Down Club Hurling & Football

Started by Lecale2, November 10, 2006, 12:06:55 AM

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Cuan12

Congrats Kilcoo, you beat a good team today, Corofin next up - you can do it

grounded

Yes, fantastic by Kilcoo. A real controlled performance, especially as they had a few dubious decisions called against them. Defence outstanding. Daryl Brannigan on a different level. Lavery pulling the strings up front.

Mourne Rover

Corofin are one of the best club sides of recent decades but Kilcoo will give them all they want in the final. When it is over, regardless of the result, the priority must be getting some more Kilcoo players into the county squad at some stage during the NFL. Of the Branagan brothers, Aidan and Niall are probably at the veteran stage but  Aaron and Dabs would be huge assets and Eugene might join them as well. Ryan McEvoy is a fantastic prospect at 19 and looks as though he could come straight into a Down team at either full back or midfield. The Johnston brothers and PD will be back and McCourt in goals is also worth a look. Having finally won Ulster, and got through the AI final as well, this must be the time to make some progress over the previous reluctance of some Kilcoo players to accept county calls.

Ed Hardy

Quote from: Mourne Rover on January 04, 2020, 06:11:41 PM
Corofin are one of the best club sides of recent decades but Kilcoo will give them all they want in the final. When it is over, regardless of the result, the priority must be getting some more Kilcoo players into the county squad at some stage during the NFL. Of the Branagan brothers, Aidan and Niall are probably at the veteran stage but  Aaron and Dabs would be huge assets and Eugene might join them as well. Ryan McEvoy is a fantastic prospect at 19 and looks as though he could come straight into a Down team at either full back or midfield. The Johnston brothers and PD will be back and McCourt in goals is also worth a look. Having finally won Ulster, and got through the AI final as well, this must be the time to make some progress over the previous reluctance of some Kilcoo players to accept county calls.


Couldnt agree more, Id love to see Dabs, Darren O Hagan and  Aaron Branagan play in half back line together. Ryan Johnson looks better with every game, always showed his ability in flashes previously but really looking the part now.

Really hope they go on and win it now!

Lecale Gael

You would never have more than 4/5 from one club in a county panel. The club wouldn't entertain it
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Square Ball

Brilliant result for Kilcoo. I think that Ballyboden will have more members than there are people in Kilcoo.
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Ed Hardy

Quote from: Lecale Gael on January 04, 2020, 07:35:51 PM
You would never have more than 4/5 from one club in a county panel. The club wouldn't entertain it

St Galls and Cross would have had definitely had 6 players or more on county panels. Ballinderry probably the same. Unfortunately can't see more than 3 or 4  off the kilcoo squad joining up with Down after the final.

elk

Quote from: Mourne Rover on January 04, 2020, 06:11:41 PM
Corofin are one of the best club sides of recent decades but Kilcoo will give them all they want in the final. When it is over, regardless of the result, the priority must be getting some more Kilcoo players into the county squad at some stage during the NFL. Of the Branagan brothers, Aidan and Niall are probably at the veteran stage but  Aaron and Dabs would be huge assets and Eugene might join them as well. Ryan McEvoy is a fantastic prospect at 19 and looks as though he could come straight into a Down team at either full back or midfield. The Johnston brothers and PD will be back and McCourt in goals is also worth a look. Having finally won Ulster, and got through the AI final as well, this must be the time to make some progress over the previous reluctance of some Kilcoo players to accept county calls.
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Down football is obviously not too bad at club level as kilcoo had a few tight games to win the county championship

Targetman

Well done Kilcoo, fully deserved win, they'll give Corofin all they want and more in the final!!

sdg

Quote from: elk on January 04, 2020, 09:05:47 PM
Quote from: Mourne Rover on January 04, 2020, 06:11:41 PM
Corofin are one of the best club sides of recent decades but Kilcoo will give them all they want in the final. When it is over, regardless of the result, the priority must be getting some more Kilcoo players into the county squad at some stage during the NFL. Of the Branagan brothers, Aidan and Niall are probably at the veteran stage but  Aaron and Dabs would be huge assets and Eugene might join them as well. Ryan McEvoy is a fantastic prospect at 19 and looks as though he could come straight into a Down team at either full back or midfield. The Johnston brothers and PD will be back and McCourt in goals is also worth a look. Having finally won Ulster, and got through the AI final as well, this must be the time to make some progress over the previous reluctance of some Kilcoo players to accept county calls.
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Down football is obviously not too bad at club level as kilcoo had a few tight games to win the county championship
corofin had even harder games in the Galway championship don't get carried away elk kilcoo have gone to a different level than they needed to be in the down championship

Last Caress

Well done kilcoo. Really hope they can do what's needed to win the final.

Mourne Rover

Down were a little patchy tonight against limited opposition, but started and finished the game reasonably strongly.  While qualifying from a pretty ordinary group to make the semi finals of the McKenna for the first time in seven years will not get anyone too excited, securing the extra game against a D1 side like Tyrone should certainly bring us on for the start of the league.

Hynes looked OK in nets and most of his kick-outs were fine while McKernan showed good positional sense at full back but it remains to be seen whether he still has the pace for the edge of the square. Darren O'Hagan was the pick of the defence as usual, and Flynn is starting to look more comfortable at midfield. Barry O'Hagan and Havern had decent nights up front and Quinn only needed one half to remind us that his finishing has a touch of class. Hughes and Kerr both took fine scores coming off the bench so we have a few options for the next match which will tell us much more about where we are.

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champion1981

I see the kilcoo folks cleaned up last night @ the Gaelic  life  awards, fair play to them, think they can cause an upset sunday week! Best of luck to them

snoopdog

Did Down u20s lose to Antrim yesterday?   I know it was a development game. But cant be a good sign unless they were trying out a host of players.