Down Club Hurling & Football

[downjim]

And it's ok to go on a stag doo but not to head away for a midweek break with the other half. Anyway if you are at a loose end today. We play our noisy neighbours at 6pm today in the Malachy Murdock semi final.

[snoopdog]

Meath and Clare both yet to play Louth. Div 3 is now a very real possibility.

[Smurfy123]

Tipperary this weekend a big test but a win should see us safe would that be right?

[OgraAnDun]

Tipperary this weekend a big test but a win should see us safe would that be right?

Nope, Meath will beat Louth and will be on 5 points when we play them. Basically, regardless of the Tipp result, if we beat Meath then we stay in Div 2. If we lose to Meath (even after beating Tipp), then we are probably going to be swapping places with Armagh.

[Aristo 60]

Should've beat Clare, Could've beat Cavan.

[A man from Down]

Looking at our players it will be massively disappointing if we get relegated as we are good enough to remain in Division Two and need to stay there at least if there is to be any hope of provincial honours for this relatively young team. In all the matches so far only Cork have outplayed us but as Armagh can testify there is no place for hard luck nowadays in league football.

The bigger problem remains in Down though that we seem to lose too many good players each year from the panel and never get our strongest players within the county lining up together. For whatever reason our best players end up leaving year in year out for whatever reason.   

[Smurfy123]

Seen this statistic on Facebook

Jim McCrory Down
League
Played 8
Won 5
Lost 3
10 points from a possible 14(final defeat to Roscommon)
League wins against Galway Laois Westmeath Kildare Cavan

Championship
Played 2
Lost 2

Overall
Played 10
Won 5
Lost 5

Eamon Burns Down
League
Played 19
Won 4
Drew 1
Lost 14
9 points from a possible 38 points
Beat Derry Meath Roscommon Louth

Championship
Played 6
Won 2
Lost 4

Overall
Played 25
Lost 18
Won 6
Drew 1

No wonder players don't commit is it really worth it

6 wins in almost 3 years of football

[Mourne Red]

Burns in line for a touchline van according to reports.. Pushed a Cavan player during the match on Sunday

[OgraAnDun]

Brendan Crossan put a video of it up on Twitter, so that's probably true. He might get the same as Davy Fitz last year.

Wrt what Smurfy put up, that's depressing reading.

[downjim]

Barry O'Hagan and Keith Quinn have now left the panel. If Burns is not suspended he could be playing this weekend

[Targetman]

Some day there'll be a positive story to come from the Down camp!!

[Aristo 60]

Bad news travels faster (and further) than good news 

[Targetman]

Match off today, feckin snows a pain in the hole!!

[downjim]

Poacher got Carlow out of division 4. I would be his biggest critic at times generally for his language when we play them. But I do think he would be a good man in the Down set up

[east down gael]

Turlough o'brien maybe played a small role in their promotion?