Meath and Graham Geraghty??

i'd say its bye bye banty , be interesting to hear the meath views on here

Gant is our man for this, must have the feet up after all the work his bots done last week in Dublin for Liz.

What age is Geraghty now?? Must be touchin 40

Seems quite perplexing that he would bring him back to the panel - never mind bring him back without telling his selectors [smiley:crazy]

Just gone 38 BJG according to his wilki page, have a look at it he's done some interesting stuff apart from Football. I never knew he ran for Fine Gael ! I like the bit about the acting :D

To be fair what are they at trying achieve by bringing him back?

As a Kildare fan will do no harm to our chances,....infighting and bickering?

I'd have fancied Kildare to steamroll them regardless, Meath have class, but if the camp is in disarray, that would suggest to me that they will be leggy/unfit/not tuned up, and that won't do here. Kildare are the fittest team in the country

The bigger issue is the falling-out between both manager and selector. Harnan was only really on the Banty ticket to sweeten the Meath support about outside management - the potential for conflict was high given both sets of personalities. The issue for Meath is where to go from here and how to do learn from this.

Let us not forget that Banty is a very sweet-talking, charming individual. He is a very successful entrepreneur too, and all this time, while the media are talking about him, he gets some nice advertising. He recently came into ownership of the Old Darnely Lodge in Athboy, a pub / restaurant formely run by none other than Mr. Geraghty, who unlike Banty, is experiencing a lot of financial trouble. I'm not sure how relevant all this is but I did hear that money changed hands to make Geraghty come back, how true that is I have no idea, and what purpose bringing a 38 year old failed Fine Gael politician, former Buccaners and Arsenal trialist, and all-round darling of Meath GAA, back into the panel is anybody's guess.

Geraghty has supposedly being playing well for his club, Clann na Gael, although I don't go too many intermediate matches so can't say myself how well he's been playing.

Meath have gone backways under McEnaney, whearas Kildare have probably stayed still since last year's Quarter Final. That would suggest a win for the Lillies, although as I always a Meath team written off is a Meath team to be feared.

One thing that would give me hope is how out of form the Kildare forwards seem. Last year, they completely overwhelmed the Meath backs in Croke Park. James Kavanagh was magical that day. Johnny Doyle kicked eight points.

Looking at the League though, only Antrim scored less than Kildare in the top two Divisions, and they've carried that form through to the Championship judging by yesterday. Kavanagh was only a sub and Doyle was centre-field.

Yes the whole situation is a total shambles in the county. Liam Harnan and Barry Callaghan who was abroad reportedly had no say in the call-up of Graham Geraghty and this is why they have left the scene. You will find more to rise later on. As a proud Meath man I was always against the election of Banty to the helm, no disrespect to the man but what has he ever won? An Allianz league title with his own county? Never managed any senior clubs before! Hes a good talker and a shrewed business man but not up to Inter-county management. Joe Brolly made a good point on the SG Sunday night - Only one or maybe two counties ever won a Senior Football All Ireland managed by a man from outside the county, that is a fair point. Meath are a proud shower with plenty of history and All Ireland medals, its a crying shame but then again who wants to manage the county with the state Meath football is in. The county board are clueless and should be ousted out by the clubs. Its back to square one. I can see a demolishment in order on the 5th June from the flourbags.

Not sure where you heard that Banty was not in financial trouble. He is in huge trouble and if you look back through Irish Times articles you should find the significant judgement against him.

Viva Pataca you are wrong about Graham Geraghty formely running the Old Darnley Lodge Hotel..but he did previously run 2 Pubs in Athboy town close to the hotel.