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How Do We Improve Meath Inter County Hurling?

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very little commenatry on the hurlers, are we not happy to see them winning a few games,

ParcT (Meath) - Posts: 43 - 03/03/2026 13:14:46    2659745

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Replying To ParcT:  "very little commenatry on the hurlers, are we not happy to see them winning a few games,"
Beating London, Mayo and Derry is nice but not really anything to shout about; 2 of the 3 of them will be relegated.

It's an improvement on last year alright, but that was a pretty low bar.

CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1727 - 03/03/2026 13:58:01    2659761

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Replying To CastleBravo:  "Beating London, Mayo and Derry is nice but not really anything to shout about; 2 of the 3 of them will be relegated.

It's an improvement on last year alright, but that was a pretty low bar."
agreed, my point been that we are happy to bash the setup when there losing, i was at 2 of the games and i have to hand it to the younglads, there attitude is superb, its justa shame some of the expierenced guys are not involved this year for whatever reason. Still think there will be tough days ahead.

ParcT (Meath) - Posts: 43 - 03/03/2026 15:37:24    2659786

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Can we get a bit of perspective here

The supposed B team as they have been known as since the start of the year were quick to be criticised after the keohe cup

Have gone and beaten the last years Christy ring finalists

London comprehensively beat them last year and Derry beat a stronger team in the league this time last year


Should have gotten a result against Westmeath - last time meath went to mullingar we were beaten by 20+ points

Went to Mayo yes expected to win even with a perceived weaker team in last year and won and if memory serves me right last two times meath went to mayo they go a draw and lost

There's no getting ahead of ourselves and yes there is tougher tests down the road but considering what and who is not playing and didn't make themselves available to play what more do we want. Pairc T hit the nail on the head let's back them because they are working unbelievably hard for such a young group

Slowandonesided25 (Meath) - Posts: 12 - 04/03/2026 11:37:08    2659891

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I think the problem is this thread descend to a farce a few weeks ago and thats the reason for lack of posts.

hurlit (Meath) - Posts: 451 - 05/03/2026 09:36:42    2660052

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Replying To Slowandonesided25:  "Can we get a bit of perspective here

The supposed B team as they have been known as since the start of the year were quick to be criticised after the keohe cup

Have gone and beaten the last years Christy ring finalists

London comprehensively beat them last year and Derry beat a stronger team in the league this time last year


Should have gotten a result against Westmeath - last time meath went to mullingar we were beaten by 20+ points

Went to Mayo yes expected to win even with a perceived weaker team in last year and won and if memory serves me right last two times meath went to mayo they go a draw and lost

There's no getting ahead of ourselves and yes there is tougher tests down the road but considering what and who is not playing and didn't make themselves available to play what more do we want. Pairc T hit the nail on the head let's back them because they are working unbelievably hard for such a young group"
First to admit results and performances have been better than I expected no doubt. Some of the earlier commentary I think was more a reaction to the perceived calibre of player that wasn't available for whatever reason.
While there is still the same manager, best not forget that much change in the background and that was met with a lot of positivity in the early weeks of the season. Hennessy has certainly brought them up a level and playing a better brand of hurling.
And clearly getting rid of some of those who were not adding to the group (either from a quality or a teamwork perspective) has worked magic. I'm not within the group but others may know if the group is a tighter knit group than before.
That a number of other changes are reaping rewards e.g. new goalkeeper is a revelation, some new forwards adding scores. Christy Ring is weak and there's every chance they can be realistic in believing they can win it, given the start they've made this year.

hurlingcowboy101 (Meath) - Posts: 44 - 05/03/2026 15:19:29    2660139

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How is it that we don't have 1 player from our county champions, and Leinster Finalists, on Meath's match day panel, never mind the starting 15?

Selwyn (Meath) - Posts: 444 - 07/03/2026 13:27:52    2660420

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Replying To Selwyn:  "How is it that we don't have 1 player from our county champions, and Leinster Finalists, on Meath's match day panel, never mind the starting 15?"
I'm sure that those players were asked and turned it down, similar to many other clubs.

RR (Meath) - Posts: 192 - 07/03/2026 19:35:30    2660465

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Very good results for the Minors and U-20 over the weekend against counties currently playing adult in grades above us. But I will argue that if we could muster a full crew at Senior level we would be well able to be competitive with both Kildare and Antrim and a few others for good measure.

MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 1131 - 23/03/2026 17:02:59    2662629

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Replying To hurlit:  "I think the problem is this thread descend to a farce a few weeks ago and thats the reason for lack of posts."
Agree 100% here

Was at the game Saturday and leaving Trim I was very happy with what I saw for the most part. Played 10 minutes without our captain over a ridiculous black card and 20+mins without Damo Healy albeit for an outrageous shoulder to the chest of the Kerry man.

You throw in then that

Kyle Donnelly probably out for the year with a broken hand he suffered against Laois

Shane Whitty at this stage probably won't make it

Mark Leavey, Conor Leavey, Darren O Higgins, Cathal Barron Anthony Healy who all started games this season and Kyle Ennis and Fergal Flynn the latter coming in off the bench in games. Compared to Kerry who may have 1/2 to come back into that.

Great to see Podge and Coloe back on the pitch for the first time this season

What I have heard and this came from a member of the management team of the minors is all the big players were asked in at the start of the year with some players not asked in because of their attitude the previous season and the same big players were asked in again the week before the Kerry game to be part of the Christy ring panel and all players declined for a second time. So after that there's not much more the management team can do because from what I've heard and what is been said it's one of the best set ups meath have had in over a decade. Progress this year would be a Christy ring final no doubt but it would be similar to the footballers holding onto the current panel and developing them over a 2/3 year period and not have a revolving door where every year you have to start again and build and develop. Holding onto Hennessy will also be massively important, that member of the minor management had said granted after a few pints on Saturday night that he's been helping out a little with the minors and 20s also so developing these lads and bringing them through will be massively important to the long term development of Meath Hurling

Slowandonesided25 (Meath) - Posts: 12 - 24/03/2026 14:05:39    2662869

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