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Not being smart here but one of the lads from the Meath team that was interviewed had as strong a Dublin accent than I've heard from any Dublin player in a long time.

Is the Dublin Meath border where Meaths football stronghold is now?

If Down had a free taker or a forward of any use they'd have won that game with ease.

Armagh atrocious.

Armagh v Down - DOWN to win 6-0 on penalties
Donegal v Tyrone - Donegal by 5

I dont think Mickey Harte will be too upset that Derry are out of the Ulster. They have the medals from the last 2 years in their pockets. Its all about SAM for them now. They get a nice 4 week break to get themselves ready. I would not be writing them off at all.

Will they definitely be playing in 4 weeks or could it be 5?

I believe they will be in Pot 3 so first game will be away to the Provincial winners in their group.
if its the Connacht or Munster winner then its the 18th-19th May ( so 4 weeks)
otherwise 25 May (so 5 weeks)

2nd Game on 1st or 2nd June
3rd Game on 15th or 16th June

So Kerry/Dublin/ or Mayo Galway.

If they get either Kerry or Dublin and get a similar 6 or 7 point defeat there will be major questions asked.

They'll want to be getting Mayo or Galway and start off with a signature win.

We've seen every team play championship football so I thought I'd update the rankings.

1. Dublin - No Change
2. Kerry - Up 1 Place
3. Derry - Down 1 Place
4. Donegal - Up 3 Places
5. Mayo - Down 1 Place
6. Armagh - Up 2 Places
7. Tyrone - Down 1 Place
8. Galway - Down 3 Places
9. Cavan - Up 5 Places
10. Monaghan - Down 1 Place
11. Cork - No Change
12. Roscommon - Down 2 Places
13. Down - Down 1 Place
14. Louth - Up 1 Place
15. Meath - Down 2 Places
16. Sligo - Up 4 Places
17. Westmeath - Down 1 Place
18. Kildare - No Change
19. Clare - No Change
20. Fermanagh - Down 3 Places
21. Offaly - Up 4 Places
22. Wexford - Up 1 Place
23. Laois - Down 2 places
24. Wicklow - Up 3 Places
25. Antrim - Down 3 Places
26. Leitrim - Down 2 Places
27. Longford - Down 1
28. Limerick - No Chnage
29. Carlow - No Change
30. Waterford - Up 2 Places
31. Tipp - Down 1 Place
32. London - Down 1 Place
33. New York - No Change

Thoughts?

Anyone watch this documentary on RTE tonight.

Chilling stuff.

Thats as good a weekends football as there has been in a while.

Is there as much wrong with the game as is made out?

As much as I got it right about Jim Mcguinness having something up his sleeve with Donegal.

I'll have to admit I was wrong on Cavan. Game was going more or less how I expected it with Tyrone 8 points up. But a unbelievable turnaround by Cavan which I would never had expected.

If they had that bit more belief from the start they'd have pulled it off.

Was the training camp too close to the game?

How impressive were Donegal in the midfield battle though

Will Mickey go back into his shell in all ireland series now?

Where are the boys that said McGuinness couldn't possibly have anything up his sleeve.

Clifford getting frees just because he's Clifford.

Yeah that last one was a free out.

He had a nightmare first 20.

Could change quick though

Not sure if there's a Munster championship thread.

But alot to like about this Cork side.

They might be well bet yet considering how brave they are.


But serious potential in this side.

I notice the Irish News journalists keep referring to Donegal as 'Tir Conaill'. The funny thing about Celtic Park is that it was in Tir Conaill/County Donegal at the time of the plantations. It was also in the Cenel Eoghain before that but the Cenel Conaill eventually won Inishowen in battle.
County Derry was formed when Derry (city) and South Derry (North East Tyrone) was added to County Coleraine (North Derry).

Interesting. Have you sent links to this info?

Also why when driving through the north does it not let you know when crossing county boundaries. What's this Derry strabane Omagh fermanagh stuff.

Excuse my ignorance.

I'm not sure about you men but I haven't been as excited about an Ulster championship game in a long time as I am about Donegal v Derry.

Sun is shining a packed house in Celtic Park what more could you want

Wonder will be be cagey and packed defense or will both teams go for it?

Hopefully not Donegal will need to bring something different.

I have the feeling Jim will have something up his sleeve but narrative around the place is that the games moved on too much to have anything different 😂

Will find out in a few hours time. Game might have came a round too early for Donegal considering their injuries but we'll see.

Would like to see both teams have a strong tilt at the all ireland no matter the result today.