyal17: "Graham Reilly is out with fairly bad injury to knee after foul on him playing for Colmcilles. I believe he will be lucky to be ready to go for the Championship." http://www.hoganstand.com/Meath/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=269824 Check your facts or sources when the above article is on the front page brian (Meath) - Posts: 1954 - 08/05/2017 08:51:06 1985112 Link
Replying To Loyalroyal17: "Graham Reilly is out with fairly bad injury to knee after foul on him playing for Colmcilles. I believe he will be lucky to be ready to go for the Championship." no he hurt it against mayo and has not been playing for club.. http://www.hoganstand.com/Meath/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=269824 ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 08/05/2017 09:01:55 1985116 Link
Very hard to read too much into challenges, always a difficult thing to do, if memory serves me right we were beat by limerick in 96 comprehensively before winning all ire, also last year we beat Donegal by 16 points or something like that. Its all about keeping fitness levels up, and players getting use to each other. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 08/05/2017 09:17:14 1985124 Link
meath/louth v kildare/ laois clash on a Saturday evening and not televised.....very unusual. Am I misinformed or does anybody have any info?? southmeathgael (Meath) - Posts: 887 - 08/05/2017 14:06:31 1985199 Link
Replying To southmeathgael: "meath/louth v kildare/ laois clash on a Saturday evening and not televised.....very unusual. Am I misinformed or does anybody have any info??" odd especially if it ends up been meath/kildare. ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 08/05/2017 15:44:09 1985227 Link
Replying To southmeathgael: "meath/louth v kildare/ laois clash on a Saturday evening and not televised.....very unusual. Am I misinformed or does anybody have any info??" It will be on sat. I would say sky will televise it though. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 08/05/2017 15:48:28 1985228 Link
Replying To ziggy32001: "remember cavan are not a bad team either. beat mayo in mayo and drew with kerry in the league. what impressed you about jones?" Yep, and a lot of the smaller issues will hopefully be ironed out over the next few weeks. Didn't think we were too bad at all but as I said, very frustrating that we didn't put it to bed. Jones was involved a bit last year but he didn't get a proper run at it. For his age, 19/20 I think, he's extremely well built physically so isn't lacking in that dept. He's very mobile and can play ball. Made several surges through the middle in both challenge games and clocked up a few scores. Seems a clever lad too, finds himself in the right places to mop up ball which can sometimes go unnoticed. Early days of course and it's the first I've really seen of him but hopefully he'll continue to grow into the role MarkMyWords (Meath) - Posts: 498 - 08/05/2017 21:30:55 1985317 Link