Down Club Hurling & Football

[Truth hurts]

I assumed they were junior as they were in division 4. Would Drumaness be favourites for the junior?

[LosDodgers]

Longstone Drumgath a huge game next week, with Saval likely to beat St.John's its winner stays up, first game was a draw so a win for the Stone will give them the head to head and keep them up!

[Nanderson]

Longstone Drumgath a huge game next week, with Saval likely to beat St.John's its winner stays up, first game was a draw so a win for the Stone will give them the head to head and keep them up!

And Drumgath only need a draw as their head to head will be equal and the have a much better points difference

[Leftmidfield]

Longstone Drumgath a huge game next week, with Saval likely to beat St.John's its winner stays up, first game was a draw so a win for the Stone will give them the head to head and keep them up!

And Drumgath only need a draw as their head to head will be equal and the have a much better points difference

It wouldn't actually get to a point difference as a draw would leave Drumgath on 16 points and Longstone on 14 points

[downtothecore]

Longstone Drumgath a huge game next week, with Saval likely to beat St.John's its winner stays up, first game was a draw so a win for the Stone will give them the head to head and keep them up!

And Drumgath only need a draw as their head to head will be equal and the have a much better points difference

It wouldn't actually get to a point difference as a draw would leave Drumgath on 16 points and Longstone on 14 points

We're is this game in?

[Nanderson]

Longstone Drumgath a huge game next week, with Saval likely to beat St.John's its winner stays up, first game was a draw so a win for the Stone will give them the head to head and keep them up!

And Drumgath only need a draw as their head to head will be equal and the have a much better points difference

It wouldn't actually get to a point difference as a draw would leave Drumgath on 16 points and Longstone on 14 points

We're is this game in?

In Longstone

[Truth hurts]

A huge game in Longstone on Friday night. Drumgath have the better players but the Stone will relish home advantage. The Mourne clubs are all struggling which I do not like to see as every successful Down team have always had a strong Mourne pick.

[Hard2Listen2]

A huge game in Longstone on Friday night. Drumgath have the better players but the Stone will relish home advantage. The Mourne clubs are all struggling which I do not like to see as every successful Down team have always had a strong Mourne pick.

Drumgath have better players than the stone?

Interesting take!

[Truth hurts]

Are any hurling games being streamed on Down TV this weekend?

[ONARAGGATIP]

Why is there an open draw at minor and under 16 championship? At 16s Burren will play the winners of St Michael's/ bright-ballykinler. The latter teams could have a -50 handicap and still be beaten. Cannot understand the logic at all. Maybe I am missing something.

[Truth hurts]

Burren put 30 plus points on teams in their own division so I'm afraid of what they would do to those teams.

[downgael2065]

Burren put 30 plus points on teams in their own division so I'm afraid of what they would do to those teams.

Are burren very strong at u16 grade this year? They would hope some of the underage talent would translate to seniors soon. They have had a lot of good underage teams in last decade but not delivered a senior championship. As a north down gael living abroad i recently drove through burren for first time and blinked and was through it.

Down underage in general seems to be seriously behind other counties. The set up needs to improve if we want to develop the talent we need to take the next step at senior level. Im not very knowledgeable on the underage set ups and how they are failing compared to tyrone/ derry for example.

[befair]

was at the Felix Darby final in Burren. Drumgath, playing with the slope, leading 1-8 to 0-0 after 20 mins. 2nd half, playing up the slope, they could hardly get the ball up the field, and Rostrevor ran out winners by 4 pts. The slope really is a significant factor.

[johnnycool]

Three big margin games in the first round of the senior championship this weekend, the Saturday game in Carryduff was probably expected and not a game Carryduff would have been targeting to pick up anything from in as the Ports are still clear favourites to retain Jeremiah for the 4 time in a row.

Bredagh putting 20 points on Liatroim down in Liatroim was a bit of a surprise and whilst Bredagh winning this wouldn't have been a surprise, the margin of the win was. The Murphy effect taking its toll.
All not lost of Liatroim as there's 4 semi-final slots to fill out of 6 teams.

The biggest surprise was the margin of our victory down in McKenna park. We haven't been going well in the latter part of the Antrim league including getting beat by an understrength Ballycran just over a month ago.
A big hammering in a friendly against Dunloy followed 2 friday nights ago and as one of the coaches said to he that he hoped it'll be the kick up the hole that they needed, my retort was how many kicks up the hole do they actually need to get fired up?
I caveat this that I wasn't at the game and was in Croke Park for the camogie finals but from the feedback from lads at the game we finally won the midfield battle which gave the forwards a platform to work from. Better balls into the forwards helps some of our lads who wouldn't be the best at winning dirty ball and they thrived.
Our lads were billing that game as a home semi-final match and were wanting to win it big time, and with Carryduff at home next Sunday we can go a step closer to that, although Carryduff caused us serious problems last year in the same fixture.

Ballycran are up in Cherryvale on Saturday evening and will be looking upon that as a must win game for them. They may have Ben Arthurs back from the soccer for that but it looks like they could lose Chris Egan to a knee injury from all accounts. Bredagh will fancy this one big time and for everyones sake I hope it's on the roadside pitch which is slightly bigger than the other one where the likes of Stephen Keith can almost puck it the full length of.

Liatroim are visiting Portaferry on the Sunday, it's hard to see that going well for them.

[Truth hurts]

Three big margin games in the first round of the senior championship this weekend, the Saturday game in Carryduff was probably expected and not a game Carryduff would have been targeting to pick up anything from in as the Ports are still clear favourites to retain Jeremiah for the 4 time in a row.

Bredagh putting 20 points on Liatroim down in Liatroim was a bit of a surprise and whilst Bredagh winning this wouldn't have been a surprise, the margin of the win was. The Murphy effect taking its toll.
All not lost of Liatroim as there's 4 semi-final slots to fill out of 6 teams.

The biggest surprise was the margin of our victory down in McKenna park. We haven't been going well in the latter part of the Antrim league including getting beat by an understrength Ballycran just over a month ago.
A big hammering in a friendly against Dunloy followed 2 friday nights ago and as one of the coaches said to he that he hoped it'll be the kick up the hole that they needed, my retort was how many kicks up the hole do they actually need to get fired up?
I caveat this that I wasn't at the game and was in Croke Park for the camogie finals but from the feedback from lads at the game we finally won the midfield battle which gave the forwards a platform to work from. Better balls into the forwards helps some of our lads who wouldn't be the best at winning dirty ball and they thrived.
Our lads were billing that game as a home semi-final match and were wanting to win it big time, and with Carryduff at home next Sunday we can go a step closer to that, although Carryduff caused us serious problems last year in the same fixture.

Ballycran are up in Cherryvale on Saturday evening and will be looking upon that as a must win game for them. They may have Ben Arthurs back from the soccer for that but it looks like they could lose Chris Egan to a knee injury from all accounts. Bredagh will fancy this one big time and for everyones sake I hope it's on the roadside pitch which is slightly bigger than the other one where the likes of Stephen Keith can almost puck it the full length of.

Liatroim are visiting Portaferry on the Sunday, it's hard to see that going well for them.

What is going on in Liatroim? are the players spoilt?