Qualifiers Rounds 3 and 4

Lemlin

8 teams in the Round 3 draw:

Armagh
Cavan
Derry
Galway
Kildare
Laois
Tyrone
Wexford

The winners of those 4 matches will then play:

Meath
Cork
Mayo or London
Donegal or Monaghan

Whichever two teams get drawn against London for round 4, will have serious incentive to win their round 3 game.

Fr Tod Umptious

It's on during the sports news on RTE Radio 1 at 8.30

Lemlin

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

It's on during the sports news on RTE Radio 1 at 8.30

I dunno why they don't do it live after the game on a Sunday anymore. Or even live on The Sunday Game nighttime show.

Dubliner28

Me too. Should be on live after the afternoon game on Sundays.

Tom Joad

Please, please not an Ulster team for Cavan.

Dubliner28

Would love to see Kildare get Tyrone or Cork away

Tom Joad

Derry for Cavan - with winners to play London

Dubliner28

Galway vs Armagh, winners play Cork
Wexford vs Laois, winners play Donegal/Monaghan
Kildare vs Tyrone, winners play Meath
Derry vs Cavan, winners play Mayo/London

Tom Joad

Dubliner28 wrote: »

Galway vs Armagh, winners play Cork
Wexford vs Laois, winners play Donegal/Monaghan
Kildare vs Tyrone, winners play Meath
Derry vs Cavan, winners play Mayo/London

Some good fixtures there and would see Cork and Tyrone emerge and two Ulster teams emerge from the other games - fancy Monaghan to come through which would be great for them (if they don't beat Donegal of course) - toss of a coin between Derry and Cavan at the minute but home advantage should tip it their way.

leonidas83

Dubliner28 wrote: »

Galway vs Armagh, winners play Cork
Wexford vs Laois, winners play Donegal/Monaghan
Kildare vs Tyrone, winners play Meath
Derry vs Cavan, winners play Mayo/London

Some close matches

I fancy
Armagh
Laois
Tyrone
Derry

from those matches above though, with probably the closest one being Wexford v Laois.

cournioni

Happy enough with that for Cavan. Derry albeit a tough draw are beatable in my opinion and the incentive is there to push on, try to beat London and get to a All Ireland Quarter Final.

intellectual dosser

Another Ulster team for Cavan Lemlin - bit of a disaster?

My initial predictions:

Galway vs Armagh, winners play Cork
Wexford vs Laois, winners play Donegal/Monaghan
Kildare vs Tyrone, winners play Meath
Derry vs Cavan, winners play Mayo/London

Cork to beat Armagh.
Monaghan to beat Laois.
Cant call Tyrone v Meath (Could be a whopper!)
Cavan to beat London (and hopefully play in Croke Park contrary to some silly comments on here recently!)

Cosmo Kramer

Dubliner28 wrote: »

Galway vs Armagh, winners play Cork
Wexford vs Laois, winners play Donegal/Monaghan
Kildare vs Tyrone, winners play Meath
Derry vs Cavan, winners play Mayo/London

Great draw - some very balanced looking games there. Very hard to call any of the round three games, most of the teams I'd fancy are playing away from home which will balance things up and maybe give the likes of Galway and Kildare a chance of springing a surprise. Armagh are capable of the odd flaky performance away from home but it will be tough for the winner of that game either way against Cork.

Tyrone weren't great last time out and Kildare, with their qualifier record and home advantage, will feel they'll have a chance. The game between the winners and Meath should be good also.

Derry v Cavan will be tight but there's an almost guaranteed quarter final appearance for the winners (when did Cavan last make the quarters?).

Wexford v Laois will be tight as well. The beaten Ulster finalists will be hampered by a tight turnaround for the round four game here. A great chance for one of Wexford, Laois or Monaghan to get to the quarter finals again.

Good weekend of football coming up...

Initial quarter finalists prediction from that draw: Cork, Wexford, Tyrone and Derry.

Tom Joad

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Derry v Cavan will be tight but there's an almost guaranteed quarter final appearance for the winners (when did Cavan last make the quarters?).

Yeah great incentive for both Cavan and Derry - Cavan have never got past the next stage of the qualifiers - got to All-Ireland semi in 1997 where they lost to Kerry.

Dubliner28

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Tyrone weren't great last time out and Kildare, with their qualifier record and home advantage, will feel they'll have a chance. The game between the winners and Meath should be good also.QUOTE]

Don't know if Kildare will play this game in Newbridge? Don't they have safety concerns? Could be moved to Portlaoise. But Tyrone will be to strong anyway.

Here's my predictions:

Galway vs Armagh, winners play Cork
Wexford vs Laois, winners play Donegal/Monaghan
Kildare vs Tyrone, winners play Meath
Derry vsCavan, winners play Mayo/London

Cork to beat Armagh.
Monaghan to beat Wexford
Tyrone to beat Meath
Derry to beat London.

So hard to call Round 3 games. Could go either way in them all.

Lemlin

Cosmo Kramer wrote: »

Great draw - some very balanced looking games there. Very hard to call any of the round three games, most of the teams I'd fancy are playing away from home which will balance things up and maybe give the likes of Galway and Kildare a chance of springing a surprise. Armagh are capable of the odd flaky performance away from home but it will be tough for the winner of that game either way against Cork.

Tyrone weren't great last time out and Kildare, with their qualifier record and home advantage, will feel they'll have a chance. The game between the winners and Meath should be good also.

Derry v Cavan will be tight but there's an almost guaranteed quarter final appearance for the winners (when did Cavan last make the quarters?).

Wexford v Laois will be tight as well. The beaten Ulster finalists will be hampered by a tight turnaround for the round four game here. A great chance for one of Wexford, Laois or Monaghan to get to the quarter finals again.

Good weekend of football coming up...

Initial quarter finalists prediction from that draw: Cork, Wexford, Tyrone and Derry.

Furthest Cavan ever went was Round 4 in 2005 when we lost to Mayo.

We haven't played a championship game in Croke Park since '97!!

Red Crow

Lookin forward to Kildare v Tyrone and Derry v Cavan. Everyone seems to be writing Kildare off so let's see how they respond.

Flukey

I think they should have waited until after the other two provincial finals before doing the second part of the draw.


Tyrone and Derry should come through. You would expect Cork to get through as well, though Armagh and Cork should be a cracker. Wexford should beat Laois, but Monaghan could be more dangerous than we think, though they won't get past Donegal. Interesting matches lie ahead. The championship is on lads!!!

lukin

Two people tipping Armagh to beat us? Come on, Cork would have to be considered favourites for that.

Cosmo Kramer

Lemlin wrote: »

Furthest Cavan ever went was Round 4 in 2005 when we lost to Mayo.

We haven't played a championship game in Croke Park since '97!!

I hadn't realised that. Of the 12 teams never to have made the quarters since they were introduced Louth would have to be considered the unluckiest given what happened to them a few years ago. But Cavan look like the one side out of the 12 that are likely to break through fairly soon.

shrewdness

Cork, Tyrone, Monaghan and Derry for me.

A few good ties and potential good matches there.

Amprodude

lukin wrote: »

Two people tipping Armagh to beat us? Come on, Cork would have to be considered favourites for that.

Cork are Cork and are capable of fcuking up at any stage. I have being following them for long enough. They should beat Galway/Armagh on paper but knowing Cork its hard to know with them. They could destroy a team or struggle to win or lose unexpectantly..

Fowler87

That's a fairly even round 3 that. Hard to call

corny

I'll go for Cork, Wexford, Derry and Meath to come through and all four of them to lose to the provincial winners.

I'd love to see Cavan beat Derry and Martin Dunne to get an All Star he deserves though.

seligehgit

Dubliner28 wrote: »

Galway vs Armagh, winners play Cork
Wexford vs Laois, winners play Donegal/Monaghan
Kildare vs Tyrone, winners play Meath
Derry vs Cavan, winners play Mayo/London

Going for wins for
Armagh
Laois
Tyrone
Derry
Quarter finalists
Cork
Monaghan
Tyrone
Derry
Love to see Cavan reach Croker,it would nice for their supporters.Remember their last appearance against Kerry,huge support.Think Mayo were playing the following day.

Hammer Archer

Happy with that draw. On paper, it couldn't be tougher but no matter who wins between Kildare and Tyrone, Micko shouldn't have any trouble in getting the players back in the right frame of mind after the disappointment of yesterday.

ArmaniJeanss

Quarter finals could conceivably have the maximum 5 counties from the same province (Ulster) for the first time.

Tom Joad

seligehgit wrote: »

Love to see Cavan reach Croker,it would nice for their supporters.Remember their last appearance against Kerry,huge support.Think Mayo were playing the following day.

Ah the memories .

Cavan and Monaghan playing a double header in Croker should be the GAA's wet dream - they would need an extra tier for the crowd that day if it happened and would be some atmoosphere - unlikely to happen but would be a special day out if it did happen..

Lemlin

seligehgit wrote: »

Going for wins for
Armagh
Laois
Tyrone
Derry
Quarter finalists
Cork
Monaghan
Tyrone
Derry
Love to see Cavan reach Croker,it would nice for their supporters.Remember their last appearance against Kerry,huge support.Think Mayo were playing the following day.

Mayo played Offaly the following week in the other semi.

Dirty Dingus McGee

Lemlin wrote: »

Mayo played Offaly the following week in the other semi.

Same day Diana Spencer died.

premierstone

lukin wrote: »

Two people tipping Armagh to beat us? Come on, Cork would have to be considered favourites for that.

Two words make it very very possible Conor and Counihan

Jamie Clarke may also play a part!