2010 Football Rankings

All of a Sludden · July 28, 2010, 06:56:13 PM

1. Kerry
2. Cork
3. Tyrone
4. Dublin
anyone want to have a go at filling in the rest.

ross4life · July 28, 2010, 07:14:16 PM

1.Kerry
2.Tyrone
3.Cork
4.Meath
5.Kildare
6.Dublin
7.Monaghan
8.Down
9.Sligo
10.Limerick

All of a Sludden · July 28, 2010, 07:16:33 PM

Dublin only 6th, no Louth in the top 10?

anportmorforjfc · July 28, 2010, 07:26:12 PM

Quote from: All of a Sludden on July 28, 2010, 07:16:33 PM
Dublin only 6th, no Louth in the top 10?

Are you serious? The way they have played, IMO they just about merit a top 10!

1. Tyrone
2. Cork
3. Kerry
4. Kildare
5. Down
6. Sligo
7. Roscommon
8. Limerick
9. Dublin
10. Louth

put-it-up · July 28, 2010, 07:32:34 PM

Quote from: anportmorforjfc on July 28, 2010, 07:26:12 PM
Quote from: All of a Sludden on July 28, 2010, 07:16:33 PM
Dublin only 6th, no Louth in the top 10?

Are you serious? The way they have played, IMO they just about merit a top 10!

1. Tyrone
2. Cork
3. Kerry
4. Kildare
5. Down
6. Sligo
7. Roscommon
8. Limerick
9. Dublin
10. Louth

How can Cork be ahead of Kerry, when Kerry beat them?? No Meath in the top 10 is strange also

ross4life · July 28, 2010, 07:39:09 PM

Quote from: All of a Sludden on July 28, 2010, 07:16:33 PM
Dublin only 6th, no Louth in the top 10?

I would have louth about 11th & that's a higher rank for them for year's, wouldn't have us in the top 10 & Dublin have dipped this year 6th is about right IMO E.g they would beat all the team's below them but lose to the one's above them in my list

Celt_Man · July 28, 2010, 07:41:02 PM

Quote from: anportmorforjfc on July 28, 2010, 07:26:12 PM
Quote from: All of a Sludden on July 28, 2010, 07:16:33 PM
Dublin only 6th, no Louth in the top 10?

Are you serious? The way they have played, IMO they just about merit a top 10!

1. Tyrone
2. Cork
3. Kerry
4. Kildare
5. Down
6. Sligo
7. Roscommon
8. Limerick
9. Dublin
10. Louth

All due respect but Roscommon beat London, Letrim and Sligo (albeit a highly impressive Sligo team) and they are the 7th best team in the country.... $:-\$ $:-\$

anportmorforjfc · July 28, 2010, 07:54:33 PM

These are my rankings for the 2010 season, not overall. And obviously the top hasn't been decided yet so this is what i think will happen!

Puckoon · July 28, 2010, 07:59:07 PM

Quote from: put-it-up on July 28, 2010, 07:57:17 PM
If i was going on championship form alone I would rate them something like this

1. Tyrone
2. Kerry
3. Cork
4. Monaghan
5. Meath
6. Kildare
7. Dublin
8. Sligo
9. Down
10. Limerick
11.Roscommon
12. Louth
13. Wexford

You have two teams who beat Sligo in the championship, both below Sligo in the rankings?

upmonaghansayswe · July 28, 2010, 08:16:17 PM

Quote from: Puckoon on July 28, 2010, 07:59:07 PM
Quote from: put-it-up on July 28, 2010, 07:57:17 PM
If i was going on championship form alone I would rate them something like this

1. Tyrone
2. Kerry
3. Cork
4. Monaghan
5. Meath
6. Kildare
7. Dublin
8. Sligo
9. Down
10. Limerick
11.Roscommon
12. Louth
13. Wexford

You have two teams who beat Sligo in the championship, both below Sligo in the rankings?

Even I wouldnt defend this!!

mountainboii · July 28, 2010, 08:23:28 PM

This is the type of thread usually found cluttering up hoganstand.

Donnellys Hollow · July 28, 2010, 08:52:59 PM

Quote from: put-it-up on July 28, 2010, 08:22:22 PM
Monaghan were aweson in beating Armagh and Fermanagh. Kildare have stuttered their way through qualifiers.

If Monaghan had have had more than 6 days to get over their Ulster Final defeat I think they would have beaten Kildare.

Kildare just dont do it for me though I accept they are grinding out results I think they are over-rated.

Stuttered?

Kildare 0-15 0-15 Antrim (AET)
Antrim 0-9 1-15 Kildare
Kildare 1-12 0-5 Leitrim
Derry 1-9 2-17 Kildare
Monaghan 1-11 1-15 Kildare

You could point to the Antrim game in Newbridge as Kildare 'stuttering' but you have to remember the exceptional circumstances in which that game was played. Dermot Earley snr was only buried a few hours before the throw in and it had clearly been an emotional day for a lot of the team. Perfectly understandable that Kildare were a bit flat that evening and failed to put Antrim away despite having the opportunities.

The Antrim and Derry games up the north followed a similar pattern. Slow starts but tore them both apart in the second half. The Leitrim game was fairly unconvincing but realistically it was a game Kildare were never going to lose and it was played in absolutely abysmal weather conditions.

Monaghan were fairly flat last week but Kildare could have beaten them by nine or ten points if Johnny Doyle hadn't lost his shooting boots down a bog-hole in Allenwood.

We're still well off the top three (Kerry, Tyrone, Cork in that order) but I think there are maybe four or five teams in the second tier who are at roughly the same level. Kildare/Meath/Dublin/Monaghan (Possibly Down and Limerick as well) are all capable of beating one another on their day. The Connacht form doesn't look good judging by Mayo, Galway and Sligo's performances in the qualifiers and a lot of the Ulster teams look to have fallen back.

Farrandeelin · July 28, 2010, 08:53:31 PM

Mayo 32

armaghniac · July 28, 2010, 08:58:28 PM

Sligo just about beat Galway, so it is hard to justify them being 10 places ahead of Galway or Wexford.

We'll see at the weekend what teams are close to Cork, Tyrone and Kerry. Apart from those three there isn't a pile of difference between the rest of the Div 1 and Div 2 teams, just different motivation on the day.

Maguire01 · July 28, 2010, 09:00:57 PM

Quote from: put-it-up on July 28, 2010, 07:32:34 PM
Quote from: anportmorforjfc on July 28, 2010, 07:26:12 PM
Quote from: All of a Sludden on July 28, 2010, 07:16:33 PM
Dublin only 6th, no Louth in the top 10?

Are you serious? The way they have played, IMO they just about merit a top 10!

1. Tyrone
2. Cork
3. Kerry
4. Kildare
5. Down
6. Sligo
7. Roscommon
8. Limerick
9. Dublin
10. Louth

How can Cork be ahead of Kerry, when Kerry beat them?? No Meath in the top 10 is strange also

Re Cork and Kerry +1