Down Club Hurling & Football

[Down Mad]

Tom Morgan from Tullylish was a very talented minor and under 21 but never made it through to the seniors. I think he is now involved in the management of Tullylish senior team.

[Maiden1]

It's hard to predict who will go on from a great minor to make it as a senior.  Some people are fully grown and well built when they are 16 or 17 and they really stand out at underage level.  If they are just going through people for a short cut then it's hard for them when they get to seniors and they can't do that any longer.  For others they are only really starting to fill out at 17 or 18 and they can go on to be better seniors when they mature as they have had to rely more on skill when they were underage.

[superblues]

Liam howlett barney said he was the best ever player to come through st marks got a bad knee injury and maybe burn out cut his career short

[Mid Down Gael]

James and Dan Morgan of Kilcoo are really top players on Down club secne in arouond seventies, both of them have played for Down but unable to adapt to county standard.. but hey, they were unstoppable in club matches.

Mid Down Gael, any of James and Dan's son playing nowaday?

To be fair they played on average enough Down sides but where two off our greatest ever players and where great role models with the way they carried themselves and looked after themselves.
James has no sons while Dan has 3 who currently line out for Liatroim where Dan married and has lived for many years now.
Nial Morgan who lines out for us in defence is a nephew off the Morgan brothers.

Michael Walsh was the best underage player i have seen and although he didnt reach these heights for Down seniors due to terrible injurys he stil has had a successful club career at senior level winning 8 championships and playing a staring role in many off the bridge's successes.

Nial McAleenan off Castlewellan was another player who was a class act but suffered badly with injurys while Damian didler Doyle from Liatriom also promesed much in his school days.

[Dubh driocht]

From the Mourne area, Greencastle produced many good footballers. The O'Rourkes, Thomas Clarke ( father of John and Martin), Doyles,Sloans and Eugene Kerr were top players who never cut it at county senior level. In the town , Liam Hughes and Redmond Hanna stood out.Atticall had Tony Sloan ( who went on to Carryduff) while Ballymartin had the O'Reillys, Annetts,,umpteen Rodgers and Cunninghams. For the Stone, John Pat Trainor was a better version of Conor Laverty and his brothers were pretty good also- Paul 'Cheetah'Burden, Paddy Mallon, James Blair,John Poland ( father of Mark) and some of the Haughians were great club players.For the smallest club, players like the Feeneys,Joyces,Karl and Paddy 'Crerand' Cunningham and Dermot Mac Greevy  starred for Glasdrumman.
I really miss the old tournaments where you had a mini-championship in the course of a week- huge crowds,high drama and devil-may-care football.

[T O Hare]

Bridge 2.10 Castlewellan 0.10 Poor performance by us to be honest!!!

[TORGAEL]

Div 3 Result

Drumgath 1-12
Ardglass  1-10

[umpire]

Friday evening.
JFC replay

Ballykinlar 1.8 Bright 1.15

[Long Ball]

Bridge 2.10 Castlewellan 0.10 Poor performance by us to be honest!!!

If the town had been more clinical when presented with 3 gilt edged goal chances and not given away an awful goal the result would have been very different.

[umpire]

Prediction League update after Bright beating Ballykinlar

1   14   ApresMatch
2   14   Bearly on loose
3   14   conormac
4   13   Brick Tamlin
5   13   BRIDGE LAD
6   13   CHB1
8   13   Johnnie99
8   13   Maldini
9   13   mournerambler
10   13   No1
11   13   Out In Front
12   13   umpire
13   13   westdowngael
14   13   When We Win

[BRIDGE LAD]

Bridge 2.10 Castlewellan 0.10 Poor performance by us to be honest!!!

If the town had been more clinical when presented with 3 gilt edged goal chances and not given away an awful goal the result would have been very different.

Are you being serious? The Town never looked like at any stage capable of beating us, we missed a bucket load of chances ourselves even though we weren't at full tilt! I thought we played well in patches cutting through your defence with ease, also our defence stood up well blocking the Town out!

[Leo]

James and Dan Morgan of Kilcoo are really top players on Down club secne in arouond seventies, both of them have played for Down but unable to adapt to county standard.. but hey, they were unstoppable in club matches.

Mid Down Gael, any of James and Dan's son playing nowaday?

To be fair they played on average enough Down sides but where two off our greatest ever players and where great role models with the way they carried themselves and looked after themselves.
James has no sons while Dan has 3 who currently line out for Liatroim where Dan married and has lived for many years now.
Nial Morgan who lines out for us in defence is a nephew off the Morgan brothers.

Michael Walsh was the best underage player i have seen and although he didnt reach these heights for Down seniors due to terrible injurys he stil has had a successful club career at senior level winning 8 championships and playing a staring role in many off the bridge's successes.

Nial McAleenan off Castlewellan was another player who was a class act but suffered badly with injurys while Damian didler Doyle from Liatriom also promesed much in his school days.

These are all fair points but seem to come from a very recent era so my earlier poost has (again!!)been ignored.

Howevre James Morgan is a good example - he didn't mss tyhe boat - he had his cahnces - great  bit of stuff but  apart from one seanon never made the cut at senior county level - want some more??
Sean O'Rourke  Ray Carville (Greencasrle) - Benny McArdfle (Annaclone)  - nothing to do with hard luck stories - Dalsey & Conlon fall into the hard luck "the ones that got away" category wheres these guys got plenty of chances = still great players but didnt make it!!!

Brendan McKibbin would have been a legend but sad untimely loss.

[5 Sams]

Shocker from the Harps tonight. Kilclief turned us over by 3 points and fully deserved it. Major opportunity missed.

[goldenyears]

Kilclief 1-10 harps 0-10
Awful performance but credit to kilclief who battled well
Harps missing 6 starters but no notion of going anywhere near div 1 if we can't beat bottom of table kilclief

[off the laces]

Saul 0.15 Drumaness 0.11