I think Armagh have been quietly going about their business.
They did OK in the league to stay up, they brushed aside Antrim using the full depth of their squad and still missing a whole pile of players for that game.
I see some of them have returned to the 26 this weekend. Mainly, the two interesting ones for me are Ben Crealey and Niall Grimley.
The midfield force that they had last year had been missing for large portions of this year.
On the other side, Tyrone have looked really sharp and controlled in that display against Cavan, the first half in particular.
Malachy O'Rourke, he's a well-renowned manager but you can see his gameplan is clicking with these guys.
They're defensively solid, have got a collective focus in attack, and above all else they've got a clarity in their gameplan.
So this game is an absolute belter. It's very hard to call this and it's interesting Tyrone are going in as favourites. But absolutely if you're Armagh coming into this game with your full panel back pretty much, you're absolutely buzzing for a game like this.
I don't see a repeat of the 2023 fixture whereby Down overturned Donegal. It shows an amazing turnaround for Donegal.
They're coming off a big game last week against Monaghan - both teams had games last week - but I just feel Donegal are going to have too much for Down this weekend.
For me the game of the weekend is Louth versus Kildare and people will think that's surprising considering Armagh are taking on Tyrone.
But not only is a spot in the Leinster final up for grabs, the stakes are even higher. The losers go into the Tailteann Cup rather than going forward into the Sam Maguire.
And for me, this feels like a big blow for Louth if they were to go into the Tailteann Cup, whereas for Kildare on the other side, a run in the Tailteann Cup whether they want it or not could be a good thing for them and potentially even going into that and winning it could be the momentum they need.
I thought Louth were really good against Laois considering they were missing around nine players from last year's championship team and seeing Tommy Durnin and Craig Lennon coming off the bench in that game will give them a big boost.
Kildare on the other hand were very impressive in that really, really good game against Westmeath. Alex Beirne, he was brilliant, and Ben McCormack returned - they were missing him a good bit this year. He's a big plus, it adds scoring power up front.
That was a hard-fought win that will stand to them but I just feel Louth have more to lose and will come out swinging for this one.
For me, if I'm Meath, I'm looking at this through the lense of the Cork-Kerry game last weekend and what a game that was.
But Cork were so competitve, they got into the faces of Kerry, they were competitive in midfield and they kicked their two-pointers.
And I just think if they look at those facets of the game, Meath, and they can put up a performance like Cork did, I think they can rattle Dublin.
I'm not expecting it to be a straightforward game for Dublin. They weren't at their best against Wicklow but you see Stephen Cluxton's back and John Small is back in the squad too, so they're obviously two leaders that hopefully will raise the standards for Dublin fans and I'd expect a big display.
Paul Flynn was speaking on RTÉ Radio's Morning Ireland
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