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All Ireland Football qualifiers round 1a draw Laois v Armagh Carlow v Wicklow Derry v Loser of Louth/Meath Leitrim v Waterford Matches will take place on weekend June 18/19. All Ireland Football qualifiers round 1b draw Down v Longford Antrim v Limerick Loser of Offaly/Westmeath v London Wexford v Loser of Fermanagh/Donegal Matches will take place on weekend June 25/26. *Confirmation of venues, times and all dates for the fixtures shall follow a meeting of C.C.C.C later today. CroiGorm (Dublin)** - Posts: 1547 - 07/06/2016 08:55:27 1862583 Link
losers of Meath/Louth must play a week later,very unfair imo. ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 07/06/2016 09:43:19 1862601 Link
Carlow vs Wicklow on Sky Box Office I hear. sponger (Wicklow) - Posts: 2897 - 07/06/2016 09:44:12 1862603 Link
Get your house on Longford. MourneArmy (Down) - Posts: 1787 - 07/06/2016 09:55:30 1862610 Link
I'm almost convinced that these draws are fixed. Teams of similar standard always seem to be paired together MarkMyWords (Meath) - Posts: 498 - 07/06/2016 09:57:45 1862611 Link
Can someone explain to me what is going on with the 1A draw? Three of the four fixtures will be teams who have had weeks to recover from losing in their province, yet Louth/Meath will be facing Derry within 6 days of losing the match this Sunday. I don't see why we should be punished for our game taking place when it did. I could understand if this was due to replay's or things outside the GAA'S control, but in fairness Louth's opening championship game was on May 14th, so there was plenty of time to fit this fixture in since then. PK57 (Louth) - Posts: 1653 - 07/06/2016 09:59:48 1862613 Link
Some very evenly matched games in there. Hopefully home advantage gives us the edge over Limerick. Whammo86 (Antrim) - Posts: 4217 - 07/06/2016 10:02:15 1862614 Link
Some very interesting games, nearly all games very hard to call. Armagh and Laois the pick of the bunch ShortGrass_1 (Kildare) - Posts: 223 - 07/06/2016 10:03:18 1862615 Link
Antrim v Limerick in Casement Park ....... Good luck with that! lol paddyirishman (Antrim) - Posts: 10 - 07/06/2016 10:06:23 1862618 Link
Replying To paddyirishman: "Antrim v Limerick in Casement Park ....... Good luck with that! lol" Changed to Corrigan. Good edit Hoganstand! paddyirishman (Antrim) - Posts: 10 - 07/06/2016 10:33:05 1862640 Link
The Silage contractors have been booked for Casement for the end of the week - should be grand to play a match on then. Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 07/06/2016 10:35:04 1862641 Link
And not an all ulster draw in sight......quick get them back into the bowl!! bumpernut (Antrim) - Posts: 1852 - 07/06/2016 10:38:07 1862648 Link
Replying To ziggy32001: "losers of Meath/Louth must play a week later,very unfair imo." just don't lose and you wont have that problem :) waynoI (Dublin) - Posts: 13650 - 07/06/2016 10:40:42 1862652 Link
1A group is totally unfair to Louth/ Meath . Down, Longford,Antrim or Laois should have been in there instead. Can we get an explanation from CP. 19616609 (Louth) - Posts: 1595 - 07/06/2016 10:56:19 1862664 Link
1A group is totally unfair to Louth/ Meath . Down, Longford,Antrim or Laois should have been in there instead. Can we get an explanation from CP. It is luck of the Provincial draw as to whether you are in the A or the B. If you are in the top half and don't make the Provincial Semi you are in Round 1A. If you are in the bottom half of your Provincial and don't make the semi then you are in the Round 1B draw. Sure tell you what, throw Antrim out and let Louth/Meath take out place - we'll throw in the Ulster Hurling Championship trophy if we win it this year too. Offside_Rule (Antrim) - Posts: 4058 - 07/06/2016 11:10:49 1862677 Link
Replying To waynoI: "just don't lose and you wont have that problem :)" Not the point Wayno! Its unfair on Louth too.You have teams in 1B of the draw playing at the end of June who won't be out this weekend.Whats the explanation for that?? ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 07/06/2016 11:22:42 1862680 Link
Replying To PK57: "Can someone explain to me what is going on with the 1A draw? Three of the four fixtures will be teams who have had weeks to recover from losing in their province, yet Louth/Meath will be facing Derry within 6 days of losing the match this Sunday. I don't see why we should be punished for our game taking place when it did. I could understand if this was due to replay's or things outside the GAA'S control, but in fairness Louth's opening championship game was on May 14th, so there was plenty of time to fit this fixture in since then." Its a farce and even if Meath beat Louth,I will feel a bit for Louth having to go to Derry 6 days later.Truely stupid decision. ziggy32001 (Meath) - Posts: 8354 - 07/06/2016 11:24:26 1862683 Link
There's alot to be said for returning to the old system of pure-knockout championship, there's absolutely nothing in this draw of interest in my opinion. It'll never happen of course because of the way money has captured things, what would all the busy TV people do on Saturdays if they didn't have Laois v Armagh to cover? GallantJohnJoe (Cavan) - Posts: 329 - 07/06/2016 11:28:37 1862692 Link
Replying To CroiGorm: "All Ireland Football qualifiers round 1a draw Laois v Armagh Carlow v Wicklow Derry v Loser of Louth/Meath Leitrim v Waterford Matches will take place on weekend June 18/19. All Ireland Football qualifiers round 1b draw Down v Longford Antrim v Limerick Loser of Offaly/Westmeath v London Wexford v Loser of Fermanagh/Donegal Matches will take place on weekend June 25/26. *Confirmation of venues, times and all dates for the fixtures shall follow a meeting of C.C.C.C later today. " hopefully common sense will prevail and Meath/Louth v Derry will be pushed back a week seadog54 (Meath)** - Posts: 2141 - 07/06/2016 11:42:02 1862703 Link
Common sense and the GAA in the same sentence ??? Cavan_Slasher (Cavan) - Posts: 10253 - 07/06/2016 12:23:24 1862746 Link