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Thoughts on potential Meath all stars/ all stars nominations this year? Before the Donegal game few names I saw talked about were- Rafferty Canfield Costello Morris Seems now Rafferty is best placed of our players to get one. GreenMan1987 (Meath) - Posts: 116 - 21/08/2025 08:20:36 2632903 Link
Rafferty will be the only one to get an All Star, we were soundly beaten in a semi, as a result Kerry and Donegal will dominate it. But on Sean Rafferty, he kept David Clifford to 1 point from play I believe (the 2 pointer from play was off Lavin) - which is incredible when you think about the damage he done since that game. He did very well on Shane Walsh, again limited him to scraps, we fell apart against Galway when he went off. He was really good against Dublin too. I think Kinsella is probably next best to him, he was consistently good all year but unfortunately 2 of his better games (Kerry and Dublin) weren't even broadcast, so unless you were there you didn't see it Caufield had a good year, but he won't win an All Star Jordan Morris had a stormer against Galway, but outside of that he didn't do much All Star worthy. Costello missed too much time to be considered. Other than that, I don't think anyone else really is in contention. Saw Brian Menton's name thrown around, and Donal Keoghan too - 2 brilliant players but couldn't see them winning an All Star. Cabbagepatch1667 (Meath) - Posts: 86 - 21/08/2025 11:22:59 2632937 Link
Replying To Cabbagepatch1667: "Rafferty will be the only one to get an All Star, we were soundly beaten in a semi, as a result Kerry and Donegal will dominate it. But on Sean Rafferty, he kept David Clifford to 1 point from play I believe (the 2 pointer from play was off Lavin) - which is incredible when you think about the damage he done since that game. He did very well on Shane Walsh, again limited him to scraps, we fell apart against Galway when he went off. He was really good against Dublin too. I think Kinsella is probably next best to him, he was consistently good all year but unfortunately 2 of his better games (Kerry and Dublin) weren't even broadcast, so unless you were there you didn't see it Caufield had a good year, but he won't win an All Star Jordan Morris had a stormer against Galway, but outside of that he didn't do much All Star worthy. Costello missed too much time to be considered. Other than that, I don't think anyone else really is in contention. Saw Brian Menton's name thrown around, and Donal Keoghan too - 2 brilliant players but couldn't see them winning an All Star." Who from Meath do you think will be nominated? GreenMan1987 (Meath) - Posts: 116 - 22/08/2025 07:46:43 2633072 Link
I would love to see Donal Keoghan win an All Star and a Leinster title (not at Louths expense). What a player and servant he has been for Meath and Rathkenny. Sean Rafferty will probably be Meaths best chance of getting an all star. Ollie2 (Louth) - Posts: 1151 - 22/08/2025 09:45:54 2633082 Link
Guaranteed nominations are rafferty, caulfield, menton, kinsella or costello and Morris. Would love to see keogan get one but dont think he will. Rafferty best chance of winning one and I do think Morris will be in the discussion as he had the performance of the summer against Galway. southmeathgael (Meath) - Posts: 1032 - 24/08/2025 13:06:48 2633328 Link
All star nominations tomorrow. Judging from recent seasons a semi finalist could expect 4-6 nominations. Who would ye expect/think deserves a nod? I'd say: Rafferty and Kinsella definitely deserve one. Any from Caulfield, Menton, Morris, Costello and Keoghan could sneak one. Sometimes name recognition comes into it with a lower tier team, so Costello and Morris probably have less to do to get one than Kinsella, for instance. MeathAbroad (Meath) - Posts: 171 - 24/09/2025 08:42:39 2637256 Link
https://hoganstand.com/Meath/Article/Index/337981 Delighted we got this many nominations. Hopefully we can get one- Bray in 07 the last one we got. GreenMan1987 (Meath) - Posts: 116 - 25/09/2025 10:44:23 2637383 Link
Looking back at 2007, the last time we had do many, our nominations included Darren Fay and Graham Geraghty. You would have forgotten how even then at the later stages of their careers with Meath how they were so prominent still on the national level and how truly great they were even in their twilight years with Meath as much of their successes with Meath came in their younger days. Let's hope some of these players can come close to emulating such greats! winatallcost (Meath) - Posts: 817 - 25/09/2025 11:28:48 2637390 Link
Its still annoys me the 2009 semi finalists got zero nominations. trimmer (Meath) - Posts: 561 - 25/09/2025 12:05:13 2637400 Link
Replying To trimmer: "Its still annoys me the 2009 semi finalists got zero nominations." To be fair, we weren't great in 2009, kind of limped to a semi final when we shocked Mayo in the quarters. We lost to Dublin early in Leinster, and went through the qualifiers beating Waterford, Westmeath, Roscommon and Limerick. And although the scoreline doesn't look bad against Kerry, we were never in that game Probably should have gotten a nomination, but we really overachieved Cabbagepatch1667 (Meath) - Posts: 86 - 26/09/2025 11:22:22 2637522 Link
Replying To Cabbagepatch1667: "To be fair, we weren't great in 2009, kind of limped to a semi final when we shocked Mayo in the quarters. We lost to Dublin early in Leinster, and went through the qualifiers beating Waterford, Westmeath, Roscommon and Limerick. And although the scoreline doesn't look bad against Kerry, we were never in that game Probably should have gotten a nomination, but we really overachieved" Wouldn't really agree with that. Eamonn O'brien and management team did a good job and 2009 was his first year. Meath won an infamous Leinster final in 2010 and actually had three nominations that year in Graham Reilly, Joe Sheridan and Seamus Kenny. 2010 was actually wide open with Down making it all the way to the All-Ireland so Meath were not a million miles off with a relatively young team. Mismanagement at county board level meant thet didn't progress much further after that. winatallcost (Meath) - Posts: 817 - 26/09/2025 12:38:16 2637537 Link