Down Club Hurling & Football

[champion1981]

massive news coming out of kilcoo tonight, apparently mickey moran is the man they want

[snoopdog]

Is there nobody within Down that can be given a chance to manage the clubs. As a county there must be some amount of money lining outside managers pockets. Yes Burren have one of their own but stevie mcdonnell isnt there for free. Would jerome johnson not get a chance with his own club? Maybe its a position he has had in the past. 

[champion1981]

snoopdog do u really think paddy isnt getting paid in burren?? id say jeromes biggest hurdle is that this year he will have 3 sons there! maybe a selector or a role below the manager ?

[general]

Mickey Moran Appointed Kilcoo Senior Team Manager

Eoghan Rua Cill Chua CLG are delighted to announce the appointment of Mickey Moran as senior team manager on a 3 year term.
Mickey was unanimously ratified at a club committee meeting this evening and the club are over the moon that the Glen Maghera man has agreed to become our manager.
Moran is a former Derry player and manager, and is renowned as one of the top coaches in the GAA. He had spells as manager in Mayo, Donegal, Leitrim and Sligo in the past and more recently led Slaughtneil to 4 Derry and 3 Ulster club titles.

Also part of the new management team will be Conleith Gilligan, who will act as team trainer.
Conleith is also a former Derry player and only this season retired from a very successful club career with his native Ballinderry Shamrocks.
A prolific forward, Gilligan won an All Ireland club Title, two ulster club titles and seven Derry championships with the Lough Shore club.
In recent years he has took up some coaching/training roles while still playing and is highly rated in this regard.

Paul Devlin will also be part of management team in a coaching role. Paul is also a Native of the Oak Leaf County.

We wish our new management team and players all the best for the 2019 season.

#UTM 🏁

Ref: Kilcoo Facebook

[general]

Supposedly Frank Dawson turned down the water boy job at Kilcoo as the package offered was not good enough. Believe this if you wish.

It's as realistic as some of the other tripe being I've read here recently 

[naka]

Jody Gormley the new Manager of Loughinisland? Big move

Hopefully he gets better results than he does at the abbey🙈

[Ambrose]

Great appointment for Kilcoo, they've reacted to the championship defeated exactly as you would expect them to. It would be great to see more of them making themselves available to the county team, they have been the best team in the county for nearly a decade but have been badly underrepresented for whatever reasons for too long.

Mayobridge   

[Smurfy123]

That's a big big statement from Kilcoo withtgat management team. They sure will bounce back this year. Possibly as good a club management team in Ireland. Moran Gilligan and Devlin. In shock at the calibre in the one management team. The other teams in Down will not like to see that.

[Mourne Red]

The JP McManus is being used well by clubs it seems! Some good appointments so far

[OgraAnDun]

Serious money being thrown around there.

[champion1981]

fair play to kilcoo. massive massive appointments there,good luck to them! however they managed to pull that 1 of i dont know but fair fu@ks to them!! no price on success!!

[banker]

Is there nobody within Down that can be given a chance to manage the clubs. As a county there must be some amount of money lining outside managers pockets. Yes Burren have one of their own but stevie mcdonnell isnt there for free. Would jerome johnson not get a chance with his own club? Maybe its a position he has had in the past.

Clubs obviously don't feel they have men in house that are fit for the job. Is that down to no investment into coaching over the last 2 decades in the county? We have only seen in the last 2 years a bit of investment into this and still is nothing major compared to other counties.

From the top 2 divisions there must only be 5-6 clubs with clubmen as current managers - Burren, Rostrevor, Glenn, Tullylish, Darragh Cross. There may be a few more but I wouldn't say too many!

[Targetman]

Jody Gormley the new Manager of Loughinisland? Big move

Hopefully he gets better results than he does at the abbey🙈

That wouldn't be hard, I'd say his work colleague Dan Gordon played a part in his appointment

[downjim]

What's that smell??


Desperation 😩

[champion1981]

thats fear u smell downjim lol