Leinster Club Football Championship Draw

Leinster Club Championship Draw

Leinster Council have published the draws for this year's senior football and hurling club championship competitions.

2011 Leinster club SFC championship

First round
Meath v Dublin, 23.10.2011
Laois v Louth, 23.10.2011
Kildare v Offaly, 23.10.2011

Quarter-finals
Meath or Dublin v Wexford, 6.11.2011
Laois or Louth v Wicklow, 6.11.2011
Kildare or Offaly v Carlow, 6.11.2011
Westmeath v Longford, 23.10.2011

Semi-finals
Meath or Dublin or Wexford v Laois or Louth or Wicklow, 20.11.2011
Kildare or Offaly or Carlow v Westmeath or Longford, 20.11.2011

Final
TBC, 4.12.2011

Looking at the draw, a good one for the winners in Kildare. All the big guns on the other side of the draw.

Looks like Rhode are going well in Offaly and Carlow Champions can always put it up. but as you said good to avoid Portlaoise and who ever comes out of Dublin

Yes Rhode would prob be favourites to come out of Offaly and would be hard to beat but looking at the draw will the Kildare team play all their games in Newbridge apart from the final if they were to progress?

I heard Rhode have been beaten in offaly today, with the two week break the winner of athy/carbury gets, a leinster final is a very strong possibility for either.

edenderry v clara final

The winner of Kildare will be doing well to achieve just that. Any of the big clubs that have represented us in the past have needed a couple of experiences and attempts before ever doing themselves any justice.
Winning a title for Carbury or even Athy will be such an achievement they will celebrate accordingly as Celbridge and Laurences did. Resulting in a prompt exit.
The likes of the other more seasoned clubs Clane, Towers, Sarsfields and Moorefield were able to curb celebrations to an extent that they can perform in Leinster.

I dont expect too much from our club representitive in Leinster this year.

when larries and celbridge won their first titles, they only had a week to prepare,so they were bound to struggle given the short turnaround.

Larries were 6 or 7 points up and threw it away that year as far as I can remember.

would be interesting to see a carbury v edenderry game. neighbouring clubs with a few transfers from edenderry to carbury in the last year or so. bit of rivalry i think

 AIB GAA CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 2011/2012
(Dates subject to change)

SENIOR FOOTBALL

LEINSTER (New Dates)

November 13: First round: Meath v Dublin; Laois v Louth; Kildare v Offaly; 
November 20: Quarter-finals: Meath/Dublin v Wexford; Laois/Louth v Wicklow; Kildare/Offaly v Carlow; Westmeath v Longford Slashers (Longford).
December 4: Semi-finals
December 18: Final


INTERMEDIATE FOOTBALL

LEINSTER

(Senior champions Kilkenny plus intermediate champions 11 counties)
October 23: First round: Louth v Meath; Offaly v Laois; Carlow v Kilkenny; Westmeath v Longford.
November 6: Louth/ Meath v Wicklow; Offaly /Laois v Wexford; Carlow/Kilkenny v Dublin (may be switched to November 13); Westmeath/Longford v Kildare.
November 20: Semi-finals
December 4: Final


JUNIOR FOOTBALL

LEINSTER

Intermediate champions Kilkenny; Intermediate runners-up Carlow; Junior champions remaining 10 counties)
October 23: First round: Carlow v Kildare; Longford v Louth; Laois v Kilkenny; Wexford v Westmeath.
November 6: Quarter-finals: Carlow/Kildare v Offaly; Longford/Louth v Dublin; Laois/Kilkenny v Meath; Wexford/Westmeath v Wicklow.
November 13: Semi-finals
November 27: Final

That is a serious break for the Kildare winners, they could have 2 weeks of partying and still be ready for the match, great chance to make an impact this year

TBFF

Neither Athy or Carbury will be looking past Sunday but in fairness , it is a good draw.

tomcruise wrote:

TBFF

Neither Athy or Carbury will be looking past Sunday but in fairness , it is a good draw.

Neither team can afford to think about anything other than Sunday but once the dust settles, the winners will have time to celebrate and reflect that they might a real chance in Leinster.

Does make you wonder why the Leinster council couldn't always schedule the games at this time though

TheBigFullForward wrote:

tomcruise wrote:

TBFF

Neither Athy or Carbury will be looking past Sunday but in fairness , it is a good draw.

Neither team can afford to think about anything other than Sunday but once the dust settles, the winners will have time to celebrate and reflect that they might a real chance in Leinster.

Does make you wonder why the Leinster council couldn't always schedule the games at this time though

Because it's very late in the year. What it makes me wonder is why counties can't run off their club championships in time

Only 2 dates in between if any matches end in a draw the 27th Nov & 11th Dec..... If there's a few draw's could end up like Ballymore... Playing in the snow!!!

Edenderry won the Offaly Championship.

Read the match report in the Indo, edenderry seem to be a carbon copy of Athy.

1. went into the club wilderness for a while
2. decided to concentrate on youth


Of their starting 15 yesterday, 10 of the Edenderry team were aged 23 or under, and that includes four 19-year-olds -- full-back David Hanlon, half-forward Ciaran Hurley, corner-forward Derek Kelly and full-forward Stuart Cullen.

Leinster Junior Club Football Championship

Clonmore (Carlow) 2-04 Robertstown 1-06

clonmore dont play junior in carlow do they cause junior standard in carlow is terrible

centreback wrote:

clonmore dont play junior in carlow do they cause junior standard in carlow is terrible

CB,

They were Intermediate Runners Up. Kilkenny's Intermediate Winners also play in this competition.

athy going to be without mick foley for leinster now hes gone travelling in asia for 2 months, but athy have brian kinahan to call upon not a bad replacement

centreback wrote:

athy going to be without mick foley for leinster now hes gone travelling in asia for 2 months, but athy have brian kinahan to call upon not a bad replacement