All Ireland series

[Armaghball]

Derry & Monaghan can't play in the same group

Is this right? Is it not only finalists?

 

[Peter grimes]

The subtitles are hilarious. Kicking off the the Towel Syncope

 

[Armaghball]

Is this not on radio!

 

[Peter grimes]

Avoided Dublin and Kerry

 

[Armaghball]

Clare or Galway, not bad

 

[Peter grimes]

Either way we have avoided any “group of death” scenario

 

[ragingbull]

Galway
Armagh or Derry
Tyrone
Westmeath

 

[Ouch It’s Francie]

Groups

 

[Armaghball]

Playing at least one Ulster team. Interesting

 

[ragingbull]

Armagh or Derry
Clare
Donegal
Monaghan

 

[Armaghball]

Even further motivation not that it is needed, to win Ulster. Far handier group

 

[ragingbull]

Is this right? Is it not only finalists?

Sorry I was wrong

 

[Hoops]

Massive prize there if you win ulster. Really should go on to win that group and be straight into the quarter final, where you’d avoid Derry if they progress through the preliminary round and the other group winners. A significantly easier route to an AI semi final.

Alternatively, while Armagh or Derry should advance over Westmeath, it’ll likely not be in 1st place and the ego might take a couple of knocks along the way. Finish 3rd in that group and you could have to face Roscommon or Mayo in dr hyde or castlebar in the preliminary round, followed by either Kerry or Dublin in the quarter final.

 

[Wee man]

so how do they decide which fixtures are home / away / neutral

 

[Wee man]

so how do they decide which fixtures are home / away / neutral

from what i can gather on rte

First named is home Game 1: Seed 1 v Seed 3, Seed 2 v Seed 4

First named is home Game 2: Seed 3 v Seed 2, Seed 4 v Seed 1

Neutral Game 3: Seed 1 v Seed 2, Seed 3 v Seed 4

 

[Wee man]

answering my own question here lads
from what i can gather

Win Ulster
Game 1 Home v Monaghan
Game 2 Away v Donegal
Game 3 Neutral v Clare

Runner Up Ulster
Game 1 Home v Westmeath
Game 2 Away v Tyrone
Game 3 Neutral v Galway

 

[Armaghball]

Massive prize there if you win ulster. Really should go on to win that group and be straight into the quarter final, where you’d avoid Derry if they progress through the preliminary round and the other group winners. A significantly easier route to an AI semi final.

Alternatively, while Armagh or Derry should advance over Westmeath, it’ll likely not be in 1st place and the ego might take a couple of knocks along the way. Finish 3rd in that group and you could have to face Roscommon or Mayo in dr hyde or castlebar in the preliminary round, followed by either Kerry or Dublin in the quarter final.

Yeah you want to be topping the group, be a big ask even if you did win a preliminary game to then face a team the following week who did top their group.

 

[William Of Orange]

Either way we have avoided any “group of death” scenario

Group 2 is fairly tough considering you would have to play Tyrone Away , Westmeath at home you would expect to manage, hopefully we are in group 4 , I'm assuming the 2v3 places is an open draw ?

 

[Armaghball]

Group 2 is fairly tough considering you would have to play Tyrone Away , Westmeath at home you would expect to manage, hopefully we are in group 4 , I'm assuming the 2v3 places is an open draw ?

Avoid repeat pairings where possible i think

 

[stevie_06]

Think no matter what group we end up in we shouldn't have a whole lot to fear. The Tyrone/Galway group does appear harder on paper. But would be good opportunity to get a bit of revenge on both of them after the past 12 months (Galway beating us on pens and Tyrone relegating us)

The other group I would be confident of beating all three teams. Donegal and Monaghan might be a bit tricky with it being Ulster teams. But the position they are in don't think they are capable of beating us. They would need to improve drastically on what they have shown to date