Down Club Hurling & Football

[Mournenan82]

Another easy win, no one will get near them in the county no matter who referees

[RedHand88]

They will never get a 50/50 call ever again. And for what? Wouldn't have mattered who the referee was today.
Extremely short sighted from everyone's favourite club.

[supersub]

Apparently match is off

Bizarrely, just two minutes ago Down's FB page has put up a post promoting the game. Have they found a very late replacement or has someone forgotten to notify the social media team?

Bizarrely? Or to clarify that the match was going ahead due to the amount of rumours suggesting otherwise? Like this one!!

[SHEEDY]

Really comfortable win for Kilcoo, apart from first 10 minutes Burren never really got close.

[Lotto]

Higgins and the Annaclone club should hang their heads in shame, he and his umpires were an absolute disgrace for agreeing to officiate that game today. A referee was appointed, one club went crying again that they didn't like him and got their way to replace. Absolutely no backing from his so called mates and one scab said he would do it with Annaclone club members backing him, absolutely pathetic. So where does this end as Kilcoo have obviously started a process where any club can question any referee who has appointed to a game?

No issues with the result, Kilcoo the better team on the day.

[Eire90]

gaa is in a bad way in down

[sdg]

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

[Dubh driocht]

The Burren committee who reappointed McCorry and Adams must be severely regretting their decision.  The lack of a plan, the lack of ideas and the lack of fight from Burren was shocking.  However hats off to Kilcoo, their hunger and game intelligence was outstanding. While we should never condone bad behaviour the Magpies are by far the best team in the county and are worthy Down champions.

[Eire90]

11 out of 12 not good for the future of the game.

[thewobbler]

gaa is in a bad way in down

It's worse than that.

Much worse.

[Maurice Moss]

What a team performance from our men today. Professional all across the pitch and could have had a number of winners of man of the match.

Laverty pulling the strings is something to behold.

Up The Mighty Magpies 🏁

#UTM

[Johnnysboys]

Thank god for Kilcoo
Thank god for McCorry and Adams having no plan and costing a fortune.
Thank god we don't have to listen to the noisy neighbours slabbering for the foreseeable..
This game should never have gone ahead and the referee and his assistants should hang their heads in shame. At least our club ref has the good sense to say no. We as a county struggle on a yearly basis to recruit referees and this shambles won't ease the recruitment process for next season.

[PTC]

Kilcoo won in second gear, clean sweep for east down burren can keep there reserve championships UTM

[befair]

A real anti-climax. Burren had no plan, Kilcoo vastly superior; wonder they had to resort to such underhand tactics

[Gaelforce123]

Never doubted who the winners would be today, thought Burren would have produced a bit more but it didn't come for them.
Does not and can not take away from what was the disgrace in the lead up to the game. As paying members of the GAA in Down our clubs should request and receive a full report and timeline of the events that lead to the removal of a top intercounty referee in our county even after an apparent request was thrown out at all levels of the association. The clubs have a right to know what went on and reasons behind such decisions. A real can of worms opened today for future competitions and I would have preferred that all officials refused the game and a full report published before the game would be played with a different referee. Well Done to Kilcoo (on the field) hard lines Burren, disgrace from elected county executive to give no backing to a great person and referee.