Down Club Hurling & Football

[downjim]

All-Star awards for McVeigh, Clarke, Hughes & Coulter.
While McKernan will feel unlucky I think the selectors got it right.

Congrats to the 4 boys on their awards. Have to feel for Kevin McKernan, he would have been my first choice out of the down nominees. I feel he was sacraficed as he would have taken 1 of the cork half backs, ie Canty, leaving cork with 3 & down with 5. it was never going to happen that down would have more. the last time the runners-up had more than the winners was in 91 when meath had more awards than down because of the dublin saga. I think the fact that nearly every pundit tipped kevin at CHB just makes it more of a shock. i suppose the cork supporters will be wondering how not 1 forward of the all ireland champions didnt make the cut.

congrats to our allstar recipients, each 1 fully deserves their accolade but probably none more so than benny, a brilliant servant to down and  all round leader illustrated better than ever in the game with donegal!! His displays for down over the years alone leave him worthy of his award. With regard to kevin, yes he will feel rightly aggrieved as i believe he would have been stronger candidate than philip jordan, think cantys pedigree over the last few years perhaps swayed the decision but have no doubt that after shaky start to our ulster campaign kevin has made no 6 his own and will continue to show his worth there in return becoming household name throughout ireland and spoken in same regards as the bennys, cantys etc.. an allstar will be on his mantlepiece in the future hopefully along with many other honours shared with his teammates!! both down and club(burren) { clonallon is a townland between burren and warrenpoint} where as hilltown is neighbouring club to the bridge, thats free geography lesson for t o h

where most of the players are from haha

The rest live in and around Saval/Mayobridge!!!

There is also part of the parish in Donegal, Fermanagh and Louth 

ud hardly expect them boys 2 travel tat dist 4 club game, 1of ur stalwarts cudnt evn manage journey up ndown 2 point!! with no disrespect to other clubs, evry1 wud rather wake up at hilton hotel rather than a hostel!! hence we have up n coming youngsters 2 ply trade at 2nds level etc.. wile....... u hav 48 yr old legends, (class act tho!!)

Most of your stalwarts seem to manage the journey up and down to the point  
As for the seconds , ten of the team which won the championship were under 20 and is it not worrying that your up and coming youngstjavascript:void(0);ers could not handle a 47 year old
Good luck on Sunday though, we have the same parish priest and who knows he could amalgamate the two clubs like Cabra and Hilltown after 57

I would safely say your still up there with "the most hated man in Burren title", but knowing you Tom, you will be proud of that

[Square Ball]

It's a bit unfortunte that the minors have been switched away from their traditional slot before the senior final, and have to play under floodlights tonight in front of a much smaller crowd. An evening game would probably have been better for the intermediate final as well. Anyway, congratulations to Umpire for all his work on the predictions league,SFC BUREN v B/ford.

IFC A/Clone v TULLYLISH

MFC KILCOO v Rostrevor

Second that, fair play to you Umpire, you put a lot of time and effort into it and its appreciated from all the ones involved

[Dubh driocht]

SFC final
Burren v Bryansford

IFC final
Annaclone v Tullylish

MFC
Kilcoo v Rostrevor

Same for me and well done Umpire- class job

[down6061689194]

Saul 1-11 Ballyholland 0-11
Minor B Final

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Kilcoo winning by a good bit at half time!

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Kilcoo by 6 or 7

[dundrumite]

Kilcoo won by 7 in a decent game of football played in front of a big crowd. Caolan Mooney gave a terrific individual display as did Ryan Johnston for Kilcoo, the running of both these men on the ball was worth the admission fee alone.
Congrats to Saul on beating Ballyholland to capture the B title.

[TheClutch]

Kilcoo 1-11 Rostrevor 1-5

Rostrevor started the game at a blistering pace getting the first point of the match and seemed to be in fair control for the first 10mins or so. They were desperately unlucky when hitting the crossbar, the Kilcoo keeper was too committed to the ball and the Rostrevor forward made a delightful chip over him to jus hit the crossbar, which would have put them 4up and in firm control.
Then the turning point, Kilcoo half forward Ollie McClean got the line for kicking his marker after a bit of handbags between the two, the Rostrevor man possibly lucky to get away with nothing at all.
After this how ever Kilcoo got the kickstart they needed and lorded the rest of the half racking up 1-8 and cruising at half time by 10points.
The second half was played at a great pace and Caolan Mooney had a great half of football, a number of mazy runs and chipping in with the scores, the Rostrevor man picked back the scoring single handily it seemed. Rostrevor hit the woodwork twice, once through a penalty and one through open play, this I felt was the undoing of them. Rostrevor had a man sent off for a second bookable offence and that steadied Kilcoos ship.

At the end of the day i thought Rostrevor were desperately unlucky with their goal opportunities and in hindsight maybe should took the points more often instead of going to the net in almost every attack. Their player of the match was by far Caolan Mooney

Kilcoo had impressive performances all over the pitch, namely the two Johnson brothers shining. Ryan worked like a Trojan and was the playmaker for Kilcoo, while Jerome plucked the scores of the Magpies.

Kilcoo were worth their salt in this final and are worthy back to back champions-all the best in Ulster!

[Mid Down Gael]

Well done to our brilliant minor team on tonights county championship success, two in a row and should have been 3 if not for an awful refereeing robbery in 2008.
Rostrevor battled bravely in the second half after we led by ten at the interval, kicking 8 wides in the process. Caolan Mooney gave a display of pure brilliance. The lad is as good as ive seen at underage level in Down, the best since Benny Coulter and Mickey Walsh for the Bridge in their juvenile days. He is going to be some loss to Down football. At the presentation afterwards people where more interested in commending this amazing player rather that talk about the Kilcoo success.
Nial Kane, Aaron Morgan, JJ McLaughlin, Martin Devlin and Cillian Laverty played staring roles while Ryan Johnston gave a great performance, our best player on the night scoring 0-5. Jerome Johnston and Darragh OHanlon where not as good as usual but stil provided great leadership and provided the crowd with some great moments.
Congratulations to Barney McEvoy, Terry OHanlon, Sean Gribben and Jimmy Doherty in leading the lads to back to back championships, a very positive management team. If only our senior management hadnt had messed up we could have been going for back to back senior titles as well.

[mournerambler]

Well done to our brilliant minor team on tonights county championship success, two in a row and should have been 3 if not for an awful refereeing robbery in 2008.
Rostrevor battled bravely in the second half after we led by ten at the interval, kicking 8 wides in the process. Caolan Mooney gave a display of pure brilliance. The lad is as good as ive seen at underage level in Down, the best since Benny Coulter and Mickey Walsh for the Bridge in their juvenile days. He is going to be some loss to Down football. At the presentation afterwards people where more interested in commending this amazing player rather that talk about the Kilcoo success.
Nial Kane, Aaron Morgan, JJ McLaughlin, Martin Devlin and Cillian Laverty played staring roles while Ryan Johnston gave a great performance, our best player on the night scoring 0-5. Jerome Johnston and Darragh OHanlon where not as good as usual but stil provided great leadership and provided the crowd with some great moments.
Congratulations to Barney McEvoy, Terry OHanlon, Sean Gribben and Jimmy Doherty in leading the lads to back to back championships, a very positive management team. If only our senior management hadnt had messed up we could have been going for back to back senior titles as well.

If the Titanic hadn't have hit an Iceberg she'd still be the best cruiseliner in the world, get over it.

[dundrumite]

Well done to our brilliant minor team on tonights county championship success, two in a row and should have been 3 if not for an awful refereeing robbery in 2008.
Rostrevor battled bravely in the second half after we led by ten at the interval, kicking 8 wides in the process. Caolan Mooney gave a display of pure brilliance. The lad is as good as ive seen at underage level in Down, the best since Benny Coulter and Mickey Walsh for the Bridge in their juvenile days. He is going to be some loss to Down football. At the presentation afterwards people where more interested in commending this amazing player rather that talk about the Kilcoo success.
Nial Kane, Aaron Morgan, JJ McLaughlin, Martin Devlin and Cillian Laverty played staring roles while Ryan Johnston gave a great performance, our best player on the night scoring 0-5. Jerome Johnston and Darragh OHanlon where not as good as usual but stil provided great leadership and provided the crowd with some great moments.
Congratulations to Barney McEvoy, Terry OHanlon, Sean Gribben and Jimmy Doherty in leading the lads to back to back championships, a very positive management team. If only our senior management hadnt had messed up we could have been going for back to back senior titles as well.

What happened in 2008?

[TheClutch]

Well done to our brilliant minor team on tonights county championship success, two in a row and should have been 3 if not for an awful refereeing robbery in 2008.
Rostrevor battled bravely in the second half after we led by ten at the interval, kicking 8 wides in the process. Caolan Mooney gave a display of pure brilliance. The lad is as good as ive seen at underage level in Down, the best since Benny Coulter and Mickey Walsh for the Bridge in their juvenile days. He is going to be some loss to Down football. At the presentation afterwards people where more interested in commending this amazing player rather that talk about the Kilcoo success.
Nial Kane, Aaron Morgan, JJ McLaughlin, Martin Devlin and Cillian Laverty played staring roles while Ryan Johnston gave a great performance, our best player on the night scoring 0-5. Jerome Johnston and Darragh OHanlon where not as good as usual but stil provided great leadership and provided the crowd with some great moments.
Congratulations to Barney McEvoy, Terry OHanlon, Sean Gribben and Jimmy Doherty in leading the lads to back to back championships, a very positive management team. If only our senior management hadnt had messed up we could have been going for back to back senior titles as well.

What happened in 2008?

After a replay against Mayobridge the referee wrongly sent one of the Kilcoo boys off i think, or denied them a blatant penalty, or something pretty controversial!

[Mid Down Gael]

Well done to our brilliant minor team on tonights county championship success, two in a row and should have been 3 if not for an awful refereeing robbery in 2008.
Rostrevor battled bravely in the second half after we led by ten at the interval, kicking 8 wides in the process. Caolan Mooney gave a display of pure brilliance. The lad is as good as ive seen at underage level in Down, the best since Benny Coulter and Mickey Walsh for the Bridge in their juvenile days. He is going to be some loss to Down football. At the presentation afterwards people where more interested in commending this amazing player rather that talk about the Kilcoo success.
Nial Kane, Aaron Morgan, JJ McLaughlin, Martin Devlin and Cillian Laverty played staring roles while Ryan Johnston gave a great performance, our best player on the night scoring 0-5. Jerome Johnston and Darragh OHanlon where not as good as usual but stil provided great leadership and provided the crowd with some great moments.
Congratulations to Barney McEvoy, Terry OHanlon, Sean Gribben and Jimmy Doherty in leading the lads to back to back championships, a very positive management team. If only our senior management hadnt had messed up we could have been going for back to back senior titles as well.

If the Titanic hadn't have hit an Iceberg she'd still be the best cruiseliner in the world, get over it.

Very smart.

[Mourne Rover]

Caolan Mooney is indeed a massive loss to Down football, and the county minor side could have been built around him next year. His great uncle, Dalsey Mooney, was among the top five Down minors of the last 50 years - together with Greg Blaney, James McCartan, Benny Coulter and Martin Clarke in my opinion - but injury meant that he never played senior county football. Caolan is potentially capable of getting to the same level, so hopefully he will do well, but not any more than that, in Australia, and return while he is still eligible for the u21s.

Kilcoo will provide the backbone of the Down minor team in 2011 anyway, and must be strong favourites to make it three in a row in the club MFC. Of those Kilcoo pl.ayers who are available again next year, Ryan Johnston is an outstanding athlete as well as a fine footballer and Marty Devlin is a hugely talented forward. Darragh O'Hanlon has yet to find his u16 form, but has the ability to slot into a range of positions.

[Mid Down Gael]

Caolan Mooney is indeed a massive loss to Down football, and the county minor side could have been built around him next year. His great uncle, Dalsey Mooney, was among the top five Down minors of the last 50 years - together with Greg Blaney, James McCartan, Benny Coulter and Martin Clarke in my opinion - but injury meant that he never played senior county football. Caolan is potentially capable of getting to the same level, so hopefully he will do well, but not any more than that, in Australia, and return while he is still eligible for the u21s.

Kilcoo will provide the backbone of the Down minor team in 2011 anyway, and must be strong favourites to make it three in a row in the club MFC. Of those Kilcoo pl.ayers who are available again next year, Ryan Johnston is an outstanding athlete as well as a fine footballer and Marty Devlin is a hugely talented forward. Darragh O'Hanlon has yet to find his u16 form, but has the ability to slot into a range of positions.

Mooney will be available to the minors in 2011. He is not heading Collingwood to October as far as im aware.