Down Club Hurling & Football

[manwithnoplan]

Is it any surprise our U20 team is struggling? It has been years since our schools have been successful. This has a clear bearing on county football. We require a robust secondary education coaching review. The county and the schools should be working hand in hand.

That comment would make a lot more sense if the Under 20's hadn't recently won two Ulster titles.

[Golden Eye]

Again Down GAA Social media shocking to say the least! No Recognition to are players involved last night!

[snoopdog]

All this talk of Down schools doing nothing in McRory. St Colmans had to share  the cup with Maghera because of covid. They potentially could've went all the way and won a hogan that year. It can't always be down to St Colmans, they will always have lean spells. The Abbey had half the Armagh team that won an all Ireland in 02 and did nothing with them.

[thewobbler]

Again Down GAA Social media shocking to say the least! No Recognition to are players involved last night!

If the difference between someone's happiness and plight, is that our county board publishes a congratulations message every time someone from Down wins something in any sphere of Gaelic Games, then I really do despair for the future of the human race.

We do not need this validation of our efforts. We really do not.

[manwithnoplan]

Again Down GAA Social media shocking to say the least! No Recognition to are players involved last night!

If the difference between someone's happiness and plight, is that our county board publishes a congratulations message every time someone from Down wins something in any sphere of Gaelic Games, then I really do despair for the future of the human race.

We do not need this validation of our efforts. We really do not.

Bit of a ridiculous comment with the usual hyperbole of course. If you can't see the value of a simple social media acknowledgement to the great sporting achievement of some players from our county then why are you even participating in online discussion boards?

[Truth hurts]

On the Down Facebook page, a post congratulates UU on their victory. People need to relax; irrelevant GAA content has taken over every club's Facebook page. Mary has been selected for the U14 team; please post. Let's get a post up when Jimmy fractures his arm at school and Scotty passes his theory exam. Jesus wept.

[thewobbler]

On the Down Facebook page, a post congratulates UU on their victory. People need to relax; irrelevant GAA content has taken over every club's Facebook page. Mary has been selected for the U14 team; please post. Let's get a post up when Jimmy fractures his arm at school and Scotty passes his theory exam. Jesus wept.

This.

PROs up and down the country have created a stick with which to beat themselves and each other.

A good recent example was the well of South Down clubs who took to Twitter and Facebook to wish their Abbey players good luck ahead of their MacRory QF.  Delivering that kind of content across multiple codes, in multiple schools and across all age groups is not plausible. So it's favouritism. Which then leads to shitty conversations and backbiting within clubs.

The poster above might value  the presence of Down players in a Sigerson Cup winning team more than, for example, St Joseph's winning the Pat King Cup with a largely a Down playing pool. But the youngsters and their parents would not, and therein lies the problem.

A county PRO who were to cover every football and hurling related byproduct in their county, would produce a mess. And 20 hours a week of labour needed to create that mess.

[imtommygunn]

It's on twitter too

The twitter account got hacked last week and only appears to be back up and running as of yesterday - your social media is pretty good tbf.

[snoopdog]

Again Down GAA Social media shocking to say the least! No Recognition to are players involved last night!

If the difference between someone's happiness and plight, is that our county board publishes a congratulations message every time someone from Down wins something in any sphere of Gaelic Games, then I really do despair for the future of the human race.

We do not need this validation of our efforts. We really do not.

Bit of a ridiculous comment with the usual hyperbole of course. If you can't see the value of a simple social media acknowledgement to the great sporting achievement of some players from our county then why are you even participating in online discussion boards?

I missed the sigerson final. Did many Dpwn men start?

[manwithnoplan]

Again Down GAA Social media shocking to say the least! No Recognition to are players involved last night!

If the difference between someone's happiness and plight, is that our county board publishes a congratulations message every time someone from Down wins something in any sphere of Gaelic Games, then I really do despair for the future of the human race.

We do not need this validation of our efforts. We really do not.

Bit of a ridiculous comment with the usual hyperbole of course. If you can't see the value of a simple social media acknowledgement to the great sporting achievement of some players from our county then why are you even participating in online discussion boards?

I missed the sigerson final. Did many Dpwn men start?

I'm sure you could get a match report online if you can use Google.

[ardtole]

Eamonn Brown came on as sub and Ryan Magill started and captained the team, as far as I'm aware that is the only Down contribution.

[supersub]

Again Down GAA Social media shocking to say the least! No Recognition to are players involved last night!

Here we go again ffs. Precious, easily offended souls. As bad as the woke brigade, and not even factually correct. That post was written on this forum at 11.15pm according to the timestamp. The red mist must have descended that much you couldn't see Facebook, Instagram or Twitter to see the acknowledgement before you posted here. It's just sensationalist nonsense at this stage. Whatever stick can and will be used to beat any part of the Co Board, don't worry about being correct. Not to mention the issues with county social media over the past 7 days.

[Sheedy]

Again Down GAA Social media shocking to say the least! No Recognition to are players involved last night!

If the difference between someone's happiness and plight, is that our county board publishes a congratulations message every time someone from Down wins something in any sphere of Gaelic Games, then I really do despair for the future of the human race.

We do not need this validation of our efforts. We really do not.

Bit of a ridiculous comment with the usual hyperbole of course. If you can't see the value of a simple social media acknowledgement to the great sporting achievement of some players from our county then why are you even participating in online discussion boards?

I missed the sigerson final. Did many Dpwn men start?

did you not see it mentioned on social media then? check it out there

[Splash]

Great win for the hurlers last week against Kerry. Leaves Down in a very good position heading into the next round.

That second half was one of the best performances I've seen from a Down team in a while. Great stuff.

Could very easily have seen the heads drop after Kerry went in at the break 7 points up, but there looks to be a good mentality about the team at the minute, and Down came flying out of the blocks and didn't give Kerry an inch. Every aspect of the game Down seemed to be able to outperform the Kingdom. Down also managed to deal with playing into the wind a lot better in the first half, than Kerry did in the second half, which made things a lot easier.

Pearse Óg McCrcickard had a good game, and Tim Prenter had some amazing moments. Two good games in a row for him now. Stephen Kieth also had an amazing game. Amazing stop to the first Kerry goal attempt, and saving a penalty is always remarkable.

In the first half our backs found it very hard to deal with the Kerry full forward line. We might not be so lucky the next time, and would need to tighten up.

Great to see Danny Toner back. Some goal he got.

All in all, great performance. Particularly great to see Down make a comeback after being a good bit behind at half time. If we can perform each day the way we did in that second half, we'll be playing in Division One next year. 

Very hopeful going into the next game- Kildare in Ballycran. I do think Kildare have been our bogey team for the past couple years, but as we showed last year, we're well fit to beat them. Should have a couple more lads back which will be a good boost, and Kildare aren't looking just the same as they were last year. Should be a competitive game, and would much rather it be at home than away.

The only two unbeaten teams in the division (Laois and Carlow) play each other next week, which could mean if Down beat Kildare, and the results go their way, Down would be sitting second. Would be nice going into the final few rounds with that momentum.

Good to see the hurlers getting their first competitive win of the year. Hopefully there's plenty more to come.

[downtothecore]

Job done by the boys today on Belfast. We were the better team but it took us to last 10 minutes to kill of Antrim.
Oran Murdock was very good in second half. Caolan Mooney worked hard throughout and good to see him back. Oisin savage took soom good points in the second half.

Overall we are improving and going in the right direction.