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Is there a back door in the Down championship?

Short answer is Yes. After the first round of fixtures there will be 8 teams who won and 8 teams who lost. The eight winning teams play each other for a place in the 1/4 finals meanwhile the 8 losing teams play each other. The 4 teams defeated that didn't reach the 1/4 finals then play the 4 successful teams from the losing group for the remaining 4 places in the 1/4 finals. Clear as mud I know but at the minute no team has actually been knocked out of the senior club championship in Down. 

My Apologies about the final score from todays U21 semi final. Thanks for keeping me right Mid DownGael. A great and fair analysis from yourself aswell.

Ill hopefully get up to Newry tomorrow evening, which should be a fascinating Div1 league semi final between Mayobridge and Burren, especially as its been almost 11 WEEKS since the Bridges last competitve fixture. Im also lead to believe that the Bridge will be minus Coulter and Garvey due to injury.

You've been lead astray, as far as i know both are fit to play Daisycutter.

Mayobridge 6.19 Ballyholland 0.04
Correct score

Could someone confirm the times, dates and venues for the 1/4 final ties? The Down website is a bit misleading. Cheers.

Friday 1st October
Burren v Ballyholland      Mayobridge (7.45)
Saturday 2nd October
Mayobridge v Longstone    Newcastle (5.30)
Sunday 3rd October
Saval v Castlewellan/Bryansford     Burren (2.00)
Kilcoo v An Riocht                        Burren (4.00)

Could any Clonduff posters on here give any insight as to what happened last night? No disrespect to the kingdom but i thought Clonduff would've won this replay easily last nite. Alot of people might have written them off at the start of the year but they flourished with the introduction of younger players and with some very strong performances in the league including taking 3 points from the bridge i fancied them to have a go at the championship this year!!! It would've been good to see Clonduff and Kilcoo play as the local rivalry would've made things interesting. Nonetheless, all the best to the kingdom and kilcoo anyway and hopefully the match turns out to be an equally good affair.

think its the kingdom

Your question has been answered redandblackareback....the bridge play the kingdom (An Riocht) in the premier reserve Championship Final.

Former Louth manager Eamon McEneaney is rumoured to be taking over at one of the big clubs in Down, it was mentioned on LMFM yesterday. They`ll need to have deep pockets.

Have heard McEneaney is interested in the bridge job although i also heard Dawson wanted the bridge job aswell!!!

Anyone else hear that wee pete assisted by John Rafferty is to be unveiled as the new Armagh manager tonight???

Was at the Burren game last nite an also noted how young the burren team was, i think James McGovern at 23 was the oldest of the forwards!! Was talking to a burren man an he said Eamon Toner was out due to a head injury i think otherwise he would have been playing!!! on another note i wasn't far from the burren dug-out and the burren management were warming up PJ McAllinden and Paudric O'Rourke to come on until Kevin McKernan game running over and told the management to save these boys for the 2nds so they then put on Ciaran Byrne and Brian Murphy. Maybe in a tight game you would have to make these changes but burren had the game won handily last nite and to introduce these 2 boys and rule them outs the 2nds would have been idiotic, im suprised it took McKernan to come over and tell them the smart thing to do!!!!

New Mayobridge manager is reported to be Paul Carroll.....Don't no a bit lot about the man but i know he took the bridge back in the mid nineties just before the likes of Benny and Mickey Walsh etc, came on the scene!! haven't heard any negative reports about the decision so im sure the bridge are happy he is the man for the job!! Amallon or any of the other bridge posters can u confirm this, as has been reported recently, i don't want to appear to be reporting hear'say

Not sure wat the situation is in the Bridge but i think thats a bit of a wind up. Mattie McGleenan and Pascal Canavan are not up for the bridge job as far as i know!!

Ouch Amallon that had to hurt, u's boys musta put the jinks on the bridge that year. Surely tho u have had plenty of opportunities to win ur money back slowly over these past five years...Mayobridge must be undefeated in up to 25/30 games in the Down c/ship at this stage!!! how many boys paid into that fruitless wee venture back in 2003 if u don't mind me asking??

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If thats the case with the Rostrevor v Kilcoo game is there any chance of the Mayobridge v Castlewellan game being brought forward a bit? 7.30 is a late kick off on a Saturday evening for spectators who might also have plans, surely this game could be brought forward to 7pm or even 6.45 now to let people away that wee bit sooner and not 9 o'clock at night.

It's known as a Throw-in in GAA lingo

Cheers Mournerambler for that spot, i dunno What i was thinking!!

Any word on the state of the Marshes for the game on Monday nite, i heard reports it was very heavy with the ball quite often getting stuck in the muck and the pitch cutting up easily?? If this is the case i dread to think wat it will be like on Friday for the league final after the 2nd division promotion play-off game on just before...

If thats the case with the Rostrevor v Kilcoo game is there any chance of the Mayobridge v Castlewellan game being brought forward a bit? 7.30 is a late kick off on a Saturday evening for spectators who might also have plans, surely this game could be brought forward to 7pm or even 6.45 now to let people away that wee bit sooner and not 9 o'clock at night.

Goldenyears i think they are in yellow to show that they are in relegation playoffs at least at the moment although if Mayobridge win their remaining two games it will mean An Riocht go straight down and as Mayobridge's last two games are against Saval and liatroim, it would seem that is a forgone conclusion, neither of these teams will want to beat the bridge as they will just drag themselves into relegation playoffs if they win!!!
After the wkends league fixtures does that now mean the league playoffs are:

Mayobridge v Castlewellan
Kilcoo         v Rostrevor