McEntee rejects second-rate tag
August 30, 2016
Meath manager Andy McEntee
New boss Andy McEntee is aiming to dispel the notion that Meath have become a second-rate team.
The Royals have slipped off the radar in recent seasons and McEntee says the players will have to prove to their supporters that they can still mix it with the big boys:
"One of my issues is that general perception among supporters - and that feeds through to everybody - that we are second rate," the All-Ireland winning Ballyboden St Enda's manager said in an interview with David Sheehan on LMFM Radio's Sunday Sport.
"I don't accept that at all myself and I'd like to think the players don't accept it. Accepting being second, third or fourth place - the whole idea of competition is you are in it for improvement.
"If you are in Division Two, you want to be in Division One. If you are in Division One, you want to be at the top of it.
"If you are playing in the Leinster championship, you want to be winning it, so this acceptance of us being middle tier is something that I didn't grow up with.
"A lot of people out there just seem to have accepted it, and that's not something I'd be keen on at all. Other teams have brought things to a higher level of preparation and maybe we have fallen behind on that front."
