Down Club Hurling & Football

[Rodders88]

Youre right Jim...Shane O'Hare and Pluggy Barry are mighty men for a "3rds Team"

[JimmyFloydMay123]

Can we not all agree that the league should have finished a while ago? I'd say its damn difficult for teams like Ballyholland who would have a very small panel to keep players playing into the start of November. Maybe Ballyholland will need a bigger panel of players for next year to prevent this. However it is different for Castlewellan who are playing for the league. Its the County boards fault- and it needs to change for next season. So I'd say Castlewellan can keep there complaints to themselves.

[downjim]

Good to see the heavyweights in division four stopping the seconds teams going into the senior leagues

[eyeswideopen]

Good to see the heavyweights in division four stopping the seconds teams going into the senior leagues

What has happened on this front?

[umpire]

Congratulations to Rostrevor on winning today Ulster Intermediate championship semi final against Milford of Donegal by 0.13 to 0.12

Final in 2 weeks time against Moy of Tyrone

[Smurfy123]

Well done Rostrevor on a great win
Shane Mulholland working his magic
It will be a great final

[Lecale Gael]

Good to see the heavyweights in division four stopping the seconds teams going into the senior leagues

proper order too. you don't mess with junior clubs

[crice123]

I hear rostrevor vs the moy are on before the senior final anyword on this being true??🔴⚫️

[supersub]

Correct 1pm & 3pm

[elk]

If they beat Moy, is this Rostrevor team capable of going all the way and winning the AI?

[befair]

If they beat Moy, is this Rostrevor team capable of going all the way and winning the AI?

Not sure, the Kavanaghs were formidable in the first semi-final for Moy and will be hard to handle. Rostrevor are a very young team, and were electric for the first 15 mins, when they built a winning lead, but seemed to lose composure afterwards. It would be great to see them win, especially for Sean Parr, who has been one of the best footballers in the county for the last ten years; if he'd been on the pitch against Cork in 2010 we might have taken Sam home

[Brick Tamlin]

If they beat Moy, is this Rostrevor team capable of going all the way and winning the AI?

Not sure, the Kavanaghs were formidable in the first semi-final for Moy and will be hard to handle. Rostrevor are a very young team, and were electric for the first 15 mins, when they built a winning lead, but seemed to lose composure afterwards. It would be great to see them win, especially for Sean Parr, who has been one of the best footballers in the county for the last ten years; if he'd been on the pitch against Cork in 2010 we might have taken Sam home

Undoubtedly.
That's where it went wrong.

[Smurfy123]

No disrespect to Sean Parr good player maybe should have got a run with Down but that's as far as it goes.
We are always quick to build people up when they are going well.Its intermediate football and Rostrevor have not really set the world alight this 10 years
Yes Sean is a good player but with complete respect to him we have lots of them in Down
Would he make the current Down team?

[supersub]

No disrespect to Sean Parr good player maybe should have got a run with Down but that's as far as it goes.
We are always quick to build people up when they are going well.Its intermediate football and Rostrevor have not really set the world alight this 10 years
Yes Sean is a good player but with complete respect to him we have lots of them in Down
Would he make the current Down team?

Without a shadow of a doubt.

Intermediate or Senior he is and has been the stand out player for Rostrevor over the ten years you speak of. Class, composure and quality in any position he plays. He would be good enough to hold a place on any Down team from the last ten years. It has been his choice not to take the option of County football.

Moy are heavy favourites for the final as some bookmakers have made it clear! An Gaeltacht must be some outfit also as they are odds on for the Intermediate All Ireland.

[gaaman2016]

Ulster and All Ireland Intermediate is a funny one

In 2015 we won our first three match's at a canter and in the final we won on a scoreline of 4-01 to 0-10. We finished 2nd in Division 2 that year and most of the teams we played would have been Division 2 teams aswell. At that stage we had 16 team  divisions but some of the teams we played only had 8 in a division. In terms of league position we were the 18th best team in Down but in other counties, the team we were playing were 9/10th in their respective county

When we got through to the All Ireland Final, the team we played from Mayo had finished 2nd in Division 1 and from a physical point of view where a completely different animal to anything we faced in Ulster where apart from the Ulster final (which was played in horrible conditions in Owenbeg) we tore every team to shreds by at least 10 points.

We lost by 5 from what I recall and the Mayo team then got well beat by the Kerry team a couple of weeks later.

If the Mayo team that beat us was in Down, I would say they would have easily have been a top 4 side