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Agree.

Kilcoo are a long way from their prime and whoever wins the final is unlikely to go far in Ulster

Says alot about Down football that they can still dominate year on year

Burrens best chance in years to topple them

Champion1981 - are you Ronan Barry? 

Ref made more than a few bad calls although Point didnt help themselves with indiscipline at times

I thought the difference was 3 fold:

Kilcoo experience told eg. penalty rebound and cool heads to grind a result against what looked like a better team on the ball

Kilcoo scored their long range frees and 45s whereas Point didnt score any of theirs

Ref seemed to give Kilcoo benefit of doubt all night from over carrying in first half to suspect frees in the second

Burren will give it a serious rattle if they dominate the middle like R Mallon & J Boyle did tonight

Ryan Mc Aleenan?

Mayobridge
Castlewellan
Downpatrick
Kilcoo

Tullylish
Liatriom
Shamrocks
Rostrevor

Kilclief
Dundrum
Dromara
Ardglass

Castlewellan
Loughinisland

Bryansford
Ballymartin
CPN
Clonduff
Glenn
Castlewellan
Burren
Kilcoo

Rostrevor
Carryduff
Tullylish
Glassdrumman
St. Johns
Drumaness
Annaclone
Darragh Cross

CPN
Saval
Mayobridge
Downpatrick
Ballyholland
Castlewellan
Kilcoo
Burren

Shamrocks
Bosco
St John's
Rostrevor
Darragh Cross
Clann na Banna
Carryduff
Drumgath

Was at the game last night - entertaining for a neutral

Kilcoo missing 2 Johnstons, D O'Hanlon, Conor Lavery and Aaron Morgan

Point missing above listed names plus Paddy Murdock and Ryan Mc Aleenan

Point should have won by more - they had alot of possession and didn't take chances

Didn't look like a Kilcoo Championship team with PD off the pace

I am an avid reader of these posts (rather than poster) but am now posting in that I hope it proves therapeutic but I doubt it can ease the suffocating angst that has haunted me since driving home from Clones

I'll start by saying we all know Eamon Burns took the job when many others refused it - that has to be respected - he probably let the County Board off their self made hook

Secondly, the players didn't go out to disappoint us. I would be disappointed if they weren't hurting like us

Yesterday was the nadir in a long period of decline - minus the blip when James had us over performing temporarily

I agree with many posters about the quality of club football being mediocre

We don't have dominant club teams that shine in Ulster nor do we have dominant players that stand out in Club matches

If we look at the 90s we were blessed with a golden generation - experienced campaigners combined with 87 Minor All Ireland team and 3 Ulster U 21 finalist teams (90 to 92) all pipped by Canavan and Cush inspired Tyrone All Ireland winners

There was a strength in depth there that underpinned 1990 National League Final and 91 & 94 and drove the starting 15 on to higher standards

We don't have that quality anymore and if we had changed 10 to 15 members of the 30 odd County Panel over the past 10 years would it have made any difference? - I doubt it

My fear is we  get another pasting in the Qualifiers as I am not sure how we turn around a performance like yesterday, 14 months without an inter county match win and some very lucky wins before that

At least we can't face Armagh in the next match (I think) - that defeat risk would be too much to stomach

We need leaders - on and off the field - they seem thin on the ground and based on recent trends we may well drop straight to Division 3 

As they say acknowledging you have a problem is the first step on the road to recovery

Here's hoping

Find it hard to believe that Michael O'Hare having starred in Intermediate Championship and U 21 wins is not in top 36 U 21 players in the County. We must have some defence!

Rorys uncle Mickey McDonald won a Hogan with St Colmans as far as I know and played Irish League - don't know if he played for NI

Con Davey?

Anton Rogan & Gerry Taggart?