The Official Roscommon Thread

[ballinaman]

Seafoid, i think we'll definitely be targeting 2 points against those people next door to us when they come to Hyde Park.

Next door? We have our feet up in the west wing of your house...

[seafoid]

Seafoid, i think we'll definitely be targeting 2 points against those people next door to us when they come to Hyde Park.

Ye might beat Kerry if ye play them early on. They don't get serious until late Feb anyway

[Beffs]

Yep. Kerry are often a good bet for a handy two points, if you play them early enough. They don't go away on their team holiday until the New Year. So by the time they get back, they only have a couple of weeks to train and prep for the league, when other counties have been back training for a month or two.  That rustiness is often reflected in their results in the first few rounds.

[weareros]

5 points would be enough to stay up. Can Ros beat 2 out of Down, Cork and Monaghan ?

6 points wasn't enough to keep us up last time we were in Division 1.
Then again we won't have to worry about Tommy Joyce kicking a last second 14 yard free wide to allow Dublin and Galway share spoils and stay up and send Ros down
#yedidnthavemuchlucksinceyedirtyfeckinheronchokersthedivilmendye

[Syferus]

Yep. Kerry are often a good bet for a handy two points, if you play them early enough. They don't go away on their team holiday until the New Year. So by the time they get back, they only have a couple of weeks to train and prep for the league, when other counties have been back training for a month or two.  That rustiness is often reflected in their results in the first few rounds.

They looked fairly 'rusty' in August and September too..

[Beffs]

Well, at least they were still playing in August and September. 

[Syferus]

Well, at least they were still playing in August and September. 

Mainly thanks to a rigged draw that puts them into the AIQFs every year.

[Beffs]

True. Can't argue with you there. Playing a province with only 6 counties and football being the poor relation in 5 of them, helps them a lot too.

Then again, there are only 5 counties* in Connaught. So it's not like Roscommon have the hard slog that Leinster and Ulster counties have, to make the quarter final stage.


*New York and London don't count.

(ducks....)

[Shrewdness]

A nice quality about this thread, is that we can discuss other counties as well, without anyone from those counties complaining about us taking over their threads..Everyone wins.

[Rossfan]

When did the Leinster champions last have a hard slog to get to the AI QF?
Louth in 2010?

[Beffs]

There are 12 counties in Leinster & only 5 in Connaught...so you do the sums.

[Shrewdness]

Beffs, where are you from?

[Beffs]

That all depends on the time of the moon, time of the month, time of the year & whatever set of in-laws are within hearing distance. 

[Rossfan]

There are 12 counties in Leinster & only 5 in Connaught...so you do the sums.

3 soft games with winning margins of 15+ points is a soft passage.

[manfromdelmonte]

actually seven teams play in Connacht, right?