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Replying To condae99: "What's your verdict between simonstown vs Wolfe tones . Is Conor Nash still around" Simonsotwn handy Id say. The Simonstown v Dunboyne in the last round was the final in my opinion TakeYourPoints6 (Meath) - Posts: 223 - 02/10/2017 19:50:37 2052544 Link
Replying To OLLIE: "Good man Royaldunne. How is she cutting? With the way the draw works out will O'Mahoney's and Simonstown be kept apart. What are you hoping for next year for the Royals? I am delighted that Pete Mc Grath has taken over the Wee County. It's gonna be a Blues v Gaels Louth senior final. It will be the first Drawda v Fundalk Senior final since 1988. Looking forward to it." Don't know Ollie re nom simonstown. But from what I hear simonstown will probably win out. As for royals next year ? Promotion promotion promotion. Looking no further than that , I expect the wee to put in a big fight especially under a manager like McGrath. Great addition. Wow it's that long since the two principles town met. I'd say it'll be fun :) royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 17035 - 02/10/2017 20:23:13 2052553 Link
Replying To royaldunne: "Don't know Ollie re nom simonstown. But from what I hear simonstown will probably win out. As for royals next year ? Promotion promotion promotion. Looking no further than that , I expect the wee to put in a big fight especially under a manager like McGrath. Great addition. Wow it's that long since the two principles town met. I'd say it'll be fun :)" The Blues who are most successful club in the Wee County are looking to win title Number 21. They last won it in 2013. The Gaels last won it back in 1952. They are looking to win it for the fourth time. The Blues beat the Clans in 1988 Drawda/Fundalk final. Bring it on. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 02/10/2017 22:11:39 2052573 Link
Replying To TakeYourPoints6: "Simonsotwn handy Id say. The Simonstown v Dunboyne in the last round was the final in my opinion" Remember takeyourpointa who were favourites and what happened them. jake1 (Meath) - Posts: 268 - 02/10/2017 23:51:12 2052591 Link
Replying To anfearbeag: "I absolutely agree that the mess pre-dates this county board executive - apologies if I didn't make that clear. Unfortunately we have a long history in this county of ineffective county boards avoiding the hard decisions. I disagree though that this county board pushed hard for change. If they did, they did do it in a very effective manner. From what I can see, the moves for change have all come form the club delegates, with different delegates or groups of delegates pushing for a format that suits their own agenda. In my opinion what has been lacking is strong leadership from the county board. Decide on a format that works, and that will be accepted by the clubs. Do your homework in advance to ensure that you have the numbers to get the decision through. Push the vote through, and don't allow any back-tracking on it after that." Still stunned that the backtracking was allowed, truely shocking stuff. ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 03/10/2017 07:36:06 2052602 Link
Replying To TakeYourPoints6: "Simonsotwn handy Id say. The Simonstown v Dunboyne in the last round was the final in my opinion" I'd agree with that, proved to be the case last year and I expect the same outcome being honest. I see they are odds on favourites now which is probably right. I do think their full back line is a weakness however, they are there to be got it, and every team left has fairly able full forward lines. The question is how much ball you can get in to your full forward line, to do that you need to get an upper hand over Nash, SOR, Crouchy, Conlon etc around midfield, all big men, with plenty of breaking ball winners around them. Dunboyne done it for 30 minutes and ran riot, before that 2nd half. I wouldn't be surprised to see Cian Ward run riot with that space, though I just see Simonstown having too much, same for (insert whoever) in final. dunboynelad (Meath) - Posts: 198 - 03/10/2017 16:16:02 2052748 Link
Replying To TakeYourPoints6: "Simonsotwn handy Id say. The Simonstown v Dunboyne in the last round was the final in my opinion" The final will not be until a few weeks time and Dunboyne have won little in senior so I do not know where your logic comes from. The competition is pretty open with the strongest teams left in it and I would not second-guess who wins- bookies have not had a very good success in their predictions this year or indeed last year. browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2189 - 03/10/2017 17:30:40 2052768 Link
Navan O'Mahonys have every chance this year. They are quietly going about their games. Summerhill will be a tough game but NOM bench should prove the difference. Redsalltheway (Meath) - Posts: 112 - 03/10/2017 22:22:31 2052871 Link
Only reason that NOM/Summerhill are such long odds is that they have to play each other in a quarter final while Simonstown are already in the semi final. Whoever wins that game will see their odds cut by a lot. Ratoath Royal (Meath) - Posts: 1198 - 04/10/2017 08:26:14 2052902 Link
Replying To Redsalltheway: "Navan O'Mahonys have every chance this year. They are quietly going about their games. Summerhill will be a tough game but NOM bench should prove the difference." Wouldn't think o mahonys bench isn't great, apart from James o reilly they hadn't anyone to bring on the last day I expect summerhill to dispose of them Tuesday night. The tones and Kells also have light squads while simonstown and summerhill have plenty to choose from I think this will be the final pairing Northsidegaels (Meath) - Posts: 227 - 05/10/2017 13:38:12 2053300 Link
Did the two Navan clubs ever met in a Senior final? OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 05/10/2017 15:57:05 2053348 Link
Replying To OLLIE: "Did the two Navan clubs ever met in a Senior final?" Simonstown and O'Mahonys have only met eight times in senior championship 4.5. / 3.5 in Simonstown's favour. O'Mahonys won semi final meeting in 1997 Ibbecek (Meath) - Posts: 196 - 05/10/2017 16:24:22 2053372 Link
Replying To OLLIE: "Did the two Navan clubs ever met in a Senior final?" Don't think so Ollie but if one of then win it this year it will be 4 years on the trot the keegan hasn't left the town, ironic really as there was even a thread on here at the start of the year about no navan players on the county team! Northsidegaels (Meath) - Posts: 227 - 05/10/2017 16:36:34 2053377 Link
Replying To OLLIE: "Did the two Navan clubs ever met in a Senior final?" They never met in a final. Looking thru the history Navan has always been a strong GAA town with I think 38 senior titles (Simonstown adding one last year). There are 3 clubs in the Navan parish , the third one being Bective. Simonstown won the intermediate in 1995 and went senior for the first time in 1996 and were a bit unlucky to lose out in another final to Blackhall Gaels. NOM has something like 20 Keeghan cups (Keeghan cup was first presented in 1953 by Syddan in honour of Tom Keeghan who suffered a fatal injury playing in 1940)- Syddan were senior champions when Meath won their first All Ireland in 1949-someone may correct me on those stats! browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2189 - 05/10/2017 18:14:53 2053404 Link
Replying To browncows: "They never met in a final. Looking thru the history Navan has always been a strong GAA town with I think 38 senior titles (Simonstown adding one last year). There are 3 clubs in the Navan parish , the third one being Bective. Simonstown won the intermediate in 1995 and went senior for the first time in 1996 and were a bit unlucky to lose out in another final to Blackhall Gaels. NOM has something like 20 Keeghan cups (Keeghan cup was first presented in 1953 by Syddan in honour of Tom Keeghan who suffered a fatal injury playing in 1940)- Syddan were senior champions when Meath won their first All Ireland in 1949-someone may correct me on those stats!" You are spot on with everything there browncows, except for the spelling of Keegan! The cup itself was second hand - it was originally presented for a horse show in London! anfearbeag (Meath) - Posts: 1134 - 05/10/2017 20:00:53 2053435 Link
Simonstown should have enough for the double, I think the biggest threat for an upset is Wolfe Tones, good mix of youth and experience bluegossun (Meath) - Posts: 66 - 05/10/2017 23:19:19 2053462 Link
Replying To Ibbecek: "Simonstown and O'Mahonys have only met eight times in senior championship 4.5. / 3.5 in Simonstown's favour. O'Mahonys won semi final meeting in 1997" Jaysus is that all. I thought it would be more than that. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 06/10/2017 13:19:02 2053560 Link
Replying To Northsidegaels: "Don't think so Ollie but if one of then win it this year it will be 4 years on the trot the keegan hasn't left the town, ironic really as there was even a thread on here at the start of the year about no navan players on the county team!" No Navan players on the Meath team? Not even from the Champions? OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 06/10/2017 13:19:45 2053562 Link
Replying To browncows: "They never met in a final. Looking thru the history Navan has always been a strong GAA town with I think 38 senior titles (Simonstown adding one last year). There are 3 clubs in the Navan parish , the third one being Bective. Simonstown won the intermediate in 1995 and went senior for the first time in 1996 and were a bit unlucky to lose out in another final to Blackhall Gaels. NOM has something like 20 Keeghan cups (Keeghan cup was first presented in 1953 by Syddan in honour of Tom Keeghan who suffered a fatal injury playing in 1940)- Syddan were senior champions when Meath won their first All Ireland in 1949-someone may correct me on those stats!" It would be some final if the two Navan teams did meet in the final. There have been 45 Louth senior titles won by 12 different clubs at one stage or another in Drogheda. The Blues have won 20 of these and next on the list is the Tones with 5. Not bad for a soccer mad town. OLLIE (Louth) - Posts: 12224 - 06/10/2017 13:27:40 2053567 Link
Replying To OLLIE: "No Navan players on the Meath team? Not even from the Champions?" Think there was none on the team for a league game and someone set up a thread on here about it, Sean tobin and Brian conlon ended up playing regularly from simonstown aswell as Alan forde and ruairi o coileann from o mahonys, add to that the fact Nash, o rourke and mckeever couldn't play from the champions then the thread was probably a bit over the top, however I wouldn't disregard altogether the claims on here of too many south meath players on the panel when they continuously fail to perform against the big teams in the club championship Northsidegaels (Meath) - Posts: 227 - 06/10/2017 14:36:22 2053591 Link