Down Club Hurling & Football

[Too many steps]

I saw a picture of Oisin Treacey from Bredagh, no 16, I presume the sub goalkeeper. Eamonn Brown's brother was on the panel too, don't know the other two.

James Kelly and Conor Murphy from Burren I think.

[Johnnysboys]

Turns out there are 7.. Ronan Connor from Saul the other player..
U20s not going too well at present. Haven't won any challenge games and have a seriously tough group in championship. It's mental how much club football these lads will miss with either the A championship or if not successful being put into the B.

[Truth hurts]

Turns out there are 7.. Ronan Connor from Saul the other player..
U20s not going too well at present. Haven't won any challenge games and have a seriously tough group in championship. It's mental how much club football these lads will miss with either the A championship or if not successful being put into the B.

Who have the u20s played?

[snoopdog]

Turns out there are 7.. Ronan Connor from Saul the other player..
U20s not going too well at present. Haven't won any challenge games and have a seriously tough group in championship. It's mental how much club football these lads will miss with either the A championship or if not successful being put into the B.

Cause you want to be winning challenge games.??
Are challenge not all about getting game time for the whole squad and to be honest do you really need to be showing your hand before going into a game.  I know they played Armagh and I think Dublin also.

[downtothecore]

U20s were missing a good few players against louth on Tuesday night and they took a good beating. Louth were good.
I think they they will learn from it and with a few games coming down the track it will help this group  find their best options. They will do ok.

[Truth hurts]

Is it any surprise our U20 team is struggling? It has been years since our schools have been successful. This has a clear bearing on county football. We require a robust secondary education coaching review. The county and the schools should be working hand in hand.

[manwithnoplan]

Is it any surprise our U20 team is struggling? It has been years since our schools have been successful. This has a clear bearing on county football. We require a robust secondary education coaching review. The county and the schools should be working hand in hand.

That comment would make a lot more sense if the Under 20's hadn't recently won two Ulster titles.

[Golden Eye]

Again Down GAA Social media shocking to say the least! No Recognition to are players involved last night!

[snoopdog]

All this talk of Down schools doing nothing in McRory. St Colmans had to share  the cup with Maghera because of covid. They potentially could've went all the way and won a hogan that year. It can't always be down to St Colmans, they will always have lean spells. The Abbey had half the Armagh team that won an all Ireland in 02 and did nothing with them.

[thewobbler]

Again Down GAA Social media shocking to say the least! No Recognition to are players involved last night!

If the difference between someone's happiness and plight, is that our county board publishes a congratulations message every time someone from Down wins something in any sphere of Gaelic Games, then I really do despair for the future of the human race.

We do not need this validation of our efforts. We really do not.

[manwithnoplan]

Again Down GAA Social media shocking to say the least! No Recognition to are players involved last night!

If the difference between someone's happiness and plight, is that our county board publishes a congratulations message every time someone from Down wins something in any sphere of Gaelic Games, then I really do despair for the future of the human race.

We do not need this validation of our efforts. We really do not.

Bit of a ridiculous comment with the usual hyperbole of course. If you can't see the value of a simple social media acknowledgement to the great sporting achievement of some players from our county then why are you even participating in online discussion boards?

[Truth hurts]

On the Down Facebook page, a post congratulates UU on their victory. People need to relax; irrelevant GAA content has taken over every club's Facebook page. Mary has been selected for the U14 team; please post. Let's get a post up when Jimmy fractures his arm at school and Scotty passes his theory exam. Jesus wept.

[thewobbler]

On the Down Facebook page, a post congratulates UU on their victory. People need to relax; irrelevant GAA content has taken over every club's Facebook page. Mary has been selected for the U14 team; please post. Let's get a post up when Jimmy fractures his arm at school and Scotty passes his theory exam. Jesus wept.

This.

PROs up and down the country have created a stick with which to beat themselves and each other.

A good recent example was the well of South Down clubs who took to Twitter and Facebook to wish their Abbey players good luck ahead of their MacRory QF.  Delivering that kind of content across multiple codes, in multiple schools and across all age groups is not plausible. So it's favouritism. Which then leads to shitty conversations and backbiting within clubs.

The poster above might value  the presence of Down players in a Sigerson Cup winning team more than, for example, St Joseph's winning the Pat King Cup with a largely a Down playing pool. But the youngsters and their parents would not, and therein lies the problem.

A county PRO who were to cover every football and hurling related byproduct in their county, would produce a mess. And 20 hours a week of labour needed to create that mess.

[imtommygunn]

It's on twitter too

The twitter account got hacked last week and only appears to be back up and running as of yesterday - your social media is pretty good tbf.

[snoopdog]

Again Down GAA Social media shocking to say the least! No Recognition to are players involved last night!

If the difference between someone's happiness and plight, is that our county board publishes a congratulations message every time someone from Down wins something in any sphere of Gaelic Games, then I really do despair for the future of the human race.

We do not need this validation of our efforts. We really do not.

Bit of a ridiculous comment with the usual hyperbole of course. If you can't see the value of a simple social media acknowledgement to the great sporting achievement of some players from our county then why are you even participating in online discussion boards?

I missed the sigerson final. Did many Dpwn men start?