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Colum King more than likely, he's 20, ginger haired fella.

We(ballela) were beaten by liatroim, by roughly 12 points maybe a few more. It was 0.7 to 0.4 at half time to them, we tired second half and they scored 2 goals inside 2minutes with about 5min to go through Aidan Brown and Liam Morgan. We put in a spirited preformance considering we were doubtful to field beforehand which was pleasing. I remember we beat ballygalget 2nds away two seasons ago, i hope for the sake of down hurling they dont deteriorate as alarmingly as we have.

Andy Savage was there just not togged out.

1. "Sure, there have been deaths in boxing, but none of them serious."
(Alan Minter)

2. "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body."
(Winston Bennett)

3. "The lead car is absolutely unique, except for the one behind it, which is identical."
(Murray Walker - F1 racing commentator)

4. "I owe a lot to my parents, especially my father and mother."
(Greg Norman)

5. "If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again."
(Terry Venables - Soccer Coach)

6. "I would not say that David Ginola is the best left winger in the Premiership, but there are none better."
(Ron Atkinson - soccer coach)

7. "Julian Dicks is everywhere. It's like they've got eleven Dicks on the field"
(Metro Radio)

8. "Strangely, in slow motion replay, the ball seems to hang in the air for even longer."
(David Acfield)

9. "What will you do when you leave football, Jack. Will you stay in football?"
(Stuart Hall Radio 5 live)

10.. "And there goes Juantorena down the back straight, opening his legs and showing his class."
(David Coleman at the Montreal Olympics)

11. "For those of you who are watching in black and white, the blue is behind the brown."
(Ted Lowe, Snooker commentator)

May 6th - Official Opening of new Ballela pitch:

Pairc na Naimh (All Saints Park)

2 pm - Blessing of the Pitch by the Very Rev. Paddy Joe Murray PP and official opening of the pitch by Paddy Mc Flynn, past GAA president.

3 pm - NHL Down Juniors v Leitrim Juniors,
referee: Gerard Devlin.

6 pm -  Down  v Dublin ,
referee: Hugh Pat McCusker.

Evening Entertainment:

Barney Greene

Country Hopscotch

Actually those directions on our site have a mistake, it shud read; turn left onto the ballela road( as a previous poster has stated). I may tell someone to ammend that. All welcome for the opening btw!

Mitre, dont know if they make them anymore either. My stand out boots were when the different coloured boots phase came out, i had red asics!

Div 2: Clann na banna beat glassdrumman by 3.

Im lead to believe clann na banna beat kilclief by 4

I think its the correct decision that we(ballela) have moved back down a grade, last nite we played a challenge match that contained 6 players from the team that won the junior championship in 2003. Im not sure if anyones read the comments posted on the hoganstand site, where people are kicking up a fuss saying we shouldnt be in the intermediate but any of the ards 2nds wud tell u that we'r far too weak  at present and are a shadow of the team that beat ballygalget and ran the ports close a two years. The county board/hurling board admitted us to div1 on the condition that we remained there for 3 years, this being the last its more than likely we move down next year.

Sure didn't ballyvarley win the junior champ, so bredagh wud be entitled to enter junior again?

Ive been "up the mountain" four or fives times when i was at St. Colmans, although it was always very tough, ive some fond memories of it. It may have had more of a bonding effect if they had of camped out overnight and taken part in night-time navigation were u have to work together in smaller groups.

Anythings possible with the  down juniors, i went to watch a championship match a few yrs ago as a hungover 16/17yr old, about 5min before throw in i was approached sayin they only had 14 players and wud i do corner back and mark Dingy, i declined the corner back role and played corner forward, brian canavan and paddy hardy and to come on when a few lads got injured, hardly in their prime!

Think it was Eoin did the "growling" and his dad Artie wrote into the irish news about it...