Meath GAA - On the brink of Division 4

They had some good minors recently as I recall .  Maybe they should be looking at a 5 year plan .

Not going well at the moment but there are no medals handed out pre season. Rocketfingers, We have to make do with what we have and are unable to buy in a squad like your team.
Can anyone name a famous Sligo sports person.........now the lads from Dublin and beyond that make up sligo rovers don't count.

The hurlers are going well and the few decent Rugby lads are playing in Dublin.

I suppose is does help alright gant when the best keeper in Meath plays elsewhere

He had no choice but to play soccer....2 lads returning from English clubs stood in his way........Enough about Meaths contribution to sligo rovers league success.

Rocketfingers 03 Mar 13 19:16 
Just spotted they were beaten last night, all slagging apart how are they so bad? Gant & co go balistic when i tell them Meath is the only county in Ireland where it has no other sport for competition or team sport (Rugby, Football & Hurling) i should say other than gaelic football and they're useless at it. 9th most populated county in Ireland and probably more GAA footballers than any other county and certainly per head of population and they could be playing Leitrim, London Carlow and Clare next year next year in the league, Just baffling. Just wondering what's the reason for it? Has other sports managed to infiltrate the county boundaries and turn the youngers heads? Or is there another reason there has to be a reason for it !

Rocketfingers 03 Mar 13 19:16
Just spotted they were beaten last night, all slagging apart how are they so bad? Gant & co go balistic when i tell them Meath is the only county in Ireland where it has no other sport for competition or team sport (Rugby, Football & Hurling) i should say other than gaelic football and they're useless at it. 9th most populated county in Ireland and probably more GAA footballers than any other county and certainly per head of population and they could be playing Leitrim, London Carlow and Clare next year next year in the league, Just baffling. Just wondering what's the reason for it? Has other sports managed to infiltrate the county boundaries and turn the youngers heads? Or is there another reason there has to be a reason for it !

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Ehmm,  Meath more likely to playing Sligo again in Division 4 than Clare (or maybe Leitrim) from that list

Meath may be going through a bad patch in the GAA at the moment but they have a noble history in that department.

It is pure wrong to say Meath have no competing sports,after Kildare it would be the strongest racing county( a short head in front of Tipperary ) four racecourses,the Carberrys,the Morgans and John Burke.

In other sports they have given us Shane Horgan and Damien McGrane,let others add to this list as they wish.

The list goes on and lets hope a Meathman wins top jockey at Cheltenham next week. I think Rocketfingers and  Jerry should learn to compete before they knock.

Is any flak directing at players or management , or is it just a phase thing , question for the locals who are best placed ?

The current manager stayed in my house one time , mate of one of my sons , uni time .  Anyone following in Sean Boylans huge footprints though is running uphill , brilliant manager , got the best out of a lot of very good , (and some average ) players in his time at the helm . Stellar times then for Meath supporters , heightened by rivalry with the Dubs . Met a lot of them then ,  99% sound ( every county including mine  has some nutters on the terraces ) . Meath will be back , I have no doubt .

People of course are worried and the players and management are getting grief. They have 8 weeks to get it right. Plenty of young talent considering all the lads that are gone to Australia and Canada. Of course Meath will be back, GAA is all about swings and roundabouts when you are depending on home grown talent, a good crop could come along. It's hard for the like of rocketfingers and co. to understand this as soccer is totally different.

Kelly, the current manager is a sound fella and deserves a good crack at the job.

Wildman's not able to follow my posts i see, i said there is no other team sports in Meath, this is fact. Btw Laytown is not a racecourse it's a beach that has 1 racing fixture held there, that is fact.

Meath is no different to most of the counties in Ireland......Our hurlers train hard but are in a lower division 2B. 2 strong rugby teams Navan and Ashbourne hold their own, top racehorse and greyhound trainers, golfers, fairyhouse and navan 2 of the best track in the county.
Meath punches way above it's weight in Irish sport. If a sugar daddy came along tomorrow we could have a loi team next season and probably not get knocked out of european competitions by butchers, bakers and candlestick makers.

Always a good relationship between your county and mine Gant , largely I think starting  with Peter McDermott way back in fifties and sixties .

A Meath man ( of Mick the Miller fame originally) trained my fathers greyhounds way back in forties , and we used to swop "trips" at underage level with Ashbourne ( before it evolved metropolis like relatively ) in the eighties .  Great people  , great memories and craic .

And up to recently Down always ate in Ashbourne en route . A good table always attracts good people in my experience .  Not en route anymore , different roads now  , mores the pity from that aspect , but roads now are stellar  , less than an hour and a half to Dublin from Belfast , used to take nearly that to get past Dundalk .

Great respect for Down people in Meath. Spent an evening in the company of Mickey Linden and a few others at the dogs. He was one fine footballer.
The new road is a gift.

Kelly just to let you know ,You been breaking the speed limit sun ...As an aside , ROCKET , have a look at the diary your bookie gave you at xmas ...On the inside is a MAP of Irish racecourses ...Between Bellewstown and Fairyhouse is shown Laytown ..Its there in black and white for all to see ....

Workrider........It's that time of the year for him.

Workrider , depends where Dublin starts ( and ends) .  Dublin in the old days really started for me when I was near the "Independent Bridge " . I had a distant cousin who lived in Swords in those days , it seemed about an hour away from where his parents lived in Dublin ( Fortfield Road  , where I spent a few holidays in the 50's ) . 

Did not know Mickey was a doggie man , suspect that is a recent development , never heard it mentioned back in the good old days .

Mickeys brother in law would be a doggie man.

Fair enough , Gant .  Mickey probably never had the time for interests outside football and work , from age of 20 or so he would have been training with county and club 2 or 3 nights a week . And in work he was travelling to Dungannon  among other postings . Sound man , gentleman , and superb footballer , particularly at leaving his marker grasping at air . One of the speediest in that squad  , and they were a speedy and talented athletic lot .

Rocketfingers Sligo look set to join us. It all comes down to the players. For too long Meath folk have been pointing the finger at the management. Yes can be a different animal come championship but there are no excuses for Saturday night.

Take nothing away from Cavan. Manager Terry Hyland has built a very good team with one of the best midfield pairing's in the country. They were first to every ball and their wing forward Mackey was outstanding, ran the show orchestrating every attack. I see they're in the weaker side of the Ulster could be a good bet to make the final.

Football remains the strongest sport in the county by a long distance. I would say though Rugby is growing in North Meath. You will find alot of young kids opting to play Rugby instead. North Meath RC and Virginia RFC are making huge strides.

the fly you lads should survive, i hear we were woeful up in Monaghan at the weekend, someone told me that at half time the scored should have been about 2-13 to 0-3. Hard to see us beating Cavan and then we are away to you lads and Fermanagh after that before Wicklow at home.

I have been saying it for years, the players in Meath just ain't good enough, local gobsh11ts had a nasty habit of blaming everyone and anyone bar the players. Maybe they are still blaming Banty.
And the best players in the county are being tried, it's just they are a poor outfit, no one that should have got a run hasn't been tried. There'll be no relegation this year though.

Maybe enhance fitness substances other teams have been taking are Meath's answer.  Its horrible to hear that top teams in the country are getting away with using them, is it not policed?

Probably will just about RF, still have to go to Roscommon and Antrim nothing easy. Sligo are capable of beating any of them teams. I wouldnt be suprised if ye turn it around against Cavan.

Monaghan are very good at home they blew us out of the water in Clones as well.

The GAA's slogan for the leagues 'Unexpect the expected' sounds ridiculous but they've been spot on with it!

I'm hearing some bad reports coming from the camp, when you think of it we beat Antrim 'just about' who ended up with 13 men

Heard that too. One or two lads dropped for breach of rules.

LOL................
CLUELESS STUFF......

people BANNED for less imo......

ya little beauty........meath 6/5 to win this leaugue looks good now........

Meath 11/10 is to big imo.......