Tag: SportTG4
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Champions ready for the road again
If there’s a sound system being piped into the Meath Ladies dressing room, you suspect Willie Nelson would be atop the playlist from Spotify at presently – I can’t wait to be on the road again. I do not know the ins and outs of what ultimately led to Davy Nelson’s departure as their manager,…
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SIDELINE CUTS – 28
What you will read hereafter is in the above category solely due to breadth of material likely to be covered. Quite simply because there was a compulsion to write something. But not about anything in particular, if you get me. Unlike, say, last week, when a tumultuous week for Meath GAA meant things more or…
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Return of three jewels boost hopes of holding onto the crown
Meath… 0-15 Laois… 0-05 Take Kevin De Bruyne, Ruben Dias and Erling Haaland out of the Manchester City team, they don’t win their fifth Premier League title in six years. Send Limerick out shorn of Declan Hannon, Gearoid Hegarty and Aaron Gillane and they wouldn’t know Liam Mac Carthy as well as they do. Now…
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An ugly win is a learning win
Meath…0-08 Westmeath…1-03 Even using the most elaborate journalistic or poetic license possible, one would get to turn the sow’s ear of a match into a silk purse. Yet in one way at least, Meath won’t care a jot. Getting back on track after last week’s disapointment against Laois will be all that mattered to John…
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Sideline Cuts 28 – Sometimes the most obvious answer is the right one
In the dark old days of the National Leagues before each division (rightly) was seen as a separate competition which their own Final, trophy and the like, the knockout stages went in such a way that whoever qualified from Div. 1 played whatever team came out of the fourth tier. Thus, it went that whoever…
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Neither of them have gone away – Sideline Cuts (27)
It’s the hope that kills you. At the start of every season, it’s in the DNA of a GAA fan to get a new transfusion of hope. Regardless of whether it’s club or county, whether new players have come in or you’ve actually lost some. There’s something woven into the GAA psyche which plants This…
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Cavan are the template others must follow – SIDELINE CUTS (26)
For some reason which has never quite been figured out, this corner has always had something of a hidden soft spot for the Cavan Senior Football team. The nearest to an explanation which can be arrived at is that – for a while – during my school years, our jerseys were blue and white replicas…
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Closer but still not over the line
Meath…0-11 Cork…2-08 This writer has no idea where the saying ‘Close but no cigar’ originated from but at Pairc Ui Rinn on Saturday lunchtime it was a case of close but not over the line for the Meath as they slipped to another narrow defeat in the final round of the Lidl Ladies NFL. The…
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Frayne leads from the front as Meath make winning start
Meath…0-12 Longford…0-04 These are strange times in the GAA. It’s March 21st and there are Provincial Championships under way. In Leinster at least. There’s absolutely no need for such to be the case, and these arrangements will end up creating more problems than it will solve. For now, it is what it is however. What…
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Disappointing Kehoe conclusion in lunchtime shoot out
Meath… 0-18 Kildare… 2-24 Needing to win big in this lunchtime encounter at Dunganny, the last thing Meath needed was David O’Flaherty rifling to their net inside the first minute. Podge O’Hanrahan responded with two points for Meath, but unfortunately that was as good as it got for them. With James Burke in awesome form…