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Mickey is a young lad - has played at a high level and his background as a physio will do no harm. Didn't he travel to Australia and work in a professional set up as part of a course?
Paddy Hardy has been around a long time - I've seen him take sessions with underage teams at our club and deserves a bit of respect too.
We are too quick to judge these men before they have even started. Any wonder it's getting harder to get men to take teams

Always thought the 7s ( when teams took it seriously) was a great competition. The best players in the county playing against each other - and if you were lucky enough to qualify for Kilmacud, you got to line out against some of the best players in the country. How else can the average club player line out against Padraig Joyce for example?

Any results? Nothing on downgaa board

Yip. I'd rather struggle in Div 1 than win an Ulster😳

I agree with wobblers points on picking a manager. Go through them new by one
Overachievers - not many though I feel the Glenn management can be included in this category. Excellent achievement to get promoted alone, never mind staying in the Division. Anyone else come to mind?
Championship winners - I mentioned a few names previously and I think most have been dismissed
Minors etc - not much success there either, but my own opinion is that our manager should come from someone who has been involved with the underage and grows with the team similar to Harte and O' Sullivan. I know we haven't had success, but at least the coaches know what they are working with
Background in coaching - probably same as last point
County colours - agree with this. I don't think a club manager could handle a county team if he never played at county level. Unless he had a trainer with this experience

Eamonn ticks a few of the above boxes.

I still would have preferred Dawson, but now that he's gone, I would throw Cathal Murray into the mix. No particular reason other than I enjoyed watching the college teams he has been involved with. Probably needs to get the Minor or U 21 job first on his CV

So that's me and Sam both out of the running
Don't get me wrong, Eamonns record at managerial level isn't outstanding, but he has managed teams for a while now,and he has played the game to a very high level. If he gets the job, I will wish him well.
I go back to my original post, it's not a very appealing job. It's a full time post these days, and the scrutiny from the media and from the public is intense.
I'm away now to play FIFA - trying to succeed where Brendan Rodgers failed

How fancy a hotel do you want MR?  I normally stay away from city centre and use the tube to travel in and out. I stayed in Euro Hotel in Clapham which is pretty basic but cheap, and by using the Oyster card it will be capped at around £10 per day. City centre wild expensive, even for Premier Inn etc

@SamFever - who are you expecting? I have spoke to a number of men who have managed at club level within the county, and the response has been the same - there's no queue of men interested in the job. In fact I would go so far as to say the Co Board will be glad to get anyone at this stage. No call to be slagging off Eamonn Burns. How many managers in the county have had success? Let's go through them using championship success over last 15 years
McCorry - treated horribly by Co Board and also this Board
Dawson - would appear that majority of this Board don't want him either
Mickey Linden - doesn't appear to want it
Jackie McManus - does he still manage?
Think Bryansford had a win in 2003??? - can't remember manager - was it Eamonn?

Should we appoint an outsider? Personally speaking no - think we should save as much ££££ as possible until we are in a better position financially and playing wise.
Straight question Sam - would you take the job?

Maybe I'm missing something, but why is there such an anti Dawson agenda? Of all the current managers in the Down Leagues, surely his record speaks volumes. Championship wins with Clonduff and Burren, took Longstone to a final that they could have won and two leagues with Bryansford.

Met a few of the All Blacks in their hotel last weekend. Very humble players - no airs or graces. Happy to speak to everyone and have pics taken. Gentlemen.

Managed to get a ticket yesterday. On train heading for Cardiff. Surrounded by New Zealand fans

Any u-19s that are certain starters for their senior team should not play underage football. I think it's time clubs started concentrating on producing senior footballers and forget about winning underage competitions.
Using the example Wobbler used - Rushe is obviously talented enough to play senior football. Why let a manger at u-19 build a gameplan around Rushe.  Other players are being ignored. Without Rushe, there's an opportunity for another young lad to step up to the mark.
Factor in 3 nights a week with seniors, 1 or 2 with 19s, Down u-21s? 
Would Ballyholland prefer to win an u-19 competition, or develop the player? Plus work,on developing the lad that wasn't quite ready for senior football.
To use professional soccer as an example, did the likes of Rooney, Sterling, Owen play for their underage teams as well as the First team?

The length of timber is called Curtain Rail as well.
Might be better to buy Chemical Anchors though - depends how bad the wall is

I think Jim was the correct appointment at the time, but what has surprised me is the radical change to his teams style of play. From what I seen with Kilcoo and Clonduff, he would drop one player into defence to sweep and play with 5 forwards.
With Down it has been a case of getting 13 men back behind the ball and the emphasis is on restricting the other team to score as little as possible. However, when Down turned the ball over, play was too slow getting up the field, and our players didn't break at speed to rejoin the attack. It seems we have the attitude of let's not get beat, rather than let's go win. That's fine if you are strong defensively, but we are not
Think the criticism of Jim is harsh and has been mentioned before, only Frank Dawson was a serious contender for the position.
Moving forward, I would like to see the team playing a more attacking system -you will find that the majority of our top players are forwards and we are taking them away from forward line

Might have been discussed before, apologies if it has, but how many of Sundays team would have made the 91 Team for example. For what it's worth, I think Darren O Hagan and Kevin McKernan would have started in any of the teams we have produced in last 25 years