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crowd was beginning to get behind Wicklow and you’d say, ‘Is there a shock on the cards here?’
“And every time Louth reacted well. You would say they handled a tricky enough situation on a couple of occasions. And their subs, they brought on a couple of subs that made an impact.”
The counties’ most recent meeting came in the O’byrne Cup semi-final in January, when Louth scored a seven-point victory against a limp Meath effort which was apparent at times during the early stages of the League too, as Mcentee admits.
“That was one of a few now, to tell you the truth. You look at that game and you look at the Kildare game in the first round of the League and you’re going, ‘Jesus, what’s going on here’.
“Then you look at the game against Down and, ultimately, you probably learn a little bit more from days like that than you do from when you performed well but, sure, we found ourselves in a situation against Louth in Navan where they worked harder than us. They outfought us. They bullied us and fellas had to accept that.”
He added: “There’s always the difficulty when you train well and you prepare well and everybody’s doing their work that you go out onto the pitch and you think it’s automatically going to happen.
“That’s where I think we found ourselves on a couple of occasions.
“You go out and you just expect it to happen by itself. That’s not the case. Every game is different and you have to make it happen.”