Ratoath as a club have big cocky egoes and they think there a cut above the rest. Someone should tell them that they are only a middle of the road Junior A Club and when this Minor team that they have this year moves on there isn't a lot coming through after that. And there U16 team are going to get some reality check in Division 2 when they play Curraha.

12Royal (Meath) - Posts: 987 - 20/03/2011 19:53:14    892408

Adam Flanagan from Clonard and Charles Brogan from Carnaross would make a big strong and extremely capable midfield partnership, McGill at full back with Shane Melia and Anto Forde and with players of the calibre of Willie McGrath and Bobby O'Brien up front it could be a good year for Meath minors!

alltheway (Meath) - Posts: 3 - 21/03/2011 20:09:57    893375

im sick of people talking up curragha youll all come to regret it after ratoath destroy them in the divsion 2 league

meathforsam11 (Meath) - Posts: 92 - 21/03/2011 21:56:27    893511

[quote]Someone should tell them that they are only a middle of the road Junior A Club and when this Minor team that they have this year moves on there isn't a lot coming through after that

Its completely fellacious to suggest that because Ratoath are a Junior A club they don't have an effective underage structure in place to build for the future. They have something like sixty two teams across all ages and both codes, you only have to go there any night of the week, hail rain or snow to see the work thats been put into building future success with the amount of young people training and playing, it would put a lot of 'big town' clubs to shame. The current minor team are one of the best teams seen in this county for years and many of them will certainly go on to be the backbone of future Meath teams....

Ex_Pat (USA) - Posts: 186 - 21/03/2011 21:59:11    893517

Ex Pat... Ratoath will have great success in the future and i predict a senior championship in 5 to 10 years, however your comments re putting big town clubs to shame is a bit off the mark.. Is Ratoath not a big town in all but name, I know it's technically a village but come on a village that can put out 60 teams!!! Fair play for the great club house and work going on but dont try to pretend it's a small little village.. where I'm from the village and most village similar stuggle to get out teams at various under age grades, now thats a village:)

The junior team really needs to step up..

Northmeathman (Meath) - Posts: 284 - 22/03/2011 11:44:56    893691

12 royal spot on that comment all they are is cocky

gweondaja (Meath) - Posts: 57 - 26/03/2011 21:26:36    896866

62 teams is that possible? I don't think so.

latouche25 (Meath) - Posts: 551 - 27/03/2011 09:06:52    896891

What's all the worry is about where the minors come from I was looking at them in training a big strong group of players and sure heading for at least a Leinster title this year.

scarraboy (Meath) - Posts: 70 - 27/03/2011 13:05:07    896947

alltheway you are totally right, there is good competition for places in the backs and i think cillian o sullivan from moynalvey is a certain one for the full forward role

royals_4_life (Meath) - Posts: 11 - 27/03/2011 17:46:54    897107

When was there ever a g in Curraha meathforsam11. And I dont think Curraha will regret anything after they play Ratoath. I am not saying we are going to hammer Ratoath but your not going to beat us but your not going to get anything easy in Joe McDermott Park.

12Royal (Meath) - Posts: 987 - 28/03/2011 18:16:41    898011

sorry i spelt your club wrong look if yous were good youd be in division 1 but your not ratoath have been there for years and this is there first year out of it so should easily win the division

meathforsam11 (Meath) - Posts: 92 - 29/03/2011 16:39:42    898692

Ratoath is hardly a village, according to the last census it has a bigger population than trim, kells, dunboyne or dunshaughlin, all of which are places that are considered towns.

CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1677 - 29/03/2011 18:19:12    898784

E.Wallace should be on this team seen him play 2 times this year and hes been unbelievable,he is twice as good as B.McMahon he should start for this years minors.Its a disgrace hes not on the minors.

T.Wallace (Meath) - Posts: 8 - 31/03/2011 17:10:03    900240

i agree tommy, eamon should b on it. along with the likes of lorcan donnelly whos only still 17 but a serious talent with his massive phisycal presence any team coould benifit.

domeanne (Meath) - Posts: 106 - 31/03/2011 18:17:25    900301

i also predict curragha to drop to junior b level within the next 5 years, nothing there to work on really

domeanne (Meath) - Posts: 106 - 31/03/2011 18:25:08    900306

i would agree about Lorcan Donnelly, but i feel his loyaltys lie in a different club.. pity to say the least

dermroo (Meath) - Posts: 34 - 31/03/2011 18:45:04    900323

Eamonn is the best player in the county by far

T.Wallace (Meath) - Posts: 8 - 31/03/2011 19:22:37    900350

Eamon Wallace taking most of the responsibility on now that Brian McMahon out injured. Unreal burst of speed which any full back line would find difficult to cope with. Question for Ratoath is how many of these crop of players will stick around and progress to senior level over the next few years? Their seniors are in need of some new blood and a few of this current minor team could do a job in a year or two. The physicality could go against a few tho.

mongoose (Meath) - Posts: 2 - 02/04/2011 08:15:11    901200

if ratoath are to do anythin in the future they might want to start winning a few championships, all well and good winning these leagues..but management must be at fault

shotgunwilly (Meath) - Posts: 209 - 03/04/2011 15:13:44    901942

All this talk about the town teams.. I would love to see a team come up from Div 2 and win out the Div 1 championship, it would stop all this talk about ratoath or navan or any team that think their unbeatable.. Anybody think of a team from Div 2 that would be capable of this?

royals_4_life (Meath) - Posts: 11 - 05/04/2011 19:16:55    904463