Same 15 named to start Leinster SFC final

As has become the norm this season when Meath have name their team for the next match they tend to stick with the same 15 that started the previous game and Andy McEntee has continued that trend for Sunday's Leinster SFC final against Dublin.

McEntee has listed the same players that started the semi-final victory over Laois for Sunday's Leinster SFC final clash with Dublin in Croke Park, 4pm.
That means that despite his return to full fitness Shane McEntee is named to start on the bench, while there is no place for Padraic Harnan who impressed in the win over Carlow, but who missed out through injury on the semi-final.
If the Meath manager remains true to form then there is likely to be a couple of changes to the starting line-up before throw in.

Meath (v Dublin) - Andy Colgan; Seamus Lavin, Conor McGill, Shane Gallagher; Donal Keogan, Ronan Ryan, Gavin McCoy; Bryan Menton, Adam Flanagan; Ben Brennan, Bryan McMahon, James McEntee; Cillian O'Sullivan, Michael Newman, James Conlon.

MATCH PREVIEW
Anything is possible. Think Buster Douglas, think Leicester City, think Foinavon, think Cricket Ireland, think Japan at the 2015 Rugby World Cup, think Boris Becker, think Andy Ruiz Jr. Everywhere you turn the universe proves that anything is possible.
Tomorrow at Croke Park Meath will need to produce a shock that would top all those great moments in sport if they are stun the five-in-a-row All-Ireland SFC chasing, all-conquering Dublin in their quest for a ninth successive Leinster SFC crown.
Dublin are at best 12-point favourites with most bookmakers and most of those guys drive Mercs and Rolls Royces. In fact Dublin are shorter odds to win 10 All-Ireland’s-in-a-row than Meath are to win 
one.
The message is that Meath have no chance. Basically they will only be turning up to fulfill the fixture and keep the ball kicked out to the Dubs - if they can even manage that.
Written off in every quarter, Meath go into Sunday’s Leinster final, their first in five year, with zero weight of expectation and nothing to lose. Most pundits, who are supposed to know better, believe that even their pride can’t take a hit.
However, those pundits don’t know much about Meath pride if that’s what they believe.
One thing is for certain, next Sunday Dublin will face an opponent that will ask them questions like they have haven’t been asked in the last five years in Leinster.
Meath will bring a passion, a ferociousness, a determination, a hunger, a PRIDE, that will undoubtedly stretch Dublin at times and if lady luck shines kindly on the Royals then maybe, just maybe, they can propel themselves into the realms of the great giant killers of sporting history.
The objective for Meath remains the same - a place in the Super 8s. How they get there doesn’t really matter, but with a Delaney Cup on the bus back to Navan next Sunday would be ideal.
After safely negotiating three Leinster SFC games, albeit all against Div 3 opposition, for the first time since 2012, Meath can look forward to next Sunday as an opportunity to test themselves against the best - the best there ever has been.
The general consensus now is that Donegal are the second best, maybe the third best, team in the country and Meath have to believe they are not a million miles away from that standard.
The confidence within the Meath camp is that on any given Sunday they can be a match for any team in the land and that includes Dublin.
As Sean Boylan famously proclaimed many years ago ‘they eat the same spuds as we do’, so what is there to fear?
Dublin have developed an aura of invincibility. Teams are already five or six points down in their minds before they even enter the field of battle and from there it is a long way back.
Meath will not travel to Croke Park in that frame of mind. They will believe they go to the mecca of GAA as Dublin’s equals, 15 men against 15 men, where the hop of a ball one way or another can determine an outcome in a moment of madness.
Dublin are phenomenal. 
We don’t need to have their strength-in-depth rammed down our throats, we don’t need to know the epic star quality they gave in attack, the amazing athleticism and ability they possess in midfield or their dogged, determination and pace at the back.
We all know what they are capable of, but on derby days everything goes out the window. Meath always find that bit extra when opposite the sky blue shirts - will it be enough, probably not, but time will tell.
While still regarded as no-hopers, Meath have a shot to nothing - a free hit. Win and the world sits up and takes notice, suffer a hiding and Meath are no different to the vast majority of teams Dublin have faced and will take on in the future.
However, pride is a keen motivator and Meath will have that in abundance.
Show pride and anything is possible. 
Meath’s talents are undoubted. In Andy Colgan they have a goalkeeper maturing into one of the finest young ‘keepers in the country. Conor McGill is on a par with the best full-backs in the game, while players like Donal Keogan and James McEntee would walk onto any county team in the country.
Bryan Menton is on a run of form that makes him the engine of the Royal train, while in attack the exciting prospect of James Conlon feeding off Mickey Newman with the power, panache and pace of Bryan McMahon and Cillian O’Sullivan adding extra bite suggests Meath have plenty of firepower.
While Dublin’s bench is regarded as without equal and at times game-changing, Meath have back-up in abundance. 
The Meath attitude is no longer about 15 men, it’s about 35. Training is as intense and competitive as any game they have played so far. The hunger to secure a place on the starting 15 has everyone chomping at the bit, there is a belief there that has been missing for years.
Instead of relying on eight or 10 players to carry the team as has been the case for the last decade, Meath now have 30 players capable of making an impact and ready, willing and able to spill every bit of blood, sweat and tears for the cause.
Next Sunday will tell a tale about Meath, but not the whole story. No matter what the outcome is, and remember those bookies have Dublin at 1/50, Meath’s history will not be written by this Leinster final, they have bigger games ahead, but with the old enemy in their sights PRIDE will play a huge part.