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Dundrum clinched their first ever Division 4 title tonight with a win over parish neighbours Ballykinlar.

Well done lads!

ACL Division 3: Drumgath 2 - 9 Bosco 2 - 13>

ACL Div 3: Bosco 0-10 Tullylish 0-7

Kilclief keeper saved a last minute penalty.  The most biased refereeing performance I've seen in a long time, sometimes you are up against more than the opposing team in South Down.

Eh were you at the same game I was at?   

I am just after hearing the magpies were hammered by the Ford.. Maybe the championship isn't a foregone conclusion as everyone in Down is thinking.. I am really looking forward to our meeting with the noisy neighbours. our inside forward is lethal and Shay and Donal(aka the terrible twins) ware going to torture the Bridge defence.  With a few boys back from America  we certainly have the strongest squad in the county and the county knows that and are scared come on the lily whites

Where in Newry are you from Downjim???

Morgan Milk SFC Quarter Final Draw:
Ballyholland v Rostrevor
Loughinisland v Clonduff
Mayobridge v Burren
Bryansford v Kilcoo

Around a Pound IFC quarter final draw
St John's v Kilclief
Annaclone vs Clan na Banna
Ballymartin vs Bosco
Dundrum v Attical

What a draw. Bridge v Burren and Kilcoo v Ford will be two crackers. Personally delighted with our draw.

Can't wait for them two games.
In intermediate, one of the lower division 3 teams are going to be in a semi final. With two of favourites meeting. Beauty of championship

Who would that be dundrumite?

Clare 1 - 12 Down 1 -13.

1 cleared off the line at the end by Benny McArdle.

Clare 1 - 12 Down 1 -12

33 mins

Clare 1 - 5 Down 1 - 6

Half time

Clare 1 - 5 Down 1 - 6

31 mins

Clare 1- 4 Down 1 - 6

www.clarefm.ie

Congrats to Colmans on their back to back Hogan titles.  Great credit must go to Cathal Murray and his backroom team on this fantastic achievement.  As an Abbey man, I have to take my hat off to our great rivals! Well done lads.

A lot of sour grapes floating around, analysing every tackle, every free, this that and the other, you would swear they were playing soccer, hard tackling is the name of the game. Still alot of hate for the Dubs out there which is fair enough but keep it for the pub, this isnt Hoganstand.

Anybody have the stats on how many times Down handpassed the ball, i dont think i seen them kick the ball except for shooting?

Mmmm... did Dublin not hand pass it a lot also? Didn't put men behind the ball??  Some of the Dublin tackling was OTT and the Referee was shocking in his interpretation of the rules! A cert penalty for Benny not given, Marty Clarke nearly decapitated, Fitzpatrick was "done"off the ball and at least 3 Dublin 13 metre frees for mmm... anything that comes to mind because the referee obviously didn't know. 
But on to football.  Dublin's zone defence is not the real deal. But they have some great movement in the forward line. We played Ok, scored 13 points and missed a few scorable chances.  But I thought we were guilty of a lot of overplay and bad passing. We also gifted 2 goals.  Feel sorry for Kalum King and McVeigh. Thought there was nothing in the  Alan Brogan incident, the lad scores a goal into the hill in the last minute to win.  Fair play to the Brogan lads for even playing given the circumstances.  An entertaining league game and a great evenings value for 15 euro.       

Unbelievably sad news about Michaela.  My condolences to all concerned.  I met Mickey at the All Ireland final this year.  He is a true gentleman. Ar dheis dé go raibh a anam.

Can the clubs in Down and the CB included become creative in a money saving venture?
We all know the financial stress most if not all clubs find themselves in, we have to be inventive.
We all can get together rather than separately look at a viable moneysaving exercise and in the past the GAA people are always prepared to find ways out of problems.
What's one if not the biggest outlay of teams,,, physio and medical costs; outside of managers they are the biggest expenses facing clubs.
Could I suggest that our clubs consider pooling together to meet physio costs?
How could this happen in a finacially viable way. My clubs yearly fees are roughly 10k, local clubs (10 mile radius) including Liatroim, Castlewellan, Downpatrick, Clonduff and Kilcoo have roughly the same costs give or take a few pounds in. The cost approx 60k, average wage for Physio in hospital 25-30k, therefore our 6 local clubs alone could actually pay for 2 full time Physios but there isn't the work to justify this. Lets expand this and add all the clubs in Down to employ 2 or 3 Physios the cost could be divided among the 49 clubs in Down with a sliding scale cost to each club i.e. the smaller clubs who have not the same need could pay less into this pool and so all clubs in Down have access to full-time, fully qualified physios the overall cost to clubs is reduced, the out of work physios have full time work, the players have immediate access to a professional set-up thus aiding recovery time and the clubs outlay is immediatley reduced.
Lets expand this and throw in the CB and all the various teams they have, Mens Senior, u-21's, minors and the hurlers and the camogs and the ladies footballers, surely this would also reduce the CB's extensive and expensive medical bills?
This scheme could and would need to be co-ordinated and maybe the CB could bring in an adminstrator to help run this scheme.

I have to say this is a very interesting and inventive proposal "Wind". Every year at club AGMs I'm sure that everyone is surprised by the "Medical Costs" year on year. This should be looked at and Wobbler's suggestion too.  Good stuff lads!