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Yep!
Being a reserve manager, and watching your team’s spine being ripped apart in a dead rubber SFC match, is as little fun as you can have in the GAA.
Tbh, I think that if a) we will continue with the back door in SFC/IFC , and b) we will continue with Reserves being finished before the first team championships, then I think the right system is that anyone who played (even for a minute) in 2 or more first team championship matches the previous season, should be excluded (and your named 13 has to come from this list). And in the unlikely event that a club doesn’t end up with 13+ excluded players, it then reverts to the named 13 they dream up.
Onus should be on club secretaries to return a list of excluded players before the start of the season.
The reserve championships need to be looked at for next year. They should start after the first round of the senior, inter, and junior championships. Kilcoo, Carryduff, Burren, and Mayobridge are in the reserve finals this week and they have the biggest panels so this way suits them. Micheal Rooney got Ulster player of the year in 2021 and is playing in a reserve championship. That is not right.
Relegation was always going to be a hard one for this season and when the fixtures came out it was a race to get into the top 4 and secure your status and start preparing for the championship. The top 4 in divisions one and three are being played cautiously and teams and giving players the opportunity to experience top-flight football. They were awarded the opportunity when they finished in that position.
The race for the last relegation spot in one is very hard to call. Carryduff and Bryansford have tough games in the run-in. Next year division 2 will be interesting and I do not think the team who joins the bottom 3 will have a cakewalk in division 2 next year.
By the same token if Micheal Rooney or any other footballer for that matter, player of the year or not, is studying overseas and can’t return to play Senior football on a Friday night but has a chance to play for their club on a Saturday…do we want to block this? It’s not as if Kilcoo are putting out 7/8 starting seniors every reserve match. I would argue in this case the system has worked well for a fella like Micheal.
Any decent reports from Kilcoo Burren game on Friday?
Was talking to a few older Burren patrons and they were very impressed with how the team is going. Don’t know where all the reports are coming from for the discontent. According to a couple of prominent Burren men in Grounded, they see themselves as favourites for the championship. Apparently the bad blood over the last few weeks with the magpies has been the perfect motivation to take them to the next level. Are Burren worth a few pound in the bookmakers?
Who is most likely to go down from Div 1B? Starting to think RGU will go down as it looks like a straight shootout when they play Loughinisland in two weeks time!
Gallagher has done very well with Derry but he's a core of players that have reached 6 of the last 8 Ulster minor finals. Surely Down need to sort their underage set up (massive potential) as much as appointing a top dog!
Down boys playing well in Chicago. Barry O Hagan has scored 4 21 in 3 games the stand out player. Three kilcoo boys playing really well Ryan Johnston, Dylan Ward and Caolim Docherty. From what I can see they should be playing County.Dont know where you heard that from.The Kilcoo ones are generally subs in the games so far in Chicago.
Wee James no surprise, the only surprise is that he left it so long. Down are at a low ebb but it’s probably a good time to take that job as they can’t sink much lower but they need to begin to try and heal the club rifts which will be difficult. Maybe an outside man like Banty alongside Laverty and Poacher.
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