Intermediate preview: Two sides who know each other well

Meath manager Brendan Skehan during the warm-up. Pic: ©INPHO/Laszlo Geczo

These are two teams with very similar profiles, having had a brief period at senior level after All-Ireland intermediate success in 2012 and 2017 respectively and then enduring a rebuilding phase upon their relegations. 

Derry had two years at the highest grade before making the drop but the rules had been changed surrounding newcomers being given a year’s grace by the time Meath made the step up and they fell through the trapdoor at the end of their only season at senior.