Replying To ColmFlaherty: "Loughrea vs Moycullen - Loughrea by 12: too strong for Moycullen.
Gort vs Tommy Larkins - Larkins by 8: Cian Daniels and Jayo to run things once again.
Clarinbridge vs Cappataggle - Clarinbridge by 8: Clarinbridge will have too strong of a team for Cappatagle.
Liam Mellows vs Craughwell - Craughwell by 7: Tom Mon and the Leens to feature.
Oranmore-Maree vs Sarsfields - Draw: Sarsfields struggled against Castlegar in R1 and managed to get a draw from the game, Oranmore struggled for a short while against St Thomas's but managed to pull it back. Niall Burke, the Connaire's and Cooney's to play well.
Castlegar vs St Thomas's - St Thomas's by 8: they'll be too strong for Castlegar.
Killimordaly vs Turloughmore - Turloughmore by 6: they'll improve since the opening round with the Whelan's and Sean's playing well.
Athenry vs Ardrahan - Draw: Jason and the Hannon's to keep up their form with Cianan Fahy and Brian Callanan on song for Ardrahan."
I like your picks but I believe the Clarenbridge match and the St Thomas's match will both be closer than 8 points.
Replying To galway19: "Galway won the u16 national cup today in Fermoy. Hammered Cork in the semi final and narrowly beat Waterford in the final. Limerick were the other semi finalists. Tipp and Kilkenny not really competitive at that grade which doesn't bode well for them in minor next year."
Galway won it last year too and shared it the previous year. That didn't transfer to minor. Please don't mention a Leinster minor win this year. Leinster was very poor.
Replying To ColmFlaherty: "Loughrea vs Moycullen - Loughrea by 12: too strong for Moycullen.
Gort vs Tommy Larkins - Larkins by 8: Cian Daniels and Jayo to run things once again.
Clarinbridge vs Cappataggle - Clarinbridge by 8: Clarinbridge will have too strong of a team for Cappatagle.
Liam Mellows vs Craughwell - Craughwell by 7: Tom Mon and the Leens to feature.
Oranmore-Maree vs Sarsfields - Draw: Sarsfields struggled against Castlegar in R1 and managed to get a draw from the game, Oranmore struggled for a short while against St Thomas's but managed to pull it back. Niall Burke, the Connaire's and Cooney's to play well.
Castlegar vs St Thomas's - St Thomas's by 8: they'll be too strong for Castlegar.
Killimordaly vs Turloughmore - Turloughmore by 6: they'll improve since the opening round with the Whelan's and Sean's playing well.
Athenry vs Ardrahan - Draw: Jason and the Hannon's to keep up their form with Cianan Fahy and Brian Callanan on song for Ardrahan."
Replying To Armchairreporter: "Galway won it last year too and shared it the previous year. That didn't transfer to minor. Please don't mention a Leinster minor win this year. Leinster was very poor."
You won Leinster, but saying it was poor does your lads a disservice. You only managed to beat Laois by 4, Kilkenny by 2 and drew with Dublin. Yes you blew us away in the SF but we just didnt turn up on the day, that can happen with children which is all minors are. Some of those lads were 17, but most were 16 and a few were 15 at that time of year. You scraped over Kilkenny by just a point AET in the final. The only game you won well was the one against us. As regards how we all did relative to the Munster counties you have to remember the ages of these lads. We were 5 points up against Cork with 5 minutes to go, but blew it. You lost heavily to Limerick who were nowhere for most of the year, but got some momentum in the knockouts and ended up winning it out. Maybe the longish gap from the Final didnt help your lads.