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Given how quiet it is this time of year, its a good chance to see how each team rates across the different grade. Think Ive got all teams and in the correct grade for next yr (slow day in the office) Senior: BLACKHALL GAELS CURRAHA DONAGHMORE/ASHBOURNE DUNSHAUGHLIN GAEIL COLMCILLE MOYNALVEY NA FIANNA O'MAHONY'S RATHKENNY RATOATH SENESCHALSTOWN SIMONSTOWN SKRYNE ST. COLMCILLE'S ST. PATRICK'S ST. PETER'S SUMMERHILL WOLFE TONES Inter: BALLINABRACKEY BALLINLOUGH BECTIVE CASTLETOWN DRUMBARAGH DUNDERRY DULEEK-BELLEWSTOWN KILMAINHAM LONGWOOD MEATH HILL NOBBER OLDCASTLE ST. MICHAEL'S ST. ULTAN'S SYDDAN TRIM WALTERSTOWN Junior A: BALLIVOR CARNAROSS CLANN NA nGAEL CLONARD CORTOWN DRUMCONRATH DUNSANY KILMAINHAMWOOD MOYNALTY MOYLAGH ST. BRIGID'S ST. VINCENT'S Junior B: BOARDSMILL KILBRIDE SLANE ST. MARY'S ST. PAUL'S juicy (Meath) - Posts: 384 - 06/12/2017 12:34:03 2064532 Link
Senior is berween Dunboyne, Tones and Ratoath. All 3 have a lot of quality under 21's and Minors coming through Nobber for Intermediate as they too have 4 quality young lads who will add a lot to what was not that far away this year. A second string could well win the Junior Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1338 - 06/12/2017 12:57:13 2064536 Link
After the first 5/6 and bottom 2/3 not a whole lot separates the rest in the middle so they could be in any order really from Moynalvey as far as Colmcilles Senior: Simonstown Summerhill Dunboyne Ratoath Tones Don/Ash Gaeil Colmcille Moynalvey O' Mahonies Na Fianna Dunshauglin Curraha Skryne Senchalstown St Pats St. Colmcilles Rathkenny Blackhall TakeYourPoints6 (Meath) - Posts: 223 - 06/12/2017 13:03:02 2064539 Link
1. Simonstown county champions 2. Wolfe Tones league winners 3. Summerhill beaten SFC final and league semi 4. Ratoath 5. Dunboyne 6. Kells 7. Don/ash Friday cup winners 8. Omahonys 9. Moynalvey 10. Na fianna 11. St pats 12 Dunshaughlin 13 seneschalstown 14. st colmcilles 15. Skryne 16. Rathkenny 17. Blackhall 18 curraha until they prove themselves Brownepat (Meath) - Posts: 463 - 06/12/2017 17:19:42 2064555 Link
Interesting!- if folk keep posting Rathoath and Dunboyne on a continuous basis then one day they will be correct. Underage success does not make senior success a certainty although it is does help. Some players develop into much better players at older age. Ratoath have been successful for the last 10 years at underage with good teams all along, but only got into the senior championship last year (the club were the obvious club of the year followed by the Tones this year). It could be argued that Dun/Ash had one of the best minor teams having won the Leinster minor, they have had some great underage teams over the last 12 plus years and have still not got to the summit- (I suppose one could say that they were a bit unlucky). I predicted last year that the winners would be a team that won it in the last six years (two of those teams competed in the final). Simonstown would have to be favourites having won it this year, but there are no certainties. Not much between the top 5 or 6 teams (not the order that is given on this tread) browncows (Meath) - Posts: 2189 - 06/12/2017 17:57:24 2064559 Link
1. St Michaels 2. Oldcastle 3. Dunderry 4. Nobber 5. Ballinabrackey 6. Don/Ash 7. Duleek 8. Ballinlough 9. Trim 10. Walterstown 11. Bective 12. Castletown 13. Kilmainham 14. Syddan 15 St Ultans 16 Meath Hill 17 Drumbaragh 18 Longwood Brownepat (Meath) - Posts: 463 - 07/12/2017 09:45:44 2064594 Link
Replying To Analyst: "Senior is berween Dunboyne, Tones and Ratoath. All 3 have a lot of quality under 21's and Minors coming through Nobber for Intermediate as they too have 4 quality young lads who will add a lot to what was not that far away this year. A second string could well win the Junior" bad start to the year for the 3 meath super-clubs. search parties have been sent to south meath in the hope of finding these young superstars after none were sighted in the recent losses to relegation candidates skryne and st. pats. enquires are also ongoing in kilberry and wilkinstown after an 18 point mauling in their recent match where they mustered an impressive 2 points. Northsidegaels (Meath) - Posts: 227 - 06/02/2018 17:20:10 2074624 Link
Replying To Northsidegaels: "bad start to the year for the 3 meath super-clubs. search parties have been sent to south meath in the hope of finding these young superstars after none were sighted in the recent losses to relegation candidates skryne and st. pats. enquires are also ongoing in kilberry and wilkinstown after an 18 point mauling in their recent match where they mustered an impressive 2 points." No medals given out this time of year. I said in previous posts that the league in Meath is now viewed as a warm up for serious games later in business end of year Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1338 - 07/02/2018 09:55:51 2074746 Link
There are a couple of things I would say on this! * Those who have said good underage teams doesn't mean good adult teams are absolutely right. I was talking to a couple of lads from Don/Ash and Ratoath in Dunganny last weekend and they said that less than 50% of their minor teams transfer through to adult football. * Was talking to a chap from Cilles - and he said that a lot of their Minor winning team of 2016 are now in College and or working and they just cannot comit to the training schedule expected of Senior players * If you were looking at league results you wouldn't be giving teh likes of Ratoath much hope - but they have 9 firts team players tied up with the County Footballers and Hurlers. I know other teams are impacted but I don't think to that extent! * In fact, I think it is fair to say that all the County players are lost to the clubs for the league. Ratoath will do well to stay in Division 1! Royalblufill (Meath) - Posts: 284 - 07/02/2018 10:10:04 2074751 Link
Replying To Northsidegaels: "bad start to the year for the 3 meath super-clubs. search parties have been sent to south meath in the hope of finding these young superstars after none were sighted in the recent losses to relegation candidates skryne and st. pats. enquires are also ongoing in kilberry and wilkinstown after an 18 point mauling in their recent match where they mustered an impressive 2 points." I am laughing at your '3 meath super clubs' remark. I presume you mean Dunboyne, Donaghmore/Ashbourne and Ratoath. What is funny about it is that neither Ashbourne or Ratoath have ever won the Keegan Cup! In fact I think Ratoath are only oin their second year as a Senior Club - hardly grounds to be a super club!! Royalblufill (Meath) - Posts: 284 - 07/02/2018 11:14:17 2074760 Link
Replying To Royalblufill: "I am laughing at your '3 meath super clubs' remark. I presume you mean Dunboyne, Donaghmore/Ashbourne and Ratoath. What is funny about it is that neither Ashbourne or Ratoath have ever won the Keegan Cup! In fact I think Ratoath are only oin their second year as a Senior Club - hardly grounds to be a super club!!" wow!!! i doubt many people reading my post wouldn't have sensed the sarcasm apart from yourself. maybe try reading the conversation before jumping the gun read the comment i replied to. PS ashbourne???? come on lad Northsidegaels (Meath) - Posts: 227 - 07/02/2018 17:32:52 2074840 Link
Replying To Northsidegaels: "wow!!! i doubt many people reading my post wouldn't have sensed the sarcasm apart from yourself. maybe try reading the conversation before jumping the gun read the comment i replied to. PS ashbourne???? come on lad" I am a little slow on the uptake - or maybe my post was also sacarstic in support of yours!! At least we are on teh same page!! Royalblufill (Meath) - Posts: 284 - 08/02/2018 14:20:31 2075015 Link
Replying To Brownepat: "1. St Michaels 2. Oldcastle 3. Dunderry 4. Nobber 5. Ballinabrackey 6. Don/Ash 7. Duleek 8. Ballinlough 9. Trim 10. Walterstown 11. Bective 12. Castletown 13. Kilmainham 14. Syddan 15 St Ultans 16 Meath Hill 17 Drumbaragh 18 Longwood" Good man Pat, Intermediate will be very competitive, I think you are close on some of them but miles off on others, time will tell I suppose, Think Oldcastle are the team to watch, will be very disappointed the way the Semi Final went last year, others down the bottom of your rankings will go close to though, all depends on the draw. Ballinabrackey are on the slide in my opinion. longroadback (Meath) - Posts: 300 - 08/02/2018 14:40:36 2075019 Link
Replying To Royalblufill: "I am laughing at your '3 meath super clubs' remark. I presume you mean Dunboyne, Donaghmore/Ashbourne and Ratoath. What is funny about it is that neither Ashbourne or Ratoath have ever won the Keegan Cup! In fact I think Ratoath are only oin their second year as a Senior Club - hardly grounds to be a super club!!" Donaghmore won 3 Senior football titles. When they became Donaghmore Ashbourne it was simply a case of adding Ashbourne to the name. They didn't amalgamate or form a new club. CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1391 - 08/02/2018 18:56:17 2075076 Link
Duleek and Nobber will be there or thereabouts. Michaels have a lot to do to come anywhere near last years standard Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1338 - 08/02/2018 19:00:57 2075079 Link
1. Oldcastle 2. Dunderry 3. Nobber 4. St Michaels 5. Don/Ash 6. Duleek 7. Trim 8. Ballinlough 9. Ballinabrackey 10. Bectice 11. Castletown 12. Syddan 13. Kilmainham 14. Walterstown 15 Meath Hill 16 Longwood 17 St Ultans 18 Drumbaragh Meathmaster (Meath) - Posts: 251 - 10/02/2018 11:15:53 2075379 Link
Replying To CastleBravo: "Donaghmore won 3 Senior football titles. When they became Donaghmore Ashbourne it was simply a case of adding Ashbourne to the name. They didn't amalgamate or form a new club." If you read the article again,it says that they didn't win the Keegan cup. jake1 (Meath) - Posts: 268 - 10/02/2018 13:30:22 2075400 Link
Replying To Northsidegaels: "bad start to the year for the 3 meath super-clubs. search parties have been sent to south meath in the hope of finding these young superstars after none were sighted in the recent losses to relegation candidates skryne and st. pats. enquires are also ongoing in kilberry and wilkinstown after an 18 point mauling in their recent match where they mustered an impressive 2 points." Is there an enquiry in Simonstown after their 14 point mauling at the hands of unproven whipper snappers from Ratoath ? See Dunboyne and Tones also won. But unlike yourself i wouldn't think any of them are getting over excited Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1338 - 12/02/2018 16:22:37 2076310 Link
Replying To Analyst: "Is there an enquiry in Simonstown after their 14 point mauling at the hands of unproven whipper snappers from Ratoath ? See Dunboyne and Tones also won. But unlike yourself i wouldn't think any of them are getting over excited" I think Simonstown gave Tones an 18 point absolute mauling the week before so read form that what you want Maestro (Meath) - Posts: 473 - 12/02/2018 16:50:39 2076323 Link
Replying To Analyst: "Is there an enquiry in Simonstown after their 14 point mauling at the hands of unproven whipper snappers from Ratoath ? See Dunboyne and Tones also won. But unlike yourself i wouldn't think any of them are getting over excited" I wouldn't think there will be an inquiry either! With the county game called off Ratoath were able to field with McGill, Power, Wallace and McMahon - mind you Simonstown fielded with Conlon and McKeever although according to the match report Conlon only lasted about 15 minutes. Royalblufill (Meath) - Posts: 284 - 12/02/2018 16:52:19 2076326 Link