Down Club Hurling & Football

[ardtole]

Strong monaghan team.

[NP 76]

Why can we not just name our team like everyone else does. It's hardly like we are going to Spring a massive surprise

[SHEEDY]

Why can we not just name our team like everyone else does. It's hardly like we are going to Spring a massive surprise

Friday night and still no team news. Release the team and give the supporters something to talk about, get excited about. Doesn't feel like championship weekend in down.

[wobbller]

 Ridiculous and disrespectful to us all.

[Line Ball]

It's not as if he doesn't know his starting team, does it not have to be in Croke Park on the Thursday morning?

[whitegoodman]

It's out

[SHEEDY]

team just released on twitter, someone must have been reading here lol.

1 stephen kane
2 gerard collins
3 gerard mcgovern
4 darren o hagan
5 david mckibben
6 aiden carr
7 darragh o hanlon
8 peter turley
9 kevin mckernan
10 connor maginn
11 mark poland
12 joe murphy
13 conaill mc govern
14 connaire harrison
15 barry o hagan

[OgraAnDun]

I'm slightly surprised Shay McArdle isn't starting, I wasn't at the Monaghan game in the league but listening to it on the radio he seemed to be causing the Monaghan defence some problems. He mustn't have shaken off his injury fully.

Decent enough team and we can only hope for the best on Sunday.

[clowry13]

Who the hells gona get our scores. Team cannot line out like that

[whitegoodman]

Decent defence, probably the best midfield they could out but not sure where the scores are coming from in the forward line.  O Hare and McArdle have only recently returned to training but it may have been worth risking one of them.  Devlin would also have been usefully for frees from the right alone.

[wobbller]

Who the hells gona get our scores. Team cannot line out like that

Some of or all of the following will get our scores;

1 stephen kane
2 gerard collins
3 gerard mcgovern
4 darren o hagan
5 david mckibben
6 aiden carr
7 darragh o hanlon
8 peter turley
9 kevin mckernan
10 connor maginn
11 mark poland
12 joe murphy
13 conaill mc govern
14 connaire harrison
15 barry o hagan

[SHEEDY]

does anyone if road closures for the gran fondo cycle event will effect traffic travelling through hilltown going to the match tomorrow?

[snoopdog]

Best of luck to Down today. Watching from Salou. Putting in a good performance I reckon would please most down men regardless result

[passedit]

does anyone if road closures for the gran fondo cycle event will effect traffic travelling through hilltown going to the match tomorrow?

I'd say so. List of closures here http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/whats-on/gran-fondo-2016-what-roads-11415071#ICID=sharebar_twitter

[PAULD123]

Who the hells gona get our scores. Team cannot line out like that

With a decisive attitude to getting ball into the forward line then those players are capable of scoring enough. But it is sad to see that we very much have to field a forward line that could be so much better. Jerome Johnston and Ryan Johnston injured, Mooney with attitude problems, Clarke, Laverty and McComiskey not wanting to be involved.

I know people will say that we shouldn't waste time thinking about lads that don't want to be involved but the manager's job is not just preparing and putting out his best players, it is also about sourcing those players. It's not like these guys are being out performed by our county players in club football. Whatever has made county football training unattractive should be re-examined as a failed exercise if it effectively produces a less good team as a result.

Our forward line could actually be:

Ryan Johnston - Clarke - Mooney
Johnston (J) - Laverty - McComiskey

I'd be confident in that forward line