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Only after putting £100 on Burren at 6/4 to win tonight. I think its a good thing. So T O Hare i am inviting you, your father, Benny and Pluggy in for a beer in Shamrocks club after the game!. I will be at the corner of the bar drinking champagne

The Bridge are lucky to be in it and the excuses are starting already as to why they will be beaten on Saturday. Typical with the excuses but in truth a full Bridge team would struggle to beat this up and coming Burren team who will dominate Down football for years with Kilcoo. I think this will be the end for Mayobridge and for some of their players and my guess is that they will slip back into the mid table in the next few years and maybe lower! I fear for the Bridges defence against Burrens lightening attack while they will have too much strength in defence!
Kilcoo will beat the Ford. They are too quick and crafty. the ford will not finish the game with 15 men!!

Ballyholland got off to a great start last start but could not maintain their momentum. I felt that Burren were excellent in the second half and they will take some stopping!! Though their county players were very poor One point though, I was over at the far side behind the goals in the coldest pitch in Ireland and it was disappointing to see some Mayobridge stalwarts openly cheering for Ballyholland

Good luck to the Kingdom tonight.. have they ever won the PRC ??

Even though we lost i was disappointed with the way some players conducted themselves in the aftermath of the defeat.. a few left of the banquet and some did not arrive back to the hotel until monday morning!!! Half of the players could hardly see the homecoming!! It was not a good example for the kids

no need for people along your line to run on the pitch like lunatics!! Move over the bridge, the magpies and Burren are the future!!

We dont intend to move over yet

You should stop your crowing O'Hare.. that mouth of yours never seemed to stop last night.. i wonder were you get it from Hard luck Kilcoo.. yous were the better team.. the bridge had to pull a 47 year old from the bench to steady their ship!!

no need for people along your line to run on the pitch like lunatics!! Move over the bridge, the magpies and Burren are the future!!

looking forward to Kilcoo and Mayobridge in Newry tonight at 8.. the game on saturday past was exciting and I hope the magpies win because of the stupid celebrations from the Bridge fans when they equalised in the last kick.. cockiest club in history!!!

He had a team of his life in tribune a few years back.. does anyone have the team of players he picked???

Your right about O'Hare.. a player who could read a game , tackle and pass!!! Though i thought he sometimes took the man too much!! He was bulit like a shithouse and boy did he use it!!

Dalsey Mooney was a genius at underage and it was sad that we never seen his potential!!!

what did james mcgovern do on Dawson ?
Its burrens title to lose, they are strong and wll balanced and think they can go the whole way!!! The bridge are past it but they are extremley cocky and are dangerous!!
If you listened to some their supporters you would think that gaa was invented down there none least by a board member who is extremley loud and hard to listen to :L :L
Kilcoo will fail to reach the heights of last season and really could you listen to them any longer!!! Clonduff will not beat the kingdom.. they have peaked too early!!!
Hope annaclone are hammered due to their transfer dealings and i predict that Bosco will walk the junior!!! can these lads push on though!! The bosco have a great youth set up.. They should have pushed on from here!!!
DJIM takes no prisoners :L :L :L

well folks i heard really bad news about Ambrose.. think we will be lost without him... also did anyone see bennys column in the democrat this week.. i thought he was a wee bit hard on Rostrevor and the players!!!

Sorry downjim, don't read it myself  what did he write?

DOWN Club Championship's took centre stage this weekend and to be fair some of the football was disappointing for the patrons who paid to watch the games.

Ballyholland certainly provided the shock of the round when they hammered Rostrevor in Mayobridge on Thursday evening.

Shane Mulholland had his team in brilliant condition and they tackled like terriers throughout.

Paul Murphy was majestic in midfield but Ronan Murtagh stole the show and hit some excellent scores.

Rostrevor were very disappointing, they lacked hunger and showed little pride for the jersey.

It must be worrying for a club to have won four minor championships in the noughties that they fail to bring more of their talent through. Rostrevor thirds put our thirds out of the Championship a few weeks back and I was amazed at the players who were lining out for them. It seems that the minors coming through are content play thirds football instead of working hard to be a senior footballer.

We (Mayobridge) had a good performance over a battling Warrenpoint side.

The 'Point gave us a lot to think about in the opening 15 minutes but once we got the first goal we were never going to get beaten.

Ronan Sexton and Cathal Magee were excellent for us but we will need to improve if we are going to advance any further in the championship.

Saval was the venue and the club should take a lot of pride in how they conducted the whole evening.

The main game of the evening was Clonduff and An Riocht which were 10 until ten minutes to go.

Clonduff fought hard to earn the replay but they must be worried at how poor they played.

The Kingdom will be disappointed because they should have closed the game out but there is all to play for in the replay which will take place after the All-Ireland semi final between Down and Kildare.

Burren and Kilcoo had big wins with Burren really impressing.

Frank Dawson has certainly built a strong unit and they will be hard to stop in their quest to win the Frank O'Hare cup for the first time in 13 years.

There was some interesting results in the Intermediate Championship with Glenn providing the shock of the round beating their neighbours Clann na Banna.

Annaclone will be favourites for the title now but I believe that if Drumgath can hit the right form that they could go the whole way.

well folks i heard really bad news about Ambrose.. think we will be lost without him... also did anyone see bennys column in the democrat this week.. i thought he was a wee bit hard on Rostrevor and the players!!!