Down Club Hurling & Football

[champion1981]

Says alot for the rest of the teams in dsfc 🤮🙈

[PTC]

The last three times kilcoo were beat in Ulster it was by the team that went on to win and kilcoo put up a good fight in those three encounters, last year burren were beat by scotstown who went on to the final and were narrowly beat. Kilcoo and burren know each other inside out it was never going to be a classic open game of football. Kilcoo by 3 in the replay

[elk]

The last three times kilcoo were beat in Ulster it was by the team that went on to win and kilcoo put up a good fight in those three encounters, last year burren were beat by scotstown who went on to the final and were narrowly beat. Kilcoo and burren know each other inside out it was never going to be a classic open game of football. Kilcoo by 3 in the replay

Exactly neither were good enough

[PTC]

The last three times kilcoo were beat in Ulster it was by the team that went on to win and kilcoo put up a good fight in those three encounters, last year burren were beat by scotstown who went on to the final and were narrowly beat. Kilcoo and burren know each other inside out it was never going to be a classic open game of football. Kilcoo by 3 in the replay

Exactly neither were good enough

The best of a bad bunch then

[sdg]

Game started well, but went downhill from there, not helped by a poor ref who started to book men for every tackle. Burren will be happy to be still in the championship, kilcoo will think they let it slip.All to play for Saturday night, 50/50 game

[Centre 3/4]

Go through that Carryduff team and name all these Antrim lads etc you're talking about? Every single player bar two have played for the duff right the way through underage. The arrogance of you trying to suggest otherwise when you haven't a notion what you're talking about is absolutely unbelievable.

Burren nicked a draw last night kilcoo won't let it slip twice

[Cuan12]

Have to agree with the Carryduff contributor, Yew f king tree is one arrogant p***k , who not only probably has never kicked a ball but doesn't know if the ball is blown up or stuffed, won't matter the point won't win the SFC, could they be on the slide given their league form and I bet there are some Carryduff people that can't wait to shove this pompous dick heads words down his throat next year when these two teams meet .

[Smurfy123]

East Down clubs need to get there own house in order. The football is so poor and underage teams are terrible. Poor structures and coaching. Carryduff has no call to joinnwith Saul and Teconnacht in last years under 21. But here let them at it. No wonder they can't get past the quarter finals

[thebar]

East Down clubs need to get there own house in order. The football is so poor and underage teams are terrible. Poor structures and coaching. Carryduff has no call to joinnwith Saul and Teconnacht in last years under 21. But here let them at it. No wonder they can't get past the quarter finals

You mean Down clubs in general - dam all difference in standard of football north/south/east/west.

[Smurfy123]

But there is. East Down clubs at juvenile level are a mile behind with the exception of Kilcoo and some teams Carryduff. It's always the same teams in all county finals etc. CPN BURREN MAYOBRIDGE CLONDUFF BALLYHOLLAND KILCOO
It's about time they got structures in place

[downjim]

Smurfy, I have checked the Down website and I noticed that not 1 underage Point team are in the top divisions ?

[sdg]

Down Jim, yewtree, Smurfy 123=== the same person

[Too many steps]

Bit harsh on East Down.

Bredagh and Carryduff consistently produce good underage teams.

Kilcoo tend to produce a good team every 5-6 years or so which is about right given the population. Majority of other East Down clubs have small populations too, but the like of Loughinisland, Laoitrim etc you would expect to produce a reasonable underage team a bit more often.

Teams that really should do better are Downpatrick, B'ford and Castlewellan. But outside of Bredagh and Carryduff there seems to be a problem getting lads in towns interested in playing.

Not just in East Down - Newry is suffering same.

And previous comment about CPN is correct - outside of u20s there is nothing to shout about at the moment. Can't remember last time CPN were in an underage final outside of u21s - u14 South Down final about 4/5 years ago maybe?

[Centre 3/4]

Carryduff in the minor semi final and Bredagh are in the u16 final. Give it a rest once and for all.

[Gaelforce123]

Have to agree that 'most' of East Down is currently below power, they do have their season in lights but not consistently (bar Kilcoo of late) and South Down clubs are still more consistently the strong hold however by no means Top class sides. The best point i have seen on this thread is that no matter if your club is East or South, the Biggest problem in Down Football is Newry by a long shot