THIS IS A LIL WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY

unique occasion. The loser will be on the Championship scrapheap rather than heading for the qualifiers.

Dublin will almost certainly be there, while Kildare and Meath appear the most likely to come through on the other side.

Both have suffered numerous heavy beatings from Dublin in recent years but John Doyle believes the changed dynamic of knockout football in winter will bring a different edge to it.

“Ah, there’s no doubt it would,” Doyle (left) said. “You throw everything at it and the excitement, it’s definitely last chance saloon.

“I’d love to think that Kildare would think, ‘We’ve looked at Dublin enough, for 70 minutes we’re going to give them everything we have and see where it takes us’.

“And Meath will be thinking the same.

“You’d be a fool to bet against Dublin but there’s always a hope in sport.”

LEGEND OF THE FALL Kildare’s John Doyle takes a tumble in the 2010 Leinster final win over Dublin THE 2000 Leinster Championship, wrapped up in mid-august, was completed unusually late but it’s got nothing on this year’s edition. The 2020 final has been fixed for November 21 and, as the centenary of the Bloody Sunday killings at Croke Park, will be a DELIGHT Kildare manager Mick O’dwyer after the Leinster final win over Dubs in 2010