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[Lotto are u suggesting a player from Kilcoo sledging a dead parent on the field of play?]

Lotto are u suggesting a player from Kilcoo sledging a dead parent on the field of play?
Jesus I'm all for a bit of slagging in this page but generally light hearted to get a rise
If that's the case I would imagine the aforementioned club will take immediate action
But again lotto nothing anyone writes on here can be taking seriously
Disgusting if true. Where the hell is the game going to with that bullshit

Yes, I have total faith in the guy who told me at the game. I'm surprised no one else has heard this. I've done a bit of digging and there was talking of the lad going to the young Mayobridge players house to apologise. If it was my lad who received this abuse, God forbid, I'd be telling him to go f**k himself and his apology. There is absolutely no place for this in our games. Ask about yourselves men, someone will be on here to confirm it's true.

Kilcoo the better team, Mc Conville's tap in kept Clonduff in touch but they never pushed on. Like always Kilcoo never panicked knowing they would get the scores but I would have to question Clonduff's tactics. Everyone knows that Kilcoo have issues in their full back line but Clonduff didn't put Arthur inside to test this.

One of the most disturbing but not unsurprising things I was told by several people tonight was that a Kilcoo minor player, county minor from last year and current Kilcoo senior panelist, apparently asked a Mayobridge player during the game how his mother was. The Kilcoo player obviously knew that his Mayobridge opponent's mother had passed away during the year but he felt it appropriate to goad the lad about his mother's death. Why would anyone in the right mind do this or why would any young lad think of saying something sick like this? Kilcoo are full of the dark arts from underage all the way up to senior and there is one man driving it all. Kilcoo have short memories in what this current senior player and ex Down star did to individuals in their club. Scum like this have no place in our games.

Point were outstanding, well organised with plenty of men back and very threatening up front. Well done Barney.

Not gonna gloat. All I will say is I hope now you believe me when I say we are a top 4 team

When there were ropey performances in the championship and the drop to the bottom of the league placings you weren't to be heard, as they say you're nothing but a dry day man.

Oh, you're back

That's so sweet, Tommy.

Seriously, who gives a f**k who is watching. 

Great to hear but lads, please just commentate on the game. I really don't care who is watching the game so stop calling out names.

Very good coverage from Patsy and co this evening.

Been a fairly open game so far. Good luck to our men in the 2nd half, big effort required. #UTM

Who were those two imbeciles trying to commentate on the game tonight. They were more interested in thanking their cousins or whoever rather than concentrating on the job they were asked to do, that was wild hard to listen to.  Then the thing crashes at the penalty and when it comes back, Kilcoo have scored two goals. What was that all about? The stream was decent but why not sync with the game rather than being so far behind.

Same old Burren - grow a set of balls when the going gets tight. Like the drawn game, your big players went missing when they should have stood up. Serious investment, again, for little return. Big names often come with big reputations and big expenses but not always big results.

Underachieved? Who managed them 10 years ago

I'd suggest that in order to underachieve you have to be clearly better than your opponents at least occasionally, but never do it on the big day.

That's been a few clubs in Down in my lifetime, but it's never been Ballyholland in senior football. Not yet.

What are you saying Wobbler because I can't make sense of your post?

Nothing to do with low ticket sales then?

I enjoy an open mind on any matter. But Jesus that's one cynical and downright disrespectful comment.

Just asking the question. I know the sales weren't wonderful a few months back. And tell me this Wobbler, do you know how many tickets were sold?

Nothing to do with low ticket sales then?

The silence before the Mayo game is nearly as bad as the silence afterwards. Our 'big' players really let us down today. Mc Kernan is well and truly finished costing us dearly both at the back and going forward, Harrison was well held, O'Hare was anonymous like he has been all Summer, Darren gave us so much as always but was rash and got a stupid black. Mooney kept us in the show and was the only man going direct. Our keeper is still a disaster, costing us scores again today and I wonder does the manager ever get anyone to practice frees. The huge investment, financially, in Tally has shown a limited improvement this year but he has blooded a number of new players who will benefit from their experience and I still need to be convinced that this way of playing football is best for us and suits the players we have available to play it. In must say that I have never seen a Down team yap as much at referees, umpires and linesmen in my life.  I mean, it's a mans game, get on with it you were doing the same to Mayo and they never questioned anything. Mayo gave us a lesson in this respect and our players have alot to learn with Tally's Tyrone tactics certainly not working today.

4/10 for the year and I can't see us getting out of Division 3, if the changes then go through for the championship by my reckoning we will in a 'B' championship next year.

Heard the Carlow coach Poacher on Newstalk speaking up Down saying there was a buzz in the county and they'll run Mayo close. I think the buzz will soon end on Saturday as Mayo will hammer them out of sight!
I predict that Mayo will mark their All-Ireland intentions this weekend and show that they haven't gone away.

Why does anyone give this idiot any airplay at all? Don't get me started about that knob and as for his view that the county is buzzing, well I don't know where he lives but there is far from a buzz in any place I have been in Down lately. The supporters are so flat about this Down style of play, it's just not us. I fear for Saturday night and feel we could get a trimming, we've rode our luck all year in so many games but this could be the end of the road. I hope Poacher stays in Carlow, to keep him the hell away from us and I'm a Down man.

[The long ball in was working and we got scores being direct but failed to consistently do this.]

I seriously don't get the celebration of being gallant losers, sure aren't we just great we nearly won a game against our hated rivals but all is good, we played some nice football, if Caolan and Rory hadn't got sent off and with a wee bit of luck we could have won but it's grand we'll take being second best. But hey, we have a(n extremely well paid) genius over us who has us really going places. I think some of you need to wake up and smell the coffee. We're still in Division 3 when we couldn't get over the line against an average Louth team and people think we have made progress this year.

Tally did a brilliant job tactically

Brilliant tactics???

The long ball in was working and we got scores being direct but failed to consistently do this.

Do you know what happens when a team continue to kick a ball long? Defenders get wise to it, get men back and break it. The reason Down were so effective was because they hit it so little and did it at crucial times when Armagh were vulnerable at the back and managed to catch them out. Thats not to say that it would work everytime. I would expect any division 4 club team to know how to play against a high ball in let alone a county team

A bit like Armagh, a county team not a Division 4 club team, did for the last goal.