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That would be a big boost for Liatroim, and could well be the decider. Not sure how the appeal was won, he clean burst the fella no excuses.

How exactly did he burst him? Just curious

I'm just looking at the streaming schedule, strange that they decided to have the second junior game overlapping with the first senior game.

[surely the management would have decided the takers and not leave it to individuals to step forward after all the management team are getting paid to manage all eventualities]

I would not be mc kearan biggest fan but he did contribute more in the short time he was on than some of the young pups who were on the pitch a lot longer. As for the penalties surely the management would have decided the takers and not leave it to individuals to step forward after all the management team are getting paid to manage all eventualities

I'd want a player who was confident of taking a penalty instead of forcing it upon a player who was a bag of nerves. I'd rather have people step up than be forced to take a kick.

Lads, surely someone in Down can update the Twitter account with score updates. A woeful service for outsiders who have an interest

Is there any other Twitter account that regularly updates on all Down championship games. Every other county has several guys who update on games who are not part of the county board or official county pages

I wonder is it at the request of the streaming company. (No basis for this other than my own meandering thoughts)

I'd say your on the money here. Kilcoo twitter wasn't updated either .

I don't think it would have been the streaming company. They gave score by score on the hurling earlier which was being streamed.
Kilcoo haven't provided any updates for any of their matches via twitter all year, it isn't just this evening, but it would be unfair to single them out as many clubs haven't done it either.

The structure can't be the reason when most other counties operate in a similar, if not same way.
Blaming a back door in the championship as the reasons for Down's failure would be crazy. Consider the farce of a championship being run in Derry the last three years, a group stage where all 16 teams qualify for the knockout phase! And they just reached an all-ireland semi final.

They tried the Mourne hurling club experiment in the mid-2000s and it unfortunately didn't last long. Can't see it being revived any time soon.

I like the way it is. More games to watch and a good edge to them in the relegation side of things. Although could be very flawed if an riocht were to stay in senior championship and play in div 3 next year.

Yes I agree, and in reality it is in line with other counties who have been working this system for years.

Although I get the An Riocht point, because on the flip side Longstone are almost certainly going to be in the relegation playoffs and Bredagh have a tough game too that could see them fall into the playoffs, as well as one of Clonduff/Bryansford. So we could have a div 3 playing senior and a div 1 playing intermediate if the stars align

Honestly these 1st round matches I feel are dead rubber. Nothing changes for all involved both sides still in the championship and only when it becomes knockout does it really matter. Clonduff tonight wont be too worried I'd say they know they might get Kilcoo once but not twice and tonight wasn't the night to be beat them.

Clonduff won't be too worried - I'd completely disagree with that statement. Sitting among both sets of supporters tonight and Clonduff supporters were disgusted at the performance. It's not like their team is going to change massively from tonight - they are miles behind Kilcoo, Burren and Cpn. Basic skills - miles off - fitness - miles off.  What is Dinky doing???

I'd tend to agree with this. While they were probably thinking a win would be a lot to ask, I'd say it was the performance more than the result that has the Clonduff faithful upset.

If you have serious championship ambitions, falling into a backdoor now where you can play the losers of Burren and the Bridge, or even the losers of Carryduff and Bryansford, you could be in trouble as none of those teams would be an easy match.

A long shot considering this board is pretty much a ghost town... but anyway, where would you find the Armagh championship fixtures? The fixtures section of the website doesn't seem to have been updated for the championship since 2020.

Was it not Ballymartin where picture was freezing a lot?

Oh yeah I bought the game from Ballymartin between Warrenpoint and Longstone and you're right, kept missing scores for it freezing. Again, not blaming the lads because they provide an excellent service, just another ground where signal can be iffy.

[Bredagh]

SFC
Glenn v Bredagh
Loughinisland v Castlewellan
Kilcoo v Clonduff
RGU v An Riocht
Ballyholland v Longstone
Warrenpoint v Saul
Carryduff V Bryansford
Burren V Mayobridge

IFC
Clann na Banna v Annaclone
Bright v Drumgath
Atticall v Aughlisnafin
Liatroim v Rostrevor
Tullylish v Darragh Cross
Bosco v Ballymartin
Saval v St Pauls
St Johns v Shamrocks

Anyone know what the stream quality will be like from Darraghcross?? Not able to get to the game so was going to stream it but was there not some problems from there last year?

I think it was Leitrim that they tried to stream from last year and caused all the problems?

Glenn v Bredagh - Bredagh by 4
Loughinisland v Castlewellan - Loughinisland by 8
Kilcoo v Clonduff - Kilcoo by 3
RGU Downpatrick v An Riocht - RGU by 6
Ballyholland v Longstone - Draw after 60, Ballyholland by 1 AET
Carryduff v Bryansford - Bryansford by 2
Warrenpoint v Saul - Point by 7
Burren v Mayobridge - Burren by 4

The streamed games list is up now.

Loughinisland v Castlewellan
Kilcoo v Clonduff
Liatroim v Rostrevor
Ballyholland v Longstone
Carryduff v Bryansford
Burren v Mayobridge

£6 a game. Or £21 for all 6 which is good if the quality is decent.

I've seen and heard nothing that removes Kilcoo as firm favourites for the Down SFC again. They haven't shown their full hand in any games yet this year but are still ticking along really nicely, no doubt Burren have seriously improved but not sure this year will be theirs.

Love to see a championship package this year, coverage last year was very good. Is there anything out yet about what games will be covered this weekend?

They had up during the league final the games that were planned for streaming. It looked like quite a few but I couldn't remember them all. I think the game from Darragh was marked for Thursday night but I'll happily be corrected if wrong.