An Mhí v Cill Dara

[Donnellys Hollow]

  Born and reared in Tipperary. As Kildare as Brian Lacey!

Kildare trained and named. One of the holy trinity in 2005 of Cheltenham champions trained in the Shortgrass. Sure they had to put a Meath man up on two of them so yee didn't feel left out!

[Jinxy]

Must be something to do with horses.

There's good grazing at the hospital end.

[Jinxy]

Parents traditionally take their kids (if very small) to the hospital end.
A small child only counts as 1/3 of an adult so we could fit thousands of them in there.
By the way, if there was 18,000 there for the Galway game I'd love to know where they'd fit another 10,000 to reach the 'official capacity'.
My guess is that the crowd on Saturday was in excess of 20,000.

[squire_in_navy_slacks]

Must be something to do with horses.

Sure them Meath horses have trouble getting up grass hills. Twas no bother to the Kildare trained animal on the right:

Look at our horse ..............

[Jinxy]

The horse won both the race and the subsequent skills competition.

[Dinny Breen]

Looking likely at this stage John Doyle is going to miss this game, has the pendulum swung in Meath's favour especially with the heavy rain forecast that will suit their bigger more natural forwards.

[DB_An_Mhi]

Banty's new master plan is to select six of the ladies team as our entire back line. They got to the Leinster final on merit (beating the Dubs). Dressed in their 2011 ensemble, they can both distract and confuse the flourbags.

[Jinxy]

Looking likely at this stage John Doyle is going to miss this game, has the pendulum swung in Meath's favour especially with the heavy rain forecast that will suit their bigger more natural forwards.

What's up with him?

[Donnellys Hollow]

The gods certainly don't smile on Kildare when it comes to injuries. That's all three of our All-Stars gone if it is the case.

Plenty of options to replace him with but the great man would be a loss to any team. The ideal scenario would be Flynner coming back in but he can't be fully fit himself yet. Paudie O'Neill could always go to midfield with Jimmers coming into the full-forward line and Rob Kelly going out to the forty. Brophy in as a straight swap will probably be the preferred option.

Not a hope McGeeney would try it but if Bolton is fit to start, we could move Lyons back to the corner and bring McGrillen out to midfield. He's always managed O'Rourke fairly well and his mobility would compliment Lynch dropping back and holding the middle.

[mup]

Looking likely at this stage John Doyle is going to miss this game, has the pendulum swung in Meath's favour especially with the heavy rain forecast that will suit their bigger more natural forwards.

Johnny should be ok for Saturday.

[Jinxy]

More lies.
Ye must think we're thick as well as stupid.

[squire_in_navy_slacks]

Looking likely at this stage John Doyle is going to miss this game, has the pendulum swung in Meath's favour especially with the heavy rain forecast that will suit their bigger more natural forwards.

What's up with him?

Geezer and him were at the oul mma stuff again.........in the nip 

[meathie]

Meath waiting on news of Kev Reilly and Cian Ward for injuries. without Reilly esp. we would be in more trouble than we think......

[Jinxy]

Kevin Reilly exists in a perpetual state of injury.

[Ard-Rí]

I saw Cian Ward hurt his ankle early in the Galway game, mid-way through the first half. If that's all that's wrong with him, he's fine.