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Fair enough but I'd suggest neither the Abbey or St Colmans benefit hugely at post 16 from new blood and anyway when did secondary school education start at 16? The fact is schools like St Paul's are now making an impact because they don't see themselves as elite. Down football can't depend on the old establishment any more. Times have changed and if the u21 result v Armagh is anything to go by Down football really does need to have a good look at itself.

Yes I suppose all St Colmans and Abbbey lads are all from Down, not. In any case the way things are maybe they are better off playing with an Armagh school, they might actually learn how to play a bit of football. This is a nonsense statement anyway, it's not as if Bessbrook is a million miles from Newry and in any case because it's a comprehensive it draws on players of all levels of academic ability, not just the elite few. Funny enough when you think about it is St Pats Maghera not a comprehensive as well, and is St Ronans not the same? Maybe the lack of success of Down football is related to the demise of the elite academic institutions as football elite. Time for new thinking to replace what were the nurseries of the great teams of the past.

This is brilliant stuff. Remind me though. Who exactly is this Paul Comiskey guy? He must have really done something to deserve this fawning flatulence.