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My point is they should not have 4 players on the county squad. Thought I made that point very clear? If not now I do gaa man

In that case (despite the result today) given that Glenn are mid table in Division 2, should they have 3 starters? I personally don't have an issue with 3 boys on the panel from RGU. If others won't commit someone has to be on the panel

On Glenn ,they got beat in Division 2  last week by 24 points so fair play to them for turning that around. Surely goes down as one of the biggest upsets in Down GAA history given the gulf in class between Division 1 and 2 

Downpatrick with 4 county men beaten by Glenn who are fifth in division 2. And we wonder why we are not competing at senior level.

What's your point? Glenn had three players that started both Ulster games this year

Big win for Castlewellan today. Big golf between 1st and 2nd division

Yeah because Ballyholland hammered Carryduff didn't they 🙄

Main priority should be to get someone will be entice the best players to play. Current panel has too many players whose standard is slightly below those that are not on the panel or at least that's my perception watching club games anyway.

At the minute it seems very easy for someone to turn down a county call up whereas 10 years ago it would have an honour. Not saying it's completely as a result of the manager but they can play a role

For me Wee James is best positioned for that, not sure about Poucher. But a management team of the two of the them, I think would entice more players than the previous regime

Conor Deegan
James McCartan
Shane Mulholland
Steve Poacher
Pete McGrath

Lads that's it take your pick

Pete McGrath was a disaster in Fermanagh and Louth!!!

While Pete isnt the answer anymore. the above statement is wrong. Pete got Fermanagh to an All Ireland QF. Louth was a hidigt nothing and he did himself no favours.  Very harsh words. I wonder without Pete would we still be harping back to 68 as opposed to 94. Man deserves respect. He should be involved at some level for development.

Not questioning his achievements over the years, especially in the 90's, but his recent record isn't great. Yes he got Fermanagh to a AIQF in 2015 but 2016, 2017 and 2018 with Louth the players seemed to have downed tools. In 2009 he did great to get Down to an u21 AIF but they lost a match they should have won and he didn't do a great job with the minors after that despite having Hogan Cup winning players at his disposal

Bottom line is he shouldn't be considered

Conor Deegan
James McCartan
Shane Mulholland
Steve Poacher
Pete McGrath

Lads that's it take your pick

Pete McGrath was a disaster in Fermanagh and Louth!!!

County finances should be greatly improved now that the clubs are paying off their debt. The makeup of the county board makes it very difficult to replace anyone

16meg broadband is not an internet blackspot. I can run iplayer on 2 meg

Sense and GAA aren't two words that would appear in the same sentence too often

Seeing as Liverpool have made the Champions League final that evening, is the Ulster Council going to proceed with Down v Antrim at 7pm, or show a wee bit of sense and bring it forward an hour?

Similar situation arose in 2011, Down vs Armagh clashed with Man Utd in Champions League final and they wouldn't move the time

Fixture schedule under pressure already and not much scope for refixing the matches

Is April now a complete shutdown for all county team activities?

Honest question. Would any div 1 club have considered eamonn burns at the time he was appointed down manager in 2016 to manage them?

Sure why don't the clubs increase admission to home games and charge U16's aswell

Ulster and All Ireland Intermediate is a funny one

In 2015 we won our first three match's at a canter and in the final we won on a scoreline of 4-01 to 0-10. We finished 2nd in Division 2 that year and most of the teams we played would have been Division 2 teams aswell. At that stage we had 16 team  divisions but some of the teams we played only had 8 in a division. In terms of league position we were the 18th best team in Down but in other counties, the team we were playing were 9/10th in their respective county

When we got through to the All Ireland Final, the team we played from Mayo had finished 2nd in Division 1 and from a physical point of view where a completely different animal to anything we faced in Ulster where apart from the Ulster final (which was played in horrible conditions in Owenbeg) we tore every team to shreds by at least 10 points.

We lost by 5 from what I recall and the Mayo team then got well beat by the Kerry team a couple of weeks later.

If the Mayo team that beat us was in Down, I would say they would have easily have been a top 4 side

Where could I watch No Stone on Turned?

Will it be in normal Cinemas or is it too controversial?

https://sluggerotoole.com/2017/11/02/no-stone-unturned-a-film-that-finally-lifts-the-loughinisland-stones-the-ruc-wouldnt-touch/

A screening later this week in Loughinisland will precede the film's general release from Friday 10 November in the Queen's Film Theatre as well as selected cinemas in the Movie House and Omniplex chains.

Apparently will be on Amazon Prime in the new year