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Doesent seem rte will be covering galway v ross replay.

From the roscommon people newspaper
"I am not convinced that this is a super Galway team and they caught Mayo on a very bad day in the semi-final. They have good players all over their team, but I have a doubt about their defence, and, on the basis that Roscommon are capable of putting up a big score, I am going for a narrow win for the Rossies"
It's a fair point,if the ross forwards can get ball,I think galway could be in trouble.

https://youtu.be/muZnnBVpj30
A sobering thought for our defence against cavan,very suspect when ran at,high ball also a feature.hopefully the intervening 8wks have tightened things up. One match doesent make or break a team, watched them train last night in salthill.forwards were still on the pitch at 9.30 kicking from all angles,gud job it wasnt sunday alot of wides will put it down to darkness!!

Galway had a good workout against Clare last week behind closed doors,galway won by a few points.the defence still being worked on, as could be suspect under high ball.really think galway would prefer to be away for this,just cannot perform at home.here's hoping!

Saturday, 2 July

3.30pm, QUALIFIER Wexford v Offaly live on RTÉ One and RTÉ Playeri

Sat 2nd July All-Ireland SHC Qualifier Round 1 (sky)

dublin v cork 6.30pm
Sunday, 3 July

2pm Munster Football Final
Kerry v tipperary

4pm Leinster Hurling Final
Kilkenny v galway

6.30 bbc2 deferred coverage Tyrone v cavan

The Round 2B All-Ireland football qualifier draw will take place next Monday morning on RTE Radio after the 8.30am news.

Four games will take place on the weekend of July 9-10.  This draw involves the four winners from Round 1B (Offaly/London, Wexford/Fermanagh, Down/Longford, Antrim/Limerick) against the defeated "B" side provincial semi-finalists (Westmeath/Kildare, Donegal/Monaghan, Cork and Mayo).

A separate draw will be made for home advantage and where two teams have met previously in this year's provincial championship the winner of the provincial game shall have home advantage.

Confirmation of home venues, times and all dates for the fixtures will be confirmed following a meeting of CCCC on Monday afternoon.

Horans piece before match .ha ha!

James Horan doesn't subscribe to the view that the gap b :)etween Mayo and the chasing pack in Connacht is closing.

In fact, the former Mayo manager reckons the opposite is the case.

"I know Kevin Walsh (Galway manager) mentioned that he thinks his side have been closing the gap, but I'd be the opposite. I think the gap is increasing," Horan told Newstalk ahead of tomorrow's Connacht SFC semi-final between Mayo and Galway.

"Galway have lost some very good players as well; Michael Lundy, Johnny Duane and Fiontan Ó Curraoin, the U21 All-Ireland winning captain.

"There's a couple of guys we've seen with Corofin who have a club title and they're not anywhere near the squad. There's usually a huge energy around Galway football, where they were going and what the promise was. You don't sense that anymore.

"You almost sense that the people in Galway think that if they get out of Castlebar with under a ten-point beating, six points beaten, that they'll be happy enough, which is not what Galway used to be. I think it's lost a bit of that competitiveness."

He continued: "I think Mayo are going to be very strong, I think they're stronger than last year with the addition of a number of players. Obviously Diarmuid O'Connor has become the player that he is but you've also got Evan Regan breaking through, you've Stephen Coen who captained the U21 side.

"He's playing very good football. You've got Patrick Durcan back from Castlebar (Mitchels). These are all young progressive, very dynamic players with proven character.

"You've got five or six new guys who appear to be very ready to jump into senior championship football. So when you add that to the experience that is already there and the age profile of the guys that are there are very, very good."

Where are you now beff?

Mayo won Connaught last year, got to the AI semi finals and pushed the Dubs harder than any other county. They did all that, even though they had a sub par management set up too. They had the players to see them through the lack of professionalism -  a phrase often used during their own mgt heave last year - in their own preparations. Galway don't.

We can debate all day long whether the Galway players just lack the basic raw talent, or whether they lack managers who could bring the best out of them, or whether they lack a more professional coaching  and preparation set up. It's six of one, half a dozen of another, really. You can ask the same questions about half the teams in the country. Mayo just operate at a much, much higher level than they do, which is why they will win imo.

James horan"where are you now" as......

Galway have as much chance of beating mayo as they have of winning Sam!

The details of both draws are as follows:

Football Draw 

Football - Round 2A

Four games will take place on the weekend of July 2nd and 3rd.  This draw involves the four winners from Round 1A (Leitrim/Waterford, Laois/Armagh, Derry/Louth, Carlow/Wicklow) against the defeated "A" side Provincial semi-finalists (Meath/Dublin, Cavan/Tyrone, Clare and Sligo).

A separate draw will be made for home advantage and where two teams have met previously in this year's provincial championship the winner of the provincial game shall have home advantage.

Hurling Draw

Round 1 (knockout)

These games will take place on the weekend of July 2nd and 3rd.

Leinster Teams - Laois, Dublin, Westmeath, Wexford and the losers of Offaly/Galway

Munster Teams - Clare, Cork and the losers of Limerick/Tipperary

Teams are drawn from two bowls which shall be as follows:

1. Four Leinster Championship Teams

2. Three Munster plus one Leinster Championship team. 

(The Leinster Championship team to be included in the Munster group must be one of the two teams that qualified for the Leinster quarter-finals through the provincial qualifier group.  This will be either Offaly or Westmeath but will definitely be Westmeath if Offaly defeat Galway on Sunday to qualify for the Leinster final. If Offaly lose, a draw will be made to determine whether they or Westmeath are included with the Munster teams).

Say silke writing in local paper.

Galway have not beaten Mayo since July 13, 2008 in championship football.

That is a long time without a win and the bookies do not think they can beat them this Saturday in McHale Park (7pm ) either.

The money men have put Galway at 4/1 to win the Connacht semi-final and they are giving them a five-point headstart (+5 ) in the handicap betting too.

Only three Galway players, Gary Sice, Gareth Bradshaw and midfielder Paul Conroy who saw action in 2008, will start on Saturday evening. Those men and others have taken enough beatings from Stephen Rochford's Mayo over the past seven years. So what must they and their colleagues do to produce a massive upset by 8.30pm on Saturday evening?

1 - Stop Aidan O' Shea

O'Shea made bits of Sligo in last year's Connacht final and he was also practically unstoppable in Galway's defeat to Mayo in Pearse Stadium. His height, footballing ability and sheer power make him a serious asset when he lumbers into full-forward.

If, and when, he gets possession of the leather, the Breaffy man is hard to dispossess.

It is fair to say that if he were in Galway's ranks on Saturday evening, most people would give Galway a great chance of winning the game.

Galway's new full-back Declan Kyne cannot be expected to stop O'Shea by himself if he goes into the edge of the square at stages during the game.

Kyne will need championship debutant corner backs David Wynne and Eoghan Kerin sweeping up the breaks, and probably a sweeper back cutting the ball out from going directly into O'Shea too.

However, if too much attention is focused on O'Shea, then it will leave additional space for Conor Loftus, Cillian and Diarmuid O'Connor to exploit, and Galway will be in trouble.

2 - Dominate central diamond

Galway have a new championship debutant goalkeeper in Bernard Power (Corofin ) and he has a fine kick-out.

However, when that ball lands out the field, it will be up to midfielders Tom Flynn, Paul Conroy, and both the half-back lines and wing-forwards Gary Sice and Johnny Heaney, to mop up any breaks and really take the fight to Mayo.

Mayo's half-back line of Keegan, Boyle and Durcan is very strong. The first two have All-Stars to confirm their ability and experience. Galway will need to target them and stop their forward sallies if they are to have any chance of reaching a Connacht final against Roscommon on July 10.

If Galway can get enough possession in that diamond area, and get ball forward fast to Shane Walsh, Eamonn Brannigan, Danny Cummins and Damien Comer, then they have the pace and footballing ability to trouble the Mayo defence.

3 - Belief

Having been beaten as often as they have by Mayo in the past four years and seeing some of their players in All-Ireland finals on TV in 2012 and 2013, and doing well in division one, Galway's confidence may have been sapped.

However the squad on Saturday evening must stamp out any doubts and have no fear of what lies ahead.

They have to believe, as Tipp did last weekend against Cork, that they can produce a huge performance and rock the GAA's status quo.

I know the league is one thing ,but let's not forget an already relegated down pushed mayo to 3pts.galway were within a kick of a ball being promoted mayo a kick of the ball from being relegated.I don't think the gap is as big as people are saying.in saying that I do expect a mayo win,but I do expect a formidable challenge from galway.no more than ross/sligo last year no one saw that sligo win coming.just a thought!!

A and B groups are written above when it comes to knock out the following happens.
The munster and connacht final losers go into side A. Leinster and Ulster final losers go into side B

In the quarter finals, the munster and connacht winners play a qualifer from side A. Leinster and Ulster winners play a qualifer from side B.

Semi-finals, Connacht winners (or team that beats them) V Ulster winners (or team that beats them)
  and Leinster Winners (or team that beats them) V Munster winners (or team that beats them)..

An A and B system for the qualifying draws was introduced in 2014 and has been retained. The teams are designated as A or B depending on which half of their provincial championships they are initially drawn to play in. Although some teams receive byes in the early provincial rounds, they are usually drawn randomly into the round in which they enter the competition resulting in teams being designated as A or B randomly.

A: Clare, Limerick, Kerry, Roscommon, Leitrim, Sligo, Derry, Tyrone, Cavan, Armagh, Laois, Wicklow, Dublin, Louth,Carlow, Meath

B: Tipperary, Waterford, Cork, Mayo, London, Galway, Monaghan, Down, Donegal, Fermanagh, Antrim, Longford, Offaly, Westmeath, Wexford, Kildare

In all qualifier rounds A teams play A teams and B teams play B teams. Usually the A teams play their provincial games before the B teams which allows the A qualifier games to be scheduled a week before the B qualifier games.

Round 1   
The first round consists of all teams that fail to reach their provincial semi-finals with the exception of New York. 16 teams in total take part.

In round 1 four A teams play four A teams and four B teams play four B teams. The eight round 1 winners play the eight beaten provincial semi-finalists in round 2 of the qualifiers.

The following teams take part in this round:qualified so far are:

Connacht (2) leitrim,london

Leinster (7)Wicklow,

Munster (2) limerick,waterford

Ulster (5) Antrim, Armagh, derry
Games to be played 1a sat 18th june,1b day 25th June.


Round 2
In the second round of the qualifiers the eight winning teams from Round 1A and Round 1B play the eight beaten provincial semi-finalists. The round 2 draw is unrestricted − if two teams have played each other in a provincial match they can be drawn to meet again. The eight winners of these matches play each other in Round 3.

Round 1A Winners (4)


Provincial Semi-Finalists (A)


Round 1B Winners (4)
Provincial Semi-Finalists (B)

Round 3
In the third round of the qualifiers winning teams from round 2A play against winning teams from round 2A and winning teams from round 2B play against winning teams from round 2B. Round 3 rules do not allow two teams that have played each other in a provincial match to meet again. The four winners of these matches play the four beaten provincial finalists in Round 4.

Round 2A Winners (4)


Round 2B Winners (4)


Round 4   
In the fourth round of the qualifiers, the four winning teams of Round 3A and Round 3B play the four provincial beaten finalists.[8] Round 4 rules do not allow two teams that have played each other in a provincial match to meet again if such a pairing can be avoided. The four winners of these matches play the provincial winners in the All-Ireland Quarter-Finals.

Round 3A Winners




Provincial Runners Up (A)




Round 3B Winners




Provincial Runner  up b
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