Mod Note Post #1 - The 2022 All Ireland Senior Football Championship.

But if you let him go really quickly when he falls then it’s fine........

Sounded like a thriller on C103, god bless Paudie Palmer.

Meath beaten by Clare. Hopefully the GAA hurrys up with the multi million annual package to improve football in the county.

I wonder how Colm o Rourke will blame Dublin and money on a terrible result for Meath no excuse for a good footballing county like Meath to be so poor for so long .

Stop trying to deflect from the blatent financial doping and unfair home advantage Dublin get. It's a fact.

Let's throw €19m at Meath football and let them play 99% of their games in Navan. Sounds silly doesn't it?

So Meath lose to Clare and it’s Dublin fault lol

What has Meath losing to Clare got to with Dublin? When Meath lost to Longford and Westmeath was that Dublin’s fault as well? I know you are angry after yet another embarrassing poor Meath result.

But take a step back and look at how Meath is run? Are they achieving or underachieving?

Is McEntee making the best use of what he has available?

The problem is many Meath supporters can’t face the fact that their manager and County Board are not only just underperforming, they are unperforming consistently against counties with -

1) much smaller populations, 2) much less football tradition, and 3) much less resources.

Meath should not be used in the same sentence as Dublin. As Meath have to stop their slide to a de facto div3 team or div2 strugglers.

The level Meath are at they should be asking why the consistency of poor results. Clare, Westmeath, Longford!?All in recent years.

Yet we have Meath fans thinking they should be the same level as Dublin! It is dreamland stuff.

Watched the penalty decision.atvtge end of the Mayo) Monoghan match. Would have been a soft penalty. Of the Monoghan players had played on instead of going down looking for a penalty height have got a goal. Mayo players put his hands on him but did not pull him down.

Hopefully Clare can win Round 2 and draw Derry, it would provide a great chance to reach the semi for Derry. The last QF in 2007 they played Dublin.

mmm.....hopefully indeed!!

McEntee is a spoofer. Hope this thread is not derailed now with the usual 'Meath are better than you think' posts.

Andy no doubt will be lambasting the officials like he does after every defeat . Meath will be a lot better off with him gone he has not improved them at all .

Clare beat Meath in a qualifier and posters discussing the game are accused of "deflecting" because they're talking about Clare and Meath, instead of Dublin....

Disappointing for us today, but not a complete shock. We knew Meath were only mild favourites and Clare have gotten closer to us each year, they were bound to beat us someday.

There was a lot of promise attached to McEntee's arrival, as if he was going to punish Meath into being good, but I'm struggling to think of too many highlights from the last 6 years. Our best league performance in years in 2019 and a handy championship draw got us to Div 1. and the AI QF Group stage, but we came last in both without even winning a game. Kildare imploding in the 2nd half in Leinster in 2020 might be another good memory.

As mentioned before, blaming Dublin is an easy out for Meath fans because if we get a tanking off Dublin, that gets the headlines and people won't talk about our dismal qualifier record or the way we struggle against teams much weaker on paper. Blame Dublin all you like but they probably only comprise about 1 in 10 games Meath play in most years, and we don't impress in the other 9 either.

Hard to predict what happens next for Meath. Some seem to put a lot of hope on the fact we won the AI Minor last year, but you can't base much weight on a good performance by one year's minors. We're struggling to even convert minor success to U20 level, with the U20 teams of 2021 and 2022 being full of Leinster and AI minor winners yet still falling well short. Even then, Offaly and Kildare have won recent AIs at U20 grade and you'd be hard pressed to find any Meath person thinking that'll lead them to senior glory....