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It's on the wrong day. Loads of people looking for tickets. Croker is sold out. Should have been on before Kerry Derry

In my part of Meath not a single flag or banner out for the Taileann Cup final, you would not even know its on and the local club has a few lads on the team.

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A chance to avenge 91. Made me cry so ye did. 

Hopefully Colm O'Rourke puts himself on from the start and not wait till it's too late to kickstart the comeback

Hard to know, we were much tighter defensively against Down last time out but Down looked more dangerous against Laois. How much was it Down improvement and Laois being bad, probably a bit of both. We were opened up by Antrim a good few times and we probably can't afford a slow start again.

We have some top forwards in Lynch, Morris and Costello. They'll keep us in the game but our backs remain porous and if there's any substance to Downs destruction of Laois then we're definitely underdogs. Our win against Wexford was facile as they were completely open and standing off us the whole game.

Don't think we need a third tier just because Laois aren't pulling their weight at the minute. Don't know why this management team was kept in place. Things can improve for Laois quickly if the right people get stuck in.

If anything Down and probably Meath are showing that they shouldn't be in the TC in all honesty. Also bringing third placed teams out of the group have resulted in poor teams getting further than they should.

Came through it with just on the likes of Morris and Lynch but far from clinical display. Just glad we didn't lose our composure completely when Antrim came back. Never want to see a short kick out again

Wonder what sort of crowd will be there. Don't expect huge numbers from Meath unless we get to the final and even then won't be anything like the 2000's.

Only had 3000 at Pairc Tailteann yesterday. Wonder will we bring much of a crowd to the semi final. It would be a shame if we don't.

So we can't meet Down. Probably be all Ulster and all Leinster pairings assuming Antrim win.

Meath 1-12
Wexford 0-03

Half time

Meath 1-09
Wexford 0-01

19 mins

Meath 0-04
Wexford 0-00

10 mins

We seem to have a settled starting 15 now. Still very young and light on senior experience. While it's probably expected that we would get this far we haven't blown teams away which would suggest we're not above playing in the TC. Hopefully we don't get too comfortable here and start making moves up the table and permanently in Sam Maguire.

Hopefully a decent crowd shows up tomorrow.

Did anyone spot Antrim doing un-Antrim things today?

Andy's not fully appreciated as a manager. I'm not surprised to see them improving.

Results in the 1pm games

Meath 1-11  Down 1-9
Tipp 0-17 Waterford 1-13

17 wides for Down, some brutal shooting today. Tight match, Meath finished stronger.

U12s would've done better. Downs forwards are dreadful .

We showed better game management but definitely Down got through our defense quite easily. If we get a favourable draw we might go further but still think Cavan are ahead of us. Chances are we'll get Andy McEntee's Antrim and we get beat.