U21 All Ireland Football Championship 2017

Kerrydude1981

Saw no thread for this so I said I would start one,

Westmeath 2-8 Meath 0-12

Wexford 1-18 Carlow 0-8

This weeks games are

Wednesday 1 March

Leinster U21FC first round
Wicklow v Louth, Baltinglass, 7.30pm

Leinster U21FC quarter-finals
Westmeath v Dublin, Lakepoint Mullingar, 7.30pm
Kildare v Longford, Hawkfield, 7.30pm
Offaly v Wexford, Gracefield, 7.30pm

paulie21

Imagine Leinster will come down to Dublin and Kildare. Think there scheduled to meet in the semi finals which will be in Parnell Park

Kerrydude1981

Wednesday 1 March

Leinster U21FC first round
Wicklow 0-9 Louth 1-13, Abbotstown - FT

Leinster U21FC quarter-finals
Westmeath 0-6 Dublin 2-14, Lakepoint Mullingar - FT
Kildare 0-10 Longford 2-6, Hawkfield - FT
Offaly 1-6 Wexford 0-6, Gracefield - FT

http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=267026

Kerrydude1981

Wednesday 8 March

Leinster U21FC quarter-final
Laois v Louth, O'Moore Park, 7.30pm

Munster U21FC quarter-finals
Kerry v Clare, Austin Stack Park, 7.30pm
Limerick v Tipperary, Gaelic Grounds, 7.30pm

Ulster U21FC preliminary round
Antrim v Monaghan, The Dub, 8pm

Kerrydude1981

Wednesday 8 March

Ulster U21FC preliminary round

Monaghan 2-14 Antrim 0-16

Leinster U21FC quarter-final

Laois 2-13 Louth 1-8

Munster U21FC quarter-final

Limerick 0-16 Tipperary 0-14 AET

Kerry 1-17 Clare 2-8

Kerrydude1981

Wednesday 15 March

Leinster U21FC semi-final
Offaly v Laois, Dr Cullen Park, 7.30pm

Munster U21FC semi-finals
Waterford v Kerry, Fraher Field, 7.30pm
Cork v Limerick, Pairc Ui Rinn, 7.30pm

Ulster U21FC quarter-finals
Tyrone v Donegal, Healy Park, 8pm
Fermanagh v Cavan, Brewster Park, 8pm
Armagh v Down, Athletic Grounds, 8pm
Monaghan v Derry, Inniskeen, 8pm

Jayop

Nice one. I'll have to see if I can find a radio station covering the Tyrone game tonight. Hate trying to follow the games on Twitter.

dog_pig

Jayop wrote: »

Nice one. I'll have to see if I can find a radio station covering the Tyrone game tonight. Hate trying to follow the games on Twitter.

Highland Radio will likely be doing coverage.

Jayop

dog_pig wrote: »

Highland Radio will likely be doing coverage.

ha yeah was hoping to get something more impartial but beggers and choosers. I was on a bus on Sunday when Tyrone were playing Cavan and the only station I could find with live coverage of that was Northern Sound.

In fairness the lads we're 100% up for Cavan but were decent to listen to.

sasta le

Thoughts on the tyrone donegal game.Many seniors involved

Jayop

Game on TTM radio online here...

http://teamtalkmag.com/2017/03/live-radio-tyrone-v-donegal-ulster-u21-championship-wed-15th-from-745pm/

Not sure what the game will look like. I haven't seen any squad details yet for Tyrone so hard to know. We had a game on Sunday and another at the weekend so I doubt too many Sr's will be involved.

Jayop

All Donegal so far although the score is only 1-1.

**** me, Tyrone player won a clean catch from a kick out, didn't call the mark and played a hand pass. The ref blows the whistle and gives a hop ball. Surely at this level a ref should know that the decision to call a mark is the players and not his.

Jayop

Donegal a point up but the Tyrone lads on the radio saying they should be out of sight such has been their dominance.

Kerrydude1981

Leinster U21FC semi-final
Offaly 2-9 Laois 2-8, Dr Cullen Park - FT

Munster U21FC semi-finals
Waterford 0-7 Kerry 1-18, Fraher Field - FT
Cork 2-10 Limerick 0-10, Pairc Ui Rinn - FT

Jayop

Offaly!!

Kerrydude1981

Jayop wrote: »

Offaly!!

https://twitter.com/gaaleinster/status/842117015972286465

Jayop

Great job for them!

aidan24326

In Connaught the semi finals will be Galway v Mayo and Sligo v Roscommon. Galway have been highly touted as contenders for the All-Ireland and beat Leitrim last Saturday in a strange game. Galway led by 18 pts at half time and looked to be on their way to a very easy win before Leitrim produced an unlikely second half comeback.

It finished 4-10 - 2-12. Though by many accounts this was the best Leitrim U-21 team in a long time and that second half might just be the kick up the arse Galway needed. The winners of Galway v Mayo will be thereabouts.

Kerrydude1981

Fixtures for next week

Wednesday 22 March

Connacht U21FC semi-final
Roscommon v Sligo, TBC, TBC

Leinster U21FC semi-final
Dublin v Longford, Lakepoint Park, Mullingar, 7.30pm

Ulster U21FC quarter-final replay
Donegal v Tyrone, Ballybofey, 8pm

Allianz HL Division 3A round 3
Tyrone v Donegal, Healy Park, 8pm

Kerrydude1981

Cork v Kerry U21 Munster Final To Be Streamed Live

IF you can’t make the trip to Páirc Uí Rinn in Cork next week, TG4 are coming to the rescue.

TG4 has announced the launching of a new on-line streaming service that will provide live free to view coverage world-wide containing an attractive fixture list of GAA matches.

And one of the first offerings will be the EirGrid GAA Munster U21 Football Championship Final between Kerry and Cork next Wednesday, March 29 at 7.30pm. There’ll also be deferred highlights coverage on TG4 that night.

The new initiative will see this list of major GAA matches being offered exclusively on line and available all over the world.

First up in this new offering to be streamed live online are the Post Primary Senior Hurling Finals from Semple Stadium on this Saturday, March 25.

In subsequent weeks and months, users of www.tg4.ie will have live, exclusive and free to view access to a list of fixtures, including for the first time, all four Under 21 Provincial Football Finals.

The full list is as follows on www.tg4.ie:

Saturday 25th March Masita Post Primary Senior Hurling Finals, Two matches live from Semple Stadium

Wednesday 29th March EirGrid GAA Leinster U21 Football Championship Final
Wednesday 29th March EirGrid GAA Munster U21 Football Championship Final

Saturday 1st April Masita Post Primary Senior Football Finals, two matches live from Croke Park

Saturday 1st April EirGrid GAA Connacht U21 Football Championship Final

Wednesday 5th April EirGrid GAA Ulster U21 Football Championship Final

In addition to the live Webcast of these matches, TG4 will also TV broadcast deferred extended highlights of the matches on the same night.

http://traleetoday.ie/kerry-u21-munster-final-streamed-live/

Jayop

Nice one!

Kerrydude1981

Wednesday 22 March

Connacht U21FC semi-final
Roscommon 0-13 Sligo 1-13, Kiltoom - FT

Leinster U21FC semi-final
Dublin 2-10 Longford 0-9, Lakepoint Park, Mullingar - FT

Ulster U21FC quarter-final replay
Donegal 0-18 Tyrone 1-9, Ballybofey - FT


Fixtures for next week,

Wednesday 29 March

Leinster U21FC final
Offaly v Dublin/Longford, Portlaoise, 7.30pm

Munster U21FC final
Cork v Kerry, Pairc Ui Rinn, 7.30pm

Ulster U21FC semi-finals
Armagh v Derry, TBC, 8pm
Cavan v Donegal/Tyrone, TBC, 8pm

Saturday 1 April

Connacht U21FC final
Galway/Mayo v Roscommon/Sligo, TBC, TBC

Bonniedog

Do I foresee a Dublin/Kerry final!

Only met once before in a final when Kerry won in 1975.

blowitupref

Bonniedog wrote: »

Do I foresee a Dublin/Kerry final!

Only met once before in a final when Kerry won in 1975.

Donegal will be well capable of beating Dublin if they are to meet in the AI semi final. Kerry have a poor recent record against Cork at this grade and they will have to be at their very best to beat the Connacht champions.

blowitupref

Bonniedog wrote: »

Do I foresee a Dublin/Kerry final!

Only met once before in a final when Kerry won in 1975.

Donegal will be well capable of beating Dublin if they are to meet in the AI semi final. Kerry have a poor recent record against Cork at this grade and they will have to be at their very best to beat the Connacht champions.

Kerrydude1981

Bonniedog wrote: »

Do I foresee a Dublin/Kerry final!

Only met once before in a final when Kerry won in 1975.

Play it in Tralee

A lot of work to be done before we get that far though,getting over Cork has been our biggest problem at U21 level

Bonniedog

It can be an unpredictable grade. Kerry pretty warm favourites at 11/10. Dublin 11/4, Cork 7s, Donegal around the same. Surprised that Mayo seem so unfancied. 14/1!

seligehgit

Connacht under 21 football semi final

Sligo 1-13 Roscommon 0-13

Well done to the Yeats county.

aidan24326

Galway beat Mayo in the Connacht semi 2-13 to 1-10. Galway v Sligo final. anyone know how the AI semi finals pair up?

manofwisdom

aidan24326 wrote: »

Galway beat Mayo in the Connacht semi 2-13 to 1-10. Galway v Sligo final. anyone know how the AI semi finals pair up?

Connacht v Munster
Leinster v Ulster

Kerrydude1981

Links for the finals tonight

Kerrydude1981

Easy win for our lads tonight over a disappointing Cork team

Cork 0-6 Kerry 2-16

Two awful games.

Offaly somewhat in it at HT and Dublin were out of sight by the time I turned it back on.

Badly need to get rid of the provinces, they're used in bigger countries due to logistics, Ireland's a tiny country and these situations do nothing to promote the sport.

Kerrydude1981

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Two awful games.

Offaly somewhat in it at HT and Dublin were out of sight by the time I turned it back on.

Badly need to get rid of the provinces, they're used in bigger countries due to logistics, Ireland's a tiny country and these situations do nothing to promote the sport.

I think thats only our third u21 Munster title since 2000 and our first win over Cork in Cork in 20 years,

But ya the u21 football doesnt have the same bite in it as the u21 hurling championship.

Kerrydude1981

Leinster final finished

Dublin 2-14 Offaly 0-8

4 in a row for the Dubs now

Kerrydude1981

Both Ulster U21 FC semi-finals postponed

Tonight's Ulster U21 football championship semi-finals - Donegal V Cavan and Armagh V Derry - have both been postponed due to waterlogged pitches.

The matches were scheduled to throw in at 8pm but following late pitch inspections at both Brewster Park, Enniskillen and Healy Park, Omagh, decisions were taken to call off both games. It was frustrating for players and supporters alike as the calls to postpone were made very late in the evening but untimately there was so much surface water on both pitches that it would have been dangerous to proceed.

Word filtered through first that the Cavan-Donegal game was off and, later, it emerged that there would be no action at all in Ulster tonight. We'll have to wait a little longer to see who qualifies for the last-ever final at this grade...

Both games have been rescheduled for next Wednesday night. Derry will have home advantage against Armagh, winning a coin toss to take their refixture to Celtic Park. So it hasn't been a bad night's work for the Oak Leaf County!

The All-Ireland semi-final against Leinster champions, Dublin, is scheduled for Saturday, April 15th, which doesn't leave Ulster Council with much of a window of opportunity to run off their semi-finals and final.

http://www.hoganstand.com/ArticleForm.aspx?ID=268325

Connacht U21FC final
Sligo v Galway, Markievicz Park, 6pm

Always_Running

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Badly need to get rid of the provinces, they're used in bigger countries due to logistics, Ireland's a tiny country and these situations do nothing to promote the sport.

Last five years at this grade. Mayo,Galway,Roscommon have won Connacht. Cork,Tipp,Kerry have won Munster, Monaghan,Tyrone,Cavan have won Ulster and Dublin,Kildare have won Leinster.

Between provinces and AI series U21 championship has been the most competitive grade of the lot.

rrs

It's the lob sided nature of the provinces which doesn't help things. If there was 8 counties in each province it would even things out. Sligo played 1 game to reach the Connacht u21 final.

Longford should really be in Connacht, for a start.

The Lost Sheep

gilberto_eire wrote: »

Two awful games.

Offaly somewhat in it at HT and Dublin were out of sight by the time I turned it back on.

Badly need to get rid of the provinces, they're used in bigger countries due to logistics, Ireland's a tiny country and these situations do nothing to promote the sport.

Provincial set ups shouldnt be got rid of. What would you replace them with>

Always_Running wrote: »

Last five years at this grade. Mayo,Galway,Roscommon have won Connacht. Cork,Tipp,Kerry have won Munster, Monaghan,Tyrone,Cavan have won Ulster and Dublin,Kildare have won Leinster.

Between provinces and AI series U21 championship has been the most competitive grade of the lot.

+1

rrs wrote: »

It's the lob sided nature of the provinces which doesn't help things. If there was 8 counties in each province it would even things out. Sligo played 1 game to reach the Connacht u21 final.

Longford should really be in Connacht, for a start.

Why would 4 even 8s make things better bar making it more streamlined.

Kerrydude1981

Ulster U21FC final
Derry 0-13 Donegal 3-17, Athletic Grounds - FT

This is as bad of a 20mins I've watched in a while.

Donegal could go scoreless to half time and still have a chance.

If one team had played for these twenty minutes it would be over.

raiders11

gilberto_eire wrote: »

This is as bad of a 20mins I've watched in a while.

Donegal could go scoreless to half time and still have a chance.

If one team had played for these twenty minutes it would be over.

Poor alright, Donegal look to have the wind too:(:(

raiders11

raiders11 wrote: »

Poor alright, Donegal look to have the wind too:(:(

I thought Dublin had it.

Dublin player misses the easiest free of the season... barely outside the D and central... wasn't even a close miss.

Summed up this game.

Absolutely shocking from both teams, you'd not see some of the errors in a Junior C game.

Highlight being when Donegal turned it over on the sideline when a player bumped into his team mate picking up the ball which spilled to Dublin.

Favourites will come from the other game for sure... it would be nearly impossible for the winner there to come of a game worse than this.

Bonniedog

If Callaghan hadn't been sent off this would be over. Very fast game. I wonder will Donegal's three matches in 11 days catch up on them?


Gilberto Galway/Kildare Div II makes this look like a classic. and either team would probably have won that :-)

raiders11

gilberto_eire wrote: »

I thought Dublin had it.

Hope your right but thought the flags were blowing in Donegals direction...

Don't know about Dublin but I just cannot see Donegal being as bad in second half..

Utopia Parkway

Absolutely brutal first half. Might open up as legs get tired. Hopefully.

Bonniedog

raiders11 wrote: »

Hope your right but thought the flags were blowing in Donegals direction...

Don't know about Dublin but I just cannot see Donegal being as bad in second half..

Dar leis an teilifís, tá an gaoth ag seideadh trásna an gort.

raiders11

Bonniedog wrote: »

Dar leis an teilifís, tá an gaoth ag seideadh trásna an gort.

gur a mhaith agat, maith thu:)

corny

Dublin have more pace and energy about them.

Brego888

corny wrote: »

Dublin have more pace and energy about them.

Yeah I wonder has Monday's ulster final drained Donegals legs.

corny

Brego888 wrote: »

Yeah I wonder has Monday's ulster final drained Donegals legs.

It definitely has but i wouldn't take too much away from the Dubs. They have some fluent runners in the team. Byrne has been impressive.