Down Club Hurling & Football

[crice123]

What exactly does Cathal Murray do on the line apart from give off and turn referees against us!

[saulzer]

Murray's job is to get as many ex-St Colman's players onto the team as he possibly can.

[Smurfy123]

Cork were not much better?

They could have scored another 2 goals
Did Down have a shot at goal?

Cork won ever long kickouts
Cork midfielders run through at ease time and time again

Murray and Adams train the team from what I hear
With the quality Down have on the pitch it's hard to explain so many poor performances under Burns
1 big win against Monaghan does not cut it for me I look at the bigger picture and his tenure to date has been diabolical to say the least.When will the county board wake up and smell the coffee here

[thewobbler]

Murray's job is to get as many ex-St Colman's players onto the team as he possibly can.

4 starters yesterday from the county's most successful footballing school. Really worth getting your knickers in a twist over?

Same number as started the AIF in 1994 by the way.

[Lecale Gael]

Cork were not much better? AGREE

They could have scored another 2 goals
Did Down have a shot at goal?

Cork won ever long kickouts
Cork midfielders run through at ease time and time again

Murray and Adams train the team from what I hear
With the quality Down have on the pitch it's hard to explain so many poor performances under Burns
1 big win against Monaghan does not cut it for me I look at the bigger picture and his tenure to date has been diabolical to say the least.When will the county board wake up and smell the coffee here

[Lecale Gael]

Murray's job is to get as many ex-St Colman's players onto the team as he possibly can.

wise up lol

[stiff breeze]

Cork were not much better?

They could have scored another 2 goals
Did Down have a shot at goal?

Cork won ever long kickouts
Cork midfielders run through at ease time and time again

Murray and Adams train the team from what I hear
With the quality Down have on the pitch it's hard to explain so many poor performances under Burns
1 big win against Monaghan does not cut it for me I look at the bigger picture and his tenure to date has been diabolical to say the least.When will the county board wake up and smell the coffee here

Ill answer that with an earlier post from you .......

Mooney 8 Downs best player went direct and could have had a goal good game

smh

[urbangael]

Only a handful of the players looked up for the game against Cork. Miller,  mooney and Ohagan had a real go. Doherty and the 2 inside forwards also tried hard. The rest showed a serious lack of spirit. One does have to wonder does this come from management. Burns doesn't look very animated along the line. I wonder how he motivates a team 😕

[Smurfy123]

Lack of motivation looked the possible low level performance
Are we any better than when Jim McCrory left us 3 years ago?
Why is Kevin McKernan not starting?

[ardtole]

I'd say there is a degree of experimentation I'd fully expect McKernan to start come the championship. As long as down stay up this year I'd be happy enough. Promotion would be a  poisoned chalice for whoever goes up this year.

[Smurfy123]

You would be happy enough to stay in division 2?Why would that be?
That's what's wrong we are happy enough in this division
You not see Andy McEntee coming out saying he wants Meath big on the big stage playing the big boys
Look at Galway this year
Happy enough in division 2 playing the likes of Clare Tipp Cavan Louth Meath no thanks
Have any of the above have a prayers chance of winning at provincial level?
But hey happy enough to stay in division 2

[snoopdog]

You would be happy enough to stay in division 2?Why would that be?
That's what's wrong we are happy enough in this division
You not see Andy McEntee coming out saying he wants Meath big on the big stage playing the big boys
Look at Galway this year
Happy enough in division 2 playing the likes of Clare Tipp Cavan Louth Meath no thanks
Have any of the above have a prayers chance of winning at provincial level?
But hey happy enough to stay in division 2

Maybe you didn't see our last performance in Div 1. Down are light years behind what's up there. Galway tanked us last year. We are at our level. Could you honestly pick out 1 fixture if we were in Div 1 and say we would win? I can't in Div 2. We are that inconsistent. But that's always been an issue with Down in my life time.

[Lecale Gael]

You would be happy enough to stay in division 2?Why would that be?
That's what's wrong we are happy enough in this division
You not see Andy McEntee coming out saying he wants Meath big on the big stage playing the big boys
Look at Galway this year
Happy enough in division 2 playing the likes of Clare Tipp Cavan Louth Meath no thanks
Have any of the above have a prayers chance of winning at provincial level?
But hey happy enough to stay in division 2

its what we are capable of. and at the present time we are a division 2 side. we would come straight back down if promoted.

you are very dismissive of Tipp cavan clare and meath.
Tipp and cavan especially have had strong u21s in recent years. Down haven't in a long time, 10 years in fact. don't get 'happy to' confused with 'resigned to'....

[Smurfy123]

Down are never going to improve unless we get back into division 1
Was not that long ago when we were better than Kildare Galway Monaghan and the like
Now we are all happy to stay safe in division 1
I bet you the Kilcoo lads would not just be happy to stay in division 2
Always the losers mentality in Down
We beat a crap Armagh team and Monaghan last year and we all sing and rejoice about a great year
No word of the hammerings to Kildare Galway Tyrone Monaghan Clare and Fermanagh

[Down4sam2020]

A crap Armagh team ? Yet still Reached the last 8.