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Replying To winatallcost: "Is Cillian O Sullivan still with panel? Gray only came in last year really. Does it matter anyway as its about results and things were too poor to continue without a change and can't see another better way they could have changed so far. Its all about what happens next!" No one least of all me said or is saying that a change wasn't needed. But we cannot say in the slightest that Colm's first year has been a success. We were relegated to the B championship. Now we did get something from it. A place in this years championship. But I don't want to use that place I want us to qualify in our own right. Colm has used his get out of jail card. I said it before he has a clean slate to hold his hands up and say I made a balls up last year. It's all about the league and promotion. Nothing else matters. Any self respecting Meath man still has nightmares about limerick and Kildare last year. We need to put that right. I thought grey was on the panel. Coffee and lynch were both on panel. That is not the team or the match day program. The panel of 40 is what I am talking about. If I'm wrong on grey then fair enough. But the others I mentioned were on the PANEL. as I seen both lynch and coffee play in a challenge match under previous set up. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 11/01/2024 18:42:44 2519684 Link
Replying To JonnieG: "If you are going to "quote" me Blackspot09 you should at least take a computer class in copy & paste first!! :) Dont remember a hammering last year - 3 or 4 points in the end which was far from the norm of the senior team! But anyway it is hard for some of ye to get the point here! We are a county in decline because of our coaching strategy and things are not getting rectified quick enough!!" You said got the better of them or at least matched them. If you feel losing to Dublin by 4 points is somehow matching them well good for you. And if you were at that game you'd know that we in no way matched them. They were way better we never ever looked like winning and we went down with a whimper.. But keep digging lad. We'll see tomorrow if you are right about COR really wanting to win the OB Cup because then he can say he's won another trophy. Let's see the team he puts out because from what I'm hearing he won't be exactly stacking the deck to make sure we win the game. Blackspot09 (Meath) - Posts: 872 - 11/01/2024 19:09:05 2519690 Link
Heard something about a challenge game against Galway happening this week? Anyone know if there's any truth. LoyalRoyal (None) - Posts: 452 - 11/01/2024 20:06:19 2519694 Link
Replying To LoyalRoyal: "Heard something about a challenge game against Galway happening this week? Anyone know if there's any truth." Behind closed doors in pairc tailteann Saturday Afternoon, Meath playing very strong team and giving lads a chance Friday night in O'Byrne Cup supposedly so complete second team i'd expect Friday night and a very strong outfit saturday. redracoon (Meath) - Posts: 56 - 11/01/2024 21:59:54 2519712 Link
Anyway it's time To concentrate on this year. What's done is done. I want to see improvement and look forward to a good year. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 12/01/2024 05:40:07 2519729 Link
Replying To JonnieG: "At then end of the day, that's not how managers think! They all want to build up their reputations and winning silverware... Realistically it is probably their only chance of silverware this year and more than likely our only chance of any success. I see us competing for lower end of the Div2 table this year and we will probably get slaughtered in Leinster and more than likely the same in AI championship too depending on the draw. It is sad to think that a year on and we are talking about the same things! I always said it.... winning the TC was the worst thing to happen us because it is papering over the cracks. I would have rather seen us trying to fight tooth and nail to make the AI championship this year than be given a free entry. I hope I am wrong but we seem to be going backwards and not even a competitive ball thrown in yet!!" Judging by the team COR has picked for tonight he's not going all out to win silverware like you claimed he would be and is not one bit bothered if we win the OB cup or not. You're on the ball again fella. Blackspot09 (Meath) - Posts: 872 - 12/01/2024 09:29:52 2519744 Link
Replying To Blackspot09: "Judging by the team COR has picked for tonight he's not going all out to win silverware like you claimed he would be and is not one bit bothered if we win the OB cup or not. You're on the ball again fella." Allegedly a bigger game tomorrow with a challenge against Galway planned. Keeping player for that.. 199710 (Meath) - Posts: 120 - 12/01/2024 09:48:47 2519751 Link
Replying To 199710: "Allegedly a bigger game tomorrow with a challenge against Galway planned. Keeping player for that.." Yep. That looks like the plan. Not bothered about winning the OB cup and rightly so. Galway will be a much better game for the first team if thats what they are called. Blackspot09 (Meath) - Posts: 872 - 12/01/2024 10:40:45 2519773 Link
Happy 2024 fellow gaels hope you've all wintered well. Great to see things haven't changed around here too much and we still have some great posters and some foolish ones who are full of double talk. Looking forward to a hopefully great year ahead for Colm O'Rourke, Ronan Jones and Mattie Costello and the panel. I'll be responding to various posts now shortly. brian (Meath) - Posts: 1955 - 12/01/2024 12:14:41 2519801 Link
Replying To Ashrules: "I agree with most of your comments ,but I still think Meath are bringing lads straight to senior for development instead of playing those who are better now. Maybe that is not the idea but cor is not playing our best. There was little effort made to forage for talent. You ask why is he there. According to the accounts expenses for 4or5 manager and selectors increased from about 25k to 125k. As in why are most of us in jobs. Except we have to perform." Agh Ash, 2024 and you're still claiming there's lads not getting a chance. 2 O'Byrne cup matches, multiple challenge games before and after Christmas. 60-70 lads getting a chance to impress Colm and his selectors. But yet there's lads not getting a chance. Cmon now… give us the names… who are all these undiscovered gems the Colm hasn't clapped eyes on… where's our David Clifford just waiting for that phone call… if only the phone would ring… brian (Meath) - Posts: 1955 - 12/01/2024 12:18:01 2519805 Link
Anyone understand why cor would give out about sigerson after the louth game when he is essentially forfieting the semi final of the ob cup...like why play them last week if he didnt care if they won or not? Ed2010 (Meath) - Posts: 93 - 12/01/2024 12:48:06 2519816 Link
Great to see James Conlon back. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 12/01/2024 12:57:08 2519817 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Great to see James Conlon back." Back? He's number 21 on the B squad. winatallcost (Meath) - Posts: 515 - 12/01/2024 13:31:34 2519827 Link
Replying To winatallcost: "Back? He's number 21 on the B squad." Since he hasn't been involved at all with Meath in almost 2 years. It's great to see him back. Is that difficult to understand? He's back on panel. And I'm sure will play a part tonight and will continue to prove his worth going forward. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 12/01/2024 13:59:15 2519838 Link
Replying To Ed2010: "Anyone understand why cor would give out about sigerson after the louth game when he is essentially forfieting the semi final of the ob cup...like why play them last week if he didnt care if they won or not?" He wanted to get our near strongest team playing together in preparation for the first league game. He knew we'd lose loads of lads to Sigerson over the next couple Of weeks. Selwyn (Meath) - Posts: 356 - 12/01/2024 14:05:17 2519840 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Since he hasn't been involved at all with Meath in almost 2 years. It's great to see him back. Is that difficult to understand? He's back on panel. And I'm sure will play a part tonight and will continue to prove his worth going forward." Don't get me wrong, I think he's an excellent club player and a brilliant scorer. I just think he's a really long way down pecking order and it's unlikely he will feature in first team. winatallcost (Meath) - Posts: 515 - 12/01/2024 14:26:37 2519844 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "My problem with the whole Colm new team line is that majority were there already, off top of my head D K Cos Harnan J mac S mac All were brought in by mod. Hogan Hickey Costello Jones Coffee Morris Walsh Grey Lynch All brought onto panel by A mac There's probably more that I forgot about. Or may I have mixed up one or two ( jones in particular). But you get my general point. This is not a new team by cor. He has brought in a few lads and elevated those on development squads to players. So less of the great reset." Last year in a post 'brian' put to bed the notion that O'Rourke hadn't got together a new team last year. https://hoganstand.com/County/Meath/Forum/Details/111870?County=Meath&PageNumber=16&TopicID=111870 bdbuddah (Meath) - Posts: 1364 - 12/01/2024 15:16:18 2519864 Link
Pretty much a B/C team. Hopefully we can win it as I'd love a crack at potentially the Dubs in a final LeitrimRoyal99 (Meath) - Posts: 1470 - 12/01/2024 15:18:04 2519865 Link
Replying To LeitrimRoyal99: "Pretty much a B/C team. Hopefully we can win it as I'd love a crack at potentially the Dubs in a final" Likely only ones to be seen later would be hogan and O'Connor. Maybe banty. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 12/01/2024 15:27:08 2519867 Link
Replying To LeitrimRoyal99: "Pretty much a B/C team. Hopefully we can win it as I'd love a crack at potentially the Dubs in a final" Indeed particularly when it's Longford that will be opposing team in Leinster. So I'm interested to see how they set up. They haven't transferred their club progress into county. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 12/01/2024 15:31:13 2519868 Link