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St pauls bredagh a draw. Fair result according to my neutral spy. St pauls cf busted off ball, off to hospital. I was wrong with my first guess as to the assailant.

Who was the CF? I am sure your first guess and mine would be similar.

Would he have ginger hair?

i would say to the neighbour if you asked anywhere between 10k down to and no lower than 6k you would be happy and if he required it so would he.

[Longstone]

Senior football
Liatriom v Longstone     
Bryansford v Kilcoo went for this if kilcoo have full panel available if not the ford by 2pts
Clann na Banna v An Riocht
Loughinisland v Warrenpoint
Castlewellan v SavalMayobridge v Annaclone
Clonduff v Rostrevor
Ballyholland v Burren
Intermediate football
Ardglass v Carryduff
Glasdrumman v Drumaness
Shamrocks v Kilclief
Ballymartin v Drumgath
Dundrum v SaulBredagh v Atticall
Downpatrick v Tullylish
Darragh Cross v St Johns

Junior Football Championship
Dromara v Aughlisnafin
St Michaels v GlennMitchels v Teconnaught

Mark Mcghee to get a crack at Celtic first rattle...........

[Alot of these teams not being able to field though i put down to laziness,Saul?Drumaness?RGU?The mentors cant be bothered half the time.]

A problem this year is the fact that minor games are played the evening before U-16 games.Players should be able to play for their own age group first in the week and then if they are fit play for the older teams,which is important in smaller clubs.Our minor team would be made up of mostly u-16s and often this year one or two pick up a knock and cant play for the 16s the following evening.Without our 16s we would not have a minor team.
I heard it was the minor county management who requested the nights of minor football be changed,I would say alot of clubs will be looking for this to be changed back.
Alot of these teams not being able to field though i put down to laziness,Saul?Drumaness?RGU?The mentors cant be bothered half the time.
U-16 football in the East Down A section is off a good standard and is much better than Minor B section.

Bitta you will find that the So Called BIGGER clubs asked for the league to stay as is and subsequently the saul motion was voted out, not sure what their reasons where but it's the smaller clubs who are now suffering because of it.

Just a bit of a generalisation there Bitta don't ya think? Prior to leagues being drawn up this year, Saul submitted a request to the ED open mtg that minor games be switched back to start in Feb (Sundays) so that they were clear of the exam period plus didn't overlap with U16s on which most clubs are dependent for players. This was rejected by a number of clubs and so the games are slap-bang in exam phase (which is obviously what most others wanted). We're seeing the knock-on from that decision now and ED really have to handle this differently next year.  In terms of mentors not being bothered, that certainly wasn't the case in our club as we had a motivated management team in place but the commitment to turn up to training/coaching from enough of the minor players wasn't great enough to field without large nums of U16s (who as you've pointed out were going to have their own games the night after the minor ones) and so decision (unfortunate but right in the end) was taken to withdraw well before the league started. Sad but true ....

Ive said it on another thread but for me players particularly underage players should be free to move between clubs in the off season with no requirement for a transfer.  I know there would be a lot of opposition to this but to me its only fair.

Dont let anyone in the RGU see this they will be out with a baptism registar signing up juveniles all winter.

[are you an attacking half back this week again]

Make sure yiz to do us  a favour now No 1....are you an attacking half back this week again

club pro with the power off the pen

[the man was fantastic, won 95% of the ball coming in!!]

was at the down game today, very dissapointed after a long journey down. match was there for the takings and it was handed to fermanagh on a plate.


one posative however was number 21 or 22. nearly sure it was peter turley from rgu, the man was fantastic, won 95% of the ball coming in!! very impressed, he must surely hold his place

Must have been watching a different game from me the fermanagh no 14 came into his own from middle off first half, was his first championship start as well.

in today's scottish sun they have boruc on front page then on pages 4-5 straigthening a girls hair he says its his sister, some wee tr**p saying it was her best pal after a night together.......will do wonders for the huns on sat that will

the Europa has just been done up, but again depends on what price you get it.

who gives a f*** who scored it fact is we got a point in italy, we all still support the TEAM not Hunt or Keane.

castlewellan 

Have now landed in bonnie scotland and not edinburgh as first thought but glasgow for the time being looking to know could someone pm me some details for a team to train with. Thanks in advance

to be fair (and it pains me) on the field they are not all that bad, no worse than most the teams in the county

edit to say that this dosnt mean that every club in the county is frequently involved in mass brawls just that its rare for this to occur in kilcoo as well as others.

Listen we all know that when you play kilcoo and especially when you play them at home you are gonna get hit and hit hard maybe these tyronies just could not take it and handbags turned nasty.........probably nothing to it.

i read in matt's chat last night the county powers that be are going to debate on bringing back the compulsary buying by clubs off 70 tickets at £60 each, it will then be up to the clubs to sell them to their members or face losing out on the money themselves, this is a great way for the county board to get money into the coffers but very hard on the clubs, as it will be up to them to get/put pressure on their members to cough up the money, which in the current economic climate, whith memberships and insurance rising is going to see people turning their backs on GAA, and will bring back the (Grab all Association remarks).