2018 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

[Cicero_Dandi]

I’ve had no problems thus far but it wouldn’t really be my field so I have used a planning consultant, a Protestant one, to be exact.

[glenshane]

You get some education when you go to build something.

[glasagusban]

Many of the best informed and most insightful commentators on here have massive biases and blindspots. About 70% of what they say is excellent and the rest utter shit. It makes for great discussion, or endless bullshit. @Nembo_Kid and @caoimhaoin two good examples, either brilliant insight or just spouting their own biases. Kev has a far higher percentage of getting it right in fairness to him, probably only 10% shite. @anon32894817 is great on certain topics but his head is all the way up his own hole on about 40% of his posts.

[anon32894817]

You see I’ve to be bias to balance proceedings.

[Little_Lord_Fauntleroy]

Great news, always hoped you would end up in Fingal but still great news

[Horsebox]

TV ratings aside, @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy doesn’t know his arse from his elbow on nearly every other subject. Absolutely clueless but there’s no badness in him, he’s harmless.

[Mullach_Ide]

@thedancingbaby

@Cicero_Dandi

Mayo’s problem for me is that they will need to start strong this year and I don’t know if they have it in them any longer to keep this up for another 3/4 months.

Ah if they get over tomorrow, they can take a pull until the Super 8s

The mini league you mean?

[thedancingbaby]

Yes, the Super 8s mini league

[anon98850436]

@Horsebox

TV ratings aside, @The_Selfish_Giant doesn’t know his arse from his elbow on nearly every other subject. Absolutely clueless but there’s no badness in him, he’s harmless.

There’s not much in any ESRI report that @Little_Lord_Fauntleroy doesn’t know about.

[Sidney]

Cavan at 11/4 against Donegal look worth a nibble.

Should be very close.

I’d much prefer this to be the other TV match than Kilkenny’s massacre of the Dublin stick hurlers.

[Sidney]

@Cicero_Dandi

It’s a big game for them, I think they will struggle if they have to go the qualifier route again. They’ve had too many scares in the past two years.

There’s a stark difference in the route for the winner of the Connacht championship compared to tomorrow’s loser.

Whoever wins tomorrow plays what should be a gimme on June 3 against Sligo and then the final on June 17.

The loser’s route sees them face matches on June 9, June 23, June 30 and July 7/8.

So when the Super 8 starts on July 14/15, the Connacht winners will be coming in after a 4 week break, while if tomorrow’s loser gets that far, their first Super 8 match will be their fourth week out in a row.

One of Galway or Mayo will tomorrow be faced with playing 8 matches in 10 weeks (one of those free weekends is between qualifier rounds 1 and 2, so 7 weeks in 8 is probably more pertinent) to reach an All-Ireland final.

If it’s Mayo, I’d suggest there would be an equal chance of the following two scenarios:
i) They finally run out of luck and are tripped up in the qualifiers
ii) They stumble through and become a juggernaut by July.

If they want to avoid the qualifiers, they’ll have to do what they haven’t done since 2013, and that’s hit the ground running in the championship.

Galway have been so settled throughout the league that I think they’ll be too much for Mayo tomorrow. If they play each other in Croke Park later in the summer I’d strongly back Mayo however.

This is a big year for Galway. They need to make real progress in the championship. In each year since 2013, there have been a couple of nuggets in their championship campaign to suggest they are making progress, but they’ve generally ended up flattering to deceive, and in reality they weren’t much further on at the end of the 2017 championship than they were in 2013 when they went out to Cork in that qualifier when Michael Meehan scored a goal with a free kick.

An All-Ireland semi-final appearance would represent progress, anything less, even with a Connacht title, would be basically more of the same of what they’ve produced in the last five years.

[maroonandwhite]

A big loss. It’ll be a slice of Tuscany in ulsters heartland

[Sidney]

As regards the Super 8s, it seems to me that the two provincial champions will play each other in the first game - in both groups.

That could be a big deal when it comes to an All-Ireland semi-final, as theoretically, you’d expect the four provincial champions to contest the All-Ireland semi-finals.

If a team goes two for two at the start of the Super 8s, it will likely mean they can rest players in the final game, and effectively have a three week break before an All-Ireland semi-final rather than a one week break. And in that semi-final they’ll be playing a team who have likely had to break their collective bollixes to win on matchday 3.

All this suits Dublin perfectly. I can only see them being stopped in an All-Ireland final, if at all, and I realistically don’t see them being stopped at all.

All this will come down to Kerry trying to stop Dublin doing five in a row in the 2019 All-Ireland final, when the wheel will turn full circle from 1982.

[caoimhaoin]

Ya agree. Surprised at that price.

Donegal could take off but cavan are very consistant

[dodgy_keeper]

Wexford 1-10 Laois 0-03. Half time.

[Cicero_Dandi]

I don’t see Cavan having a hope tomorrow, particularly without McVeety, Donegal to win out runners by around 6 points plus.

[Aristotle]

Colm Parkinson (Woolberto)

Good comeback by Laois.

[dodgy_keeper]

Penalty for Laois who trail by three points.

[dodgy_keeper]

Kingston buries it.

Level. A minute left.

[Mac]

Pelanty for Wexford