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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: February 23, 2021, 08:10:27 AM »

Mourns red think you need to read that again
29 March. Organised outdoor sport kids and adults
We are not in England but watch these morons follow Boris

Didn't see that until you just mentioned Smurfy! only seen outdoor facilities.. Suppose pressure will be on the GAA to let clubs in the North train if we follow Boris

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: February 22, 2021, 10:29:37 PM »

So... Just read through Boris’s roadmap and 17th May allows 30 person limit outdoors.. So a possible date for resuming of training?? Individual run plans are sickening at this point

are you based in England?

Arelene/Michelle will copy and paste.. probably should have added that into my previous message

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: February 22, 2021, 08:41:58 PM »

So... Just read through Boris’s roadmap and 17th May allows 30 person limit outdoors.. So a possible date for resuming of training?? Individual run plans are sickening at this point

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: February 15, 2021, 11:19:37 AM »

With the vaccinations in the North massively outstripping the south we could well be allowed back long before them,  but would the GAA allow it or will they go with an all Ireland approach.

No chance, they left north behind last year in some decision they’ll open GAA up once the south are in a better situation. Whispers that it’ll be May before club goes back

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: February 11, 2021, 08:46:56 PM »

Is there not a chance that your county leaders are trying to get together the best calibre team possible? If that means picking bits from different proposals is that such a crime, really? Especially if it's done in the genuine best interests of the county!

  If we could just discuss Down GAA business amongst Down Gaels it’d be great.
BS,you have a habit of coming on here when there is any kind of criticism of our University educated County leadership.Are some of them your fellow Graduates?

The frustration among us Down Gaels about the management is more, theyve picked and chose aspects from the different proposals for the last 2 or 3 appointments and has got us nowhere. We had a magnificent Burren team who’s players on our minor team got beat by Fermanagh.

Instead of picking and choosing give the job to who put forward the best proposal and let them get on with it.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: February 10, 2021, 12:52:32 PM »

Tally’s ban reduced to 8 weeks after appeal

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Basically too when the inter county season will be starting then? 

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: February 07, 2021, 01:30:03 PM »

Ok so who was it? Who was out training this morning? Seen on twitter but they didn’t name the club

Who posted it on Twitter?

Q https://twitter.com/w33fry/status/1358391938009939973?s=21

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: February 07, 2021, 12:56:04 PM »

Ok so who was it? Who was out training this morning? Seen on twitter but they didn’t name the club

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: February 04, 2021, 09:22:42 AM »

"Still recovering from too much refreshments with my LFC supporters bubble the other night."

Didn't care too much about COVID restirctions there Spewtree? No bubbles allowed in this lockdown..

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: January 21, 2021, 02:33:53 PM »

The club proposals for 2021 don’t allow for the 2020 league being completed which is strange.. most other counties are completing their 2020 programmes before starting 2021.. but I suppose if they inscribed covid as the winner of division 1 in 2020 - everyone would agree!!
Another tight schedule ahead but the division 1/2 mix should be good and will show teams how far away they are from the top table..

What were the proposals put forward Johnny? When do they have a date for league to start?

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: January 08, 2021, 08:37:32 PM »

Thoughts on Rostrevor training in kilbroney over Christmas?

They need it

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: December 28, 2020, 01:44:45 PM »

If stories are to be believed the Down CB are appealing the red card for the minor who was spitting! If this is true it is disgusting and an awful example to set for a U17 basically tells him that there should be no consequences for his actions

Whatever happened to the day when you just took your punishment?? Got sent off for whatever you just sat out the necessary time (which usually meant you missed a few games) but society nowadays we appeal everything, set the wrong precedent esp to young players that they can do as they please and we will get you off on a technicality or something stupid..
on a side note - I heard the keeper got sent off after the final whistle for booting the ball at the ref and that is the red they are appealing not the spitting incident.. still setting wrong precedent IMO..

If the goalkeeper hit the ref with the ball then maybe a senior debut for him next year, could do with some accurate kicks from our goalkeepers

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Down / Re: What to do about Belfast

« on: December 28, 2020, 01:43:15 PM »

Might come across rude here but I don't mean to but what is the question of the post? Is it why aren't Down doing better with the population we have? Or is it about the lack of numbers of players within the club scene?

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: December 21, 2020, 09:57:50 PM »

What did he post?

after parkinson was getting stuck into him on twitter about down only scoring 1-4 etc etc. Poacher responded with we all have off days, happy christmas and posted a newspaper article of a story about colm parkinson getting charged with assault from years ago. Swiftly deleted.

To be fair Parkinson is a mouth piece and deserved something thrown at him, shite he spurns on his podcast and twitter only a matter of time. Back to the football disappointing enough result considering the Burren team that were apart of that squad. But perhaps we need to go down a way of like a Barca (La Masia) approach to our development squads?

Have a set out a determined way of playing starting at youngest age group and all our development squads play this way, attacking hard working football that focuses on developing skills of the players. Seems to be a lot put into the S&C sode of things for these underage county players and when you play against them in senior football at least skill wise theres not much to worry about (bar the wee f**kers being fast). S&C can take a back seat and once they hit 17/18 give them S&C plans.

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Down / Re: Down Club Hurling & Football

« on: December 10, 2020, 08:19:09 PM »

I’m not too optimistic about that u20 management team.. Monaghan didn’t really set the world alight with Laverty in the background team and St Johns haven’t exactly prospered with Clarke when was in with them.