Down Club Hurling & Football

[Our Nail Loney]

Musta been some second half for the bridge

[In the Onion Bag]

Cheers Torgael

[BRIDGE LAD]

Bridge sailed through this one in the end! Shitty first half, bridge came out and destroyed them in the second. They just clicked into gear for ten mins, still not playin at full tilt, look out burren or loughisland when they do!! Saval prob thought going in at half time they had a good chance, just didnt turn out like that! Cathal Magee played well tonight, glad to see him out in the half forward line! Thought Brendan Rice was brutal, bit early to be giving him a semi final!
Well done to the bridge lads, EIGHT finals in a row, not bad! Thats three teams into the finals, hopefully the thirds will get through too after being reinstated over Bosco, it would be nice to have four teams in the final.

[charlie stubbs]

was at the bridge saval game friday.  bridge where 6-3 up and then danny hughes got 3 points to leave it 6 each at halftime.  ht prob came at the wrong time for saval as there tails where up. 1st ten in 2nd half was always going be crucial coulter showed his class scoring a point, then roasting his man and laying on a goal for ronan sexton it was game over at that stage.

ref was horrible i thought.

saval played 2 withdrawn half forwards and this meant that there was always 2 or 3 spare men sweeping infront of danny hughes who was getting joy off both gavin barry and brendan grant.

coulter was dangerous anytime he got the ball and thought cathal magee had a good game very hard to disposses when he gets it. 

think burren will put it up to the bridge if see off loughinisland.

the bridge need get a midfield if they make ulster they will fall short.good forward line decent defence but mf not good enough

[buglebhoy]

the bridge need get a midfield if they make ulster they will fall short.good forward line decent defence but mf not good enough
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Thought Eoighn Woods had an awesome game last night, best i've seen in a while from the big man. Think Caldwell is a better option than Lively. Don't know what Lively's role is in the Bridge team?? He doesn't field or contribute with scores where as caldwell has done both in the past and in ulster also.

For Saval though, i felt they'd 6-7 good minutes at the end of 1st half when danny was unstoppable. Johnny Hughes and Paddy Donnelly performed worst for Saval. Johnny was on the ball loads but slowed everything down instead of using his pace to brush past ppl. he came back on himself all the time and ran into trouble time after time. I just don't know how Paddy Donnelly stayed on the field for so long.

Stevey Kearney didnt get going at all, too many times he decided not to take shane ohare on when he was well fit to with his strngth and speed.

Best players on the night were:


Seamy Grant
Eoin Woods
Ronan Sexton
Benny
Noel Sexton

Danny
Darren Cunningham
Ronan Digney

An Rioct Beat Ballyholland by 3 points in a poor enough game. Harps went a goal up after a minute from R. Murtagh and then threw it away with 15mins remaining. James Colgan and John Clarke were excellcent. 

[Bitta-Banter]

IFC Semi-Finals
Darragh Cross 2-9 Kilclief 1-9
Annaclone 1-10 Glasdrumman 2-5

[Mourne Rover]

Annaclone, as hot favourites for the IFC, were fairly ordinary against Glasdrumman tonight in a game which could easily have gone to a replay. Gary McArdle was the main man, with strength and pace at midfield, and might well be worth another run in the Down defence, while John Haughey at wing half back was also excellent. However, the Clone forwards were a pedestrian bunch, and hit numerous wides from relatively easy positions. If they had not got a goal largely out of the blue early in the second half, they would have been in big trouble towards the end.

Glasdrumman kept plugging away, mostly through Cormac Murphy who got 2-4 of their 2-5 total, and Ryan Doran, who was in the Down minor squad and looked a quality defender. Their other county minor, Connaire Harrison, had an off-day, apart from one monster free in the second half. Glasdrumman were a point behind in injury time, and missed a great chance as well as giving up possession when they had men free. Clone then got a fine point from a free with practically the last kick, but Darragh Cross cannot be ruled out in the final.

[bridgegael]

if bugleboy thinks that lively does nothing in midfield foer the bridge i would suggest that he watch the match again,  he was prob bridge best player along with b rodgers and conor garvey.  seamy grant will concede himself that  he had his worst game in a long time.   wat match were you at???

[buglebhoy]

bridgegeal, if that's a good game for lively i'd hate to see his worst!! Seen him few times during year and i thought klittle of his performances. Seamy wasn't bad by any means, Feargal mcconville was kept out of game completely so how can you say he had a bad game?? conor garvey was excellent as was brendan rodgers! maybe kickouts don't suit micheal lively???lol

[BRIDGE LAD]

Have to  back up bridgegael here bugle, Lively wasn't brilliant but he def was not worst on the field! As for Woodsie, had a brutal first half but alot better in the second and Seamy Grant had a stinker! Seriously what game were you watching, glad your not our manager!!
You obviously dont get to see too many bridge games, Caldwell has had a poor year & Lively has been one of our best performers!
And you say Johnny Hughes was bad, he was the main threat to the bridge in the first half, so much the bridge manager moved Grant right out deeper to mark him, so they must have thought he contributed something! 

[BRIDGE LAD]

Oh aye Seamy was marking Stephen Sands by the way, Maybe you need glasses! Garvey marked Fergal!

[dundrumite]

Saint Johns beat Saint Pauls handy enough in a very poor game at Darragh Cross. Must say was disappointed at the Saint Pauls performance, expected a better showing from them.

[Our Nail Loney]

No word on the row at the ballyholland kingdom match?

[Square Ball]

did Saul beat Drumgath?

[sabhallphadraig]

did Saul beat Drumgath?

SB - yes, 4-8 to 3-7 - a good performance from the boys today to turn a half-time deficit into a well deserved 4 point win. This must go a long way to settling on the top-4 places I'd think and maybe ease some of our fears at the other end of the table