2015 Football Championship Draw

BonnieSituation

Seems the Father hasn't started one...

Here goes...

7pm tomorrow on RTÉ 2

Is everyone excited as me?

Fr Tod Umptious

Hard really to talk about it until the draw is actually made.

In Connaught Galway will play at home if they are to meet Mayo or Roscommon so that will be an advantage for them.
I'm not sure who is going to NY and London.
And I'm not sure if any team has a bye to the SF already or whether its determined on the night.

In Munster Cork and Kerry get byes to the SF, but can be drawn against each other in the SF.

Does anyone know if they are keeping the A/B system ?
It was not great last year but the was just the way the draw went.
What I dislike about it most is that it really limits the All Ireland QF draw.

BonnieSituation

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Hard really to talk about it until the draw is actually made.

In Connaught Galway will play at home if they are to meet Mayo or Roscommon so that will be an advantage for them.
I'm not sure who is going to NY and London.
And I'm not sure if any team has a bye to the SF already or whether its determined on the night.

In Munster Cork and Kerry get byes to the SF, but can be drawn against each other in the SF.

Does anyone know if they are keeping the A/B system ?
It was not great last year but the was just the way the draw went.
What I dislike about it most is that it really limits the All Ireland QF draw.

Can't say the A/B really added anything to the Championship at all except predictability. But it remains as far as I know.

The apparent advantages for scheduling didn't seem so apparent to me to be honest.

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I'll wager on Ulster going like this:

A side:
Derry and Monaghan in the preliminary
Antrim to play the winner

Donegal v Fermanagh

B Side:
Armagh v Tyrone

Down v Cavan

Munster:

Clare v Limerick
winner to play Kerry

Waterford v Tipp
winner to play Cork

and on it goes because who gives a ****e about the Munster football championship.

Leinster:

Laois/Louth v Kildare


Wicklow/Carlow v Wexford


Wexford/Longford v Meath

Offaly v Dublin

Connacht:
Mayo will win and play Roscommon in a SF or Final. I have no notion how they decide Connacht usually.

Always_Running

New York v Galway, London v Roscommon and one of leitrim,Sligo or Mayo will have bye into the Connacht semi final.

nicepoint

Who will the first poster be if Kerry and Cork manage to avoid each other will say it was a fix ?

iDave

Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Wexford will be kept apart at QF stage I think.
Hope I'm wrong but Dublin will waltz their way to the final again with the opposition that will lose to them being Kildare or Meath.

BonnieSituation

nicepoint wrote: »

Who will the first poster be if Kerry and Cork manage to avoid each other will say it was a fix ?

Sure why not.

Anyone know what order it all goes off tonight?

BonnieSituation

iDave wrote: »

Dublin, Meath, Kildare and Wexford will be kept apart at QF stage I think.
Hope I'm wrong but Dublin will waltz their way to the final again with the opposition that will lose to them being Kildare or Meath.

They will indeed be kept apart as they were semi finalists this year.

BonnieSituation

Here we go.

Boom__Boom

Footage of James-O doing wreck verus Cork.

BonnieSituation

I got the Munster QFs right. Sure I'm a regular Nostradamus me.

Kalyke

Fix,,,,,,,,

iDave

nicepoint wrote: »

Who will the first poster be if Kerry and Cork manage to avoid each other will say it was a fix ?

Fiiiiiiiix

Boom__Boom

Waterford v Tipp -

Clare v Limerick -

Winner of Clare v Limerick versus Cork -

Winner of Waterford v Tipp versus Kerry -

So Clare v Kerry Munster final looks the likeliest.......

Fr Tod Umptious

Looks like no AB side setup.

Thank God

BonnieSituation

When you watch the Munster draw it really just winds you up no end.

Fr Tod Umptious

Opps looks like there is AB

Boom__Boom

Fr Tod Umptious wrote: »

Looks like no AB side setup.

Thank God

Are you talking about in the qualifiers?

I'd be assuming it would be the same as last year (for the same reason - avoiding the 6 day turn-around)

Boom__Boom

BonnieSituation wrote: »

When you watch the Munster draw it really just winds you up no end.

Good thing you werent around when Kerry used to get a bye straight to the Munster final to save the weaker teams being embarrassed.

BonnieSituation

Mayo are playing Roscommon in the final.

BonnieSituation

Boom__Boom wrote: »

Good thing you werent around when Kerry used to get a bye straight to the Munster final to save the weaker teams being embarrassed.

3 games to win an All-Ireland. Surely that's a soft one then?

Boom__Boom

Looks like Roscommon the big winners in Connacht - nice route to a Connacht final and even if they lose they are still deep into the business end of things.

Boom__Boom

BonnieSituation wrote: »

3 games to win an All-Ireland. Surely that's a soft one then?

Not Kerry's fault if the other Munster teams were scared to even turn up on to the pitch

Boom__Boom

Tyrone preliminary round for the 2nd year running AND against Donegal - OUCH

BonnieSituation

Boom__Boom wrote: »

Not Kerry's fault if the other Munster teams were scared to even turn up on to the pitch

I'll call them soft so.

Boom__Boom

Armagh/Donegal/Tyrone OUCH OUCH

seligehgit

God Ulster is such a tough province to win.Nothing easy for Donegal or Tyrone for that matter.

BonnieSituation

Jaysus.

Donegal v Tyrone in the preliminary round.

The A side is weak as is possible.

Monaghan into that final.
The B side is mental.

Boom__Boom

Monaghan absolutely laughing

Boom__Boom

seligehgit wrote: »

God Ulster is such a tough province to win.Nothing easy for Donegal or Tyrone for that matter.

Not if you're Monaghan -all they have to do to get to an Ulster final is beat Cavan and one of Fermanagh or Antrim.

iDave

Ok have to avoid the B side

Boom__Boom

Be interesting to see how this affects the bookies odds on things.

Monaghan are still 40/1 on Paddypower - few quid e/w might be worth a punt

Utopia Parkway

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Mayo are playing Roscommon in the final.

Don't think Mayo will have it all their own way, away to Galway in the semis. Both teams with new management.

Roscommon should beat Sligo though. Especially at home.

Boom__Boom

Offaly and Longford footballers - "AH FECK IT ANYWAY"

eddie73

Are armagh at home or away to the winners of donegal/tyrone

BonnieSituation

Utopia Parkway wrote: »

Don't think Mayo will have it all their own way, away to Galway in the semis. Both teams with new management.

Roscommon should beat Sligo though. Especially at home.

They won't have it their own way. But they'll beat Galway.

BonnieSituation

Marty Morrissey just said they've labeled them A or B in RTÉ

Boom__Boom

eddie73 wrote: »

Are armagh at home or away to the winners of donegal/tyrone

Will possibly depend on who wins and whose turn it is.

B side in Leinster the place to be.

Utopia Parkway

BonnieSituation wrote: »

They won't have it their own way. But they'll beat Galway.

Don't think Mayo will be as strong without Horan but it remains to seen.

Boom__Boom

Big winners Monaghan and Roscommon and probably Meath in Leinster - fairly handy route to a Leinster final.

Patser

What chance us Dub fans allowed back to Longford, as an away game, our first since Longford 2006?

Or Tullamore?

Alvin Holler

eddie73 wrote: »

Are armagh at home or away to the winners of donegal/tyrone

Armagh will be at home if Donegal win, away if Tyrone win.

BonnieSituation

Patser wrote: »

What chance us Dub fans allowed back to Longford, as an away game, our first since Longford 2006?

Or Tullamore?

Sure, we don't like to travel us Dubs.

I would love to head away for that match. But it'll be in Croker.

Flukey

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Sure, we don't like to travel us Dubs.

I would love to head away for that match. But it'll be in Croker.

So that is a neutral venue. So yet again Dublin won't get a home game. It would be nice to get one for a change.

iDave

Would be good to see Dublin in Tullamore or Pearse. Time for a change.
Also hoping Leinster semi isnt a double header.

BonnieSituation

Flukey wrote: »

So that is a neutral venue. So yet again Dublin won't get a home game. It would be nice to get one for a change.

Ha ha. Do you dare make that argument loudly?

I would prefer a trip down to Longford or T'more for a game. Decent day out instead of Ballybough or Donneycarney.

Flukey

BonnieSituation wrote: »

Ha ha. Do you dare make that argument loudly?

I would prefer a trip down to Longford or T'more for a game. Decent day out instead of Ballybough or Donneycarney.

Tullamore or Longford would be great. Unlikely though, as is Parnell Park, so a neutral venue in Dublin 3 it will probably be.

gormdubhgorm

Dull as usual except Ulster... roll on August....

Hibbeler

Are the qualifiers going to be in A and B sides again this year? And if so who is on which side?

ammc

gormdubhgorm wrote: »

Dull as usual except Ulster... roll on August....

It's funny, but despite all the bad press Ulster football gets, their games will be the only thing that keeps us going until August as it seems to be going from previous years. The time to change the championship format must be drawing closer

BonnieSituation

Hibbeler wrote: »

Are the qualifiers going to be in A and B sides again this year? And if so who is on which side?

The A and B sides were on the screen in the studio. But nothing to the contrary has been mentioned.

Marty Morrissey seemed to infer that RTÉ just did it for clarity.

So to answer your question, I don't know.

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From the screen graphics:

Connacht:

A-
London/Roscommon v Sligo

B-
NY/Galyway/Leitrim v Mayo

Leinster:

A-
Offaly/ Longford v Dublin
Laois/Carlow v Kildare

B-
Louth/Westmeath v Wexford
Wicklow v Meath

Ulster:

A-
Cavan v Monaghan
Fermanagh v Antrim

B-
Tyrone/Donegal v Armagh
Derry v Down

Munster:
Wasn't labeled A and B but based on A being top of the screen and B being bottom of the screen like the rest, we have:

A-
Clare/Limerick v Cork

B-
Waterford/Tipperary v Kerry