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Replying To veterngaa: "We share a border so why.not.. it was on national TV. Believe it or not this is a GAA opinion forum. People give opinions…" This coming from a Monaghan supporter who's last win in a club championship ulster title was 25 years ago ? With a winning score line of 8 points to 6 ? thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 1131 - 17/11/2025 20:17:20 2645112 Link
Replying To thelutch: "This coming from a Monaghan supporter who's last win in a club championship ulster title was 25 years ago ? With a winning score line of 8 points to 6 ?" Don't mind these Monaghan Supporters. They troll the neighbouring counties forums with their words of wisdom usually holding comparisons to Monaghan as if there a bedrock of success and somehow see themselves as an influencer on all things GAA. They run down the the other counties and like a well known political party their basis of engagement is to wind up people and run them down based on their supposed shortcomings (according to them). Very insular and petty but there you have it. What county supporters even wanted an opinion from Monaghan????, trying to force one onto you doesn't help their cause either. offtheditch (Cavan) - Posts: 182 - 18/11/2025 16:10:28 2645177 Link
Replying To Ratoath Royal: "Not sure why anyone is surprised. I've said numerous times that senior club football has generally been poor at provincial level, one reason being that there is usually a massive spread of challengers for the senior championship in the county so the quality of our champions is often less than other counties that have much fewer challengers. In the past 5 seasons in Meath, we've had four different winners (Summerhill x 2, Dunshaughlin, Ratoath and Wolfe Tones). In Kildare, they've had just four winners since 2010 (Moorefield x 5, Naas x 4, Sarsfields x 4, Athy x 3). Summerhill also lost to Naas by 10 two years ago. It's 16 seasons now since the Meath senior champions advanced by more than one round in Leinster. In that time, our champions have managed victories over the champions of Longford (once), Wexford (twice), Offaly (twice) and Louth (once). It's always been the case even when Meath football was at it's peak. Indeed, our senior champions' best performances outside the county have been when the county team has been comparatively weak (i.e. Dunshaughlin in 02/03, Walterstown in 1983/84 & 1980/81)." Interesting debate here, how many Meath teams make the top 10 Kildare clubs? Athy, Celbridge and Naas are considerably ahead of any in Meath. Sarasfeild should have beaten Athy in the semi; there could be arguments that they beat Summerhill. Meathfootball12 (Meath) - Posts: 36 - 19/11/2025 13:27:31 2645281 Link
Will the turkeys vote for Christmas as the Indo reports that the Meath SFC may follow the SHC and introduce a SFC B championship . Hopefully so as 8 Senior teams is plenty with still only perhaps 5 or 6 still with realistic chances of Keegan Cup numberedjerseys (USA) - Posts: 374 - 19/11/2025 17:09:40 2645334 Link
Never really believed tinkering with formats makes better teams. You're either good enough or you're not. trimmer (Meath) - Posts: 568 - 20/11/2025 11:39:52 2645407 Link
7 points win for Ratoath and we're in the final. Will need to be a lot better (and have a bit of luck) if we're to have a chance in the final. As expected, it'll be the Kilkenny champions, Danesfort. I remember the Junior final against Mooncoin 10 years ago where we played pretty much as well as you could hope and still lost by 7. Ratoath Royal (Meath) - Posts: 1452 - 22/11/2025 22:09:53 2645697 Link
Replying To Meathfootball12: "Interesting debate here, how many Meath teams make the top 10 Kildare clubs? Athy, Celbridge and Naas are considerably ahead of any in Meath. Sarasfeild should have beaten Athy in the semi; there could be arguments that they beat Summerhill." I don't really see the need for debate here. County championships and club championships are completely different. To be honest, unless your own club is involved in the club championship, most supporters don't take much interest, though I personally do. In my view (and these are just my opinions), we have teams winning titles with what I'd call fabricated squads. I'd like to ask, when was the last time a team won a Leinster or All-Ireland title with 20 players from their own parish? And just for the record, Meath clubs have won one more Leinster title than Kildare. thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 1131 - 23/11/2025 10:47:18 2645723 Link
Replying To Ratoath Royal: "7 points win for Ratoath and we're in the final. Will need to be a lot better (and have a bit of luck) if we're to have a chance in the final. As expected, it'll be the Kilkenny champions, Danesfort. I remember the Junior final against Mooncoin 10 years ago where we played pretty much as well as you could hope and still lost by 7." Does Richie hogan or Paul Murphy still line out for Danesfort? Or have they any county players? Tobefair80 (Meath) - Posts: 96 - 23/11/2025 12:52:04 2645734 Link
Replying To Tobefair80: "Does Richie hogan or Paul Murphy still line out for Danesfort? Or have they any county players?" Looking at their team in the semi final, Paul Murphy is still lining out for them and they've at least one player that was on the Kilkenny U20 panel this year. No senior county panelists by the looks of it though. Ratoath Royal (Meath) - Posts: 1452 - 23/11/2025 22:20:15 2645827 Link
Ratoath will never have a better chance to win this Nice easy route to final and now home final Kilkenny teams nearly always win the all ireland at this grade so will be huge test They are good enough to win this out hurlit (Meath) - Posts: 442 - 24/11/2025 13:45:53 2645904 Link
Replying To thelutch: "I don't really see the need for debate here. County championships and club championships are completely different. To be honest, unless your own club is involved in the club championship, most supporters don't take much interest, though I personally do. In my view (and these are just my opinions), we have teams winning titles with what I'd call fabricated squads. I'd like to ask, when was the last time a team won a Leinster or All-Ireland title with 20 players from their own parish? And just for the record, Meath clubs have won one more Leinster title than Kildare." Absolutely waffle, to quote Eamon Dunphy "Who do you represent?" This whole forum is a debate on the general state of Meath football, and in theory,y theirs no need for anything here, unless you think Robbie Brennan is jumping on this forum after training to pick his team, "oh, I better check the forum to see who thelutch think should man man-mark David Clifford" A very natural thing to do is to compare ourselves to our neighbours. County champions are county champions, but it can be a good indication of club level to see how our champions do against other rival counties. Don't fully (at all) see your point about "Fabricated squads" Your statement regarding Meath teams winning more Leinster titles than Kildare teams is completely irrelevant, as it was how many years ago? Meath has one more than double the All-Ireland titles as Donegal, yet this has absolutely no bearing on the outlook of today's team Meathfootball12 (Meath) - Posts: 36 - 25/11/2025 00:22:13 2645971 Link
Replying To Meathfootball12: "Absolutely waffle, to quote Eamon Dunphy "Who do you represent?" This whole forum is a debate on the general state of Meath football, and in theory,y theirs no need for anything here, unless you think Robbie Brennan is jumping on this forum after training to pick his team, "oh, I better check the forum to see who thelutch think should man man-mark David Clifford" A very natural thing to do is to compare ourselves to our neighbours. County champions are county champions, but it can be a good indication of club level to see how our champions do against other rival counties. Don't fully (at all) see your point about "Fabricated squads" Your statement regarding Meath teams winning more Leinster titles than Kildare teams is completely irrelevant, as it was how many years ago? Meath has one more than double the All-Ireland titles as Donegal, yet this has absolutely no bearing on the outlook of today's team" Opinions vary thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 1131 - 25/11/2025 07:32:25 2645973 Link
Replying To Meathfootball12: "Absolutely waffle, to quote Eamon Dunphy "Who do you represent?" This whole forum is a debate on the general state of Meath football, and in theory,y theirs no need for anything here, unless you think Robbie Brennan is jumping on this forum after training to pick his team, "oh, I better check the forum to see who thelutch think should man man-mark David Clifford" A very natural thing to do is to compare ourselves to our neighbours. County champions are county champions, but it can be a good indication of club level to see how our champions do against other rival counties. Don't fully (at all) see your point about "Fabricated squads" Your statement regarding Meath teams winning more Leinster titles than Kildare teams is completely irrelevant, as it was how many years ago? Meath has one more than double the All-Ireland titles as Donegal, yet this has absolutely no bearing on the outlook of today's team" Tend to agree with everything said here, it's an interesting debate to see how our club football stacks up against other counties. My opinion would be Kildare club football stronger than ours, but I would like to think we are very similar level to Cavan. Faithfulmeath (Meath) - Posts: 38 - 25/11/2025 21:50:42 2646076 Link
Replying To hurlit: "Ratoath will never have a better chance to win this Nice easy route to final and now home final Kilkenny teams nearly always win the all ireland at this grade so will be huge test They are good enough to win this out" Trim beat Danesfort in Nowlan Park in 2022 (I think) which means they were relegated in the meantime. Obviously they were good enough to win the IHC this year but in the recent past, struggled at Senior. I give Ratoath every chance if they play to their full potential. MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 1125 - 25/11/2025 22:41:21 2646081 Link
Trim had the element of surprise that year as for the few years previous our representatives had done very poorly which would have helped. They will have plenty of homework done on ratoath this time. Danesfort are up and down very regular but the standard in senior down there is very high so doesnt mean they are bad team , its very hard to win that intermediate. Is richie hogan still playing for them? hurlit (Meath) - Posts: 442 - 26/11/2025 09:30:33 2646093 Link
Replying To hurlit: "Trim had the element of surprise that year as for the few years previous our representatives had done very poorly which would have helped. They will have plenty of homework done on ratoath this time. Danesfort are up and down very regular but the standard in senior down there is very high so doesnt mean they are bad team , its very hard to win that intermediate. Is richie hogan still playing for them?" Trim met them in the Leinster quarter final so Danesfort possibly had a slight hangover from their county championship win. They're likely going to be far more prepared for a Leinster final. I see they're 1/3 favourites for the final so we'll need every possible thing to go right for us on the day if we're to be in with a chance. Looks like Richie Hogan finished up with Danesfort last season. His brother Paddy plays in goals. Ratoath Royal (Meath) - Posts: 1452 - 26/11/2025 10:55:39 2646105 Link
Nowhere specific to put it but fair play to the young lad Cormac from Killyon wearing the club colours on the Toy Show last night! Ratoath Royal (Meath) - Posts: 1452 - 06/12/2025 17:21:52 2647220 Link
Ratoath getting the better of things in first half so far. Awful conditions for a game of ball but they're doing the dirty work. Am I right in saying that they have to go all the way for the meath champions to get up to Leinster shc or will winning today do it for next season? RR (Meath) - Posts: 187 - 07/12/2025 14:02:04 2647310 Link

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