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Replying To royaldunne: "Exactly. I couldn't believe my ears. I was all excited for the draw, but now I'm worried that it's fixed." Can only presume he just made an assumption and got it wrong. Can't see anything anywhere the match what he said. It will be interesting to see how the draw actually pans out now, IF we are lucky enough to be in it. Jinxie (Meath) - Posts: 6347 - 30/04/2022 20:05:15 2414250 Link
Replying To Jinxie: "Can only presume he just made an assumption and got it wrong. Can't see anything anywhere the match what he said. It will be interesting to see how the draw actually pans out now, IF we are lucky enough to be in it." Yeah must have. Got to be honest it threw me. But like you said must have been a mistake. As it isn't anywhere. But like you said. IF we in draw it will be interesting to see who we draw. Better not be dubs after that. :) royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 30/04/2022 21:33:40 2414268 Link
Best of luck to Andy Cillian and the lads today. Ye can't beat Championship Sundays. It's all been leading to this. I think we could be at the start of a long summer hopefully. Wicklow need to respected but we should win by 12. Hon the Royal! Evernal (Meath) - Posts: 74 - 01/05/2022 10:33:00 2414311 Link
Want to wish Andy cillian and all the players and management the very best for today. Let's lay down a marker that we are serious about Leinster and leave the league behind us. Hon the royal royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 01/05/2022 10:46:09 2414316 Link
Are tickets available on day or what's the story? Not the easiest getting them online. winatallcost (Meath) - Posts: 587 - 01/05/2022 11:22:38 2414323 Link
Super start, but been a bit laboured in some of the build up play since. Although it has to be noted how much Wicklow have the scoring zone between the 14 and 45 packed. As soon as we get possession they have it flooded. Menton cut through well a couple of times Hope the 2 frees haven't damaged O'Connor's confidence because he had started well. Fingers crossed we can push on now in the 2nd half Jinxie (Meath) - Posts: 6347 - 01/05/2022 14:50:21 2414369 Link
10 point win and a 4-goal showing. Youd have to be happy with that in any championship outing. The concession of the late goal wont go down well. Workmanlike performance and ultimately a victory for superior fitness and squad over a team who got tired. All the same, well done and heres to the semi-final draw! Young_gael (Meath) - Posts: 596 - 01/05/2022 15:53:05 2414378 Link
When is the draw on? Jinxie (Meath) - Posts: 6347 - 01/05/2022 17:13:11 2414404 Link
Replying To Jinxie: "When is the draw on?" Tonight on Sunday game Meath32245 (Meath) - Posts: 75 - 01/05/2022 17:36:42 2414410 Link
Hmmm. What can I say ? The draw wasn't kind to us. That been said. I still think we have a chance. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 03/05/2022 10:23:43 2414488 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Hmmm. What can I say ? The draw wasn't kind to us. That been said. I still think we have a chance." Whatever way the draw went - we would have had to play Kildare or Dublin at some stage to win Leinster! Wexford didn't put up much of a challenge against the Dubs so maybe we will go in with a better test behind us! I know it took us a while to put Wicklow away but we did look like we had a better balance to the team! Menton was excellent and we looked decent from the bench too!! Royalblufill (Meath) - Posts: 511 - 03/05/2022 10:37:41 2414494 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Hmmm. What can I say ? The draw wasn't kind to us. That been said. I still think we have a chance." God bless your optimistic view on this. We scored 12 points Dublin scored double that. We will need to score another 4 goals to get within 10 points of them. Dublin look back to something near their best, o'Callaghan looks unmarkable with Rock and Kilkenny rejuvenated our defence will be under severe pressure and how can we possibly even get parity in mid field. latouche25 (Meath) - Posts: 532 - 03/05/2022 10:53:24 2414498 Link
Replying To latouche25: "God bless your optimistic view on this. We scored 12 points Dublin scored double that. We will need to score another 4 goals to get within 10 points of them. Dublin look back to something near their best, o'Callaghan looks unmarkable with Rock and Kilkenny rejuvenated our defence will be under severe pressure and how can we possibly even get parity in mid field." It was Wexford they played. Lord above Thejoeshow (Meath) - Posts: 687 - 03/05/2022 11:59:08 2414529 Link
Replying To Royalblufill: "Whatever way the draw went - we would have had to play Kildare or Dublin at some stage to win Leinster! Wexford didn't put up much of a challenge against the Dubs so maybe we will go in with a better test behind us! I know it took us a while to put Wicklow away but we did look like we had a better balance to the team! Menton was excellent and we looked decent from the bench too!!" I agree Menton was very good on Sunday but we were awful. bert09 (Meath) - Posts: 1807 - 03/05/2022 11:59:34 2414530 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Hmmm. What can I say ? The draw wasn't kind to us. That been said. I still think we have a chance." We always have a chance boss but Dublin will humiliate us....again. bert09 (Meath) - Posts: 1807 - 03/05/2022 12:01:29 2414532 Link
Sunday the lads did what they had to but still don't rate the team at all. Unless they're being trained to peak for two weeks time they looked miles off the pace. Appreciate Andy saying Wicklow had a game but lads just weren't at the pitch of it at all The fact our two best players were our two longest serving and oldest players says it all. Keoghan and Menton were a class above anything else we had. We scored 17 times against Wicklow, do that against Dublin and we'll not even be in the running. Same old failings, long periods without scoring, missing scoreable free's and Andy still hounding officials like nobodies business. McQuillans ear was chewed off at one point. I never thought I'd say this but we don't have the players currently and are middle of the bunch 12-20th ranked team at best. Much and all as i give Andy a lot of criticism, the players have been getting away scott free for a long time and now its clear as a day there's issues there too. I think Andy's reign is petering out and we might get a lucky draw in the first round of qualifiers but that's our lot. We're a dozen years removed from a Leinster title and we're not even remotely close to being any better than we were back then. Andy unfortunately will leave things in the same position he took over from MOD, a rabble of a squad that might see several long serving players leaving brian (Meath) - Posts: 1973 - 03/05/2022 12:18:46 2414545 Link
Probably would have liked Dublin in the final for the extra time to prepare but we were going to have to play them at some point. Think people are reading in to the Wicklow and Wexford games too much. Meath were always just there to get the job done, we were never in doubt about winning the game. Looking at Wexford was like looking at a bad junior team, Dublin have more competitive in-house games. Think with the likes of Scully, O'Connor and Jones we are more well equipped to take on this Dublin team. Costello has to start the next day and I'm not sure if I would have James McEntee playing. I know one thing for sure and that's we won't fear the Dubs. Hope Andy and backroom team paid notice to the Limerick Clare game that went to penalties. Maybe practice a bit after training and have 5 lads picked just in case but I think we can get it done in normal time. Barney12345 (Meath) - Posts: 33 - 03/05/2022 13:27:17 2414579 Link
Replying To bert09: "I agree Menton was very good on Sunday but we were awful." No doubt BM played well and his four points badly needed, but as you say overall we were once again poor and Wicklow gave as good as they got until running out of gas early in second half. Still that inability to kick points from play and missing easy frees got some good goals but not a chance that will happen against decent teams. A few high balls into our square caused all sort of trouble with nobody willing to take control. Once again highly dependent on two or three older lads to pull us through. Dublin looked in total control, I know some will say its only Wexford, however, same type of opposition for us, yet we struggled and conceeded 13 scores and only scored 17. seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2195 - 03/05/2022 14:26:07 2414610 Link
Replying To Thejoeshow: "It was Wexford they played. Lord above" Wexford beat Offaly…..we drew with Offaly…… I know it was only League but the best indicator we have at this time of the year, so I wouldn't decry the Model county too much. On the other hand we gave Derry plenty to think about, albeit in the League and they demolished Tyrone. This points to erratic form but a more plausible explanation is probably the return of Menton and Jones to the team towards the end of the League. Still think we will need everybody on board to double up on their performances to date and lots of luck to down the Dubs. MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 1080 - 03/05/2022 14:46:56 2414622 Link
Replying To seadog54: "No doubt BM played well and his four points badly needed, but as you say overall we were once again poor and Wicklow gave as good as they got until running out of gas early in second half. Still that inability to kick points from play and missing easy frees got some good goals but not a chance that will happen against decent teams. A few high balls into our square caused all sort of trouble with nobody willing to take control. Once again highly dependent on two or three older lads to pull us through. Dublin looked in total control, I know some will say its only Wexford, however, same type of opposition for us, yet we struggled and conceeded 13 scores and only scored 17." Cant see us troubling Dublin, we still are one of the only county teams in the country with no free taker. We simply cant compete with Dublin around the Mid field area, only hope is to drop 13 behind the ball and defend our own 45 metre line, dubs don't have long distance scorers. Try hit them on the counter if we can turn them over. Try stay in the game as long as possible If we go man to man we can forget about it. Be ate alive. thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 1073 - 03/05/2022 14:54:44 2414626 Link