Down Club Hurling & Football

[DownFanatic]

Blue Island, what would you consider Loughinisland's catchement area to be?

Down ACFL Division 2
Dundrum 0-06  Ballymartin 2-14

Comprehensively beat again. Ballymartin did all the things we couldnt do. They retained the ball well and moved it at pace. We scored one point from play the whole game. It is becoming increasingly hard to extract any sort of positivity from our performances

[Square Ball]

Thursday 4th September

8pm in Pairc Esler

Powerade SFC Replay

Burren v Kilcoo

(extra-time if required)



Friday 5th September 6.30pm

O'Neills ACFL

Div One S18

Loughinisland v Mayobridge

Clonduff v Liatroim

Kilcoo off Saval

Rostrevor off Burren

Castlewellan off Longstone

An Riocht v Ballyholland


Div Two S18

Shamrocks v Atticall

Darragh Cross v Ballymartin

Warrenpoint v Clann na Banna

Tullylish v Dundrum

Kliclief v Downpatrick

Bryansford v Annaclone

Div Three S23

Drumaness v Tecconnaught

Drumgath v Saul

Mitchels v St John Bosco

St Micheals v Carryduff

Bredagh v Glassdrumman

Glenn v Ardglass

Div Four S18

Ballykinlar v Bright

Dromara v Aghaderg

Aughlisnafinn v St Johns
 

Sunday 7th September 1.30pm

RFC semi-final in St. Johns

Castlewellan v Drumaness

PRFC semi finals

Burren v Kilcoo in Clonduff

Mayobridge v Saval in Drumgath

ACPRFL

Div One

Kilcoo off Bryansford

Rostrevor v Liatroim

An Riocht off Burren

Downpatrick off Mayobridge

Clonduff v Castlewellan

Div Two

Tullylish v Kilclief

Saval off Ballymartin

Bredagh v Carryduff

Annaclone v Warrenpoint

Loughinisland v Longstone

Monday 8th September 6.30pm

O'Neills ACL Div 1

Kilcoo v Saval

Rostrevor v Burren

Castlewellan v Longstone

[gorm agus bui]

Blue Island, what would you consider Loughinisland's catchement area to be?

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Anywhere south west of Donaghadee and North East of Tuam

[Blue Island]

To be honest Blue Island, we're a rural club when it suits us, and an urban club when it suits us too. Which doesn't really answer your question.

You definitely have some committed men at your club. Very impressed with your new set up. You will be fund raising for a while to pay for that.

[The Corporal]

Why are the games this fri as early as 6.30? That doesnt give the boys who work to 5 in Belfast much time!

[Bacon]

Why are the games this fri as early as 6.30? That doesnt give the boys who work to 5 in Belfast much time!

You might not have noticed but the nights are drawing in!

[dodgy umpire]

you couldnt see too well come the last 15 id presume

[supersub]

yes the nights are gettin shorter by the day, tonights match in rostrevor ended around 8.15 and the light was fading fast! not much can be done to prevent the matchs throwing in earlier as the league has to be finished relatively soon!

[Bitta-Banter]

Any chance of a few scores from tonights games?

[upthehoops]

Downpatrick eventually beat Atttical by 2 points ( 1-9 to 0-10) Should have been over at half time but as usual made it difficult for ourselves

[Blue Island]

Blue Island, what would you consider Loughinisland's catchment area to be?

loaded question there downfanatic given posts on the subject in the past. The catchment area (as you probably know) stretches from Seaforde in the south to about a mile towards Ballynahinch past Brennan's shop to the north. From the west you can take close to where the travellers friend used to be on the old Seafords road to the outskirts of Annacloy/Teconnaught in the east. Obviously I can see neighbouring posters make the usual points.

For the record if you take the team that started in the championship on the last two occasions as representative of the club, 12 have played football from the age of under 12 for the club. I could go into the details of the other three but that is an argument that has been well aired and does no justice to those who have transferred into the club often for very valid reasons and are intregal and vital part of the senior team.

Wobbler posed a question many posts ago, he asked why would anyone want to transfer to Loughinisland considering their pitch is like a spud field and their club house is a s**t house (albeit the new clubhouse has rectified the latter). I take Wobblers point and can see on an objective basis from afar it does not make sense at first. However, whilst we have not always set the word alight, we rarely get less than 25 -35 at training sessions and I cannot remember the last time it was under 20. Perhaps if some of our neighbours got their own house in order (ie commitment) they wouldn't have their players looking over the fence.

Cue abuse.

[Blue Island]

Any chance of a few scores from tonights games?

Rostrevor 2 -10 Loughinisland 1-7

Not good

[supersub]

Any chance of a few scores from tonights games?

rostrevor 2-10 l'island 1-7

island were poor didnt seem that interested really. ben oreilly not playing maybe it wasnt their strongest team. rostrevor seem to be rallied from the close defeat and méle against the bridge thow!

[spiritof91and94]

Dodgy - Not overly strong.

Bosco and Shamrocks are normally competitive, and occasionally very good, but you can almost guarantee that underage teams at the likes of Burren, Mayobridge and Rostrevor will progress as they go through the juvenile ranks, whereas the Newry teams will stall.

There is any number of reasons for this, but I'd say it's the sheer catchment size of the clubs is actually the problem. Fellas joining Shamrocks at a young age come from the four corners of Newry. They come from different schools, different backgrounds. The only thing they have in common is a green jersey. Which is fine at under-12 level when young minds can be controlled, but at under 16 and minor level it must be nearly impossible to coach team spirit into these fellas.

Have to agree with this comment.  Look at where the underage titles go in Down.  Mayobridge look like they are the ones for the Minors, Kilcoo/Burren for the under 16's, Rostrevor have just won the South Down under 14's, beating Burren in the final.  All small tight knit communities.  This is the same almost every year.  You can almost guarantee that these clubs will win one of the underage titles every year.  The one town team that does consistently produce would be Castlewellan, although they are a small town, not like Newry, Downpatrick etc.

Now take the under 12 teams this year.  The best 2 teams in South Down are Shamrocks and Ballyholland.  By a country mile i can tell you they are the best.  I know a lot can change over the years but generally a strong underage team will stay strong up through the ranks.  It will be interesting to see can the Newry teams follow through in the next few years but i would suspect that come under 14's, or definitely under 16's, you will see Burren/Mayobridge etc at the top of the leagues.

Another club who have be known to sign anyone willing to join them, how many recruits have came from rural clubs in East Down in the last ten years?

[Green+Gold]

Anyone know the dates of the SFC final and the IFC final?