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St Paul's are on their way out. Watched them today and they were guilty of some unsavoury incidents to say the least. Football always wins in the end, unfortunately for St Paul's it's something they're not capable of playing. Their intimidation of a young corner forward just out of minor does nothing for our game. Alas they were never capable of bringing players through the underage system so I suppose they wouldn't know an awful lot about developing players and how young fellas confidence etc can be affected. Jack it in now lads , give your pitch to your friends in the local cricket or rugby club and bow out gracefully, Cumann Lutchleas Gael don't need your sort of behaviour in our association!

Stop whinging, it was a tough game but Bredagh gave as good as they got.  Jody Gormley is hardly a saint.  Bredagh started the row that got the At Paul's player sent off.  St Paul's where coming back and where trying to take a quick free but the Bredagh player wouldn't give the ball back.  Then players from both sides got involved.  How he managed to single out a St Paul's player I don't know.  St Paul's where nieve as every time they won a free a Bredagh player started a row and the St Paul's players reacted.  The ref should have been moving the ball forward 10 yards instead of hoping the ball but St Paul's need to look at there discipline.  Should have been 15 minutes of injury time in the second half for all the time wasting going on with trainers coming on with the magic sponge every 2 minutes for another major 'injury'.

Does anyone know any results from the ulster league at the weekend?

Benny Coulter is downs best player and has too many to count important scores with Down and Mayobridge over the years, If Benny plays well and the others round him don't that is not his fault.  It is up to the other players to step up to the mark and take responsibility with or without Benny on the team, not kick the ball to Benny and then stand back and wait.  Could be interesting playing John Clarke in full forward and Benny in the corner, it could give Benny more freedom to take a man on like Mickey Linden before him instead of always having to be the target man and play with his back to goal.

With regard to Martin McHugh he is just another Dunphy, always trying to be controversial.  He has been saying for the last 3 years how over-rated Kerry are.  Eventually someone will beat them and he will claim to be right all along.

[far better than Collins who was IMO a fairly average keeper.]

Can't comment on Murdock, but Patterson was certainly better than the other two and far better than Collins who was IMO a fairly average keeper.

Fairly average keepers dont win two All Irelands.

Ah, that old chestnut.  Footballing ability is directly proportional to the number of All-Ireland medals you win. Thanks for your contribution.

Who is the better keeper in your mind, Collins or Mickey McVeigh? No hurry with your answer.

I personally think Collins was a much better keeper.  He had far better reflexes than McVeigh and it is no coincidence Down won their 2 All Irelands when he was in nets between 1991 and 1995.  Micky McVeigh was a big man but a lot of his saves where because a player would blast the ball and it would strike off him, but he had trouble getting down if a player kept a shot low.  He had a monster kick out long before tees came into use though.

6th sam, as regards development of our fields we dont have much option really. the school is being redeveloped in the next couple of years but i dont think we will be gaining any territorial advantages from it, despite the efforts of alot of people including the parish priest. i think we may have some of our facilities upgraded in turn for giving the school some use of them but by the same token it doesnt solve the problem of needing a bigger pitch. the wee pitch at the top is now fully floodlit which is a big help. its good for training and hosting underage matches at night. p.s. if you hear of any good size plots of land goin cheap in the right area of banbridge you can give me a shout.

A bit more drainage on the pitch would be a good start, it can be a bit of a bog at times.

Ulster CCC will announce outcome of investigation tonight. Both teams could face having 10 men banned. The League final will be a farce if Kilcoo have to field a reserve team. An Riocht should offer to postpone the match until after the bans are served.

Yeah right, might An Riocht will play the match without the Clarke's to even the teams up a bit.