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#1
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
January 25, 2024, 09:14:14 AM
League starts Sunday,  nothing else but promotion has to be achieved
#2
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
November 10, 2023, 09:40:44 PM
Quote from: Hard2Listen2 on November 02, 2023, 08:00:06 PM
Quote from: sdg on November 02, 2023, 09:40:38 AM
Quote from: Hard2Listen2 on November 01, 2023, 08:42:11 PMHearing rumours of a few more managerial movers but not confirmed yet.

Anyone else hear anything?

Truth Hurts you're usually in the know. What's happening?

Sure why don't you tell us the rumours?

Wouldn't be right to put something up until it's confirmed. Could be embarrassing to any individual or club if it's not true.

Now thats embrassing
#3
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
November 05, 2023, 04:44:43 PM
Quote from: Hard2Listen2 on November 04, 2023, 08:10:39 PMJohn Kennedy to Clonduff?
Is this a rumour
#4
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
November 03, 2023, 08:26:43 AM
Quote from: Hard2Listen2 on November 02, 2023, 08:00:06 PM
Quote from: sdg on November 02, 2023, 09:40:38 AM
Quote from: Hard2Listen2 on November 01, 2023, 08:42:11 PMHearing rumours of a few more managerial movers but not confirmed yet.

Anyone else hear anything?

Truth Hurts you're usually in the know. What's happening?

Sure why don't you tell us the rumours?

Wouldn't be right to put something up until it's confirmed. Could be embarrassing to any individual or club if it's not true.

So you would be happy for others to give out names?
#5
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
November 02, 2023, 09:40:38 AM
Quote from: Hard2Listen2 on November 01, 2023, 08:42:11 PMHearing rumours of a few more managerial movers but not confirmed yet.

Anyone else hear anything?

Truth Hurts you're usually in the know. What's happening?

Sure why don't you tell us the rumours?
#6
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
October 16, 2023, 07:40:32 PM
Quote from: Cuan12 on October 16, 2023, 07:23:56 PMWhat happened over the weekend is the stuff of fiction writers.We have our county champions now dictating who officiates their games for some contrived made up reasons, had this been the case in the eighties and nineties I know of two teams that wouldn't have taken the field when certain refs were appointed.
So from a Down supporter this has opened a can of worms, a few unanswered questions remain.
1. What was the basis of Kilcoo s protest
2. Was there any pressure put on the county executive to replace Paul Faloon from another source as it is rumoured there was from a member of the senior management team
3.Who was making all the phone calls in search of an alternative referee and was this search started because our county final was on national TV
Had this final not involved Kilcoo , Paul Faloon would have refereed the match regardless of any objection.
It's sad that a team that has distinguished itself on the field should resort to shameful actions of manipulating  who referees their matches.
They certainly didn't need to on yesterdays showing but maybe they weren't leaving anything to chance.
Lastly we needed a leader yesterday and our county chairman was no where to be seen or heard from, hopefully the next chairman or chairperson is more capable.
What a mess!!
The fallout of this may be considerable.


Agree with this where is the Co chairman???  He usually has plenty to say
#7
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
October 15, 2023, 05:11:13 PM
Easy win for kilcoo, 11 out of 12 is unreal, and I don't see it stopping for the foreseeable future.
Burren very poor going backwards under mc corry.
Higgins done a good job in the circumstances
#8
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
September 22, 2023, 12:06:37 PM
Quote from: 5times5times on September 22, 2023, 10:45:15 AM
Quote from: PTC on September 21, 2023, 11:11:14 PM
Quote from: Granto on September 21, 2023, 06:56:24 PM
Quote from: elk on September 19, 2023, 08:43:42 AM
Quote from: urbangael on September 18, 2023, 09:44:21 PMPoacher unlikely to get another job in Down football. The merry go round stops at some point. Mayobridge was always split on his appointment. Not a nice thing to say but there will be Mayobridge supporters happy enough tonight as that confirms his exit.
CPN might take him.

I hear that CPN are already in negotiations with him  ;)
I hear castlewellan are also interested

Who in their right mind, would want or take that buffoon to their club? He's won FA, gets fines off the Down CB for his petulant antics along the line every week, and can't remember the third one..

Oh yeah, he's won sweet FA!

But sure pay him a fortune every week, sure he does a bluffer coaching session in Newry every year.

+1, PS he won't be anywhere near CPN
#9
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
August 27, 2023, 08:53:50 PM
Terrible crowd in Newry tonight,  time to return to knockout football,  would have been 3>4 thousand easy
#10
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
August 03, 2023, 04:47:55 PM
Quote from: skat man on August 03, 2023, 01:27:23 PM
carryduff have the biggest pick in down
laverty a huge miss for saul , they just missed out on promotion again
havern a huge miss for saval
downpatrick down players that would see them in promotion mix
glenn down players that would see them safe
longstone down players that would have seen them safe
clonduff down players
mayobridge down players
burren huge squad and depth
kilcoo huge squad and depth

yes players were released but take any top players out of training and the level drops across the board. take them out consistently for 7 months and the level of clubs will drop. the old rule was 5 starred games , teams didnt have their players back in training this year until gameweek 14 . county board need to push the start of the league back and have end of July and august for league games with the 9 second half of league games being played in 7 weeks . that allows 6 weeks to run the championship off to have a fortnight before the ulster campaign

The league is for playing
The championship is for winning.
#11
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
July 07, 2023, 09:42:58 AM
Quote from: downtothecore on July 06, 2023, 06:06:07 PM
But 80% of the crowd have the tickets that a lot of us want and cant get for the TC
I Every one who asked for a ticket through the clubs got one.
#12
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
July 06, 2023, 04:17:33 PM
Quote from: Mikhailov on July 06, 2023, 03:26:18 PM
Quote from: PAULD123 on July 06, 2023, 02:46:21 PM
Quote from: meatsy86 on July 06, 2023, 01:58:05 PM
Quote from: PAULD123 on July 06, 2023, 01:49:26 PM
Apparently there was some rational that Kerry fans had been made to travel on a Saturday to a game for the quarter final and the top brass didn't think they should have to travel on a Saturday for two games in a row. Some vague idea that people might have to give up work to travel on Saturday but not necessarily on a Sunday.

I know, before anyone starts on me, I'm am not defending this decision. There is next to no sensible thinking here. We could have played our game on the Sunday and just switched with the junior championship final.

For by that, even playing the final at all alongside a semi final of the Sam is a further failure of the GAA to make this a seriously respected competition. I think we should have a finals weekend, over two days. Saturday play the Tailteann cup and Minor all-Ireland finals, maybe a third one if you need it to fill the stadium (perhaps the ladies final because that deserves to be promoted too). Sunday just let it be the Sam all-Ireland on it's own.

The reason for playing the big final on it's own is that there are always far more fans from both finalists than ever get tickets partly because some tickets are being given to two other counties who are in the minor final. And because of the very small allocation the fans of the minor finalists often miss out. 

So let every minor finalist fan see the match, let every Tailteann cup finalist see the match, and let both those finals be the prelude to the big match the next day. And if there is third match (to fill the stadium) then let the ladies game be promoted in front of a decent crowd.

The GAA say they want the Tailteann to be a respected tournament but then they treat it as a throwaway event.

Ladies Finals Day is always a triple header in Croke Park, Senior, Intermediate and Junior. Junior Mens Final is the Sunday because both semi-finals are played two days before on the Friday. Agree though in regard to Minor Final it should be played in Croke Park in front of a big crowd.

I get the theory of the three ladies finals together. To pull the senior ladies one out would promote that but then denigrate the others. It was just a thought on how to promote the ladies game, but obviously not if it meant reducing the resect for the other levels. 

But definitely a finals day for Tailteann, Minor and then another, perhaps the junior final. Or maybe a third match could be the Masters final. That would be a bit of craic, seeing stars of the last generation giving it another bash. And again, would promote that competition.

Wouldn't this all create a lovely lead up to the big match the next day on the Sunday.

Plus the format could be replicated for the Hurling.

A lot of the points you make are good and would make sense but the GAA hierarchy don't do 'common sense' so we have to expect irrational thinking.

The minor final should always be a showcase event on AI final day but as far as I know the last time that happened was 2018 - the most recent AI minor finals have been stand alone fixtures in provincial grounds. For eg; this Sunday the AI minor final is in Armagh AG

Secondly, the Masters is not a GAA affiliated competition for some reason unless that has changed in the last 12 months. It has never got the publicity it deserved, never pushed hard by the head honchos at Croke Park.  As you say, it could be part of finals weekend but obviously the GAA don't think so.

The fixture scheduling for the AI semi finals, the Tailteann Cup and the Junior final is another disaster by the GAA but they will have an obscure reason why they fixed it the way it has been done despite common sense dictating otherwise.
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Have to laugh at all these posters worried about the scheduling of the TC final, and the importance of it. Its on a Saturday at 3, cause nobody outside the 2 finalist cares about it, viewing figures will be poor  and 80% of the crowd for the AISF won't be in for it with over a  hour between games.
#13
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
May 06, 2023, 02:30:03 PM
CPN on the hunt for a new management team..
#14
Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football
April 29, 2023, 04:08:15 PM
Quote from: SHEEDY on April 29, 2023, 02:50:00 PM
Another bad day for the minors, lost every game in the group.

Embrassed in all 4 games,  4
#15
GAA Discussion / Re: NFL Division 1 2023
February 25, 2023, 09:14:18 PM
Quote from: OrchardOrange on February 25, 2023, 09:10:52 PM
Quote from: Captain Obvious on February 25, 2023, 08:58:42 PM
Quote from: 5times5times on February 25, 2023, 08:48:07 PM
Time for mcgeeney to pass on the reigns? Tactically inept and just can't win close games.

Armagh have the talent, just wrong man at helm.
Any thoughts on your own Tyrone taking a trimming tonight? Could be McGeeney's Armagh that officially send Tyrone down to Division 2.

I've little doubt we will beat a hopeless Tyrone side but we won't beat Kerry or Dublin unless we make changes. Current management set is just not up to the task

Totally agree how has mc Geeney got away with it for so long