Down Club Hurling & Football

[SHEEDY]

Minors in knockout action against Monaghan today.

Best of luck to them.

Would be nice to see a good performance & something positive.

Down 0-12 Monaghan 5-13. Another hammering, Down football really is at an all time low, shocking stuff.

[Hard2Listen2]

League tables starting to take shape.

Few surprises?

Point lower than expected?

Bredagh flying?

[rosskarr]

Minors in knockout action against Monaghan today.

Best of luck to them.

Would be nice to see a good performance & something positive.

Down 0-12 Monaghan 5-13. Another hammering, Down football really is at an all time low, shocking stuff.

Predicted  all of this for 2021 and 2022.Cunningham completely out of his depth as a Manager.
Wondering did he attend QUB? Probably not but part of the Burren Mafia.Should have never been appointed.More depressive as the weeks go on.

[whitegoodman]

Agree with u that he is out of his depth but he certainly not part of the Burren mafia.  Most people were happy for him to move on.

Questions have to be asked as to what qualified him to get the job.

[snoopdog]

Minors in knockout action against Monaghan today.

Best of luck to them.

Would be nice to see a good performance & something positive.

Down 0-12 Monaghan 5-13. Another hammering, Down football really is at an all time low, shocking stuff.

That Monaghan team were beat by Antrim. Who were hammered by tyrone today. Our Minors have been poor  for kast 10 years  or more.

[Johnnysboys]

Agree with u that he is out of his depth but he certainly not part of the Burren mafia.  Most people were happy for him to move on.

Questions have to be asked as to what qualified him to get the job.

Him a Ballymartin man???
What qualified him?? He took this team at development squad level for the last few years, he most probably has more coaching qualifications than most on this board and thirdly and probably most importantly - he is free. That's always a unique selling point to our county board!! Apart from our u20 setup who get "well looked after" with coin. Obviously AO'R too.

[rosskarr]

He is a Burren man now who has never managed a team prior to this.A Yes man to the CB.Why was he appointed?

[Johnnysboys]

He is a Burren man now who has never managed a team prior to this.A Yes man to the CB.Why was he appointed?

He has managed a number of teams within burren in led to believe and coached a number of others. Surely it's only right that if you take a county development squad at u15 and u16 level u move onto u17s with them? It's hardly fair on people taking development squads and then handing them over to some "big name" to get all the credit. The amount of people we have in this county who sit in the long grass watching teams being built for them and then step in and claim all the credit is crazy - I think the county board did the right thing here promoting that group of men. How else do they make it appealing for people to get involved with development squads??

[downtothecore]

The most important aspect is to get the best men into these roles even if you have find them in long grass. The current process isn't working.

[rosskarr]

Waiting in the long grass? Claiming the credit?Who has done that?
We've been a disaster at Minor level for years.No credit to be claimed anywhere.

[Phoenix rising]

After getting demolished in omagh last year the whole set up should have been ran - no do it the down way and let them carry on - hopefully they have the sense to step aside now

[Johnnysboys]

Waiting in the long grass? Claiming the credit?Who has done that?
We've been a disaster at Minor level for years.No credit to be claimed anywhere.

Are you telling me that Frank Dawson didn't do that with Clonduff after watching them winning 3 minor Championships in a row. Then with Burren who won 5 U21 championships and 2 Ulster Championships in a row.
Then u have the man of the moment Jim McCorry - took Mayobridge after watching them win underage titles galore, did the same with a Kilcoo group and now doing the same with Burren.
Define a disaster at minor level? No winning games - who Cares?? Kerry won 5 All Irelands in a row but still haven't got their senior crown (prob will this year) so underage success means f**k all in the grand scheme of things.
We have got a plethora of good players through to the senior panel in the last 2/3 years. We are a division 3 outfit at best and the B championship is where we deserve to be. It's time our players stayed out of the paper and knuckled down to a bit of hard work to get us out of this situation.

[thewobbler]

Waiting in the long grass? Claiming the credit?Who has done that?
We've been a disaster at Minor level for years.No credit to be claimed anywhere.

Are you telling me that Frank Dawson didn't do that with Clonduff after watching them winning 3 minor Championships in a row. Then with Burren who won 5 U21 championships and 2 Ulster Championships in a row.
Then u have the man of the moment Jim McCorry - took Mayobridge after watching them win underage titles galore, did the same with a Kilcoo group and now doing the same with Burren.
Define a disaster at minor level? No winning games - who Cares?? Kerry won 5 All Irelands in a row but still haven't got their senior crown (prob will this year) so underage success means f**k all in the grand scheme of things.
We have got a plethora of good players through to the senior panel in the last 2/3 years. We are a division 3 outfit at best and the B championship is where we deserve to be. It's time our players stayed out of the paper and knuckled down to a bit of hard work to get us out of this situation.

A disaster at minor level is Down since 2010.

[downtothecore]

Agree. This is mainly because of the mourne academy which is not producing results. The current minor manager was big part in this regime but it is just not his fault. The person overseeing it has to take responsibility.

[Hard2Listen2]

Agree. This is mainly because of the mourne academy which is not producing results. The current minor manager was big part in this regime but it is just not his fault. The person overseeing it has to take responsibility.

Who's the person over seeing the academy?