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Is Meath now becoming a hurling county?

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Replying To keeper7: "Royaldunne, "you could throw as much money as you like at Meath hurling, it wont make them any better against the Kilkenny, Clare, dubs, tipps, galways, Waterford Wexford or even the offaly and Westmeath who would all convincingly beat us. We will never be a top hurling county" When Eamon Cregan & Michael Duignan were involved with the Meath hurlers a number of years ago they were very competitive against many of those teams you named in both league & championship. Nicky Horan, Mickey Cole & Pat Potterton were all top class hurlers." Meath were probably in a stronger position to make a breakthrough back in the nineties. In 96 they ran offaly to 6 points in the leinster championship in croke park. Also had wins against Dublin and Wexford in the league. The football team at the same time was extremely strong and this was probably to the detriment of the hurlers. Tommy Dowd, Darren Fay, Jimmy Mc Guinness and Donal Curtis were all quality hurlers. Indeed I think Donal Curtis may still be playing with Wolfe Tones. Back then if you could make the football team you chose that as you had a chance of making all irelands. The choice is not so clear cut now in my opinion with the dismal performances of the last few years in football. Royalace (Meath) - Posts: 121 - 13/09/2016 12:14:19 1913523 Link
Replying To Royalace: "Meath were probably in a stronger position to make a breakthrough back in the nineties. In 96 they ran offaly to 6 points in the leinster championship in croke park. Also had wins against Dublin and Wexford in the league. The football team at the same time was extremely strong and this was probably to the detriment of the hurlers. Tommy Dowd, Darren Fay, Jimmy Mc Guinness and Donal Curtis were all quality hurlers. Indeed I think Donal Curtis may still be playing with Wolfe Tones. Back then if you could make the football team you chose that as you had a chance of making all irelands. The choice is not so clear cut now in my opinion with the dismal performances of the last few years in football." Back in 96 there were a lot of dual players, as you said fay Dowd Curtis and I think one or two more from the all ire winning team. Now off the top of my head I think micky burke is the only one, may be one other. I think there's always a sense in Meath that the dream is to play for footballers when your a kid, one of our best hurlers of recent times has decided to transfer to Waterford, I think that says really what Meath hurling is facing. And why it will not in the short to medium term ever cone close to footballers. Now with population they should actually be a real dual county. But every kid in county dreams of lifting Sam not Liam. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 13/09/2016 13:14:30 1913574 Link
Sean Boylan was a Meath Hurler and famously thought he was being offered the job of managing the Meath hurlers when he was actually being offered the Meath football job.. Meath have always produced very good hurlers and there's no reason they can't rise again and it doesn't need to be at the expense of football, but with Gerry McEntee involved it doesn't auger well for good relations!! bricktop (Down) - Posts: 2503 - 13/09/2016 13:15:14 1913575 Link
Replying To liner: "Definitely, they beat Mayo yesterday and will beat Kilkenny soon." ha, ha.... hell might just freeze over if that happened AthboyCelt (Meath) - Posts: 147 - 13/09/2016 14:41:22 1913664 Link
underage hurling in meath is a higher standard than westmeath, offaly, kildare, carlow will take a while but I expect Meath to be a McCarthy Cup county within 10 years valley84 (Westmeath) - Posts: 1890 - 13/09/2016 14:58:52 1913676 Link
Replying To valley84: "underage hurling in meath is a higher standard than westmeath, offaly, kildare, carlow will take a while but I expect Meath to be a McCarthy Cup county within 10 years" Underage hurling is far stronger in westmeath than meath. Westmeath beat kilkenny in leinster u 21 this year and are operating at a higher level despite having less playing numbers than ourselves. Club hurling to is far stronger and has been for some time but that gap may be closing. Royalace (Meath) - Posts: 121 - 13/09/2016 15:32:53 1913696 Link
Replying To valley84: "underage hurling in meath is a higher standard than westmeath, offaly, kildare, carlow will take a while but I expect Meath to be a McCarthy Cup county within 10 years" are they not in the Liam McCarthy next year?? cavanman47 (Cavan) - Posts: 5018 - 13/09/2016 15:39:40 1913705 Link
Is Meath now becoming a hurling county? As opposed to....? liner (Mayo) - Posts: 756 - 13/09/2016 23:17:44 1914027 Link
The winners of the Christy Ring in 2016 are in the round robin of the Liam McCarthy in 2017. Meath are therefore in the Liam McCarthy next year. I have been at All Ireland semis, finals and Munster championships, Div 1A, 1B matches and Meath have about six to eight players that could field ball with any one in the country. Their intensity during the two Christy Ring final matches would be as high as Kerry, Offaly, Laois, Westmeath and an average Wexford team. The speed of thought needs work, peripheral vision is quite good but Wexford would be more natural. Meath would in my opinion be able to hold their own in the round robin but with another three big finds they could reach the Liam McCarthy knockout stages. Good luck in 2017. Brian_Coyote (Antrim) - Posts: 346 - 14/09/2016 19:21:58 1914332 Link
what a year for meath hurling great to see a new name making an impact they should be given all the support they need rhudson (Galway) - Posts: 1478 - 14/09/2016 20:05:38 1914352 Link
I know one or two lads from Dublin togged out for them for a while. That didn't last long. avonali (Dublin) - Posts: 1974 - 14/09/2016 21:51:17 1914386 Link
They should give their football team a pep talk, it can't do any harm at this stage :) KerryKillers (Dublin) - Posts: 711 - 15/09/2016 03:26:13 1914495 Link
I remember the suggestion that there should be an Ulster hurling team as opposed to each county having their own hurling teams. What is needed now is a Leinster football team (minus dubs). :-) Brian_Coyote (Antrim) - Posts: 346 - 16/09/2016 21:51:36 1915242 Link
This question shouldn't be asked.. Meath football has had a bad spell,but call a spade a spade.Do Meath(footballers) have a chance of making a Leinster final? Now ask the same question of the hurlers.. ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 16/09/2016 23:33:29 1915263 Link
Yeah we got sick of beating the dubs in football so decided we'd win a few hurling all Irelands instead. Jack_Goff (Meath) - Posts: 2920 - 18/09/2016 14:41:38 1915625 Link

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