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With the price of everything rocketing I am urging the county executive to keep the club championship games at £5 per adult until the quarter-finals of the championship. It would ensure massive crowds!

Inflating the price just turns people to Pairc tv

Have you spoken to your Club delagte to pass that suggestion on or have you been speaking directly
to a Suit?

Why would they bring her,whoever she is,onto a GAA podcast?

Podcasts owners other half why she's on it

FFS John,what are you at?

Derry as in North Derry were only strong when Dungiven, Coleraine, and, Banagher were going well, all 3 are not now, Dungiven demise is particular shocking as they been in the top 4/5 teams in Derry as far bck as the 70's. Derry have a very weak bench made up of u-20 who I feel are too young. There about 10 players in the county I have on the panel 3/4 who start. Maybe nxt Yr some of these be bck if Gallagher selects them, half dropped off as they weren't getting game time which they should have against weaker teams in the league. What's Down to do, we'll go bck to a outside manager, no baggage, Get everyone onboard if the, Kilcoo prima Donna's don't think they too good for it, Then look at a system of  player  to suit the players available.

There we go!Follow wildweasel's instruction and we'll win Ulster 2024 or 2025

SD 15-

1. G McMahon
2. P Fegan
3. F McIlroy
4. D O'Hagan
5. R McCormack
6. J Boyle
7. P Brannigan
8. C McCartan
9. O Murdock
10. D Magill
11. L Kerr
12. B O'Hagan
13. C Quinn
14. R McGarry
15. D O'Hare

ED 15
1. N Kane
2. A Brannigan
3. R McEvoy
4. G Collins
5. M Rooney
6. D Brannigan
7. D Guinness
8. D Ward
9. J Connery
10. E Brannigan
11. C Doherty
12. D Savage
13. J Johnson
14. C McCrickard
15. P Devlin

Your name says it all. A Clown joining other clowns in this ridiculous idea.

Onto[[/b] the club scene:

What has happened in Carryduff, are they missing players? They need to start picking up points.

A big point for Rostrevor over Burren, I heard whimpers that the Burren supporters are getting frustrated at the defensive football they are playing which is not suited to their players. But they have an array of talent back this weekend and will comfortably make the top 4 along with Kilcoo, Mayobridge and Clonduff. With these four teams having been drawn against each other in the opening fixture in the championship, I can't see these games carrying much weight. The bottom 8 games will be where the action is at and there will be some great games.

Divison 2 is a great division with only 6 points separating relation and promotion so two wins or two defeats could pull you anywhere.

The second promotion spot in divison 3 is going to be a battle , Shamrocks look home and hosed.

Burren folk are going mad. Lads not getting football with seniors and not allowed to play for reserves etc. it's a calamity. Long May it continue.

I doubt its a calamity and I wouldnt bet against them challenging for honours in the big 4 championships

Big 4?

Derry shows what buy-in from clubs can bring to the county. I do think we have every bit as talented as Derry but the commitment shown to Gallagher shows what can happen. For a club with Kilcoos history, it's a shame they have no intercounty All-Ireland Senior football medalists and I think maybe only James Morgan (1971) is their only Ulster intercounty medalist. I do think we have the footballers in this county to challenge for an Ulster title but we can't have anyone outside looking in, we need everyone at the party.

What current Down player would get on the Derry team ?

Shows what a strong club team can do for their county, if they have the courage to face the challenge and step out of their comfort zone into a higher standard. Delighted to see Chris McKaigue and Brendan Rodgers winning at county level; great players for their club for years, now getting some recognition. Apart from Daryl Brannigan, don't think Kilcoo have anyone as good as those two, but they would still add considerably to the strength of the panel.

And add in that Rodgers and and McKaigue play Hurling for at least their Club and it shows you the grit
that they have.This is severely lacking in Down players.

Rosskarr may want to write off the younger players who put in a tough shift against plainly superior opposition yesterday but our rebuilding has to start somewhere. While O'Hare might have taken a couple of wrong options, he also managed to score a goal six minutes into his first competitive appearance. Perhaps we might allow him to complete at least one game before we dismiss him at the age of 20. Lynch may or may not reach inter-county standard but he was one of our steadier performers in a defence which was overrun. Magill, although he was actually better against Monaghan, and Murdoch, have obviously potential, and, together with Gilmore and Kerr, give us some hope that 2023 could represent an improvement on an almost entirely disastrous 2022.

A more reflective post today.

There were no prima donnas at Breffni today, but just a group who were determined to do the best for their county in difficult circumstances. While it was a strange game, which still came to a predictable outcome, Down threw away the opportunity to be in a reasonable position at half time. We wasted a series of completely easy chances on either side of our early goal, and then managed to miss a twice taken penalty just before half time. It was tough asking Barry O'Hagan to hit the kick after he needed lengthy treatment for a vicious tackle which won the decision, but another goal would have left us starting the second half four points behind, with an extra man for the next ten minutes and the wind in our favour. Cavan, who were nothing special but capable of taking straightforward shots, then pulled away without any particular  difficulty. We had a few who were not of the standard required but some of the younger players, including Lynch, Magill, O'Hare and particularly Murdock are capable of developing over the next couple of years. Kerr and Gilmore also looked more than decent coming off the bench. A long hard road is ahead but, if we can produce a couple of leaders to replace Darren O'Hagan, we can make some kind of a start. He was brilliant again today, and, if it was his last appearance in a Down jersey, he will be remembered as our top man of the last decade by a distance.

You must have been on the drink on the way home to come up with that analysis of today's match.The whole full back line including Lynch were abysmal.O'hare apart from his early goal was ponderous.Magill was steady and Murdock was good.One man's poison and all that.

Has James stood down?

[(Burren , Bryansford, Saval and Rostrevor are 3 that quickly come to mind)]

Is any camogie people on this board? Is there a reason why there are so few camogie games played in the county, there doesn't seem to be much underage being played?

Disaster for our U16's and U14's the last few years. We stopped entering U18's as it was a waste of time. Barring Clonduff no one would play them.

Teams pulling out, not travelling is a pain in the arse. I think our U16 camogs had 4 league games last year and two championship games, u14's got slightly more but not much. Clonduff coming strong at those agegroups which is good to see as.

Our U14's camogs will have their third game of the year tonight if Bredagh turn up and that's not a given, U16 girls have had one. Thankfully the older U16's can play adult to offset that a bit.

U15 hurlers are probably into double figures at this stage.

In saying that at Go games blitzes the pitches are full of teams as it's 7/9 aside, just seems to fall apart when girls hit the teen years.

I would like to see the reintroduction of the hurling board which could work in conjunction with women's hurling to raise the profile of both codes in the county. There are some big clubs in this county with massive numbers who do not have a Sliothar about the place (Burren , Bryansford, Saval and Rostrevor are 3 that quickly come to mind).  I know there are certain people within Down who wanted rid of the hurling board and divisional boards to give more power to main executive but these sub-committees were doing excellent work. the reserve leagues should be given back to the East and Soth Down boards for a start and bar the A league in underage, the leagues should be regional with less travelling.

In relation to girls dropping off, this is a problem throughout Ireland and I do not know what the answer is but both ladies football and camogie do not seem to be working together in this county and young girls are being pulled in every direction which means both organisations are losing out in the long run.

Is that not 4 teams you mention?

Good win for the Hurlers today.

Looking at this week's fixtures: Bryansford v RGU and Carryduff v CPN look to be massive games. The top 4 split and relegation thereafter is going to be a dog fight.

Ford v Rgu be interesting tomorrow night. some rumurs doing the rounds today about rgu set up. Big Deegans will be keeping a close eye

Good man Karl!

Away to Cavan in the Tailteann. That's tge season over.

You'd imagine so, especially without home advantage. But given that Cavan slid to d4 recently with a team that was good enough to win Ulster, there's potential for motivation issues in Breffni too.

They won the Div 4 title and put up a credible performance against Donegal in the Ulster semi-final
last weekend.Our season will be finished after the Cavan match.
If Down GAA are serious about improving our fortunes at Senior Football Level  they'll need to appoint a Rory Gallagher type Manager.

Most definitely agree with this. Then again they are probably under more pressure than before. Should counties not take control of coaching in these schools? I think St Mary's Magherafelt have a full time GAA coach - not sure who pays for it. It's resulted in a big upturn in their fortunes - albeit they were always competitive.

What extra pressure are they under now that wasn't there in years gone by? I just think the excuses made are a joke. If you are working in a school PE department steeped in GAA tradition - you have to step up. Simple as that. Why would the county take control of this? That would be like Man Utd sending coaches into every school in Manchester to take coaching sessions while the teachers sit on their backsides doing nothing.
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