The Football Championship so far.

Flukey

This is where we are so far:


This is the state of the qualifiers (numbers indicating new teams into each round):

The Championship is hotting up!

kaimera

Nicely done Flukey. I'd consider sticky_ing it but seems cluttered up there!

Danno

Good work buddy!

YeatsCounty

The Qualifiers are looking very interesting now:

Monaghan
Westmeath
Down
Louth
Carlow
Meath
Wicklow/Donegal
Sligo
Clare
Leitrim
Wexford
Kildare
Limerick
Roscommon
Armagh/Derry
Cavan/Tyrone

Teams for Sligo to avoid (IMO):
Meath
Wexford
Limerick (possibly)
Losers of Armagh/Derry
Losers of Cavan Tyrone


If they play as well as they can play (last years first round against roscommon, this years first half against Leitrim and the second half last Saturday against Longford) Sligo can make it into Round Three.

Nice job Flukey!

Waylander

I would have agreed with your assessment of Sligo a month or twoago, but now I am not convinced that they would ease past anyone in the draw. Fair dues to Leitrim, beating Sligo and coming within a couple of points of Galway, I would like to see them win a couple more games.

YeatsCounty

Oh no, we wouldn't ease past anyone in the above draw. Not a hope, we've been on a low ebb since losing against Donegal in 2003 and on dire form since the Fr Tommy Murphy Cup fiasco (albeit we won a few challenge games earlier on this summer).

It depends what the team do on the day though, they can play absolute muck and bow out with a whimper or they can play as well as I've seen them play in the past (including the last 20 minutes against Longford, they were excellent then) and if they do that, then Sligo have a great chance of making it to the Third round.

The Rooster

YeatsCounty wrote:

Teams for Sligo to avoid (IMO):
Meath
Wexford
Limerick (possibly)
Losers of Armagh/Derry
Losers of Cavan Tyrone

Sligo can't play Meath in the next round, only:

Clare
Wexford
Kildare
Limerick
Roscommon
Armagh/Derry
Cavan/Tyrone

YeatsCounty

The Rooster wrote:

Sligo can't play Meath in the next round, only:

Clare
Wexford
Kildare
Limerick
Roscommon
Armagh/Derry
Cavan/Tyrone

Thanks for clearing that up for me.

solskjaer20

Sligo can't meet Derry either.

Because......we're going to stuff Armagh.

Flukey

I've updated it and I will keep it up to date as things progress.

Flukey

The provincial championships are over and it is all knock out from here on. Now things really begin.

cruiserweight

Has anybody else seen these, I only just found them on RTE, video highlights from the games shown on the Sunday/Saturday game

http://www.rte.ie/sport/stream/gaa_video.html

Flukey

They are good alright.

Flukey

I posted that link for a few friends I have abroad but apparently they get this message:

RTE.ie can only provide video highlights of Championship Games on the Web to residents of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Regrettably the service is not available to residents overseas.

A pity really. I was hoping to be able to show them what I spend my summer Sundays and the odd Saturday watching.

cruiserweight

Flukey wrote:

I posted that link for a few friends I have abroad but apparently they get this message:




A pity really. I was hoping to be able to show them what I spend my summer Sundays and the odd Saturday watching. [/size]

I can understand why for legal reasons! But it is a shame, these games are a greta advertisement for the sport and our country! I brought some american friends to the Leinster hurling final and they had a great time, even though they had never seen the games before (although it could be the beer and my great company either )!

Flukey

I've brought people from abroad too and been near foreigners who were seeing a game for the first time. Before the second of the International Rules games last October they had a Munster v Leinster hurling match. There was not a lot of people in at that stage, but you could hear all these oohs and ahhhs in Australian accents all around as they watched in amazement. It's a pity that more of them didn't see it.