Football format needs a rethink; Offaly on the march; Road trips prove successful; Waterford out despite second win
The embattled football championship produced a defiant sign of life in Cork on Saturday afternoon. As the sun beat down on the June bank holiday weekend, a good crowd of Donegal supporters arrived in town after the longest journey the county has ever had to make for a championship match.
Derry’s season hangs by a thread after third successive loss since beating Dublin in the league decider, their tentative, invariably turned over forward movement of the early stages evolving into sharper, more confident counter attacks, which Donegal struggled to contain to the point of conceding the first three goals of their championship.
There are 19 games left in the 2024 football championship and, at least in theory, it’s still anyone’s to win. Six out of the 16 teams have already had three defeats but their prospects are just as live as those who’ve won all their games. The current structure still has nominally another year to run but surely this whole thing needs a rethink over the winter.A view of the Offaly fans outside Nowlan Park on Saturday. Photograph: Tom Maher/InphoO’Loughlin Gaels was thronged. Situated just a few hundred yards from Nowlan Park, it is a popular spot for parking and lounging before any big game at the venue, but this was parking and lounging on a scale never seen before.
Convincing those Offaly fans to support their senior team in the Joe McDonagh final next Saturday is the next challenge. Last year, six days after their under-20 hurlers brought a massive following to Thurles for their All-Ireland final against Cork, only a fraction of that number turned up in Croke Park to see their seniors play Carlow.– but the fact two of those losses were incurred on home ground doesn’t indicate Celtic Park is any sort of fortress.
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