Seen Conor Garvey in the crowd last night, he injured or not in the panel this year?
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Show posts MenuQuote from: sdg on January 31, 2016, 10:37:32 AM
Mc parland not even on the panel.
Quote from: interested on January 26, 2016, 09:16:51 AM
Unless any of Blueisland,6thSam or indeed any others sit on county board we are all wasting out keyboard time on something that we have no control over. Potential Down team for Sat night,anyone?
Quote from: thewobbler on January 24, 2016, 12:04:30 PM
Jesus Christ I've heard it all now. Down's fall from grace wasn't down to these factors:
- Armagh getting a once in a century crop of players.
- Tyrone doing likewise, and building an infrastructure to stay on the pedestal.
- Donegal and Monaghan matching that infrastructure and techniques.
- An unwillingness by a succession of Down senior managers to employ the necessary tactics to beat any of the teams above.
- That between 2000 and 2009, not one single Down player put in an individually outstanding season worthy of being nominated for an All Star.
- The shocking way that the players and management surrendered meekly in the back door for the first 5-6 years of the format.
- The abysmal lack of county team playing facilities in the county.
- The appalling youth structures that have delivered precisely 0 Ulster minor titles in 17 years.
No, apparently it's all due to club matches being played on Friday nights and county players getting a reduction in their demands during championship time.
f**king madness.
You might as well trace our failings back to the PIRA ceasefire of 1995, or the rise of the ROI soccer team during the early nineties.
I hate the internet because it means bonkers foolish shit like this actually gets aired for everyone to see.
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Re the starred system, it was created to protect the clubs who contribute to county football.
Before it happened, the club season was a horrendous, disjointed, never-ending mess of cancellations, postponements and objections. The deaths of distant club men were routinely used to force a postponement during the county season.
The playoffs, particularly the relegation playoffs, are the most vital part of this arrangement. Ultimately, these are used to decide among peers, who is most fit to stay in a division, when all things are equal in terms of commitments.
Trust me, the last thing Down football needs is a team that is awash with County players, dropping down to division 2. It is utterly demoralising for a D2 team to face them, and from a player development perspective is a huge step backwards.
Similarly you don't want a team with one outstanding talent, dropping into D4, as nobody will be able to mark him.
But the most important thing is that due to the starred system, and ONLY because of it, the leagues "proper" haven't gone past October in 20 years, and our summers have been stuffed full of club games throughout. It's been an extraordinary positive for club footballers.
Quote from: Smurfy123 on January 10, 2016, 09:04:51 PM
Gordan does not have a better kickout than Kane.Mason had a poor game against Derry in this years under 21 championship
Who out of today's team will start against Donegal in the first league game?
Team v Donegal
Kane
O hagan
Gerard McGovern
Magee
McKernan
CONNAL McGovern
Boyle
Turley
McKay
Maginn
Poland
Johnstone
Clarke
O hare
Mooney
Have I missed anyone