Meeting with delegates unlikely to take place

Seamus McEnaney says he still has to have more meetings before he can make a definite decision on whether he wants to continue as Meath manager for another year although Co Committee chairman Barney Allen last week told club delegates that the Monagahan man would be staying on. And despite a proposal, that received unanimous support from club delegates last week, for the manager to outline his plans at the next monthly meeting, that is unlikely to happen. The "invitation" was extended to the manager at last week's Co Committee meeting, but McEnaney told the Meath Chronicle that there would be no point in making a decision on that just yet. Over the past week McEnaney met the players on an individual basis and plans to meet the rest of the Meath panel and others before committing himself to a second term. "I don't want to go into too much detail, but I met the players and I can confirm that I got a very positive response from them," he stated. "I met the majority of the players and I've still got to meet more. I met all that were available last week and I got a very positive response. "I said that I need to meet the players, meet members of the Co Board, members of the backroom team and when all those people have been met I will come back at that stage with a decision one way or the other. "The first thing I need to do is to have all the other things sorted before that decision needs to be made. "Unless my decision is to go back into the job is 100 per cent, after meeting the players, the Co Board, the backroom team, unless that decision is 100 per cent there would be no point in doing that (speaking to the delegates). That decision will be made when I meet all the other parties," he said. Although he has an agreement to stay in the post for another year at least McEnaney says he wants to make sure that the county is behind him and only in those circumstances will he continue. "I have a three-year term, to be reviewed after two, but if everything fits into place I could see myself certainly, going to the review stage anyhow." "There's no hesitancy by me whatsoever. I'm very meticulous in every situation when it comes to this time of the year and everything must be 100 per cent right. "I'm only at the early stages of that with the players. I met the majority of players and got a very, very positive response from them." However, some club delegates are clearly still unhappy about the resignations of the selectors Liam Harnan and Barry Callaghan and are seeking further details on the matter. According to club delegates at the last Co Committee meeting both Harnan and Callaghan are prepared to address the next meeting if requested to do so. One Co Committee member put forward his view to the Meath Chronicle that the clubs who are seeking further clarification on the Harnan/Callaghan issue are a "small number." The bulk of the delegates, he asserted, are happy to see McEnaney continue for another year if he so wishes. It would take a two-thirds majority vote by club delegates to change the current arrangement in place whereby McEnaney has a three-year term to be reviewed after two years. The Meath manager says that if he did remain on he would intend to bring on board another selector from Meath in addition to Tom Keague who joined the management team during the summer. It has also to be confirmed if Keague will continue as a selector and any such decision would have to be ratified by the Co Committee.