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Fixture timing issue aside, which is absurd (but once you are on the bus you are for playing the game!!) - if they knew about the backup venue in advance as Ulster LGFA suggest, and their only refutal to play this game at that time was that the players had the incorrect boots - then the blame unfortunately lies with the club for not communicating all possible outcomes clearly with management and players beforehand. Unfortunate, but that's the bottom line where Wednesday is concerned. Anything else prior to that is smoke and mirrors. They were on the bus heading to play the game and people within the club knew the permutations!

3rds teams are 3rds teams. You can't drop down. The rules are clear for all too see. Kilcoo thirds I believe would walk 4 and finish top half 3

Teconnaught, Dromara, Bosco, Finn, Kilcief - Would beat them and have beat them in challenge games over the years. Also going away to Ardglass isn't a nice trip to the seaside.

No they wouldn't. Kilcoo 2nds would easily win Division 4. Anyone who says otherwise is deluded.

Mickey Donnelly into the Down setup.

Away and check your sources.

Where have I gone wrong?? Most of the clubs above have advertised on social media..
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Unless you aware of something no one else is, or you are Benny in disguise, Rostrevor.

Bryansford
Clonduff
Mayobridge (looking a coach as poacher stays as manager)
Burren (looking a coach as Adam's is gone)
CPN looking both a manager and coach
Rostrevor (manager)
Downpatrick
Castlewellan
Glenn
Attical
East Belfast
St Paul's
Tullylish
Shamrocks

That's 14 I can think of or have heard are on the lookout..

Away and check your sources.

Tell me this. Do you reckon lumping the ball in from 60 yards repeatedly a la 'the great Down v Derry game' (DJ Kane main culprit) is a better way of playing football than how it is played now? Because I tell you what, I watched that game recently and it wasn't exactly pretty on the eye.

Who suggested lumping the ball in from 60 yards was a better way to play.
Lets be honest, football is shite nowadays for a variety of reasons and a huge responsibility lies at the feet of ego-driven coaches/managers and those that appoint them.

I'm just asking the question. A lot of opinions here seem to be of the 'back in my day football was better'. So just curious as to how it was better that's all.

Tell me this. Do you reckon lumping the ball in from 60 yards repeatedly a la 'the great Down v Derry game' (DJ Kane main culprit) is a better way of playing football than how it is played now? Because I tell you what, I watched that game recently and it wasn't exactly pretty on the eye.

Do Down just refuse to post updates on Twitter?? 20mins before 1st of the night, none in ET etc.

Madness. Compare to Tyrone/Armagh/Derry etc

Let's get a few facts straight here. As was mentioned yesterday on here there is a clear pattern followed from Round 1 until now. 15 min updates in every match at every grade. Very few have not had this. Nothing to do with streaming or any other factor other than man power. In addition to this you say 'none in extra time'. There were no scores in the first half of extra time. Half time and full time was communicated followed by the full shootout.

The hurling semi finals were score for score, which I'm sure the football will also be. There was a meeting with the clubs before the championship commenced to clearly outline the position with score updates and there is a designated person in each club helping to facilitate this. If you can find a few more willing bodies, I am sure the Secretary or PRO would love to hear from you. Please also bare in mind the location of some host clubs and the lack of signal therein. Which may have been the case in Kilcoo tonight for example.

The incessant bashing is hard to listen to from people who wouldn't lift a finger for their club never mind the county.

Commentating tonight was atrocious. It was like listening to two lads having the craic rather than commentating on what was actually in front of them.

On you go and volunteer your services.

How many championship finals are there in ladies' football this weekend? Why are there so many?


Too many. What value is there in a junior C championship medal that doesn't get you into ulster? Not worth a damn. The teams competing in these finals know it's embarrassing stuff. The two beaten semi finalists in the A grade automatically make up the B final - what a stupid idea. Championship is championship - if your beat your beat - try harder next season.

Very simplistic way of looking at it. It matters a lot to the girls playing it.  Dublin have a lot of various junior championships and to the lads taking part it's as important to them as the senior championship is to the bodens and kilmacuds. Gaa is about taking part. A love of the game. Not everyone is at thr top level.

Does it though? It's a bit much in my opinion and our club was in one of them. It's not really a championship if 6 teams can make a final in each grade

Lots of doom and gloom and gross exaggeration/panic going on here. You do realise that this team that all of a sudden is so 'old and tired' hasn't lost a PL game in 9 months? Did the players only get old and tired in the last week?

It's a blip, a big one given last nights performance. But far from a crisis. A few bodies back gives a little more depth and things will turn. You don't turn into a bad team overnight. Periods of poor form happen. It's natural. Having said that I do agree a midfielder is needed more so due to injury proneness rather than lack of quality or age.

Where do all these clubs get the money from
Burren in ballybofey for a training weekend
Rostrevor in johnstown house
Drumgath in gweedore for the weekend as well

3 teams with big ambitions this year

Rostrevor certainly weren't in Johnstown House, but whatever makes a good story 

I see Shamrocks and Drumgath have both been promoted into Div 2 and play a league final tomorrow night.  Any players from either side that could possibly make the county panel?
I'd say Lavery will look in all 4 divisions and maybe hold trials a bit like the Tyrone set up.

Shea McConville has potential but needs to bulk up,  Gough is playing well and a young player Gorman has caught the eye when I saw them play this year. Conor will hopefully look further than Loughisland for players unlike other managers.

Gough was tried before if memory serves me correct.  Not sure how he performed. McConville probably isn't the only one that needs S&C.. lots of players round the county could benefit from this.  The transformation in the physical make up of Armagh and Derry in particular in the last 2 yrs has been massive.  No doubt CL will have the right man working on this from early on.

In fairness a lot of the 'S&C' onus should be/is on the player themselves if they want to breech county standard physicality. Obviously the input from a club or county coach is vital but there has to be a willingness and understanding from within in the first instance. The Tyrone and Dublin lads weren't waiting round for someone to tell them to get to the gym I'm sure.

The two big games of the weekend are in division 1b tomorrow. RGU v Loughinisland and Ford v Carryduff. Looking at the last round of fixtures I imagine that these four teams could win the last round so it means this weekend is so vital. Carryduff will really want to cement their safety to bed this weekend so I fear for Bryansford.
The games should be streamed by the clubs as they are so important.

Some clubs can hardly tweet never mind stream 

Well at least the dodgy pen means that he wasn't at fault for every goal we have conceded this year!
He's also been involved in many of our goals and chances created.

Ah wobbler, it was no effort to defend. He bent his head down trying to brace for the contact  rather than doing anything to win the ball or put off the striker. It's what you'd expect if Bruno Fernades or Coutinho ended up at the back post with a big striker bearing down. Not near good enough for a full back. Not that I'd swap him for anyone, but I'd like to think he got a kick up the jacksey from management.

Ah wouldn't say he got a kick anywhere to be honest. It wasn't that bad. Trent was defending the far post and Mitrovic comes in like a steam train leaning right into and over him. It was an excellent cross and great forward movement and hints of a foul. There's no way Trent was stopping that momentum, he had his two forearms on Trents back, how could he jump properly? Perhaps one of the CBs would have been able to handle it if they were in the dual due to their size, but even at that it was a powerful leap from the boy. The one who was actually sleeping in the moment was Matip, as their other attacker ran right in and across him - if the cross had been lower the lad would have been unmarked 4 yards from the net. Although hard to see if he would have been offside or not.