Down Club Hurling & Football

[Square Ball]

Liatroim were strong down the middle but just probably didn't have enough outside of the McCrickards when it came to scoring power. They had an extra man for probably the guts of 45 minutes after the Glenariffe sending off. 

Ruairi McCrickard very strong at 3.

Was the red warrented?

[knowbetter]

First round of the Ulster Intermediate and Junior hurling championship over.

Unfortune for Liatroim but they represented the county well. Always a hard ask to travel away and get a result in North Antrim.

Glenariff have been on the up and up over the past number of years. Not that the league really represents a teams true capabilities but they won Division 2 of Antrim this year and beat our Down teams Bredagh and Carryduff comfortably who are on parr with Liatroim.

They will be strong favourites for Ulster now.

Burt beat Castlewellan away by 21 points, so that's interesting and kind of highlighting a couple of flaws in the 'Junior' aspect of the Junior championship but its been spoken about before.

Lavey and Cuchulainn's also won without much contest.

Castleblaney beat Middletown in the intermediate which was probably the most surprising result for me but Armagh hurling has dropped off alot in recent years.

[DuffGael]

First round of the Ulster Intermediate and Junior hurling championship over.

Unfortune for Liatroim but they represented the county well. Always a hard ask to travel away and get a result in North Antrim.

Glenariff have been on the up and up over the past number of years. Not that the league really represents a teams true capabilities but they won Division 2 of Antrim this year and beat our Down teams Bredagh and Carryduff comfortably who are on parr with Liatroim.



They will be strong favourites for Ulster now.

Burt beat Castlewellan away by 21 points, so that's interesting and kind of highlighting a couple of flaws in the 'Junior' aspect of the Junior championship but its been spoken about before.

Lavey and Cuchulainn's also won without much contest.

Castleblaney beat Middletown in the intermediate which was probably the most surprising result for me but Armagh hurling has dropped off alot in recent years.

The reality is our Senior and Intermediate teams are similar in standard to what is in Ulster but our Junior teams are not at that level. The teams in our Intermediate group are closer to the junior level required in Ulster. Should they play Junior and introduce a Junior B for the developing clubs. I seen there was an Ulster junior B completion this year too.
The same could be argued for our Intermediate and Junior football winners too- I hope Saval prove me wrong but Clonoe are a quality side

[Brendan]

Derry man noseying into the hurling chat here and ive been thinking likes of Lisbellaw and Castleblaney would make up the vast majority of their county panels so those clubs players have all the luxuries of an inter county player so does that give them an unfair advantage against the likes of Swatragh who have hardly any county reps. It goes back the GAA trying to do away with inter county teams for counties with less than 5 clubs

[Truth hurts]

First round of the Ulster Intermediate and Junior hurling championship over.

Unfortune for Liatroim but they represented the county well. Always a hard ask to travel away and get a result in North Antrim.

Glenariff have been on the up and up over the past number of years. Not that the league really represents a teams true capabilities but they won Division 2 of Antrim this year and beat our Down teams Bredagh and Carryduff comfortably who are on parr with Liatroim.



They will be strong favourites for Ulster now.

Burt beat Castlewellan away by 21 points, so that's interesting and kind of highlighting a couple of flaws in the 'Junior' aspect of the Junior championship but its been spoken about before.

Lavey and Cuchulainn's also won without much contest.

Castleblaney beat Middletown in the intermediate which was probably the most surprising result for me but Armagh hurling has dropped off alot in recent years.

The reality is our Senior and Intermediate teams are similar in standard to what is in Ulster but our Junior teams are not at that level. The teams in our Intermediate group are closer to the junior level required in Ulster. Should they play Junior and introduce a Junior B for the developing clubs. I seen there was an Ulster junior B completion this year too.
The same could be argued for our Intermediate and Junior football winners too- I hope Saval prove me wrong but Clonoe are a quality s
ide

I have been saying this for a while, it is time to restructure our championships