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  Quiet times these days and looking through various other County Websites
and I must say the Down one is up there with the best of them.

When I said this a couple of weeks ago. I was joking.
Not a thing  in the News section since April 30th.  Not good enough.

Well done whoever for the new Down Website. Excellent.
Sunday was disappointing for both Senior and Minor games but
we've a good first chance in the Qualifiers.

  Quiet times these days and looking through various other County Websites
and I must say the Down one is up there with the best of them.

When I said this a couple of weeks ago. I was joking.
Not a thing  in the News section since April 30th.  Not good enough.

  Quiet times these days and looking through various other County Websites
and I must say the Down one is up there with the best of them.

And had my Granny got 2 she'd have been my Grandfather.

Take yourself off for another 4 years.

Lighten up- just a bit of banter.

 And had my Granny got 2 she'd have been my Grandfather.

McKernan is an experienced player and will be well aware of the criteria covering deliberate actions leading to a black card. The problem is an instinctive reaction or a refereeing error could still result in a suspension, and there must be a fair chance that he will be held back on the bench until some stage in the second half.

Premier Sports covering the matches as well as Tg4 as I'm overseas this weekend. McKernan playing
iis a big gamble.

the guys have fallen out with each other over the minor management.

I'm looking forward to Sunday. I think we all believe that on a different day we'd have beaten Roscommon in Newry. So I go in belief and expect a win by a few points.

It would be the size of their team that would worry me but football wise we'd be better especially if
this weather keeps up.

  All very quiet here. Are we not in Croke Park on Sunday?

the new propasals are nonsense, they will not aide down football in any way. If they go ahead there will be so many more non event games at the end of the season as there is no relegation and also it will leave it that teams at the top will benefit playing teams at the bottom later in the season so the fixture layout will majorly benifit some promotion chasing teams . Also if a div 4 team is good enough they will get to div 3 in 2 years which is possible under the current format. I predict alot of the east down teams going for this proposal as it will benifit them as that league will be easier if its geographically based.

First of all ,I would imagine that the leagues will be seeded on current league position,and then consider convenient geographical location.There was no proposal to go East and South Down.Div 4 and Div 3 this year both had a number of non-played or "dead rubber" games.None of these occurred in the first half of the season.
If the league is split after 1 round of fixtures,then every team in Div 3 will have end of season games against roughly equal standard opposition.This will test the top teams,and prepare them for Div 2,and give the bottom teams something to fight for at the end of season.The extra incentive for all teams,is that final league position,will determine seeding for 2013,league and championship.Therefore every team is likely to play the full season out-which didn't occur this year.

I imagine,that the goals of the county board are to revitalise football in both lower leagues,particularly for those at the bottom of Div 4.And also to try to ensure ambitious,potential county footballers are given a better opportunity to develop  IN THEIR OWN CLUB,and perhaps eventually see more county players emerge from lower league clubs(as happens in other counties).In the absence of any better proposals,to achieve those  goals,I feel clubs should back these proposals for the good of Down football

6thSam,
    will you be attending the County Board yourself as you have made some great points which if put forward to the delegates will surely win over the doubters?

Mods, if you 'de-sticky' the Latest Scores thread, it will return to what it was.

I concur.

I concur with this concurrence.

I would tend to be concurring to concur with this concurrence also.

[Interesting fixture and a very interesting one for one of our leading County Board officials]

Interesting fixture and a very interesting one for one of our leading County Board officials.
James will need to lift the team as we were flat for the second half at Casement.I wouldn't change any of the defence or midfield but would have John Clarke on for Dan at FF.
Was at the last league game in Newy and Down got out of gaol against a big side with some excellent players - presumably on a high after beating Mayo. One to be worried about.

   An interesting fixture indeed. Peter Mc Grath's last game in charge of Down was against Longford(I think).

   Lets get the crack started.

Ignore Tony!

Have you become more reasonable since your 5ive Times days then?

Pardon?  I don't follow your post

Ignore Tony!

Down Team v Meath
1. Brendan McVeigh 2. Daniel McCartan  3. Brendan McArdle  4. Damien Rafferty 5. Kevin McKernan 6. James Colgan7. Conor Garvey 8. Ambrose Rodgers 9. Kalum King  10. Conor Maginn 11. Martin Clarke 12. Daniel Hughes 13. Paul McComiskey14. John Clarke 15. Brendan Coulter

Early up this morning TH?