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Lory Meagher Cup round 1 Lancashire v Longford, Pairc na hEireann, 4pm Christy Ring Cup round 1 Sligo v London, Markievicz Park, 12.30pm Tyrone v Derry, O'Neill's Healy Park, 1.45pm Meath v Mayo, Pairc Tailteann, 2pm Nickey Rackard Cup round 1 Wicklow v Louth, Aughrim, 2pm Roscommon v Armagh, Dr Hyde Park, 2pm Donegal v Fermanagh, Letterkenny, 2pm Lory Meagher Cup round 1 Monaghan v Leitrim, Clontibret, 2pm Warwickshire v Cavan, Pairc na hEireann, TBC Meath are favourites to win the Ring Cup. Just as there is a gap from the top 9. There is also a gap from the top 18. legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 7844 - 12/04/2023 12:25:07 2470496 Link
All the UK based teams had bad leagues so it'll be interesting to see how they fair in Championship. Lancashire playing their home games in Birmingham is probably difficult (circa 2 hours travel from Manchester). Hard to call all cups Meath and Derry favourites in Christy Ring, Wicklow and Donegal in Nicky Rackard, Monaghan, Cavan, Leitrim and Longford in Lory Meagher. MrPBoylan (Monaghan) - Posts: 111 - 14/04/2023 08:47:03 2470915 Link
My predictions … Meath Derry Mayo London Tyrone Sligo Wicklow Donegal Roscommon Armagh Louth Fermanagh Monaghan Cavan Lancashire Leitrim Longford Warwickshire GaA247 (Cork) - Posts: 58 - 16/04/2023 01:34:47 2471128 Link
Christy Ring Cup round 2 London 4-17 Meath 1-24, Ruislip FT A surprise loss for Meath in London. legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 7844 - 23/04/2023 15:41:50 2472760 Link
Fermanagh 1-12 - 1-14 Wicklow Fermanagh nearly pulled off the surprise of the weekend. They have virtually no clubs compared to Wicklow GaA247 (Cork) - Posts: 58 - 23/04/2023 22:20:07 2472991 Link
Replying To GaA247: "Fermanagh 1-12 - 1-14 Wicklow Fermanagh nearly pulled off the surprise of the weekend. They have virtually no clubs compared to Wicklow" And none at all compared to Cork. foreveryoung (USA) - Posts: 1910 - 24/04/2023 04:46:53 2473026 Link
Replying To foreveryoung: "And none at all compared to Cork." A Division in cork have more clubs than most of the counties in the ring, rackard and meagher cups. GaA247 (Cork) - Posts: 58 - 24/04/2023 18:51:28 2473437 Link
Replying To GaA247: "Fermanagh 1-12 - 1-14 Wicklow Fermanagh nearly pulled off the surprise of the weekend. They have virtually no clubs compared to Wicklow" Do they still only have one club? oneoff (UK) - Posts: 1380 - 26/04/2023 07:58:41 2473869 Link
Replying To oneoff: "Do they still only have one club?" Officially yes but there are a number of underage hurling teams GaA247 (Cork) - Posts: 58 - 27/04/2023 21:08:11 2474298 Link
Replying To MrPBoylan: "All the UK based teams had bad leagues so it'll be interesting to see how they fair in Championship. Lancashire playing their home games in Birmingham is probably difficult (circa 2 hours travel from Manchester). Hard to call all cups Meath and Derry favourites in Christy Ring, Wicklow and Donegal in Nicky Rackard, Monaghan, Cavan, Leitrim and Longford in Lory Meagher." The ring cup is very even this year and Tyrone drawing with Derry and London beating Meath blows it wide open. Mayo despite finishing 2nd last year may find themselves relegated ulsess they beat someone like Sligo GaA247 (Cork) - Posts: 58 - 28/04/2023 23:13:49 2474457 Link
Replying To GaA247: "The ring cup is very even this year and Tyrone drawing with Derry and London beating Meath blows it wide open. Mayo despite finishing 2nd last year may find themselves relegated ulsess they beat someone like Sligo" Its shaping up like like… McDonagh Final Offaly v Carlow/Laois Relegated: Down most likely Ring Final Meath v London (or maybe Derry) Relegated: Mayo Rackard Final Donegal v Wicklow is a cert already Relegated: Fermanagh/Louth (depends on scoring diff) Meagher Final 2 out of Cavan, Monaghan and Longford GaA247 (Cork) - Posts: 58 - 30/04/2023 20:11:24 2474813 Link
Replying To GaA247: "Its shaping up like like… McDonagh Final Offaly v Carlow/Laois Relegated: Down most likely Ring Final Meath v London (or maybe Derry) Relegated: Mayo Rackard Final Donegal v Wicklow is a cert already Relegated: Fermanagh/Louth (depends on scoring diff) Meagher Final 2 out of Cavan, Monaghan and Longford" Ya not think sligo have a great chance now ,they have mayo at home to put them on 6pts and looking like 7pts cud get them n2 top 2 Timmy86 (Sligo) - Posts: 270 - 30/04/2023 20:38:40 2474818 Link
The Ring is a closer battle than I expected. London beat Meath last time out. There was only 2 points between Meath and Derry. After 3 games, Meath have a points difference of +2. Meath's final two games are against Tyrone and Sligo. Tyrone drew with Derry and beat Mayo by a bigger margin than Meath. Sligo have beaten London and Tyrone. After three rounds, five teams are still in the hunt for the final. More competitive than the highly praised McDonagh so far. legendzxix (Kerry) - Posts: 7844 - 30/04/2023 22:00:13 2474833 Link
Replying To legendzxix: "The Ring is a closer battle than I expected. London beat Meath last time out. There was only 2 points between Meath and Derry. After 3 games, Meath have a points difference of +2. Meath's final two games are against Tyrone and Sligo. Tyrone drew with Derry and beat Mayo by a bigger margin than Meath. Sligo have beaten London and Tyrone. After three rounds, five teams are still in the hunt for the final. More competitive than the highly praised McDonagh so far." Ring is very competitive. The rackard cup has three tiers in terms of level with Wicklow and Donegal miles clear and Louth and Fermanagh at the bottom GaA247 (Cork) - Posts: 58 - 30/04/2023 23:18:28 2474842 Link
Replying To GaA247: "The ring cup is very even this year and Tyrone drawing with Derry and London beating Meath blows it wide open. Mayo despite finishing 2nd last year may find themselves relegated ulsess they beat someone like Sligo" Odd to see Mayo doing so poorly, they are at full strength with all of the Tooreen players back and would be expected to beat both London, Tyrone but beaten by both by a bit to spare at home. Gaa_lover (USA) - Posts: 3347 - 01/05/2023 17:22:16 2474922 Link
Donegal impressing so far. Wonder will the final be more like when Wicklow hammered us up here or when we ambushed them in the league semi. Bit of craic in our house for it anyway as the wife is from Wicklow thebronze14 (Donegal) - Posts: 41 - 01/05/2023 17:43:01 2474924 Link
Replying To GaA247: "Ring is very competitive. The rackard cup has three tiers in terms of level with Wicklow and Donegal miles clear and Louth and Fermanagh at the bottom" Fermanagh were very unlucky in their two games against Donegal & Wicklow. Were on top of Donegal until a red card and only lost by two points to Wicklow. Fermanagh are really punching above their weight in fairness to them this year. Bailah (Fermanagh) - Posts: 43 - 02/05/2023 13:04:41 2475022 Link
I think Cavan have to be favourites for Lory Meagher. They've brought in a couple of Cuala players from Dublin alongside Nicky Kenny who captained Cuala to an club All Ireland and Canice Maher (Kilkenny), both now living and going out with / married to a Cavan women. MrPBoylan (Monaghan) - Posts: 111 - 04/05/2023 08:27:29 2475561 Link
Disappointing to see Kildare back in the Ring Cup. Thought they would have pushed on GaA247 (Cork) - Posts: 58 - 15/05/2023 13:04:12 2478666 Link
Replying To GaA247: "Disappointing to see Kildare back in the Ring Cup. Thought they would have pushed on" They never seemed to recover from that league final loss to Offaly… keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 15/05/2023 15:03:07 2478710 Link