All-Ireland Minor Football Championship 2013

[Onlooker]

I don't see any reason why the Monaghan v. Tipperary quarter final could not be played on Saturday, before the Monaghan v. Tyrone game.  Paraic Duffy must have been asleep when that fixture was agreed.  Longford on Monday is a very strange venue for the game.

[Rossfan]

Time this  proper All Ireland Championship got a bit of attention.
It's all to play for and we are hopeful of causing an upset bt it's a big "ask" as they say in the world of sport cliches.
If we can get over our custom of letting in soft goals we're in with a shout.
I presume we'll have the usual good following as Roscommon people can't afford to go on holidays these days. Hopefully the 4x4 bucks will have some races to go to if they're not sunning themselves somewhere a.nd leave us with all the support
The Westies will bring a large crowd while the Rhus have bigger fish to be frying or sorrows to be drowning and won't be travelling here.
Best of luck to our buickíns.

[Syferus]

Kildare are in serious pain after being robbed by the banded bandits in Offaly in the Fr Manning. Sure we only need to turn up on the right day and we have this one in the bag.

[Dinny Breen]

Looking at the odds for our game, pretty mental considering Roscommon's under-age pedigree and our propensity to play teams from the West as heavy favourites and lose.

Very little hype around this team though, club championships and debate over senior management has been the primary focus so expect Kildare to be mentally focused. We score goals though and seeing as the Roscommon seem to leak them this might give us an edge. We out supported Dublin in Parnell Park so expect the usually good support from Kildare, around 1000 to 1500.

For the neutral, Mescal, Luke Flynn, Healy, Fitzpatrick and McMonagle are the ones to watch imho.

Not happy a Cavan man is refereeing...

[Dinny Breen]

Kildare are in serious pain after being robbed by the banded bandits in Offaly in the Fr Manning. Sure we only need to turn up on the right day and we have this one in the bag.

We had a full round of u16 championship matches the night before, the lads on Uibh Fhaili think it was a momentus victory against the robots though, them having the more natural footballers of course..

[Syferus]

Looking at the odds for our game, pretty mental considering Roscommon's under-age pedigree and our propensity to play teams from the West as heavy favourites and lose.

Very little hype around this team though, club championships and debate over senior management has been the primary focus so expect Kildare to be mentally focused. We score goals though and seeing as the Roscommon seem to leak them this might give us an edge. We out supported Dublin in Parnell Park so expect the usually good support from Kildare, around 1000 to 1500.

For the neutral, Mescal, Luke Flynn, Healy, Fitzpatrick and McMonagle are the ones to watch imho.

Not happy a Cavan man is refereeing...

Yer the AI favourites. Ain't no 'very little hype'. Maybe their own supporters are sick of being hype and failing but the bookies and the people manning the scuttlebutt delivery isn't.

[rodney trotter]

Looking at the odds for our game, pretty mental considering Roscommon's under-age pedigree and our propensity to play teams from the West as heavy favourites and lose.

Very little hype around this team though, club championships and debate over senior management has been the primary focus so expect Kildare to be mentally focused. We score goals though and seeing as the Roscommon seem to leak them this might give us an edge. We out supported Dublin in Parnell Park so expect the usually good support from Kildare, around 1000 to 1500.

For the neutral, Mescal, Luke Flynn, Healy, Fitzpatrick and McMonagle are the ones to watch imho.

Not happy a Cavan man is refereeing...

Who is it? McQuillan didn't cost the game against Tyrone in fairness, bet by the better side.

[Syferus]

Kildare are in serious pain after being robbed by the banded bandits in Offaly in the Fr Manning. Sure we only need to turn up on the right day and we have this one in the bag.

We had a full round of u16 championship matches the night before, the lads on Uibh Fhaili think it was a momentus victory against the robots though, them having the more natural footballers of course..

It was still in Kildare's pocket until the Leitrim B team turned out this week (they have the Ted Webb final on Sat and were out of the Fr Manning running, well, so were Offaly for that matter) against Offally and a 8-17 to 0-03 hammering put Offaly into the final by the dint of a +64 to +60 scoring difference over Kildare.

We beat Offaly and they only limped over that dead-legged Kildare team by a point.

The schedule at U16 needs some serious sorting out.

[Dinny Breen]

Looking at the odds for our game, pretty mental considering Roscommon's under-age pedigree and our propensity to play teams from the West as heavy favourites and lose.

Very little hype around this team though, club championships and debate over senior management has been the primary focus so expect Kildare to be mentally focused. We score goals though and seeing as the Roscommon seem to leak them this might give us an edge. We out supported Dublin in Parnell Park so expect the usually good support from Kildare, around 1000 to 1500.

For the neutral, Mescal, Luke Flynn, Healy, Fitzpatrick and McMonagle are the ones to watch imho.

Not happy a Cavan man is refereeing...

Who is it? McQuillan didn't cost the game against Tyrone in fairness, bet by the better side.

Noel Mooney, no Dublin Joe didn't cost us the game but he reffed us off the pitch and there was no consistency in his yellow card decisions. I hope Mr Mooney is at least consistent for both teams.

[Syferus]

Looking at the odds for our game, pretty mental considering Roscommon's under-age pedigree and our propensity to play teams from the West as heavy favourites and lose.

Very little hype around this team though, club championships and debate over senior management has been the primary focus so expect Kildare to be mentally focused. We score goals though and seeing as the Roscommon seem to leak them this might give us an edge. We out supported Dublin in Parnell Park so expect the usually good support from Kildare, around 1000 to 1500.

For the neutral, Mescal, Luke Flynn, Healy, Fitzpatrick and McMonagle are the ones to watch imho.

Not happy a Cavan man is refereeing...

Who is it? McQuillan didn't cost the game against Tyrone in fairness, bet by the better side.

Noel Mooney, no Dublin Joe didn't cost us the game but he reffed us off the pitch and there was no consistency in his yellow card decisions. I hope Mr Mooney is at least consistent for both teams.

I for one am hoping for an entirely balls-up hatchet job in Roscommon's favour.

What match experience does Mooney have?

[Dinny Breen]

Kildare are in serious pain after being robbed by the banded bandits in Offaly in the Fr Manning. Sure we only need to turn up on the right day and we have this one in the bag.

We had a full round of u16 championship matches the night before, the lads on Uibh Fhaili think it was a momentus victory against the robots though, them having the more natural footballers of course..

It was still in Kildare's pocket until the Leitrim B team turned out this week (they have the Ted Webb final on Sat and were out of the Fr Manning running, well, so were Offaly for that matter) against Offally and a 8-17 to 0-03 hammering put Offaly into the final by the dint of a +64 to +60 scoring difference over Kildare.

We beat Offaly and they only limped over that dead-legged Kildare team by a point.

The schedule at U16 needs some serious sorting out.

Yea very unfair on the Kildare lads but them's the breaks, as an u16 group they haven't lost many and actually won the 16 Leinster blitz beating Dublin in the final a couple of weeks. Ner a natural footballer among them...

[Donnellys Hollow]

No more malfunctions like the last trip to Tullamore.

[Syferus]

No more malfunctions like the last trip to Tullamore.

Yer expecting some fairly aimless long balls from the Ros if the Kildare ro-backs have that much time to stand around looking at a ball in the square.

[Donnellys Hollow]

No more malfunctions like the last trip to Tullamore.

Yer expecting some fairly aimless long balls from the Ros if the Kildare ro-backs have that much time to stand around looking at a ball in the square.

The Roscommon full forward line have obviously been terminated by this point in time.

[Dinny Breen]

The Rossies are even trying to copy our robot footballer program...