Philly McMahon

The provincial championships just have to stand on their own two feet at this stage.

They're on life support.

The draw had to happen.

You have to give teams a chance to prepare

Well, it's a point of semantics, but it's interesting.

Because I was like, what's this part of the draw they've done for these eight games?

What's that called?

It's not the round robin.

What are they calling it?

It's literally called All-Ireland Football Championship.

Which begs the question, are the provincials not part of the All-Ireland Football Championship?

Like, we're differentiating to this extent.

They're a separate competition.

It doesn't.

there's every chance they can win it yeah okay interesting I was just looking to see how it's priced up Kerry four point favourites is kind of how it's been seen by the bookies meanwhile Roscommon with home advantage against Galway Galway are one point favourites for this game sloppy by their own admission Porg Joyce's own admission in their Connacht semi-final against Leitrim and then Roscommon very good against Mayo weren't they

So for me... They have Tyrone in that first match of the draw.

And they did against Mayo, to be fair to them, especially that second half.

Like, there was no kind of... They weren't weighed down in any kind of way.

I mean, I thought they played with a real freedom, kick-passing, running, like, attacked brilliantly.

Weirdly in the first half, though, like first 20 minutes, Mayo were on top and Roscommon were sort of hanging in there and they managed to.