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Meath V Clare

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Replying To Royalio11:  "Well done Meath. Got the business done today in harsh conditions.

I only caught some parts of the game on radio but it would appear we dug in for the win once we got in front.

A good performance next Sunday in Navan will see us through to Division 1.



Royaloptimist is probably expecting Meath to capitulate and lose to Fermanagh by 15 points.

#Royalpessimist"
I think to be fair if you read some of my comments earlier in the campaign I thought that we should beat both Clare and Fermanagh as we have had to do before but then it was to ensure safety in the division.

ROYALOPTIMIST (Meath) - Posts: 178 - 17/03/2019 20:39:04    2173212

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Replying To Jack_Goff:  "Vital win today. Promotion looking very likely. Hoping Fermanagh beat us narrowly this weekend and Kildare beat Donegal. It's better for us next year if Fermanagh go up to Div 1 and Kildare/Donegal stay in Div 2.

Looking at the campaign so far the performances from the team deserved to have us unbeaten but valuable lessons were learned from that defeat. Not guaranteed yet but a big day out in Croker is long overdue. Navan should be packed this weekend."
Whilst I agree with your sentiments I think it can be dangerous to think like that so for me I would just let the cards fall as they will and not worry about who we play in Division 1 if we get there (and we should).

I would consider making some changes to the team though but i do not think we will as we are not yet guaranteed promotion.

I still remember 2017 when going into the last round of games we needed to beat Clare and hope that Kildare beat Galway in order for us to be promoted. Kildare were assured of promotion and made 12 / 13 changes to their team which more or less guaranteed that they would not win and we finished 3rd. It would have been nice to repay the Lilywhites in kind this year.

ROYALOPTIMIST (Meath) - Posts: 178 - 17/03/2019 20:51:54    2173218

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Replying To royaldunne:  "Two words. Graham Reilly.
What a player , without him coming on and doing everything from defending scoring goal, getting fouled for frees calming other players setting up scores. Legend is too small a word for this man."
Yes biggy has found his role as a super sub what a man to bring on, hon the royals, next Sunday should be a great day out, I wonder will royaloptimist stand with the fermanagh supporters

Royal.Legend (Meath) - Posts: 461 - 17/03/2019 21:00:53    2173222

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Great win back in Div 1 Now brilliant stuff

gardentree (Meath) - Posts: 194 - 17/03/2019 21:02:56    2173223

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Replying To royaldunne:  "Drop him? Nah ,but he still makes too many mistakes for my liking, ,has potential definitely just needs to iron out the errors, had a good game, but I could name 5 ahead of him for motm. But the clear motm was Cillian O'Sullivan and to say otherwise is nonsense"
Fair enough RD. Is biggie still injured? Is that why he came off the bench?

Barney123 (Meath) - Posts: 676 - 17/03/2019 21:29:15    2173234

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well done meath
welcome back to top table div 1
the next step is to try and stay in div 1
we in galway spent a long time in div 2
its a hard one to get out of for sure
one week you could be in promotion hunt
a few weeks later you could be fighting relagation
thank god in our case the timing was good
as we have a lot of young players coming through
and there getting exposure to div 1 football

rhudson (Galway) - Posts: 1216 - 17/03/2019 22:01:02    2173251

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Replying To ROYALOPTIMIST:  "I think to be fair if you read some of my comments earlier in the campaign I thought that we should beat both Clare and Fermanagh as we have had to do before but then it was to ensure safety in the division."
Tongue in cheek comment on my part do not take it to heart.

Royalio11 (Meath) - Posts: 750 - 17/03/2019 22:18:29    2173256

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Won comfortably enough in the end but it would be great to see the team playing to a good standard for the full 70 minutes. We were outplayed for 20 minutes in the first half despite being easily the better team over the whole match. During that spell ball retention was poor in the forwards and Clare, with two sweepers won loads of turnovers. It will be interesting to see how we deal with a mass defense next Sunday. Our two points just before half time showed we were starting to turn things around and a different team came out in the second half. Gragham Reilly applied the killer blow and we seemed to have discovered the ideal role for him. The goal was very well worked - but we squandered at least three other good goal chances. If we're going up to the next level we need to be much more ruthless.
At long last it looks like we have a Meath team that is hard to beat - great credit to the players and coaching team. Finally, the referee was poor. If Menton's foul was a black card then there should have been at least three Clare black cards. Consistency is a minimum requirement.

born2broyal (Meath) - Posts: 5 - 17/03/2019 22:53:32    2173267

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Replying To Royalio11:  "Tongue in cheek comment on my part do not take it to heart."
Fermanagh by 12 then so!!

ROYALOPTIMIST (Meath) - Posts: 178 - 17/03/2019 23:07:58    2173274

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It's great to be going back up, and it's great to see really good second half shifts. After been at all Meath's league games this year I would still be of the opinion our best performance was in the one game we lost, (in Donegal) we played really well for 60 minutes and were 4 points up with 10 minutes to go, then the freaky goal.
I said that night on here after losing that I felt really good about this team.
Well done lads but still loads of work to do, got two silly Black cards but the ref should also have given at least one to Clare, if a man is bearing down on goal and is tripped and brought down, that for me is Black, amazingly not even a Tick.

madmeath (Meath) - Posts: 44 - 17/03/2019 23:37:04    2173280

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Poor enough first half.......Midfield still weak,even against mediocre opposition. Second half subs Flanagan improved midfield . Reilly as substitute had major impact, and seems to have claimed the role of impact sub for the moment. Thomas O Reilly shows good potential ,and has clearly claimed a starting place now..C oSullivan great workrate . Forward play not yielding enough scores still...Not wise to be depending on subs to win games . However some great flashes of play from this team. Cant see us with a high score playing against Fermanagh,but i still would be disappointed if we cant beat them in a low scoring game. Thought Colgans distribution promising, and defence ok generally .

nobull456 (Meath) - Posts: 841 - 17/03/2019 23:59:54    2173284

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Over in New York and by God I had an extra pep in my step walking about the place today, had a feeling this would be a tough game as Clare had some much to play for so to come away with a 5 point win was fantastic, plenty to work on still but the work rate and intensity is improving all the time. Very important to keep momentum going now and beat Fermanagh to seal promotion in style, if we though Navan was loud v Kildare by Christ wait till next Sunday :-)

Richieq (Meath) - Posts: 3590 - 18/03/2019 00:48:00    2173289

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Replying To rhudson:  "well done meath
welcome back to top table div 1
the next step is to try and stay in div 1
we in galway spent a long time in div 2
its a hard one to get out of for sure
one week you could be in promotion hunt
a few weeks later you could be fighting relagation
thank god in our case the timing was good
as we have a lot of young players coming through
and there getting exposure to div 1 football"
Appreciate that. Yes the next step is to ensure staying there. But for the moment we will take this

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 17035 - 18/03/2019 08:36:42    2173309

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Ahh a brilliant day all around, there is maybe a thought for some changes next weekend, just a thought, let's see how some of the panel react to a pressure game. Can always bring on the big guns in second half James Conlon was stripped ready to come on yesterday when biggie got the goal and injured himself, but never appeared, think players like him need to get a sniff of championship like football in a packed navan.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 17035 - 18/03/2019 08:43:25    2173311

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Something just popped up on my on this "phone on this day" and it was screen shot on the Meath v Louth when we where looking for a result to stay up. What a difference a year makes.

bobkarlgees (Meath) - Posts: 1192 - 18/03/2019 09:36:07    2173323

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Replying To royaldunne:  "Drop him? Nah ,but he still makes too many mistakes for my liking, ,has potential definitely just needs to iron out the errors, had a good game, but I could name 5 ahead of him for motm. But the clear motm was Cillian O'Sullivan and to say otherwise is nonsense"
Here is one for RD.
You quoted Mattie kerriagan. Saying that he said
" Graham Reilly is carrying a injury" and " Shane Mc Entee is Hovering up in midfield "
Here is what he Mattie said yesterday
" Thomas O'reilly is real classy player with massive potential a hard grafter not afraid to get stuck in "
Is Mattie wrong now now ?
Personally I am really excited about Thomas O'reilly.
I first really noticed him last year against Roscommon last year he was taken off day. Fair call on the day maybe. But he is young lad learning the trade. I haven't he this excited about a Meath forward for years now. He has lots to do yet not question. I was delighted to see Andy has stuck with him this year. That's what you do with young lads like Thomas you stick with them .

bobkarlgees (Meath) - Posts: 1192 - 18/03/2019 10:00:03    2173335

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Cheers for the feedback on Adam Flanagan. As a short term solution for me Menton/ Flanagan works better.
I hope Adam starts he next day. Lets see how he gets on for 50 or 60 minutes. But we need to sort out our midfield problems long term.

bobkarlgees (Meath) - Posts: 1192 - 18/03/2019 10:23:59    2173339

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Replying To bobkarlgees:  "Here is one for RD.
You quoted Mattie kerriagan. Saying that he said
" Graham Reilly is carrying a injury" and " Shane Mc Entee is Hovering up in midfield "
Here is what he Mattie said yesterday
" Thomas O'reilly is real classy player with massive potential a hard grafter not afraid to get stuck in "
Is Mattie wrong now now ?
Personally I am really excited about Thomas O'reilly.
I first really noticed him last year against Roscommon last year he was taken off day. Fair call on the day maybe. But he is young lad learning the trade. I haven't he this excited about a Meath forward for years now. He has lots to do yet not question. I was delighted to see Andy has stuck with him this year. That's what you do with young lads like Thomas you stick with them ."
I couldn't agree more with Mattie, don't know where this is coming from, but I'll be very clear Thomas is a very exciting player who has really improved this year. Now he has missed some blatant shots, but as I said those can be ironed out. So tell me again where I am been derogatory of Thomas?? I'm not and to try to paint what I wrote like that is blatant been a wum. Thought you better than than bob. Expect it from a few on here but not you.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 17035 - 18/03/2019 10:56:51    2173344

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Replying To ROYALOPTIMIST:  "It certainly looked that way before the start of the campaign yes but did'nt work out that way and i do not think anybody could argue with that.

Cork were worse than anybody envisaged, Tipperary had issues with player availability that their limited resources could not overcome, Donegal basically played a second string team until now and Clare have struggled. The fact that Fermanagh have been among the pacesetters in the division should show to anyone that it has been a very poor division so far.

That doesnt take away from Meath as you can only play and beat whats in front of you and i think everyone would agree that we seen some improvement in the team and theres probably some younger talent going to emerge as well over the next year or two so we are in a good place at the moment."
The main thing is our fitness. We have finished strong in every game even kildare who are always fit this time of the year. Fermanagh are a tough ulster team who are in defence mode all the time. Most teams still find it hard to beat an ultra defencive team. Tipp and clare were always going to struggle. Cork seem to always have internal probs. While teams were missing players so were we probalbly more then any of them. S tobin , c lenihan 2 wallaces , conlon etc are just 5 that would prob start most games. I have not seen a fitter team in div 2 for quite awhile. The last 3 or 4 mins vs kildare we had a load of very young lads fighting for a ball and defending a good kildare team in a blizzard and not letting in one shot . Thats what we have over a lot of teams. The full commitment determination and fitness which is finally back in meath after a long long time without.

SheridansTry (Meath) - Posts: 168 - 18/03/2019 11:28:21    2173354

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Replying To royaldunne:  "I'll take a stab at team.
1 colgan
2 lavin
3 McGill
4 Ryan
5 j mcentee
6 keoghan
7 Gallagher
8 menton
9 s mcentee
10 campion
11 Brennan (if fit)
12 O'Sullivan
13 dardis
14 Newman
15 Reilly (last two years he has destroyed Clare )
If Brennan doesn't make it then slot biggie in and start tor.

McMahon isn't expected to be fit , o Reilly is a great worker and is unlucky to lose out on starting,
Still have McCoy, Devine ,o Reilly , etc all to come on."
Here is where it's coming you dropped from the Clare game.

bobkarlgees (Meath) - Posts: 1192 - 18/03/2019 13:06:45    2173384

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