Messages

There is something about  therese villiers ...........

Mmmmm

Think you've had too many shandies

Week in week out Burren are cleaning up at all the U8, U10 and U12 tournaments across the county. Their B and even C teams are claiming silverware at South Down level. They are becoming a dominant force at underage and the culture is there at senior level to usher in a new period of dominance.

Never mind their U16 and Minor teams who could repeat their
AllCounty Double from last year. Heard also that they are drawing on children
from the catchment area of 11 other Clubs.

Only the 11, I heard 20!!!!

I heard it was 13 plus their own. Ridiculous

In tonight U16 Football Championship Quarter Final, Bredagh have beaten Burren 1.14 by 1.7 according to Down Website

Big shock if true

Not really. Did Bredagh not do well in All Ireland Feile a couple of years ago

He is an absolute spoofer,but I did think Whelan was going to have a stroke when one of the guys mentioned the professionalism in Dublin. Thought he was going to choke as he tried to interject . Dolan is a breath of fresh air.

O'Reilly took a fair few steps before the donegal goal too.

Must say I thought so but played it back at the time and he did actually shoot as he took his fifth stride

Watched most of it. Riveting program but the scale of atrocities was shocking. I was totally unaware of the extent of the brutality that followed WW2. Must see program for any one interested in 20th century history .

Rumour mata is dropped for di Maria 

Great call😉

Ref cost Cavan but that said we were brutal, worst I've seen us in a good while. No forwards at all. What's the point pitting Mackey on with 30s left, brainless.

Amazing how we see things through our own county coloured specs. I thought ref was terrible too bit was harsh on Down though I agree the second yellow was very harsh.

[Down]

The insider only counties so are

Football
Down
Dublin
Kerry
Cork

Although Dublin have Tommy Lyons and Cork have Larry Tompkins, who look a bit questionable

Hurling
Kilkenny
Tipperary
Cork

Down are currently managed by an Armagh man.

Yes McCorry is a Lurgan man who also managed Armagh. but he has lived in Down and been involved in Down Football for 20 odd years winning a few county titles. an outsider but is he really.  I  also think McManus who managed Down in the late 80's was an Antrim man if anyone can confirm?

Yes McManus did manage Down and is an Antrim man

Like Carlsberg say, Downpatrick don't do hurling refs ( presently) but if they did.......

Hurling championships this weekend. Clonduff face Ballela (from Div 1) in the Junior Final on Friday evening. Clonduff are a big strong team but rely too much on Murphy for scores. Ballela have a better balanced team and should have too much for them. I expect Ballela to win by 6-7 pts.

South Down play Ballygalget on Sunday in Kilclief and the odds are heavily stacked against them. The Ballela and Clonduff lads will be celebrating/drowning their sorrows after Friday. Conway and Rosie will be playing for Kilclief in the IFC on Saturday night and Aghaderg have a JFC game on Sunday. To top it all they appoint a Ballygalget ref!!!

I thought this year South Down could give it a real lash after the run in the NHL & Nicky Rachard but clearly the CCC don't want them playing on a level playing field. Galgets to win by 10.

The big game is on Sunday afternoon in Ballygalget (time to be confirmed). A young Cran team meet a very experienced Portaferry with Dule back and on form. If Ballycran are as hungary as they were last year they can win this, the question is are they? Ports form has dipped in recent weeks with some bad results in Antrim. Ballycran are running away with Div 2 but aren't really being tested. Hard to call and i wouldn't rule out a draw.

It certainly is a disgrace that south down aren't able to prepare properly for the game with a lot of football games interlaced over the weekend, we got a good trimming from Dunloy in our last outing so confidence will be low, the team needs to be settled in terms of tactics and personnel and currently neither are there. As for the jibe about the 'Ballygalget referee' that has cost a certain Portaferry mentor 8 weeks suspension plus he referee's for Downpatrick where he's lived for god knows how many years now and you could argue why a south down referee is in charge yet again. If a Portaferry or Ballycran man doesn't want to referee it then surely someone from outside the county should be appointed.

as for the other game the word on the street is that Murph has a broken hand and won't be available but I'd expect either Zelda or Eamon Adair to fill in. If Ballycran go with Brendan McGourty in there he might get some joy but he'll need a good supply and this is where the Crans might struggle. Milligan and Coleman are very solid and hard to get past, coupled with cougie and Andy Savage at midfield I'd be concerned that Brendan doesn't get starved of the ball and come roving out leaving little or no gola threat up front fro the Crans. As for the ports they'll be relying heavily on Dule yet again but Andy Bell can do a job on him if he forces Dule onto his right when he gets the ball. dule is far less effective on the right than his much favoured left. He might like his corner backs to step a few yards inside their men to close down the space for dule. Neither of Portaferry's corner men are going to do enough damage to beat you.
I haven't seen enough of Ballycran this year to know whether they've improved from last year or not and i'd say they don't really know themselves because they haven't been tested too much in the Antrim leagues. Whoever can get an early lead should go on and win, Portaferry get their dander up are hard to beat but they do fold quite quickly when things start to go wrong. Ballycran may need a good start to give themselves confidence.

Close game but I'll go for the Ports by the odd point in three which is nothing in hurling.

Who is the Downpatrick referee doing the hurling?

Downpatrick play Clann na Banna on Thursday night . First competitive game under the new lights at Downpatrick. 8pm throw in

Downpatrick beat Kilclief by a goal tonight ( 2-8/3-8)

Given that DJ Kane had his suspension extended for being in the dressing room at the Down v Tyrone game what is the official take on Dara O'Sé being in the subs area yesterday. Don't know the answer myself but do not see the difference between this and Kane. Can any one shed light on it? Though would hate to see him miss out on final on a technical issue like this

Downpatrick eventually beat Atttical by 2 points ( 1-9 to 0-10) Should have been over at half time but as usual made it difficult for ourselves

Downpatrick 2-8 Ballymartin 2-7.
Ballymartin must be sick of the sight of RGU as this was their third successive defeat in Championship football over the past 4 years to the County Town
A good game where the lead changed hands several times and only  two points in the last 3 mins from Brannigan and McKenna securing victory for Downpatrick .