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must be a different game as he was taken off before half time

Warrenpoint recorded a great win in Downpatrick last nite under the lights.
Witnessed some of the biggest acts of thuggery Ive ever seen on a football pitch our fullback got emptied after ten mins and Downpatrick done nothing but fight off the ball!
Point were better team by a mile and played the footbalkl!
Ref cant be blamed though as a lot was going on behind his back.
Football won the battle last night!!!

Never read as much nonsense in my life. Warrenpoint did deserve the win as they were able to score all the frees they were awarded but they were their usual cowardly niggly selves. Sneaky leaving the boot in, mouthy, diving like O'mahoney. full back did indeed get emptied for a cowardly punch in the back of the head. He will think next time he tries something like that.
But then going on past history of reporting alleged attacks Warrenpoint do have form for dodgy reporting.
for the record i am not from Downpatrick but might be playing against the Point next year as they will still be in Div 2

Really? because the club umpire has informed me that the full forward just turned and thumped Brendan and the lad himself has verified this. Kearney wouldnt be type of boy to fight at all.
Even some Downpatrick players were saying to our players that is same every week with the fighting and brawling and A East Down man informed me of the same as did a Banbridge supporter.
Were does your cowardice argument come from? Our boys played the football and your players were running about trying to hit young guys like 16 year old Ross McGarry.
We got frees for fouls! thats the rules in truth we shouldve won by more.

Ask my brother am I a Liar!!
Our full foprward is one big gentle giant and has never been involved in anything like this before. Our umpire said he got a dig in the back of the head and just  took your mans lights out
For the record mate there has not been one schmozzle, fight, raised fist or any incident in any of our games this year nor would Isay last year.( bar a couple of times in Warrenpoint this year when some  of your lads were acting the wag and needed thier ears cuffed)
Downpatrick would have one of the best discipliary records in the county with not a red card for about three years or so.
I did not think you boys spoke to the Banbridge club. Just wrote about them in the paper

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What a load of balls !!!!!! Kilkenny don't win titles because they get grants or National Lottery funding ! They win titles because they've got the best hurlers around - Shefflin, Brennan, Larkin, Cha, Hickey,Walsh, JJ, Kvanagh etc etc etc !


Money has NOTHING to do with it !


I suppose Kerry get a pile of grants as well

Obviously you are reading what you want to read into this. I have quite clearly stated that I believe that Kilkenny are an amazing team of amazing players, and my boy, you are very nieve if you think GAA grants have nothing to do with how well a team does in championships.

Of course money has to do with it. In the late 80's a number of northern teams decided to opt out of fielding hurling teams at inter-county level and put all of the money into football. what do you remember most about football in the 90's? Do you remember all of those same teams running amok in the championship? Wake up lad, of course money has to do with it, you are probably still a believer that we have an amatuer game, all but in name it is professional.

Great players come through in Kilkenny in a disporportionate way deu to the fact that if you have every kid play only one sport, wou will find the gems like all the lads you mentioned. However, in a system where you have Football, Soccer and Rugby competing for thos kids, some that would be great hurlers would be lost to other codes and we would never know. That is my main point. If you have no other sports competing for the youth, you will of course find a lot of great players.
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Who were the northerrn teams who opted out of I/C hurling. Dont think it was Down or Derry or indeed Donegal but they were the counties who won AIFFs 1991-94. Your argument does not stand up here

The burning question at the moment is, can Loughinisland beat Mayobridge in the final. I believe they can

The burning question at the moment is, who can Loughinisland transfer in for next year?

But are they available or in condition after the recent weather.
My one concern about  Ballymartin would be the wind on a day like this which could ruin it as a spectacle

Mayobridge v Bosco minor semi-final is moved to Ballymartin    surely saval, Burren or even Newry would have been fit to hold this!!!!

What a f**king joke, cant believe this. taking two teams away to there is unbelievable. Typicable county board.

Not a county board decision. Youth Board decide these fixtures.
Think it is a bit rich of S Down clubs complaining of venues when most the likes of Burren/Mayobridge/Clonduff get preferential treatment. Newry is hardly convenient to Loughinisland for SFC

Another wonderful county board feck up!!

Warrenpoint v Banbridge was on then off then on again, then switched to Saval!!
But Point then informed that Annaclone were being given preference in Saval (which is now off too)
Every year the idiots in charge seem to mess up the whole championship and it gets finished in October!!

How can every other county in the land get their Championship going June/Jult time but every year we become the laughing stock???

Also why was Saval not used as a venue from day 1?

Raging!!

Solution:
put youself forward for assistant secretary next year. Some great posters here who can solve all the problems ofthe GAA but never too many putting themselves forward to do any real work in the association.
It was the clubs who decided against any changes to leagues and championship. August Chaampionship  start has been a real success over the past few years as in days gone by when clubs got knocked out in May June their best players cleared off.

the phrase men and boys comes to mind

[Reports of our improvement are greatly exaggerated,]

Reports of our improvement are greatly exaggerated, unless we unearth some talent we are going nowhere, agree Ross should stay but dont expect him to whistle without an upper lip

Couldnt agree more. In fact they're funny.

Is ther no way of keeping w***ers like this off the thread.
I would have though the great under achievers would have enough to be getting on with. There was that much weeping and crying in Dublin on Saturday that the streets flooded and there land slides all the way along the M1.
word has it that football was only invented in 2002 but surely with that downpour and mid afternoon darkening of the sky the world ended yesterday at the hand of Mattie.
Have never heard as much whinging and blame being apportioned by supporters even though the players seemed to accept their shortcomings.
Time to take a reality check

No but it seems to come from a man whose county were represeted by the winning team in the two of the best games in modern football Down v Derry 1994 & Down v Tyrone 2008.

Are Down really reduced to talking about good games they've played in? 

And your point is?

sorry. forgot about that

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I think the Ulster boys did rub it in a bit on the board during the 02-05 period, so its payback time now. Not to be taken too seriously.

You are a master of understatement J70.

Don't tar us all the same. There was not the same smugness 1991-4 despite the three different counties winning

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Couldn't agree more DU.  Arma have infected the great game with a serious degree of negative and sinister play. The quicker we weed that crap out of the game the better.  Well done Wexford for finding the answer to it.

Is this from someone supporting the county who were part of one of the worse games seen in Croke Park?
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No but it seems to come from a man whose county were represeted by the winning team in the two of the best games in modern football Down v Derry 1994 & Down v Tyrone 2008.
Talking about worst game in Croke Park. The greatest humiliation in history for an Ulster team. September 1977

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farcical scenes at the end of the minor match in the bridge.  match ended in a draw again,  extra time should have been played,  kilcoo refused to play extra time and walked off the field.  joke!

apparently some of the crowd were in a hurry to get home
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