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I'm not having a dig at Meath here but you literally played the exact same way. If you say you didn't you either weren't at the game or have a visual impairment. Anyway on the game itself we missed a crazy amount of chances from positions that we should have been scoring from. If we could shoot we would be one of the better sides in the country but that has been our achilles heel for years. Best of luck next week to RD and co. Nice crowd down in Navan yesterday and have to say you were very hospitable. gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 25/03/2019 09:50:55 2175148 Link 1 |
There'd be no fear of Tyrone winning that race anyway :-) Tyrone look to be really coming into form, McShane at FF and the longer ball is working well. Very worrying. Job done for Donegal, it been a good league getting lads games and a few of them have really stepped up in recent games after looking nervous in earlier games. Overall we were pretty lucky to get promoted but we'll take that after being unlucky to be relegated last year. Should be a good open game on Saturday. Would have to fancy Meath, I think they will be more interested in getting the silverware. himachechy (Donegal) - Posts: 293 - 25/03/2019 10:31:21 2175180 Link 4 |
Hard luck yesterday gotmilk, yous started like a house on fire and if yous had kicked even half the wides over the bar we'd have been under serious pressure. Fermanagh do play defensively but so what, you do what you have to do and that's their system. We certainly funnelled back in numbers aswell but we had to, yous were murdering us in the opening stages of the game. But I think this is a sign of maturity for us, we were walkovers for far too long in my opinion. Ideally you want to see open, attacking football and if you have the ability to play that way then go for it. But occasionally you do need to get numbers behind the ball and commit the odd cynical foul, it's naive to think otherwise and I think weve copped on a little bit. ......of course the old Meath teams never committed cynical fouls ;-) Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 25/03/2019 10:47:49 2175184 Link 2 |
So youll be cheering for Meath and Donegal ? Hmm..
waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 25/03/2019 11:06:15 2175193 Link 3 |
Terrific for Meath to finally get promoted. Its been a long wait. Haven't felt this positive since 2010. RoyalBadger (Meath) - Posts: 571 - 25/03/2019 11:25:12 2175204 Link 0 |
Congratulations to Meath on their promotion. A proud footballing county on the way back up. gaelicgab (USA) - Posts: 878 - 25/03/2019 12:55:02 2175240 Link 1 |
What? I'll be cheering for Meath, Mayo, Liatroim in their respective finals. Don't mind who wins the hurling and prefer if Louth win Div 3.
Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 25/03/2019 13:06:40 2175251 Link 3 |
Meath did play defensive at times but that is what happens when you play a defensive team. Meath play ball when the other team wants to like the Armagh game, Kildare game and then when we played Cork and Fermanagh we played more defensively because you can't throw everybody forward and give the counter-attacking team the chance to counter-attack
LeitrimRoyal99 (Meath) - Posts: 1456 - 25/03/2019 13:48:49 2175279 Link 6 |
Perhaps it stems from a wee gesture from Meath County secretary Mairead Delaney before the league match in Ballybofey, only days after a terrible tragedy which directly impacted players on the Donegal panel and many fans.
Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1110 - 25/03/2019 21:26:51 2175421 Link 8 |
I would agree with that sentiment, I think Kildare do have the raw ingredients for a great team, or certainly the core of a very good team. They under-performed, I thought they would make the jump back up, but they never seemed to get momentum. Meath have been the Story of DIvision 2 this year, solid throughout, and look like they have something about them again as they head towards Championship. Division 2 was tight and competitive, with very little between many of the teams in head to head fixtures. Commodore (Donegal) - Posts: 1110 - 25/03/2019 21:41:28 2175424 Link 0 |
Precisely, respect
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 26/03/2019 07:35:06 2175467 Link 0 |
Actually now that I think off I cant remember the last time Meath beat Donegal. That qualifier in Croke in 2002 was in Navan 2 years. bobkarlgees (Meath) - Posts: 1263 - 26/03/2019 16:10:18 2175592 Link 0 |
Donegal are definitely a bogie team for Meath. 49erroyal (Meath) - Posts: 65 - 26/03/2019 17:13:23 2175602 Link 0 |
Don't think they played much in the championship. I can remember losing in 2017 in navan all so 2002 in Croke park two back door games, but we did beat them in the all ireland final in 1990. As for the league we lost this year we drew in 2014 and I can remember losing to them in navan in 2011 before that I don't know.
Royal.Legend (Meath) - Posts: 665 - 26/03/2019 18:57:19 2175630 Link 0 |
All ireland semi final 1990 apologies
Royal.Legend (Meath) - Posts: 665 - 26/03/2019 20:10:22 2175647 Link 0 |
Sad state of affairs when a bit of civility between supporters of different counties gets a response like that.
MuckrossHead (Donegal) - Posts: 5028 - 26/03/2019 21:58:01 2175696 Link 2 |
Do they still play the ABBA music at half time in Navan for games? Witnessed it during the qualifier game there in 2017. Had to hear it to believe it, during a championship game of all things. Donegal_abroad (Donegal) - Posts: 1321 - 26/03/2019 22:09:21 2175700 Link 0 |
Metallica and Tom Petty pre game on Sunday
gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 27/03/2019 09:25:01 2175748 Link 0 |
They've only played the 3 times in the championship ever, with Donegal 2-1 ahead (winning 2002 and 2017, losing 1990). Before this season, they'd only apparently met 3 times in the league as well with Donegal winning twice (2010 and 2011) and drawing once (2014). A bit surprised by that - ships in the night and all. Kurt_Angle (Dublin) - Posts: 567 - 27/03/2019 12:07:52 2175785 Link 0 |
We played a few time against each other in the league in the late 80s and early 90s We beat them in out first ever year in Division 1 in 1988 I think it was when they were All Ireland Champions Remember a league quarter final game around 1990/1991 between us too. Al_Maguire (Donegal) - Posts: 244 - 27/03/2019 14:16:11 2175811 Link 0 |