Just thought i'd start the ball rolling, Eoin Carroll has been appointed manager for the year. Heard he's been with these lads since under 15 and is well liked.
Does anyone who has been to club games or Meath underage games know of any good players who will be playing for the team?

12345678 (Meath) - Posts: 28 - 31/10/2013 13:49:14    1507770

Jack O Sullivan
Brian Harnan
Ronan McDonagh
Kyle Dixon
Charlie Bird
Daire Roe

These lads were all U17's in this year's squad & are eligable for next year!

Growtown (Meath) - Posts: 50 - 31/10/2013 16:00:36    1507837

Jordan mc Laughlin aswell to ad to that list.. Should be a strong team at least competing for leinster

flyer (Meath) - Posts: 815 - 31/10/2013 17:45:42    1507891

Ryan Montague, Evan Hendrick, Dan Ormsby, Corey Leddy, Boylan, Duffy Morley Davey Mcloughlin all good players to add to the strong names already mentioned. Carroll had them playign quick fast football all year so they should go far.

Footballonly (Meath) - Posts: 128 - 31/10/2013 18:39:01    1507905

You have Dan Ormsby, Gavin McGowan, Shane Cummiskey, Dylan Brady, Jonathen Lynch and a few U16's from last year like Podge McGowan and the two Ryan twins Ross and Ronan

BigJoe14 (Meath) - Posts: 934 - 31/10/2013 18:59:13    1507911

Last year's team was carried by the scoring capability of wallace and Rowe. I know it's early days but I believe next year's squad is much more balanced than last years

BreakingBall99 (Meath) - Posts: 4 - 31/10/2013 19:07:04    1507913

Darragh Kelly (Ratoath footballer) who played hurling for Meath Minors, then Dublin Minors, can he play for the Meath Minor Footballers?

Growtown (Meath) - Posts: 50 - 31/10/2013 19:15:52    1507920

id be shocked if he could play for the meath footballers it wouldn't make sense if he was able to, we sadly have lost a fair few very talented footballers to the dark side (Dublin) who would not only have had an impact on underage meath teams but even made an impact on senior teams in years to come, an awful shame

lildinger96 (Meath) - Posts: 18 - 31/10/2013 19:24:07    1507923

Keith McCabe midfield this year think he is underage again, Jack Reid Syddan, Harry Purcell Trim

glenny (Meath) - Posts: 1108 - 31/10/2013 19:38:01    1507936

Yes I was only being told about that a few weeks ago that this team could be helped a lot if those players hadn't transferred into Dublin.if I'm not mistaken I think there was 3 from ratoath alone ?which is a huge loss to them as they now struggle at this grade.i pressume the south meath clubs are affected mostly by this.highly unlikely he would be able to play for two different counties at the same time

meathforsam11 (Meath) - Posts: 92 - 31/10/2013 19:40:30    1507937

meathforsam11 has it only been ratoath people that have left or is this an occurring throughout the royal county?? would we even know if they still had the talent to play at county level? hopefully they wont be needed and the likes of Rowe Mcgowan Osullivan and harnan show any team that our young royals are ready to make a statement in the championship in minor and prove were getting back to being a force within the gaa again

lildinger96 (Meath) - Posts: 18 - 31/10/2013 19:58:45    1507944

meathforsam11 has it only been ratoath people that have left or is this an occurring throughout the royal county?? would we even know if they still had the talent to play at county level? hopefully they wont be needed and the likes of Rowe Mcgowan Osullivan and harnan show any team that our young royals are ready to make a statement in the championship in minor and prove were getting back to being a force within the gaa again

lildinger96 (Meath) - Posts: 18 - 31/10/2013 20:05:52    1507948

Andy McEntee has done a wonderful job over the last two years considering the short time he had to deal with, new squads, club fixture debacle, schools games etc. He worked tirelessly with a very good bunch of players, but when a team turns up for a big game, or not in our case, you just wonder are we pushing our guys too hard in too short a time. When you look at the Kildare's & Dublin's of today, they turn out young men with a physique that you cannot produce in one winter.
Now before anybody starts defending some great people that we have, I do recognise we have them, but they are not being listened to and the managers of the younger teams are not getting respect of some players, because those players have treated the managers like Caretaker managers, or fellows filling gaps until "The Meath Minor Manager" is put in place.

DonanDusted (Meath) - Posts: 14 - 31/10/2013 20:50:18    1507966

lildinger96 I just know about two lads who were on the ratoath college team that won an all ireland a couple of years ago while they were playing in with dublin clubs.Anybody have any more information on what they are doing now?

meathforsam11 (Meath) - Posts: 92 - 31/10/2013 20:51:02    1507968

They've drawn Wicklow in first round of championship also!

12345678 (Meath) - Posts: 28 - 01/11/2013 18:38:20    1508245

emm.... Eoin who.... he must be top class to oust McEntee who I hear had freshen up his backroom and had Gerry Cooney and Colm Coyle with him this year... good news for Oldcastle as Colm might stay now

noelpconnon (Cavan) - Posts: 209 - 02/11/2013 13:27:04    1508382

Any word on selectors?

JohnnyD85 (Meath) - Posts: 39 - 04/11/2013 20:05:16    1509243

Does anyone else think this is a strange development? Seems like Andy Mc Entee wanted to continue in the position.Talking to some people close to the set up the training and preparation over the past 2 years compared with anything other counties were doing in terms of strength and conditioning and coaching.Real progress seemed to be made and the team reached an All Ireland 2 years ago granted through the back door but still.If Colm Coyle was going to get involved this year as well surely the set up was going to be even stronger.Yet the powers that be have gone with a less experienced untried option.Something doesn't add up.

noneutrals (Dublin) - Posts: 316 - 05/11/2013 15:08:49    1509507

The management team was on the sports news on LMFM earlier. Tommy Dowd, Ciaran Shankey from Kilmainhamwood are selectors. There might be another one, I can't remember, while Mick O'Brien is an advisor to the management.

jackhackett (Meath) - Posts: 773 - 05/11/2013 20:40:49    1509668

Strange move . Andy was doing excellent job.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 05/11/2013 21:15:31    1509687