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Replying To BigJoe14: "1. Brendan Murphy 2. Donal Keogan 3. Kevin Reilly 4. Eoghan Harrington 5. Mickey Burke 6. Anthony Moyles 7. Caomhin King 8. Shane O'Rourke 9. Nigel Crawford 10. Seamus Kenny 11. Joe Sheridan 12. Graham Reilly 13. Brian Farrell 14. Stephen Bray 15. Cian Ward If only we had a full forward line like that now and Shane O'Rourke at midfield." In 2010 that was our forward line ! Pity,Dont think they were appreciated when they were playing !! Also Murphy Crawford O'Rourke Kevin Reilly King Burke Harrington ! Only player that wasn't there was moyles and Keoghan !! grahamc9897 (Meath) - Posts: 1174 - 06/07/2017 09:13:59 2011353 Link
Replying To grahamc9897: "In 2010 that was our forward line ! Pity,Dont think they were appreciated when they were playing !! Also Murphy Crawford O'Rourke Kevin Reilly King Burke Harrington ! Only player that wasn't there was moyles and Keoghan !!" Yes those players really were not appreciated enough in my opinion. Brian Farrell, Mickey Burke and Keogan were not there in 2010. Burke had broken his leg and Farrell was a sub. BigJoe14 (Meath) - Posts: 934 - 06/07/2017 09:30:12 2011362 Link
Replying To BigJoe14: "Yes those players really were not appreciated enough in my opinion. Brian Farrell, Mickey Burke and Keogan were not there in 2010. Burke had broken his leg and Farrell was a sub." Ah come on ! Burke was playing up until his injury And Farrell played plenty that year ! They were part of it grahamc9897 (Meath) - Posts: 1174 - 06/07/2017 10:01:02 2011378 Link
Interesting thread. Says a lot about what we think of today's crop! For what it's worth I'd have Gillespie at midfield and Shane O'Rourke at ff. Think he played some great football there in his earlier years. We've really struggled to find top corner backs in the last decade albeit the game has changed a lot. MarkMyWords (Meath) - Posts: 498 - 06/07/2017 10:19:43 2011384 Link
Replying To grahamc9897: "Ah come on ! Burke was playing up until his injury And Farrell played plenty that year ! They were part of it" I don't mean they weren't there for the year I know they were there I was just talking about the championship. Farrell didn't start any championship match that year and only featured as a sub in the Dublin match. Mickey Burke broke his leg in the Laois replay and missed the Dublin, Louth and Kildare games. Anthony Moyles did start all the championship matches in 2010. Our full forward line in 2010 championship was predominately Cian Ward, Shane O'Rourke and Stephen Bray. BigJoe14 (Meath) - Posts: 934 - 06/07/2017 12:50:51 2011465 Link
I think if that group of players had Andy McEntee as manager from 2009 onwards for 5/6 years after Colm Coyle they could have won an All Ireland, particularly in 2010 when that was a great chance missed to get to a final! Instability with chopping and changing of managers ruined it for them unfortunately. BigJoe14 (Meath) - Posts: 934 - 06/07/2017 12:54:26 2011467 Link
Replying To BigJoe14: "I think if that group of players had Andy McEntee as manager from 2009 onwards for 5/6 years after Colm Coyle they could have won an All Ireland, particularly in 2010 when that was a great chance missed to get to a final! Instability with chopping and changing of managers ruined it for them unfortunately." All Ireland my ae !! Andy is totally unproven at this level so to say we should have won an all Ireland is rubbish !! In 2007 we blew it v Cork 2009 hammered by Kerry and 2010 hammered by Kildare !! Get real grahamc9897 (Meath)** - Posts: 1174 - 06/07/2017 13:14:22 2011481 Link
Jaysus I'm getting fierce amounts of abuse on Facebook for that team.... mainly from people who can't even read and end up berating me for not including Geraghty, Fay, McDermott etc. Obviously if it was just "pick the best Meath team from 2002 onwards", they would be in there. Ratoath Royal (Meath) - Posts: 1362 - 06/07/2017 13:21:32 2011488 Link
Replying To BigJoe14: "I think if that group of players had Andy McEntee as manager from 2009 onwards for 5/6 years after Colm Coyle they could have won an All Ireland, particularly in 2010 when that was a great chance missed to get to a final! Instability with chopping and changing of managers ruined it for them unfortunately." What a generalised statement Big Joe .... If Andy had Colm O Rouke , Brian Stafford etc and the crew he could have done something , maybe even the world cup , if , if , if ....... this isn't Carlsberg land ......this is reality , he has who he has , he wasn't in the shout to manage Meath in 2010 The bell has been rung , leave it alone .Saturday will tell us about our capabilities . Donegal are nowhere near the force they were . Our league match showed us that . If we loose then there's a lot of explaining to do ....and a lot of deep soul searching for the boys . if we win , it's a challenge ..... Meath_True (Meath) - Posts: 285 - 06/07/2017 13:37:55 2011502 Link
Replying To BigJoe14: "1. Brendan Murphy 2. Donal Keogan 3. Kevin Reilly 4. Eoghan Harrington 5. Mickey Burke 6. Anthony Moyles 7. Caomhin King 8. Shane O'Rourke 9. Nigel Crawford 10. Seamus Kenny 11. Joe Sheridan 12. Graham Reilly 13. Brian Farrell 14. Stephen Bray 15. Cian Ward If only we had a full forward line like that now and Shane O'Rourke at midfield." lads you's are missing the point its the lads from 02 on that didnt win anything UNDER Boylan so crawford and moyles are out. im not sure if kenny was on the panel in 01 srgt_slaughter (Meath) - Posts: 462 - 06/07/2017 15:02:17 2011540 Link
Replying To srgt_slaughter: "lads you's are missing the point its the lads from 02 on that didnt win anything UNDER Boylan so crawford and moyles are out. im not sure if kenny was on the panel in 01" Moyles won nothing under Boylan !! grahamc9897 (Meath) - Posts: 1174 - 06/07/2017 15:17:34 2011546 Link
Replying To Ratoath Royal: "No way should Mark Ward be there. Still shudder when I think of his own goal against Monaghan! I've also taken the executive decision to include Crawford given that the vast majority of his career was from 2002 onwards. 1. Brendan Murphy 2. Donal Keoghan 3. Kevin Reilly 4. Chris O'Connor 5. Mickey Burke 6. Cormac McGuinness 7. Seamus Kenny 8. Nigel Crawford 9. Brian Meade 10. Peadar Byrne 11. Shane O'Rourke 12. Graham Reilly 13. Cian Ward 14. Joe Sheridan 15. Stephen Bray If Crawford were to be excluded, I'd pick Rooney simply because there's no one else that really stands out (Menton, Ward, Lynch, ....). Certain positions (like 6 and 11) are very dodgy and just hit home how poor we have been in general during this time. It would be very depressing to compare this team to the team you would pick from 1986 - 2001." I would have Gillespie at m/f, way ahead of an unproven Rooney seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2142 - 06/07/2017 17:49:57 2011593 Link
Replying To Meath_True: "What a generalised statement Big Joe .... If Andy had Colm O Rouke , Brian Stafford etc and the crew he could have done something , maybe even the world cup , if , if , if ....... this isn't Carlsberg land ......this is reality , he has who he has , he wasn't in the shout to manage Meath in 2010 The bell has been rung , leave it alone .Saturday will tell us about our capabilities . Donegal are nowhere near the force they were . Our league match showed us that . If we loose then there's a lot of explaining to do ....and a lot of deep soul searching for the boys . if we win , it's a challenge ....." what are you on about meath1977 (Meath) - Posts: 534 - 06/07/2017 18:49:37 2011624 Link
I'll give this a shot 1. Brendan Murphy 2. Donal Keoghan 3. Kevin Reilly 4. Chris O'Connor 5. Mickey Burke 6. Brian Menton 7. Seamus Kenny 8. Conor Gillespie 9. Brian Meade 10. Peadar Byrne 11. Shane O'Rourke 12. Graham Reilly 13. Cian Ward 14. Joe Sheridan 15. Stephen Bray Similar to others. I excluded Crawford for one reason only that he has a all ire medal. I'm sure with that in his pocket he wont mind me leaving him off. :) royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 06/07/2017 19:53:34 2011647 Link
Brendan Murphy Donal Keoghan Kevin Reilly Eoghan Harrington Anthony Moyles Cormac McGuinness Caomhin King Conor Gillespie Brian Meade Seamus Kenny Shane O Rourke Peader Byrne Cian Ward Joe Sheridan Stephen Bray Paddy O Rourke, Chris O Connor, Cormac McGill, Mickey Burke, Brian Menton, Mark Ward, Graham Reilly, Brian Farrell, David Bray, Gary O Brien. UsernameInvalid (Meath) - Posts: 355 - 06/07/2017 20:25:56 2011663 Link
this made it onto hoganstand facebook :) ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 06/07/2017 21:39:21 2011705 Link
Replying To ziggy32001: "this made it onto hoganstand facebook :)" Haha. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 06/07/2017 21:49:25 2011710 Link
Replying To ziggy32001: "this made it onto hoganstand facebook :)" Only my team..... I feel so special. Ratoath Royal (Meath) - Posts: 1362 - 07/07/2017 07:35:08 2011787 Link
Replying To Ratoath Royal: "Only my team..... I feel so special." haha,would go with king ahead of mcguinness though and gillespie ahead of meade. mentioned it there too. otherwise spot on! ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 07/07/2017 10:10:14 2011839 Link
Replying To ziggy32001: "haha,would go with king ahead of mcguinness though and gillespie ahead of meade. mentioned it there too. otherwise spot on!" Yeah on second thought, despite Gillespie's injury nightmare he'd probably be ahead of Meade. I simply picked Meade because of his longevity (and to be fair if I remember correctly he was very good in his last couple of years). Ratoath Royal (Meath) - Posts: 1362 - 07/07/2017 10:30:21 2011849 Link