Good Championship starts for Division 4 counties

[Catch and Kick]

Leitrim survived a real banana skin v New York after a debilitating League; Carlow took out Louth from Division2; Laois got over Div 3 Wexford after ET and bottom of Div 4 Wicklow shocked Offaly. Nice to see the up turn in fortunes for these counties. London recovered from a bad start v Sligo to finish strongly but had left themselves with too much to do.
Antrim to shock Down?
Limerick and Waterford though look like they have too much ground to make up v Clare and Tipp - two counties who were Division 4 residents for a number of seasons just a short while ago.

So maybe the Championship isn't dead just yet!

[Rossfan]

Sure maybe they'll all make the last 8......
Louth and Carlow are now in D3.
Offaly seem to have totally imploded.
Laois, now D3 will beat Wexford 19 times out of 20.
New York are the 33rd best team in the Championship.
Sligo won handy enough in London.
 Anyway 8 years ago Roscommon who had been relegated to D4 won Connacht.

[Syferus]

Sure maybe they'll all make the last 8......
Louth and Carlow are now in D3.
Offaly seem to have totally imploded.
Laois, now D3 will beat Wexford 19 times out of 20.
New York are the 33rd best team in the Championship.
Sligo won handy enough in London.
 Anyway 8 years ago Roscommon who had been relegated to D4 won Connacht.

Eight years later Roscommon are still Connacht champions but in D1..

[Laoiseabu]

Have the Rossies sorted out their defense from last season? If not call it off.

[LooseCannon]

Sure maybe they'll all make the last 8......
Louth and Carlow are now in D3.
Offaly seem to have totally imploded.
Laois, now D3 will beat Wexford 19 times out of 20.
New York are the 33rd best team in the Championship.
Sligo won handy enough in London.
 Anyway 8 years ago Roscommon who had been relegated to D4 won Connacht.

I assure you, New York would beat us, a decent club team would beat us.

[drici]

Aye, noticed on Sunday that Donegal were a Division 2 County beating a Division 1 County. Laois were a Division 4 County beating a Division 3 County and amazingly Carlow were a Division 4 County beating a County from away up in Division 2.
Just switch it around to suit for the benefit of the listeners.
Fantastic.

[Captain Obvious]

Sure maybe they'll all make the last 8......
Louth and Carlow are now in D3.
Offaly seem to have totally imploded.
Laois, now D3 will beat Wexford 19 times out of 20.
New York are the 33rd best team in the Championship.
Sligo won handy enough in London.
 Anyway 8 years ago Roscommon who had been relegated to D4 won Connacht.

Those sides aren't D3 until 2018 and remains to be seen how they fare in D3. No idea what level New York are at when they don't play in the league.

Have the Rossies sorted out their defense from last season? If not call it off.

Going by the league final v Cavan their defense hasn't improved at all.

[Farrandeelin]

Sure maybe they'll all make the last 8......
Louth and Carlow are now in D3.
Offaly seem to have totally imploded.
Laois, now D3 will beat Wexford 19 times out of 20.
New York are the 33rd best team in the Championship.
Sligo won handy enough in London.
 Anyway 8 years ago Roscommon who had been relegated to D4 won Connacht.

Eight years later Roscommon are still Connacht champions but in D1..

After being relegated.

[Catch and Kick]

Sure maybe they'll all make the last 8......
Louth and Carlow are now in D3.
Offaly seem to have totally imploded.
Laois, now D3 will beat Wexford 19 times out of 20.
New York are the 33rd best team in the Championship.
Sligo won handy enough in London.
 Anyway 8 years ago Roscommon who had been relegated to D4 won Connacht.

What jaundiced views you have. Those teams operating in Division 4 struggle year by year to progress and get out of it; this summer at least they have given their supporters and clubs a wee bit of optimism. No one talking about Super 8s. NFL 2018 standings - Louth Div 2, Carlow Div 4, Offaly Div 3, Wicklow Div 4, Sligo Div 3, London Div 4.

[Rossfan]

When the NFL is over the promoted and relegated teams are in their new divisions.
I'm not "jaundiced" whatever that's supposed to mean -just pedantic maybe.
Always good to see the little guys do well but a bit of perspective is no harm.

[AQMP]

Leitrim survived a real banana skin v New York after a debilitating League; Carlow took out Louth from Division2; Laois got over Div 3 Wexford after ET and bottom of Div 4 Wicklow shocked Offaly. Nice to see the up turn in fortunes for these counties. London recovered from a bad start v Sligo to finish strongly but had left themselves with too much to do.
Antrim to shock Down?
Limerick and Waterford though look like they have too much ground to make up v Clare and Tipp - two counties who were Division 4 residents for a number of seasons just a short while ago.

So maybe the Championship isn't dead just yet!

Not a chance

[JGDoire]

Derry to beat Donegal    Cannot see that happening ;-(