(Oldest Posts First) - Go To The Latest Post
Yes we all hoped for better in some of the basic stuff at this early stage even. However ,realistically It is a learning curve for management and the backroom team. I think we will see some changes and challenges on the road ahead. I think Colm should continue for at least the 2 years. I do believe he would not be happy so far ,but i also believe he will do what it takes to rescue the situation. He is still the man best equipped to learn from mistakes and move on. We must remember he is really at early stages and let him at it. The amusing thing at this stage to me is that the most travelled meath supporter seems to get great milage out of his agenda that nearly looks like hoping for failure because of WHO is at the wheel .I hope he can cope when we turn the corner shortly!
nobull456 (Meath) - Posts: 1266 - 29/04/2023 09:33:39 2474469 Link 20 |
Agree things not looking great, but still early days, would love us to be doing better but still in favour of giving him the two years, changing now would do more harm than good. If things have not improved by this time next year, he wont have to be pushed he will go. As you say its just different viewpoints and in reality none of us has the answer , loads of questions but have yet to see a credible solution.
seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2196 - 29/04/2023 11:32:41 2474491 Link 9 |
Best equipped?? :). Thanks I needed a laugh. Btw how did Colm's great review go after the league that you were blabbing on about?? Oh that's right there was none cause Colm doesn't think anything is wrong. royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 29/04/2023 15:33:20 2474531 Link 1 |
Hold on to your hat !!
nobull456 (Meath) - Posts: 1266 - 29/04/2023 16:09:35 2474537 Link 18 |
Not so long ago you expected posters to belive you when lnforming all that Colm was forced to hold a clear the air review with panel, now you seem to think it did not happen. You continue to trip yourself up. Time to show a bit of common sense and stop posting unfounded rubbish.
seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2196 - 29/04/2023 17:18:28 2474541 Link 15 |
No I'm talking about onlybull assertions that Colm would hold a review. The meeting was organised by the players. Not management. . And what's more this has been confirmed by davey rispin. So please educate yourself before posting. As it does back up that you know absolutely nothing about Meath football.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 29/04/2023 18:30:29 2474548 Link 1 |
Stop digging !! just hold on a little longer, but remember do hold on to your hat. You know i dont think you have the inside track as you say at all if you think thats all the review entails. Even you should know the real review is private to avoid speculators i assume ! Again HOLD ON TO YOUR HAT !! nobull456 (Meath) - Posts: 1266 - 29/04/2023 19:41:45 2474557 Link 17 |
I have ZERO inside track. And NEVER said I had. I knew a few former players who would say this that or the other. I knew someone in the background in previous administration that again would say the odd bit of info. So I don't know where you made up anything else about that. I'm sure at some stage we have all known people or players involved. And get little bits and pieces here and there. All else is from supporters that we would meet. And that is all. As for Colm's review? I don't buy it. I genuinely believe you think he has had one as you have him on a pedestal and believe he is the second coming. I'm of the view that he is not a ic manager and he has been caught out . That said one of the greatest players to ever play the game. But as they say great players don't make great managers.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 29/04/2023 20:20:03 2474572 Link 1 |
Good post. The best manager I had as a young lad coming through told me I was starting every game in the A league and no matter what I did I wasn't ever going to be substituted before at least the 50th minute. Gave me both great confidence and the assurance to pace myself and play my own game.
Crinigan (Meath) - Posts: 1352 - 29/04/2023 20:40:56 2474582 Link 5 |
If you said he deseserves more time then no argument . Thats the norm as you know very well. As like everyone else on here i want to see more progress ......maybe i am a bit impatient but thats my problem not Colm O Rourkes. Fair is fair Dont insult readers by trying to present your views as objective and unbiased. .Thats why your views are challenged so often not that you have a view ,but rather how they are presented. Just try to be constructive instead. NO further comment !
nobull456 (Meath) - Posts: 1266 - 29/04/2023 20:45:00 2474584 Link 16 |
My views are often agreed with More often than not. Again I want Colm to be a successful manager. As that means Meath are a successful team. I had my reservations and unfortunately he SO FAR has not only reached my worst fears but surpassed them. I live in hope , but I honestly think if serious improvement is not seen by years end, we must bite the bullet and get someone who can stop the alarming slide in performances since he has come in. Who that may be I have no idea. But someone needs to grab this by scruff of neck.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 29/04/2023 22:11:19 2474614 Link 1 |
The training preparation and strategies are of the 1970s. The best clubs and best players especially those suited to the modern game are left out in favour of those from 'well connected families'. Ashrules (Dublin) - Posts: 553 - 30/04/2023 15:17:47 2474715 Link 1 |
I agree , this thing about a manger should get more time I disagree with , the manger has to show something that we can all buy into , if you can see direction and a plan in place your more comfortable as fan that things will improve next year , but we gave the past two Meath managers time and nothing came if it , everyone always says Meath club football is at a poor standard , so why would you give the Meath county job to a Meath club manger ? Then we have lads will just back the thing they say on here just not wanting to be wrong but knowing they are wrong because they have a axe to grind with another poster , it's a twitter mentality of not wanting to be wrong a left / right American thing , it's like watching two bald men fighting over a hair comb. If I was a player on the Meath team , and if I was playing poorly for six games and show nothing that I am county standard , then I should be dropped from the county team and that is fair, why does the manger get the free pass on this if his performance so far after a extremely poor showing in the last six games ? WhyTheLongFace (Meath) - Posts: 934 - 30/04/2023 15:53:23 2474723 Link 17 |
I don't know if the others are bald. But I'm certainly on the receding side of things. :). Look I agree with you. The funny thing is I said I didn't think mcentee should get another year before his last. The thing that turned it for me was the performance in the covid league. It just was haphazard. . But cb did nothing until mouth of league and that was way too late. Should have never got to that. I'm sure Colm knows this isn't working out. And despite what some may think I believe at end of year he will do the right thing for Meath football going forward and step aside. I honestly don't think we will stay on royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 30/04/2023 16:25:14 2474734 Link 1 |
Today's results show us in a very poor light. Dublin have came back in Leinster but louth , Kildare, Offaly Westmeath are better positioned to take advantage of that than we are. We have gone from so called second best team in province to also rans. At best 5th in province. We won't beat Offaly in tailteann and should Kildare find themselves there too we won't beat them. Down would beat us as I think Fermanagh would too. Let's hope for a lucky draw on Tuesday. But I really don't care anymore, that is a sentence I thought I'd never write. (: royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 30/04/2023 18:37:49 2474773 Link 1 |
Seed 1) Meath, Cavan, Fermanagh, Limerick Young_gael (Meath) - Posts: 596 - 30/04/2023 19:51:41 2474802 Link 10 |
Before new format we would have to wait till next season before playing a competitive game. TC gives all concerned a chance to build at bit of confidence, introduce a few from u20s and endevour to build a game plan that suits the players. Hopefully we have learned from the harsh lessons and put learnings to good use. Pointless dwelling on the negatives for to long. As you say we get at least three games and hopefully a few more in knockout stages. Would any Meath supporters be looking forward to playing, Kerry, Galway or Derry with any real hope? So I am looking forward to draw on Tuesday and see where it takes us. Its been coming for years, as another poster said take the medicine, it might be the start of the cure.
seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2196 - 30/04/2023 20:34:40 2474817 Link 6 |
Getting rid of manager after six poor results/dont see improvement seems at best extreme. Do we adopt a next man up policy, you have six games to turn things around or you too are out the door? Dont expect a lot of interest in position. CB went for internal choice last time, because we had no outside interest, COR was approached to put his name forward, having no inital interest. Reason I back Colm to complete his term is nothing to do with anything other than what is right. There is no way the CB can go back on the deal they struck only last year. At that stage even they realised we were at best threading water and sinking further every season. We constantly call on them to get their house in order, doing what you ask, strips then of any shread of integrity or credability. So best of luck getting next man up.
seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2196 - 30/04/2023 21:04:38 2474823 Link 8 |
It's the Tommy Murphy cup under a different name. It's pathetic that we are in it. I'm ambivalent to it. Also I don't see many teams we will beat looking at them there Wexford might be our best chance in first game. You just know we gonna draw Antrim too , Offaly would beat us easily if we drew them. Probably Leitrim would fancy their chances too. We are in such a diabolical situation I really don't know anymore royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 30/04/2023 22:26:04 2474836 Link 1 |
I think you need counselling you take this too serious . There was a time I'd die for football I put my wedding back because of the leinster final in 97 and that didn't go too well neither did the football . Football is puke now not worth getting stressed over backwards , sideways , hand pass after hand pass frees going backwards , goalies out in the middle of the field , the mark , and its almost none contact . Nothing like the good old days of 15 against 15 man on man and the best team win . Don't get stressed it's not worth it anymore mmc (Meath) - Posts: 281 - 01/05/2023 00:11:54 2474846 Link 14 |