GAA Football 2018

Tipp was not a draw I wanted for Mayo.

I'm not so sure, sooner rather than later we will see the end of this Mayo team but I don't see it happening against Tipp.

After a terrific 2016, what have they done? Two consectutive Munster semi-final defeats to Cork, this years coming by 11 points! They have progressed to Division 2 in the League but there is not much else to suggest they are going to overcome Mayo in my opinion.

Trigboy 10 wrote: Denis Irwin wrote: Tipp could push Mayo far. Not a done deal for them at all particularly given it's in Semple  Won't make any difference the Tipperary public don't really come out to watch the footballers! Mayo by about 10 points I'd say

Bo Jackson wrote: No real surprises, bar Waterford, over the weekend. At a glance, these are the teams I see progressing. Tipperary v Mayo Waterford v Monaghan Cavan v Down Carlow v Tyrone Offaly v Clare Longford v Kildare Sligo v Armagh Leitrim v Louth Of the four provincial finals, you'd expect Fermanagh and Laois to miss out and join Round 4 of the qualifiers. Kerry are favourites in Munster and the Connacht Final could go either way.

The whinging from certain sections of the Carlow crowd over losing to Laois yesterday 

Green Devil wrote: The whinging from certain sections of the Carlow crowd over losing to Laois yesterday  They just simply aren't capable of scoring from play (bar the odd exception) when Paul Broderick is kept quiet. I have great respect for where that group of players have come from, they were a laughing stock 18 months ago and have restored pride in the Carlow jersey but my god the local media and large elements of their support are deluded. Carlow play a horrendous brand of football that is grinding out results at the moments, in the short term its great but as we can see throughout Ireland more and more teams are adopting this brand of football and it'll all end in tears if they like other teams don't learn to adapt and play a more expansive brand. Dr Cullen is a very tight pitch, Tyrone won't have the pockets of space they would be used to in the likes of Clones/Croker.

ringerbell wrote: Wasn't at yesterdays game but in reality was another easy result for us. Another high score been put up with us scoring 2:22 with 2:16 of thst coming from play  That's now 6:58 scored by us in 3 games (6:45 of that been scored from play) so its easy to be seen bonner is trying to adapt a much more attacking style with us whicj is good to watch. My only worry is our defence is still a little loose which the better teams in the super 8s will look to exploit but will look forward to another ulster final 1st our 7th final in the last 8 years

Saturday 14/Sunday 15 July

All-Ireland SFC quarter-final phase 1
Munster winner v Connacht winner, TBC, TBC
Ulster runner-up or Round 4 qualifier v Leinster runner-up or Round 4 qualifier, TBC, TBC
Ulster winner v Leinster winner, TBC, TBC
Munster runner-up or Round 4 qualifier v Connacht runner-up or Round 4 qualifier, TBC, TBC

 Saturday 21/Sunday 22 July

All-Ireland SFC quarter-final phase 2
Ulster runner-up or Round 4 qualifier v Connacht winner, TBC, TBC
Leinster runner-up or Round 4 qualifier v Munster winner, TBC, TBC
Munster runner-up or Round 4 qualifier v Leinster winner, TBC, TBC
Connacht runner-up or Round 4 qualifier v Ulster winner, TBC, TBC

Saturday 4/Sunday 5/Monday 6 August

All-Ireland SFC quarter-final phase 3
Connacht winner v Leinster runner-up or Round 4 qualifier, TBC, TBC
Munster winner v Ulster runner-up or Round 4 qualifier, TBC, TBC
Munster runner-up or Round 4 qualifier v Ulster winner, TBC, TBC
Connacht runner-up or Round 4 qualifier v Leinster winner, TBC, TBC

bogball88 wrote: Croftman wrote: bogball88 wrote: Green Devil wrote: The whinging from certain sections of the Carlow crowd over losing to Laois yesterday  They just simply aren't capable of scoring from play (bar the odd exception) when Paul Broderick is kept quiet. I have great respect for where that group of players have come from, they were a laughing stock 18 months ago and have restored pride in the Carlow jersey but my god the local media and large elements of their support are deluded. Carlow play a horrendous brand of football that is grinding out results at the moments, in the short term its great but as we can see throughout Ireland more and more teams are adopting this brand of football and it'll all end in tears if they like other teams don't learn to adapt and play a more expansive brand. Dr Cullen is a very tight pitch, Tyrone won't have the pockets of space they would be used to in the likes of Clones/Croker. Is it much of a walk from Carlow train station to Dr Cullen Park? No its not too bad, about 20 minutes would do it. Just come out of the train station, turn left down to the main road and left again. Will bring you straight to it Any watering holes enroute?