Sam Maguire 2024 Group 1 - Galway, Armagh, Derry, Westmeath

[armaghniac]

Galway v Armagh, Avantcard Páirc Sean MacDiarmada, 4pm
Westmeath v Tyrone, Kingspan Breffni Park, 4pm

At least Tony Fearon's famous hotel booking only missed by a week, but the wrong year is well out.

I live in Dublin, Sligo is about as far away as you could put this game.

[Manning18]

Galway v Armagh, Avantcard Páirc Sean MacDiarmada, 4pm
Westmeath v Tyrone, Kingspan Breffni Park, 4pm

Its in Sligo I heard not Leitrim...

In Connacht again, doesn't strike me as particularly fair but there you go

Galway have played their twice in a decade and were deplorable their last outing there. Can't see it as much of an advantage. Equal driving time from both counties, although doesn't leave much public transport options

Where would you have played it?

[illdecide]

Tony Mac will look after us...any word if it's a Sat or Sunday, I've heard it's 4pm so assuming it's a Sunday

[Applesisapples]

I haven't seen anyone mention it but Glass and Rodgers have not had a break in over a year playing roughly similar games for Glen, Slaughtneil and Derry and to cap it all Rodgers is a dual player. Could explain the fatigue, coming down from a great win against the Dubs can be hard to get the levels back. But great to see Armagh play some quality football, they need to push on though.

[illdecide]

Galway v Armagh, Avantcard Páirc Sean MacDiarmada, 4pm
Westmeath v Tyrone, Kingspan Breffni Park, 4pm

Its in Sligo I heard not Leitrim...

In Connacht again, doesn't strike me as particularly fair but there you go

Galway have played their twice in a decade and were deplorable their last outing there. Can't see it as much of an advantage. Equal driving time from both counties, although doesn't leave much public transport options

Where would you have played it?

Brefni Pk, Cavan. surely Sligo will not hold the fans both Counties will want to bring to the game

[mackers]

Personally I don't think Armagh were good enough over the last few years. Even in gallaghers first year, Derry should have beat Armagh during covid games.
Derry were a shambles last year for the Ulster final and Armagh couldn't win.
Losing so many games they were in positions to win says would suggest quality is not there.

I'd have thought the tanking on Sunday would have cut out the condescending posts from some Derry posters but obviously not........

[Captain Obvious]

Tony Mac will look after us...any word if it's a Sat or Sunday, I've heard it's 4pm so assuming it's a Sunday

Sunday 1:45pm is reported not confirmed yet.

[Manning18]

Galway v Armagh, Avantcard Páirc Sean MacDiarmada, 4pm
Westmeath v Tyrone, Kingspan Breffni Park, 4pm

Its in Sligo I heard not Leitrim...

In Connacht again, doesn't strike me as particularly fair but there you go

Galway have played their twice in a decade and were deplorable their last outing there. Can't see it as much of an advantage. Equal driving time from both counties, although doesn't leave much public transport options

Where would you have played it?

Brefni Pk, Cavan. surely Sligo will not hold the fans both Counties will want to bring to the game

Last years game in Carrick not selling out probably put paid to the capacity concern

If an equal distance from both Sligo is unfair then surely Ulster venue Cavan thats much closer to Armagh is even more unfair. I thought Navan or Mullingar would be fair enough venues but can't see how many can have complaints about Sligo, bar the roads from both directions being a bit crap

Some Armagh fans on social media losing their minds over it

[illdecide]

I've no issue with Sligo TBH, just looked up it's capacity there and is bigger than i thought (15,000 - 18,000, depending on Safety Certs etc).
A bitch of a drive coming from North Armagh but hey ho

[smelmoth]

I'm not sure it's half way or close.

Randomly put Crossmaglen (2 hr 24), Armagh (2hr 16) and Lurgan (2hr 22) into google maps and compared that to Tuam (1 hr 22), Galway (1 hr 59) and Clifden (2 hr 29). There will be lot more coming from Cross and Lurgan than from clifden and Letterfrack.

The route from the south of the county is tortuous.

[David McKeown]

Galway v Armagh, Avantcard Páirc Sean MacDiarmada, 4pm
Westmeath v Tyrone, Kingspan Breffni Park, 4pm

Its in Sligo I heard not Leitrim...

In Connacht again, doesn't strike me as particularly fair but there you go

Galway have played their twice in a decade and were deplorable their last outing there. Can't see it as much of an advantage. Equal driving time from both counties, although doesn't leave much public transport options

Where would you have played it?

Is that in the championship or in all competitions?

Anyway Breffni, Mullingar or even Dublin would I think have been fairer given it was in Connacht last year. But anyway lets get on with it

[RedHand88]

Ahhhh it's that stage of the Championship where Armagh ones start complaining about venues. Happy neutral venue week everyone!

[illdecide]

I'd have been happy to play it in Clifden

[Estimator]

Cahair O'Kane has the unconfirmed venues on Twitter:
Saturday
7pm Newry: Derry v Westmeath (GAAGO)
Sunday
1.45pm Sligo: Galway v Armagh (RTE)

[Blowitupref]

Cahair O'Kane has the unconfirmed venues on Twitter:
Saturday
7pm Newry: Derry v Westmeath (GAAGO)
Sunday
1.45pm Sligo: Galway v Armagh (RTE)

Confirmed by GAA themselves now.