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Three goal margin win a fair reflection over the two legs. Dorgu,Zirkzee,Casemiro,Bruno all good tonight.

Step up against Lyon next but for now the season is kept alive for another few weeks yet.

Heaven also.

With so many players out he got his opportunity and performed well.

Three goal margin win a fair reflection over the two legs. Dorgu,Zirkzee,Casemiro,Bruno all good tonight.

Step up against Lyon next but for now the season is kept alive for another few weeks yet.

[Round 1 Wednesday 19th March]

U20 championship starts on Wednesday.  Mayo and Galway the expected strongest teams having played in the All Ireland U17 final three years ago.

Round 1  Wednesday 19th March       

Leitrim v Galway
Mayo v Roscommon

Round 2  Wednesday 26th March

Roscommon v Sligo
Galway v  Mayo

Round 3  Wednesday 2nd  April

Mayo v Leitrim
Sligo v Galway

Round 4 Wednesday 9th April

Galway v Roscommon
Leitrim v Sligo

Round 5  Wednesday 16th April

Sligo v Mayo
Roscommon v Leitrim


2nd v 3rd in Semi Final Wednesday  23rd  April
Top Team Qualifies for Final  30th April

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Friday week for the start of the Minor championship.  Mayo going for 4 titles in a row


Round 1 Friday 21st March

Roscommon v Sligo
Leitrim v Galway

Round 2 Friday 28th March

Mayo v Leitrim
Galway v Roscommon

Round 3 Friday 4th April         

Sligo v Galway
Roscommon v Mayo

Round 4 Friday 11th April

Leitrim v Roscommon
Mayo v Sligo

Round 5 Friday 18th April       

Galway v Mayo
Sligo v Leitrim

Top Team Qualifies for Final:  Friday 9th  May

Semi Final    2nd v 3rd Friday 2nd May

Shield Final:  4th v 5th    Friday 2nd May


All Ireland series Tier 1,2 and 3 after the Connacht championship. 

Meath are 5/2 and I can't help thinking that is a bit of value. 

me too and I'll have some of that.

How about this weekend lads?  Meath at home to Monaghan and are 13/8. 

Would love to see Donegal get there and then send out a B team, would maybe wake up the GAA into moving the games to avoid this situation in future.

Sure it happened a few years ago when Mayo got to the final and played Championship the following week. Did it wake up the gaa ? Did it fcuk . It makes a complete mockery of the competition.

Mayo's effort to get around that was to rest nine first choice players in the round 7 match at home to Monaghan which the Farney men was pleased with as they won and stayed up.


HQ for a few years now wanted to scrap the provincial championships so aren't going to accommodate it by giving a two week break at least between the league final and start of the provinces.  They clearly don't have a high regard for the league competition either with using this years competition as a guinea pig for a load of new rules and worse of all changing rules again with two games to play.

I wonder is it possible for the national media to share a balanced view on the new rules and current state of the game than mainly play cheerleaders and shout down any player,Managers that gives constructive criticism?

It's clear in such a short and rushed time too many rule changes was brought in at one time.

Got to see OCS live for the first time last summer as part of weekend music festival, were good played 13 songs in a hour set including their main hits The Riverboat song,better days,the day we caught the train,Hundred Mile High City etc.

it will be interesting to see who comes out on top. Regardless of set ups the point is to score more than the opponent. Could make for interesting watching.

Will be interesting to see who are the two promoted. To score more than the opponent in shootouts is fine right now but to be well organised defensively will still be key for any team with ambitions this summer.  Take Galway top of the table in Div 1 with just 0-55 conceded in 4 games. Your own Meath has conceded the lowest in Div 2 with 21 points per game. average.

Division two more than any other division seem to have a group of teams who have decided to take each other on in shootouts not sure will that be good prep for championship when they face any Division one team who will have a defensive structures in place.

Sligo game off.

New pitch recently relaid in Markievicz Park and no better than before if not worse.

Michael Murphy not named in match day 26 for donegal and 5 changes from team that beat Armagh.I suppose they are safe so can experiment a bit more🤔

Murphy wasn't named on the published 26 last weekend either and played. It's the usual dummy panel Jim sends off to Croke Park on a Thursday evening.

In 2017 Congress The "Super 8" motion passed with 76% voting in favour of the move. (that format lasted two years)

In 2022 Congress the new All-Ireland football championship format gets 95% backing (this summer will be the last year of it)

On we go into 2026 with another new format.

I don't recall any home team in Div 3 on these odds before.

Leitrim 40/1
Kildare 1/100
Draw 50/1

The bookies can see that Kildare will steamroll Division 3.

Kildare 1/9
Draw 12/1
Laois 6/1

The Lilywhites will have a good head of steam heading into Leinster SFC - could Dublin's reign finally end ?

Weren't wrong with the odds with Kildare winning tonight 0-21 to 0-9.  Shouldn't find themselves in Div 3 and not playing in at least Div 2 won't be good prep for them for the championship I can imagine.

Good battling display from Mayo tonight and had Armagh on the ropes 2nd half without landing the knock out blow late on.  I think it's 14 year since Mayo have lost to Armagh now.  Kerry in MacHale park next weekend makes for interesting match now.

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