John Fogarty asks what previous All-Ireland final replays can tell us about Saturday’s game?

In the last 30-odd years, four All-Ireland senior football finals have gone to a replay — the deciders of 1988, 1996, 2000, and 2016.

Mickey Burke, Meath’s longest serving player, has admitted securing a belated return to Division 1 of the Allianz League was his big target for the year.

Longford 2-13 Monaghan 1-13: Well, Monaghan can hardly say they weren’t forewarned. Twelve years ago, Denis Connerton brought an unfancied Longford outfit to Clones and plundered Monaghan’s home in the only previous championship meeting between these sides.

Leinster SFC final

Rob Hennelly should have be sitting in the Croke Park stands on Sunday instead of standing between the posts for Mayo.

One point.

Mick O’Dowd of the Skryne club was ratified as the new Meath senior football manager in succession to Seamus McEnaney at last night’s county board meeting in Navan.

Two Meath forwards failed to convert penalties in the third round of the county SFC at the weekend but both of their sides gained victories to extend 100% winning records.

Shane McAnarney has been a Meath senior footballer since 2006, but try asking him when he made his debut and he will tell you it came as recently as last year.

Former Meath boss Colm Coyle hopes the Royals can bounce back from the debacle surrounding the future of manager Seamus McEnaney.

Seamus McEnaney’s position as Meath football manager looks fatally weakened following an emergency county board management committee meeting on his future.

THE year he first played with Mayo was the same year he won his first All Star and probably when he should have won his first All-Ireland too but when it comes to explaining why he and Mayo didn’t seal the deal, his take on it is different from nearly everyone else’s.

Former Monaghan and Meath boss Colm Coyle discusses ‘the madness’ of life as an inter-county manager with John Fogarty

Seamus McEnaney was finally given the green light to become the fifth manager of the Meath senior football team in seven seasons at the county board meeting in Navan last night.

SEAMUS McENANEY was finally given the green light to become the fifth manager of the Meath senior football team in seven seasons at the county board meeting in Navan last night.

SEAMUS McEnaney’s high profile management team comes with a price tag of between €60,000 and €80,000.

The shockwaves raised by Eamonn O’Brien’s ousting were still reverberating around Meath yesterday with officials, players and supporters struggling to come to terms with Monday night’s dramatic events.

THE shockwaves raised by Eamonn O’Brien’s ousting were still reverberating around Meath yesterday with officials, players and supporters struggling to come to terms with Monday night’s dramatic events.

Long-serving Monaghan senior football manager Seamus McEnaney will not be reapplying for the position for 2011, he confirmed in a statement released today.

Yesterday's 1-15 to 1-11 All-Ireland qualifier defeat to Kildare could mark Seamus McEnaney's final game in charge of Monaghan, but the man himself was giving little away afterwards.

DUBLIN will have to plan without full-back Kevin Ryan — out with a hamstring injury — for their Allianz NHL league clash with Cork at Páirc Uí Chaoimh on Sunday. But the Dubs are hopeful centre-back Tomás Brady and midfielder Johnny McCaffrey will have recovered from knocks sustained when, respectively, assisting Na Fianna and winners Lucan Sarsfields in the Dublin U-21HC final last Saturday.

Eamonn O'Brien has succeeded Colm Coyle as the new manager of the senior Meath football team.

The Meath County Board has deferred a decision on who to appoint as the county's new football manager.

IT TOOK delegates less than 15 minutes at last night’s meeting of the Waterford County Board to ratify the re-appointment of Davy Fitzgerald as senior hurling manager for a two-year term.

WEXFORD senior hurling manager John Meyler and his backroom team have been sensationally sacked by the county board.

LUKE DEMPSEY is in the frame to succeed Colm Coyle as Meath manager after county board officials met with him in Mullingar last week.

Laois man Maurice Deegan has been chosen to referee the upcoming All-Ireland Senior Football final between Kerry and Tyrone on Sunday, September 21.

Seamus McEnaney has ended intense speculation over his future by confirming that he will lead the Monaghan senior footballers into the 2009 season.

Meath County Board officials today expressed their regret at the departure of Colm Coyle as the Royals senior football manager and the retirements of veteran players Graham Geraghty and Darren Fay.

Pat Roe has called time on his stint as Offaly Senior Football manager, in the wake of the Faithful County's disappointing 18-point defeat to Down in the All-Ireland qualifiers on Saturday.

Donal Keoghan has stepped down as Cavan senior football manager, following the Breffni men's agonising All-Ireland SFC qualifier exit at the hands of Kildare.

IT was men against boys at the Gaelic Grounds on Saturday night, where Limerick shocked last year’s All-Ireland semi-finalists Meath in emphatic style.

Meath and Longford are on the lookout for new managers this lunchtime.

For tomorrow's GAA All-Ireland football championship qualifier against Limerick, the Meath management have drafted in four of the five players who were suspended for last month's Leinster SFC clash with Wexford.

Meath 2-13 Wexford 2-14

Meath's Brendan Murphy, Seamus Kenny, Nigel Crawford, Niall McKeigue and Shane McAnarney will miss tomorrow's Leinster SFC quarter-final against Wexford at Dr Cullen Park.

Meath manager Colm Coyle revealed that despite the possibility of inflicting a heavy defeat over Carlow - which eventually materialised at Croke Park yesterday, he still approached his side's Leinster championship opener with caution.

Meath 1-25 Carlow 0-8

Meath manager Colm Coyle has included four championship debutants in his team for tomorrow's Leinster SFC first round clash with Carlow at Croke Park (throw-in 3.50pm).

ROSCOMMON manager Michael Ryan gives championship debuts to three players for Sunday’s Connacht SFC clash with Galway in Pearse Stadium.

WELL, it’s nothing if not entertaining.