Replying To Meathmaverick:  "What way does it work in newbridge Lilywhite? Is the town split in half ? certain schools are feeder schools for each club or is it all random? Must have been a real buzz around newbridge when they met in county finals."

Replying To Royal.Legend:  "Be careful there olly according to a few kildare supporters your not allowed dream. After meath I would love to see ye win it, allot of great gaels up there in county louth."

Replying To Furlong1949:  "Firstly I dont go around barking at people on the forum. I think that firstly unfair to say. Regards what you are referring to about facts. I have written over 900 posts on this forum. I have written on this Meath v Tyrone thread numerous of times. You have took one paragraph out of those over 900 posts I have written. I was having a long debate with someone on the forum. At the end I used a couple of facts to back up what I said in one paragraph and I emphasised this. In the next paragraph I said here here is my opinion. This was unsual. If examine my 900 posts, I am not going around saying all this is a fact , are eveyrhing I write saying this is fact, everything I say is true , or this is gospel acording to me. I dont say that. That is very unfair and not a proper and correct representation of my posts on the board. Thats very unfair and gives a very false impression of what I am doing. Sometime I write facts , sometime I write opinions, sometimes I write my viewpoint, sometimes what I write is correct, other times its wrong. I have never gone around saying I know everything. I know a little about the history and thats it. Nothing more , nothing less. Regards the Westmeath and the league references. I write in a long winded , freestyle off the top of my head. And the posts can end up anywhere on any different topic and usually do. This particular post it was very very long one and covered many areas. Instead of writing about leinster problem with league foothall at the end I should have took time and put it in a different post. I rushed it at the end and off the top of the head I tried to go through 20 years of league divisions and I made mistakes. Its a very messy paragraph at the end. I didnt mean to forget the two years Westmeath were up , I made a mess of the end of that post. I should have took my time and think about who was in 20 years of div 1. Which is tricky. Div are changing from div 1 to 1 A Remebering a match or a player is easier. I made a few mistakes it was not intentional , I was not trying to be disrespectful to Westmeath or any other county ,in any sort of way , I just I was tried and I wanted to end a post quickly and rushed the end instead I should have done it separately and took my time. I have posted over 900 post. And I do reference allot of games and playetrs and stats and off the top off the my head . So I am going ro get a few wrong. And To be fair I have just quickly looked at my posts on this thread Meath v Tyrone . And have propaly had made over at least 350 plus refernces to games, playeres, dates ,matchs, stats, facts on this thread and vast majority of them right. Getting a couple wrong is decent enough going. I got a few wrong at the end of one long post. Thats not really a crime. I am not right all the time, I make mistakes. I am just a bogman from the backwoods of Meath football who is passionate about the gaa. I didnt mean to sound like I was being disrespectful to Westmeath. But my general knowledge of every team in div 1 in every year in thr last 20 years is patchy . I am decent on game and players and bit of general histoy. The way I write off the top of my head , long winded there is the odd mistake as jump from one different topic to another in one post. I am rushing jumping from one topic to another and it meanders and jumps back and forward in each post and in many cases I am skinming over things and flying through thinngs when really I should concentrate on one thing and do that detail. But thats the way I write. But some of the stuff is decent. Naming kildare players from 1919 All Ireland winning team.was a decent post on this thread. But I dont know everything and never pretended I did or pretended be a Mr no it all. What I say is not gospel. Never was never will be. I am surprised at times of the reaction on the forum I receive in the forum. I get allot of prajse which I am really blown away by and I do appreciate it. I get criticism as well which surprises me in that most of what I write is bland enough. I do enjoy the conversation and have a lot of time and great respect for people on the forum. I enjoy writing about the gaa but there is a reality behind all this. It is a sort of escapism for me. I am basically writing for myself. The reality is I have two very elderly sick sick parent who are living with me . I misseed the Meath match on sunday as I had to bring a parent to hospital. And I also have a serious illness myself which is a bit of a scary one to say the least. .And coming on the forum to write a long winded post I enjoy but also it takes my mind away from health issues. And how I deal with stuff is be postive and try not to think about things to much , and try and keep my mind occupied . So writing on the gaa forum is a way of doing this , taking my mind off things. And writing about something I am paasionate about I enjoy writig away a long post which could end going in any direction on any topic . So I am not writing for anyone , I am writing for myself in away. Thats the reality of the situation So I will leave it there."

Replying To ponga:  "God knows what non-Irish people watching this are making of such comments. Wow a goal for Carlow."

Replying To royaldunne:  "Time will tell. Let's see what happens Sunday."

Replying To Gaa_lover:  "Plenty of teams in this division that could if they are fit and prepared right reach the super 8s this summer. Fermanagh and Cavan reached recent Ulster finals, Westmeath, Laois reached the Leinster finals. Clare, Kildare and Armagh all reached the last 8 in the last few years. More to the Gaa championship than who wins it and all teams in this division would prefer to have the opportunity to at least reach the last 8 once more than play in a Tommy Murphy cup that carries no value even if its won."

Replying To royaldunne:  "Btw all slagging aside. Where is lillywhite1 ? One of my favourite posters on hs, a real gent who knows his stuff. Anyone from Kildare know. Honest question as I am worried , thought he be all over this thread."

Replying To royaldunne:  "Very fair analysis there furlong. Hard to argue with any point."

Replying To Pope_Benedict:  "Spillane thought it was 50% yesterday evening, and I think he was a teacher by profession."

Replying To rhudson:  "the best games I have seen for pure football enjoyment have been at under 21 I still cant believe they have scrapped it they haven't dealt with the real issues of burn out and the under 21 grade was the easy target anyways back to this year we have a good group of lads in galway if we can get them to reach their potential at under 21 be great as lot these lads promised so much as minor"

Replying To bad.monkey:  "The sad reality is the GAA is closed off to unionists. At least rugby is open and welcoming to anyone regardless of politics. Soccer is split between the 26 and 6. So in the sense that the National Team is representative of all people of all backgrounds on the island rugby is actually the The Peoples Game."

Replying To galwayford:  "When Dublin have the same no. of All Irelands as Kerry then I will expect change. But they are still about 10 down. Kildare and Meath are sleeping giants. They have a large population. And just need a Leinster title to kickstart their comeback. How about combining some of the smaller Leinster counties? Eg Wexford, and Wicklow. Kilkenny and Carlow, Laois and Kildare, Meath and Westmeath- as a trial"

Replying To Donegalman:  "I see Meath winning this one. I feel that they were unlucky last year in division 2 with some of their results. If you take their bad start out of the league this year, especially the down game, they were well worth promotion imo. 27 points is also a very good yardstick as to what they are about. I think that the game will be decided in the 2nd half, when Kildare will not be able to cope with Meath's pace. I could be wrong, but 16/1 for meath to win leinster is an excellent price and worth at least 20 euro."

Replying To Furlong1949:  "[quote=if_in_doubt:  "Even this current generation of talented Kildare footballers eg Feehily Doyle Flynn couldn't again beat their bogey team Dublin at underage level Furlong1949 (Meath) - Posts:2 - 20/06/2017 Except for 2010 when we beat them at minor level with 7 players who played for us at the weekend also playing (include Paul Cribbin and that's up to 8). Or for 2013 when our minors bet them with Chris Healy and Neil Flynn featuring that day and again on Saturday. We don't have the best head to head record against Dublin at underage level over the last few years, but we've still had success at minor and under 21 level. As good as Dublin are, and as strong as their underage structures are I'd take winning a title over beating them and not winning one any day of the week. If you want to talk about beating bogey teams then you must be really worried about Meath's poor record against Kildare at minor and under 21 over the last 8 or 10 years?"

Replying To Jack_Goff:  "Not looking forward to the next 15 years when all this Kildare underage domination leads to them winning 14 out of 15 senior titles. Dark days ahead. Does anybody here seriously think Kildare will beat Dublin in Leinster in the next 10 years?"