Down Club Hurling & Football

[downtothecore]

A Good performance from our lads and demonstrates we are now back and able to  compete with the top teams. The big focus for this team is now the last 10 mins of these games which we have faltered a few times times this year and ultimately why we are in div 3 next year...hopefully we find the answers for next Sunday and beyond because the sam maguire its the only playing at this level.

[snoopdog]

Hopefully a big support will come out this weekend and back the lads to a Quarter final and a day in Croke Park.
Good Down Support in Armagh yesterday.  This team deserves backing.

[Dayman]

Good performance from Down today unfortunately just came up short at the end. Thought ref was harsh enough on us a few times, missed an obvious touch on the ground for their goal and moved the ball forward 50 metres for a beggan 2 pointer in first half when the ball was knocked out of haverns hand as he was attempting to give it back. Odhran Murdock also got very little protection from the officials and seemed to have players hanging off him on every kick out.

Totally agree on the referee, there was also a time where Danny Magill was dragged back by his jersey as he running through towards goal, surely that's a black card? It was right in front of the ref, couldn't believe he didn't give it. Also on Murdock he was just shoved over a couple of times when going for a kickout and got nothing.

Will be tough to get back up again against Galway next week because it really felt like a QF slot was there for them yesterday. Still, I think there's a potential for one shock out of the four games, hopefully it's us.

[Leftmidfield]

Good performance from Down today unfortunately just came up short at the end. Thought ref was harsh enough on us a few times, missed an obvious touch on the ground for their goal and moved the ball forward 50 metres for a beggan 2 pointer in first half when the ball was knocked out of haverns hand as he was attempting to give it back. Odhran Murdock also got very little protection from the officials and seemed to have players hanging off him on every kick out.

Totally agree on the referee, there was also a time where Danny Magill was dragged back by his jersey as he running through towards goal, surely that's a black card? It was right in front of the ref, couldn't believe he didn't give it. Also on Murdock he was just shoved over a couple of times when going for a kickout and got nothing.

Will be tough to get back up again against Galway next week because it really felt like a QF slot was there for them yesterday. Still, I think there's a potential for one shock out of the four games, hopefully it's us.

The offended player has to go to ground for a black card to be issued

[Leftmidfield]

Good performance from Down today unfortunately just came up short at the end. Thought ref was harsh enough on us a few times, missed an obvious touch on the ground for their goal and moved the ball forward 50 metres for a beggan 2 pointer in first half when the ball was knocked out of haverns hand as he was attempting to give it back. Odhran Murdock also got very little protection from the officials and seemed to have players hanging off him on every kick out.

Totally agree on the referee, there was also a time where Danny Magill was dragged back by his jersey as he running through towards goal, surely that's a black card? It was right in front of the ref, couldn't believe he didn't give it. Also on Murdock he was just shoved over a couple of times when going for a kickout and got nothing.

Will be tough to get back up again against Galway next week because it really felt like a QF slot was there for them yesterday. Still, I think there's a potential for one shock out of the four games, hopefully it's us.

The offended player has to go to ground for a black card to be issued

Just rewatched it there and Danny was "pulled to the ground"

[Brendan]

Good performance from Down today unfortunately just came up short at the end. Thought ref was harsh enough on us a few times, missed an obvious touch on the ground for their goal and moved the ball forward 50 metres for a beggan 2 pointer in first half when the ball was knocked out of haverns hand as he was attempting to give it back. Odhran Murdock also got very little protection from the officials and seemed to have players hanging off him on every kick out.

Totally agree on the referee, there was also a time where Danny Magill was dragged back by his jersey as he running through towards goal, surely that's a black card? It was right in front of the ref, couldn't believe he didn't give it. Also on Murdock he was just shoved over a couple of times when going for a kickout and got nothing.

Will be tough to get back up again against Galway next week because it really felt like a QF slot was there for them yesterday. Still, I think there's a potential for one shock out of the four games, hopefully it's us.

The offended player has to go to ground for a black card to be issued

Rule was changed, holding someone up is a black now to, long overdue update

[befair]

Down's best performance for years; were the better team for 60 mins, just couldn't drive on when we'd gone 4 pts ahead. Hard to blame the ref for the Monaghan goal; officials don't have slow motion replays. Breaching the 3-man rule was worse; we were on a promising attack, and against Beggan that's a 3pt turn around. Surely at least one of the management team could be in charge of policing the players to avoid such a crucial mistake.

[snoopdog]

Sunday 1.45pm throw in

[downtothecore]

I thought we would be paired with Galway for this game. Galway are serious team, are beaten all ireland finalists twice in recent years and will believe they have a divine right to win the championship outright so they will be hot favourites.

On the other hand our boys will be very determined to build on current form and fix were they went wrong yesterday.

Looking forward to it...hon down

[Nanderson]

Down's best performance for years; were the better team for 60 mins, just couldn't drive on when we'd gone 4 pts ahead. Hard to blame the ref for the Monaghan goal; officials don't have slow motion replays. Breaching the 3-man rule was worse; we were on a promising attack, and against Beggan that's a 3pt turn around. Surely at least one of the management team could be in charge of policing the players to avoid such a crucial mistake.

IMO the goalkeeper/deepest defender is in charge of passing the information up the line to who has to hold there position on the line. At least that is how our club does it

[statto]

I thought we would be paired with Galway for this game. Galway are serious team, are beaten all ireland finalists twice in recent years and will believe they have a divine right to win the championship outright so they will be hot favourites.

On the other hand our boys will be very determined to build on current form and fix were they went wrong yesterday.

Looking forward to it...hon down

Why would they believe they have a divine right to win championship outright?

[statto]

Down's best performance for years; were the better team for 60 mins, just couldn't drive on when we'd gone 4 pts ahead. Hard to blame the ref for the Monaghan goal; officials don't have slow motion replays. Breaching the 3-man rule was worse; we were on a promising attack, and against Beggan that's a 3pt turn around. Surely at least one of the management team could be in charge of policing the players to avoid such a crucial mistake.

The ball was played back to a Down man just outside the arc, so could have been a potential 4 point swing. Thought Down played very well and would be dangerous if made Croke Park with their running game. Where I think they are a bit short is the depth of the squad. I think they will give Galway a real game in Newry but will expect Galway to finish the game stronger.