Football Qualifiers first round draw

DamnTasty

Coming up soon.. Meath to draw louth perhaps?:D

Any preferences?





Update to post with Draw; Home team first

Clare V Down
Laois V Tipperary
Antrim V Westmeath
Louth V Meath
London V Fermanagh
Cavan V Longford
Wicklow V Sligo
Offaly V Monaghan

Hammer Archer

Draws at 6. Everyone will be wanting to avoid Down. Would love to get Louth at home. A trip to Carrick on Shannon would be great craic too.

Edit: never mind. Too late.

mossyc123

Heres how i'd rank the teams in order of difficulty:

Down
Monaghan
Meath
Laois
Sligo
Louth
Westmeath
Longford
Offaly
Tipperary
Antrim
Wicklow
Cavan
Fermanagh
Clare
London

Hammer Archer

I was too slow on my thread :-P xxx. Home to louth or away to leitrim would be my choice.

DamnTasty

Ye whats good about the draw it that its too hard to give an exact order of where exaclty teams are at.

A few will be still demoralised. Wounded animals can be dangerous or just need to be put out of their misery!

Looking forward to it. Love the qualifiers!

Mr.Crinklewood

Got a text saying Sligo - Fermanagh. Clare - Lonford.

Probably crap.

Hammer Archer

YEEHAA!

DamnTasty

Draws and my picks.. First team at home

Clare V Down ...Down
Laois V Tipperary ...Laois
Antrim V Westmeath ..Antrim
Louth V Meath .....HAHAHAHA ..Meath
London V Fermanagh... Fermanagh
Cavan V Longford .....Longford
Wicklow V Sligo ....Sligo
Offaly V Monaghan ..Monaghan

DamnTasty

DamnTasty wrote: »

Coming up soon.. Meath to draw louth perhaps?:D

Any preferences?

I knew it!!

delta_bravo

DamnTasty wrote: »

Coming up soon.. Meath to draw louth perhaps?:D

Any preferences?

Hope you put money on !

Possible scalp for London at home to fermanagh

DamnTasty

delta_bravo wrote: »

Hope you put money on !

Possible scalp for London at home to fermanagh

After what happened Louth today and in the Leinster final, i wouldnt put a cent on them:D

meriwether

Does anyone know what the song being played in the background to the draw was?

Will I Amnt

meriwether wrote: »

Does anyone know what the song being played in the background to the draw was?

It's by the xx it's called intro

The xx- Intro

donal666

Meath to tear Louth a new one...

NufcNavan

What was all that bollocks about a team who got an away draw last year egtting a home one this year? So basically Westmeath have been screwed out of a home game. What a joke.

mossyc123

Bad draw for Meath. Away from home and there will be a media circus around this one... Drogheda is a kip of a county ground aswell!

DamnTasty

NufcNavan wrote: »

What was all that bollocks about a team who got an away draw last year egtting a home one this year? So basically Westmeath have been screwed out of a home game. What a joke.

Totally agree. Constant rule changes piss fans/teams off. To do so at last minute especially. This was never the case before?

Pride Fighter

delta_bravo wrote: »

Hope you put money on !

Possible scalp for London at home to fermanagh

I agree, particularly after they should have beaten Mayo in Connacht and that London football gets stronger due to recessions with young guns leaving Ireland for work.

Hammer Archer

NufcNavan wrote: »

What was all that bollocks about a team who got an away draw last year egtting a home one this year? So basically Westmeath have been screwed out of a home game. What a joke.

To be fair that's been the way for a good few years. Think we benefited from it a few years ago against waterford in round 1. It just means the same team doesn't have to travel year in year out.

meriwether

Deleted User wrote: »

The xx- Intro

Cheers both of you.

mossyc123

NufcNavan wrote: »

What was all that bollocks about a team who got an away draw last year egtting a home one this year? So basically Westmeath have been screwed out of a home game. What a joke.

Nonsense of a rule.

It only applies to teams who were drawn away in Round One last year... but sure thats nothing to do with Westmeath... they weren't in the qualifiers till Round Two last year!!!

If they are going to try and even up the home and away games they should take into account Rounds 1,2 and 3 over the last 3 seasons and do up a league table of who has more or less home ties. (Round 4 is Neutral venue as far as I know)

Of the 2 teams drawn out whoever has the least amount of home games over the last few years gets the home venue.

Too logical for The GAA though.

Flukey

It should have been first out, home game, no matter what happened last year. There is no doubt what the stand out match is. Louth could get a goal head start awarded to them, but maybe we'll let Meath off on the basis of what happened last Sunday (not that they deserve it). There is no other really interesting tie from a neutral's perspective. The first round draw rarely brings a big one.

NufcNavan

Hammer Archer wrote: »

To be fair that's been the way for a good few years. Think we benefited from it a few years ago against waterford in round 1. It just means the same team doesn't have to travel year in year out.

But it defeats the purpose of an open draw.

DamnTasty

mossyc123 wrote: »

Nonsense of a rule.

It only applies to teams who were drawn away in Round One last year... but sure thats nothing to do with Westmeath... they weren't in the qualifiers till Round Two last year!!!

If they are going to try and even up the home and away games they should take into account Rounds 1,2 and 3 over the last 3 seasons and do up a league table of who has more or less home ties.

Of the 2 teams drawn out whoever has the least amount of home games over the last few years gets the home venue.

Too logical for The GAA though.

Agree. its not Westmeath's fault that the other team was in round one two years in a row. Tough **** if you get knocked out in first round every year!

Hammer Archer

mossyc123 wrote: »

Bad draw for Meath. Away from home and there will be a media circus around this one... Drogheda is a kip of a county ground aswell!

I would have a sneaky feeling it may be moved because theres no chance drogheda would be able to cope with the crowd that'll be at the game. Agreed that the ground is a dump.

Royal Seahawk

Can't be on in Drogheda, only holds 7000.

DamnTasty

Hammer Archer wrote: »

I would have a sneaky feeling it may be moved because theres no chance drogheda would be able to cope with the crowd that'll be at the game. Agreed that the ground is a dump.

Ok a closeby location.. eh Navan:p

Seriously though, is there an alternative ground?

This could be the televised game?

johnmcdnl

Hammer Archer wrote: »

I would have a sneaky feeling it may be moved because theres no chance drogheda would be able to cope with the crowd that'll be at the game. Agreed that the ground is a dump.

it only holds 7000??? not a chance of it being held there - and that's going to be seen as unfair won't it now or something... is there no bigger ground in all of louth??

DamnTasty

Behind closed doors would suit the gardai and referee;)

Hammer Archer

johnmcdnl wrote: »

it only holds 7000??? not a chance of it being held there - and that's going to be seen as unfair won't it now or something... is there no bigger ground in all of louth??

In one word: no

mossyc123

DamnTasty wrote: »

Ok a closeby location.. eh Navan:p

Seriously though, is there an alternative ground?

This could be the televised game?

Breffni Park?! Although Cavan have home draw against Longford.

Reckon Louth County Board will be stubborn on this one and insist it stays in Drogheda

Royal Seahawk

DamnTasty wrote: »

Behind closed doors would suit the gardai and referee;)

Wouldn't be a bad idea considering the way Louth fans behaved themselves last year.

andrew1977

No ground in Louth big enough to cope with the crowd that will want to go to this game.
Cant think of another venue , except Croker as maybe part of a double header on the saturday evening but that would mean some of the other teams in the draw would have to agree to their game being switched to croker.
Hard to call where they will hold the game now, maybe a switch to Navan the logical answer, but cant see Louth agreeing to that,but maybe the GAA fixture committee get the final call ?

DamnTasty

Royal Seahawk wrote: »

Wouldn't be a bad idea considering the way Louth fans behaved themselves last year.

My bad..have a fear where this thread is going! Im neutral by the way

buckwheat

Great draw. Must dig out me "Leinster Champions 2010" t-shirt for it:)

ebbsy

Will Sludden be reffing that game ?

NufcNavan

Any chance that it'll be moved to a Sunday?

Royal Seahawk

ebbsy wrote: »

Will Sludden be reffing that game ?

Hopefully not, Putting aside the incident at the end of last year's game that he didn't see he gave Louth a serious of soft frees in the game, frees that Louth got handy scores from.

DamnTasty

So if this cant he held in Drogheda it will have to be neutral. Maybe parnell Park Sat evening? The game can't and wouldnt be played in Croker for obvious reasons.

DB10

Double header in Brefini with Cavan Longford?

mossyc123

DB10 wrote: »

Double header in Brefini with Cavan Longford?

Move it to Breffni on its own on the Sunday would be even better

DamnTasty

mossyc123 wrote: »

Move it to Breffni on its own on the Sunday would be even better

Ye Breffni would suit on Saturday. Hope its not Sunday. Two leinster semis are in Croker and on TV I think so that would rule out it being shown on TV or me being able to attend;)

Long Term Louth

The seahawk makes a return after a relatively poor contribution last week.

Long Term Louth

Only messing seahawk! I recall a few years ago Louth getting a home draw against Tyrone in the qualifiers, and choosing to play it in Drogheda. The game was all ticket and a limited amount of tickets were sold. Hopefully the same doesent happen again and I would like to see Louth agreeing to Navan..

mattock

Louth Co Board might go for Newry this would really suit Louth, there is no chance that this game will be in Drogheda.
Hope it is a good advertisement for football the last thing either County or the GAA wants is any kind of crowd trouble.

LuckyGent88

Clare get fcuking Down :( oh god. thats it till 2012 then.

Louth v Meath was always going to happen really

howyanow

why arnt leitrim in the draw?did thet receive a bye?

mossyc123

howyanow wrote: »

why arnt leitrim in the draw?did thet receive a bye?

They are one of 8 losing Provincial Semi-Finalists and therefore won't be entering the Qualifiers until Round Two.

8 winners from todays draw (Round One) will face the following teams.

Leitrim
Limerick
Waterford

and the Losers from:

Dublin/Kildare
Wexford/Carlow
Galway/Mayo
Derry/Armagh
Tyrone/Donegal

DamnTasty

howyanow wrote: »

why arnt leitrim in the draw?did thet receive a bye?

Yes as a losing provincial semi finalist they will be in the next draw with all other losing prvincials losers and play the winners of todays drawn fixtures.

You could say that leitrim have an easier route to sam mcguire than Leinster/Ulster teams due to being from small province... whether that makes it any more likely i dont know:D

looseygoosey

louth v meath i'd say will be played in newry 20,000 capacity that might not even be enough with the crowd looking to go to this one !

I hope louth give them one hell of a battle , and win !!