Down Club Hurling & Football

[Truth hurts]

Jesus Christ Burren shit the nest again, a team that got carried away with winning the league. McCorry and Adams will walk now as they must see they can't coach balls. They have an array of talent but always come up short. They have won 5/6 minor championships in recent years and the talent is there but they don't have it. I thought the Point were unreal and well worth their victory. Paddy Burns coming on too, like what is that about, Burren have 10 players like him, how can that sit well with the real Burren men.
Kilcoo must be rubbing their hubs after getting out of jail and seeing their only challenger fall to the sword. It was great entertainment..

[toby47]

Does Ross McGarry still play for Warrenpoint?

[sdg]

Does Ross McGarry still play for Warrenpoint?

Injured,  broken jaw in training accident

[terrifictommy]

Not sure 'walk away' will be the right terminology, I'd say they'll be pushed. Fair play to CPN, not many (including me) would have thought they had a performance in them. Semi finals this weekend then with a break for finals?

[sdg]

Now that the dust has settled, a few points on last night.

Adam Lynch was outstanding on Kerr, McCartan kept Magill fairly quiet too. CPN seemed to get their big match ups right. Couldn't understand Gerard McGovern picking up Boyle, thought Boyle was magificent too, a real rolls Royce. Young Byrne exceptional for W'Point at breaking lines. Gary McMahon with balls the size of watermelons for the free at the end of normal time and his penalty was not wise.

You can tell Burren thought it was just a matter of turning up and beating the point. Very disappointing Championship for them and Kilcoo will fancy a stroll home now to another SFC. Would've been for some craic if Clonduff had made it over the line but The Bridge will be no walk over. Loughinisland Kilcoo final repeat of 2009 final. Championship has come to life this weekend💪

The championship has come alive because no back door,  time it was done away with and u will have more games like this

[terrifictommy]

Fully agree, scrap back door. Every game has a meaning and might allow time for replays instead of penalties.

[guevara]

Burren were extremely poor and maybe thought it would be an easy nights work. Until McKernan came on they kicked a lot of really bad wides.
The Point were full value for their win and counter attacked at pace time and time again.

Burren had no alternative plan when The Point put up the defensive screen around the scoring zone, whereas The Point got goals but breaking defensive lines.

[Truth hurts]

Now that the dust has settled, a few points on last night.

Adam Lynch was outstanding on Kerr, McCartan kept Magill fairly quiet too. CPN seemed to get their big match ups right. Couldn't understand Gerard McGovern picking up Boyle, thought Boyle was magnificent too, a real Rolls Royce. Young Byrne exceptional for W'Point at breaking lines. Gary McMahon with balls the size of watermelons for the free at the end of normal time and his penalty was not wise.

You can tell Burren thought it was just a matter of turning up and beating the point. Very disappointing Championship for them and Kilcoo will fancy a stroll home now to another SFC. Would've been for some craic if Clonduff had made it over the line but The Bridge will be no walk over. Loughinisland Kilcoo final repeat of 2009 final. Championship has come to life this weekend💪

Yes I agree with you on this about Burren being over cocky, they have been spilt at underage winning handy games and when it comes to battle they falter. the management will walk I would imagine but I do not know who the Oligarchs will turn to next, go all out for McGuinness or Gavin maybe. Eoghan Byrne was excellent for the Point along with McGivern at corner back. Byrne need to be in Lavertys squad. Burren should have pushed on in extra time

[John Martin]

Now that we are doing the relegation playoffs in the championship it might be a good time to go back to straight knockout. Then the losers in the first round will enter those and every team is still guaranteed 2 meaningful championship games.

[upandwin]

Burren patrons leaving the game last night were disgusted at the way Burren have been playing football this year. It's not the Burren way and McCorry really needed to have a good showing in the SFC to win over a lot of the aristocrats. McCorry has been so focused on how Burren need to play to beat Kilcoo, they forgot there are other teams who can catch them out. Bridge should have beaten them also this year don't forget, last night wasn't a one off.

From last nights game, who should be on the Down squad? Not even sure who on that pitch last night was on Wee James' panel tbh

[Truth hurts]

Burren patrons leaving the game last night were disgusted at the way Burren have been playing football this year. It's not the Burren way and McCorry really needed to have a good showing in the SFC to win over a lot of the aristocrats. McCorry has been so focused on how Burren need to play to beat Kilcoo, they forgot there are other teams who can catch them out. Bridge should have beaten them also this year don't forget, last night wasn't a one off.

From last night's game, who should be on the Down squad? Not even sure who on that pitch last night was on Wee James' panel tbh

CPN-Lynch, Byrne, Donach
Burren- Murdock, McCarthy, Kerr

The Burren way? Your sounding like Sean og The Burren way of football in the 80s is gone unfortunately

[Truth hurts]

Burren patrons leaving the game last night were disgusted at the way Burren have been playing football this year. It's not the Burren way and McCorry really needed to have a good showing in the SFC to win over a lot of the aristocrats. McCorry has been so focused on how Burren need to play to beat Kilcoo, they forgot there are other teams who can catch them out. Bridge should have beaten them also this year don't forget, last night wasn't a one off.

From last nights game, who should be on the Down squad? Not even sure who on that pitch last night was on Wee James' panel tbh

Most big performances in this year's championship have been from over 30s which is a bad sign for the county.

[elk]

Well wasn't that just lovely to experience. Given absolutely no chance by anyone outside the group of players and we turned over the noisy ones again. Second time in a few seasons we have beaten them in championship. Burren supporters around me calling for management to go. Serious amount of money spent there and a paltry league to show for it.
We move on to the semi finals now. Loughinisland have beaten us already and will be delighted with the draw - massive underdogs again but as we all seen tonight the tag suits us.
Bridge v CPN final I'm predicting.

Yes that was just great to see.
A bank-rolled team of so called superstars beaten by a depleted CPN team

Yes CPN were missing 4 big players in r mc Garry r Mallon r Magee and c mc cartan who aren't available for whatever reasons this year but full credit to everyone one of their players that graced the field they done their bit and deserved their victory. Can't see loughinisland beating them again CPN were poor that night in Kilcoo and will have learnt a lot from that night

[Truth hurts]

Do Down just refuse to post updates on Twitter?? 20mins before 1st of the night, none in ET etc.

Madness. Compare to Tyrone/Armagh/Derry etc

Let's get a few facts straight here. As was mentioned yesterday on here there is a clear pattern followed from Round 1 until now. 15 min updates in every match at every grade. Very few have not had this. Nothing to do with streaming or any other factor other than man power. In addition to this you say 'none in extra time'. There were no scores in the first half of extra time. Half time and full time was communicated followed by the full shootout.

The hurling semi finals were score for score, which I'm sure the football will also be. There was a meeting with the clubs before the championship commenced to clearly outline the position with score updates and there is a designated person in each club helping to facilitate this. If you can find a few more willing bodies, I am sure the Secretary or PRO would love to hear from you. Please also bare in mind the location of some host clubs and the lack of signal therein. Which may have been the case in Kilcoo tonight for example.

The incessant bashing is hard to listen to from people who wouldn't lift a finger for their club never mind the county.

Fully agree with this supersub, The game is on in Newry, you can watch on PaircTv for a few quid, if you don't fancy that then 90% of pubs in nationalist areas in Down would be showing the matches. If you have any interest in the game there are ample opportunities to watch. The coverage of the TV has been excellent and the commentators who are all volunteers are doing a great jobs. Patsys voice is iconic in Down GAA and I do like when he commentates as he can make a bad game sound good. But they are all very good and very knowledgeable, well done to all.

[roger99]

Well wasn't that just lovely to experience. Given absolutely no chance by anyone outside the group of players and we turned over the noisy ones again. Second time in a few seasons we have beaten them in championship. Burren supporters around me calling for management to go. Serious amount of money spent there and a paltry league to show for it.
We move on to the semi finals now. Loughinisland have beaten us already and will be delighted with the draw - massive underdogs again but as we all seen tonight the tag suits us.
Bridge v CPN final I'm predicting.

Yes that was just great to see.
A bank-rolled team of so called superstars beaten by a depleted CPN team

Yes CPN were missing 4 big players in r mc Garry r Mallon r Magee and c mc cartan who aren't available for whatever reasons this year but full credit to everyone one of their players that graced the field they done their bit and deserved their victory. Can't see loughinisland beating them again CPN were poor that night in Kilcoo and will have learnt a lot from that night

Clear issue with Burren management , they need to get their best players on the pitch like the McAvoy cubs. They should look for Mickey Moran next year or maybe Jim Gavin.