FOOTBALL: 2021 SportsDaz Team of the Year – Day 1 Results

The opening round of the 2021 SportsDaz Football Team of the Year is over with plenty of suprises and intriguing results as the 48 defenders were cut down to 24. (Photo – table toppers (l-r) – Aoibheann Leahy, Mary Kate Lynch, Orla Corr)

Meath’s Mary Kate Lynch topped the poll with 65.2% in her quarter-final followed by team mate Aoibheann Leahy (59.5%) and Antrim’s Orla Corr (56.7%).

Meath secured semi-final sports for all six defenders with Cork coming next with four qualifiers.  Derry took three spots; Dublin and Wexford got two; with Antrim, Galway, Limerick, Roscommon, Sligo, Westmeath and Wicklow also advancing.

Among the shock eliminations were Wicklow duo Aoife Gillen and Sarah Jane Winders, Westmeath’s Tara Fagan and Cork’s Marie Ambrose.

The defenders are back in action on Wednesday (13th October) on twitter when the 24 remaining are whittled down to 12.

Keep an eye out on twitter on Tuesday (today) as the 48 forwards begin their campaign in their respective quarter-finals.

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Qualifiers

Mary Kate Lynch – Meath (65.2%), Aoibheann Leahy – Meath (59.5%), Orla Corr – Antrim (56.7%), Aoibhin Cleary – Meath (53.5%), Emma Troy – Meath (42.1%), Anna Frizzelle – Derry (41.2%), Grace Conway – Derry (40.4%), Melissa Duggan – Cork (40.2%), Clara Donnelly – Wexford (36.8%), Katie Newe – Meath (35.7%), Martha Byrne – Dublin (33.2%), Nicola Ward – Galway (32.4%), Sinead McGettigan – Wicklow (31.4%), Lauren Boles – Sligo (29.9%), Leah Caffrey – Dublin (29.1%), Erika O’Shea – Cork (28.2%), Shauna Ennis – Meath (27.8%), Joanne Cregg – Roscommon (27.1%), Roisin Phelan – Cork (25.7%), Eimear Meaney – Cork (25.2%), Niamh Spellman – Westmeath (25.0%), Meadhbh McNamara – Limerick (25.0%), Aisling Halligan – Wexford (24.5%), Nuala Browne – Derry (23.1%).

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Eliminated

Marie Ambrose – Cork (22.6%), Tara Fagan – Westmeath (22.6%), Aoife Gillen – Wicklow (22.1%), Shauna Murphy – Wexford (21.9%), Orlagh Nolan – Dublin (20.8%), Sarah Jane Winders – Wicklow (20.1%), Lorraine Duncan – Westmeath (19.5%), Tamara O’Connor – Mayo (19.2%), Olwen Carey – Dublin (17.8%), Alannah Conroy – Wicklow (17.7%), Eve Lavery – Armagh (14.1%), Nicole McLaughlin – Donegal (13.9%), Lauren McConville – Armagh (12.2%), Megan Dunford – Waterford (11.9%), Emma Corcoran – Offaly (11.9%), Megan Buckley – Limerick (11.9%), Sarah Harding-Kenny – Wexford (10.2%), Amy Boyle Carr – Donegal (10.1%), Rebecca Rooney – Leitrim (10.0%), Laura Nerney – Laois (8.8%), Lucy Dunne – Wicklow (6.7%), Evelyn McGinley – Donegal (5.3%), Saoirse Lally – Mayo (4.9%), Oonagh Fitzpatrick – Carlow (4.8%).

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