The Minor Football Championhips have reached the Semi-Final stage.

Here's we'll have a quick run down of whose left in the A competitions and their route to the semis.

Minor A Championship Semi-Finals: 

How they got here:

Na Fianna:

Na Fianna come second in Group 1 behind Judes, with 2 wins and a loss. They dismantled Maurs in R1, beat Clontarf by 10+ in Round 2 before taking a bit of a trimming off Judes in R3 - losing 2015 to 1-07.

In the quarter-final Na Fianna edged out Boden by one point AET 2-16 to 2-15 - Boden had come into that on 3-0 and a +58 Points Difference in the group, so that was some win.

Crokes:

Crokes also came second in their group, according to the DCB website but i would have thought they should be ahead of Lucan on the head to head. Anyways the website has them behind Lucan in Group 4 with 2 wins and a loss. They hockeyed a clearly badly graded Ballymun in Round 1, then lost to OPER in R2: 3-06 to 0-12 and then won a close one against Lucan winning 1-16 to 2-11.

Crokes beat Raheny pretty comfortably in the Quarter-Final, so might come into not as battle hardened as Na Fianna.

Verdict: 

Really hard one to call - Na Fianna had a great test against a very strong Boden in the quarter final, so maybe just give them the edge? Just.

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St.Sylvesters:

Syls finished Group 2 on second place on 2-1 with a points difference of +4. They hammered a badly graded Barrog in Round 1, then in round 2 Thomas Davis gave them a walk over, in the third round they lost to Boden in a low scoring game 1-09 to 0-09.

Form not hugely convincing from the group stage, but they got a good win over Judes in the quarter final on a score of 1-12 to 0-11 - Judes had topped group 1 on 3-0 including a big win over Na Fianna, so Syls will take a lot from that win.

Lucan Sarsfields: 

Lucan had topped Group 4 on 2-1 with a good win over OPER in R1, a big win over the Mun in R2 and then a loss to Crokes in the third round 2-11 to Crokes 1-16

In the quarter Final they narrowly beat St.Pats 1-14 to 2-09 - that Pats team had finished second in group 3 - which Raheny had topped.

Verdict: 

Based purely on the results it's hard to judge - maybe give syls the edge as they beat a Judes team who were going really well in the quarter-final? 

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Best of luck to everyone involved! 💪