Down Club Hurling & Football

[islandboy]

we were poor last night. got out of jail at the end. missed a lot of chances . played against 14 men for last 15 minutes yet struggled to bet going.

downfanatic- dont know what your talking about? no news of any new signings from our feeder clubs!

[No1]

Kilclief  2-7 V Atticall 0-9 



The great escape is on! 

[Uladh]

What way does the bottom of the down first division look now.

bottom 4 play off as usual to determine two to go down i assume?

[Super Dupe]

Yes there is ususally a bottom 4, but that may change this year due to Mayobridges points total, and will depend on whether or not the bottom 4 can get to the required 30% of Mayobridges total.

At the minute it does not look good for An Riocht.  League champions are struggling big time to escape automatic relegation.  However they only need to look at Liatrom for inspiration.  A few weeks age they had 2 points.  3 games later they now have 7 having won 2 and drawn 1 of the 3 games.  They now have a good chance of escaping automatic relegation, if not actually avoiding playoffs.  The others in danger at the moment are still Ballyholland and Saval, with 6 and 8 points respectively.  Both teams need their count men if they are going to pick up points.  I estimate that you will need 11 points to avoid automatic relegation so these 2 definitely are able to do this.

We played Kilcoo on Monday night and they whipped our a**.  They played good stuff and we just were not at the races.  Their big test is still to come though, everyone knows it is the championship they want. The night after our festival finished was not a good night to be playing Kilcoo. 
Thankfully we got a boost last night against Saval when we beat them.  We were far hungrier as a result of the Kilcoo game and it showed.  Was good to see Adrian Mackin back playing also.  He had a good game and is a big player for us when he is fit.

[lfdown2]

Saval 8
Liatroim 7
Ballyholland 6
An Riocht 4

With Liatroim playing An Riocht tonight! Only play off's if more than 2 teams have +30% of 1st place teams points!

[southdown]

Superdupe, is Joe Fegan still playing for yous?

[Super Dupe]

Superdupe, is Joe Fegan still playing for yous?

Joe Fegan went to Australia in June for 12 weeks.  His last match for us was against Burren a few days before he went.  He is back home this weekend so he should be back in the squad by next Fridays game against Clonduff.  Would expect him to take 3/4 weeks getting up to speed but at least we will have him as an option.  On his day he is a frightening player but extremely unpredictable, for us and for the opposition.

[southdown]

Went to school with him, a real talent, but as you said, unpredictable.

[umpire]

My guess that Kilcoo will win the Div one league this year, Saval and Ballyholland drop back to Div 2.

[Whitehair]

My Championship predictions before they get underway this weekend:

SFC: Mayobridge
IFC: Clann na Banna
JFC: St Pauls
PRFC: Clonduff
RFC: Burren
SHC: Ballycran
IHC: Liatroim
JHC: Warrenpoint (although we might give it a rattle too! )

IHC This weekend;
Bredagh v Portaferry- Portaferry
Ballygalget v Shamrocks- Shamrocks

[Lecale2]

JHC: Warrenpoint (although we might give it a rattle too! )

I love that one Whitehair!

If Ballela don't win it this year you may give it up! You were the second best team in the competition last year & have been doing ok in Div 1 this year. The Point are flying in Div 2 but you guys are well a head of them now. Ballela to win the JHC unless Bredagh IIs surprise them!

Portaferry for the Senior. With Doole back they are looking good. I think they wioll beat Ballycran in the semi and go on to beat Ballygalget in the SHC final.  and Liatroim for the IHC.

In the football, Mayobridge are out in front in the senior. Glasdrumman for the IFC. They have a young side that I reckon can come good in the championship.  Glenn for the Junoir Champonship.

[the milkman]

Div 3 result

Glenn 1.15 St. Micks 1.15.

[Square Ball]

Drumaness beat the Duff 6-8 in Div 3

Bredagh beat Castlewellan by 1 in the reserve championship

[Minus15]

Milkman make that 1-13 apiece. Glenn scored 2 points in injury time to snatch a draw. They led by 2 with ten to play. Michaels pulled level and added two more following a fantastic Damien O'Hare effort for Glenn which crashed against the crossbar. One of the sweeneys (??) was impressive from frees and declan lavery scored some fine long range points. However, his man Raymond Quinn managed to grab a goal and a point at the other end in the second half.
Glenn started the better with two points but St Michaels ruled from then until the twenty minute mark winning good break ball possession round the middle and scored a goal after a handling error from the Glenn corner back to establish a lead of 1-04 to 0-03. Colm murtagh moving to midfield then saw Glenn win much more in the sector and inspired by Mark Lennon they clawed their way back to leave a half time score of 1-06 to 0-08.
St Micks started better in the second half with two quickfire points before Raymond Quinn restored parity with a goal. The teams were neck and neck for a period before a Colm Murtagh score put Glenn two up but they then let their opponents back in the game and needed a late Damien O'Hare free to rescue a point. Not the best of games but a closely fought contest between two teams due to meet in the championship in a couple of weeks.

[DownFanatic]

Down ACFL Division 2
Dundrum 1-06  Darragh Cross 0-12

We had to win this one. We were a point up with ten minutes left then we collapsed.
Survival is still within our grasp. Every game from now on in will be a Championship Final.