the back door

[bigmac]

THROUGH THE BACK DOOR: 2001-2006
Saturday May 12th 2007
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OUR table shows how each county has fared in the All-Ireland football qualifier games since the introduction of the Back Door system in 2001. This table applies to all games played subsequent to being beaten in the provincial championships up to and including All-Ireland finals. Placings based on number of games won.


P W D L

Derry 20 14 0 6

Tyrone 16 11 2 3

Westmeath 17 10 2 5

Fermanagh 17 10 1 6

Kerry 10 9 0 1

Donegal 17 9 2 6

Sligo 15 8 1 6

Armagh 10 8 0 2

Galway 9 7 0 2

Meath 12 7 0 5

Laois 13 7 1 5

Dublin 10 6 1 3

Longford 12 6 0 6

Louth 13 6 1 6

Roscommon 10 5 0 5

Monaghan 11 5 0 6

Mayo 8 4 0 4

Cavan 10 3 1 6

Carlow 9 3 0 6

Clare 9 3 0 6

Offaly 9 3 0 6

Cork 7 3 0 4

Limerick 10 3 1 6

Wexford 9 2 1 6

Down 8 2 0 6

Kildare 8 2 0 6

Wicklow 8 2 0 6

Antrim 7 1 0 6

Tipperary 6 1 0 5

Leitrim 6 0 0 6

Waterford 6 0 0 6

London 5 0 0 5


BACK DOOR MEDAL WINNERS
Gold: Galway, Tyrone, Kerry - won the All-Ireland despite losing in the provinces.

Silver: Fermanagh - reached All-Ireland semi-final in 2004.

Bronze: Westmeath - reached quarter-finals in 2001 and 2006; Sligo - reached quarter-final in 2002; Derry - have won more qualifiers than anyone; Donegal - reached All-Ireland semi in 2003.


BACK DOOR LOSERS
1 Leitrim/Waterford/London: All three are still waiting for their first victory.

2 Kildare/Down/Wexford/Offaly: For whatever reason they haven't connected.

3 Cork - they beat Kerry twice in Munster, only to be well beaten in the All-Ireland semi-final re-match.

[kerrygold]

The back door was brought in to help the weaker counties mainly,is quite clear from those tables that the back door has failed to achieve that goal,the div.4 are not even allowed compete in the bach door this year.

[ballhopper]

Kerry's 90% success rate is fairly good.

[kerrygold]

That 10% lost was an all-ireland final defeat to armagh in'02

[bigmac]

kerrygold said:

That 10% lost was an all-ireland final defeat to armagh in'02

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[mickmack]

kerrygold said:

The back door was brought in to help the weaker counties mainly

the real reason was money

[kerrygold]

bigmac said:

kerrygold said:

That 10% lost was an all-ireland final defeat to armagh in'02

;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

half a decade ago,thats as a famine ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

[kerrygold]

the back door is worth an extra 5 million a year.

[joan]

Ya back door has good cash returns for the GAA

[tabbyie]

The back door has allowed so many teams to flourish but inevitably some teams who do good one year have their expectations aimed too high. We all saw what happened to both Fermanagh and Sligo the year after their great runs in the Championship. Pressure to perform to an even better standard the following year can be too much.

Longford had a good run last year and who'd have thought they'd have come back from so far behind yesterday to beat Westmeath. Contenders for Leinster??? Who knows.

[animal]

yeah the back door has been good for the game. Best of all it means we get to see lads like Brian kavanagh, Declan Browne, Dessie Dolan, Eamon O'Hara more than once a summer. In years gone by these lads wouldn't have had the same exposure at all.

[mickmack]

It did us no harm last year

[kerrygold]

a man delighted in telling me when the back door came in and quarter finals came to be that this would put extra pressure on kerry to win sam with the extra games as apposed to just 4 games to win sam.

well because of the back door kerry have contested two extra finals they would have done,their record over the 00's to date doesnt back up ur mans claims.

[owenabue]

Shut the door for god sake so we just have to beat ye once.

[mickmack]

The Cork and Kilkenny hurlers should get only one chance.......... betwwen them they are like celtic and rangers in scotland............ both treat football with disdain and in Corks case........ they have a pick equal to all the hurling counties put together........