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Replying To grahamc9897:  "" We have to have good goalkeepers In Meath " ..Seriously that's your answer ! Do your homework before you call for a goalkeeper to be dropped !!"
I agree ! Paddy not up to scratch at this level in my opinion.

noluso (Meath) - Posts: 164 - 02/07/2017 14:13:56    2008916

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Replying To brownstownlad:  "Can you give examples of the moments McGill looked vulnerable?"
Replying To grahamc9897:  "Ratings...

1.O'Rourke (6) Few hairy moments...
2.Burke (8) great display
3.McGill (6) Looked Vunerable 
4.Power (5) lack of discipline 
5.Harnan (6) Did OK attacked well 
6.Keoghan (7) Solid as usual 
7.Mcentee (6) Not convinced 
8.Jones (6) pity he went off did OK 
9.Menton (6) Did OK 
10.O'Coilean (6) never reached heights of last week 
11.O'Sullivan (5) Bad day at the office 
12.Mcentee (6) did OK kicked opening score 
13.Reilly (7) did well showed leadership 
14.Tobin (6) score 0-3 but was poor at tikes 
15.Lenihan (6) Not his best day 

Conlan (7) played his way onto the team next week 
Toher (6) was meh..
Newman (6) a 6 because of short time on but he impressed and needed badly 
Tobin (6) Did OK"

Some strange accessments.

McGill a 6? imo he never looked vunerable. Pat Hughes only got hands on a few balls but did v little with them. McGill along with Micky Burke were best defenders yesterday.
Shane McEntee, your not convinced? Covered a lot of donkey work (and got forward for a point). So did Padriac Harnan, who was unlucky not to complete 70 mins. As was James McEntee, who again imo was far from fantastic, but 2 or 3 times as effective as James Toher and/or Sean Tobin. I know Tobin won play but his handling, decision making and creation of space was poor.
Donal Lenihan was quite poor and did well to see out 60 minutes. I'd have called him ashore much earlier.
Brian Conlon looked solid, (as was Bryan Menton without being spectacular) but sterner tests lie ahead for Conlon. Ronan Jones had started very well, until injury forced an early retirement.
Also a 7 is generous for Graham Reilly. If McGill was a 6 then Reilly is a 5 imo. Not consistent enough with his ball retention and overall play

Just my opinions.

David (Meath) - Posts: 567 - 02/07/2017 14:16:03    2008918

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Replying To meath1977:  "open your eyes when you are at games . six goals in three games. last year against Derry. West meath in 2015 . cavan in the league . don't tell in to do my homework I have not missed a meath match in 30 years. I don't live in meath I don't be at club games. we have and had major problems with the goal keepers position this last four years. Joe sub goal keeper dont make me laugh. if we don't have two good goal keepers in meath we may give up. if Andy is serious about this job he need to sort the goal keepers problem."
Your a great man for saying replace this with that but when push comes to shove your have no suggestions ! Do you not think if Andy thought there was better our there he would pick them !

grahamc9897 (Meath) - Posts: 1174 - 02/07/2017 14:18:38    2008922

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Replying To David:  "Replying To grahamc9897:  "Ratings...

1.O'Rourke (6) Few hairy moments...
2.Burke (8) great display
3.McGill (6) Looked Vunerable 
4.Power (5) lack of discipline 
5.Harnan (6) Did OK attacked well 
6.Keoghan (7) Solid as usual 
7.Mcentee (6) Not convinced 
8.Jones (6) pity he went off did OK 
9.Menton (6) Did OK 
10.O'Coilean (6) never reached heights of last week 
11.O'Sullivan (5) Bad day at the office 
12.Mcentee (6) did OK kicked opening score 
13.Reilly (7) did well showed leadership 
14.Tobin (6) score 0-3 but was poor at tikes 
15.Lenihan (6) Not his best day 

Conlan (7) played his way onto the team next week 
Toher (6) was meh..
Newman (6) a 6 because of short time on but he impressed and needed badly 
Tobin (6) Did OK"

Some strange accessments.

McGill a 6? imo he never looked vunerable. Pat Hughes only got hands on a few balls but did v little with them. McGill along with Micky Burke were best defenders yesterday.
Shane McEntee, your not convinced? Covered a lot of donkey work (and got forward for a point). So did Padriac Harnan, who was unlucky not to complete 70 mins. As was James McEntee, who again imo was far from fantastic, but 2 or 3 times as effective as James Toher and/or Sean Tobin. I know Tobin won play but his handling, decision making and creation of space was poor.
Donal Lenihan was quite poor and did well to see out 60 minutes. I'd have called him ashore much earlier.
Brian Conlon looked solid, (as was Bryan Menton without being spectacular) but sterner tests lie ahead for Conlon. Ronan Jones had started very well, until injury forced an early retirement.
Also a 7 is generous for Graham Reilly. If McGill was a 6 then Reilly is a 5 imo. Not consistent enough with his ball retention and overall play

Just my opinions."
You make a lot of good points here ! I may not be right in all of my ratings but I gave it a go !

grahamc9897 (Meath) - Posts: 1174 - 02/07/2017 14:24:15    2008927

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Replying To grahamc9897:  "Your a great man for saying replace this with that but when push comes to shove your have no suggestions ! Do you not think if Andy thought there was better our there he would pick them !"
I didn't say to drop him this year either.there is no debate aside from o rourke what we think of him Andy is saying there is no goal keepers good enough in meath so I have to bring Joe back who never played in goal up to this year and put him on sub goalie I say paddy o rourke is shaken in his boats of losing his place at the moment that's healthy all right. but of course you are right and everyone else is wrong

meath1977 (Meath) - Posts: 534 - 02/07/2017 14:29:22    2008929

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Replying To meath1977:  "I didn't say to drop him this year either.there is no debate aside from o rourke what we think of him Andy is saying there is no goal keepers good enough in meath so I have to bring Joe back who never played in goal up to this year and put him on sub goalie I say paddy o rourke is shaken in his boats of losing his place at the moment that's healthy all right. but of course you are right and everyone else is wrong"
Andy is the one picking the team not me or you ! The goalkeeping position is open for debate if there's a better goalie out there then great ! Let's call him up and get him between the sticks ! And I think having Joe there as sub goalkeeper is a mistake ! You are correct in saying he is not being pushed..Wheres hannigan gone ??

grahamc9897 (Meath) - Posts: 1174 - 02/07/2017 14:42:49    2008937

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After yesterday clare is the only team id give us a chance against .o shea would run straight threw our defence id say menton would be the only one who could stand up to him .donegal s style would be hard to break down we really struggle against that blanket.we are playing the blanket defence now and have to continue as kildare game showed we are not good enough to play open football so im hoping for clare we need games before we could take on the bigger teams on last 2 games no one will mind getting us cant deny that we are not playing well and havent really improved going forward yesterday we wer a mess double training session and half rashions players are just not good enough no point in wearing rose tinted glasses if sligo wer any good we would have been beaten mayo would beat us out the gate down the road over the fields and far away .everyone around me at the game had same thoughts and as one poster put it we wer that bad it was like a defeat no dought the dreams will go mad on here but the facts are the facts louth could have had 5 or 6 goals kildare hammered us and sligo should have won it at the death when paddy had one of his moments

matthematx (Meath) - Posts: 177 - 02/07/2017 14:43:41    2008938

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Replying To grahamc9897:  "Andy is the one picking the team not me or you ! The goalkeeping position is open for debate if there's a better goalie out there then great ! Let's call him up and get him between the sticks ! And I think having Joe there as sub goalkeeper is a mistake ! You are correct in saying he is not being pushed..Wheres hannigan gone ??"
dont know what I seen of the young lad he was good enough even haveing him as sub goalie would be giving him experience for next year

meath1977 (Meath) - Posts: 534 - 02/07/2017 14:50:33    2008943

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Replying To royaldunne:  "Graham lead by example, as he has done for 90% of the year.
But sure that wont stop the biggie bashers or those with agendas.
A steward at half time wanted to drop Reilly, menton and lenihane from team altogether, and fire Andy McEntee, why? Cause he hasnt enough omahoneys players on Team. And wait .. the best part, mod was treated badly. After I laughed in his face he just walked away. Oh and another one said keoghan should still be capt, I explained to him that Donal had asked not to be capt as he had studies, again he was oblivious to this, so how ignorant are people That are actively involved in Meath GAA? Is it any wonder we fell so far?
And when in match the screams from auld lads of let it in instead of passing back , they wanted bal let into lenihane on his own with 7sligo lads around him. I actually got annoyed and turned around to old guy and asked what use would that be?the answer was if he was a good forward he would catch it. Catch and kick. I am old enough to remember very clearly when that was style of play, however that was pre internet, Mobil phones etc. Move on."
"wanted bal let into lenihane on his own with 7sligo lads around him"

Please stop with the blatant untrue remarks.

It is hard to respect your opinion when you make statements like that

Royalio11 (Meath) - Posts: 757 - 02/07/2017 14:57:29    2008950

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Replying To David:  "Replying To grahamc9897:  "Ratings...

1.O'Rourke (6) Few hairy moments...
2.Burke (8) great display
3.McGill (6) Looked Vunerable 
4.Power (5) lack of discipline 
5.Harnan (6) Did OK attacked well 
6.Keoghan (7) Solid as usual 
7.Mcentee (6) Not convinced 
8.Jones (6) pity he went off did OK 
9.Menton (6) Did OK 
10.O'Coilean (6) never reached heights of last week 
11.O'Sullivan (5) Bad day at the office 
12.Mcentee (6) did OK kicked opening score 
13.Reilly (7) did well showed leadership 
14.Tobin (6) score 0-3 but was poor at tikes 
15.Lenihan (6) Not his best day 

Conlan (7) played his way onto the team next week 
Toher (6) was meh..
Newman (6) a 6 because of short time on but he impressed and needed badly 
Tobin (6) Did OK"

Some strange accessments.

McGill a 6? imo he never looked vunerable. Pat Hughes only got hands on a few balls but did v little with them. McGill along with Micky Burke were best defenders yesterday.
Shane McEntee, your not convinced? Covered a lot of donkey work (and got forward for a point). So did Padriac Harnan, who was unlucky not to complete 70 mins. As was James McEntee, who again imo was far from fantastic, but 2 or 3 times as effective as James Toher and/or Sean Tobin. I know Tobin won play but his handling, decision making and creation of space was poor.
Donal Lenihan was quite poor and did well to see out 60 minutes. I'd have called him ashore much earlier.
Brian Conlon looked solid, (as was Bryan Menton without being spectacular) but sterner tests lie ahead for Conlon. Ronan Jones had started very well, until injury forced an early retirement.
Also a 7 is generous for Graham Reilly. If McGill was a 6 then Reilly is a 5 imo. Not consistent enough with his ball retention and overall play

Just my opinions."
Lads I am not sure what game you were watching at ,Reilly a 7.

Its not that he is not 100% fit its he isnt a good a some people think he is.

he is good but he is very average....

Again Meath flatter to deceive

dnewlad (Meath) - Posts: 137 - 02/07/2017 15:28:57    2008969

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if we could get ourselves right for next week and have a good go and seeing how bad Cork are today and with group A playing the losers of today's game or roscommon and Galway we should be thinking of getting to quarter finals and given it a good go

meath1977 (Meath) - Posts: 534 - 02/07/2017 15:29:42    2008970

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Replying To Royalio11:  ""wanted bal let into lenihane on his own with 7sligo lads around him"

Please stop with the blatant untrue remarks.

It is hard to respect your opinion when you make statements like that"
Sorry I didn't mean literally, I was using poetic license, actually it was a typo as it should have read 17 Sligo lads. Perhaps you would have got then what I was saying. I didn't count how many Sligo players were around him, but there was just him with maybe if you want precisely id say 3.
Todays generation need everything explained in great detail, rather than getting the jist of what is the bigger picture.
Tell me what your view on people shouting to hoof ball into a well-marked one man? Honestly

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 02/07/2017 15:58:28    2008992

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Replying To royaldunne:  "I dont want to get into.this again. But the only way mod was treated badly was by ever been appointed. He had 4 years in that job and its probably fair enough to say he brought them.backwards on each consecutive year. Culminating in the lowest ever point in Meath football and loosing to Westmeath for first time in 130 years.
To say he was treated badly, and Andy McEntee should be fired for not havin more omahoneys lads on team. No one in their right mind could agree with his sentiments, he was purely putting his club ahead of county"
Yet again, you never answered a question put to you. And please just let the whole MOD thing go, everyone is sick and tired of you talking about him at this stage.

RoylerKing (Meath) - Posts: 809 - 02/07/2017 16:00:21    2008997

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Replying To matthematx:  "After yesterday clare is the only team id give us a chance against .o shea would run straight threw our defence id say menton would be the only one who could stand up to him .donegal s style would be hard to break down we really struggle against that blanket.we are playing the blanket defence now and have to continue as kildare game showed we are not good enough to play open football so im hoping for clare we need games before we could take on the bigger teams on last 2 games no one will mind getting us cant deny that we are not playing well and havent really improved going forward yesterday we wer a mess double training session and half rashions players are just not good enough no point in wearing rose tinted glasses if sligo wer any good we would have been beaten mayo would beat us out the gate down the road over the fields and far away .everyone around me at the game had same thoughts and as one poster put it we wer that bad it was like a defeat no dought the dreams will go mad on here but the facts are the facts louth could have had 5 or 6 goals kildare hammered us and sligo should have won it at the death when paddy had one of his moments"
How could Sligo have won at death?

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 02/07/2017 16:01:05    2008998

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Replying To meath1977:  "if we could get ourselves right for next week and have a good go and seeing how bad Cork are today and with group A playing the losers of today's game or roscommon and Galway we should be thinking of getting to quarter finals and given it a good go"
Absolutely. I think we will get to quarters. I actually want mayo in draw, underdogs' no matter where it will be, we struggle with mass defensive line, yesterday prime example, so avoid Donegal. Clare? Nah I want mayo .

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 02/07/2017 16:04:06    2009000

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Any word on Ronan Jones is he injured ?

bobkarlgees (Meath) - Posts: 1263 - 02/07/2017 16:09:33    2009005

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Replying To RoylerKing:  "Yet again, you never answered a question put to you. And please just let the whole MOD thing go, everyone is sick and tired of you talking about him at this stage."
Ok the steward hadn't a clue. And btw it was him who mentioned the worst manager of all time, (not just in Meath) not me. I answered it perfect. I didn't get offended as i laughed, it was hilariously inaccurate. Would you drop menton biggie lenihane and fire McEntee, answer that. Oh and if you want to go along the line of he was entitled to his opinion, absolutely. But then I am entitled to mine. So answer me this, why does my opinions bother you so much. While you pontificate that other peoples shouldn't bother me? Or I shouldn't give a counter argument?
Very boring world if we all thought the same.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander as they say.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 02/07/2017 16:19:58    2009009

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Replying To bobkarlgees:  "Any word on Ronan Jones is he injured ?"
no but tobin went off injured for blackhall today..

ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 02/07/2017 16:20:39    2009010

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Replying To royaldunne:  "Absolutely. I think we will get to quarters. I actually want mayo in draw, underdogs' no matter where it will be, we struggle with mass defensive line, yesterday prime example, so avoid Donegal. Clare? Nah I want mayo ."
if we get it in navan supporters needs to get behind the team t

meath1977 (Meath) - Posts: 534 - 02/07/2017 16:22:46    2009012

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Replying To grahamc9897:  "Who replaces him ?? Don't say The simonstown lad ,Andy has dropped him so he obviously doesn't rate him ,"
Joe lol.if not the young lad from simonstown as u say.Robbie his name.how bout the young lad in goals for the o mahonys juniors.

Kc77 (Meath) - Posts: 36 - 02/07/2017 16:22:56    2009013

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