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Meath seriously need a change of manager. They have gone from bad to worse under him and its a shame to see them so bad

Cuckoosinging (Roscommon) - Posts: 992 - 27/05/2018 16:58:44    2104181

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Replying To 11jm11:  "Leinster football is dead."
Not for Carlow and Longford its not.

superbluedub (Dublin) - Posts: 2837 - 27/05/2018 17:00:00    2104182

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Replying To 11jm11:  "Leinster football is dead."
It is if your from Meath or Kildare, try telling that to Longford or Carlow, well done to both

seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2135 - 27/05/2018 17:01:18    2104183

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Congratulations to longford. Better team won. No complaints, yes the ref was shocking but he didn't take away from a deserving longford win. For Meath, back to drawing board cannot depend on one player. Graham Reilly to get you over the line.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 27/05/2018 17:04:55    2104185

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Replying To 11jm11:  "Leinster football is dead."
Redicilous comment.

Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 27/05/2018 17:08:29    2104188

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Replying To royaldunne:  "The morning of championship beginning has arrived. I still absolutely love it.
To my longford friends, I wish you the best , obviously I hope and pray we beat you, but I also hope you have a long summe through the back door. I have friends/relations in ardagh and ballinalee , and while not many experienced dancing in the dark in navan in Jan there were a couple from longford besides me and it created a bond I think between both counties, the result was probably insignificant at the end, the history was made.
To my beloved royals. Andy Brian and the rest of the team, it's time, it's time to show what we have seen in glimpses, to show it for 70 minuets plus. Best wishes to all.
Hon the royal"
Jesus man what the hell happened ye?

gotmilk (Fermanagh) - Posts: 4971 - 27/05/2018 17:17:22    2104196

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Replying To Cuckoosinging:  "Meath seriously need a change of manager. They have gone from bad to worse under him and its a shame to see them so bad"
Armagh gave McGeeney 4 years and be hasnt won a single match in Ulster and spent 3 of the last 4 years in div 3. Boylan Dwyer and McGee had nightmare results in the first three years in charge. Boylan was hammered by laois in year 3, Dwyer walked away in year 3 after bad loses to teams like louth in first season to return in second term and suceed in year 5 as manager. McGee had 3 dreadful years with Offaly. First round loses. The supporters the county board wanted him gone. Only for chairman support he was gone and kerry would have won 5 in a row. Gilroy had record defeats to kerry in year 1 and record defeats to Meath in year 2. In Walsh first year Galway were hammered by Mayo, in year 2 they were hammered by Tipp and in year 3 hammerd by Rossies. It took him 4 years for Walsh to turn the corner. It took Boylan McGee Dwyer 4 years and in Dwyers 5 years. Jimmy Barry Murphy and Nicholas English had nightmare results in charge of Cork and Tipp in first few years in charge in 90s. When a traditional county is in the doldrums it takes years to turn the ship around. We have sacked managers before it aint the answer. I believe if McEntee goes this year we will probaly end up like Laois and Derry and end up in div 4. Give him two more years. If the same results in year 4 he goes. Have a sucession plan where someone like Geraghty is in charge of the under 20s. No knee jerk reactions. Thats just my opinion.

Today is about Longford and their great win. Well deserved win. The fact is the better team won. Thats it. longford have done excellent work at underage they have great clubs and great gaa people and Pearse Park is one of the toughest places to win. Very shrewd manager. Congratulations to Longford. Well derserved winners.

Furlong1949 (Meath) - Posts: 1067 - 27/05/2018 17:37:48    2104202

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Delighted for Longford and not really surprised at their performance. Good luck in the rest of the campaign. It's hard to know what to make of Meath at the moment.

neverright (Roscommon) - Posts: 1648 - 27/05/2018 17:45:48    2104211

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Replying To 11jm11:  "Leinster football is dead."
Could you be anymore insulting to Longford and Carlow gaels? Kildare and Meath have been pampering over the cracks for a while. A few false starts but big issues in both camps.

commander (Kildare) - Posts: 225 - 27/05/2018 17:47:33    2104212

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Leinster football is dead and ill tell you why. Kildare and meath are the only two with the resources to potentially put it up to dublin and both are going backwards. The levels of apathy in both counties to intercounty football is frightening. The gaa is not in a good place in kildare and meath

Well done to carlow and longfors but lets be honest, both wouldnt get within 15 points of dublin

11jm11 (Kildare) - Posts: 365 - 27/05/2018 18:01:29    2104223

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Well done to Longford, great result for them, but honestly, this can't be considered a shock, there's nothing between Longford and Meath at present and the better team won, simple as.

Htaem (Meath) - Posts: 8657 - 27/05/2018 18:06:11    2104226

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Replying To 11jm11:  "Leinster football is dead and ill tell you why. Kildare and meath are the only two with the resources to potentially put it up to dublin and both are going backwards. The levels of apathy in both counties to intercounty football is frightening. The gaa is not in a good place in kildare and meath

Well done to carlow and longfors but lets be honest, both wouldnt get within 15 points of dublin"
Have you ever considered the possibility that neither are making the most of their resources ? I'd imagine not.

Dubh_linn (Dublin) - Posts: 2312 - 27/05/2018 18:22:23    2104231

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Replying To Furlong1949:  "Armagh gave McGeeney 4 years and be hasnt won a single match in Ulster and spent 3 of the last 4 years in div 3. Boylan Dwyer and McGee had nightmare results in the first three years in charge. Boylan was hammered by laois in year 3, Dwyer walked away in year 3 after bad loses to teams like louth in first season to return in second term and suceed in year 5 as manager. McGee had 3 dreadful years with Offaly. First round loses. The supporters the county board wanted him gone. Only for chairman support he was gone and kerry would have won 5 in a row. Gilroy had record defeats to kerry in year 1 and record defeats to Meath in year 2. In Walsh first year Galway were hammered by Mayo, in year 2 they were hammered by Tipp and in year 3 hammerd by Rossies. It took him 4 years for Walsh to turn the corner. It took Boylan McGee Dwyer 4 years and in Dwyers 5 years. Jimmy Barry Murphy and Nicholas English had nightmare results in charge of Cork and Tipp in first few years in charge in 90s. When a traditional county is in the doldrums it takes years to turn the ship around. We have sacked managers before it aint the answer. I believe if McEntee goes this year we will probaly end up like Laois and Derry and end up in div 4. Give him two more years. If the same results in year 4 he goes. Have a sucession plan where someone like Geraghty is in charge of the under 20s. No knee jerk reactions. Thats just my opinion.

Today is about Longford and their great win. Well deserved win. The fact is the better team won. Thats it. longford have done excellent work at underage they have great clubs and great gaa people and Pearse Park is one of the toughest places to win. Very shrewd manager. Congratulations to Longford. Well derserved winners."
As gracious as ever sir. I have immensely enjoyed reading your posts on the meath forum over the last number of weeks and will continue to do so.

I am just in from the game an an absolutely overjoyed, even if it does mean an away game to Dublin. The genuine longford supporters have known, that there could be a good group of footballers there, but, I suppose, because of our history, are afraid to say it.

Today, wasn't "a shock" for us, but we knew we would have to put in a performance. My own club have come out on top, twice in the leinster club championship, against o mahonys, while St columbas have also beaten meath opposition. We, as supporters, knew they could do it, but whether they believed it themselves or not was the key. Added to this also, was the Pearse Park, factor.

We are not naive enough, to think that this meath team is of the calibre of the eighties, nineties. We would do anything here in Longford, to have had teams like that. However we are trying to progress with what we have, population of players etc. Great work has been done at underage level, which has made us competitive, more often than not. The same type of work is, I understand, going on in other counties like Carlow for eg.

I understand a comment was made by another poster, about leinster championship being dead. I would argue to the contrary. It is extremely competitive now, because of the work being done, at the so called weaker counties. It is disrespectful to the people doing this work, to make such comments. Remember two yrs ago longford dumped the ulster champions out of the all Ireland series. This is just one example. The dubs are hammering other teams, as well, outside of leinster. The other provinces are just lucky, their not in their championship.

Anyway as I said, enjoyed your posts. I'm going now to have a cold one. We'll think of the dubs tomorrow!!!!!

Longfordbaz (Longford) - Posts: 145 - 27/05/2018 18:24:34    2104233

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Replying To Htaem:  "Well done to Longford, great result for them, but honestly, this can't be considered a shock, there's nothing between Longford and Meath at present and the better team won, simple as."
Thats the truth. Simple as better team won. They have a gameplan and a shrewd manager. They have done great work at underage. And they deserved their win. This a great day for two leinster counties today . Carlow have beaten kildare for the first time since 1953 and longford have beaten Meath for the first time since 1982. We should compliment Carlow and Longford for all the work they have done. They have worked hard for years allot of the time through bad days and tough defeats. This is their moment and they should be prasied. leaving the Dubs to one side the performances of laois Carlow Longford and Wicklow v Offaly have been brillant they deserve full credit. Meath kildare and Offaly need to take their beatings, get on with it and keep working. Meath need to give McEntee time and organise an sucessor over two year period and keep working at underage. O Neill is a brillant coach, coachs dont make good managers. Glen Ryan with D Earley with J Doyle are the men to take Kildare forward. And Offaly need to bring in a manager that has a better CV then Wallace and keep working away. Meath kikdare and Offaly have had many great days. Now its Carlow longford laois time. They deserve all the praise and plaudits. This didnt happen over night for these teams. This is years of hard work and determination through bad times to get to the good times. Congratulations to Longford better team won.

Furlong1949 (Meath) - Posts: 1067 - 27/05/2018 18:30:13    2104235

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Replying To superbluedub:  "Not for Carlow and Longford its not."
A few pastings from the GAA's chosen team and they'll be in same place as rest of Leinster.

GAA is dead in Meath and Kildare, you can thank the GAA and Leinster council for that.

I'd expect liked of IRFU and FAI to make serious hay in both counties in coming years.

Crinigan (Meath) - Posts: 1316 - 27/05/2018 19:08:12    2104247

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Replying To Furlong1949:  "Armagh gave McGeeney 4 years and be hasnt won a single match in Ulster and spent 3 of the last 4 years in div 3. Boylan Dwyer and McGee had nightmare results in the first three years in charge. Boylan was hammered by laois in year 3, Dwyer walked away in year 3 after bad loses to teams like louth in first season to return in second term and suceed in year 5 as manager. McGee had 3 dreadful years with Offaly. First round loses. The supporters the county board wanted him gone. Only for chairman support he was gone and kerry would have won 5 in a row. Gilroy had record defeats to kerry in year 1 and record defeats to Meath in year 2. In Walsh first year Galway were hammered by Mayo, in year 2 they were hammered by Tipp and in year 3 hammerd by Rossies. It took him 4 years for Walsh to turn the corner. It took Boylan McGee Dwyer 4 years and in Dwyers 5 years. Jimmy Barry Murphy and Nicholas English had nightmare results in charge of Cork and Tipp in first few years in charge in 90s. When a traditional county is in the doldrums it takes years to turn the ship around. We have sacked managers before it aint the answer. I believe if McEntee goes this year we will probaly end up like Laois and Derry and end up in div 4. Give him two more years. If the same results in year 4 he goes. Have a sucession plan where someone like Geraghty is in charge of the under 20s. No knee jerk reactions. Thats just my opinion.

Today is about Longford and their great win. Well deserved win. The fact is the better team won. Thats it. longford have done excellent work at underage they have great clubs and great gaa people and Pearse Park is one of the toughest places to win. Very shrewd manager. Congratulations to Longford. Well derserved winners."
Galway lost by 4 points to Mayo in his first year in charge I'd hardly call that a hammering, the other two were hammering fair enough. We won connacht in year 2 .Year 3 we won division 2 and so far in year 4 we did better than anyone expected in div 1. and hopefully we will reach the super 8s and have a right go at it. I agree managers need more than a year to settle in but Kevin Walsh has been making improvements every year since he started . It's only being noticed nationally now because we are in division 1

galwayfball (Galway) - Posts: 1678 - 27/05/2018 19:08:29    2104248

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Replying To Crinigan:  "A few pastings from the GAA's chosen team and they'll be in same place as rest of Leinster.

GAA is dead in Meath and Kildare, you can thank the GAA and Leinster council for that.

I'd expect liked of IRFU and FAI to make serious hay in both counties in coming years."
Couldnt agree more. Leinster rugby making massive in roads in both counties.

When you see your county humiliated year in year out by dublin, fans have naturally turned away in their droves.
I live in meath and while the club game is strong, people have lost all interest in meath senior footballers, its no differnet if not worse in kildare.
Dark days for kildare and meath.

11jm11 (Kildare) - Posts: 365 - 27/05/2018 19:19:45    2104260

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Replying To galwayfball:  "Galway lost by 4 points to Mayo in his first year in charge I'd hardly call that a hammering, the other two were hammering fair enough. We won connacht in year 2 .Year 3 we won division 2 and so far in year 4 we did better than anyone expected in div 1. and hopefully we will reach the super 8s and have a right go at it. I agree managers need more than a year to settle in but Kevin Walsh has been making improvements every year since he started . It's only being noticed nationally now because we are in division 1"
I understand what your saying. But I have good friends in Galway. One of them their grandfather was one of the greatest players ever to play for Galway. And my Galway friends wanted Walsh gone after his second year, year 2 in charge. After the 8 or 9 point loss to Tipp and failure to get promoted in year 2 . Walsh didnt get Galway promoted til year 3 from div 2. Even last years my Galway friends had serious issues with Walsh after Roscommon 8 or 9 point defeat. Its not til this year they have changed their mind regards Walsh. Its not really this year that you could say in his 4th year that Walsh really turned the corner.

Furlong1949 (Meath) - Posts: 1067 - 27/05/2018 19:27:35    2104265

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Replying To Longfordbaz:  "As gracious as ever sir. I have immensely enjoyed reading your posts on the meath forum over the last number of weeks and will continue to do so.

I am just in from the game an an absolutely overjoyed, even if it does mean an away game to Dublin. The genuine longford supporters have known, that there could be a good group of footballers there, but, I suppose, because of our history, are afraid to say it.

Today, wasn't "a shock" for us, but we knew we would have to put in a performance. My own club have come out on top, twice in the leinster club championship, against o mahonys, while St columbas have also beaten meath opposition. We, as supporters, knew they could do it, but whether they believed it themselves or not was the key. Added to this also, was the Pearse Park, factor.

We are not naive enough, to think that this meath team is of the calibre of the eighties, nineties. We would do anything here in Longford, to have had teams like that. However we are trying to progress with what we have, population of players etc. Great work has been done at underage level, which has made us competitive, more often than not. The same type of work is, I understand, going on in other counties like Carlow for eg.

I understand a comment was made by another poster, about leinster championship being dead. I would argue to the contrary. It is extremely competitive now, because of the work being done, at the so called weaker counties. It is disrespectful to the people doing this work, to make such comments. Remember two yrs ago longford dumped the ulster champions out of the all Ireland series. This is just one example. The dubs are hammering other teams, as well, outside of leinster. The other provinces are just lucky, their not in their championship.

Anyway as I said, enjoyed your posts. I'm going now to have a cold one. We'll think of the dubs tomorrow!!!!!"
Well done on a very deserved win today, regardless of result against Dubs (Longford/Carlow final would do wonders for GAA in Leinster). Longford will not be a team any other will want to draw. Enjoy the cold one

seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2135 - 27/05/2018 19:35:25    2104271

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Replying To gotmilk:  "Jesus man what the hell happened ye?"
Was on the cards. Pearse Park is a graveyard for many a team. Monaghan mayo Derry even dubs found it hard down there with the brogans and Whelan on the team. However we just didn't perform. And tbh we never looked like we would win some questionable decision by ref didn't help, but it wouldn't have made a difference, longford were more composed on the ball, took their opportunity better. And apart from graham Reilly we looked like we had no other forward. Very disappointed, but what can we do. Need to regroup and see how far we can go in back door. It's a tough one. But cannot take away from longford they were just better than us. And again I want to congratulate them, it's a great boost for gaa in county.

royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 27/05/2018 19:41:47    2104274

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