Down Club Hurling & Football

[Whitehair]

IHC

Ballygalget 3.29 Ballyvarley 0.7
Liatroim 3.18 Kilclief 0.4
Ballycran 2.15 Newry Shamrocks 1.11

My scores might be a few points out in the top 2 matches.

In the Ballycran game, with Newry playing with a strong breeze Scott Nicholson scored a scrambled goal in the first minute for the ards men, Newry then tagged on a few points from midfield with Ciaran Courtney the main contributor, Kevin Fegan also scored two points from play. Ballycran gained a 21yard free mid-way through the 1st half in an incident similar to Waterfords contentious equalising decision in Croke earlier. James Coyle blasted it to the net, Conor Mc Carthy and Mick o prey also knocked over points to have Ballycran lead 2.4 to 0.9 at half time. On the restart Courtney landed a long free against the breeze but from there on it was mainly one way traffic with James Coyle knocking over a succession of points. Newry won a penalty midway through the 2nd half which Courtney blasted to the net which kept them in touch. James Coyle was ballycrans best player IMO finishing up with about 1.10. The game ran to script with Newry being too reliant on a few players while ballycran had a more even spread of talent and did a sound, if not cynical at times job of preventing Courtney and Mc Guinness get a run at goal. Semi finals should make for a few interesting games!

[In the Onion Bag]

boys whats the fixtures in div 3 tomorrow night i know we play tullylish in newry.

Tonights Div3 matches are the reverse of these R9 games (R9 results shown, venues reversed of course)

Bright (L) Teconnaght (W)
St Pauls 2.9 Dundrum 3.12
Glenn (W)  Ardglass (L)
Drumgath 1.11 Mitchels 1.12
Tullylish 0.15 Bosco 0.15
Saul 2.13 Bredagh 0.8

[Bacon]

Intermediate Hurling Championship

Ballygalget 4-26  0-07 Ballyvarley

Ballyvarley totally outclassed by an excellent Ballygalget IIs team. They had young lads capable of scoring from all over the field and with a solid defence had the game wrapped up well before half time. The crafty Galgets made sure they didn't use any subs to keep them for the juniors next week! Even when Spike Baillie went off injured they didn't replace him and he limped back on to score the 3rd goal.

Ballycran 2-15  1-11 Newry

A well deserved win for Ballycran who always looked in control. Whitehair is right about James Coyle - MOM. The game never really developed into the contest I was expecting and by half time the result wasn't in doubt. Courtney's a class act but Newry rely on him too much and they have too many lads well past their best. Somebody should tell McGuinness that points count in hurling.

I didn't see the Liatroim/Kilclief match - watching Cork/Waterford. Any reports?

[johnneycool]

So it's Liatroim, Portaferry, Ballycran and ourselves in the semi's.

That means that Liatroim can start planning for a run in the Ulster intermediates irrespective of any other results.

In fairness to Ballyvarley yesterday, they are a junior team, so maybe the county board should of afforded them the same lattitude that they did Liatroim.

What has happened to Kilclief hurlers, No 001?

[Lecale2]

IHC draw - Liatroim v Ballygalget and Portaferry v Ballycran. Two cracking matches in prospect. Are the IHC semi finals after the SHC semi finals? There could be an impact on who is available for the Ards clubs.

[goldenyears]

does anyone have the right div2 table positions as it stands currently? saw three diff versions in three local papers at end of last week!

is the down gaa website correct?

[Bacon]

IHC draw - Liatroim v Ballygalget and Portaferry v Ballycran. Two cracking matches in prospect. Are the IHC semi finals after the SHC semi finals? There could be an impact on who is available for the Ards clubs.

IHC semi finals are fixed for Saturday 18th August and Senior semi finals for Sunday 9th September.

[DownHead]

Predictions for tonights div 3 matches!!!

Bright    v Teconnaght  (Teconnaght win)
St Pauls v Dundrum      (Dundrum win)
Glenn    v Ardglass       (Ardglass win)
Drumgath v Mitchels    (Draw)
Tullylish v Bosco          (Tullylish win)
Saul v  Bredagh          (Draw)

Any thoughts??

[Pull Hard Hes No Relation]

Intermediate Hurling Championship

Ballygalget 4-26  0-07 Ballyvarley

Ballyvarley totally outclassed by an excellent Ballygalget IIs team. They had young lads capable of scoring from all over the field and with a solid defence had the game wrapped up well before half time. The crafty Galgets made sure they didn't use any subs to keep them for the juniors next week! Even when Spike Baillie went off injured they didn't replace him and he limped back on to score the 3rd goal.

Ballycran 2-15  1-11 Newry

A well deserved win for Ballycran who always looked in control. Whitehair is right about James Coyle - MOM. The game never really developed into the contest I was expecting and by half time the result wasn't in doubt. Courtney's a class act but Newry rely on him too much and they have too many lads well past their best. Somebody should tell McGuinness that points count in hurling.

I didn't see the Liatroim/Kilclief match - watching Cork/Waterford. Any reports?

Probably our worst performance all year - we got a brutal start with the goal when our full back took the head staggers and pulled on the ball 1st time letting it slip behind him and let Scotty in for a goal. We really missed the couple of lads on holiday as we have  asmall panel and ended up with a full forward line with the combined age of 116! That's probably the same as the whole of the Ballycran forward line. The two goals in the first half killed us and we struggled to play ctach up for the remainder of the game, to be honest we never really looked like threatening up front - we were very flat. A big issue is no games in the weeks coming up to championship, Ards clubs have the advantage of the Antrim league but we have played one game in the past month and that was about four weeks ago and it told as Ballycran were a lot sharper.
Agree that big Kieran is a class act but he will never develop to his full potential playing at that level with us but Eoin was disappointing and IMO has gone backwards this year, he never looked up for the game at all. Eoin is our main man up front and when he struggles the whole forward line does as he is vital to us in terms of winning primary possession. Biazarrely we played better against the wind than withit as we started to get to the pithc of the game but never looked like getting the scores to close the gap.
We can have no complaints beaten by the better team, we have a couple of new lads joining us next year who will be good additions and another couple of young lads coming through so I wouldn't write us off yet from winning an IHC in the next couple of years but we have  alot of work to do in speeding up our hurling.
The most surprising aspect was the lack of scores from play I'd say that we only scored about four points from play and Ballycran didn't score much above that. If the semi-finals are on before the Senior then fancy Ballgalget to beat Liatriom and the other game is a toss up although Crans might sneak that.

[kumquat]

Bright    v Teconnaght  (Teconnaght)
St Pauls v Dundrum      (Dundrum)
Glenn    v Ardglass       (Ardglass)
Drumgath v Mitchels    (Drumgath)
Tullylish v Bosco          (Bosco)
Saul v  Bredagh          (Saul)

[wally]

Hi all, this is my first post . . .

My thoughts on the most exciting division in Down this year . . . . . . . . .

Bright    v Teconnaght - Teconnaght by a large score
Dundrum v St Pauls   - Dundrum by a bagful
Glenn    v Ardglass - Glenn to win
Drumgath v Mitchels - Drumgath to win if they are focused
Tullylish v Bosco - Tullylish to hammer Bosco and secure a play off position
Saul v  Bredagh - Saul to beat Bredagh

Question, hopefully someone can answer?  Is the Dundrum goalkeeper any relation to Eddie King who captained Down u21's in 1979?

[Square Ball]

Friday 3 August 7.30pm

O'Neills International Sportswear

Div 1

Atticall v Castlewellan

An Riocht v Loughinisland

Mayobridge v Bryansford

Rostrevor v Longstone

Kilcoo v Clonduff

Liatroim v Burren

Div 2

Ballymartin v Ballyholland

Carryduff v Glasdrumman

Kilclief v Downpatrick

Shamrocks v Clann Na Banna

Darragh Cross v Warrenpoint

Saval v Anaclone

Div 3

Bright v Dudrum

Ardglass v St. Pauls

Glenn v Teconnaught

Drumgath v Tullylish

Saul v Mitchels

Bredagh v Bosco

Div 4

St. Michaels v Dromara

Drumaness v Ballykinlar

Aughlisnafin v Aghaderg



Saturday 4 August 6pm

Democrat Junior Hurling Championship

Ballycran: Portaferry v Ballygalget D Caughey



Sunday 5 August 2pm

Democrat Junior Hurling Championship

Kilclief: Castlewellan v Bredagh C Coulter

Downpatrick: Ballycran v Warrenpoint E Morgan



Sunday 5 August 2pm

Premier Reserve Football League

Div One

Mayobridge v Burren

Downpatrick v Kilcoo

Rostrevor v Liatroim

Warrenpoint v Longstone

Clonduff v An Riocht

Div Two

Saul v Saval

Loughinisland v Annaclone

Carryduff v Kilclief

Ballymartin v Tullylish



Tuesday 7 August 7.30pm

Democrat Junior Hurling Championship

Liatroim: Clonduff v Ballela K McGuinness

[Lecale2]

Saul beat Bredagh by 2 points in a very close game at Cherryvale tonight.

[Square Ball]

Tullylish win by 5

can anyone comfirm how many get into the play offs? is it top three or four?

[Whitehair]

Annaclone drew with Clann na Banna in Annaclone, 1.8 apiece i think it finished. Banbridge would have been deserved winners IMO after a sluggish start. Annaclone were awarded a soft free 14 yards out in injury time to equalise.