The Tailteann Cup is up and running with home sides overwhelmingly favoured for the first round of matches
Paddy Burns of Armagh and Donegal's Oisín Gallen during the AFL Division Two final. The sides now meet again in the Ulster final. Photograph: James Crombie/Inpho– The most crestfallen of the Tailteann competitors, Kildare, marginal winners over Wicklow, have home advantage for the first time this year, albeit at a training venue, and welcome a Longford team, which lost a high-scoring provincial first round to Meath. Since then, a couple of defensive injuries have weakened them.
There have been encouraging performances from Ciarán Downey and Ciarán Keenan, who has been consistently creative. Sam Mulroy will kick frees all day if Dublin’s discipline is poor. The demands of the new game plan were implicitly on view when they had to play Tyrone a week after beating Derry and were probably blessed that their opponents were also on a second successive outing, both going to extra-time.
Ryan McHugh has been in exceptional form and has had good back-up from a more focused and energised Donegal side. Armagh, though, went through all of this a year ago and were unlucky to go down against Derry on penalties.
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