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Sligo play Meath in one All Ireland semi final. And Munster playing Ulster on the other side of the draw. Cork play Limerick in Munster final. Donegal are in Ulster final. Tyrone play Fermanagh in minor semi final Ulster.
Great win for Sligo last night. Looked really impressive. That Roscommon team beat Mayo and Galway. So Sligos performance looks real good.
Team I know most about is Meath. I know little about others. Looking at recent records at underage Cork and Tyrone look strong contenders, but it's hard to know with minors. It looks wide open. A Sligo v Donegal final could happen, both have never won minor All Ireland title, it would be a real novel final between two neighbouring counties.
From Meath perspective, the standout players are full back and captain Liam Kelly who is excellent defender. Defensively Meath look strong. Midfield Wilson and Kinlough look good. Kinlough particularly looks a very good midfielder. Hughie Corcorcan is a classy inside forward. An excellent freetaker. Sean Emmanuel looks a real prospect, man of the match in leinster final and scored a brillant goal. He was one of Meaths best player on last years minor leinster winning team, after the excellent Eoghan Frayne. Its a good team playing real good intelligent football. But you just don't know with minors. Sligo and Meath both impressed in their respective finals. Great chance for both to get to the final.
Meath have won 4 U17 Leinster minor titles in the last 5 years winning in 2017, 2018, 2020, 2021. But its there record v Dubs at minor that is unprecedented in the last 20 years or even anytime in modern gaa history. Dubs havent been beaten at senior in last 6 years. And a few counties have beaten them at underage in the last few year. A few counties have beaten them once at underage. One or two have beaten them more than once at underage. But the best record by a mile is Meaths 6 victories over Dublin in 6 years at underage. All at minor, while Meath have struggled at u20. This year, Meath should have probably beaten the Dubs at u20, as they dominated the second half. But Meath shot themselves in the foot with the Flynn episode. And Meaths best players Hickey and Costello not playing. What's happening is Meaths best minors have jumped straight into senior and r making huge impact against some of the best teams in the country at senior. Playing little U20. Hickey Walsh and Costello played little U20 football for Meath. But these minors have improved Meath seniors. Costello 2018 minor leinster winning captain scored 1 - 1 v kildare at 18 last year man of the match v kildare. This year at 19, Costello scored 1 - 2 v Dubs. Hickey was man of the match in the league last year at 18 v Dublin in his debut and was one of Meaths best players this year at 19. Walsh scored 6 pts, 3 from play in his first ever game v Meath in championship v kerry, he was 18. He has been injured last 2 years. But he has impressed any time he has played. Morris is only 21 and he is Meaths top scorer two years in a row. He scored 7 points in his debut for Meath last year v Monaghan in Clones, scoring a brillant equalising point in injury time to draw the game. Next year at least 6 of the 15 Meath first team starters will come from these minor Meath teams eg Harry Hogan, Cathal Hickey, Matthew Costello, Ethan Devine, Shane Walsh and Jordan Morris. And up to 15 or more of the panel could come from these minor winning teams who beat Dubs. It is definitely having impact on Meath seniors. Meath got closer to Dubs at senior 4pts last year and 6pts this years, closest best performance by any Leinster team in championship and league for 9 years v Dubs. That these players are beating the Dubs yearly at underage and regularly hammering the Dubs at underage is one of the major reasons why. And Meath still have players to come through from 2018 leinster minor winning team and 2020 and 2021 leinster minor winning teams.
Meath beat Dublin 6 times at minor in the last 6 years in leinster championship. Meath beat Dublin in the minor Leinster championship in 2016, 2017 twice, 2018, 2020, 2021. And in 2019 lost in brillant semi final v Dubs. Half of the victories are by double margins. Meath beat Dublin by 11 pts this year and 11 pts last year at minor. Meath defeated the Dubs by 10 pts in 2016. And Meath beat Dubs twice in 2017 both games by 5 points. And Meath won by 2 pts in 2018. That is unprecedented for any team to beat Dubs at underage so many times in the last 20 years. And even before that, it is very rare at any level.
What's the story with other teams. Great win for Donegal last night. Tyrone have a very good record at underage. So do Cork. Could Sligo do a Tippearay? It's ten years since Tippearay won Minor All Ireland title. Could it be Sligos years.
Well done to Sligo again. A great victory last night.
Kingkeegan (UK) - Posts: 55 - 07/08/2021 18:12:42
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Meath beat Sligo by 5 pts with 14 men. Meath were in control for most of the game. They meet Tyrone or Cork in minor final next Saturday. Tyrone are 7 up at half time. It looks like possible Meath v Tyrone final could be on the cards. Still second half to come.
This Meath team reaching a minor final is significant for leinster football. They are the first leinster team to reach minor All Ireland final in 9 years since 2012. If Meath were to win the final they would be only the third leinster team to win All Ireland minor title in last 21 years since 2000. Since 2000 the only leinster teams to win All Ireland minor title are laois in 2003 and Dublin in 2012
Since 2000 Leinster All Ireland minor finalist and winners are
2001 Dublin Finalist
2002 Meath Finalist
2003 Dublin v Laois Finalist Laois winners
2011 Dublin Finalist
2012 Meath v Dublin Finalist Dublin winners
2021 Meath Finalist Winners To be Announced
Kingkeegan (UK) - Posts: 55 - 21/08/2021 15:13:51
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So it's Meath v Tyrone All Ireland minor final. Tyrone beat Cork by 14 pts in semis. While Meath beat Dublin by 11 pts in leinster final. But overall Tyrone will go into final favourites.
Kingkeegan (UK) - Posts: 55 - 21/08/2021 15:52:08
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Tyrone may be the favorite for this. But in all honesty that is the best minor team since 90s
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 21/08/2021 20:33:39
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Replying To royaldunne: "Tyrone may be the favorite for this. But in all honesty that is the best minor team since 90s" The Tyrone minors looked very good allright royaldunne.
KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 21/08/2021 21:00:30
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Replying To KingdomBoy1: "The Tyrone minors looked very good allright royaldunne." Tyrone could have won by more today except for some good saves from Cork keeper, Meath looked in control for most of the game and come across as a team with plenty of confidence in their own ability, has the makings of a great game. Strange decision to play it in CP, as due to crowd restrictions there will be very few Meath supporters, asking a lot of our young lads, so get there early and help us out.
seadog54 (Meath) - Posts: 2151 - 21/08/2021 21:17:26
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Replying To seadog54: "Tyrone could have won by more today except for some good saves from Cork keeper, Meath looked in control for most of the game and come across as a team with plenty of confidence in their own ability, has the makings of a great game. Strange decision to play it in CP, as due to crowd restrictions there will be very few Meath supporters, asking a lot of our young lads, so get there early and help us out." Unreal decision and a cockup by gaa. Meath will have nearly no support.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 21/08/2021 22:59:49
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Replying To seadog54: "Tyrone could have won by more today except for some good saves from Cork keeper, Meath looked in control for most of the game and come across as a team with plenty of confidence in their own ability, has the makings of a great game. Strange decision to play it in CP, as due to crowd restrictions there will be very few Meath supporters, asking a lot of our young lads, so get there early and help us out." A late switch to Croke Park as the All-Ireland minor final was penciled in for O'Connor Park with just 1,800 allowed to attend.
The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 3766 - 22/08/2021 03:07:43
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A bit like when people complained about the u20 final going to croke park, there is no logic in the complaints. If the game was played anywhere else in the country the attendance would be capped at 1,800 or so. Meath would have got 900 tickets. Croke park will give them more than this for croke park and there'll be more on general sale as the week goes on. Also great for the players getting to play the final in croke park in front of a decent crowd, well in excess of what would have seen them in any other venue.
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Replying To seadog54: "Tyrone could have won by more today except for some good saves from Cork keeper, Meath looked in control for most of the game and come across as a team with plenty of confidence in their own ability, has the makings of a great game. Strange decision to play it in CP, as due to crowd restrictions there will be very few Meath supporters, asking a lot of our young lads, so get there early and help us out." I didn't see the Meath V Sligo game unfortunately but congratulations to both teams on making the final.
I didn't realise this was a double header,when did they decide that?
Being honest il be under pressure to make the senior game so unfortunately I might not see yer final.
Anyway best of luck to both teams.
KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 22/08/2021 11:07:34
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Suits Tyrone this minor final being the curtain raiser for the senior semi final, haven't seen much of Meath but Tyrone minors are very impressive, be some day out there if Tyrone win both games.
Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2758 - 22/08/2021 11:12:50
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I know it will be mostly Tyrone supporters there but I'm happy for the game to be played in Croke Park. It might be the only opportunity some of these lads have to play there, what young lad wouldn't want to play in Croke Park. And I don't think the crowd thing will affect them too much.
In terms of the game, I haven't seen Tyrone but all the talk seems to be how strong they are. They were very comfortable winners over Cork which looks ominous. Meath have some decent young lads but no superstars. We need to tidy up our kickouts and try cut out taking overly ambitious shots. So happy just to see them in the final.
Hopefully they give a good account of themselves even if this Tyrone team proves to be too strong.
HighKings (Meath) - Posts: 271 - 22/08/2021 11:46:56
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All Ireland finals should be played in headquarters, no question, where would Meath or Tyrone lads rather play? Only one answer.
Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2017 - 22/08/2021 13:15:37
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Replying To A Another: "A bit like when people complained about the u20 final going to croke park, there is no logic in the complaints. If the game was played anywhere else in the country the attendance would be capped at 1,800 or so. Meath would have got 900 tickets. Croke park will give them more than this for croke park and there'll be more on general sale as the week goes on. Also great for the players getting to play the final in croke park in front of a decent crowd, well in excess of what would have seen them in any other venue." Can you please provide details for where Croke park will give Meath more than 900 tickets.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 22/08/2021 13:46:22
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Replying To HighKings: "I know it will be mostly Tyrone supporters there but I'm happy for the game to be played in Croke Park. It might be the only opportunity some of these lads have to play there, what young lad wouldn't want to play in Croke Park. And I don't think the crowd thing will affect them too much.
In terms of the game, I haven't seen Tyrone but all the talk seems to be how strong they are. They were very comfortable winners over Cork which looks ominous. Meath have some decent young lads but no superstars. We need to tidy up our kickouts and try cut out taking overly ambitious shots. So happy just to see them in the final.
Hopefully they give a good account of themselves even if this Tyrone team proves to be too strong." I'll be honest with you. I can't see Meath been beat. I no nothing of this Tyrone team. All the talk is about them. But honestly that Meath minor team is the best we have had since 90s. And I will be hugely surprised and disappointed if they don't win.
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 22/08/2021 13:51:23
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Replying To KingdomBoy1: "The Tyrone minors looked very good allright royaldunne." Hopefully another 98 team in the making.
Saynothing (Tyrone) - Posts: 2017 - 22/08/2021 14:31:04
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Replying To Saynothing: "Hopefully another 98 team in the making." 100% an excellent bunch of young lads.
KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 22/08/2021 15:15:39
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Replying To royaldunne: "I'll be honest with you. I can't see Meath been beat. I no nothing of this Tyrone team. All the talk is about them. But honestly that Meath minor team is the best we have had since 90s. And I will be hugely surprised and disappointed if they don't win." Judging by the tyrone managers comments after the semi yesterday Meath are definite favourites. Dublin having beat Tyrone earlier in the year and Meath beating Dublin comfortably in the Leinster final. The royal rising.
Ulsterchamps_32 (Donegal) - Posts: 697 - 22/08/2021 17:34:56
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Replying To Ulsterchamps_32: "Judging by the tyrone managers comments after the semi yesterday Meath are definite favourites. Dublin having beat Tyrone earlier in the year and Meath beating Dublin comfortably in the Leinster final. The royal rising." I think that was just a bit of cute hoorish to try dampen expectations after eating Cork by 15 points. Tyrone are the favourites for this game clearly.
HighKings (Meath) - Posts: 271 - 22/08/2021 18:09:34
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Replying To royaldunne: "I'll be honest with you. I can't see Meath been beat. I no nothing of this Tyrone team. All the talk is about them. But honestly that Meath minor team is the best we have had since 90s. And I will be hugely surprised and disappointed if they don't win." I envy your eternal optimism, I really do. This is a good Meath team, no doubt but the Tyrone team just steam rolled Cork and even before that the word in Ulster was they were a serious team. It'll be a great experience for this Meath team and hopefully it's a good game.
HighKings (Meath) - Posts: 271 - 22/08/2021 18:15:15
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