2018 All Ireland Senior Football Championship

[kerry1891]

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Who is managing Kildare these days

@Little_Lord_Fauntleroy

Who is managing Kildare these days

some lad kev thinks is the bees knees ! events in leinster could take the gloss off Kev’s delight with events in munster this weekend!

[GeoffreyBoycott]

Fingers crossed for Carlow for the second half. In a good position now to record only a second Championship win over Kildare and a first since 1953.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Sounds like a cracker in Carlow, really should have been on TV instead of the hurling games today.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Carlow 4 up.

18 minute up.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Carlow 5 up. In the last 10.

[Cicero_Dandi]

3 in it.

8 mins to go.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Carlow 4 up.

5 left plus injury time.

[Cicero_Dandi]

@caoimhaoin

Cian O’Neill.

Discuss.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Goal for Carlow.

7 up in injury time.

[caoimhaoin]

Under producing with talent available

Too much science.

Better coach than manager clearly.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Time to go if they lose their next game?

[caoimhaoin]

I would think so yes

Gone down the route many scientists/physios etc involved in managing seem to go, too technical

[GeoffreyBoycott]

First Championship win over Kildare since 1953. Just Laois to get over now for a first Leinster Final appearance since 1944. Bring it on @myboyblue. Winners of that one, will be one game away from the Super 8’s.

@Cicero_Dandi hasn’t a clue. He’s had an awful week.

[kerry1891]

hon the scallion aters

[caoimhaoin]

Would be great if they get there.

Maximizing everything they have.

Obviously Poacher knows what he is at too.

Winning a habit

[Cicero_Dandi]

Neither will make the Super 8s Geoff.

I will offer my resignation on a plate if they do.

[caoimhaoin]

They play a qualifier winner I assume?

[kerry1891]

@caoimhaoin

Under producing with talent available

Too much science.

Better coach than manager clearly.

Tomas OSe kind of called this result in the indo yesterday

He also on about O’Neill spending a whole lot of times explaining drills in his time in Kerry that could have been explained in many fractions of the time. Tomas said he used to ramble off for a bit of a kick around having sussed what the drill was about in 10 seconds, and ramble back a few minutes later to participate when it was starting up

[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.

[Cicero_Dandi]

Yes.

Lot of shocks in the early rounds so far so the qualifiers will be a particularly tough route this year.