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Kilcoo delaying announcement for Monday evening to take away from All-Ireland winners. Brilliant winning mentality they have. Always number 1.

Big appointment in Kilcoo. Huge job too with men going to Australia and the states. Rory Gallagher was first choice and they went to his door. He turned them down. All is not well in kilcoo!

I was in Molloys earlier and heard that the Magpies are on the lookout for new management. I wonder why there has been no announcement?

Laverty and Choc to take over

Some good u21 games this weekend. Drumgath v CPN should be a cracker

Who is in the other semi final? Burren won Ulster at this age at minors so they are obviously one team who's the other?

Any word on the manager merry go round for next season?

My championship all stars
1.Mcmahon
2.Magee
3.choc
4.O'Hagan
5.Aaron B
6.John Boyle
7.Dabs
8. Ryan mcevoy
9. Murphy
10. Arthur
11. P D
12. Donagh
13. Laverty
14. Ross
15. Loughran

who is Magee at 2?

1. Bobo/ Trainor
2. McAleenan
3. Murdock
4. O Hagan
5. John Boyle
6. Choc
7. Dabs
8. McEvoy
9. Ryan Magee
10. Ward
11. Aidan Carr
12. Donagh
13. Loughran
14. Ross
15. Laverty

A win at all cost mentality taken too far perhaps.

Is it true Benny is away from the county and Mickey Walsh and Mark Doran are in.  If correct it's nice to see performances being rewarded !!

Benny back with bridge?

I think people are overestimating the potential strength of second string teams in the ACFL structure.
Remember that if a seconds' team enters into this structure then their games will be at the same time on a Friday night as their senior game.
Take for example if Kilcoo 1sts were in Division 1 and Kilcoo 2nds were in Division 4. Top 13 rule is applicable.
Say the Kilcoo 1sts manager has an injury list of 4/5 and yet still, as most do, wants to bring a panel of 25-28 to the senior game. That's the guts of 33 -35 players out of commission for the 2nds team for their game.
Not withstanding the 2nds squads' own potential injury list/unavailability. That would probably leave half of a 2nds team made up with 3rds players. Consistently this sort of team may be competitive enough at times in Division 4 but definitely not in Division 3.

Do you really think a Kilcoo player that the senior manager has told he is on the seconds on a given week wants to travel to St. Paul's in Belfast in division 4 while the senior team is playing the bridge/ burren/ yellas or point? Same for every seconds teams that would be considered for playing in division 4 but in all honesty it wouldn't be fair on them players as it would be more than likely they wouldn't have one single supporter watching them.
Kilcoo burren Mayobridge rostrevor castlewellan and clonduff would be the 6 strongest in terms of panels and should probably play each other in their own league. This would mean minimal travelling and players playing at their level while being challenged weekly. Put these games on a Wednesday leaves weekends free for everyone. Senior teams do most training on Mondays and Wednesday would be the second night where they could do their tactics work etc with the smaller numbers

Kilcoo have not been good champions at any level. Always something that puts a dark cloud over all teams and that's why and it pains me to say it Burren win today. Burren are a great club who respect all teams. Kilcoos minor championship team has been somewhat massively turnised with some disgraceful stuff on route to the final. I wonder who they take after

unfortunately sledging is part of the game now ,at every level,we even seen it in the all ireland ,was the kilcoo players sledging for no reason?did the bridge players  not say or do anything  to kilcoo players? I think not! Anyway it's the same old cliche # don't give what you cant take back🤔

You are every bit as bad as the kilcoo player that said it. You must be some example to your own family.

climb back under the rock keyboardwarrior, you 🛎end

1 down 1 to go, up CPN

Best of luck to our ladies footballers in their Ulster semi final today and to our senior footballers in the final tomorrow.

#UTM

Hope yous are well beaten, up St. Paul's and CPN!

Kilcoo have not been good champions at any level. Always something that puts a dark cloud over all teams and that's why and it pains me to say it Burren win today. Burren are a great club who respect all teams. Kilcoos minor championship team has been somewhat massively turnised with some disgraceful stuff on route to the final. I wonder who they take after

unfortunately sledging is part of the game now ,at every level,we even seen it in the all ireland ,was the kilcoo players sledging for no reason?did the bridge players  not say or do anything  to kilcoo players? I think not! Anyway it's the same old cliche # don't give what you cant take back🤔

You are every bit as bad as the kilcoo player that said it. You must be some example to your own family.

A strong Referee will be required if we are to come out on top. On Friday Night Paul Falloon blatantly ignored three or four off the ball incidents that would have seen Ballyholland punished.

Kilcoo will be well aware of The Point's main threats and will do whatever it takes to nulify them. If the Referee allows them to hold, drag and foul it will undoubtedly curtail our running game. However if he Referees the game based on the laws of the game then I honestly think bar a seriously poor display, we will have too much for Kilcoo.

Aw now Guevara, I was at the game with a number of Point people who I'm friendly with and all of them would tell you Paul Falloon was very good the other night and didn't help Ballyholland in the slightest. Thought he did the game very fairly and was a very decent display of referring IMO. Tiarnan Rushe should've been black carded first half but that was the linesman (Darren O'Hare I believe) who should've called that, not Falloon. Other than that there was very little he got wrong...

Kilcoo seem to have most of the referees on their side this last six or seven years...most of whom are doing in house games for them. Adrian Sharvin probably get the final. Surely Ciaran Brannigan can't get the final?

How can ciaran Brannigan honestly be considered to referee kilcoo games??? He is a relative of the Brannigans on the kilcoo team. A disgrace over the years he has got to referee kilcoo with them playing.

Brannigan referee kilcoo again? Surely your joking. Did he not ref them in a semi final bs the bridge a few years back and only awarded them 1 free in the second half which was a 45. Also I thought he was cousins with the chocs?

Refereeing in the county has gone down a notch this year compared to last year

What happened at the lgfa intermediate final on Saturday?

What I did see was Conor Lavery running all the way round the pitch to abuse the lineswoman who had advised the ref to give a yellow card to a Kilcoo player. It was unnecessary and unsporting and a really bad example to young players, as Kilcoo were much the better team and never in danger of defeat.

The sooner he heads to Monaghan the better it seems. Not been a good couple of weeks for him it seems.
Think this could be a case of mistaken identity

Definitely not; I've always admired Conor Lavery as a player, and Kilcoo as a club, but this behaviour was a very bad example to young gaels.

Any updates on Ballykinlar? Last update from Kim Jung McAteer was that he had appointed a planning consultant from Derry.
We must have nearly cleared the Burrenbridge debt by now.

Collie McGurk? Was that him?

Burrenbridge dept is now serviceable after being taken over by Croke Park, but I think there's a good few more years yet before it's cleared.

What's the burrenbridge dept?