Down Club Hurling & Football

Square Ball · February 26, 2022, 01:12:45 PM

Quote from: Truth hurts on February 25, 2022, 10:23:05 AM
Quote from: Mourne Red on February 25, 2022, 10:01:49 AM
Quote from: Truth hurts on February 25, 2022, 08:20:16 AM
Ladies at club level are integrated, at county level if the 3 codes talked to each other surely it would be easier for clubs. Some of the fixture clashings is crazy and not fair on clubs to sort out.

That's due to clubs not having the members to run a committee for both.. Still under 3 different associations and insurance is a lot dearer to register players in the LGFA. Hopefully they do the sensible thing and vote to bring the 3 together, ladies are an after thought and it's purely down to LGFAs stubbornness

eh no, because it's the right thing to do. Imagine separate committees in GAA, Camogie, and LGFA in Bredagh. You would need the secretary-general of the united nations in to sort the rows out

Theres 4 sub committees, each code has there own.

Ed Hardy · February 26, 2022, 01:36:35 PM

U20's beat Antrim 3.5 to 0.9 in Ballykinlar. Anyone at it?

Lotto · February 26, 2022, 06:10:37 PM

We still haven't managed to sort out our kickouts, the last management didn't have any strategy and neither does this one. Quite a few passengers in the Down team tonight!

Mourne Red · February 26, 2022, 06:13:32 PM

Look forward to SamFevers ratings for this match

thewobbler · February 26, 2022, 06:19:03 PM

Quote from: Lotto on February 26, 2022, 06:10:37 PM
We still haven't managed to sort out our kickouts, the last management didn't have any strategy and neither does this one. Quite a few passengers in the Down team tonight!

First time, I think, that I've wholeheartedly agreed with something you've written. And it's the seasoned players who are the bigger problem.

Roscommon are a better team. No doubt. But it's their urgency that's more eyecatching.

Nanderson · February 26, 2022, 06:55:20 PM

Down are so good at going out and executing the game plan 'dont attempt to win midfield'. When was the last time we had a dominant midfield? 2010 with ambrose and kalum and fitzpatrick as a reserve?

5times5times · February 26, 2022, 07:06:59 PM

Div 4 here we come lads... Look so so unfit compared to the Rossies.

Are we possibly the worst team in Ulster??

whitegoodman · February 26, 2022, 07:27:23 PM

I wouldn't lose the plot now lads. We aren't going to div 4 and aren't the worst team in Ulster.

We have played the 3 best teams in the league at this stage so let's see where we are at the end of the league with the Kilcoo lads back.

I do agree we don't look fit and are carrying too many passengers.

SamFever · February 26, 2022, 07:31:59 PM

Quote from: Mourne Red on February 26, 2022, 06:13:32 PM
Look forward to SamFevers ratings for this match

They will be harsh.Time also to be rating our Subs.Dismal stuff.It'll be tomorrow before I compile
these although Truth Hurts will not be online to see these eagerly awaited ratings until he's back in School on Monday.

TakeTheMark · February 26, 2022, 07:35:19 PM

Quote from: whitegoodman on February 26, 2022, 07:27:23 PM
I wouldn't lose the plot now lads. We aren't going to div 4 and aren't the worst team in Ulster.

We have played the 3 best teams in the league at this stage so let's see where we are at the end of the league with the Kilcoo lads back.

I do agree we don't look fit and are carrying too many passengers.

Absolutely second this. Roscommon are a very good side, and how many thought a few months ago that this game would be a win?

There were spells of very good Down football this evening, and I feel if the kickouts were better then that could have been a much closer game. The amount of kickout ball lost then returned for a Roscommon score was far too high.

I feel the current squad are coming on rightly and with a few Kilcoo lads in, it bodes well ahead of Offaly in two weeks.

sdg · February 26, 2022, 07:48:23 PM

The biggest surprise for me, was that people on here actually fought we would beat Roscommon. Can someone tell me what Aiden o rourke has achieved in the game as a coach/manager?

Sheedy · February 26, 2022, 07:58:40 PM

That was as poor as it gets, miles of the pace. Roscommon are a good team but we made it so easy for them.

mourneman9194 · February 26, 2022, 08:22:51 PM

Very poor this evening. Down are absolutely terrible. Such a gulf in class in Ulster its unbelievable - Down, Cavan, Fermanagh and Antrim the worst teams in Ulster, in whatever order its irrelevant. Seriously, what does Kevin McKernan have on the management - honestly there must be about 15/20 players in Down that are a better option. Been a great servant but enough is enough. Mooney well past it and has very rarely lived up to the hype. Good to see Ceilum Doherty back but we need more Kilcoo players making themselves available. How easily teams just cut through the middle against us is so concerning.

Mourne Red · February 26, 2022, 08:25:27 PM

Lads Roscommon are hardly world beaters and we were clean shite tonight.. Agree with a few posts saying there's a few boys hanging around too long. We aren't the worst team in Ulster isn't a consolation either, we are probably tied with Fermanagh as the worst atm.. Kilcoo boys coming in won't help us out of this mess.

Again all down to late appointment of management team by an inept co board

mourneman9194 · February 26, 2022, 08:30:47 PM

Let's look at it from a Kilcoo perspective. A full year of intense training and your asked to go again for your county. Very little down time and let's be honest probably not sustainable. Absolutely, getting the call to represent your county is huge but mentally I wonder what appetite they would have to go into that set up, especially considering how bad things are currently. Keeping Tally was the obvious call for the sake of this year, completely agree that this shambles is all on the county board.