Down Club Hurling & Football

[passedit]

IFC final
Annaclone 4.6 v Tullylish 4.7

[Lecale2]

Great win for Tullylish!! Not too many seen that coming.

[supersub]

1-7 1-5 to burren half time

[thewobbler]

Ford up by a point with 15 to go. Very even encounter by the sound of it.

[supersub]

Burren by a point 2 of normal time left

[In the Onion Bag]

Final score please, suspence is killing?

[BRIDGE LAD]

Burren won by 1.

[SHEEDY]

well done to burren and tullylish.two cracking matches.

[twice is nice]

Congratulations to burren on the win today! It was a good sporting game between two very committed teams, we could have had no complaints had we been on the wrong side of the result today, there was that little between the teams! Well done to the bryansford club and supporters for their sportmanship and all the best in the future.. Now we need to build on this over next few years, it would be insult to our tradition to get carried away with winning a county championship, we should be doing this year in, year out and trying to replicate our glory days of gone by in ulster etc.... Also on a passing note I would like to commend the bridge band for their great performance today, they definitely could go on to bring long....... awaited ulster/all ireland success (if they havent already?) to the club all be it in a different trade to what they aspire for!!
Come on BOIREANN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[umpire]

Predictions League (6 Finals only)
SFC, IFC, JFC, PRFC, RFC and MFC

1   5   amallon
2   5   ApresMatch
3   5   bredaghgael88
4   5   catch the high ball
5   5   cokers
6   5   DaddyLongLegs
7   5   general
8   5   Mourne Rover
9   5   No1
10   4   Bearly on loose
11   4   BRIDGE LAD
12   4   Cloneman
13   4   DownFanatic
14   4   Dubh driocht
15   4   eyeswideopen
16   4   Green + Gold
17   4   John Martin
18   4   Johnnie99
19   4   knockitdown
20   4   Maiden1
21   4   Maldini
22   4   Marsbarkid
23   4   meatsy86
24   4   Mid Down Gael
25   4   Minus15
26   4   No hoper
27   4   Out In Front
28   4   razor
29   4   sabhalphadrig
30   4   Square Ball
31   4   True Blue
32   3   An Cloch Scoilte
33   3   behind the wire
34   3   centre 3/4s
35   3   CHB1
36   3   conormac
37   3   dodgy umpire
38   3   down6061689194
39   3   dundrumite
40   3   Hedgehunter
41   3   Idontbelieveit
42   3   Lecale2
43   3   Niall Quinn
44   3   RGU08
45   3   TheClutch
46   3   westdowngael
47   3   western exile
48   2   Bacon
49   2   batman
50   2   Brick Tamlin
51   2   DaUmpire
52   2   supersub
53   1   off the laces
54   1   souljaboy
55   1   T O Hare
56   1   umpire
57   0   5 Sams
58   0   angermanagement
59   0   dunroma
60   0   fitzroyalty
61   0   goldenyears
62   0   Leo
63   0   Long Ball
64   0   Messy Gael
65   0   mournerambler
66   0   NedFlanders
67   0   Superstar
68   0   thewobbler
69   0   Trap 2
70   0   When We Win

[umpire]

Predictions League

Overall table.

1   34   Bearly on loose
2   33   cokers
3   33   Johnnie99
4   33   Mid Down Gael
5   32   Dubh driocht
6   31   behind the wire
7   31   Green + Gold
8   31   Maldini
9   31   No1
10   31   Square Ball
11   31   True Blue
12   30   An Cloch Scoilte
13   30   ApresMatch
14   30   conormac
15   30   DownFanatic
16   30   eyeswideopen
17   30   general
18   30   John Martin
19   30   knockitdown
20   30   Niall Quinn
21   30   No hoper
22   30   razor
23   30   TheClutch
24   29   BRIDGE LAD
25   29   CHB1
26   29   westdowngael
27   28   bredaghgael88
28   28   Marsbarkid
29   28   Mourne Rover
30   28   Out In Front
31   28   western exile
32   27   Cloneman
33   27   Lecale2
34   27   T O Hare
35   26   Brick Tamlin
36   26   dodgy umpire
37   26   Maiden1
38   26   Minus15
39   26   souljaboy
40   26   umpire
41   25   amallon
42   25   batman
43   25   Idontbelieveit
44   25   supersub
45   24   Hedgehunter
46   24   meatsy86
47   24   sabhalphadrig
48   23   catch the high ball
49   23   RGU08
50   20   Bacon
51   20   off the laces
52   19   DaddyLongLegs
53   19   DaUmpire
54   19   down6061689194
55   19   dundrumite
56   17   5 Sams
57   15   thewobbler
58   15   When We Win
59   14   angermanagement
60   14   mournerambler
61   14   NedFlanders
62   14   Superstar
63   14   Trap 2
64   13   dunroma
65   13   fitzroyalty
66   13   Long Ball
67   12   goldenyears
68   3   centre 3/4s
69   2   Leo
70   1   Messy Gael

[supersub]

Burren 1-14 Bryansford 1-13

In truth either team would have felt hard done by to lose this match! Both played very well and as a team Burren just came out stronger in the end - although Bryansford did hit the post in the last minute! Bryansford goal came after 20 seconds long ball in to King at FF and dont know how much he got on it but it bounced down and up into the net! Burren replied within a few minutes with a briliant effort from James McGovern followed closely by a well worked move for gerard mccartan to blast into the net. It was nip and tuck from them on with burren dominating the midfield for large parts of the first half. Eamon Toner hit two super points, one off either foot. King moved out and evened things up around the middle, and clarke took a much needed score for the ford - but burren were worth their lead at half time. Bryansford came flying in second half, points from young clarke, savage and gribben got them level. King back in at FF was causing all sorts of problems for the Burren defence. Savage hit two brilliant scores and burren were on the back foot, however Sean Murdock having scored a few frees and one from play in the first half knocked over two more frees and a cracking effort off the right boot in the second, with Declan Rooney also scoring a longe range point. Burren were up by a point with a few minutes remaining and BRyansford were hoofing the ball into king in hope of a score which nearly came in injury time when they rattled the post.

King had a great hour both at FF and MF causing trouble throughout, Clarke was in and out of the game but took some good scores and used possesion well. Maginn didnt stamp his mark as much as he would have liked but was still full of energy and running to set up and support his team mates. Best for Burren were Gerard McCartan, Mckernan and James Mcgovern who battled throughtout, but if truth be told you could name their whole team as playing well because the likes of conail mcgovern, alan higgins and eamon toner played their part when needed also. Sean Murdock must have scored about 0-7 and was worth the man of the match award.

Bryansford had King at 14 for long periods with McArdle marking him and Mccartan sweeping, even with this Burren found it difficult to deal with him and you just think if one or two more long balls had been pumped in to King the game could have been dead and burried in the second half when they were a few points up. However credit to Burren who kept going and showed energy and spirirt right until the final whistel and even when they were 2 points down in the last 10/15 mins they were in for the dirty ball around the middle determined to get another attack going.


On another note does anyone know anything about this years u21 competition as I would expect Burren will want to defend their Ulster title, but with a lot of their u21s playing for the seniors will this clash?

[Dubh driocht]

Just about the right results in both games. The Ford were like all wee Pete teams- composed and confident and took it to Burren directly from the throw-in. There was no stopping KK ( Kalum King that is, not King Kong)- a goal in the first minute and all bar one of the Ford's first half scores came through him. Aidan Shields, Big Joe and Conor Gribben were dominant and it took a Mc Kernan break and excellent goal from Gerard Mc Cartan to settle the favourites. Sean Murdock's free taking ( points from the right with his right foot) was excellent and they deserved the 2 point advantage at half-time.
Ford had a good third quarter- I think Bonny and Howard could be two county corner backs- and Danny Savage hit some savage points to leave the Ford 2 up in the 59th minute. Kevin Mc Kernan snuffed out the danger and Eamon Toner (plus subs Donal O'Hare and Eoin Mc Cartan) were excellent target men to help Burren over the line- high drama at the end- we thought the Ford hit the post but the umpire gave a 45 - I though they should have got Travers to hit it as it was clearly going to be the last kick.
Danny Savage should be proud of himself and I think we'll see more of this Ford team- they are  mostly young and Maginn and Hanna are also class acts. I think Burren could give Ulster a rattle- apparently they were 80 to 1 for the All-Ireland before today- I would have put a few pound on that each way.
In the IFC ,Annaclone were less than the sum of their parts. Benny Mc Ardle and Aidan Fegan had bad days at the office while John Mc Areavy and the evergreen Ronan Barry provided the leadership you need in championship finals.Two good games - well done to the County Board for the organisation apart from 2 things- firstly the PA is a disaster, secondly, I found it hard at half-time of the IFC final to cope with a sevens game, the skills competetion and a raffle. Sometimes less is more.

[behind the wire]

Great days entertainment, 2 cracking games. message to county board - do away with the band.

plenty of goals in the IFC, fair play to tullylish they played annaclone off the field in the second half. Thought Seamus ohare and gareth johnston were excellent for tullylish and davy corbett had some impact when he came on, 2 goals i think.

senior game was a great game, some good football played. draw would probably been a fair result. bryansford could have stolen it at the end.

[umpire]

Predictions League. Final summary.
Congratulation to 'Bearly on loose' for winning the 2010 Down Championship predictions league.
Thanks to everyone who took part in this competition and also to those who given me some appreciation in running this competition, very much appreciated.
I will put up combination points over last 3 years later in the week.

43 games each year over the past 3 years and 34 points is the highest so far.

2010 top 5 places
34  Bearly on loose
33  cokers
33  Johnnie99
33  Mid Down Gael
32  Dubh driocht

2009 top 5 places
34  Bacon
33  DownFanatic
32  Mid Down Gael
32  off the laces
32  thewobbler
      
2008 top 5 places
31  DownFanatic
30  Niall Quinn
30  off the laces
29  D45
28  amallon