After much waiting and speculating, Meath’s forthcoming fixtures for their return to Div 1 of the Allianz National Football League have finally been released. Now, the word ‘Provisional’ has been appended to the announced list, though it’s unlikely there will be any change to the intended schedule unless the weather intervenes.
The first thing to note is that, yet again, Meath have been left with only three home matches. The worst part of that is that, grossly unfairly, the four away games are Cork, Kerry, Donegal and Armagh, geographically the worst possible destinations from a travel perspective.
Still, the other side of that coin is that the three matches we have ‘at home’ – we will again be camping in Croker – against Mayo, Galway and Roscommon – will give what is still and likely to be for some time an evolving Meath team more experience in the big field which can never be a bad thing.
FIXTURES
SUNDAY 24th JANUARY
Cork v Meath
SATURDAY 30th JANUARY Meath v Galway
SATURDAY 13th FEBRUARY Donegal v Meath
SATURDAY 20th FEBRUARY Meath v Mayo
SAT 27th / SUN 28th FEBRUARY Kerry v Meath
SATURDAY 13th MARCH Meath v Roscommon
SUNDAY 21st MARCH Armagh v Meath