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01st Apr 2017

Meath will be absolutely livid with the team Kildare have selected to play Galway

Doing them no favours

Ben Kiely

It’s the final round of the league and Kildare’s line-up reflects it.

The Lilywhites have already qualified for the Division Two final and won promotion to the top tear and one of two teams will be joining them – Galway or Meath.

Meath beat Galway in their head-to-head meeting so if they were to equal the Tribesmen on points, they’d qualify ahead of them. In order for that to happen, a couple of things need to play out.

In order to secure qualification they need to beat Clare in Ennis on Sunday and hope that Galway lose to Kildare. A loss would see The Tribesmen go through, as would a draw or a Kildare loss.

With this in mind, Meath will be looking at Kildare’s team for the Galway game thinking it could be a lot stronger. Just the 14 changes with six of those players being 22 or under.

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