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Well done Meath, impressive stuff. realdub (Dublin) - Posts: 8596 - 05/09/2021 18:26:45 2377964 Link
The good days are back royaldunne, very proud of them young girls, what a performance hero's one and all. Royal.Legend (Meath) - Posts: 666 - 05/09/2021 18:36:41 2377972 Link
Massive congrats to the women today. Meath football well and truly pulled from the doldrums and into the 21st century. Brilliant to see all the colour out over the county over last few weeks. Kids tapping ball all over the county in meath jerseys...what a brilliant feeling. Well done to all! bert09 (Meath) - Posts: 1792 - 05/09/2021 19:31:54 2377981 Link
Haven't heard noise like that from a Meath crowd in such a long time. Bloody brilliant performance and incredibly mature game management, holding possession and wasting precious minutes. Could never have guessed that they were in their first ever senior final. Well done to the Meath support as well. Easily outnumbered Dublin and were like the 16th player at times. Ratoath Royal (Meath) - Posts: 1362 - 05/09/2021 19:43:31 2377986 Link
This Meath team has and management has to rank right up there with past great Meath teams who graced croke park royler (Meath) - Posts: 259 - 05/09/2021 19:50:32 2377989 Link
What a day a Croke park. Amazing stuff from start to finish I enjoyed every minute of that game. I brought my daughter she can take or leave it mostly. But she was shouting and cheering for Meath. Hopefully she got the GAA bug. And hopefully other young royals boys and girls have be inspired to today. I am still buzzing here. I haven't enjoyed a day like that croke park for very long time. bobkarlgees (Meath) - Posts: 1263 - 05/09/2021 20:44:02 2378008 Link
Great spirit and skill, well done Meath ladies. bdbuddah (Meath) - Posts: 1355 - 05/09/2021 21:16:30 2378017 Link
Congratulations to the Meath Senior Ladies on a fantastic All Ireland senior win today.Outstanding achievement by team and management.An Mhi abu trappatoni (Meath) - Posts: 19 - 05/09/2021 22:15:31 2378036 Link
Been a great few weeks for Meath Gaa and the feel good factor is back, brilliant performance from ladies today typical of the old Meath spirit , the minors and Ladies have made Meath people proud again Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1467 - 05/09/2021 22:28:36 2378041 Link
Replying To bobkarlgees: "What a day a Croke park. Amazing stuff from start to finish I enjoyed every minute of that game. I brought my daughter she can take or leave it mostly. But she was shouting and cheering for Meath. Hopefully she got the GAA bug. And hopefully other young royals boys and girls have be inspired to today. I am still buzzing here. I haven't enjoyed a day like that croke park for very long time." Can only echo everything that's already been said but that last point especially and my overriding feeling tonight. Locally speaking I probably haven't seen Dunboyne like that since the 90s when Sean Boylan would lead our winners back home, not sure even the Louth Leinster win ranked there in terms of the excitement and volume of green and gold from notably young folk around the village. I can't emphasise the interest these girls rightfully galvanised. It was emotional and from friends around the countys reports it appears to be replicated all over. Beating the Dubs in kepak again on the biggest stage, it's hard to find the words and we can only be grateful for this current crop. They will inspire people all over the country undoubtedly and will get the plaudits they deserve, but most importantly they have woken the sleeping giant that is Meath GAA. The last two weekends in croker have been very special, let's embrace it and build on this. We have our catalyst what can be achieved. An Mhí Abu dunboynelad (Meath) - Posts: 227 - 06/09/2021 01:53:24 2378073 Link
Congratulations to the Meath Ladies they were brilliant from start to finish jobber (Westmeath) - Posts: 1458 - 06/09/2021 07:48:35 2378086 Link
Absolutely incredible. Out thought, out worked and really dominated the 4 in a row Dubs for almost all of the game. Between this and the minors last week the county is on a massive high. There's an entire generation (anybody under 30) of Meath men and women who had never seen an all Ireland win and they've now seen 2. That creates a new interest and attachment to the county. I could see this first hand in Dunboyne, a town where unfortunately there'd often be Dublin flags and all week there was none to be seen, and there were so many kids with Meath jerseys buzzing for it. Maybe I'm getting caught up in it but it feels like the tide is turning LeitrimRoyal99 (Meath) - Posts: 1461 - 06/09/2021 09:26:02 2378103 Link
Sincere congrats to Meath Ladies on a wonderful victory yesterday. Disappointed the Jackies didn't get the 5 in a Row - but they didn't deserve it yesterday. Started off too slow, panicked with the kick-out's, their passing and their shots. Too many wides and had no answer to the Meath defensive strategy, and Meath intensity. What Eamonn (and his back room team) has achieved with this Meath ladies football team in such a short space of time is absolutely remarkable. Originally from Gowna in Cavan, he and his daughters were synonymous with the development of ladies football in Boardsmill, Co. Meath. When Meath won the All-Ireland U16 ladies title in 2009, he managed them and was assisted on the sideline by 2 of his daughters. Another of his daughters was on the team. From losing 7-22 to 3pts in a game in 2015, he took over the Meath Ladies Senior team in 2017. Under his management he has taken Meath Ladies football out of the doldrums, Meath won on a Div 3 title in 2019. and have now won back to back All Ireland Titles - Intermediate last year and now Senior All Ireland champions. With a Div 2 League title in between, earlier this year. Similar to the Dublin v Mayo and Tyrone v kerry games recently, the better management team and tactics on the day, along with the greater fitness, intensity, hunger & desire of the players, won out. ps. Saw a funny clip of your team returning last night to Trim from Croke Park. (Must have been over 2,000 supporters on the route from Batterstown to Jack Quinn's to Knightsbrook Hotel - crazy joyous scenes and a superb welcome home for the Meath ladies). Eamonn's wife was waiting for him in the Hotel lobby with a pint of Guinness in her hand to give to him. He was asked by a reporter had it sunk it yet, and Eamonn looked down at his pint, cheekily smiled & winked and said - It will probably sink in in a couple of minutes, cheers.!! ;o) - anyway Congrats again. Fair play. Fionn (Dublin) - Posts: 3733 - 06/09/2021 09:29:19 2378104 Link
Replying To royler: "This Meath team has and management has to rank right up there with past great Meath teams who graced croke park" Absolutely Royal.Legend (Meath) - Posts: 666 - 06/09/2021 09:42:20 2378108 Link
Epic performance and a thoroughly deserved win... This was NOT a smash and grab... absolutely brilliant.. Great scenes in Knightsbrook last night with youngsters getting their photos taken with their heroes... massive feel good factor all round... if you could only bottle it!!! Legends all!!! Amarach (Meath) - Posts: 49 - 06/09/2021 10:04:27 2378120 Link
Replying To Royal.Legend: "The good days are back royaldunne, very proud of them young girls, what a performance hero's one and all." Indeed they are royallegend. Hon the royal. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 06/09/2021 10:10:08 2378125 Link
Replying To Fionn: "Sincere congrats to Meath Ladies on a wonderful victory yesterday. Disappointed the Jackies didn't get the 5 in a Row - but they didn't deserve it yesterday. Started off too slow, panicked with the kick-out's, their passing and their shots. Too many wides and had no answer to the Meath defensive strategy, and Meath intensity. What Eamonn (and his back room team) has achieved with this Meath ladies football team in such a short space of time is absolutely remarkable. Originally from Gowna in Cavan, he and his daughters were synonymous with the development of ladies football in Boardsmill, Co. Meath. When Meath won the All-Ireland U16 ladies title in 2009, he managed them and was assisted on the sideline by 2 of his daughters. Another of his daughters was on the team. From losing 7-22 to 3pts in a game in 2015, he took over the Meath Ladies Senior team in 2017. Under his management he has taken Meath Ladies football out of the doldrums, Meath won on a Div 3 title in 2019. and have now won back to back All Ireland Titles - Intermediate last year and now Senior All Ireland champions. With a Div 2 League title in between, earlier this year. Similar to the Dublin v Mayo and Tyrone v kerry games recently, the better management team and tactics on the day, along with the greater fitness, intensity, hunger & desire of the players, won out. ps. Saw a funny clip of your team returning last night to Trim from Croke Park. (Must have been over 2,000 supporters on the route from Batterstown to Jack Quinn's to Knightsbrook Hotel - crazy joyous scenes and a superb welcome home for the Meath ladies). Eamonn's wife was waiting for him in the Hotel lobby with a pint of Guinness in her hand to give to him. He was asked by a reporter had it sunk it yet, and Eamonn looked down at his pint, cheekily smiled & winked and said - It will probably sink in in a couple of minutes, cheers.!! ;o) - anyway Congrats again. Fair play." Haha. That's a great story at bottom of post. Fair play royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 06/09/2021 11:23:11 2378157 Link
Super…Super….Super from start to finish. Learned a lot from the Cork game and kept the back shored up for the entire game. Has to be up there with the greatest ever performances by any team in any code ever!!! Massive Congratulations to all. And then we will have next year, but that's another year. Relish those moments. MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 1066 - 06/09/2021 14:23:41 2378225 Link
Replying To LeitrimRoyal99: "Absolutely incredible. Out thought, out worked and really dominated the 4 in a row Dubs for almost all of the game. Between this and the minors last week the county is on a massive high. There's an entire generation (anybody under 30) of Meath men and women who had never seen an all Ireland win and they've now seen 2. That creates a new interest and attachment to the county. I could see this first hand in Dunboyne, a town where unfortunately there'd often be Dublin flags and all week there was none to be seen, and there were so many kids with Meath jerseys buzzing for it. Maybe I'm getting caught up in it but it feels like the tide is turning" This is key. We have to get buy-in to the county from the thousands of Dubs who have immigrated into the county. Its the only route back to success. This past week will definitely have helped. A great week for the county. Crinigan (Meath) - Posts: 1319 - 06/09/2021 14:54:08 2378237 Link
A wonderful victory for the ladies team yesterday. Have not seen better and coming from a lower grade last year and beating a Dublin team with such experience having been unbeaten in 4 years. The showed great character, great fitness, great athleticism all over the pitch and the discipline and hunger to go with those attributes. A very interesting match to watch from start to finish with a very high level of skill. The management deserve great credit and this was a good example of what sport is all about-everyone enjoying themselves both players and management. browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2342 - 06/09/2021 15:30:56 2378259 Link