Roscommon’s David Murray on the ball during last Saturday’s game against Cavan. Photo: Bernie O’Farrell.

Roscommon face Tyrone in knockout clash on Saturday

Kieran Galvin

Published: Fri 21 Jun 2024, 1:27 PM

Roscommon are preparing to face Tyrone in the All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-finals in Omagh on Saturday evening.

As Tyrone finished second in their group, they will have home advantage for the game which has a throw-in time of 5pm.

Roscommon secured a place in the preliminary quarter-finals with victory over Cavan in a high-scoring contest in Longford on Saturday (3-20 to 1-20). The Roscommon goals were scored by Diarmuid Murtagh (who finished with a tally of 1-6), Enda Smith and team captain Brian Stack.

The Roscommon team and subs announced on Thursday for the game are here

Tyrone secured second place in their group with victory over Cork in Tullamore last Saturday.

Roscommon’s first match in this year’s Allianz Football League was a defeat away to Tyrone. Interestingly, Roscommon also met Tyrone in this year’s All-Ireland U-20 semi-final, in which the Ulster side claimed an impressive victory en route to winning the All-Ireland crown.

The draw for the All-Ireland preliminary quarter-finals took place on RTE’s Morning Ireland programme on Monday morning, with the meeting of Mayo and Derry the standout fixture to emerge from the draw.

Mayo came agonisingly close to beating Dublin only for the All-Ireland champions to equalise from the last play of the game at Dr Hyde Park last Sunday.

Kevin McStay’s side will be at home to Division 1 league champions Derry, who eliminated Westmeath by winning in Newry on Saturday night (2-7 to 0-9).

In the other games, Connacht champions Galway will host Monaghan (winners over Meath on Sunday) and Louth will take on Cork. Galway missed the chance to advance directly to the All-Ireland quarter-finals after being forced to settle for a draw with Armagh.

Louth are entitled to home advantage against Cork but they have again nominated Inniskeen in Monaghan as the venue, as they don’t have a suitable venue for such a fixture in their own county at present.

All four All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-finals will be shown on the GAA’s streaming service, GAAGO.

The four teams already through to the All-Ireland quarter-finals are Dublin, Kerry, Armagh and Donegal.

All-Ireland SFC preliminary quarter-finals

Saturday, June 22 - Galway v Monaghan (Pearse Stadium, Salthill, 4pm); Mayo v Derry (Hastings Insurance MacHale Park, Castlebar, 6.30); Tyrone v Roscommon (O’Neills Healy Park, Omagh, 5pm).

Sunday, June 23 - Louth v Cork (Grattan Park, Inniskeen, 3pm).