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I see and hear jamie o'reilly has signed a 3 year contract with the richmond tigers.  congratulations to him and good luck.  Big miss for loughinisland and down, a great talent.

well it was on the richmond tigers website last night.  RICHMOND TIGERS HAVE SIGNED THERE FIRST IRISH NFL PLAYER, AND A QUOTE FROM JAMIE SAYING ''IM REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO IT AND HE WILL JOI UP WITH THE TEAM FOR THE 09/10 SEASON''.  thats what was the headlines anyway.

Nah thats lies, he hasnt put pen to paper

I see and hear jamie o'reilly has signed a 3 year contract with the richmond tigers.  congratulations to him and good luck.  Big miss for loughinisland and down, a great talent.

You've seen and heard wrong, the lad hasnt signed anything. Been offered a contract though

Did they even get 0-8? They were very poor and were held to 0-3 for most of the match until the last few minutes. Having said that rostrevors tackling and work rate was very good this evening! Im sure Dan will be back for the championship for l'island but did both the o'reillys go to australia? I know only Jamie got a trial but did the brother go with?! If so this is a big blow to their attack as the looked toothless upfront tonight, only No.14 Stranney caused any real bother!

Yep, Island did get 8 points according to Rostrevor club's scoreboard at the end of the game.
Rostrever 1.13 Loughinisland 0.8

DownFanatic was quoting the div one game in Ladies match between Clonduff and Castlewellan,

If the grape vine is to be believed the younger brother got scouted by St Kilda

While I can understand why Wobbler and others think Peter McGrath would be turning back the clock, back to back Ulster u21 titles suggest differently. He has also proved that he can get the best out of senior players at An Riocht and Bryansford. He stayed in the post far too long the last time, but two Sams probably entitled him to believe that he could turn things round in difficult circumstances.

The bottom line is that he has also been responsible for bringing home six of our last eight provincial championships - two each at minor, u21 and senior.

He did fall out with James McCartan in 1993, but they were able to patch things up and allow James to play on for another decade. McGrath, with the right assistants - why not including McCartan - is by no means the only option but still looks the best overall bet.

I think Pete would command the respect of the players too. Rumours were rife under Carr and Kane of fallouts with players, etc.
I remember reading this quote from an Irish News article with Timmy Hanna written by Kenny Archer. His comments about McGrath are interesting:

"Although he’s already graduated to the county seniors, his footballing education will continue in good hands at club level, with the legendary Pete McGrath now the Bryansford boss. The man who led Down to Sam Maguire Cup triumphs in 1991 and 1994 was also in charge of the Mourne county U21s, and Hanna agrees with a smile that “you can never have too much Pete, he’s a great manager”.

With Pete being his club manager and making him captain of the U-21's he's not gona turn round and call him shite is he?

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Mid Down Gael when have you seen him regualrly play? If you had you would have known he averages 5 - 6 points a game for Loughinisland, but I suppose you could do much better yourself

he mustnt have played very often this year!!

No sure was with the U-21's, then was out injured for a few weeks before being with the senior panel

[NaomhBridabu has got it exactly right]

Mark Turley my arse .
NaomhBridabu has got it exactly right.

   What exactly has Tyrone/Antrim St Brigids abu got right? 
Ross was voted by a 4 to 1 majority  which in another thread you called mob-rule.
The vote last night was done I'm led to believe by secret ballot where people are free to vote without worrying who
sees them or otherwise.
   It's that secret that we are going to have a job seeing how are rep voted but his vote hardly was the making or breaking of Ross
Mark Turley would be better than Ross.

The fact that Mark Turley would make a good senior manager is laughable

Granted he was average in the run to the championship final last year,but was being played in corner forward, when he is much more effective at centre half or full. He's more than a decent club player, sure against Kilcoo (where I presume your from judging from previous post) he always is double marked by Mackers and Choc, and still manages to score around 3 points. He was on the sigerson panel in his first year at uni and pulled out of it this year. Ask anyone who plays with him or watches his preformances throughout the league and they will tell you he deserved to get scouted. Just a quick point at the end to say the aussie scouts originally spotted him against Tyrone and then again at the Ulster final, not against Mayo as stated in the press

miss mess if I were you I wouldnt be so sure about that result

Mid Down Gael when have you seen him regualrly play? If you had you would have known he averages 5 - 6 points a game for Loughinisland, but I suppose you could do much better yourself

Irelands32 from what I hear the scouts were at the U-21 Tyrone game to watch Murney and McCumiskey but he caught their eye and they returned to watch him in the Ulster Final were they were impressed. You obviously haven't seen him play very much if that's the only decent game you've seen him play

The problem with Down supporters is that we think we have a God given right to be challengers for the All-Ireland, but it's time to wake up and smell the coffee. The players just aren't up to standard at the minute.
With regards to a new manager, think it has to be someone from outside the county, not Pete.