Royal ladies aiming to maintain winning form against Kildare

LADIES NFL DIV 1 PREVIEW

Meath will look to continue their good run of form this weekend when they meet Leinster rivals Kildare in the fourth round of the Ladies NFL Div 1 at St Peter's Dunboyne on Sunday 2pm, writes Tom Gannon.

Having narrowly survived a scare from Waterford last time out, Meath go into this clash with three wins from three games in the division so far.

Manager Shane McCormack was not overly impressed with his side's performance last time out and he will be hoping for a better showing against his native Lilywhites.

Despite losing to Kerry last time out, Kildare have shown fantastic improvement this year with the highlight being a massive victory over Dublin.

That day against the Dubs, Kildare held a 1-5 to 0-2 point lead at half-time and their first half-goal proved to be decisive in the end. Therefore the Royals must get off to a good start in this clash.

On that same line of thinking, Meath can take great confidence from the fact that they got off to an unbelievable start against Waterford and for the first 15 minutes they played some lovely football especially in attack.

There is no doubt that Meath have the talent in their attack that can get the better of any defence in the country at the moment. The fluency with which they advance the ball up the pitch has been, at times, unstoppable.

If Meath can sustain that momentum going forward for 60 minutes, there is only going to be one winner, and it won't be Pat Sullivan's Kildare outfit.