Fitzmaurice: I'd worry for Sligo in group stages
It has been an impressive year for Sligo football, but the next few weeks are likely to be an enormous challenge for the only Division 4 team still left in the Sam Maguire race.
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It has been an impressive year for Sligo football, but the next few weeks are likely to be an enormous challenge for the only Division 4 team still left in the Sam Maguire race.
Saturday's Eirgrid Under-20 All-Ireland football final brings together two tribes who have been working relentlessly towards their respective goals for some time.
On Stephen's Day 2020, the rain poured down incessantly as Sligo and Roscommon faced off in the Connacht minor final at the GAA Centre of Excellence in Bekan, Co Mayo.
Although it was a week or so earlier than it needed to be, the draw for the All-Ireland group stage generated a nice bit of excitement and threw out some intriguing possibilities.
Sligo may have coasted to victory in their Connacht SFC semi-final against New York on Saturday, but manager Tony McEntee is aware that his charges will have to prove more ruthless when they face Roscommon or defending champions Galway in the provincial decider.
New York manager Johnny McGeeney has said that immigration concerns will not impact their panel for their upcoming trip to Ireland for the Connacht semi-final with Sligo on 22 April.
As the football championship season begins its winding journey this weekend, newly crowned Division 4 champions Sligo find themselves eyeing up a very pronounced fork in the road.
Ciaran Whelan and Mick Foley of the Sunday Times join Mikey Stafford and Rory O'Neill to look back on the Allianz Football League finals and try and see what they mean a week out from Championship.