Football Qualifiers: Round 3

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Does anyone know when the times and venues will be confirmed for these. I know they're due out today, but what time? How do the GAA release them? Or should I just keep an eye on the RTE and Irish Times websites?

Lemlin

I just got this off Hoganstand.com.

The confirmed list of fixtures is:
Saturday, July 16th
If Wexford v Louth - Parnell Park (3.30)
If Monaghan v Louth - Kingspan Breffni Park (7.00)

Sunday, July 17th
Clones 1.45
Cavan v Meath

Castlebar 3.45
Derry v Limerick

Castlebar 2.00
Clare v Sligo

YeatsCounty

Lemlin wrote:

Castlebar 2.00
Clare v Sligo

Hmm.........

*checks buseireann.ie*

Lemlin

Hopefully this round will throw up alot of shocks like the last one did. Who expected Sligo, Louth, Cavan and Clare to win in the last? I certainly didn't.

YeatsCounty

Lemlin wrote:

Hopefully this round will throw up alot of shocks like the last one did. Who expected Sligo, Louth, Cavan and Clare to win in the last? I certainly didn't.

I was quietly confident that Sligo could beat Kildare, delighted that they won in the style that they did. Westmeath have been in such bad form all season that their elimination isn't that much of a shock. Their injury crisis didn't help matters either.

As for Louth and Cavan, the only real shock is Cavans progress, IMO. A 21 point thrashing in a provinvial championship game usually is the catalyst for that same teams elimination in the Qualifiers. So for Cavan to get through was a surprise.

Roscommon football was in complete disarray even before the Louth result. I don't think that result was too much of a shock.

Flukey

I thought Hyde Park would have been a more suitable venue for the Castlebar double-header.

Lemlin

Louth are a very poor footballing team though. I thought they were by far the weakest in Leinster going into this Championship but it looks like that award belongs to poor Longford.

Cavan needed to bounce back. The lads need to get a few wins together for the good of the county. That's only the second every qualifing game we have won in four years.

A very shocking statistic for a county that loves its football I think.

threebeards

Flukey wrote:

I thought Hyde Park would have been a more suitable venue for the Castlebar double-header.

As the crow flies, it's probably more central to all concerned but Castlebar is much easier to get in and out of from the point of view of direct routes and also the fact that crowds can disperse much quicker.