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6 Sams, no argument that it's a fair point but yer man is a bullshit artist. Just look at some of the threads he has started. When questioned about his club (if he even has one) he goes dark.

Anyway, good luck to the seniors tomorrow. First time in 30 years I couldn't be arsed going.

Has anyone a list of refs and what clubs they are from. Are there many clubs not contributing?

Apart from referees, what are exactly is your own club contributing to Down GAA?

Any juvenile teams going?  Senior or reserve football?  Hurling?  Camogie?  Ladies Football?  Social club still going?

Catch yourself on.

Up the f**king Boro!

Point used to be a soccer town, not anymore.

Soccer Towns/Villages in Down are Newry, Banbridge, Castlewellan, Drumaness, Strangford, Crossgar. If we could change the mentality of these areas to GAA then we as a county would be in a better shape.

Your profile says your club is Ballykinlar, is that right?  Your time would be better spent putting some effort into getting your own senior football team back out onto the pitch.  Definitely a wind-up merchant.

I know that I shouldn't bite but...................

the soccer mentality

Would you care to elaborate on what you mean by that?

We played St Marks in the Down U16.5 vocational final back in the day. got an absolute walloping in Liatroim IIRC and I scored our only score, a goal I might add. Liam Howlett was the star for them back then.. They went on the win the AI that year.

We'd beaten LaSalle Downpatrick and St Louie's Kilkeel on our way to the final and only one of our team played club football for Kilclief, the rest the only time they played football was at school PE. I don't even think we trained after school back then.
We'd an Allstar at midfield for us though. 
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Legs was some soccer player too!  I remember Kilclief playing the Crans in football way back when, I imagine when Greg Blaney transferred to Carryduff that was the beginning of the end of their football team.

We always benefitted from some great footballers coming across the shuck to play minor football for us, many of whom went onto play senior county hurling (when the hurlers were a decent side)! It was only ever a sideline for them though and mostly because a few of our boys were classmates of theirs in St Columbas.

I think there was a county bye law at one stage were the Ports had to field a football team in the minor championship every year, not sure what that was about.

My oul fella taught in Ballyphillip and Noddy, Hunter and those boys were in his P7 class. Best football team he ever had he maintains to this day!!   

Good luck to Saul tonight, a massive occasion for a club that is always willing to help out East Down clubs

Eh, how's that?

Last Man, have you ever read any of Charlie Spedding's stuff?

Been looking at this today and it appears you can fly Dublin to Spain for example with northern covid cert without the requirement for testing.

Yes but officially you need an antigen test to come back north again. That's what I want to find out - who actually checks this. You have to fill in a passenger locator form before you come back into Dublin, and I'm assuming that when you put in a northern address, it'll tell you you need this, plus you will have to have booked a Day 2 test. But who checks?

No-one checks Rois.  You'll get an automatically generated text from NI Direct on the second day you are home directing you to the guidance on that website and that's it. 

As long as you have your vaccination cert downloaded ready to show and the passenger locator from filled in you'll be grand.  I was a bit anxious coming back but they hardly even looked at the passport in Dublin and didn't even ask for the vaccination cert!

Tommy, what's the craic with Scullion? Attention seeking or genuine issues about his on/off Olympics appearance?

21.7 today, f**k knows what it'll be next week! Played West Cliffs, Royal Obidos and Praia del Rey on the Portuguese "Silver Coast" in the last wee while. Absolutely unreal. Blaming the shite scores on not having my own clubs!!

St Patrick's, Downpatrick.   

I remember the line of boys along the 20m line trying to catch the kickouts 

  You've brought back some memories there!!  It didn't get much better as my "career" went along.   

Any of you boys/girls on here had any word from your club as to how they are proceeding on April 1st?

"up to 10 people from two households can undertake outdoor sporting activities"

Doesn't give them much scope! 

Gallsman, you have played an absolute blinder with this thread. I was fully expecting to be disappointed but Christ the night the taste is pub quality. Awesome stuff. The only question is why did no-one find this miracle earlier in the pandemic?!