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It's just over two weeks to Down's next appearance in this years championship.

Having played two games, what are the opinions from Monaghan people on our team and performances so far and is there any news on what we are likely to face in Pairc Esler?  Monaghan have been very quiet thus far.

Annaclone 0-14 Saval 0-14

Good match with two pretty even teams.  Annaclone were three up with a few minutes to go and Saval equalised in injury time from a free from 50 yards by Stephen Sands.

Banbridge 1-6 Annaclone 1-16

Are the prices not the same as last week, £12 or ?18 for the terraces. Hence the reason for putting the ladies match on before hand to justify the price. Its a disgrace, the Down minors who should have home venue anyway according 2 the draw should be the warm up match!

Annaclone 1-10 Shamrocks 1-7

banbridge drew with darragh cross

Did anyone see the muppets trying to start a row outside Brefni on Sunday.  I came along and saw a man in his 50's throw a traffic cone out of the way of the bus he was on.  The cone was threw with a bit of anger in it towards a couple of pished young bucks who were standing getting burgers from a  muck truck.  A bit of a scuffle started.  I didn't hang around to see the outcome as I wanted to beat the traffic.  The young fellas were all in Down jersies and the bus looked like one of the Highway mans from Laitroim (wouldn't be 100% on this though).  Anyone know what was going on?

I saw the above incident.  It happened because the down lads were waiting to get onto the bus but the older man (from cavan i think) was looking the bus to move becasue it was blocking his car.  He then jumped onto the bus and either hit or was to close to hitting the driver of the bus.  This was done without any real provocation.  There was then a standoff as such between the two parties, with the older man close to having a heart attack he was so worked up. 

I for one don't like to see incidents like this but would have to say that the older man brought much of the hassle on himself and showed absolutley no patience at all.  In fact I would say he was very lucky the down lads were civil enough with no physical retaliation to him throwing the cone about several times.

Annaclone 1-05 Darragh Cross 1-09

Awful game and an awful performance by Annaclone.  Didn't deserve anything from the game.

Should reserve teams seriously be expected to play this Sunday?

Heard today that newry got the ok for sunday. It'll be good to see ulster championship football at home again

Annaclone 2-15 Kilclief 1-8

Heard that Saval drew with Ballymartin and Downpatrick beat Banbridge with a goal at the last kick of the game.

Down

Football -  would love to make the AIQF for first time but doubt it very much.  More likey an early exit from Ulster and possibly a win or 2 in the qualifers depending on a kind draw!

Hurling - Don't care

Downpatrick 0-11 Annaclone 1-09

Who played well tonight for the clone Cloneman?

Our top performers were probably Colm Fegan and Pete McColgan.  We're badly hit with injuries at the moment and were playing tonight with Aidan Fegan and Colm Farrell which would be a big miss for most teams, so pretty good result considering.

Annaclone 0-18 Ballymartin 1-06

Is it true that the proposals for the new league setup got rejected during the week?

Balyholland 1-10 Annaclone 0-09