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Replying To shaggykev: "Not at all. Just stating Armagh in drivers seat right now. If Armagh make another final, Donegal would probably be the last team they'd wanna face but our path right now makes it difficult and we are going to need a splash of luck with the draw and injuries. Kerry are liable to get caught in quarter final or will face Armagh most likely in semi final. I don't seem them getting through both the banana skin or Armagh. Armagh may not go back to back but they deserve to be considered the team to beat." Ah no you're right. I'm actually surprised how focused Armagh are and they level of performance they are putting in considering the all Ireland win after a long wait plus all the other distractions in the background. That is a seriously tight ship. They could end up winning the All Ireland yet but Kerrys draw definitely doesn't do them any favours. FullOfPorter (Roscommon) - Posts: 176 - 03/06/2025 15:18:01 2614595 Link
Replying To kerry4sam25: "Armagh on training camp week of Galway game. Heard they be putting out their B team for the game. Two defeats going into All Ireland QF doesn't look to be champions material." Doubt they be leaving the country for a while. ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 610 - 03/06/2025 19:11:44 2614661 Link
Armagh are no great shakes. The reality is there are a whole load of tier two teams at the minute, or at that level. As a Meath fan, and as they're growing in confidence every game and on an upward trajectory, would expect them to give any of the top teams a rattle. Meath lack experience and game management but it's coming, and when they get there, would actually argue Meath are potentially the best team in the country. Meath in a year or two will have the beating of them all. Most teams slow and laboured tbh, what Meath have showed in patches is youth and buoyancy, like at the end of the first half against Louth. Couldn't sustain it but that will come. Only team able to burn others though, when the mood takes them. The standard is poor at the moment, Armagh, Donegal and Kerry the best of a bad lot. But talent and potential wise, Meath are the best team in the country. And the coming team. A sparks been lit, and Meath have finally woken up. If people don't believe me, Meath and Kerry play at the weekend. Meath won't win, Kerry will on experience. But watch Meath in patches, they'll burn Kerry. In time will be able to sustain this for longer with experience and game management! But on Saturday, there will be patches where Meath will burn them. And Meath the only team in the country who have the youth and pace to do that tbh 32_4_1 (Meath) - Posts: 4165 - 04/06/2025 00:21:23 2614714 Link
Replying To 32_4_1: "Armagh are no great shakes. The reality is there are a whole load of tier two teams at the minute, or at that level. As a Meath fan, and as they're growing in confidence every game and on an upward trajectory, would expect them to give any of the top teams a rattle. Meath lack experience and game management but it's coming, and when they get there, would actually argue Meath are potentially the best team in the country. Meath in a year or two will have the beating of them all. Most teams slow and laboured tbh, what Meath have showed in patches is youth and buoyancy, like at the end of the first half against Louth. Couldn't sustain it but that will come. Only team able to burn others though, when the mood takes them. The standard is poor at the moment, Armagh, Donegal and Kerry the best of a bad lot. But talent and potential wise, Meath are the best team in the country. And the coming team. A sparks been lit, and Meath have finally woken up. If people don't believe me, Meath and Kerry play at the weekend. Meath won't win, Kerry will on experience. But watch Meath in patches, they'll burn Kerry. In time will be able to sustain this for longer with experience and game management! But on Saturday, there will be patches where Meath will burn them. And Meath the only team in the country who have the youth and pace to do that tbh" Too many cart horses on that Meath team to go anywhere. Barely a top 10 team. Kerry by 10+ .Louth have way more potential. ORIELMAN85 (Monaghan) - Posts: 610 - 04/06/2025 11:21:14 2614765 Link
Replying To 32_4_1: "Armagh are no great shakes. The reality is there are a whole load of tier two teams at the minute, or at that level. As a Meath fan, and as they're growing in confidence every game and on an upward trajectory, would expect them to give any of the top teams a rattle. Meath lack experience and game management but it's coming, and when they get there, would actually argue Meath are potentially the best team in the country. Meath in a year or two will have the beating of them all. Most teams slow and laboured tbh, what Meath have showed in patches is youth and buoyancy, like at the end of the first half against Louth. Couldn't sustain it but that will come. Only team able to burn others though, when the mood takes them. The standard is poor at the moment, Armagh, Donegal and Kerry the best of a bad lot. But talent and potential wise, Meath are the best team in the country. And the coming team. A sparks been lit, and Meath have finally woken up. If people don't believe me, Meath and Kerry play at the weekend. Meath won't win, Kerry will on experience. But watch Meath in patches, they'll burn Kerry. In time will be able to sustain this for longer with experience and game management! But on Saturday, there will be patches where Meath will burn them. And Meath the only team in the country who have the youth and pace to do that tbh" 25 years of negativity from the displaced people of east Mide and now they are going to win the All Ireland.It must be the psychological effects of displacement. jobber (Westmeath) - Posts: 1729 - 04/06/2025 12:44:38 2614802 Link
Replying To 32_4_1: "Armagh are no great shakes. The reality is there are a whole load of tier two teams at the minute, or at that level. As a Meath fan, and as they're growing in confidence every game and on an upward trajectory, would expect them to give any of the top teams a rattle. Meath lack experience and game management but it's coming, and when they get there, would actually argue Meath are potentially the best team in the country. Meath in a year or two will have the beating of them all. Most teams slow and laboured tbh, what Meath have showed in patches is youth and buoyancy, like at the end of the first half against Louth. Couldn't sustain it but that will come. Only team able to burn others though, when the mood takes them. The standard is poor at the moment, Armagh, Donegal and Kerry the best of a bad lot. But talent and potential wise, Meath are the best team in the country. And the coming team. A sparks been lit, and Meath have finally woken up. If people don't believe me, Meath and Kerry play at the weekend. Meath won't win, Kerry will on experience. But watch Meath in patches, they'll burn Kerry. In time will be able to sustain this for longer with experience and game management! But on Saturday, there will be patches where Meath will burn them. And Meath the only team in the country who have the youth and pace to do that tbh" Not sure if serious or tongue in cheek Gaa_lover (USA) - Posts: 3653 - 05/06/2025 00:02:08 2614975 Link
Replying To jobber: "25 years of negativity from the displaced people of east Mide and now they are going to win the All Ireland.It must be the psychological effects of displacement." People can ridicule the point all they like, and up until Mick O'Dowd took over Meath, they were still very competitive. Since then, and due to what happened under his reign, which I won't really get into, Meath regressed psychologically. A poison in the camp and county, and everyone who came in since then, subjected to that. The point was, Meath were never bad, unlike others, for most of this time, because they didn't have the players. They were beaten dogs mentally for years. Sort of like whats happening to United in football, a poison in the club. This management are the first who seem to have broken that. Meath showed no form even up until they played Dublin, but since then, something has sparked. You can feel it. That dead-weight holding them down, like beaten dogs, finally lifted. From this point on, and it will take time, Meath will improve tenfold as they get more experience and confidence. Meath will improve at a far greater rate than anyone. Because they were never as bad as results in recent years suggested, or even close to being that poor. The result against Dublin didn't matter, and people will say Dublin were poor. The important thing was for the management to get the team to show fight and belief again, and they did that in abundance. Showed attributes they hadn't in years. A willingness to walk through walls again. What Meath player for the last 15 years, could of said they left it all on the pitch? Now they all can. What i'm saying might sound ridiculous if you take Meaths results for the last decade at face value. But that's not the full story. Meath had far greater potential and ability than the last ten years suggested. Meath playing to that potential, or close to it, which they are slowly on track to recapturing, would put them in the ball park area of the top teams. They've always been at that level in terms of potential tbh, but have very badly under-performed for a long time now. With the shackles finally off, Meath are going to return to where they should of been all along. And I reckon they've greater ability than a team like Armagh, if whipped into shape properly! Watch them against Kerry. Slowly improving every game. There'll be patches they'll tear them apart, go to a level Kerry can't, then drop off. Its why you nearly tear your hair out watching like against Louth, you know what they're capable off. Obliterate Louth for periods but don't sustain it. But that will come in time! 32_4_1 (Meath) - Posts: 4165 - 05/06/2025 00:41:54 2614977 Link
They barely beat Offaly in Navan and now they're the greatest Meath team since Joe Cassells was in his pomp Claretandblue (Westmeath) - Posts: 2200 - 05/06/2025 11:57:14 2615041 Link
32_4_1 (Meath) a wum and not even a good one. Drax_the_destroyer (UK) - Posts: 494 - 05/06/2025 14:05:48 2615092 Link
Armagh, Donegal and maybe Kerry look the most likely at this stage. Kerry more so because of the draw really. Potentially could have just 2 challenging games to win the All-Ireland. Any of the 3 above could lose to a number of other counties though, like we've already seen with Donegal. Tyrone, Galway, Mayo all dangerous teams on their day, and you'd just never know if things were to fall their way. Maybe Dublin in that group as well, but I'm less sure of them. MesAmis (Dublin) - Posts: 13816 - 05/06/2025 14:20:58 2615099 Link
Replying To Drax_the_destroyer: "32_4_1 (Meath) a wum and not even a good one." Yes anyone with a different opinion a wum! 32_4_1 (Meath) - Posts: 4165 - 09/06/2025 00:44:07 2615960 Link
Replying To 32_4_1: "Yes anyone with a different opinion a wum!" Armagh were poor versus Dublin and just took their chances better. On another day, Dublin would have won. Not sure about Armagh's midfield or backline this year. Undoubtedly they have a few exceptional players like Conaty but they seem a little loose and open at the back. Let's see after this coming weekend who else gets straight through to quarter's. winatallcost (Meath) - Posts: 679 - 09/06/2025 10:21:54 2616009 Link
Wumming was it? 32_4_1 (Meath) - Posts: 4165 - 14/06/2025 17:55:54 2617391 Link
Keep the sneering and jeering and the one upmanship coming lads... we love it. Who's next? Young_gael (Meath) - Posts: 600 - 14/06/2025 18:00:00 2617394 Link
Armagh playing B team later. Will be beaten and beaten in knockout stages. 3 defeat in one year gor flash in pan team. kerry4sam25 (Kerry) - Posts: 30 - 14/06/2025 18:02:38 2617397 Link
Replying To 32_4_1: "Wumming was it?" lol. Love it. Meath are making this year's championship something special and now Kerry in prelims has put the cat amongst the pigeons shaggykev (Donegal) - Posts: 362 - 14/06/2025 18:08:56 2617402 Link
Replying To kerry4sam25: "Armagh playing B team later. Will be beaten and beaten in knockout stages. 3 defeat in one year gor flash in pan team." Hopefully catch you for a pint in a fortnight if you can avoid Donegal or Tyrone in the draw. sam2024 (Armagh) - Posts: 60 - 14/06/2025 21:00:25 2617486 Link
Armagh rightly favourites. Kerry dreadful today. I'd welcome a big rival coming to Killarney. Either good enough to go further or not. legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 8939 - 14/06/2025 21:22:37 2617495 Link

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