An Mhí v Cill Dara

[commonsense]

I think having the country against us with work in Meaths favour. Siege mentality. Bring it on.

[Dinny Breen]

Good old Martin Lynch, hated most in Wicklow for his riverdance goal that broke their hearts.

Fierce nice chap away from the pitch and rarely misses a Kildare game.

[Hardy]

What do people think about the last time Meath played Kildare a couple of months ago in Navan. I thought Kildare were poor enough that day and we won it by 5 or 6 points I think. That's why I was surprised to hear the SG tipping them to win. But I supppose league form counts for little.

Both teams were awful that day. You're right, though, about the league.

The whole country will be cheering for Kildare.
We're all on our own again.
Just like old times.

That's the best thing about this. I love it!

[commonsense]

I'm bit of a meath exile, living in dublin over 10 years now (but never thinking of myself as a dub, purely for football reasons), but I've been told the meath flags are out in force this year which is great to hear. Hopefully the whole county will get behind the team, especially now we've been painted the pantomine bad guys of the championship

[Dinny Breen]

League form matters little particulary that game as Kildare were ravaged by injuries and both sides had little to play for.

[commonsense]

Kildare v Meath:
Player matchups, going on last lineouts of kildare and likely meath lineout (granted, I'll be more than a little biased in these, but feel free to disagree)

GK N/A

Kelly v Bray - I think Bray if he shows form like dublin game / first half of louth match

McGrillen v O'Rourke - I must say I'm unconvinced by O'Rourke so far. I'll vote against him here

MacLoughlainn v Ward - Ward. Sure he's the 3rd highest scorer in the championship so far or something close to that

Callaghan v Kenny - Seamus will play all over the place and give his usual unrecognised man of the match performance

Bolton v Joe - Come on. Who from Meath would ever vote against the Joe Show?

Flanagan v Reilly - Reilly is a revelation. He'll be hard to stop no matter who tries to mark him

Flynn v Crawford - If Crawford is fully fit, I'll give him the nod

Earley v Meade - Sorry Meade. I'd be blind to give you the nod over Dermot Earley to be fair to Kildare.

Doyle v King - Again. Doyle is top scorer 2010 at the moment.

O'Neill v McGuinness - Hm. I'll call it a draw, since McGuinness is really untested this championship

O'Flaherty v Moyles - Moyles for the first 60 mins, but he'll tire after that.

Smith v Harrington - Even stevens

Kavanagh v Reilly - Reilly

Donnelly v O' Connor - I'll go for the Meath corner back, but on no other basis than I'm biased.

[Dinny Breen]

Peter Kelly has been a revelation for Kildare, Bray apart from the Dublin game has been very poor, most of the lads here have been calling for his head, Kelly all the way for me
Callaghan has been motm for Kildare in 3 of the last 4 games
Flynn has been Kildare's best midfieler and if you matched up both midfields I think Kildare have the edge.
Did you not see Kavanagh at the weekend?
Will probably see the return of Sweeney for this game, but he's not a full forward so advantage will be to Meath but he normally starts to move out after about 20 mins.

[commonsense]

Peter Kelly has been a revelation for Kildare, Bray apart from the Dublin game has been very poor, most of the lads here have been calling for his head, Kelly all the way for me
Callaghan has been motm for Kildare in 3 of the last 4 games
Flynn has been Kildare's best midfieler and if you matched up both midfields I think Kildare have the edge.
Did you not see Kavanagh at the weekend?
Will probably see the return of Sweeney for this game, but he's not a full forward so advantage will be to Meath but he normally starts to move out after about 20 mins.

Well, I've only seen 2 Kildare games this year (monaghan and Derry) and only on the tv, and I can't recall Kelly and Callaghans distinct prowess but I'll take your word for it. I dunno about ranking anyone ahead of Kevin Reilly tho. I didn't put much of a blurb beside that prediction, but no forward has gotten the better of him so far this year. And he marked Brogan out of it I thought, particularly impressive since RTE Radio 1 last week were calling him "the best player in the country" (rubbish by the way, although he is good)

[Dinny Breen]

Kavanagh is different to Brogan, Kavanagh is very much a heads up footballer looking for and assessing options, BB tends to put the head down too much for my liking but if given freedom he will rack up the scores, Reilly is a very good defender though which is why I didn't call it myself, could be a crucial match-up in deciding the game.

[Hound]

The whole country will be cheering for Kildare.
We're all on our own again.
Just like old times.

That's the best thing about this. I love it!

I have it on good authority that Antrim will be cheering for you. That could be enough to jinx it for you!

[Jinxy]

Always liked Antrim folk.
Good honest gaels.

[commonsense]

I have it from an extremely unreliable source that we're on sunday at 4pm.

[JMohan]

I have it from an extremely unreliable source that we're on sunday at 4pm.

Must be true so

[Jinxy]

It is Sunday @ 4pm.
http://www.gaa.ie/gaa-news-and-videos/daily-news/

[commonsense]

I'm stunned. It's the first time that source has been right about anything this year. I must start betting with him.