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Where was Doyle playing tonight?  Was he any good?

Doyle was playing midfield tonight. He was very poor i thought considering he is a county star. As said in previous posts Kilcoo never really got out of second gear tonight. I thought the referee was an absolute disgrace. He is too whistle and card happy. He sent off a Kilcoo for no reason and also sent off a liatroim player for no reason. There must have been at least 14 yellow cards and 2 red cards in a game which was not dirty at all.  Also he gave two penaltys which were not penaltys in my opinion and also gave a liatroim a goal which looked like a square ball. I think Gaelic is becoming a non contact sport. I also think this weekend will be spoilt by poor refeering decisions. However Kilcoo are through with playing in top gear so i am happy man.

[Rostrevor]

SFC
Rostrevor v Downpatrick
Liatriom v Kilcoo
An Riocht v Bryansford
Loughinisland v Tullylish
Clonduff v Castlewellan
Saval v Mayobridge
Longstone v Burren
Warrenpoint v Ballyholland

IFC
Drumgath v Clan na Banna
St Johns v Glasdrumman
Ballymartin v Ardglass
Drumaness v Attical
Kilclief v Shamrocks
Carryduff v Dundrum
Glenn v St John Bosco
Darragh Cross v Annaclone

JFC
Bright v Mitchels
Dromara v Aughlisnafinn
Saul v Ballykinler

Yes i am deadly serious.

Clarke was not good on Saturday night. He scored 1-2 out of his 1-4 in the last 20 mins.

Ok. I accept Kalum king is a nuisance in the middle of the field against teams but he was no good on Saturday night

When the defence were running out the lack of movement was evident from the Down forwards. Mooney is quick and Laverty won every ball kicked into him but Coulter hides behind the man looking the high one in when maybe he should move more.

I accept that the short passing out of defence allowed us to retain possession but it is a very very risky game and if it breaks down then we are fucked. I would rather we punt the ball up the pitch into space for the forwards. The number of times our defenders turned over possession doing this was at least 5 or 6 times

Ok. The introduction of mooney, hughes, mccomiskey and fitzpatrick were were good ideas but i think that the down management panicked and they brought off the wrong players apart from taking off Kalum King. The supporters around me were also giving off when wee James made these decisions. I can maybe understand giving Benny some rest but putting young mcardle from burren into midfield was the wrong move when your best midfielder at full back.

The scoreline on saturday night flattered down. Lets be honest because if you remember Antrim were leading by a point ten  minutes into the second half. I was at the Liatroim game as well and they were not good that day as well. Clare and Leitrim are division 4 sides and Antrim are a division 3 side so down should be beating these teams with a lot more ease. By the way there are plent of teams who scored that amount in this years championship. Laois, Meath and Limerick just to name a few.

I agree they will put up a challenge against cork. Cork should have beat us by far more in the All Ireland final. Kerry know how to play against cork though and down will have learned nothing from last september or in the league meeting this year which they stuffed.

When Casement is done it will be the best ground in Ulster.

I dont understand why the police have to fly over Casement during the game. It is a disgrace.

I now this has nothing to do with Casement but charging a student £13 into last nights game is an absolute farce from the Grab All Association.

Any wonder attendences are down at games.

Even though Down had a convicing win. It did not tell the whole story.

The positives from last night were:
Good performances from Dan Gordon, Aidan Brannigan and Conor Laverty.
Danny Hughes coming back.
Monney played well when introduced.

Negatives were:
Marty Clarke did not want to know.
Kalum King was useless.
Lack of movement up front from the forwards
Short passing out of the defence
Substitutions did not make sense.

I dont want to be negative but Down will need to up their performance big style next Saturday in Croke Park or else they will get hammered by Cork.

Kilcoo v Ballyholland is now on Thursday night.

I think it is an absolute disgrace that UTV are worried about how this would affect the Tourism Industry in Mauritius.
Who gives a flying f**k.
Also them having the cheek to ask Adrian Logan to do an interview just after they got rid of him.
UTV hang your heads in shame.

Mickey Harte is a very brave man doing that interview. It just shows how much courage and bravery the man has.
That interview reduced me to tears.
Orangeman put it perfectly how everybody feels.
I also thought Mom put it nicely as well.
My thoughts and prayers are with both McAreavy and Harte families at this very tough time.
R.I.P Michaela.

Benny Coulter will not be playing in this series because of injury.

[Burren]

SFC final
Burren v Bryansford

IFC final
Annaclone v Tullylish

MFC final
Kilcoo v Rostrevor

They mean the County Pitch and not the back pitch in newry.

Also i think it is a disgrace that the Intermediate semi final between Annaclone and Carryduff and the Senior semi final between Kilcoo and Bryansford are being played in Pairc Esler for 2 reasons.

1. Currently there is no changing rooms at Pairc Esler
2. Asking Carryduff to travel to Newry to play an Intermediate Semi Final is a joke why not play it in Castlewellan.
3. Kilcoo and Bryansford will all be going the one way into Newry when Castlewellan is bewteen the 2 of them.

[Burren]

SFC semi finals
Burren v Mayobridge
Bryansford v Kilcoo

IFC semi finals
Annaclone v Carryduff
Tullylish v Drumgath

[Kilcoo]

Kilcoo v An Riocht
Bryansford v Saval

An Riocht 0-7 Clonduff 0-6. Full Time

[Burren]

SFC Quarter finals
Burren v Ballyholland
Mayobridge v Longstone

IFC Quarter finals
Annaclone v Darragh Cross
Kilclief v Tullylish
Carryduff v Glenn
Drumgath v St Johns

JFC Final
St John Bosco v Drumaness