Down Club Hurling & Football

[smort]

Any team news yet? Would definitely like to see some boys get a rest.

[Ed Hardy]

Any team news yet? Would definitely like to see some boys get a rest.

Burns
Murdock
Laverty
McEvoy
Brooks
McCarthy
Rogers
Guinness
Murdock
Rooney
Doherty
Scullion
O Hagan
Havern
O Hare

[Ed Hardy]

Minors took another awful trimming today, hard to believe we are so far behind at u17 level.

[Splash]

Last game of the league against Antrim this evening in Newry.

Think if we beat them, and Dublin beat Carlow, we can mathematically stay up if Down beat Antrim by enough, but in all likelihood Down will be relegated to Division 2.

The Dublin game was a disaster, but there's plenty of lessons to be taken from playing who were one of the top 4 teams in Ireland last year.

Some people from Antrim I have spoken to seem to think Antrim will win this easily, and it would be great to give them something to think about.

Whilst Antrim look like they have improved in recent weeks, I don't think there is much between them and Down, and they are certainly there for the taking.

Great that it's in Newry- wish a lot more games were held there.

[Ed Hardy]

Last game of the league against Antrim this evening in Newry.

Think if we beat them, and Dublin beat Carlow, we can mathematically stay up if Down beat Antrim by enough, but in all likelihood Down will be relegated to Division 2.

The Dublin game was a disaster, but there's plenty of lessons to be taken from playing who were one of the top 4 teams in Ireland last year.

Some people from Antrim I have spoken to seem to think Antrim will win this easily, and it would be great to give them something to think about.

Whilst Antrim look like they have improved in recent weeks, I don't think there is much between them and Down, and they are certainly there for the taking.

Great that it's in Newry- wish a lot more games were held there.

Im sure your a happy man tonight Splash! Get win that, and well deserved. Delighted for Ronan, he's put some effort into Down hurling.

[snoopdog]

Last game of the league against Antrim this evening in Newry.

Think if we beat them, and Dublin beat Carlow, we can mathematically stay up if Down beat Antrim by enough, but in all likelihood Down will be relegated to Division 2.

The Dublin game was a disaster, but there's plenty of lessons to be taken from playing who were one of the top 4 teams in Ireland last year.

Some people from Antrim I have spoken to seem to think Antrim will win this easily, and it would be great to give them something to think about.

Whilst Antrim look like they have improved in recent weeks, I don't think there is much between them and Down, and they are certainly there for the taking.

Great that it's in Newry- wish a lot more games were held there.

Im sure your a happy man tonight Splash! Get win that, and well deserved. Delighted for Ronan, he's put some effort into Down hurling.

Super win for the Down lads. Always great to see that Davy fitz beaten. 

[LosDodgers]

Super win for the hurlers.

Selection for the footballers baffled me! We played like a team who had a final coming up 6 days later and didn't wanna play the game!

Aside from a great spell at start of second half we played like it was a McKenna Cup game.

O'Hagan injured after 20 odd minutes. I really fear his time at inter-county level might be coming to an end.

Hopefully we got through today without any further injuries. Wexford in the final - amazing achievement for them, but we really can't have a better opportunity to win the division and hopefully secure Sam Maguire football

[LosDodgers]

Pretty much biggest game of the season today! I don't think we can underestimate how much of a disaster it would be to lose today...I can't imagine there would be a huge appetite within the county for another Tailteann campaign.

If we win today and somehow end up in TC due to a shock result in the provincials so be at...at least we would have done our job.

[clonian]

Very poor 2nd half. Lucky not to lose it. Wexford looked they had an extra man.

[Aristo 60]

Congratulations to the team and management last night. A trophy is a trophy and of course the key to opening the door to the top table. Hard to put a finger on why this match was so different to the match in Wexford where there looked to be a bit of a gulf between the two teams. Maybe the difference was in Wexford's psychology - they almost overachieved so far this year - so the shackles were off? 

[snoopdog]

Down were nervous, a lot riding on this game for them. Had they lost it wouldve been a disaster.  We kicked alot of wides in 1st half and a missed pen and great goal cgance in 1st 12 mins. The fact we had wverything riding on this game and wexford really had no pressure, led to that 2nd half. Thankfully Wexford werent good enough to make Down pay.
Job done, massive work to do to get close to Donegal in 4 weeks time.

[LosDodgers]

Yeah a lot of nerves yesterday and a few bad wides...that can happen at Croke Park. I wouldn't be overly critical, it's job done.

Out of 90 mins we were the better team for 65 mins. I think this team does have its limitations but they show real fight and pride in the jerseys and that's something supporters should be very proud of.

Thought McCormack had a good impact considering he has played very few minutes in the league.

[downtothecore]

Donegal are looking awesome at the moment. Down have a mammoth task coming up vin letterkenny....

[thewobbler]

Donegal are looking awesome at the moment. Down have a mammoth task coming up vin letterkenny....

I did get the sense last night that Down's OTT clock management and safety first approach, was more of a run through for Donegal, than out of respect for Wexford.

[Ed Hardy]

U20s suffered a serious beating tonight at the hands of Tyrone, although its not a shock because this has happened regularly at underage level for guts of 10/15 years now bar the two u20 teams of Murdock, Magill and that group played on. How can we be so far behind at underage level? And is there anything being done to help us catch up?