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Now that the 5th round of league fixtures are done and dusted it's onto Championship in just under 2 weeks time. Section A St Faithleachs vs Roscommon Gaels Boyle vs Western Gaels Pearses vs St Brigids Section B St Croans vs Elphin Castlerea vs Strokestown Clann na nGael vs Kilmore My picks would be Faithleachs, Western Gaels and a narrow Brigids win in Section A and convincing wins for Croans, Strokestown and Clann in Section B. Who do ye think will come out on top in Round 1 and who would be your pick for the crown come October? Ros13 (Roscommon) - Posts: 109 - 24/04/2017 23:59:13 1982389 Link
Replying To Ros13: "Now that the 5th round of league fixtures are done and dusted it's onto Championship in just under 2 weeks time. Section A St Faithleachs vs Roscommon Gaels Boyle vs Western Gaels Pearses vs St Brigids Section B St Croans vs Elphin Castlerea vs Strokestown Clann na nGael vs Kilmore My picks would be Faithleachs, Western Gaels and a narrow Brigids win in Section A and convincing wins for Croans, Strokestown and Clann in Section B. Who do ye think will come out on top in Round 1 and who would be your pick for the crown come October?" Clann to win it out. Pearses,Ros Geals,Western Geals,Clann Strokestown and Croans to win first games Cuckoosinging (Roscommon) - Posts: 992 - 25/04/2017 09:08:34 1982424 Link
Starting in section B, there'll be nothing convincing with tight matches all round. strokestown win, croans draw and clan narrowly v Kilmore. Section A its a Pearses win, I've seen first hand the work they're putting in this year, western gaels win and a comfortable win for Ros gaels- they are in with a huge shout this year, key men back that were missing last year, new addition of former county player Cathal Dineen they are strong mix of youth and experience. County final contendors with Brigids who will be shakey in May and pul it together in August. cannyfixit (Roscommon) - Posts: 220 - 25/04/2017 09:45:10 1982435 Link
Wouldn't read anything into the league this year as some of the teams seem to be going at it a lot harder than others (Strokestown, Western Gaels, Croans). Brigids are a great price to win it again. Said the same thing last year and they got the job done fairly easy. Can't have Western Gaels in championship as they always flatter to deceive. Think it is between Pearses, Brigids and Clann as usual. rossie1996 (Roscommon) - Posts: 143 - 25/04/2017 09:50:44 1982441 Link
Replying To Cuckoosinging: " Replying To Ros13: "Now that the 5th round of league fixtures are done and dusted it's onto Championship in just under 2 weeks time. Section A St Faithleachs vs Roscommon Gaels Boyle vs Western Gaels Pearses vs St Brigids Section B St Croans vs Elphin Castlerea vs Strokestown Clann na nGael vs Kilmore My picks would be Faithleachs, Western Gaels and a narrow Brigids win in Section A and convincing wins for Croans, Strokestown and Clann in Section B. Who do ye think will come out on top in Round 1 and who would be your pick for the crown come October?" Clann to win it out. Pearses,Ros Geals,Western Geals,Clann Strokestown and Croans to win first games" Clann are very strong and should come out of the B group handy enough, as for winning it out I'm not so sure as they will have to come through the hard way i.e q/f, s/f and final against good opposition. as for results in first week, Ros Gaels v Faithleachs, Ros gaels bridgets v pearses Draw Boyle v western gaels gaels just b wins for strokestown, clann and a draw reffingmad (Roscommon) - Posts: 371 - 25/04/2017 09:54:42 1982444 Link
Clann and stown should get out of group b but you have to be very consistent in that group. Group a to be tight aswel but should be brigids pearses ros gaels and w gaels to come out. Could cathal cregg playing and training full time with the gaels be the extra edge they need? No coincidence it has seen an upturn in their league form RealRossie (Roscommon) - Posts: 332 - 25/04/2017 11:05:25 1982474 Link
Replying To reffingmad: " Replying To Cuckoosinging: "[quote=Ros13: "Now that the 5th round of league fixtures are done and dusted it's onto Championship in just under 2 weeks time. Section A St Faithleachs vs Roscommon Gaels Boyle vs Western Gaels Pearses vs St Brigids Section B St Croans vs Elphin Castlerea vs Strokestown Clann na nGael vs Kilmore My picks would be Faithleachs, Western Gaels and a narrow Brigids win in Section A and convincing wins for Croans, Strokestown and Clann in Section B. Who do ye think will come out on top in Round 1 and who would be your pick for the crown come October?" Clann to win it out. Pearses,Ros Geals,Western Geals,Clann Strokestown and Croans to win first games" Clann are very strong and should come out of the B group handy enough, as for winning it out I'm not so sure as they will have to come through the hard way i.e q/f, s/f and final against good opposition. as for results in first week, Ros Gaels v Faithleachs, Ros gaels bridgets v pearses Draw Boyle v western gaels gaels just b wins for strokestown, clann and a draw"]Clann are the only team capable of beating Brigids in Championship in the county beating them in last two games between the sides. Wouldnt worry about going the long way either we won it that way in 2015 Cuckoosinging (Roscommon) - Posts: 992 - 25/04/2017 11:10:19 1982476 Link
Looking at the teams St Faithleachs back in section A their main focus will be to stay there. With the Murtaghs and co you can't rule them out from achieving that objective. Roscommon Gaels some good players have returned and Dineen in his 30s has made the strange transfer from Castlerea but lack of scores will probably be their down fall again. Boyle a breath of fresh air they were last year tipped for relegation by most but reached the last 4. Change of manager since will be interesting to see how they do this year. Western Gaels the one club that I think most neutrals would like to see win a senior county title. Can this be their year? They will need to avoid injuries to be in with a chance as their strength in depth isn't the best. Pearses off the back of another final defeat and management change. They will be there or thereabouts again but like Roscommon Gaels lack of scoring power will probably be their downfall again. St Brigids defending champions and favourites once again. Having a poor league with just 1 win from 5 games but they have been missing 7,8 starters in those games which suggests Brigids strength in depth is not as it once was. Karol Mannion a key figure and leader has retired but Domican has returned. Should come as no surprise if Brigids lose their two opening championship game and then win their remaining games. St Croans rasing plenty of eyebrows with their div one league form but it's hard to see them keeping that good form up to August however if they keep their senior status I think they will be happy enough. Elphin not at the level they once were but with the quality of the Creggs,Killoran etc in their side anything is possible. Castlerea on the slide and could well fall through the trap door but their underage teams is the light at the end of the tunnel for them. Strokestown one of the youngest starting 15s in the county and probably the most inconsistent team. Can they gain promotion this year? They really need too with the talent available to them. Clann na nGael another young and inconsistent team. Were able to beat Brigids and Pearses in the championship last year only to lose against Castlerea and Boyle. They should be too strong for section B Kilmore just up to senior level and will have a fight on their hands to stay up. In Garvey,Connellan,Gannon they have the forwards to trouble the best in section B. The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 3762 - 25/04/2017 16:59:09 1982596 Link
I'm not sure where all the plaudits for Ross gaels are originating from. Very flat in league this year so far even though I know they are taking a different approach this year and building up to summer rather than going flat out from start. Hard to know what their opponents St. Faithleachs are like. Winning a few games handy in division two but struggled against Oran, Eire og in first half and by all accounts lucky to beat a weakened Glaveys team with Faithleachs at near full strength. Gaels are flaky at best of time. Draw possibly. Pearses appear to be the form team in this division but injury to niall carty could be crucial. Boyle under new management this year will be interesting to see can they repeat past two years form. Bridgids may struggle early rounds but will get stronger as it goes on with ian Kilbride back for later group games. Western Gaels perennial bridesmaids and will make semis probably again. Lot of local derbies in pot B with exception of Clann who are hot and cold. Castlerea discarded their manager a few weeks ago and picked up two wins since. Croans have had some great results in league. Strokestown bit like Galway hurlers so inconsistent. Kilmore always hard bet. Elphin also have had a a manager change in past few weeks. SmokieRoss (Roscommon) - Posts: 273 - 25/04/2017 17:01:59 1982599 Link
Replying To The_analyser: "Looking at the teams St Faithleachs back in section A their main focus will be to stay there. With the Murtaghs and co you can't rule them out from achieving that objective. Roscommon Gaels some good players have returned and Dineen in his 30s has made the strange transfer from Castlerea but lack of scores will probably be their down fall again. Boyle a breath of fresh air they were last year tipped for relegation by most but reached the last 4. Change of manager since will be interesting to see how they do this year. Western Gaels the one club that I think most neutrals would like to see win a senior county title. Can this be their year? They will need to avoid injuries to be in with a chance as their strength in depth isn't the best. Pearses off the back of another final defeat and management change. They will be there or thereabouts again but like Roscommon Gaels lack of scoring power will probably be their downfall again. St Brigids defending champions and favourites once again. Having a poor league with just 1 win from 5 games but they have been missing 7,8 starters in those games which suggests Brigids strength in depth is not as it once was. Karol Mannion a key figure and leader has retired but Domican has returned. Should come as no surprise if Brigids lose their two opening championship game and then win their remaining games. St Croans rasing plenty of eyebrows with their div one league form but it's hard to see them keeping that good form up to August however if they keep their senior status I think they will be happy enough. Elphin not at the level they once were but with the quality of the Creggs,Killoran etc in their side anything is possible. Castlerea on the slide and could well fall through the trap door but their underage teams is the light at the end of the tunnel for them. Strokestown one of the youngest starting 15s in the county and probably the most inconsistent team. Can they gain promotion this year? They really need too with the talent available to them. Clann na nGael another young and inconsistent team. Were able to beat Brigids and Pearses in the championship last year only to lose against Castlerea and Boyle. They should be too strong for section B Kilmore just up to senior level and will have a fight on their hands to stay up. In Garvey,Connellan,Gannon they have the forwards to trouble the best in section B." Absolute top notch spot on analyser very good analysis. With regards to western gaels don't think strength in depth is a problem they are the only team in the county with their second team in intermediate league and have a full panel of 35-40 RealRossie (Roscommon) - Posts: 332 - 25/04/2017 18:04:18 1982617 Link
Their pick isn't that big. Matter of fact players such as A Dowd,O Ward,T Gill had to start for both of the A and B teams this weekend to make up the numbers. Their intermediate team has done great to get to div 2 but that div 2 experience will probably be short-lived much like Clann B team. A few injuries and think Western Gaels seniors will struggle in section A in the championship. The fitness and form of Donal Ward Cathal Cregg Kevin Higgins Ciaran Cafferky and Sean McDermott will be key for them. The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 3762 - 25/04/2017 19:38:01 1982646 Link
Replying To Cuckoosinging: " Replying To reffingmad: "[quote=Cuckoosinging: "[quote=Ros13: "Now that the 5th round of league fixtures are done and dusted it's onto Championship in just under 2 weeks time. Section A St Faithleachs vs Roscommon Gaels Boyle vs Western Gaels Pearses vs St Brigids Section B St Croans vs Elphin Castlerea vs Strokestown Clann na nGael vs Kilmore My picks would be Faithleachs, Western Gaels and a narrow Brigids win in Section A and convincing wins for Croans, Strokestown and Clann in Section B. Who do ye think will come out on top in Round 1 and who would be your pick for the crown come October?" Clann to win it out. Pearses,Ros Geals,Western Geals,Clann Strokestown and Croans to win first games" Clann are very strong and should come out of the B group handy enough, as for winning it out I'm not so sure as they will have to come through the hard way i.e q/f, s/f and final against good opposition. as for results in first week, Ros Gaels v Faithleachs, Ros gaels bridgets v pearses Draw Boyle v western gaels gaels just b wins for strokestown, clann and a draw"]Clann are the only team capable of beating Brigids in Championship in the county beating them in last two games between the sides. Wouldnt worry about going the long way either we won it that way in 2015"]yes ye won it the hard way in 2015 but it will still take a massive effort to repeat it, an odd injury to a key player (Harney 2 Shines Flynn or Petit) could seriously cost ye. Don't see what all the fuss is about Roscommon Gaels either, having a poor league so maybe they are timing their run, a lack of a scoring forward could cost them. Faithleachs are overly reliant on the Murtagh brothers and an injury to any of them would leave Faithleachs very short as I don't think they have any subs who can impact a game at this level. Boyle I fancy to make the Q/F good physical team with football thrown in. Pearses and Western Gaels to make straight semi final bridgets to make q/f and possibly go to final if they sort out the internal stuff going on and control discipline.. Strokestown and Clann to come out of B with Kilmore just missing out.. reffingmad (Roscommon) - Posts: 371 - 26/04/2017 08:06:18 1982739 Link
Replying To reffingmad: " Replying To Cuckoosinging: "[quote=reffingmad: "[quote=Cuckoosinging: "[quote=Ros13: "Now that the 5th round of league fixtures are done and dusted it's onto Championship in just under 2 weeks time. Section A St Faithleachs vs Roscommon Gaels Boyle vs Western Gaels Pearses vs St Brigids Section B St Croans vs Elphin Castlerea vs Strokestown Clann na nGael vs Kilmore My picks would be Faithleachs, Western Gaels and a narrow Brigids win in Section A and convincing wins for Croans, Strokestown and Clann in Section B. Who do ye think will come out on top in Round 1 and who would be your pick for the crown come October?" Clann to win it out. Pearses,Ros Geals,Western Geals,Clann Strokestown and Croans to win first games" Clann are very strong and should come out of the B group handy enough, as for winning it out I'm not so sure as they will have to come through the hard way i.e q/f, s/f and final against good opposition. as for results in first week, Ros Gaels v Faithleachs, Ros gaels bridgets v pearses Draw Boyle v western gaels gaels just b wins for strokestown, clann and a draw"]Clann are the only team capable of beating Brigids in Championship in the county beating them in last two games between the sides. Wouldnt worry about going the long way either we won it that way in 2015"]yes ye won it the hard way in 2015 but it will still take a massive effort to repeat it, an odd injury to a key player (Harney 2 Shines Flynn or Petit) could seriously cost ye. Don't see what all the fuss is about Roscommon Gaels either, having a poor league so maybe they are timing their run, a lack of a scoring forward could cost them. Faithleachs are overly reliant on the Murtagh brothers and an injury to any of them would leave Faithleachs very short as I don't think they have any subs who can impact a game at this level. Boyle I fancy to make the Q/F good physical team with football thrown in. Pearses and Western Gaels to make straight semi final bridgets to make q/f and possibly go to final if they sort out the internal stuff going on and control discipline.. Strokestown and Clann to come out of B with Kilmore just missing out.."]All in all not a bad post but I have to take issue with the lack of scoring forward for the gaels?? Both kilcline and connolly are as good as what pearses or even clan have cannyfixit (Roscommon) - Posts: 220 - 26/04/2017 10:38:01 1982794 Link
Replying To The_analyser: "Their pick isn't that big. Matter of fact players such as A Dowd,O Ward,T Gill had to start for both of the A and B teams this weekend to make up the numbers. Their intermediate team has done great to get to div 2 but that div 2 experience will probably be short-lived much like Clann B team. A few injuries and think Western Gaels seniors will struggle in section A in the championship. The fitness and form of Donal Ward Cathal Cregg Kevin Higgins Ciaran Cafferky and Sean McDermott will be key for them." Yes agree with all points analyser. Brigids team in league has been along the same lines most games have they many to come back in 9r have a lot of them called it a day? Could be one of the most competitive champs in a long time RealRossie (Roscommon) - Posts: 332 - 26/04/2017 10:42:37 1982795 Link
Replying To cannyfixit: " Replying To reffingmad: "[quote=Cuckoosinging: "[quote=reffingmad: "[quote=Cuckoosinging: "[quote=Ros13: "Now that the 5th round of league fixtures are done and dusted it's onto Championship in just under 2 weeks time. Section A St Faithleachs vs Roscommon Gaels Boyle vs Western Gaels Pearses vs St Brigids Section B St Croans vs Elphin Castlerea vs Strokestown Clann na nGael vs Kilmore My picks would be Faithleachs, Western Gaels and a narrow Brigids win in Section A and convincing wins for Croans, Strokestown and Clann in Section B. Who do ye think will come out on top in Round 1 and who would be your pick for the crown come October?" Clann to win it out. Pearses,Ros Geals,Western Geals,Clann Strokestown and Croans to win first games" Clann are very strong and should come out of the B group handy enough, as for winning it out I'm not so sure as they will have to come through the hard way i.e q/f, s/f and final against good opposition. as for results in first week, Ros Gaels v Faithleachs, Ros gaels bridgets v pearses Draw Boyle v western gaels gaels just b wins for strokestown, clann and a draw"]Clann are the only team capable of beating Brigids in Championship in the county beating them in last two games between the sides. Wouldnt worry about going the long way either we won it that way in 2015"]yes ye won it the hard way in 2015 but it will still take a massive effort to repeat it, an odd injury to a key player (Harney 2 Shines Flynn or Petit) could seriously cost ye. Don't see what all the fuss is about Roscommon Gaels either, having a poor league so maybe they are timing their run, a lack of a scoring forward could cost them. Faithleachs are overly reliant on the Murtagh brothers and an injury to any of them would leave Faithleachs very short as I don't think they have any subs who can impact a game at this level. Boyle I fancy to make the Q/F good physical team with football thrown in. Pearses and Western Gaels to make straight semi final bridgets to make q/f and possibly go to final if they sort out the internal stuff going on and control discipline.. Strokestown and Clann to come out of B with Kilmore just missing out.."]All in all not a bad post but I have to take issue with the lack of scoring forward for the gaels?? Both kilcline and connolly are as good as what pearses or even clan have"]Connolly is a scoring forward and Kilcline having seen him 5 times this year is as inconsistent with his shooting as any player I have seen. I'd like to see his scoring rate as he didn't trouble the score board in the games ive seen reffingmad (Roscommon) - Posts: 371 - 26/04/2017 11:06:27 1982807 Link
Replying To RealRossie: "Absolute top notch spot on analyser very good analysis. With regards to western gaels don't think strength in depth is a problem they are the only team in the county with their second team in intermediate league and have a full panel of 35-40" I wouldn't read too much into W Gaels 2nd team playing division 2 - for the most part they play as many of the 1st team as possible on the 2nd team assuming they aren't playing the same day. A more accurate reflection of their strength in depth would be the fact they just scraped out of the b side of the junior championship by the skin of their teeth last year. This also doesn't compare with Clann's 2nd team who played division 2 league for a few years but also played intermediate championship up until last year. razor425 (Roscommon) - Posts: 45 - 27/04/2017 13:04:19 1983120 Link
Looking forward to the start of the championship this weekend although the games don't look great on paper, except for Brigids- Pearses. All the pressure is on Clann this weekend as being in the second Division and with only two teams getting out of there, they can't afford to lose more than 1 game out of 5. The experienced teams in the first division know they don't need to peak too early and can afford to lose probably two games and still go through. Fully expect Brigids, Pearses, Roscommon Gaels and Western Gaels to come through in some order of Top 4 in Senior 1 and Clann and probably Croans in Senior 2. Don't think there will be too many shocks this weekend and I wouldn't expect to be too hot yet either. rossie1996 (Roscommon) - Posts: 143 - 04/05/2017 10:55:02 1984410 Link
Saturday 7:30pm - Ballyleague St. Faithleachs 5/4 Draw 13/2 Roscommon Gaels 4/5 Saturday 7:30pm - Enfield St. Croans 1/2 Draw 13/2 Elphin 2/1 Sunday 2pm - Strokestown Boyle 7/4 Draw 8/1 Western Gaels 8/15 Sunday 3:45pm - Strokestown Strokestown 1/6 Draw 12/1 Castlerea 4/1 Sunday 2pm - Johnstown Pearses 11/10 Draw 13/2 Brigids 10/11 Sunday 3.45pm - Johnstown Clann 1/10 Draw 14/1 Kilmore 6/1 Ros13 (Roscommon) - Posts: 109 - 05/05/2017 15:57:27 1984735 Link
Huge win for Elphin last night against a croans side on a run. Brigids pipping pearses and w gaels and stown big winners today. Enda Smith didn't play for boyle Kevin higgins cathal cregg and seanie mc to the fore for gaels. C Compton good for stown. Ros gaels won a free flowing game against faithleachs.. could be in with a big shout this year RealRossie (Roscommon) - Posts: 332 - 07/05/2017 16:40:22 1984985 Link
Some good games this weekend. good wins for Western Gaels, Strokestown and Roscommon Gaels. Elphin showing St Croans there is a hugh difference between league and championship. St Bridgets putting the notion that they are finished to sleep. in intermediate championship there was good wins for Glavey's and Fuerty. Oran looked very ordinary in their win but a win is a win.. Kildride in freefall at the minute. Dominic's seem to be back on track. its looking like an interesting summer reffingmad (Roscommon) - Posts: 371 - 07/05/2017 18:23:03 1985001 Link