Five things to watch from the Roscommon senior football championship quarter-finals
Clann as favourites
Is it the case that the most successful side are favourites for this year’s championship?
21 county titles the last three years ago, but with Ciaran Lennon, Luke Hester and Finbar Cregg on form surely the favourites tag will rightly rest on their lap.
Do Glavey’s have what it takes to stand in their way?
Pearses take the long road
Pat Flanagan admitted Pearses hadn’t hit form in the group stages. The victory over Tulsk showed a return to lethal execution. The meeting with Boyle is a serious setup however. Three games in three weeks.
One shall stand and one shall fall. We know for definite that one of the big guns won’t make this year’s semi-finals!
Boyle to surprise everyone
Boyle made the quarter-finals having topped group two with three wins from the three in the group stages.
Glavey’s edged them by a point in the second group game, was that a blip? Or the best it got for Glaveys?
As Padraig Pearses fight to regain form, Boyle have a chance to show them the exit door. Can they take it?
Are Brigids Back?
Are the defending champions just warming up or in crisis?
The shock of round one saw Brigids lose to Oran. Defeat to Clann meant it was a must win against Croans but that ended a draw!
They fired in the goals and ended up getting the quarter-final bye spot.
Are they back or would the play-off game have made all the difference?
The right championship format
Roscommon play-out the standard three groups of four format. The top two in each make the quarter-finals.
Of the three third placed teams one gets a bye and the other two play-off for the last spot! It’s pretty straight forward, but is it the right format.
Leitrim played 20 group games between 10 teams over five weeks. The average winning margin in their quarter-finals was 15 points.
Four mis-matches after all that football. Can Roscommon prove them wrong and show the straight forward way is right?
All four Hudson Bay Hotel Roscommon SFC quarter-finals are live on Shannonside FM
Saturday September 25
Clann na nGael v Michael Glaveys – 5pm
St Brigids v Strokestown – 8pm
Sunday September 26
Boyle v Pádraig Pearses – 1:30pm
Oran (Football) v Roscommon Gaels – 4pm
