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Second half -  16mins

Meath            00-07
Westmeath  00-01

Westmeath finally grabbing their first score of the game.

Meath 0-03
Westmeath 0-00

28 mins

Meath with all the possession but not many scores

Meath 0-02
Westmeath 0-00

14 mins

Rough conditions, wind and rain in Ashbourne.

Hopefully we'll turn things around tonight. Hard to understand the capitulation against Laois.

£11:99 to watch it on Clubber is a bit steep. LMFM will have to do.

The general feeling is if we end up in the TC it'll be exactly what we deserve. Will the players put everything into it, not sure. Not sure what way we'll show against Offaly either.

Well with Clares win against Cork, Meath need to reach the final to avoid the Tailteann Cup.

Offaly beat Longford
Wicklow beat Carlow

Qtr Finals 22/04/23

Westmeath vs Louth
Offaly vs Meath
Laois vs Dublin
Kildare vs Wicklow

I don't think I can even get mad about it at this point if we do end up in the TC.I don't get the sense we're going anywhere under O'Rourke. Mi go t be early days but this league doesn't fill me with any confidence.

We have a few big players but plenty smaller lads. Still should be well able to go 70+ minutes. If a player is involved at county level from underage that shouldn't be an issue these days.

So frustrating. To have the commentators questioning our strength and conditioning at this stage seems unforgivable. We should be at the same level as the best teams in Ireland in that department, no excuses. We have the facilities, the clubs have the facilities. I can't get my head around that. I really f**king hope Colm wises up now defensively. We'll be lucky to get a result from Kildare if we play man to man again.

Meaths defending is so naïve it's embarrassing. It's making it so easy for Dublin. I can't see the wind making that much of a difference in the second half but poor choice of shooting from the forwards.

Shocked to see this. Awful for someone to go just like that.

Thoughts and prayers with his family and friends.

Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dilís.

We all know that but O'Rourke isn't the only one on the sideline. Bray, Callaghan and Garrigan were supposed to keep us grounded in the 21st century.

Meath can't defend at all. Don't know what the issue is. We're conceding loads every game. There's good individual defenders in Keoghan and Adam O'Neill but as a unit they're porous.

We don't have a hope against Dublin but Kildare look beatable but it would be typical of them to have their best game against us.

Meath 1-12
Louth 1-15


Meath are back....


...to square one!

6-5 to Louth
Meath down to 14