I see on the main page that Kildare have named an U23 side to represent them in the Junior championship against Meath tomorrow night.

Has anything heard anything in relation to the Meath team? Will Micko let some of the fringe players get a run out??

Irish_downunder (Meath) - Posts: 630 - 17/05/2016 13:17:17    1855627

The names I've heard are Carroll, O'Connor and Quinn from Ballinabrackey, McGowan and McGill from Ratoath, Flood, Alan Farrell, Paddy Gilsenan from the North Meath area and last year's panelists in the form of Lynch, Ross, Brennan etc. No mention of any Meath seniors...

Meathmaster (Meath) - Posts: 251 - 17/05/2016 13:41:39    1855638

From county board website http://meath.gaa.ie/county-teams/junior-football/

Cian Farnan, St. Ultan's
Jamie Reilly, St. Michael's
Ciaran McConnell, Bective
Michael Flood, St. Brigid's
Kevin Traynor, Syddan
Chris O'Connor, Ballinabrackey (Capt.)
Aaron Newman, Dunderry
Eoin Marsh, Dunsany
Ben Brennan, St. Colmcille's
Paddy Gilsenan, Oldcastle
Damien Carroll, Ballinabrackey
Danny Quinn, Ballinabrackey
Kevin Ross, Castletown
Ciaran Lynch, St. Michael's
Dáire Rowe, Syddan

hurlingroyals (Meath) - Posts: 45 - 17/05/2016 13:59:10    1855644

not a bad team with a bit of experience in there..

ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 17/05/2016 14:09:24    1855649

i am not too sure the Meath CB take this as seriously as they should. When Meath seniors where flying there was always a knock on effect with good junior teams coming on the back of it. Just my opinion bit we need to figure out what we are going to do here, ala Kildare, its a good idea

pretender (Meath) - Posts: 358 - 17/05/2016 14:16:49    1855655

no one from Curragha or Ratoath??
thought they would back bone the team??

brian (Meath) - Posts: 1954 - 17/05/2016 14:46:33    1855670

Not a bad looking team but not one player from winning Leinster teams Curraha and Ratoath is very strange. Very north meath orientated

d1andonly (Meath) - Posts: 53 - 17/05/2016 14:56:50    1855673

By no means the strongest u23 which we could have potentially fielded but a good idea all the same

11jm11 (Kildare) - Posts: 365 - 17/05/2016 15:00:06    1855675

The problem with fielding the likes of an U23 team is that a young inexperienced panel tends not to be a winning panel, so they get one game. So one year we field a young team and they lose, people demand more experience to backbone the team. Next year we field a team with a few young lads and a few talented intermediates/juniors plus a former county senior or 2. They generally still lose though, or players move up a level, so people call for an U23 team the following year. Rinse and repeat.

Also, talk of not respecting the team rings a bit hollow when the players themselves don't care for it. 2 years ago Meath beat Wicklow in the first round, by the 2nd round 6 of the starting team had left for America. It's not exactly something lads put much thought into. I've known a few lads called up to the junior tea and they didn't bother training since they knew they could show up on the day and still play.

CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1644 - 17/05/2016 15:31:11    1855700

On the whole Junior thing i think we are using it all wrong, we should not be banning the use of senior players but trying to bring through senior players that otherwise never get a run in any respect on a county setup, no disrespect to some of the players named on the team but they have been tried and tested already at county level at haven't made it therefore there is better players at senior level in Meath so why not use it as a tool and let Micko pick fringe players from the Senior panel that don't get much game time and see how they measure up. The way Meath football is at the moment Micko needs every advantage so it should be used as a second team of sorts and stop trying to be nice to some guys and giving them games for the sake of it.
P.S granted there are some young guys on there but surely there are young guys on senior teams as well that are being punished because they play on SENIOR teams,
P.P.S by the way i'm from a Junior club

justwondering (Meath) - Posts: 4 - 17/05/2016 19:18:13    1855794

These players , some of them would still be on seniors only for they dont like management, so maybe they will go all out to impress manager for next year.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 17/05/2016 20:15:31    1855810

Anyone know the subs ?

royalballer23 (Meath) - Posts: 61 - 17/05/2016 21:11:24    1855824

Surprised more so of ratoath lads not involved. But I presume McGowan involved with hurlers and 5/6 on senior panel. Kildare had a great run at 21s last few years so with them going with a young squad they will fancy themselves

Keeks (Louth) - Posts: 146 - 17/05/2016 21:53:33    1855830

Like to see how young Dáire Rowe gets on...plus Damien Carroll,Paddy Gilsenan and Chris O'Connor may still have something to offer to the seniors?

WhyTheLongFace (Meath) - Posts: 876 - 18/05/2016 18:00:36    1856139

Kildare 2-17 Meath 1-12

very poor result that..

ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 18/05/2016 20:58:20    1856193

guess that answers my question !

WhyTheLongFace (Meath) - Posts: 876 - 18/05/2016 21:14:29    1856200

We're you at it ziggy?

royalballer23 (Meath) - Posts: 61 - 18/05/2016 21:15:04    1856202

No I wasn't but not an impressive result is it?

ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 18/05/2016 21:21:40    1856204

No very poor result ziggy. They don't take the junior championship serious enough. Have to say it wasn't a bad team put out really

royalballer23 (Meath) - Posts: 61 - 18/05/2016 21:37:01    1856214

Not much effort is an understatement,the lads were only gathered up 10 days ago and had a challenge game against senchalstown in which they won comfortably.

thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 1047 - 19/05/2016 15:18:36    1856426