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Why do they do the draw for this before the provincial finals?

It's a good question.  Some teams might now be thinking a loss wouldn't be the end of the world, so it takes the edge off things.

I'm pretty sure both Donegal and Armagh will want to avoid the group with the winners of Mayo/Galway and Derry!

Mayo and Galway are certainly in a tough position. The loser will get Dublin, Ros and Cavan; the winner the aforementioned group with Derry, Donegal/Armagh and Westmeath.

Armagh beat Galway and Westmeath last year and drew with Derry. That would do again.
In any case, teams can reach the preliminary QFs by kicking the weakest team and then you see who you get there, although the sequence of games can banjax you with injuries etc.

Unless you waltz through your province and have the biggest panel

The last rr - pre qf- qf
 is the killer

I wonder how many first seeds will win their qf . Will it be 3/4 like last year ?

Is there an argument to say the loser of Mayo/Galway would be at an advantage in the group stages?

Only 1 team per group goes out. It's all about injuries and momentum then.
The surest way to success is to top the group and avoid the pre qf match.

The provincial input into the RR makes Dublin-kerry finals more likely.

Kids are inspired by sporting breakthroughs  on the field. This is well understood in the Glens. If you want something to be important, make it important.

If DG gets a positive outcome for the season he will be gone.

As to where he goes or who would take him that's an entirely different conversation.

Yep if he gets anything decent in the south he will be away, otherwise he may hang about as €70k a year or whatever it is would be hard enough to walk away from.

Antrim need to build on this. Laois never built on the buzz they had with Eddie Brennan. The GAA should have a fund for this sort of situation.

Anti everything, blame foreigners for all their personal problems, never take responsibility for anything, never solve anything. Most importantly, pretend they care about ireland, citizens, women etc - when they dont.

Most of them would be low down the IQ level and easily manipulated by a few semi intelligent but evil people.

The far right leader tells lies to people he knows are stupid.

I thought that tactic is standard across the world. People buy into that every time come elections

Someone once said that if voting changed anything it would be outlawed.

The comparison would be Dublin not Derry...

Cork will need to beat limerick now which if limerick have qualified is I suppose a possibility.

Agree re Dublin. What McGuinness did was completely nullify Derry's tactics. Beating Limerick will require something special that is similar.

This story is really like the one about the Stardust

Certainly a tragedy with an attempted coverup, but collusion in the North went much further than that.

British State forces actively provided Loyalists with the intel, support and equipment to carry these murders out and then did everything to prevent a proper investigation then and indeed ever since.

The details are different but the contempt for ordinary decent people is not. . The North has an extra layer of political violence of course  but the core dynamic is the same imo.

There was no RUC or MI5 involvement in the Kerry Babies story.

The 2 provinces are unbalanced. There is too much competition  in Munster and not enough in Leinster. Antrim beating Wexford is huge but it won't fix the problem.

To an extent.

Before both campaigns kicked off you'd have put good money on a KK v Galway final in Leinster and Limerick and Clare contesting the Munster final.

After two rounds in both I think the bet would still be very safe.

The battle for third is really the only thing on offer in both provinces with Waterford and Antrim throwing a bit of a spanner in the works.

Limerick did to Tipp what they did to Galway and Kilkenny in the endgames last year. Turned on the afterburners before and after half time. https://youtu.be/sSR4MgieVb0&t=720s.

If McGuinness could find a way to beat Derry there should  be a way to beat Limerick. It will probably feature intensity.

The 2 provinces are unbalanced. There is too much competition  in Munster and not enough in Leinster. Antrim beating Wexford is huge but it won't fix the problem.

[Round 1]

Dates for the group stages of the Sam Maguire Cup will be:

Round 1 Seeds 1 & 2 will have home venue

18/19 May:

Seed 1 (Munster/Connacht Champions) v Seed 3

Seed 2 (Munster/Connacht Runners Up) v Seed 4

25/26 May:

Seed 1 (Leinster/Ulster Champions) v Seed 3

Seed 2 (Leinster/Ulster Runners Up) v Seed 4

Round 2 Seeds 3 & 4 will have home venue

1/2 June:

Seed 3 v Seed 2

Seed 4 v Seed 1

Round 3 Neutral venues

15/16 June

Seed 1 v Seed 2

Seed 3 v Seed 4


Tailteann Cup

Round 1 Seeds 1 & 2 will have home venue

11/12 May:

Seed 1 v Seed 3

Seed 2 v Seed 4


Round 2 Seeds 3 & 4 will have home venue

18/19 May:

Seed 3 v Seed 2

Seed 4 v Seed1

Round 3 Neutral venues
 
1/2 June:

Seed 1 v Seed 2

Seed 3 v Seed 4

Dates for the group stages of the Sam Maguire Cup will be:

Round 1 Seeds 1 & 2 will have home venue

18/19 May:

Seed 1 (Munster/Connacht Champions) v Seed 3

Seed 2 (Munster/Connacht Runners Up) v Seed 4

25/26 May:

Seed 1 (Leinster/Ulster Champions) v Seed 3

Seed 2 (Leinster/Ulster Runners Up) v Seed 4

Round 2 Seeds 3 & 4 will have home venue

1/2 June:

Seed 3 v Seed 2

Seed 4 v Seed 1

Round 3 Neutral venues

15/16 June

Seed 1 v Seed 2

Seed 3 v Seed 4


Tailteann Cup

Round 1 Seeds 1 & 2 will have home venue

11/12 May:

Seed 1 v Seed 3

Seed 2 v Seed 4


Round 2 Seeds 3 & 4 will have home venue

18/19 May:

Seed 3 v Seed 2

Seed 4 v Seed1

Round 3 Neutral venues
 
1/2 June:

Seed 1 v Seed 2

Seed 3 v Seed 4

Dates for the group stages of the Sam Maguire Cup will be:

Round 1 Seeds 1 & 2 will have home venue

18/19 May:

Seed 1 (Munster/Connacht Champions) v Seed 3

Seed 2 (Munster/Connacht Runners Up) v Seed 4

25/26 May:

Seed 1 (Leinster/Ulster Champions) v Seed 3

Seed 2 (Leinster/Ulster Runners Up) v Seed 4

Round 2 Seeds 3 & 4 will have home venue

1/2 June:

Seed 3 v Seed 2

Seed 4 v Seed 1

Round 3 Neutral venues

15/16 June

Seed 1 v Seed 2

Seed 3 v Seed 4


Tailteann Cup

Round 1 Seeds 1 & 2 will have home venue

11/12 May:

Seed 1 v Seed 3

Seed 2 v Seed 4


Round 2 Seeds 3 & 4 will have home venue

18/19 May:

Seed 3 v Seed 2

Seed 4 v Seed1

Round 3 Neutral venues
 
1/2 June:

Seed 1 v Seed 2

Seed 3 v Seed 4

It is all very seedy

You could say that Antrim vs Dublin is the East Coast final.

Why is the final between the 2 d2 teams? Hmmmn.

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