Tag: GAAGO
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We mightn’t be the A-Team but we’re on the move…
MEATH… 0-24 DOWN… 1-18 The iconic John ‘Hanibal’ Smith character in the A-Team was renowned for regularly proclaiming that he “Love(d) it when a plan comes together”, and it’s not hard to imagine similar sentiments being expressed in the Meath dressing room and around the camp after Robbie Brennan’s charges recorded a perhaps mildly surprising…
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O’Halloran starts – on paper at least – for Meath
Despite a sense that a promise from a politician is probably as believable, if not more so, than what appears on a Meath team sheet these days, the humble hack can only work with the material supplied. Thus, Brian O’Halloran’s inclusion in place of Eoin Harkin represents the only the only change from the the…
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Advantage forwards after weekend of Retro Ball
You can bring the horses to water but you can’t make them drink. For more than a decade now, Gaeldom, myself included, have been articulating ad nauseum how pedantic, restrictive, and frankly boring snooze fest Gaelic football has become. You can blame Mickey Harte or Jim McGuinness or Eamon Ryan or Elon Musk or whoever…
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Three out of four might go with form but there’s always the one…
There are always little signs. If you go back to one of the greatest GAA occurrences ever seen 33 years ago this week – Kevin Foley’s goal for Meath in the fourth game against Dublin – it’s hardly coincidence that they spent two hours rehearsing the move on a soccer pitch in Scotland seven days…
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My Jarlath Burns Wishlist
Following on from my first piece relating to the new President of the GAA, Jarlath Burns, as promised, I do have a broader wish list of what I’d hope/like to see the former Armagh midfielder address during his stewardship of the Association. Before going forward to that though, let me first go back to that…
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He didn’t lick it off the ground but he can certainly kick it!
MEATH…0-11 CAVAN…0-11 In recent weeks in this space the point has been made that Sean Brennan is becoming ever more of a presence between the posts for the Royal County and Saturday’s pulsating finish at Kingspan Breffni Park only underlined as much. Though perhaps not in the manner you might imagine. Now read on… A…
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One book to absolutely not judge by the cover
There are certain side effects to my disability which rarely if ever make it into discourse here. Today, however, will be an exception. And, yes, it will be a case of going from the frying pan into the fire. But it will be brief and reason for doing so will become obvious as this particular…
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Time to invoke the siege mentality
Meath… 0-12 Donegal… 1-10 Why or how Milwall ever came up with their infamous “We are Milwall, nobody likes us, we don’t care” chant is beyond me. It’s not as if they were ever any good. Affixing the same mantra to Meath football teams is far easier to understand. Reason being none other than the…
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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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Underage proposals are well intentioned but pointed in the wrong direction
Back in the day when lads of my own age were involved in GAA at Juvenile level – and for decades before that probably – it wasn’t uncommon for a mentor from one of the competing teams to step in as referee. As when anybody takes up the whistle they are of course admired and…