[QUOTE=“Tonymac, post: 1143067, member: 2956”]No its called talked about by the pundits and average football fans which is expected after winning a 4th U-21 provincial title in 6 years and the seniors having returned to div one for the first time for a decade. The bookies reckon a Connacht final and round 4 defeat.
Winning a All Ireland in a few years IF Roscommon manage to stay in div one was the key point he made and i’m sure you would agree thats a big if.
One of the best and most detailed ranking table i have seen online. Roscommon are 11th currently, have rise from about 20th when playing in Div 4 2011 and now promoted to Div one. http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2057173179&page=12.
Again this is you having a poor understanding of the betting market.
U-21 this April - Roscommon were favorites because they had won the last two All Ireland semi final they play in and had beat Galway in Tuam who had beaten Mayo in Castlebar. Tyrone hadn’t won Ulster since 2006 and was over a decade since they won All Ireland semi final. With the game played in Connacht it would also play a part in the odds.
Armagh last year i have explained this already.
2013 minor semi final - Roscommon beat Kildare in the quarter final who were favourties for the All Ireland before that game because they beat Dublin. Tyrone didn’t Ulster Monaghan did and they were well beaten by Mayo while Mayo only beat Roscommon narrowly in the Connacht final.
Talk of Roscommon for whatever reason just sickens you full stop.
What is nonsense is me having to repeat myself to you when the information should have been taken in after my second post. Can’t be talking for years and simply little to talk about. If ourselves and Tipp,Cavan etc are to improve further it will be welcome change to the football championship to see some new teams doing well unfortunately for you that would mean more talk about Roscommon which will sicken you.
I gave facts not excuses. Roscommon play London on Sunday the starting team from the last meeting will about 3 or 4 survivors so what happened 7,6 or 8 years ago is irrelevant to this current team and it remains to seen how they will progress in the years ahead.
Here you go again with the anything else than an All Ireland QF would be a disaster this year. Not going to repeat myself again you can read back its crystal clear.[/QUOTE]
Lets cut your wishy-washy excuse making to pieces here.
They won a 4 u-21 provinical titles in 6 years, really? How many All Irelands followed? You say I don’t understand how the bookies work, wrong. I said that they have been way overhyped and when the crunch came they have been shown to. They were 8/11 to beat Armagh last year and were resoundingly beaten, their u21s were 4/9 to beat Tyrone and were resoundingly beaten, their minors in 2013 were 8/15 and couldn’t live with Tyrone when they stepped it up in the second half. That to me talks about a team that is overhyped but here you are justifying that basis and then denying that there is even an expectancy of Roscommon or that nobody talks them up - complete nonsense.
Don’t deny about giving the excuses, you’d want to settle on what you’re trying to say first of all as some of your points are totally contradictory. You keep going on about Roscommon being tipped for a provincial final and a r4 qualifier spot, incorrect. Currently they are ranked 10th in the betting odds, on the A side of the draw they are ranked as the 4th highest team behind Dubin, Cork and Monaghan who should all progress to their provincial finals meaning Roscommon can’t meet them until past the last 12 stage provided Roscommon overcome the flimsy test of London and Sligo.
Roscommon are into the last 12 if they beat London and Sligo guaranteed.
Talk of a team who are being hyped with little supporting theory behind it annoys me. When they beat someone of note in a Championship match then they can talk, until then though I will rightly question the merits of their team who have been very unimpressive whenever I have seen them play, certainly with regard to what I had been hearing about them.
