Roscommon eager to rectify Croker record

CROKE PARK seemed like the only place Roscommon supporters wanted to be seen in last summer.

They eventually got there. The GAA have seen errors in earlier ways and decided all All-Ireland quarter-finals should be played at headquarters. In the first summer of the revised championship - Roscommon's first Connacht title in a decade - the Rossies drew their bitter Galway rivals and the GAA saw no need to uproot both sets of supporters from out west.

When they drew Kildare in the last 12, they expected a trip to the capital. The decision to play it in Portlaoise had the entire county grumbling.