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Jayo may not be risked.

He needs games though, looked very rusty last week...

Personally I think Joe Brolly is a knob and Colm O'Rourke is just past his sell by date, however I do feel that Daire o'Cinneide has shown great potential and Michael Duignan is just top notch and Anthony Tohill is growing into the role..

As for TV3's commentary I'm not a fan of RTE rugby wither, so anything can be an improvement.

envy u guys that have done the whole Australia thing i always wanted to do it but never got the chance.  Im nearly 28 now and recently bought a house so not likely to happen   Sad now unless i win lotto  Smiley

I was 30 when I went, rented out the house and never regretted it. An absolutely fantastic experience, don't rule it out yet......

New Zealand is a must lads, it's a big Wicklow with fantastic people just don't talk about rugby......

An for anyone going to West Oz, I defy anyone to tell me Coral Bay is not a little slice of Heaven.....

would u recomend a campervan dinny?

Absolutely totally the best way to see Oz, drove from Cairns via Syndey via Melbourne via Perth to Broome myself, took the guts of 4 months but well worth it. The East coast is over-hyped where conversely the West Coast is under-hyped. It's not a cheap country but there is always back-packer deals available for cheap drinks and food. As regards work, start looking straight away as it generally will take a couple of weeks anyway to find a job. I just prefered the West Coast, just a fantastic way of life and Western Aussies are pretty friendly and very laid back, their not as exposed to the back-pack culture and just make more of an effort plus my god-child is a west Aussie. Whatever you do just move around, stay away from County Bondi as much as you can and you'll love, lucky man.

In fairness of the last 9 groups with Italian teams, only 3 have provided the best-runners up but I'd still take an Italian team any day of the week..

FFS, terribe draw for Leinster, top seeds my b*llix....

The timing of the fixtures will be crucial, hopefully we'll have our home against Leicster and Toulouse in the final three games...

West Coast! West Coast! West Coast!

Why is it called a hop ball?

Gnevin, stop being so precious it was an honest question probably rethorical if I'm honest because we all knew the answer....

Well this is where the GAA should apply a little bit of pressure, going by the audience figures I'm sure RTE wouldn't like to lose the TV rights. A precedent has been set, they have no excuse, I mean for the love of god they're showing another god awful Connacht championship match*




* That is not a fishing attempt I just find Connacht football very claustrophobic and as a result the quality suffers and teams seem more afraid of losing than winning, conversely take a Connacht team out of Connacht and they play with much more freedom and expression in particular Galway and Sligo.....

Why aren't they showing the Liimerick Tipp replay live, they showed last week that they can broadcast 3 games live on the same day and the auidence figures were massive, almost 600K between both games and they had 500K watching at prime time Saturday night. Now I don't mean to bash the precious dubs but did they only show the game last week because it was the Dubs?

A team could have 90% of the possession, shoot 25 wides and score three points, while the other team shoots no wides and five points  from their 10% possession

What's Kildare got to do with this 

I think this is becoming a question of semantics, maybe I should use my language better.  The amount of possession and chances they had, they could have won the game by 8 points. They were the better side at creating chances, how anyone can argue that is beyond me, were they the better side at converted the chances I don't know as I don't have the stats available and I'd be surprised myself if they were. Putting everything into context tackling, positioning, primary possession won, distribution, chances created, shot selection, subsitutions Dublin were easily the better side and I find it bizarre that someone cannot understand the abstract notion that a team looked 8 points better than the opposition (have you never done a handicap bet) or maybe you just watch everything through a black and white TV. I never said Meath didn't have a chance I just said they never looked like winning...

Anyway I'll take my abstruse mutterings from this thread and we'll all bizarrely agree Dublin were the better team by 4 points.

Of course if you took more chances you'd win by more. If we'd taken more chances we'd have won. When it starts raining the ground gets wet. For God's sake.

That is not the point, Dublin created more chances, a lot more than Meath because simply they were the better team, maybe I should give the Meath defence more credit but the Dublin forwards were poor yesterday. You seem to think Meath competed wel andl had a chance to win, they competed but they're a limited team and never looked like winning, 9/10 I would expect Dublin to beat them.

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Firstly I meant to say that Bray was the only Meath forward that rose to the match, GG only showed his genius at times and I thought he was under-utilised by Meath. Fay was of course exceptional.

If GG's shot had gone in we'd probably have won. If we'd used him properly, he'd have won it on his own.

Hardy, this is a quote from you, hence why I feel the need to make the point that Dublin created way more chances than Meath, so if they had scored all their chances they would have won by more than the 4 points, the fact that they created more opportunities than Meath and even allowing for Keaney and Brogan mis-firing still won by 4, I just feel an 8 point difference would have been a truer reflection of the game I witnessed as a neutral.

I think a lot people got carried away with Meaths performance in the first game simply because it was Meath. They still have a lot to do for me to believe they are back..

Supporters from competing counties cannot be objective in their opinions certainly not in days after a game when passions are still high, Hound been the best example in a while, so Hardy and Jinxy although I can feel your excitement in this Meath team I wouldn't be too excited as it could be an Emperor without any clothes...