Down Club Hurling & Football

[the derg]

well done to the derg in the jfc semi final and as usual made it hard for themselves as they were 10 points up early on the second half good performances from niall farrell cathal mcgrath aaron mcevoy and eugene devlin hope they can keep this going ............... bit of momentum building again after the transfers.........come on the derg

[EDChief]

Do Fin have any chance of winning the JFC?

It would be such a heartening story for young clubs/struggling clubs if they could pull it off.

Cannot see it.
It will be a Dundrum vs Drumaness final.
That would be a good showpiece for a Junior final.

Any one shed any light what has happened at Mitchells?
They seemed to have completely imploded.

[Square Ball]

While I would love the FInn to win the JFC its hard to see past  Dundrum or Drumaness as winners, would be a massive shock if both diddnt progress to the final. as for Mitchels, me thinks soccer played a big part in whats happened

[dundrumite]

Do Fin have any chance of winning the JFC?

It would be such a heartening story for young clubs/struggling clubs if they could pull it off.

We play them in the semi final and if they were playing any other team in the county I would be rooting for them. Hopefully we can get past them and get ourselves into a junior final, be great for the club especially after the doom and gloom of the previous season.

[DownFanatic]

Do Fin have any chance of winning the JFC?

It would be such a heartening story for young clubs/struggling clubs if they could pull it off.

While many would expect us and Drumaness to meet in the Final, it is not just as straighforward as that. Aghaderg are improving with every game and despite their indifferent League form they possess 5/6 players of excellent quality. They have been very tricky opposition for the stronger teams in Division 4 this season and Id say they will be very confident of toppling the competition favourites.

Ourselves and the Fin is a real local derby as only a mile or two separates the clubs geographically. They had their full team out against Killyleagh and this was the first time this season that they had their full panel available to them. They have a competent young manager in Emmett Devlin. With the derby element to this game, it should turn out to be an intense and close encounter. Both League games between the two sides were hard fought physical battles. The Fin will not fear us in the slightest and they will very much believe that they can beat us.

[whitegoodman]

Senior championship getting worse, groundhog day in 3 wks time!!!!

[Purple Lady]

Apparently Drumgath have drew Bosco in IC semi. That would leave the other semi between Tullylish and winner of tonights match. Can anyone comfirm??

[lucan]

warrenpoint beat ballymartin and play tullylish in ifc .bosco play drumgath.

[Purple Lady]

warrenpoint beat ballymartin and play tullylish in ifc .bosco play drumgath.

Not doubting you for one minute but Down website has Ballymartin winning by a scoreline of 3-12 to 0-06.

[guevara]

IFC Draw

Warrenpoint v Tullylish

Bosco v Drumgath

In the Senior

Burren v Logstone

Kilcoo v Castlewellan

Rostrevor v Bryansford

Mayobridge v Saval

[thewobbler]

Kilcoo vs Town
Burren vs Stone
Mayobridge vs Saval
Bryansford vs the others

Don't think you'll get much of a price from the bookies for all four winners there.


Poor game in Newry tonight. Saval made the more chances and had more energy about them, but the sending off of Damian McCrink for two quick yellows with 15 to go was probably the deciding factor. Saval got in front and closers up shop.

It didn't feel like a Championship match though; not one player on the pitch lifted the game above above average.

[Purple Lady]

IFC Draw

Warrenpoint v Tullylish

Bosco v Drumgath

In the Senior

Burren v Logstone

Kilcoo v Castlewellan

Rostrevor v Bryansford

Mayobridge v Saval

Not trying to start a conspiracy theory but what was the probability of that happening again. Especially after the last round of qualifiers threw up a considerable number of local derbies!!!!

Are these draws make infront of an independant adjudicator, bit like the lottery. I was just wondering.

[here comes 6]

IFC Draw

Warrenpoint v Tullylish

Bosco v Drumgath

In the Senior

Burren v Logstone

Kilcoo v Castlewellan

Rostrevor v Bryansford

Mayobridge v Saval

All six games look to have big Favorites.  Time to get to the bookies

[guevara]

Both games were poor last night particularly the Senior game. Saval probably deserved their win although The Harps couldve made more of a game of it.
Basic errors, particularly kick passing were common throughout and neither team seemed capable of giving good quality ball into their danger men.
Ballyholland seem to have sacraficed the pace in their team a few years ago for "bulking up" and its appears to have made them a poorer team who looked very one paced and kept moving the ball across the field.

In the Intermediate game Warrenpoint coasted from the first minute although Ballymartin are a shadow of the team that won the competition a few seasons ago due to players heading abroad for work.

[marsbarkid]

Any word of the dates + venues for the JFC semi finals yet?  I know it's supposed to be the wknd of 28th-30thSep. Maybe a double header on the Sunday in Newcastle like last year?