2018 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

[GeoffreyBoycott]

We’ll see. Told you it would be a Carlow v Laois, Leinster semi final on 31 March, the day they were playing in the Division 4 semi final in Croke Park and you scoffed at me.

@GeoffreyBoycott

Both of these teams will be pushing for Super 8 places.

@Cicero_Dandi

> Both of these teams will be pushing for Super 8 places.

What do you base that on?

Leinster counties, outside Dublin, have a pathetic recent record in the AI series.

@GeoffreyBoycott

Laois and Carlow on the opposite side of the draw to Dublin in Leinster. Both will fancy their chances of getting to the Leinster Final. Make a Leinster Final and they’re just one game away from Super 8.

@Cicero_Dandi

You think Laois and Carlow are better teams than Kildare, Meath, Longford and Westmeath?

@GeoffreyBoycott

I’d give Carlow or Laois every chance of beating any of those four on a given day. They’d have to wait until a Leinster Final though in 2018 to beat Meath or Longford (assuming either of those two get over Dublin).

@Cicero_Dandi

It doesn’t say much for Leinster football when you’d give Div 4 sides every chance of beating the 2nd best side in Leinster.

@GeoffreyBoycott

League football in the muck of January and February no relevance to championship football on the hard ground of high summer.