Kildare take a hammering from Meath

Meath aniliated Kildare at Cedral St Conleth's Park, Newbridge this evening in Round 5 of the Allianz Football League Division 2. The win keeps The Royals in contention for promotion but for Kildare they are now in serious trouble of relegation.

If the display against Cavan last week was poor by The Lilies well this one was even worse as Brian Flanagan's side never looked like putting it up to the visitors.

Meath came out of the blocks like lightening in the first half, Jordan Morris pointed, Alex Beirne leveled with a free before The Royals added three points followed by a Jordan Morris goal as Kildare were at sixes and sevens.

Midway through the half the lead was out to nine points. the visitors totally dominating the  kick-out before Darragh Kirwan and Brian McLoughlin both hit two two-pointers to reduce the gap to five points on 20 minutes. However Meath kicked on to lead at the break 1-9 to 0-5.

Things certainly did not improve in the second half for Kildare as Meath continued to dominate, Kildare got it back to six at one stage but finished like a train hitting an impressive twelve points to Kildare's paltry five with Jordan Morris man of the match wiith 1-5 while keeper Sean Brennnan finished with five points, two late two-pointer frees.

Final score: Meath 1-21 Kildare 0-10.

Scorers: Meath, Jordan Morris 1-5, Sean Brennan 0-5 (2 two-pointers); Jack O'Connor 0-4, Ruariri Kinsella 0-2, Eoghan Frayne 0-1, Aaron Lynch 0-1, Jack Flynn 0-1, Charlie O'Connor 0-1, James Conlon 0-1.

Kildare, Ben Loakman 0-3 (2 frees), Darragh Kirwan 0-2 (two-pointer), Brian McLoughlin 0-3 (two-pointer), Alex Beirne 0-1 (free), Colm Moran0-1.

KILDARE: Cian Burke; Harry O'Neill, Padraic Spillane, Brian Byrne; James Harris, Eoin Lawlor, Jack McKevitt; Callum Bolton, Brendan Gibbons; Brian McLoughlin, Darragh Kirwan, Colm Moran; Ben Loakman, Alex Beirne, Colm Bolton. Subs: Ryan Burke for Jack McKevitt (21 minutes); Kevin Feely for Alex Beirne (half-time); Eoin Cully for Colm Moran (45 minutes); Sam Doran for Colm Dalton (58 minutes); Liam Kelly for Harry O'Neill (65 minutes);

MEATH: Sean Brennan; Seamus Lavin, Ronan Raffertry, Brian O'Halloran; Donal Keogan, Sean Coffey, Ciaran Caulfield; Bryan Menton, Jack Flynn; Jack O'Connor, Ruairi Kinsella, Adam O'Neill; Jordan Morris Eoghan Frayne, Aaron Lynch. Subs: Ronan Ryan for Brian O'Halloran (tem sub 36-start of second half); Cian McBride for Bryan Menton (temp sub 36-41); Oisin Martin for Jack O'Connor (45 minutes); Cian McBride for Adam O'Neill (51 minuts); Keith Curtis for Aaron Lynch (56 minutes); Charlie O'Connor for Bryan Menton (tem sub 57-63); Jason Scully for Ruairi Kinsella (70 minutes); Jamie Murphy for Eoghan Frayne (71 minutes).

REFEREE: Sean Hurson, Tyrone.