Qualifiers kind to the northerners

I expect the football qualifiers to be good for the northern sides after last night's draw.
Most of the Ulster sides avoided the big guns down below and although success in the qualifiers depends too on the resilience of a team knocked out of their provincial championship I think most of the northern teams will make progress into the next round.
Tyrone should see off Louth while I think Down will recover from their defeat at the hands of Armagh to beat Offaly.
Donegal will beat Roscommon at home and in the all-northern clash of Derry and Monaghan I fancy the Oak Leaf men to avenge last year's Ulster Championship defeat especially if Paul Finlay's ban stands which now looks likely.
Cavan may find it tough in Newbridge but Kildare have done nothing so far this year to suggest that they are capable of getting the result.
The most interesting of the other ties for me is the Limerick Meath game. Limerick were unlucky again not to beat Cork and home advantage will stand by them.
However, Meath will be back to something approaching full strength and you would expect that this will be the trigger for their return as contenders.
So I expect that four and possibly five out of six of the northern sides currently in the qualifiers will advance to the next round.