Down Club Hurling & Football

Started by Lecale2, November 10, 2006, 12:06:55 AM

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Smurfy123

Those clubs who called off last night due to covid have also asked to postpone Fridays games
What more can clubs do if they get an outbreak?
The county board literally have run out of weekends that's even going Monday and Friday
It's a tight fixture calendar as it is with no disruptions add in covid and it's impossible to play out a meaningful league

supersub

Meeting to decide the way forward on Thursday night.

Square Ball

What games are off on Friday?
Hospitals are not equipped to treat stupid

Smurfy123

All games in division 1 off Friday except Kilcoo v Bryansford
Only 2 on in division 2
How has this come to this?
The first games should all start together
No matches next Friday either

Hedgehunter

Jeez there is some amount of whinging done on here.. just let them get on with it and see how it pans out.

Smurfy123

Let them get on with what exactly hedge?
Approximately 240 club players won't be getting on with anything Friday night
Try telling the club players who have been training from the first week of April to let them just get on with it.

Truth hurts

Most senior players won't have a game now to August as next week's games as of due to the u20 final. And then the county board wants to run a senior league off like an East Down go game super blitz. Could games not go ahead on Friday and be starred as normal. No relegation from each league and let the club players get football. At the start of August, a lot of our senior footballers will not have played in the senior football league. I am not whingeing, I am stating the facts and it will get worse if win an Ulster final which I firmly believe we are capable of. Can this not be sorted ASAP

Where is the meeting supersub ?

GAAHEAD1960

Quote from: Smurfy123 on July 21, 2021, 07:33:05 AM
Let them get on with what exactly hedge?
Approximately 240 club players won't be getting on with anything Friday night
Try telling the club players who have been training from the first week of April to let them just get on with it.

A perfectly good Friday for football is being passed up on. Now 9 matches will be squeezed into 5 weeks for those other 240 club players. All of this just to suit a handful of players.




maldini

Extend the leagues out so they aren't cramped into a 5 week period and make the championships a straight knockout

Truth hurts

Quote from: maldini on July 21, 2021, 09:55:46 AM
Extend the leagues out so they aren't cramped into a 5 week period and make the championships a straight knockout

That will never happen as championship gates create the money for the county board and more games mean more money. Games are still going to be restricted to a certain number.
The timeframe for the championship is so tight due to Ulster championship so the best solution to this fiasco is to have the games started this week and take away the threat of relegation. Club players will be delighted to begin real football and the u20 players will have the best preparation going into the Ulster final.

Does anyone think I am talking bonkers.

upandwin

Another season of nonsense in Down...does this carry on happen in other counties? Seems like it's always us in a tangle every year for some reason...

Games off this Friday, next Friday will probably be scrapped too...then Fridays and Mondays with Championship around the corner :(

Clubs don't want to play without their U20s and that's not surprising but the County Board should be ensuring the games go ahead as starred fixtures...like it's been done for years at Senior Level.

Solution is simple...scrap the relegation from Div1-3, two go up from Div2, Two up from Div3 and two up from Div4. Leaves us next year with 12 teams in Div1, 10 in Div2, 11 teams in Div3 and 10 in Div 4. There's benefit and incentive for every team and good competitive fixtures before Championship gets underway. Also means that no team is unduly hampered by not having the U20S.

Am I missing something here or why can't this be done?

thewobbler

#34541
Simpler solution.

Play the leagues. Play them with the u20 players.

And also don't send out messages to all clubs that the county under 20 management "are prepared to release the following players".  As if somehow this is a benevolent act of kindness.

Maybe next year central council will do everyone a favour and not drop a county championship into the middle of the club season. But until then, don't take a shit on the clubs. We don't deserve that. Not for an underage football competition.


upandwin

Anyways for a bit of lighthearted craic, what do you all think predictions for the leagues would be this year if all squads were full out? I'd go for the following:

DIV1:

Kilcoo
Burren
Clonduff
Mayobridge
CPN
Loughinisland
Carryduff
Ballyholland
Rostrevor
Bryansford

DIV2:

RGU
Castlewellan
Longstone
An Riocht
Glenn
Bredagh
Darraghcross
Saul
St Johns
Annaclone

Div3

Liatroim
Drumgath
Ballymartin
Saval
Shamrocks
Clann Na Banna
Tullylish
Bosco
Aughlisnafin
Attical
Teconnaught

Don't know enough about Div4 to even have an opinion...

Truth hurts

Quote from: thewobbler on July 21, 2021, 12:32:55 PM
Simpler solution.

Play the leagues. Play them with the u20 players.

And also don't send out messages to all clubs that the county under 20 management "are prepared to release the following players".  As if somehow this is a benevolent act of kindness.

Maybe next year central council will do everyone a favour and not drop a county championship into the middle of the club season. But until then, don't take a shit on the clubs. We don't deserve that. Not for an underage football competition.

That's not going to happen and you know it, the whole thing is a mess and it needs to be sorted. Your own club has no game Friday and no game next Friday.

Also what would the penalty be if you played a starred player?

Truth hurts

Quote from: upandwin on July 21, 2021, 12:48:28 PM
Anyways for a bit of lighthearted craic, what do you all think predictions for the leagues would be this year if all squads were full out? I'd go for the following:

DIV1:

Kilcoo
Burren
Clonduff
Mayobridge
CPN
Loughinisland
Carryduff
Ballyholland
Rostrevor
Bryansford

DIV2:

RGU
Castlewellan
Longstone
An Riocht
Glenn
Bredagh
Darraghcross
Saul
St Johns
Annaclone

Div3

Liatroim
Drumgath
Ballymartin
Saval
Shamrocks
Clann Na Banna
Tullylish
Bosco
Aughlisnafin
Attical
Teconnaught

Don't know enough about Div4 to even have an opinion...

I fancy St Pauls and Dromara to go up. There will be a few mis mathces in division 4.