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Replying To donedeal101:  "Was well worth taking the 3 Boyne lads off at half time in the Leinster final last week losing to wexford tonight fair play to the management for preventing the lads from playing the 2nd half it really worked out for them"
This comment sounds like you were just waiting for Meath to lose last night. Really good come back with great impact off bench so very disappointing to lose. Perhaps some of substitutes showed have started. Hopefully these young players will learn and develop from this experience and become good adult players.

winatallcost (Meath) - Posts: 509 - 25/04/2024 07:39:21    2540533

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Replying To winatallcost:  "This comment sounds like you were just waiting for Meath to lose last night. Really good come back with great impact off bench so very disappointing to lose. Perhaps some of substitutes showed have started. Hopefully these young players will learn and develop from this experience and become good adult players."
It's seemed at time and now, that to force those three lads off in a schools game was and is the wrong thing to do.

I can fully understand people's annoyance and frustration.

Football can be cruel. No need to make it crueler.

A successful u16 county management team was replaced for county minor competition and the it hasn't worked.

Lessons to be learned.

Feel very sorry for these young men. They did us proud.

Meathooooo (Meath) - Posts: 48 - 25/04/2024 09:29:53    2540553

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Very unlucky to lose last night, they were electric for the last 10-15mins to get themselves ahead after looking like the game was dead and buried halfway through the second half, that kind of resilience will stand to them and be a good platform to get a run at the Tier 3

LowerHogan (Meath) - Posts: 23 - 25/04/2024 13:47:20    2540609

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I'm not going to be too critical as they are kids and as mentioned before, there was not a huge expectation for the group. A couple of nice footballers there but Wexford ran the show for 40 minutes and their midfielder who got the three goals was head and shoulders above anyone else ability wise.
The thing with Boyne school looks bad but it was league not championship and had any of the three lads got injured during that game, people would be giving out about the management for letting them play in it.
On to the All-Ireland C for this team now which really is a competition for the Waterford, Tipperary, Leitrim and Antrim's of this world. Let the players go back to their clubs and maybe train once a week at county level, no more.

Roger (Meath) - Posts: 471 - 25/04/2024 14:12:14    2540613

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