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Mooney, ,Guinness and Havern dropped?

Hard to believe Down play a championship game this Saturday, there's zero buzz or appetite for the game after the league campaign and what's happened since basically just want this season over and done with.  Realistically will do very well to get within 10/12 pts of Monaghan. Any idea of who's still involved with the squad? Or who's been called in,? Would be very hard to predict the starting 15 at this stage.

See Doherty playing for Kilcoo last night, he's obviously left the county panel recently, any others away from it?

Was there many of the Down players that started fri night v Fermanagh in the team that lost to Tyrone in the leo murphy?

Is Ryan Magill out injured? Anyone else due to come back in?

Well done to the hurlers on a great win, Ronan has done a great job.
As for the primadonnas, they need to take a good hard look at themselves. If you don't respect the jersey then don't bother committing, and as for the fellas who arrived to training from the holylands on Thursday (drunk). They need to be rooted out of training tomorrow and never be given a Down jersey again. There are standards in this county.

Surely that isn't true?

U20's Well beaten by tyrone this morning. 3.14 to 0.7. Due to the lack of social media posts, no of idea of the starting team or the squad. So far behind other counties with this, it's laughable.

Down actually has one of the best social media presences of any county board in Ireland.

Go and look at the tyrone twitter account and look at Down's the difference is night and day. Louth was the same 2weeks ago. Donegal named their u16 development squad last week. Only a small bit of recognition but would be a great buzz for a 15/16 year old to see their name and photo on county's social media account.

U20's Well beaten by tyrone this morning. 3.14 to 0.7. Due to the lack of social media posts, no of idea of the starting team or the squad. So far behind other counties with this, it's laughable.

team for Offally
1. Bobo
2. Peter
3. Finn
4.Gerard
5. Darren
6.Daniel
7. Caolan
8. Ryan
9.Dylan
10.Odhran
11. Liam
12.Cellium
13.Jerome
14.Corey
15.Andrew

As told to you by a prominent East Down source in an eating house in the East

No this is what team I would like to see v Offally, loads of pace and brainy players. Too many times in the previous games we have been making very poor decisions, especially around the goal area.

Is Dylan Ward even on the panel?

I don't blame anyone, I think Down are a div3 team. Haven't been producing enough quality players for long time, and I think a year or 2 in Div3 wouldn't be the end of world and might benefit the younger players.

Some people on here need to have a word with themselves.

We've a Down team very much in rebuild mode, not helped with the farce of the delay in appointing a manager. They came up against a Roscommon side that many of you are saying "are hardly world beaters" but they've been in four Connacht finals in a row 2016-19, winning two of those in a province with very good Mayo and Galway sides, and had just dropped out of Division 1 last season. While that doesn't make them "world beaters", they are much more established as a team and further along in their progress.

How about some of you get behind the team for a change instead of waiting with the pitchforks?

100% spot on! There wasnt many who put their name forward to take the job on, people need to give the team and management a bit of time. A lot of Down fans needs to be more realistic with their ambitions also, minor and u21/20 results have been brutal for 15 years  or so bar last year. We get one decent team through and boys think they will  turn the senior team around.
Going forward hopefully Barry O Hagan back, along with the Kilcoo boys, Daniel Guinness should hopefully be fit to start and Corey Quinn. That will definitely improve the team. Any word if McCrickard is able to committee? Some ask travelling from Cork tho.

Ed the management fell into the job, as James always does, and takes his friend's in with him.  So none of this rubbish  they stepped up, they getting well paid

Who is doing the coaching and getting the big county bucks for these performances apart from the uninspiring AO'R? If many of your well paid club coaches and managers continued to play without any clue about kickouts, they wouldn't be staying about too long. Kickouts are nothing to do with the opposition, generally, so it is irrelevant how good or bad the opposition is or what they have done in the past. Irrespective of when the management were appointed, if we cannot sort our own team out with the basics like kickouts then you have to question what they are doing at training.

Well did the kick outs work well under Tally? You think for years they didn't work on trying something, and all they could come up with was the box kick out to left. Can't keep blaming the management time after time.

Some people on here need to have a word with themselves.

We've a Down team very much in rebuild mode, not helped with the farce of the delay in appointing a manager. They came up against a Roscommon side that many of you are saying "are hardly world beaters" but they've been in four Connacht finals in a row 2016-19, winning two of those in a province with very good Mayo and Galway sides, and had just dropped out of Division 1 last season. While that doesn't make them "world beaters", they are much more established as a team and further along in their progress.

How about some of you get behind the team for a change instead of waiting with the pitchforks?

100% spot on! There wasnt many who put their name forward to take the job on, people need to give the team and management a bit of time. A lot of Down fans needs to be more realistic with their ambitions also, minor and u21/20 results have been brutal for 15 years  or so bar last year. We get one decent team through and boys think they will  turn the senior team around.
Going forward hopefully Barry O Hagan back, along with the Kilcoo boys, Daniel Guinness should hopefully be fit to start and Corey Quinn. That will definitely improve the team. Any word if McCrickard is able to committee? Some ask travelling from Cork tho.

U20's beat Antrim 3.5 to 0.9 in Ballykinlar. Anyone at it?

Team for tomorrow evening;

McMahon
Fegan
McElroy
Collins
O'Hagan
McParland
Laverty
Doherty
Murdock
Poland
Kerr
Mooney
Gilmore
Havern
McKernan

Hopefully a few of the Kilcoo boys on the bench. 

Have any of the kilcoo players went to country training?

U20's beat Louth by 3. Anyone any idea of the team line or the squad for the year, Louth GAA had their team up on social media, Down useless once again.