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Your taking the piss Mourne rover I hope

There is a problem with Downs development squads. Who picks the managers of these and is there a criteria for being able to coach our youth. Our underage teams are failing and the reason our older statesmen are staying on is because there is no youth there to take their places.

What happened the Magpies last night?? They might struggle to make the top three now ?
Starred fixtures must really hurt them.

Unless your an exceptional talent you don't have the divine right to walk onto a county team.You have to work for a few years and take your chance.
If a club minor went on holiday during a club championship the management would be going beserk.this does not bode well for the future. Has Dan McCarten, Ambrose , Benny or the likes ever missed a game due to holidays. They would give their right arm to play for Down.
I guarantee they would not have missed a Kilcoo championship game. They should not be allowed back on the panel.

Could the Kilcoo lads not have went on holidays at another time. This is madness

Are the 3 kilcoo boys really missing Sundays game???

[their defensive system is getting them places]

Went to the bridge tonight to see a dour encounter. The home side beating Ballyholland at their own game. Poucher had no decorum at one of his former clubs.
We were lucky to beat a strong saval side midweek. They are a good honest team who are short one or two class players to break into the top four of Down championship teams.
What sort of side did Kilcoo have out v Rgu?
Another good result for Glenn, their defensive system is getting them places but it's really hard to watch and with the majority of teams playing this way it's harder for our classier players to get room to showcase their skills. I fear for the future of the county as I don't see any young players stepping up to the plate.

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What I mean is for the county team. I do not see any new potential county players about.

Their defensive system is based around Liam Bagnall, a young, classy player. Their forward play is based around Matty Bagnall and the two Millars, also young and classy players. They kicked some great scores and played very well against Rostrevor on Friday evening. These are prime examples of young players 'stepping up to the plate' so I would disagree with your point entirely.

To be fair Jim people in glass houses and all that! The behaviour of some of the Burren mentors at underage leaves a lot to be desired

Burren underage mentors that consist of Warrenpoint men, Ballymartin men, Crossmaglen men and Newry men to name a few 

And your point being???

So it does not annoy you as a member of Ballyholland executive committee that your senior football manager does not conduct himself properly when representing your club?

Went to the bridge tonight to see a dour encounter. The home side beating Ballyholland at their own game. Poucher had no decorum at one of his former clubs.
We were lucky to beat a strong saval side midweek. They are a good honest team who are short one or two class players to break into the top four of Down championship teams.
What sort of side did Kilcoo have out v Rgu?
Another good result for Glenn, their defensive system is getting them places but it's really hard to watch and with the majority of teams playing this way it's harder for our classier players to get room to showcase their skills. I fear for the future of the county as I don't see any young players stepping up to the plate.

Not much craic about the champ openers this weekend. Will there be any shocks??

Great win over the Ford tonight. First big test for the Newcastle men and they failed

Glenn for the championship. In other news the Bridge were put back in their perch by the magpies tonight.
Better performance from us though. We are away from relegation now

There is definitely massive numbers at underage in burren is there not a bus that goes down the Warrenpoint road in Newry to lift lads for training each week

It's a helicopter

I heard a rumour today that a ref was assaulted in a reserve final. Sad day and I hope the culprit is banned heavily.
We are in dire straits at the minute in Burren. The confidence is lost  but with our full squad back we can still compete with the best.

Reserve Final?? Bit early for that...

Felix Darby?

WGM that's harsh, but definitely some questionable decisions made along line but that also happened in the championship final last year too.

Truth is Burren are still missing Cathal Murdock, Gerard McCartan, Declan Rooney, Anton McArdle and Shay McArdle, add in Kevin, Donal, Dan and its a big loss.

However we were still winning tonight a relinquished a 3 or 4 point lead, we lacked fight and belief in key areas.

The management must now sort out the players that are there and ensure they are playing for the jersey and playing for their places.

Too many boys in cruise control and badly in need of a rocket.

Its upto Paddy Carr and Gavin Murdock to ensure that everyone is pushed to the limit to get things back on track and moving forward.

That will tell whether they can emulate Frank or Mickey or Jimmy as you put it.

Can't really count Rooney he doesn't play for Burren sure! Are the likes of Sean Murdock, James McGovern, Conor Toner, Eamon Toner etc playing?

Ok Rooney has transferrred but on top of those mentioned James McGovern is in australia, Eamonn McGovern suffered a horrific knee injury and is out, Alan Higgins who was our immediate cover in midfield is also in america.

Its a real test for the remaining players and a bigger test for the management to get them winning again and doing anything of note this year.

Thankfully our county players and panellists should be back in the fold now.

Surely it was only a matter of time before Burren would hit a barren patch at senior level. You can't rely on blow ins forever to bring you success. Now they have to use true home grown talent we will see just how strong Burren are as a senior team. The east down clubs look to hold the aces at the moment.

It's about time they done something up there. Come down to watch our underage to see what's Barren