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Senior Football Championship 2021

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Congrats to the Tones, very consistent all year and got results in the tight games.

Anybody and idea why Simonstown were in relegation ? Were they missing players in group stages ?

They impressed me in the relegation game, by far the best team we played all year, huge men and ruthless.

thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 1049 - 07/11/2021 20:32:08    2388677

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Replying To Brownepat:  "Cian ward my man of the match ran the show for Tones all over the pitch vital cog in their win.

Other than lenihan dunboyne hadn't a forward good enough to win a game that was there for the taking. Tones hadn't much more but Ward led them well"
Kind of put into perspective the question many asked to his dropping off Meath panel in mod first year. It didn't make sense then. He could have went on for another couple of years at least.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 07/11/2021 21:00:24    2388679

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Congrats to the neighbours on a well earned win, I always felt dunboyne were way over hyped this year, they were tested in 2 real games, yesterday was one and the feis cup semi final was the other. They lost both. Not to take anything away from the tones but just to have a pop at their biggest supporter on here who after simonstown won 2 in a row came on to these pages criticising everything about them and saying it showed how bad meath football was. Ironic now that the year his own club wins it and I think most will agree here has been the most average senior championship in a long long time

Northsidegaels (Meath) - Posts: 237 - 08/11/2021 08:40:54    2388704

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Well done to the Tones. Deserved winners better team on the day. Cian Ward is a gem of a player and he's matured so much since he played with Meath. His all around work rate and calming influence by getting on the ball was so good and he deserves his 2nd Keegan. Also the best I've seen Thomas O'Reilly play and young guys like Saran and Oisin Martin have made huge improvements. Gutted for our lads but hopefully we'll be back. Further proof that you never know with this championship. Tones were probably 6th or 7th favourite at the start of the year in a 16 team competition

LeitrimRoyal99 (Meath) - Posts: 1462 - 08/11/2021 09:07:13    2388708

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I See half the Meath football panel lost to a club team from north meath yesterday,

Irish_downunder (Meath) - Posts: 631 - 08/11/2021 09:28:32    2388710

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Dual clubs is the way forward guys , look at trim and the tones.
You may all remove the hurls from the fires if you want to win champs

hurlit (Meath) - Posts: 416 - 08/11/2021 09:30:22    2388711

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Replying To Irish_downunder:  "I See half the Meath football panel lost to a club team from north meath yesterday,"
Good one. And the Intermediate winners not a player anywhere near the Meath panel.

stillaroyal (Meath) - Posts: 224 - 08/11/2021 10:30:39    2388720

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Congrats to the Tones on a fine win , well deserved and the best team on the day
Cian Ward and Sheppard were outstanding yesterday and in the Semi . . .like a fine wine

Unfortunately you will get clowns saying so and so won an easy championship. be it Simonstown or Tones or Ratoath , no Senior Championship is easily won

Tones did this the hard way beating ALL the alleged Favorites and I loved Cian Wards speech on LMFM afterwards
Its great to see a Rural Club win the big one and Rub the naysayers face in it

Commiserations to the Dunboyne men, wasnt their day but im sure they will bounce back . . have to laugh at people on here calling Dunboyne people Dubs when possibly the greatest Meath man of all is a Dunboyne man and gave us some of our best days as a County
Would they call him a Dub to his face or thank him for everything hes done for the county??

lagoreX (Meath) - Posts: 220 - 08/11/2021 10:31:27    2388721

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Congrats to Tones. I don't think they were even in the picture when people were talking about potential champions before the start of the season. They were drawn in the toughest group and weren't favourites in any of their knockout games so they won it in the toughest possible way in my view (beating all the champions from 2016 to 2020 along the way).
They'll go up against the Dublin champions (likely to be Kilmacud Crokes) in Leinster. That's not for another 4 weeks so I'd hope they have time to celebrate while also giving Leinster a good shot!

Ratoath Royal (Meath) - Posts: 1362 - 08/11/2021 10:33:19    2388722

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Replying To Irish_downunder:  "I See half the Meath football panel lost to a club team from north meath yesterday,"
Haha Dunboyne are the new Ratoath?

Crinigan (Meath) - Posts: 1319 - 08/11/2021 11:09:46    2388730

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Well done too Tones well deserved but I woudnt be too critical of dunboyne, Cathal finn was dunboynes best player by a mile in the semi final, he pulled his hamstring during the week and only played a half yesterday. Ronan Jones played basically played on 1 leg. They will be back as strong next year.

redser123 (Meath) - Posts: 403 - 08/11/2021 11:23:23    2388735

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Well done to the Tones, very well drilled, every player knew their role and give absolutely everything. Deserved to win. Dunboyne played like robots, basic skills very poor, looked like they hadn't met each other before the game yesterday. Very poor discipline, with a good few cheap head high tackles. they played exactly the way the Tones would have wanted them to, baffling stuff. Their line made some very strange decisions. Seems liked there are certain players who no matter what cannot be substituted. You would do well to identify any of their players as county players, let alone 6!!!

longroadback (Meath) - Posts: 325 - 08/11/2021 11:26:40    2388736

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Replying To hurlit:  "Dual clubs is the way forward guys , look at trim and the tones.
You may all remove the hurls from the fires if you want to win champs"
Well , the burning of " the sticks " did come from only one quarter .........Least we forget . But legends are allowed their comments ... And that's why they are legends , they are historic , and not present ....

Chaisleain_Abu (Meath) - Posts: 220 - 08/11/2021 12:53:08    2388755

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Replying To redser123:  "Thomas O'Reilly super 1st half, both mcentees struggled to make an impact, Donal lenihan only player to really show up for Dunboyne. Hard not to be really happy for Cian Ward. What a player he still is."
McEntee's didn't make any impact ..say it as it is ..... At all .... Our County Captain can't kick with his right foot apparently . But he's good from propaganda purposes .....

Chaisleain_Abu (Meath) - Posts: 220 - 08/11/2021 12:57:35    2388757

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Replying To Chaisleain_Abu:  "McEntee's didn't make any impact ..say it as it is ..... At all .... Our County Captain can't kick with his right foot apparently . But he's good from propaganda purposes ....."
Last time Meath played i seem to remember everyone lauding shane mcentee for his performance against Dublin, now he gets to the County final with his Club doesnt have a great game and you comment this rubbish. David has never played for Meath seniors why does he get brought into this? load of ****.

redser123 (Meath) - Posts: 403 - 08/11/2021 14:13:56    2388772

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Replying To thelutch:  "Congrats to the Tones, very consistent all year and got results in the tight games.

Anybody and idea why Simonstown were in relegation ? Were they missing players in group stages ?

They impressed me in the relegation game, by far the best team we played all year, huge men and ruthless."
Simonstown had a lot of injuries at the start of the championship. They had pretty much a full team against Tones in the Feis Cup final and bet them handy enough.

Maestro (Meath) - Posts: 569 - 08/11/2021 15:14:53    2388786

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Replying To redser123:  "Last time Meath played i seem to remember everyone lauding shane mcentee for his performance against Dublin, now he gets to the County final with his Club doesnt have a great game and you comment this rubbish. David has never played for Meath seniors why does he get brought into this? load of ****."
Don't think anyone was lauding him and claiming he'd a great game. He put in a huge hit and fair play to him but I think everyone is claiming he's a limited footballer who's bearing the brunt of people's frustrations with his father being manager and naming him as captain last year. It wasn't a clever move by Andy to do that. There were lads like Harnan, Lavin, McGill and Cillian he could've named as captain, but he chose his own son and he was always going to hammered for that. Even if Shane had an all star season, some still would've claimed he shouldn't have been on the field.

The startling thing for me is that for Dunboyne he plays as wing half back, but in a meath jersey he's at CHB or midfield which makes no sense at all. If you can't play in a central position for your club how are you playing centrally for your county.

brian (Meath) - Posts: 1954 - 08/11/2021 15:24:24    2388789

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Replying To brian:  "Don't think anyone was lauding him and claiming he'd a great game. He put in a huge hit and fair play to him but I think everyone is claiming he's a limited footballer who's bearing the brunt of people's frustrations with his father being manager and naming him as captain last year. It wasn't a clever move by Andy to do that. There were lads like Harnan, Lavin, McGill and Cillian he could've named as captain, but he chose his own son and he was always going to hammered for that. Even if Shane had an all star season, some still would've claimed he shouldn't have been on the field.

The startling thing for me is that for Dunboyne he plays as wing half back, but in a meath jersey he's at CHB or midfield which makes no sense at all. If you can't play in a central position for your club how are you playing centrally for your county."
Shane Mc actually played a good bit of the game at midfield yesterday. I think Conor O Donoghue liked to use him at wing back so they can isolate a weak wing forward and have Shane drive forward. That wasn't going to work yesterday as he would have at to pick up Thomas O Reilly or Stephen Sheppard

UsernameInvalid (Meath) - Posts: 355 - 08/11/2021 16:58:56    2388797

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Replying To Maestro:  "Simonstown had a lot of injuries at the start of the championship. They had pretty much a full team against Tones in the Feis Cup final and bet them handy enough."
If they can keep injury free next year and stick together they will be right in the mix.

We were able to compete in all championship games played this year except them in quarter final of relegation.

thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 1049 - 08/11/2021 17:41:47    2388807

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Well done Wolfe Tones. Commiserations to Dunboyne on losing a final…weren't the first and won't be the last, 14 others had been eliminated before yesterday. Also please desist from kicking a particular person when he's probably feeling a bit down. All are volunteers.

MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 1066 - 08/11/2021 18:22:18    2388810

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