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Will show how much Roscommon have regressed if they play with 15 men back all game and still lose by 15 points. Teams that Dublin beat by 15 plus points are Div 3/4 teams and ones that defend very poorly against them.
Drax_the_destroyer (UK) - Posts: 99 - 01/05/2024 15:50:25 2542288 Link 0 |
Dublin already look a more impressive outfit than last year. Battered Kerry and others in the league without the likes of McCarthy and Cluxton. Cruising through Leinster this year whereas Kildare nearly turned them over in Leinster last year. While Roscommon so far have been poorer than this time last year so you would worry about that game in Croker.
MachaireConnacht (Roscommon) - Posts: 795 - 01/05/2024 17:29:42 2542307 Link 0 |
We won 2 games since we drew with Dublin - V Sligo just out of Division 4 and Monaghan who were dire in this years NFL. We're all hoping for improved performances and that we had a plan to come good for the AI series. Seanfanbocht (Roscommon) - Posts: 1438 - 01/05/2024 17:59:00 2542310 Link 0 |
Maybe, I wouldn't completely disagree with that. But not preseason. Run them off in break weeks during the league and finish the league where all teams start the championship with roughly the same break after the league. It's ridiculous that a county can reach a provincial final after one game while another needs to play 3 games to get there. Both guaranteed minimum to be a second seed. And more ridiculous for a league winner not to be a number one seed regardless of how they do in their province. This season we've counties not bothered with the league, a bit more bothered about province but not too much because they're concentrating on the round robin All Ireland. If they can devise a system that makes the strong counties stronger, a round robin phase to get more TV revenue, they could at least give so called weaker counties a chance to play a higher standard of opposition in their province and maybe even win their province.
GreenandRed (Mayo) - Posts: 7360 - 01/05/2024 21:36:33 2542350 Link 0 |
The tweak that probably needs to be made before making provincial championship pre-season competitions is to just make the winner of the province a seed while 2nd seed goes to league placings.
Gaa_lover (USA) - Posts: 3353 - 02/05/2024 01:24:43 2542374 Link 3 |
Provincial championship in Ulster and Connacht is strong and means a lot. In Munster and Leinster it's dead in the water. Donegal/Tyrone I'm sure would much rather win an Ulster title than lose an All Ireland semi final. The same for Galway/Mm ayo but in Dublin and Kerry it's All Ireland metals you are judged by not provincial ones eoinog (Sligo) - Posts: 1663 - 02/05/2024 11:30:33 2542432 Link 0 |
Team for tomorrow's Connacht U20 final. The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 3761 - 03/05/2024 15:31:45 2542686 Link 3 |