Down Club Hurling & Football

[5 Sams]

Castlewellan are flying, they are so comfortable at the minute. They would be best equipped to challenge Kilcoo this year. The Harps suffered another defeat last night, is the coaching guru under pressure??

Was at the Harps match last night..close enough game esp the 2nd half but the bridge always had that wee bit in the reserve for every time the harps came back at them...one thing though and im not about giving fellas a hard time but Poacher who i believe is a very very decent coach does himself no favours with his carry on during games....when bridge men were about to take frees or shoot he was doing everything unsporting that he could to put fellas off....roaring / shouting things at boys - just all uncalled for....that sort of thing trying to put fellas off is one thing from outside the wire but inside the wire shows a lack of class, sportmanship and is imo uncalled for. Its a pity because im sure the he has more knowledge than most on the coaching side but all the other antics are classless.

#PoacherOut

[ardtole]

Down got an absoloute trouncing in a challenge v Meath last night. Conceded 5 goals, 4 in the first half, 3 of them due to us losing posession in our own half.

[Smurfy123]

Meath 5-14 0-12 Down
A worrying result see as we had a strong team out on Sunday.Meath are hardly world beaters
Mooney R Johnstone were back playing which is good to see.
Looking at the starting team only J Johnstone looked to be missing who would start v Armagh in the championship.
It must be said thou that the panel are doing some serious hard training at the minute which probably had a bearing on Sundays result

[ardtole]

Mooney and ryan johnstone didnt start, either did Aidan Carr, but on sunday evenings performance, it is difficult to see them beating Armagh. I know you shouldnt read too much into challenge games but it was a shocking effort.

[Smurfy123]

Ardtole what was the starting team?
Did anyone stand out for Down?

[ardtole]

From the team named on hoganstand, mark Poland started in place of Ryan Johnson, im not sure who came in for Mooney.
It was a wet miserable evening and it wouldnt be overly harsh to say no Down player stood out at all. Possibly O Hanlon was the best off a bad bunch.

[Blarney]

I went to watch the down U-17's play Fermanagh on Saturday and was very impressed with their performance. Played well as a team, tackling and attacking in numbers and at speed. The final score was Fermanagh 0-5 Down 6-12, it has been a long time since Down won a championship match by 25 points.
They play Monaghan on Saturday in Newry, a team they have already beaten earlier in the year, and could have had a good chance of reaching an Ulster semi-final, with a bit of luck.
However it is hard to believe that the county board/CCC have decided that these young players are expected to play a minor league club game tonight and those players that are still under 16 are expected to play another U-16 league club match on Thursday night,38 hours before the Monaghan game.
Most of these young players will have been asked to play three games in a week and some will have been expected to play four, so much for player welfare.
The team that lined out, taken from another forum, was as follows:
J Hazzard, D Fegan, T Gordon, G Fitzsimons, J Lynch, R McEvoy, C Cunningham, R O'Higgins, R McCormick, R Campbell, T Prenter, C McNulty, S Johnston, C O'Rawe, M Carville
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[SHEEDY]

stolen from a meath poster on another thread..


Challenge match today in Kilmainham today

Meath 5:13
Down 0:12

Pity we couldn't do it in the league but Mickey Newman finished top scorer which is a good sign of his readiness to return.Ronan Jones got a run at midfield as well so he could develop into an option alongside Bryan Menton.

Meath scorers: Mickey Newman 1-4, Ronan Jones 1-1, Sean Tobin 0-4, Cian O'Brien, Cillian O'Sullivan and Donal Lenihan 1-0 each, Thomas O'Reilly 0-2, Mickey Burke and Shane McEntee 0-1 each.

Down scorers: Darragh O'Hanlon 0-7, Conor Maginn 0-3, Barry O'Hagan and Ryan Johnston 0-1 each.

Meath: Paddy O'Rourke, Donal Keogan, Mickey Burke, Donnacha Tobin, Shane McEntee, Cian O'Brien, Padraic Harnan, Bryan menton, Ronan Jones, James McEntee, Cillian O'Sullivan, Ruairi O'Coileain, Bryan McMahon, Michael Newman, Donal Lenihan.

Subs: Thomas O'Reilly, Sean Tobin, Seanie Curran, Breen Conlon, Kevin Ross, David McQuillan, Joe Sheridan, Bobby O'Brien.

Down: Michael Cunningham, Ryan McAleenan, Brendan McArdle, Darren O'Hagan, Darragh O'Hanlon, Niall Donnelly, Caolan Mooney, Jonathan Flynn, Peter Turley, Kevin McKiernan, Conor Maginn, Alan Davidson, Connaire Harrison, Barry O'Hagan, Ryan Johnston.

Subs: Sean Dornan, Conaill McGovern, Cathal Magee, Gerard Collins.

[Smurfy123]

The word on the street is the county players have been asked by the management to sit out this Friday nights or the following Friday nights club games in preparation for Armagh.
We really don't need anymore injuries.

[ardtole]

That was the team named in the program Sheedy but ryan johnson or caolan mooney didnt start. Mark Poland started.

[rosskarr]

I went to watch the down U-17's play Fermanagh on Saturday and was very impressed with their performance. Played well as a team, tackling and attacking in numbers and at speed. The final score was Fermanagh 0-5 Down 6-12, it has been a long time since Down won a championship match by 25 points.
They play Monaghan on Saturday in Newry, a team they have already beaten earlier in the year, and could have had a good chance of reaching an Ulster semi-final, with a bit of luck.
However it is hard to believe that the county board/CCC have decided that these young players are expected to play a minor league club game tonight and those players that are still under 16 are expected to play another U-16 league club match on Thursday night,38 hours before the Monaghan game.
Most of these young players will have been asked to play three games in a week and some will have been expected to play four, so much for player welfare.
The team that lined out, taken from another forum, was as follows:
J Hazzard, D Fegan, T Gordon, G Fitzsimons, J Lynch, R McEvoy, C Cunningham, R O'Higgins, R McCormick, R Campbell, T Prenter, C McNulty, S Johnston, C O'Rawe, M Carville
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Blame the county board again,everything is their fault .What do think they should have done?Call off games and have no game time for the rest of the players from the clubs not on this u17 panel. Be reasonable

[johnneycool]

I went to watch the down U-17's play Fermanagh on Saturday and was very impressed with their performance. Played well as a team, tackling and attacking in numbers and at speed. The final score was Fermanagh 0-5 Down 6-12, it has been a long time since Down won a championship match by 25 points.
They play Monaghan on Saturday in Newry, a team they have already beaten earlier in the year, and could have had a good chance of reaching an Ulster semi-final, with a bit of luck.
However it is hard to believe that the county board/CCC have decided that these young players are expected to play a minor league club game tonight and those players that are still under 16 are expected to play another U-16 league club match on Thursday night,38 hours before the Monaghan game.
Most of these young players will have been asked to play three games in a week and some will have been expected to play four, so much for player welfare.
The team that lined out, taken from another forum, was as follows:
J Hazzard, D Fegan, T Gordon, G Fitzsimons, J Lynch, R McEvoy, C Cunningham, R O'Higgins, R McCormick, R Campbell, T Prenter, C McNulty, S Johnston, C O'Rawe, M Carville
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Blame the county board again,everything is their fault .What do think they should have done?Call off games and have no game time for the rest of the players from the clubs not on this u17 panel. Be reasonable

More importantly T Prenter has a minor hurling game tonight.....

[No1]

That couldn't have been Gerard Collins among the subs, he has recently suffered a serious injury.

[Mourne man]

Are county panelists allowed to play tonight?

[gaaman2016]

Why would they not be? Ulster Championship isn't for another 4 weeks