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Club championship draw is this Thursday night @8 o'clock. Very early compared to other years. A good group draw could open up pathway for many teams to go far. Teams that could possibly win the Keegan cup this year include summerhill Dunshaughlin dunboyne ratoath skryne tones Ashbourne and simonstown
Royale1 (Meath) - Posts: 17 - 21/01/2025 11:16:28
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Conor O' Donoghue said in the podcast his personal preference would be for two 8 team Senior championships, a Senior A (with the top eight teams) and a Senior B (with the weakest 8 Senior teams) so that the strongest teams will be playing each other all the time and as a result the Meath champions will perform much better in the Leinster Senior Club.
His argument on those grounds doesn't stand up in relation to what happened in the 2024 Championship as Dunshaughlin on their path to winning the Keegan Cup beat all four of the previous years semi finalists and one of the other Group winners and yet performed poorly in the 1st round of Leinster.
madmeath (Meath) - Posts: 94 - 22/01/2025 12:51:18
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Replying To madmeath: "Conor O' Donoghue said in the podcast his personal preference would be for two 8 team Senior championships, a Senior A (with the top eight teams) and a Senior B (with the weakest 8 Senior teams) so that the strongest teams will be playing each other all the time and as a result the Meath champions will perform much better in the Leinster Senior Club.
His argument on those grounds doesn't stand up in relation to what happened in the 2024 Championship as Dunshaughlin on their path to winning the Keegan Cup beat all four of the previous years semi finalists and one of the other Group winners and yet performed poorly in the 1st round of Leinster." I don't think you can rubbish is argument based on 1 year tbh. I would assume he's talking about it over a sustained period of probably 5/8 years.
If you have a highly competitive senior championship consisting of the 8 best team playing each other and the best players playing each other in games with very little margin for error and doing this on a regular basis over the course of 5/8 years you would be very hopeful of the standard improving significantly and you would like think this would have a positive effect on our leinster club championship performances but as I said you would have to judge on a period of years and not on one year
Blackspot09 (Meath) - Posts: 1082 - 22/01/2025 13:33:08
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Replying To madmeath: "Conor O' Donoghue said in the podcast his personal preference would be for two 8 team Senior championships, a Senior A (with the top eight teams) and a Senior B (with the weakest 8 Senior teams) so that the strongest teams will be playing each other all the time and as a result the Meath champions will perform much better in the Leinster Senior Club.
His argument on those grounds doesn't stand up in relation to what happened in the 2024 Championship as Dunshaughlin on their path to winning the Keegan Cup beat all four of the previous years semi finalists and one of the other Group winners and yet performed poorly in the 1st round of Leinster." Im not arguing his point, but how does a restructure of our championships suddenly make Meath football better? Is it not as simple as if we don't have the players then we wont succeed? Dont get me wrong there is plenty of talented footballers in meath but how does simply restructuring a championship make us better? Am i the only one who thinks this?
overtheendline (Meath) - Posts: 9 - 22/01/2025 13:43:02
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Replying To overtheendline: "Im not arguing his point, but how does a restructure of our championships suddenly make Meath football better? Is it not as simple as if we don't have the players then we wont succeed? Dont get me wrong there is plenty of talented footballers in meath but how does simply restructuring a championship make us better? Am i the only one who thinks this?" It wouldn't suddenly make it better and I listened to the podcast and to be fair he never implied it would make it better straight away.
But it's common sense to assume that a highly competitive 8 team senior championship would improve standards over a period of 5/8 years.
Blackspot09 (Meath) - Posts: 1082 - 22/01/2025 14:04:12
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Replying To madmeath: "Conor O' Donoghue said in the podcast his personal preference would be for two 8 team Senior championships, a Senior A (with the top eight teams) and a Senior B (with the weakest 8 Senior teams) so that the strongest teams will be playing each other all the time and as a result the Meath champions will perform much better in the Leinster Senior Club.
His argument on those grounds doesn't stand up in relation to what happened in the 2024 Championship as Dunshaughlin on their path to winning the Keegan Cup beat all four of the previous years semi finalists and one of the other Group winners and yet performed poorly in the 1st round of Leinster." Not an overly bad idea to be fair, because I do agree that playing the best teams in the county with no 'easy fixtures' means you need to be on it constantly which over time would hopefully lead to better provincial showings and hopefully onto the county team as well.
My concern would be the format? Would it be 7 group games, everyone plays each other with top 4 into a semi? Or would it be 3-4 group games drawn at random, with top 6 in 1/4's and top 2 from Senior B? You don't want to leave teams with dead rubber games near the end of championship either. I didn't hear the talk so maybe this was discussed
ratlag (Meath) - Posts: 585 - 22/01/2025 14:06:39
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Senior championship draw:
Group a:
Summerhill
Dunboyne
Kells
Skyrne
Group b:
Ballinabrackey
Ratoath
St colmcilles
Seneschalstown
Group c:
Meath hill
Trim
Rathkenny
Dunshaughlin
Group d:
Ashbourne
Nafianna
Simonstown
Wolfe tones
Very hard to predict who'll get out of groups or win the championship without seeing the new rules in place yet, but I'd guess Summerhill and dunboyne to progress from group a. Ratoath and st colmcilles to make it to the quarter finals from group b. Trim and Dunshaughlin from group c and Ashbourne and Wolfe tones from group d.
Meathboyos86 (Meath) - Posts: 75 - 23/01/2025 22:26:18
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Replying To Meathboyos86: "Senior championship draw:
Group a:
Summerhill
Dunboyne
Kells
Skyrne
Group b:
Ballinabrackey
Ratoath
St colmcilles
Seneschalstown
Group c:
Meath hill
Trim
Rathkenny
Dunshaughlin
Group d:
Ashbourne
Nafianna
Simonstown
Wolfe tones
Very hard to predict who'll get out of groups or win the championship without seeing the new rules in place yet, but I'd guess Summerhill and dunboyne to progress from group a. Ratoath and st colmcilles to make it to the quarter finals from group b. Trim and Dunshaughlin from group c and Ashbourne and Wolfe tones from group d." Group A summerhill and skryne
Group B ratoath and the softest team in senior
Group C Dunshaughlin and trim
Group D tones and simonstown
Royale1 (Meath) - Posts: 17 - 24/01/2025 19:07:55
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Meath Hill whose supporters bring great colour & excitement to Pairc Tailteann play all three of their Senior Championship group games in Pairc Tailteann while Gael Colmcilles & St. Colmcilles play none of their group games in Pairc Tailteann.
Most clubs (10) play two of their group games in Pairc Tailteann and three clubs (Trim, Ballinabrackey & Seneschalstown) play just one game in Pairc Tailteann.
madmeath (Meath) - Posts: 94 - 19/02/2025 09:05:35
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Replying To madmeath: "Meath Hill whose supporters bring great colour & excitement to Pairc Tailteann play all three of their Senior Championship group games in Pairc Tailteann while Gael Colmcilles & St. Colmcilles play none of their group games in Pairc Tailteann.
Most clubs (10) play two of their group games in Pairc Tailteann and three clubs (Trim, Ballinabrackey & Seneschalstown) play just one game in Pairc Tailteann." Why have Meath Hill not yet played a game to date in the Feis Cup? Two rounds done and they haven't fulfilled a fixture.
BigJoe14 (Meath) - Posts: 1015 - 19/02/2025 13:48:50
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Replying To BigJoe14: "Why have Meath Hill not yet played a game to date in the Feis Cup? Two rounds done and they haven't fulfilled a fixture." They are now scheduled to play 3 games in 6 days... in March...
Amarach (Meath) - Posts: 58 - 21/02/2025 11:06:16
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Replying To Amarach: "They are now scheduled to play 3 games in 6 days... in March..." Scratch that, this mornings game was cancelled/postponed.
Amarach (Meath) - Posts: 58 - 23/02/2025 19:11:27
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Why the delay in club results going up on the Meath GAA site this year? Last year they were always up pretty quick after the games had ended
Belt (Meath) - Posts: 275 - 08/03/2025 19:05:03
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Replying To Belt: "Why the delay in club results going up on the Meath GAA site this year? Last year they were always up pretty quick after the games had ended" The referees usually text in the result after the game and it loads directly on to the webpage. At this time of the year they probably wait till they get home to do so.
MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 1119 - 12/03/2025 23:39:08
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Issue with system
glenny (Meath) - Posts: 1119 - 16/03/2025 20:04:47
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Now that the county season is over and the club championship isn't far away. Who are people thinking will take senior and inter honours. I think the current champions Dunshaughlin look to be best in senior. They've had a very strong league campaign while missing 5 county players, Dunboyne seem to be well set aswell with the addition of Eric Lowndes. They meet Dunshaughlin in the league final this weekend which is sure to be a good game. Other contenders include Ratoath who look like are after loosing Paul Galvin but if they have everyone fit they'll have a say, Summerhill if they can get back to their 2023 form or even the form of last year could make them contenders, Wolfe Tones a team who have been in 4 semis and 2 finals in the last 4 years and then you have Ashbourne depending on Mentons injury.
Relegation is no certainty either, alot of people will say Meath Hill as their team to go down as its their first year up and seem to have regressed since last year. Then you have St. Colmcilles, a team missing their best player in James Conlon aswell as other young lads to travelling. They have had a terrible league campaign and will need to change their form around or else they could be playing intermediate next year. Then you have Sench and the Bracks who both love being in relegation semi finals by the looks of things.
In Inter, Moynalvey are favourites and rightly so they've had a very good league campaign to date and seem to have alot of players back from travelling. They beat second faves for the Inter championship in Navan o'Mahonys last night in the div 2 semi. NOM lost the final AET and will look to go a step further this year. This could depend on whether they have Roscommon back Niall Higgins. Other teams who could compete in my opinion are Duleek if they can get back to the form of 2022 and 2023 where they made 2 finals. Then you have Curraha, Oldcastle and Kilbride who look to be one foot in quarter finals due to the poor quality of their groups.
Again in the intermediate championships theres 4 or 5 teams that could go down but Blackhall Gaels look to be the worst of a bad bunch. But the likes of Longwood, St. Michaels, Bective and Drumbaragh could all change BHG's fortunes.
Meathboyos86 (Meath) - Posts: 75 - 18/07/2025 08:25:18
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Replying To Meathboyos86: "Now that the county season is over and the club championship isn't far away. Who are people thinking will take senior and inter honours. I think the current champions Dunshaughlin look to be best in senior. They've had a very strong league campaign while missing 5 county players, Dunboyne seem to be well set aswell with the addition of Eric Lowndes. They meet Dunshaughlin in the league final this weekend which is sure to be a good game. Other contenders include Ratoath who look like are after loosing Paul Galvin but if they have everyone fit they'll have a say, Summerhill if they can get back to their 2023 form or even the form of last year could make them contenders, Wolfe Tones a team who have been in 4 semis and 2 finals in the last 4 years and then you have Ashbourne depending on Mentons injury.
Relegation is no certainty either, alot of people will say Meath Hill as their team to go down as its their first year up and seem to have regressed since last year. Then you have St. Colmcilles, a team missing their best player in James Conlon aswell as other young lads to travelling. They have had a terrible league campaign and will need to change their form around or else they could be playing intermediate next year. Then you have Sench and the Bracks who both love being in relegation semi finals by the looks of things.
In Inter, Moynalvey are favourites and rightly so they've had a very good league campaign to date and seem to have alot of players back from travelling. They beat second faves for the Inter championship in Navan o'Mahonys last night in the div 2 semi. NOM lost the final AET and will look to go a step further this year. This could depend on whether they have Roscommon back Niall Higgins. Other teams who could compete in my opinion are Duleek if they can get back to the form of 2022 and 2023 where they made 2 finals. Then you have Curraha, Oldcastle and Kilbride who look to be one foot in quarter finals due to the poor quality of their groups.
Again in the intermediate championships theres 4 or 5 teams that could go down but Blackhall Gaels look to be the worst of a bad bunch. But the likes of Longwood, St. Michaels, Bective and Drumbaragh could all change BHG's fortunes." Losing Paul Galvin?????? Ye can't just slip that in there casually and not elaborate LOL...
Blackspot09 (Meath) - Posts: 1082 - 18/07/2025 11:14:24
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It takes a while to recruit a manager so if Ratoath lose Paul Galvin their season is over.They had dunshaughlin beat this week without Galvin, made a change and fell apart. If he is there they go to the whistle.
Ashrules (Dublin) - Posts: 578 - 18/07/2025 12:57:25
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The one thing that Dunshaughlin seem to have on their side is fitness. I went to 4/5 of their league matches this year. I'd love to see their scoring for and against between the 50th & 60th minute in all matches because they seem to be just running the legs off teams in nearly every game.
Coylesrighthand (Meath) - Posts: 26 - 18/07/2025 21:30:32
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