balls.ie – Now, twelve remain. Derry, Cork, Mayo and Clare have advanced to the final round of the qualifiers, where they have been Tipperary and the losers of the provincial finals. We can predict with some confidence that Westmeath will lose to Dublin (the bookies have them at 1/100), but God knows who’ll lose out between Galway/Roscommon and, most intriguingly, Tyrone/Donegal.

Thanks to the splitting of the football qualifiers into an ‘A’ and ‘B’ side, we know now either side of the football championship, and can thus start plotting routes to the final. One side of the draw looks considerably more difficult than the other.