NFL Division 2 2012

[Maguire01]

Top of the table clash against Antrim. really looking forward to it!!!

You have no place in the Division 2 thread.

[Syferus]

Top of the table clash against Antrim. really looking forward to it!!!

You have no place in the Division 2 thread.

We will in two months time. 

[thejuice]

Meath -

David Gallagher,

Mickey Burke, Kevin Reilly, Brian Menton;
Chris O'Connor, Shane McAnarney, Ciaran Lenihan;

Tom Walsh, Mark Ward;

Seamus Kenny, Graham Reilly, Donnacha Tobin;
Paddy Gilsenan, Stephen Bray, Cian Ward.

Strong enough team, we have to win this one to stay in within a hope of getting out of Div2. Hard to know what to expect of either team. We have a poor enough away record, beating an understrenght westmeath hasn't changed that.

I'm not sure I can see anything that can stop the opposition running from deep like kildare did. Perhaps Tom Walsh might be a bit more mobile than Brian Meade

[Main Street]

It took a while to beat these Loud men into submission, but Monaghan managed to pull easily away in the last 15 minutes.
Though if Nudie Hughes did have any hair left, it would have been ripped out in frustration early in the 2nd half.

[Ard-Rí]

HT - Galway 1-07 to 0-6 Meath
FT - Galway 1- 12 to 1- 11 Meath

Lost in the last minute again.

[GalwayBayBoy]

FT

Galway 1-12 Meath 1-11

[Jinxy]

Fiddlesticks.

[Fear ón Srath Bán]

Fiddlesticks.

My heart bleeds, oh woe! 

[Jinxy]

Can't wait for the trip to Omagh.
We'll make bits of ye!

[Donnellys Hollow]

Great to see Dermot Earley back in action in Newbridge today. Some reception when he came on and kicked the last point. Not before time either because we were wiped out under the kickouts today at midfield. Lost count of the number of times Paudie O'Neill's man caught clean ball above his head. Considering how little ball we won around the middle 2-13 was a good score to put up although our penalty looked quite soft. Johnny kicked some great scores and Kavanagh had his best game in a good while. Good to see Smith getting the goal which should do his confidence no harm.

Disappointing to concede two goals again for the third game out of four especially when the backs were so tight last year. Can't understand why Emmet Bolton was back in the full-back line today when Foley and McGrillen were out in the half-back line. It was only when Bolton got booked and was switched out the field that he started to get into the game. I thought Kelly did a good man-marking job on Paddy Bradley but we'll have to improve at the back if we've any ambitions of staging a late promotion bid.

[Maguire01]

Great result for Monaghan today, although for the first 5 minutes of the second half, it looked like it was all going pear-shaped.

McGuinness, Turley and Malone all stood out for me - a major plus, given that they're amongst the new players. Clerkin was fairly decent and it's great to have Freeman back - he still clearly has planty to offer and can take points from places where other players wouldn't attempt. Darren Hughes had an off-day, by his standards, especially with the own goal.

Louth totally fell apart after they went down to 14 men and Monaghan capitalised on this. Nevertheless, 2-24 is a massive score, especially considering that McManus has still to return to the squad. Mid-field is now our big weakness. As with the last few games, we have been cleaned out in mid-field and we will really be punished for this against better teams.

Also, great to see Gary McQuaid back.

If Monaghan can pick up 2 points against Westmeath next week, i'd expect us to be safe.

[Maguire01]

Top of the table clash against Antrim. really looking forward to it!!!

You have no place in the Division 2 thread.

We will in two months time. 

I wouldn't speak too soon. 

[Main Street]

If Monaghan can pick up 2 points against Westmeath next week, i'd expect us to be safe.

A 2 in a row level of consistency would be most welcome.

[seafoid]

HT - Galway 1-07 to 0-6 Meath
FT - Galway 1- 12 to 1- 11 Meath

Lost in the last minute again.

Didn't Meath dump Galway out of the championship recently enough with a point in the last minute ?
Swings and roundabouts.
But it would be sad if Meath were stuck in D2 for another year.

[timmyot501]

Good win for Monaghan today posting a huge score. Pity we didn't use some of that scoring power last week v Derry.  Plenty of good performances in attack but the defence was wide open on numerous occasions.  All of the fullback line struggled at different times. Darren Hughes is probably wasted at fullback but I think after today he needs to go back there. In fairness to Louth some of the scores they hit were superb and one free in particular was from way beyond the 45m line.  McGuinness took his goal well and also fired over 3 nice points.