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They said on the radio tipp were very bad, anything to do with the one week turn around?

Armagh will be one of the toughest teams to get for any of the div 1 or 2 sides in the 1st round draw.
When it is last chance saloon a home game is huge.
Jesus if it's Armagh v tyrone would you write armagh off?
even mayo or Cavan wouldn't fancy that trip north, not in the first round anyway.

What Armagh team are you talking about? Surely not the one that just got hammered by 14 men in Enniskillen?

It was Armagh with the fourteen,I know they were beaten fairly tamely , very similar to last year and yet  they reached an all Ireland  quarter final.time will tell I suppose.

Armagh will be one of the toughest teams to get for any of the div 1 or 2 sides in the 1st round draw.
When it is last chance saloon a home game is huge.
Jesus if it's Armagh v tyrone would you write armagh off?
even mayo or Cavan wouldn't fancy that trip north, not in the first round anyway.

Still a few slots to be filled,Tyrone the big addition after the weekend games.

Offaly, 
London, 
Louth,
Mayo,
Cavan,
Wexford,
Waterford
Limerick,
Armagh
Tyrone
Down/Antrim,
Derry/Donegal.
Kildare/Carlow,
Dublin/Wicklow,
Meath/Longford,
Westmeath/Laois,

Well the Galway footballers celebrated in style Sunday night and a bunch of them ended up in wards hotel, run by Anthony finnerty, father of rob finnerty,not going in to too much detail the early morning staff got a lovely greeting of bodies!!😁

Galway well below what they can play but in fairness mayo did not let them.
People around me were wondering where the aggression Galway showed in the league was gone,it wasn't gone, just mayo had upped intensity levels so wasn't as noticeable.
Overall just delighted left Galway at 11.30 am on lallys bus and got home at 10.30pm,was worth every minute.looking forward to reading the mayo blog over the next few days😂😂

Galway well below what they can play but in fairness mayo did not let them.
People around me were wondering where the aggression Galway showed in the league was gone,it wasn't gone, just mayo had upped intensity levels so wasn't as noticeable.
Overall just delighted left Galway at 11.30 am on lallys bus and got home at 10.30pm,was worth every minute.looking forward to reading the mayo blog over the next few days😂😂

Now I have had a few pints!!
Have been in wards hotel
Anthony finnerty country.
This buck has said " Keegan has mended" and will mark comer!!
To be honest as a Galway man I don't doubt it!!
Well I hope he is wrong!!

Whatever about teams that have been named,I think it is odds on that one team at least will finish a man down.A referee directive which is to be enforced strenuously.
Ahead of what's expected to be a tense Connacht quarter-final between Mayo and Galway on Sunday, a warning has been issued that footballers involved in melees in this year's championship will be sent off.A melee is where a third person or more become involved in an incident.Players have been warned but with both teams playing on the edge something has to give.

It seems the Ronan steede episode has not gone down well in the Galway camp, as in some of the players it has been an unwanted distraction.
It looks like the slim chance brannigan had of even making the subs is all but buried.
The only positive bit of news is that Galway defeated cork in a challenge,match.as is the norm with these behind closed door matches no details of who started or finished.maybe some other poster has the direct line!!

Bad news for Galway on the brannigan front,looks like a six week lay off which would have him back end of may,ligaments which are a fecker to heal.A very big loss the amount of ground he covers surreal,m.daly might get a couple of scores but as regards defending and tracking back not a patch on brannigan.

Piece from Fridays Irish Times

Qualifier guarantee for lucky trio of

Cork, Kerry, and Roscommon are the only teams guaranteed to avoid the first round of this year's All-Ireland senior football championship qualifiers.


The seeded nature of the Munster SFC, which rewards the previous year's finalists with byes to the semi-finals, and Roscommon's fortune in being drawn in a Connacht semi-final for the second year in a row, means the trio will begin the All-Ireland competition at the earliest on Saturday, June 23, in the second qualifier round, which takes place on the same day as the Munster SFC final.

The disparity of the provincial championships feeding into the All-Ireland SFC is highlighted by the advantageous circumstances provided to Cork and Kerry, compared to Ulster SFC preliminary round teams, Cavan and Donegal, who would have to win one of two games to reach the second round of the backdoor.

To make the Super 8, either team will have to win four consecutive games in their provincial championship (ie, win the Anglo-Celt Cup), through the qualifier system, or win four between the Ulster SFC and the qualifiers. In contrast, if Cork, Kerry, and Roscommon win their respective semi-finals, they need only claim another victory from their following two outings to make the All-Ireland quarter-final stages.

After four seasons of a split backdoor system, this year sees a return to the open qualifier draw, meaning any of the 16 teams that failed to reach their provincial semi-finals — the four quarter-finalists in Leinster, Connacht, and Ulster, the three in Connacht, and the Ulster preliminary round losers — can be pitted against one another.

Most, if not all, of the qualifiers are expected to take place on Saturdays, with the master fixtures calendar scheduling them for June 9, 23, 30, and with the final knockout round taking place on July 7 or 8.

That sequencing means a team hoping to reach a Super 8 All-Ireland quarter-final group from the second-round stage must win three games in as many weekends, before their Super 8 outings on July 14/15 and July 21/22,

Time to bring it back to topic I guess - any word on how serious Brannigans injury is?

Not going to speculate how bad an injury it is,but it has kept him away from his place of work.Hopefully nothing too serious.

9th June
The counties who will be in Round 1 of the football qualifiers are: Galway or Mayo; Sligo or London; Tyrone or Monaghan; Down or Antrim; Armagh or Fermanagh; Meath or Longford; Limerick or Clare; Tipperary or Waterford; two from Donegal, Cavan, Derry; two from Wexford, Laois, Westmeath; two from Offaly, Wicklow, Dublin; two from Louth, Carlow, Kildare.

Jesus McHale part will be jammers with the big match,
Pearse stadium will be jammers the same day for ed Sheehan it's win, win for the gaa.
off course they will have the match on a big screen sure doesent ed only love the "Galway girl",what's the chances of him giving a bar of "the green and red of mayo".All in all it promises to be a great day whoever you support.it will set the record for the most county jerseys ever uat a music concert!😁