LET’S GET SET for the backdoor action.
The draw has been made this morning for Round 1A and Round 1B of the 2016 All-Ireland senior football qualifiers.
19 counties had an interest in the draw with 13 counties already involved having exited their respective provincial championships.
They will be joined by the losers of next Sunday’s games between Louth v Meath, Offaly v Westmeath, and Fermanagh v Donegal.
The clash of Laois against Armagh in Round 1A is the pick of the games in the draw with the sides having met earlier this season in Division 2 of the Allianz football league.
The Round 1A fixtures pencilled in for the weekend of 18-19 June and the Round 1B games scheduled for the weekend of 25-26 June.
Here’s the draw in full.
Round 1A
Laois v Armagh
Carlow v Wicklow
Derry v Louth/Meath
Leitrim v Waterford
Round 1B
Down v Longford
Antrim v Limerick
Offaly/Westmeath v London
Wexford v Fermanagh/Donegal
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Eric Cantona has to be on that list surely?!
Everyone of them had a good reason to retire. Mortimers one was his ego
Former Ipswich Town goalkeeper Shane Supple retired at the age of 22. He said at the time he had fallen out of love with the game.
Conor Mortimer’s retirement shocking? Nothing shocking about what a guy with such a big ego could do. He had often thrown his toys out of his pram before that. James Horan was delighted to see him go and played a part in it and Mayo have been better off since. I don’t think there was any phone call to him to try persuade him to change his mind. Mortimer was not that liked by his fellow county players and didn’t get on great with his fellow students in DCU. Most thought he was a sh1te
Conor Mortimer between Magic Johnson and Jordan !!
Muamba was hardly going to keep playing
To those who plead “Oh but what about this guy and that guy, Cantona and Bjorg?!”
The headline says 6 shocking retirements, not ALL shocking retirements so chill out.
Cantona was
What about Bjorn Borg.
Get Conor Mortimer out of this list.
Magic Johnson retired in November 1991 but was in the USA “Dream Team” for the 92 Olympics so it wasn’t much of a retirement
Martina Hingis retired at 23 to pursue a “media” career, only to be banned for cocaine abuse a few years later after a return to the sport.
Alan Hansen could have played on