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Meath Vs Louth. Rd 3.

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1. Billy Hogan (my preference as his kickouts are better than brennans, I'm OK with Brennan starting though) 2. Brian O'Reilly 3. Adam O'Neill 4. Michael Murphy 5. Cathal Hickey 6. Donal Keoghan 7. Matthew Costello (his best performances for meath have been from this position, think he looks awkward at FF, 0 scores from play in the league so far is unacceptable for a FF, it's just not working) 8. Conor Gray (50/50 chance he's ready for Louth game I'm hearing) 9. Daithi McGowan 10. Jack OConnor 11. Eoghan Frayne 12. Cian McBride 13. Ruairi Kinsella 14. Shane walsh 15. Diarmuid Moriarty Massive change needed for us to even have a chance of staying in division 2. I feel absolutely fine dropping both midfielders. If Diarmuid Moriarty doesn't start vs Louth I completley give up on this management and no I'm not from Curragha. It's just painfully obvious to anyone who knows meath football that he should be starting. Sheridan2010louth (Meath) - Posts: 184 - 05/02/2024 14:58:10 2524570 Link
Moriarty gets better the less he plays, I'd like to see him start and play well, he has all the attributes southmeathgael (Meath) - Posts: 938 - 05/02/2024 17:07:32 2524597 Link
Replying To Sheridan2010louth: "1. Billy Hogan (my preference as his kickouts are better than brennans, I'm OK with Brennan starting though) 2. Brian O'Reilly 3. Adam O'Neill 4. Michael Murphy 5. Cathal Hickey 6. Donal Keoghan 7. Matthew Costello (his best performances for meath have been from this position, think he looks awkward at FF, 0 scores from play in the league so far is unacceptable for a FF, it's just not working) 8. Conor Gray (50/50 chance he's ready for Louth game I'm hearing) 9. Daithi McGowan 10. Jack OConnor 11. Eoghan Frayne 12. Cian McBride 13. Ruairi Kinsella 14. Shane walsh 15. Diarmuid Moriarty Massive change needed for us to even have a chance of staying in division 2. I feel absolutely fine dropping both midfielders. If Diarmuid Moriarty doesn't start vs Louth I completley give up on this management and no I'm not from Curragha. It's just painfully obvious to anyone who knows meath football that he should be starting." what about Adam McDonnell? brings a fight in him and won't be let to be pushed around the field especially against Louth he would get stuck in from the start. Michael Murphy at corner back just isn't doing it for me either to be honest. Brian O'Reilly could be decent at corner back but is it too soon especially against Louth? I agree Kinsella and Moriarty need to play and get game time redracoon (Meath) - Posts: 57 - 05/02/2024 22:15:51 2524656 Link
On current form Louth are the favourites if we lose this I think we're in massive trouble 9774739191637399 (Meath) - Posts: 18 - 05/02/2024 22:43:33 2524664 Link
id say Louth are well justified favs, i think they will win by 4 to 5 points tbh dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 790 - 06/02/2024 09:22:31 2524693 Link
Write the league off we are getting relegated . The age profile of the team is far too young and the best footballers are not in there . He hasn't even lads playing in near the right positions . Lads on here saying murphy not good enough at corner back ( prob are correct ) but to be fair to the lad he's a wing forward same said for campion at 6 he's a wing forward. We were the 17th best team in Ireland in championship and we'll be the 17th best ranked going into league next year as favs for div 3. Pead0bum84 (Meath) - Posts: 26 - 06/02/2024 10:06:00 2524703 Link
Replying To redracoon: "what about Adam McDonnell? brings a fight in him and won't be let to be pushed around the field especially against Louth he would get stuck in from the start. Michael Murphy at corner back just isn't doing it for me either to be honest. Brian O'Reilly could be decent at corner back but is it too soon especially against Louth? I agree Kinsella and Moriarty need to play and get game time" Good call i would love to see Adam play, i think he'd give a better performance than the likes of Campo and coffey who struggled against Armagh, definitely has that bit of fight in him as you say. I would prefer O'Reilly and O'Halloran to Murphy and Flood, I don't think it's irresponsible to play these kids when they are better than the more experienced players playing instead of them. Its just my option others will disagree. Sheridan2010louth (Meath) - Posts: 184 - 06/02/2024 10:52:10 2524710 Link
Replying To Sheridan2010louth: "1. Billy Hogan (my preference as his kickouts are better than brennans, I'm OK with Brennan starting though) 2. Brian O'Reilly 3. Adam O'Neill 4. Michael Murphy 5. Cathal Hickey 6. Donal Keoghan 7. Matthew Costello (his best performances for meath have been from this position, think he looks awkward at FF, 0 scores from play in the league so far is unacceptable for a FF, it's just not working) 8. Conor Gray (50/50 chance he's ready for Louth game I'm hearing) 9. Daithi McGowan 10. Jack OConnor 11. Eoghan Frayne 12. Cian McBride 13. Ruairi Kinsella 14. Shane walsh 15. Diarmuid Moriarty Massive change needed for us to even have a chance of staying in division 2. I feel absolutely fine dropping both midfielders. If Diarmuid Moriarty doesn't start vs Louth I completley give up on this management and no I'm not from Curragha. It's just painfully obvious to anyone who knows meath football that he should be starting." Costello only played there while developing as a young footballer, he's not a defender and his best position for me is in the half forward line, leaving jones out for McGowan is mad. Agree about Moriarty definitely but others like Murphy Hickey O'Connor just aren't playing well. Royal.1 (Meath) - Posts: 29 - 06/02/2024 21:08:04 2524838 Link
For the first two games a good few lads have played out of position. Murphy isn't a corner back, Flood isn't a wing back, Hickey is not a wing forward and O Connor isn't a corner forward. I've seen all these lads play at club level and for example Hickey usually plays center back or midfield. His best games for Meath gave been at wing back so why continue to play him out of position. Some players can cover multiple positions like McGowan and Flynn are able to play midfield or half forward or Keoghan can play corner, wing or center back but there are a lot on the team who can't. Look at Dublin, you never see McCaffery play anywhere but wing back, he would be lost at half forward or McManus is another example he was a wing back who didn't do very well in the position but moving him up to the forwards got the best out of him. UsernameInvalid (Meath) - Posts: 409 - 07/02/2024 22:14:35 2525040 Link
Morning neighbours. Looking forward to the trip to Navan on Sunday week. As for how the game goes, it's hard to call but Meath surely being favourites despite the doom and gloom on here. Louth, we seem to have continued with same team and set up as per MH. We were unlucky to lose against Armagh but reality was that they butchered 2 x 1v1s for goals. As for Meath, blip against Fermanagh may have been down to complacency as COR on LMFM before the game said "we will give Fermanagh the respect they deserve". In my opinion, that translates as - only need to go through the motions here as we will win pulling up. An Lú Abú ged (Louth) - Posts: 299 - 08/02/2024 10:11:34 2525062 Link
Replying To Royal.1: "Costello only played there while developing as a young footballer, he's not a defender and his best position for me is in the half forward line, leaving jones out for McGowan is mad. Agree about Moriarty definitely but others like Murphy Hickey O'Connor just aren't playing well." He (O'Rourke) should release the McGowans and Brendan McKeon back to the hurling squad so if he is not going to use them. MillerX (Meath) - Posts: 1080 - 08/02/2024 11:02:47 2525069 Link
Replying To ged: "Morning neighbours. Looking forward to the trip to Navan on Sunday week. As for how the game goes, it's hard to call but Meath surely being favourites despite the doom and gloom on here. Louth, we seem to have continued with same team and set up as per MH. We were unlucky to lose against Armagh but reality was that they butchered 2 x 1v1s for goals. As for Meath, blip against Fermanagh may have been down to complacency as COR on LMFM before the game said "we will give Fermanagh the respect they deserve". In my opinion, that translates as - only need to go through the motions here as we will win pulling up. An Lú Abú" You'd be hard pressed to find a bookies that would have Meath as favourites for this game Selwyn (Meath) - Posts: 387 - 08/02/2024 12:02:27 2525078 Link
Not going to lie I would be very happy even with a draw , that would gives us another point . WhyTheLongFace (Meath) - Posts: 934 - 08/02/2024 14:03:50 2525098 Link
Replying To Selwyn: "You'd be hard pressed to find a bookies that would have Meath as favourites for this game" Meath are favourites on PP. Spoofer (Meath) - Posts: 51 - 08/02/2024 14:16:29 2525100 Link
If Meath get it right, they should be able to dispose of Louth with a bit to spare. The problem is they can't get it right, or haven't demonstrated any sort of tactical nuance against a team that aren't in division 3 or 4, and it's a massive problem. We saw it through the league last year, in the Leinster Championship - and the only actual decent team we beat was Down, who are still a division 3 team at the end of the day. Meath have some very talented players but there's something amiss. The lack of effort against Armagh was astonishing, we just went out like a light. Clearly defensively there's massive issues, and some of the players are just not good enough. I'm not saying there's anyone better in the county (there might be, there might not be) but we're so easy just to cut open. Even in some of those games last year in the TC, a few times we were just carved wide open - particularly against Antrim, and when you play better opposition you get punished. Quite clearly we don't know our best team, hence there's so much tinkering around with the lineup, playing players out of position etc.. Louth should be favourites next week, what have they to fear. They went to Armagh, arguably should have won it, and beat Cork last time out. Not confident at all. hyperache (Meath) - Posts: 254 - 08/02/2024 16:49:36 2525134 Link
Replying To MillerX: "He (O'Rourke) should release the McGowans and Brendan McKeon back to the hurling squad so if he is not going to use them." Ah stop! Daithi McGowan has been one of the best players over the past few games! He is versatile and adds something in the dead ball area especially from far out! He has been consistently a top performer for Ratoath over the past 5 years and if we are good enough not to have a player like him in our match day squad then we should be in division 1, winning Leinster and getting ready to bring Sam up to Navan!! Royalblufill (Meath) - Posts: 515 - 08/02/2024 18:24:25 2525147 Link
Moariarty with 4 unbelievable scores for ucd tonight and he will be lucky to get 5 minutes against Louth contributingtoamelee (Meath) - Posts: 55 - 08/02/2024 20:22:43 2525159 Link
Replying To contributingtoamelee: "Moariarty with 4 unbelievable scores for ucd tonight and he will be lucky to get 5 minutes against Louth" Kinsella and Frayne both had 2-3 good points against UL tonight LocalRoyal (Meath) - Posts: 8 - 08/02/2024 22:13:29 2525173 Link
Replying To Sheridan2010louth: "Good call i would love to see Adam play, i think he'd give a better performance than the likes of Campo and coffey who struggled against Armagh, definitely has that bit of fight in him as you say. I would prefer O'Reilly and O'Halloran to Murphy and Flood, I don't think it's irresponsible to play these kids when they are better than the more experienced players playing instead of them. Its just my option others will disagree." Maynooth put Brian o halloran on after 20 minutes to mark ruairi canavan tonight as he was causing damage, done a very good job kept him scoreless beat him to every ball and Canavan was then taken off. Young lads definitely worth a shot since were in a so called re-build. Mmmeath (Meath) - Posts: 15 - 08/02/2024 23:35:42 2525181 Link
Replying To Mmmeath: "Maynooth put Brian o halloran on after 20 minutes to mark ruairi canavan tonight as he was causing damage, done a very good job kept him scoreless beat him to every ball and Canavan was then taken off. Young lads definitely worth a shot since were in a so called re-build." Watched the Sigerson games this evening to see how the Meath lads did. O'Halloran did well though he came on at the start of the second half and Canavan went off in added time with a knock having won a couple of important frees for UU. Frayne kicked two points (one free) and was lively and involved. Kinsella got two early scores, the first a gem but found it tough going in the conditions. Moriarty kicked four great points from play for UCD but went off with 15 minutes left to play or so, hopefully it wasn't a knock. Aaron Lynch got two points in the first half and was more involved. Sean Coffey did well on the wing. Roger (Meath) - Posts: 479 - 08/02/2024 23:49:56 2525183 Link