Down Club Hurling & Football

[Mourne Red]

Only new to this forum but so disappointed in the way some of you so called 'Gael's' go on. If down here all their players to commit and no just the likes of the kilcoo ones and others but also players like the singerson lads, u20s and even other lads who deserve a go - Ronan and daniel  McCarthy Saval. Cathal Foy Burren. Young Murdock the wee ginger fella from Rostrevor. Ohare of Saul. Fegan from Burren, scored 2-3 in the league before injury. There's more to be named no doubt. Bit of respect for the current crop of players wouldn't go a miss lads

It's a discussion board FM - Talking about which players are good enough/ aren't good enough is part of the forum.

Dip your toe into some of the other Counties forums and they'll be chatting the same way posters are on the down board

[wobbller]

There are close to 30,000 living in Newry. Why are we not getting enough county players from this City?

This issue has been flogged to death over the years on this Board.

Ok , MR Kill the craic

btw the real Wobbler is much better craic

My cousin the wobbler is indeed fine craic but you are raising issues continually that definetly are no craic as they have all been disccused before.

Reading that sentence gave me Coronavirus...

You'll have to self-isolate then.Bye!

[Truth hurts]

There should be an East Down v South Down trial match in senior, inter and junior every November to give managers a chance to look at new prospects. The 3 games could be played back to back and the money goes to charity. It would create a bit of buzz in the county and it would give us a chance to give the elite a good pasting LOL

[wobbller]

There should be an East Down v South Down trial match in senior, inter and junior every November to give managers a chance to look at new prospects. The 3 games could be played back to back and the money goes to charity. It would create a bit of buzz in the county and it would give """us""" a chance to give the elite a good pasting LOL

Us being who exactly?

[mourneman9194]

Did Gough from Shamrocks not get asked back to the panel this year? I think he was on the squad last year.

[Johnnysboys]

St Colmans have taken two serious beatings in the last week and with St Marks only winning the local nerf wars competitions - is it any wonder we ain't producing enough talent the likes of Tyrone and Donegal are.. consistency at schools level gives minors a chance and they step up to u20 etc etc

[Truth hurts]

St Colmans have taken two serious beatings in the last week and with St Marks only winning the local nerf wars competitions - is it any wonder we ain't producing enough talent the likes of Tyrone and Donegal are.. consistency at schools level gives minors a chance and they step up to u20 etc etc

How will they win if they are not being coached as much as other counties?

[Lotto]

Has it not always been the case that any of the established teams would struggle to get more than 3 players through each year to the senior team.  Is it not the nature of things you have to be a very good minor to make it to the senior teams of Kilcoo, Burren or Clonduff etc ?

Even when Burren had mediocre teams in the early 2000's 80% of the minor teams coming through drifted to seconds/thirds teams and some even just drifted away from football altogether.  I would suggest that is the case throughout the county.

As you say this was a freak under 20 team so I dont think it will be an issue in the Burren club going forward.

On the issue of managing the flow ( if there is an issue ), should it not be on the likes of CPN, Saval or whoever else feels hard done by to do something about it rather than Burren closing its gates or the county board getting involved.  Should it not be up to those clubs to make themselves a more attractive proposition to kids and children.  I know CPN are working on it but their facilities are amongst the worst in the top division and have been for 20 years.

We own St Mark's and have two full size halls in there for winter training, a pitch and half all on one site for our underage to avail of. Moygannon pitch is one of the best surfaces in the county and will get better with our new development in the coming years..

How exactly does St Peter's Warrenpoint own a school?

I'm still waiting for an answer Johnny for you to explain how your club owns St Mark's.

[Johnnysboys]

I'm still waiting for an answer Johnny for you to explain how your club owns St Mark's.
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We are in the school every night of the week
We have full uninterrupted use of the facilities including the Gym/fitness suite and halls etc
We use the pitches in the longer evenings
We host all our blitzes there for small underage grades
Committee meetings are held there
The staff are even nice enough to provide tea bags, coffee and milk for us
NO ONE ELSE (GAA CLUBS) CAN GET INTO THE PLACE AS WE OWN IT..

Is that all clear enough for you???

[Johnnysboys]

St Colmans have taken two serious beatings in the last week and with St Marks only winning the local nerf wars competitions - is it any wonder we ain't producing enough talent the likes of Tyrone and Donegal are.. consistency at schools level gives minors a chance and they step up to u20 etc etc

How will they win if they are not being coached as much as other counties?

Is this a genuine question that you want answered or a general statement??

[5times5times]

I'm still waiting for an answer Johnny for you to explain how your club owns St Mark's.

We are in the school every night of the week
We have full uninterrupted use of the facilities including the Gym/fitness suite and halls etc
We use the pitches in the longer evenings
We host all our blitzes there for small underage grades
Committee meetings are held there
The staff are even nice enough to provide tea bags, coffee and milk for us
NO ONE ELSE (GAA CLUBS) CAN GET INTO THE PLACE AS WE OWN IT..

Is that all clear enough for you???
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Doing classes to pay for the mercenary that is Mullholland?
You own a bog of a pitch, and rent a pitch off the council....
Your meetings are held in the clubrooms, so that's a lie

[Johnnysboys]

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Doing classes to pay for the mercenary that is Mullholland?
You own a bog of a pitch, and rent a pitch off the council....
Your meetings are held in the clubrooms, so that's a lie
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Bog of a pitch?? Duno when u were last there - it's far from a bog I can guarantee you that. Yes we also rent up at the skip site as we offer Hurling, Football, lgfa and camogie so we need all the facilities we can get..
and as an ex member of the committee I can guarantee you we were in St Marks for many many meetings.

[Mourne Rover]

Last night was a disappointing performance but not a particularly surprising one. The delays in appointing a new manager meant that we started proper pre-season preparations much later than most of the other counties, and it was fairly obvious that Antrim were the fitter and better organised side, with the loss of our Sigerson players also a factor.

The Sigerson runs until the middle of February, so, with the Kilcoo contingent also unlikely to be available before then, and a number of injuries to take into consideration, even James probably has little idea at this stage about our starting line-up for the Derry game on January 29.

The people who are writing off Darren O'Hagan, undoubtedly our best player of the last decade, on the strength of one unexpected appearance as a sub, are certainly drawing premature conclusions. He has had a tough time with injuries, but we will need to see him in some league games before we can make any proper assessment of him.

[ardtole]

A lot of common sense in that post MR.

[Smurfy123]

Nobody's writing DOH off
All I was saying is we maybe can't always depend on him now to mark a Conor McManus or McCurry and expect him to also add to our attack
He maybe needs to be now used in a different role
Sweeper or something
Laois beat Meath well after themselves getting hammered on Saturday
As I said a lot of people overstating division 2
Down are as good as any team in this division