NFL Division 2 2015

[ross4life]

Back to the drawing board for us at the least the nonsense talk of promotion will be ended as staying up was always or main target. The worst we played in the league since Fermanagh away 2 years ago if we produce a similar performance in our remaining 4 games we will lose all of them. In truth you simply can't defend as poorly at this level & won't win many games with 2-17 (23) conceded. Credit to Laois though well up for the game today & the 4 week break seem to work wonders for them on todays viewing they won't be in a relegation battle come round 7.

[seafoid]

Back to the drawing board for us at the least the nonsense talk of promotion will be ended as staying up was always or main target. The worst we played in the league since Fermanagh away 2 years ago if we produce a similar performance in our remaining 4 games we will lose all of them. In truth you simply can't defend as poorly at this level & won't win many games with 2-17 (23) conceded. Credit to Laois though well up for the game today & the 4 week break seem to work wonders for them on todays viewing they won't be in a relegation battle come round 7.

laois were 1/6 to be relegated last night. Form is funny.

[galwayman]

Disappointing loss for us having been in control of the game.
The thing is though even 6 up at half time you are nearly waiting for the capitulation to happen.
I wasn't at the game today but it would seem that we're still far too loose at the back.
It's important now that we win our next two games at home to Cavan and Laois.
We'll still be in with a shout of a league final with some tough games to come as teams are taking points off each other.

[seafoid]

Disappointing loss for us having been in control of the game.
The thing is though even 6 up at half time you are nearly waiting for the capitulation to happen.
I wasn't at the game today but it would seem that we're still far too loose at the back.
It's important now that we win our next two games at home to Cavan and Laois.
We'll still be in with a shout of a league final with some tough games to come as teams are taking points off each other.

no harm. It will stand to them later in the year.
The division seems to be splitting up into top 4 -down, the 2 meaths and galway
And the rest to fight for the right to be relegated

[Donnellys Hollow]

Strong wind out there today alright but as the Down fans said themselves while exiting after the match, "we played our get out of jail free card today". 
Galway only have themselves to blame, the better team throughout, the Down goalkeeper was their MOTM by a mile and if Galway were ruthless enough we would have won the match comfortably, while we got an extra point in Mullingar in a match that a draw would have been the fairest result, Down didn't really merit even a share of the points much less the win, best of luck to them however, Galway's demise was entirely of our own construction and if you can't take your chances when on top you can't complain too much about losing.

I thought they played it against Kildare!

[Dubh driocht]

I thought they played it against Kildare!
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We have 52 of them in our deck,
We remained calm , led by our wonderful captain and his team-mate in goals. The Turley Bros were pretty good also.
I still expect Galway to win this division but we should be safe now. Exciting game in great conditions

[thejuice]

Division 2

Pos.   Team   P   W   D   L   F      A      Pts
1   Down   4   3   0   1   6-50      3-54      6
2   Wmeath   4   2   0   2   3-50      6-45      4
3   Galway   3   2   0   1   5-42      4-41      4
4   Meath   3   2   0   1   5-35      2-35      4
5   Cavan   4   1   1   2   0-53      6-39      3
6   Roscom   3   1   1   1   2-42      3-42      3
7   Kildare   4   1   0   3   3-51      3-55      2
8   Laois   3   1   0   2   4-33      1-45      2

We're nicely poised with the game against Laois coming up next weekend, hopefully our form at home will stay with us for it. That said, teams are taking points off each other and a few injuries could easily scuttle us as our bench isn't the strongest.

[SHEEDY]

down have finished strong in every game, even the one we lost against roscommon we were better in the later stages, which shows a good spirit and never say die attitude which jim mccorry has instilled in the team. galway were unfortunate not to pick up at least a point from the game but down kept going and the big home support helped get them over the line.

with 2 out of our last 3 games at home our place in division 2 should be secure, anything else is a welcome bonus.

[Rossfan]

Awful load of crap from our bucks today.
We arsed around playing slow Div 3 football while Laois got on with playing D2 stuff.
Midfield, half backs rubbish again, u21 boys not at the races, Donie finished as a Co player, Nally not a Co player
Senan and Ciaràn Murtagh being played in defence....... Slow hand passing, no one showing to support the man with the ball...
Then we had a ref dragged all the way from Rhubarbia.
Only people who had a good day were the 50 Laois fans who made the long journey.
Huge Ros turn out as usual but I expect a lot will give Newbridge a miss.

[5 Sams]

down have finished strong in every game, even the one we lost against roscommon we were better in the later stages, which shows a good spirit and never say die attitude which jim mccorry has instilled in the team. galway were unfortunate not to pick up at least a point from the game but down kept going and the big home support helped get them over the line.

with 2 out of our last 3 games at home our place in division 2 should be secure, anything else is a welcome bonus.

Agree 100% with all you say....but Galway reached our 21 on numerous occasions and took handy scores...we couldn't breach their 50! We were wide open at the back for large periods of this game. Kane won the game for us. He was brilliant.

[Syferus]

down have finished strong in every game, even the one we lost against roscommon we were better in the later stages, which shows a good spirit and never say die attitude which jim mccorry has instilled in the team. galway were unfortunate not to pick up at least a point from the game but down kept going and the big home support helped get them over the line.

with 2 out of our last 3 games at home our place in division 2 should be secure, anything else is a welcome bonus.

Agree 100% with all you say....but Galway reached our 21 on numerous occasions and took handy scores...we couldn't breach their 50! We were wide open at the back for large periods of this game. Kane won the game for us. He was brilliant.

In fairness after ye had your patch in the second half it was us that finished stronger - four of the last five scores were ours. Down, like ourselves, are a bit too easy to split open.

[giveballaghback]

We have 3pts from 3 games and have only played well in the first half against Down, today was a school day for both team and management, I cant agree with rossfan and have to say his comments were over the top, we have gone to newry and got 2 pts, no other team will do that, we can win our 2 home games and maybe get something out of one of our away games, in the course of a league campaign there will be good and bad performances, learn from the bad and enjoy the good but dont start abusing the team, they will know they were poor today, they will know what they have to do, the only question is are they good enough to do it, if not they are still our team, come on the rossies.

[SHEEDY]

Roscommon cost me a nice wee lift for a 5 team accum today. Had down, cork, sligo, mayo and feckin roscommon.

[twohands!!!]

What the bookies are saying

Outright Betting   
To Lift the Trophy

Galway 7/4
Down 9/4
Meath 3/1
Roscommon 6/1
Westmeath 12/1
Cavan 25/1 Top


TO BE RELEGATED FROM NFL DIVISION 2

Laois 1/10
Kildare 11/8
Cavan 13/8
Roscommon 11/4
Westmeath 3/1
Meath 10/1

Bookies obviously still have little enough faith in Laois getting out of jail, despite the fact that they have a game in hand.

[moysider]

Awful load of crap from our bucks today.
We arsed around playing slow Div 3 football while Laois got on with playing D2 stuff.
Midfield, half backs rubbish again, u21 boys not at the races, Donie finished as a Co player, Nally not a Co player
Senan and Ciaràn Murtagh being played in defence....... Slow hand passing, no one showing to support the man with the ball...
Then we had a ref dragged all the way from Rhubarbia.
Only people who had a good day were the 50 Laois fans who made the long journey.
Huge Ros turn out as usual but I expect a lot will give Newbridge a miss.

WTF was that? Didn t know we bothered with providing refs With our history of being screwed by referees, a course on getting infected by ebola or reviving smallpox would be more popular.
Sounds like ye had enough problems without a ref from Mayo. Hard luck.