Have the gaa announced the date and time for the London game? Anyone thinking of travelling.
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Show posts MenuQuote from: downtothecore on May 01, 2024, 10:10:22 PMIs john mc govern still part of senior squad? I didnt see his name on squad last saturday. I hope he is as think he could be a good option when he works at it...Now is the time to try new players. 3 games v Offaly, Limerick and London would be good to blood a few more lads.
Quote from: AnDúnAbú94 on April 30, 2024, 05:34:30 PMAnyone here been to a game in Ruislip before? Thinking of making the trip if I can keep the costs down as it's unlikely we'll have too many games against them in the futureBest way would be fly to Heathrow. I was thinking about doing it , as you say when will Down ever be back in Ruislip.
Quote from: sdg on April 30, 2024, 01:14:35 PMQuote from: Truth hurts on April 30, 2024, 11:24:05 AMQuote from: Johnnysboys on April 29, 2024, 09:10:09 PMQuote from: Gaelforce123 on April 29, 2024, 04:34:29 PMI for one enjoyed the game, having went to Clones expecting Down to be on the wrong end of a heavy beating, I was hoping to see what the Management where tactically capable off in order to make a much less physical and skilfully developed team cope with a top 10 team and thats exactly what I got. It was tactically spot on! Frustrated a team in every area they thrive on and hot them for scores outselves, only issue is our pack of ability to shoot from distance. In fact, the final score from Armagh there was a foul on Doherty that the ref didnt call. Was it great free flowing football? no because we would now be reading comments about how poor we are and unable to put it up to better teams if we had of tried. Tyrone and Donegal have won Ulsters playing frustrating football, you do what you have to. There are no rules that will change football back to the 90's. Coaches and backroom teams are too smart and professional now to use rules to advantage. Just leave game alone. Same people complaining probably spend a few hundred pound to fly to england and watch 90 mins of 0-0 scoreline and lads falling like they broke their leg and walk with the ball. Least we get it for £20
Did u not watch Doherty on Saturday diving around the place?? It was embarrassing - I think he got 1 free out of 4 diving attempts. But in the Down club championship he gets all of them frees as our referees fall for them every time.
U20s win the Leo Murphy cup tonight - Laverty should introduce a few of them to the panel going into the B cup. Time a few were cut adrift as they are not getting near the match day squads.
Who would you take up?
Doran is the only one who would make senior, the rest forget
Quote from: armaghniac on April 30, 2024, 12:31:04 AMEverything the GAA do has Dublin and Kerry in its thinking. They wouldn't do it if it didn't give either an advantage.Quote from: onefineday on April 30, 2024, 12:22:28 AMQuote from: yellowcard on April 29, 2024, 03:57:08 PMIt's a whole load of games to whittle the number of teams down from 16 to 12. And when the draw is made you will be able to predict the 4 teams who will be eliminated with a fair degree of certainty. The main interest will centre around which teams top their groups.That's true, because after last year, we all now realise what an advantage finishing top appears to be.
I said last year, if additional jeopardy is needed, we could have the four group winners and the best 2nd place team all progress directly to the quarters. The third place team with the worst record would be eliminated - that should mean little or no dead rubbers.
I'd also tweak it by giving the provincial winners and the 4 top league places (who weren't provincial winners) two home games and get rid of the neutral ground game - this would provide better incentives for provincial winners and league placings. It would also boost attendances as the neutral games last year were very poorly attended iirc.
But this scheme basically advantages Dublin and Kerry, if they didn't have enough advantages.
Quote from: balladmaker on April 30, 2024, 01:11:07 AMA handful of Down supporters in the Gerry Arthur stand let themselves down to the point more sensible Down supporters intervened to tell them to wise up.There are idiots everywhere unfortunately. No place for that nonsense. Drunk or sober.
Middle aged men and women being extremely provocative with personal insults to Armagh players and supporters. They should know better.
Quote from: tonto1888 on April 29, 2024, 07:52:59 AMQuote from: jcpen on April 28, 2024, 06:25:16 PMQuote from: Capt Pat on April 28, 2024, 04:47:41 PMStranger things have happened....Quote from: jcpen on April 28, 2024, 04:17:43 PMIs that Top 4 secure for Liverpool now after Spurs losing?
It looks like it. Unless Spurs win their 5 remaining games by a 20 goal difference and Liverpool lose their 3 remaining games
considering one of those 5 is Man City it would have to be very very strange
Quote from: ardtole on April 28, 2024, 09:53:02 AMI've been going to Down matches since the 80s and yesterday was nothing short of dreadful.Do Down have the players to go toe to toe with Armagh? Should the ball be kicked aimlessly up the pitch to come straight back at you? Down needed to sort out their defence and it looks like they are getting there. The forwards will hopefully improve
We were 2 points up with approx 15 mins to go v Armagh in an Ulster semi final and my main concern was, I hope this doesn't go to extra time.
If playing like that is what it takes to be competitive, it's not a price worth paying as far as I'm concerned, and judging by the size of the crowd, I'm not alone. Would there have been 2000 Down supporters in Clones yesterday?
I recognise that plenty will take positives from yesterday's performance and to a degree, I can see where they are coming from. Laverty done nothing wrong yesterday, he broke no rules as such but mother of God, the powers that be must take action sooner rather than later because as a spectacle that game yesterday is unacceptable.
And I don't think I'm looking through rose tinted glasses about games from previous era's, plenty of them were poor too. I know Jarlath Burns has put together an impressive looking task force to deal with the predicament football finds itself in, and I'm sure they can use yesterday's game as an indicator of what drastic measures are needed to cure our game.
Down are not alone either, a lot of counties employ similar tactics, at times we have played excellently under Laverty, Cavan away last year in the Tailtain cup was a great performance. But I really do hope there are rule changes made to avoid what happened yesterday repeated. And even if we won yesterday, I'm sure I would be saying the same thing.