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Best of luck to our ladies footballers in their Ulster semi final today and to our senior footballers in the final tomorrow.

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For anyone sick of seeing yewtree spout BS put him on your ignore list.

Click on profile, hover over Modify Profile, click on Buddies/Ignore List, Then Edit Ignore list and add him in.

Save yourself from reading his nonsense.

I'd like to nominate you as MVP. Thanks

Very good coverage from Patsy and co this evening.

Been a fairly open game so far. Good luck to our men in the 2nd half, big effort required. #UTM

Great episode!

If she'll be mainly in Belfast it's hard to beat EE, that's who I'm with and find them very good!

Was previously with 02 on a sim only package but wasn't too happy with them. Can't comment on any other providers sorry.

I will repeat, read James Kelly's Bonfires on the Hillsides.

Applesisapples, would you know where this book could be sourced? Wouldn't mind having a read over it.

If we or any club feel we have been done an injustice then we or they have every right to appeal a decision. The fact it was overturned shows we had every merit to go down this route.

Some clubs may have no respect for the rules, however, our club fully respects and and abides by the rules. It is hard to show respect to our County Board after some of the abysmal decisions they have made not only to our own club due to the league final debacle, but other clubs such as Liatroim and the treatment of their minors due to the scheduling of the championship final.

What clubs have no respect for the rules as you say?

How do Loughanisland posters feel about this?

As a kilcoo supporter I'm feeling great about the decision, however, I can only sympathise with Loughinisland supporters.

No luck for us today. Absolutely gutted to say the least. Our lads have been magnificent during their run to the final and just came up short. Not to say we didn't have our chances as Slaughtneil were definitely there for the taking. We had a couple of uncharacteristic errors which passed the momentum to Slaughtneil who took their chances when presented. It was frustrating at times but can have no complaints when those fellas are out there bursting themselves!

Fair play to them, that's 2 Ulster titles in 3 years and the treble for their club this year. Fantastic achievement and hopefully they go on and do well in the All Ireland series.

That's 2 finals we've been beaten in now...Here's hoping its 3rd time lucky! #UTM

The 2016 AIB GAA #Ulsterclub
Football Championship Finals will take place on Sunday November 27th:

UCFC Senior Final -
Slaughtneil GAC v Kilcoo GAC at Athletic Grounds 2.30pm

UCFC Intermediate Final -
Pomeroy Plunketts GAC v Donaghmoyne Gaa at Páirc Esler 2.30pm

UCFC Junior Final -
Rock v Blackhill Emeralds GAA at Páirc Esler 12.30pm

Cheers folks, hopefully we give Maghery a good go of her today! Regardless of what happens, the lads have done the parish proud!

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All, due to the success we, Bredagh, have had this season we have been nominated for an Aisling award. It's awarded on a public vote so can I ask you to vote for us please http://belfastmediagroup.com/sean-graham-sport-award16/

Just voted, all the best SquareBall

Anyone who thinks this isn't the administrators fault needs to take a look at themselves.

- Like others have said the team that finishes top of the league should win the league and this would avoid all of this nonsense.

- Comparing the down gaa club calendar to other professional sports is also a nonsense.  Even for Dundalk there is a lot of money at stake and their players get hundreds if not thousands of pounds to perform when they are told to perform.

- The pinnacle of the down club season is the senior championship final and this should be the last game in the club season not a league game on a Thursday night in November in front of a couple of hundred people.  There is no reason why the calendar couldn't be centred around getting the league finished up before the championship starts.  Armagh can do it so why cant we.

- Our club record in Ulster over the last 30 years is diabolical so we should be offering Kilcoo all the help we can not hindering their preparation.  Who knows it might actually help the county team in the long run if they could get over the line in Ulster.

- Having the club calendar finalised by early October bar the teams in Ulster allows the club players to have  a meaningful off season and younger lads can concentrate on one team in the winter be it the club under 21s (which is another farce) or college football.  People wonder what we can do for player burnout and some of the issues are staring us right in the face.

great post. Totally agree. The league final (if there's any need for one) should be at start of august, 2 week break then run the championship over the next 5/6 weeks. Championship finals being the end and the pinnacle of the calendar.

+1

It's 10 days before the Ulster championship game. Why can't Kilcoo play this game tomorrow night? They have a panel of 40. Their seconds would probably beat an aged Town who are on their last Hurrah.

Siege mentality bullshit from one of the big clubs AGAIN

Siege mentality bullshit my hole. We are the County champions representing the county in Ulster. You would assume that the County board would be fully backing us to give Ulster a rattle and this definitely isn't the way to go about it. And I'm not just saying this with any bias towards our club. If it were Castlewellan, Clonduff, Mayobridge or Burren and they were the county representatives in Ulster and we were playing them in the league final we would expect them to be focusing on Ulster and we would just have to wait until their campaign ended.

There were league finals played in December a few years back (when we were not representing the county) and yes it is a joke that a league final has to be played this late in the year but not at the expense of possibly damaging your chances of doing well in Ulster.

The real joke here is how the County board are running the leagues and the management of the fixtures (not only on division 1). One way of stopping this from happening in the future would be to award the team that finishes top the league as they have been the most consistent team throughout the league...Oh no, wait..scrap that idea, let's just keep the format the way it is and try and milk supporters for as much as possible. Not as if they don't make enough from people at the club championship games throughout the year. No disrespect to Mayobridge or Burren, but if they were representing Down in Ulster they wouldn't have this thrust upon them. They are making a mockery of their own league set up and then trying to force our club into playing when we have a bigger prize to focus on. If we did go on to lift a provincial title it wouldn't be too long til they were singing our praises.

You know what the Down County Board can do. They can take that league cup and shove it as far up their feckin holes as they can.

That's if there is room up there, along with their heads.

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Kilcoo were very impressive, the team as a whole  were a lot fitter than Glenswilly, O'Hanlon, Johnson and Laverty were excellent throughout and the defence were excellent only conceding a point in the second half.
I thought Glenswilly played into kilcoo's hands with their short kick out strategy. I watched it on tg4, its a great service.

Wouldn't say that at all. It was a dogged performance from Kilcoo rather than any great football. The turning point was a spurned goal chance from the Glenswilly midfielder early in the he second half that would have put them 5 points up. Once they conceded the penalty and went down to 14 men there was only going to be one winner given Kilcoo's defensive gameplan. Laverty was a disgrace yet again with his exaggerated diving.

Conor Laverty is far from a disgrace. Classy player that would be well needed within the county set up.

If it's disgraceful you would like to talk about, however, the late tackle on O'Hanlon at the end of the game was not only disgraceful but one of the most cowardly acts I've seen on a football field.