you brought the league comparisons into it, why are you now ignoring it?
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What difference does that make?
These are all Division 2 teams and will all be playing at that level before embarking on their Championship campaign.
The previous year’s results mean nothing, as testified by Down reaching the All-ireland final in 2010, having lost to Fermanagh and Wicklow in 2009.
I think the winner will come from outside the big 2 with the caveat that dublin are the most likely back-to-back in a while. However its based on that i think they are somehow going to come a cropper.
I know its said every year but this could be Mayos year. But i would not be absolutely astounded if a more Dark Horse team came thru like Donegal, Tyrone, Galway or the like. It just feels like that kinda year.
I don’t think any of the Ulster teams will have it in them to win it next year.
Some of the other counties, like in Leinster will be able to spend their time in the lower Divisions in spring perfecting their footpassing to unlock the blanket defence.
We might well have only one Ulster team in the quarter final next year.
Hard to know, the whole thing is so complicated now i have no idea of the potentail 1/4’s.
Kerry and Dublin are set for a semi final ya?
I’m gonna stick my neck on the block here and say that I think the winner will come from one of
Kerry
Dublin
Mayo
Tyrone
There, I said it.
Dublin v Mayo, if the draw works out that way obviously.
Kerry were blessed to be in a final, never mind win it, in 2014 and got there again this year relying on a bit of luck and general ignorance/cuteness.
They need to complete the transition to the new regime of players for the sake of the longer term at this stage and it’s time to do as Kilkenny did in the hurling 2014 and either drop or bench Donaghy, Cooper, O’Mahony, Galvin, O’Se (some of these may have retired when i wasn’t paying attention).
They have a good squad without them and could do with fitting Walsh in somewhere and relying on Geaney and O’Donoghue to take over the mantle.
Why would you include Tyrone? They were blessed to get to the final this year.
It is because they have an easy passage to the quarters as they’ll only face, possibly one Division 1 side before then?
Just to say, Tyrone didn’t make a final this year, they were relatively comfortably knocked out by Kerry.
I figure some team has to factor in the 4 from Ulster, think Donegal will cause trouble, but are ultimately done for a long haul, Armagh are a laughing stock, and while I’d love to see Monaghan do it, I just dont think they have it in them for a concerted run. Hence why its really between the 3 of Mayo, Dublin and Kerry.
But hey, I’m open to being surprised*
*I don’t see myself being surprised.
I’m not ignoring it, I’m developing it.
Not relatively comfortably at all. Kerry were hanging onto a referee to bail them out and Tyrone letting them off the hook with missed goal chances and frees. They were at Tyrone’s mercy in that game but we left it behind.
#sweep sweep
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Yes, you have a point in that Tyrone most likely choked when Kerry could have been seen to be at their mercy. I can accept that.
My question has not been answered.
Which would point to it not being comfortable.
Once the choke happened, Kerry finished it out relatively comfortably, after having gone through the game comfortably, until they switched off a little. I can accept your point in that.
Was that before or after Maurice Deegan intervened to help Kerry?
Hard to say, but I can accept that could be a factor were it to be deemed to be so.
Nah Kerry were comfortable.
In fact they only had themselves to blame for not taking the challenge of a team that dad been relegated to Division 2, having lsot to Armagh in the Championship the previous year, more seriously.
They have a tendency to lack focus against weaker teams as the close ones they’ve had against Sligo and Longford in the back door proves.
your initial point was about the league rankings of Leinster and Ulster teams and how it favours Dublin. When it was pointed out to you that Both Tyrone and Dublin will face Division 2 teams you changed you position to championship results. Your initial point about Dublins easy passage was based on the league placings, and when caught out, you changed your argument to championship results.
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