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People on here saying that Kildare won't do Meath a favour by beating Galway. Don't forget in 2011 in the last round of matches Meath drew with Tyrone in Navan and they looked like going down to Division three until a very late stoppage point from Kildare beat Sligo by a point in Newbridge. The end result was that Sligo and Meath had the same amount of points but Meath stayed up because they had beaten Sligo on the head to head. It would be great for Leinster football if Dublin, Kildare and Meath were all playing Division one next year. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 27/03/2017 11:21:32 1971700 Link 1 |
Kildare are in an ideal position rhudson (Galway) - Posts: 1478 - 27/03/2017 12:05:40 1971726 Link 0 |
Traditionally Kildare dont beat Galway. That's certainly not going to change Sunday with promotion already secured. Sundays a day for squad players to get a full 70 mins and trying out positional changes/tactics etc. A lot of lads put in a big shift this league and will be rested for when it matters to Kildare and not Meath. We'll have a real cut off Galway in the league final. derfil1 (Kildare) - Posts: 1612 - 27/03/2017 12:29:36 1971736 Link 1 |
Double header next Sunday in Pearse Stadium, Galway V Kildare at 2 and the hurlers playing Waterford at 4 in 1/4 finals. mon (Galway) - Posts: 675 - 27/03/2017 12:35:43 1971742 Link 0 |
Agreed. There is no way Kildare are not going to beat Galway on Sunday. Thats not a slight on Kildare who have been excellent in the league and are a proud county. It's just that it wouldn't make sense to put out their best 15 against a highly motivated Galway team for a match that means little to them. They'll be saving themselves for the final and rightly so. This whole scenario however does reflect poorly on the idea of having finals in a league format. If for example, there was no final, Kildare would be obliged to go all out as the Div 2 League title would be at stake. This would then be fairer on the teams below them such as Meath in instance. As for Meath, we've paid the price for not showing up against Kildare and Down and then for the cocky and poor decision making in the closing minutes against Cork. You can't not show up in two matches and expect to get promoted. Crinigan (Meath) - Posts: 1318 - 27/03/2017 14:09:03 1971810 Link 1 |
Wouldn't having no league final be even more "unfair" on Meath? If only the top team won the league, then Meath would already by out since they can't finish top of the table. Having 2 final spots ensures more teams have interest going into the last round.
CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1643 - 27/03/2017 14:18:30 1971819 Link 0 |
Good point about the final, perhaps if the team finishing on top were to be given a home final as in other sports it would be a fairer system
mhunicean_abu (Monaghan) - Posts: 1044 - 27/03/2017 15:41:20 1971865 Link 0 |
Don't know how the hell Fermanagh beat them last week!! if_in_doubt (Kildare) - Posts: 3685 - 27/03/2017 15:53:47 1971877 Link 0 |
It's unfair that it's done on head to head in the first place. If there were home and away fixtures then fair enough but the team lucky enough to have the home fixture that particular year surely gets an advantage if it comes to head to heads. Score difference is a better reflection of the league as a whole jafallon (Galway) - Posts: 489 - 27/03/2017 16:37:18 1971900 Link 0 |
we missed out to the rossies a few seasons ago,we had a way better score difference but lost by 2 points away. i agree with you,but ye will be ok.
ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 27/03/2017 16:54:18 1971913 Link 0 |
meath hit fermanagh hard and it looked as though they could not handle it.
ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 27/03/2017 16:55:15 1971915 Link 0 |
the team that tops the league should be the league winners rhudson (Galway) - Posts: 1478 - 27/03/2017 17:05:31 1971920 Link 0 |
The score difference/head to head argument will never satisfy anyone. If it was score difference you'd have lads giving out "how can Y be ranked ahead of X on the table if X beat Y in their match? It's a disgrace!". CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1643 - 27/03/2017 17:22:25 1971932 Link 1 |
The score difference/head to head argument will never satisfy anyone. If it was score difference you'd have lads giving out "how can Y be ranked ahead of X on the table if X beat Y in their match? It's a disgrace!". if_in_doubt (Kildare) - Posts: 3685 - 27/03/2017 17:38:22 1971940 Link 0 |
meath hit fermanagh hard and it looked as though they could not handle it. if_in_doubt (Kildare) - Posts: 3685 - 27/03/2017 18:31:32 1971958 Link 0 |
It's hard to believe Kildare got promoted, but there you go- on form the best team in the division and therefore deserving of that promotion. jonno (Kildare) - Posts: 260 - 27/03/2017 18:35:59 1971962 Link 0 |
I thought there was no need for yours so I'm sure if I was that cocky you'd of have got me back for that don't deny it ha..yeah yez never showed up really maybe the heads dropped after the 2 goals ..had no great pleasure with hammering yez either ..was actually thinking on the way home from the match I'd much rather going to exciting games of the likes against cork and galway than been handed everything from the gaa and hammering everyone..a bit of success soon wouldn't go astray either all the same ha
royal7 (Meath) - Posts: 156 - 27/03/2017 18:48:18 1971970 Link 0 |
There will be no promotion for Meath this year. You would have fancied Galway at home to Kildare anyway but with Kildare already promoted they are bound to be lacking in motivation. But regardless nice to see a bit of a positive feel coming back to Meath football. I think we will beat Clare and hopefully follow up with a bit of improvement in a the coming championship. bdbuddah (Meath) - Posts: 1347 - 27/03/2017 20:45:56 1972024 Link 0 |
In the good oule days if two teams finished level on the same number of points when the league was over there was a play off. You would also have quarter-finals where the top four teams in Division One, the two teams in Division Two and the top team in Division three and Division four would go through the last eight. Can you imagine if that happened last year? The pairings you would get would of been: OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 27/03/2017 21:32:19 1972047 Link 0 |
"Throwing the game away in Cork" Another one of your classic comments RD. Cork were 9 points up at one stage whilst Meath were never more than a point up. As for Meath their certainly going in the right direction although it won't be easy down in Clare as they need the points too. Who knows what Kildare will turn up in Galway although given the potential for a Meath v Kildare Leinster semi I doubt O'Neill would want to be facing Meath in a league decider. TheWestIsAwake (UK) - Posts: 529 - 28/03/2017 11:30:13 1972189 Link 2 |