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Championship draws 2018

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Replying To Royalblufill:  "Senior: Wolfe Tones - Did well in 2017 and finished season off with Under 21 success.
Intermediate: Dunderry
Junior: Carnaross
Junior B: ??"
Senior - Dunboyne or Ratoath

Intermediate - Dunderry

Junior

Junior B Kilbride or Slane with Na Fianna or Simonstown in with a shout depending on injuries

Bear10 (Meath) - Posts: 328 - 07/03/2018 13:34:38    2082446

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Replying To baldmeathman:  "summerhill to lift keegan cup this year.dunboyne or ratoath in final."
Could be the other way round with Dunboyne winning with one of the other 2 in final !!

Bear10 (Meath) - Posts: 328 - 07/03/2018 13:43:57    2082449

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Replying To bobjaffacake:  "Blackhall are certainties to go down. The club are a shambles from top to bottom."
Many good people with brains in their heads have long lost interest in that club at this stage, left the asylum to be run by the lunatics.

Crinigan (Meath) - Posts: 926 - 07/03/2018 15:42:20    2082478

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Replying To Analyst:  "Group A Dunboyne, Ashbourne and Simonstown in that order
Group B Summerhill, Skryne and O mahoneys
Group C Ratoath, Tones and Moynalvey

Relegation Blackhall, St Pats and na fianna with Blackhall to go

Intermediate is between Nobber, Dunderry and Oldcastle. Meath hill to go down

A Second string to win junior A"
Ur mad in the head if u tink meath hill will go down,, 1st of all ur wrong
2nd of all on what form could u possibly base that on
3rd of all maybe ur from drumconrath?? ;)

otherlad (Meath) - Posts: 136 - 08/03/2018 09:49:24    2082626

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Replying To otherlad:  "Ur mad in the head if u tink meath hill will go down,, 1st of all ur wrong
2nd of all on what form could u possibly base that on
3rd of all maybe ur from drumconrath?? ;)"
No i actually have great time for Meath hill. Longwood will be the crunch match for them. I hope i am wrong on this one but i am basing it on how hard they found it to beat a poor Moylough outfit in junior final last year. Any team stepping up finds it tough usually. Just look at St Colmcilles

Analyst (Meath) - Posts: 1338 - 08/03/2018 10:40:33    2082639

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Replying To Analyst:  "No i actually have great time for Meath hill. Longwood will be the crunch match for them. I hope i am wrong on this one but i am basing it on how hard they found it to beat a poor Moylough outfit in junior final last year. Any team stepping up finds it tough usually. Just look at St Colmcilles"
Dont see Meath Hill going down, lot of good young players mixed with a few very experienced. They got a good group also and will fancy their chances of getting out of it, their localish derby with Syddan in round 2 could be crucial to both teams years, I wonder where that will be played?????...

longroadback (Meath) - Posts: 300 - 08/03/2018 12:22:55    2082677

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Replying To longroadback:  "Dont see Meath Hill going down, lot of good young players mixed with a few very experienced. They got a good group also and will fancy their chances of getting out of it, their localish derby with Syddan in round 2 could be crucial to both teams years, I wonder where that will be played?????..."
Meath Hill will struggle. There are no easy groups and Syddan will see this game as a banker

pretender (Meath) - Posts: 358 - 08/03/2018 12:37:58    2082681

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Replying To I_Play_County:  "The draws are made and the real football season starts in 5 weeks!!

Who do we fancy in each grade?! Who has got the tough dates?!

Senior - I'm predicting O'Mahonys to rediscover their moho and to be closely followed by Kells.

Inter - Nobber or Dunderry for me. Dunderry with the easier group.

Junior A - Carnaross or a strong 2nd team.

Junior B - Kilbride look a cert for me. Slane I assume will get their act together and push them.

What do people reckon?!"
Slane won't be anywhere near it with Podge MacGowan out injured

Simonstown and Kilbride will be the teams to beat.

Belt (Meath) - Posts: 205 - 08/03/2018 13:48:13    2082691

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Replying To Crinigan:  "Many good people with brains in their heads have long lost interest in that club at this stage, left the asylum to be run by the lunatics."
What's going wrong with Blackhall?

Dual Senior club in fairness to them

Belt (Meath) - Posts: 205 - 08/03/2018 13:50:49    2082694

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Not for much longer,They have no underage hurling teams what's so ever which is a disgrace for a senior hurling club. The football is no better.they have to join with moynalvey to field underage football teams.very badly run club from what I hear

bobjaffacake (Meath) - Posts: 1398 - 08/03/2018 16:29:00    2082752

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Replying To pretender:  "Meath Hill will struggle. There are no easy groups and Syddan will see this game as a banker"
dont think its a banker by any stretch, but agree Syddan are favourites, think Meath Hill might spring a surprise or 2 along the way, though having to play there beloved neighbours the week before the start of the championship in the Tailteann Cup Final is not ideal, even though they will beat them by a point a man

longroadback (Meath) - Posts: 300 - 08/03/2018 16:34:18    2082755

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Replying To longroadback:  "dont think its a banker by any stretch, but agree Syddan are favourites, think Meath Hill might spring a surprise or 2 along the way, though having to play there beloved neighbours the week before the start of the championship in the Tailteann Cup Final is not ideal, even though they will beat them by a point a man"
Think Meath Hill might surprise a few people, dont forget they have been playing in Div 2 of the league for the past two years.
Also, longroadback, playing Drum wouldnt be the worst thing for them, itll be like a championship match so as long as they dont pick up knock or suspensions itll be great prep fro them in my opinion

juicy (Meath) - Posts: 384 - 08/03/2018 16:52:27    2082760

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Replying To juicy:  "Think Meath Hill might surprise a few people, dont forget they have been playing in Div 2 of the league for the past two years.
Also, longroadback, playing Drum wouldnt be the worst thing for them, itll be like a championship match so as long as they dont pick up knock or suspensions itll be great prep fro them in my opinion"
Agree... it will certainly have championship intensity but think Drumcondrath struggling badly this year, struggled to get a team to play recent A league game.

longroadback (Meath) - Posts: 300 - 08/03/2018 17:17:01    2082766

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Anybody know where you would get the championship draws round by round fixtures ....tried meath gaa championship but no joy..

ghostrider (Meath) - Posts: 28 - 09/03/2018 14:47:52    2082953

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Replying To ghostrider:  "Anybody know where you would get the championship draws round by round fixtures ....tried meath gaa championship but no joy.."
its up on the website under competitions, championships

longroadback (Meath) - Posts: 300 - 09/03/2018 15:40:47    2082972

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Replying To ghostrider:  "Anybody know where you would get the championship draws round by round fixtures ....tried meath gaa championship but no joy.."
all on meath website,just click on competitions and then choose which championship and they are all there

thelutch (Meath) - Posts: 856 - 09/03/2018 15:51:49    2082977

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Replying To bobjaffacake:  "Not for much longer,They have no underage hurling teams what's so ever which is a disgrace for a senior hurling club. The football is no better.they have to join with moynalvey to field underage football teams.very badly run club from what I hear"
Wow! I knew it was bad in batterstown but didn't think that bad.

On another note, when looking through the fixtures, groups etc I noticed St. Pauls are Junior C. Very disappointing for them. I didnt know they were relegated from Junior B last year. Is there not a divide between themselves & Dunboyne? I mean a Parish divide. Surely players in Clonee, The Mayne, Bracetown and surrounds east of M3 all play for St. Pauls and not Dunboyne.

David (Meath) - Posts: 566 - 09/03/2018 20:51:33    2083039

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Was there a draw for junior C or D made. Or do those competitions not matter. No sign of them anywhere

latouche25 (Meath) - Posts: 325 - 09/03/2018 21:53:26    2083053

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Junior C draw is published along with the others. Junior D tends to be left until last, as they don't know how many teams will be taking part until later in the year.

On the St. Pauls thing. I'd say it's tough for any young lad to consider playing for St. Pauls if Dunboyne is also an option.

Choose St. Pauls and you'll spend your career getting tankings against 2nd and 3rd teams.
Choose Dunboyne and they have competitive Senior and Junior A teams, and the worst you can do is play junior B for their 3rd team.

CastleBravo (Meath) - Posts: 1391 - 09/03/2018 22:11:34    2083056

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Replying To CastleBravo:  "Junior C draw is published along with the others. Junior D tends to be left until last, as they don't know how many teams will be taking part until later in the year.

On the St. Pauls thing. I'd say it's tough for any young lad to consider playing for St. Pauls if Dunboyne is also an option.

Choose St. Pauls and you'll spend your career getting tankings against 2nd and 3rd teams.
Choose Dunboyne and they have competitive Senior and Junior A teams, and the worst you can do is play junior B for their 3rd team."
Yeah i get that. Definitely the draw would always be to play for the "senior" club with prospects of success and if your good enough playing senior club championship. Also the possibility of getting recognised (if good enough) for county development squads and/or senior county panel, is probably greater, with Dunboyne rather than St. Pauls in this instance. However, I would have thought that the county board would have a clear divide between the 2 clubs in the parish. Thus aiding St. Pauls development.

For example, and I'm open to correction here, but did an (imaginary) divide not be drawn in Navan, to separate O'Mahonys (town centre & Brews hill side) and Simonstown (east of m2, racecourse road) and then Bective out the Balreask Old side of the town. And sure look how well the three clubs are developing, granted at differing rates and degrees.

If this was the case their club (St. Pauls) could evolve under correct structures and guidance from their members.

David (Meath) - Posts: 566 - 09/03/2018 22:41:22    2083064

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