Christy O’Connor: Have the football qualifiers run their course?

In the three seasons of qualifiers between 2017-’19, there were 25 occasions when the margin of victory exceeded 10 points.

Mayo during the team photo ahead of the 2018 qualifier against Limerick at the Gaelic Grounds. In the three seasons of qualifiers between 2017-’19, there were 25 occasions when the margin of victory exceeded 10 points. Picture: INPHO/Oisin Keniry

Throughout the last decade, the qualifiers threw up a host of marquee qualifier matches but, in hindsight, how many really were there?

In terms of pre-match status, where two big guns were going to war with more than just the game itself on the line, the two biggest qualifiers in the last decade was Mayo-Galway in 2019, and the Kerry-Tyrone joust in Killarney in 2012.