Down Club Hurling & Football

[snoopdog]

No coincidence Laverty was in charge for those 2 ulster U20 titles. Hste to say it as its a tough job but the ciaching realky needs looked at.
Down cant be that far behind every other county in Ulster.
 

[Blue By Nature]

And your typing skills     

[downtothecore]

Our underage lads are not competing with the top ulster counties. We are lagging behind and have been for sometime. I would say our senior teamn actually is overachieving based on the quality of talent from our conveyor belt. The couple of u20 ulster titles in receit years seems to have been a freak set of results. Hopefully this level of performance can improve in the coming years as there is a lot of work being done.

[LosDodgers]

We won 2 U20s titles because we had a Generational player in Odhran Murdock who came through an incredibly successful underage Burren team backed up by a handful of 'good players' with a very good management team.

It's actually completely embarrassing how far we are off other teams in Ulster at Minor & 20s.

I get that the main thing is player development and getting 3 or 4 lads into the senior set up but we need to be far more competitive...success breeds success!

[Champion The Wonder Horse]

Your county board has just published a result where an under 14 LGFA team lost a game tonight by 93 (ninety-three) points. That is a shameful thing to do.

[Brendan]

Your county board has just published a result where an under 14 LGFA team lost a game tonight by 93 (ninety-three) points. That is a shameful thing to do.

Dont think you can blame a county board for that, its the referee who putd the score into the system, hes the one would need to use a bit of common sense

[thewobbler]

Your county board has just published a result where an under 14 LGFA team lost a game tonight by 93 (ninety-three) points. That is a shameful thing to do.

We won an u14B game up the county a couple of years ago by a distance. Not 93. But by a lot.

I asked the ref afterwards to make it more palatable when publishing. To be fair to him, his immediate response was that scoring difference might matter for league positions. But we agreed to chisel it down rightly.

County boards aren't responsible for the commonsense needed in these situations.

[Smokescreen]

It's upon us

Predictions please - perhaps set up a league for it?

Div 1

Bredagh v Loughinisland - Loughinisland
Clonduff v Kilcoo - Kilcoo
Carryduff v Downpatrick - Carryduff
Glenn v Burren - Burren
Mayobridge v Warrenpoint - Warrenpoint

Div 2

Saul v Castlewellan - Castlewellan
Clann na Banna v Annaclone - Clann na Banna
Saval v Ballyholland - Ballyholland
An Riocht v Longstone - An Riocht
Bryansford v Rostrevor - Rostrevor

Div 3
Shamrocks v Bosco - Shamrocks
Dromara v East Belfast - Dromara
Atticall v Drumgath - Drumgath
Darragh Cross v Teconnaught - Teconnaught
Liatroim v St Johns - Liatroim

Div 4

Bright v Aughlisnafin - Bright
Aghaderg v St Pauls - St Pauls
Ardglass v Kilclief - Ardglass
St Michaels v Tullylish - Tullylish
Ballymartin v Glasdrumman - Ballymartin
Dundrum v Drumaness - Drumaness

[RadioGAAGAA]

Your county board has just published a result where an under 14 LGFA team lost a game tonight by 93 (ninety-three) points. That is a shameful thing to do.

I remember beating Bryansford by more than that back in the day at a not dissimilar age.
I'd say everyone else on the team probably remembers it too.

The ford fellas might have banished it from their memory right enough!

But at the time, everyone walking off the pitch didn't need a website to tell them it was a one sided hammering. So no point getting too precious about it.

[maldini]

Div 1

Bredagh v Loughinisland - island
Clonduff v Kilcoo - Kilcoo
Carryduff v Downpatrick - Carryduff
Glenn v Burren - Burren
Mayobridge v Warrenpoint - Mayobridge

Div 2

Saul v Castlewellan - Saul
Clann na Banna v Annaclone - Annaclone
Saval v Ballyholland - Ballyholland
An Riocht v Longstone - An Riocht
Bryansford v Rostrevor - Rostrevor

Div 3
Shamrocks v Bosco - Shamrocks
Dromara v East Belfast - Dromara
Atticall v Drumgath - Atticall
Darragh Cross v Teconnaught - Darragh Cross
Liatroim v St Johns - Liatroim

Div 4

Bright v Aughlisnafin - Bright
Aghaderg v St Pauls - St Pauls
Ardglass v Kilclief - Ardglass
St Michaels v Tullylish - Tullylish
Ballymartin v Glasdrumman - Ballymartin
Dundrum v Drumaness - Drumaness

[supersub]

Your county board has just published a result where an under 14 LGFA team lost a game tonight by 93 (ninety-three) points. That is a shameful thing to do.

When you say published, what do you mean? Assume the website, which would be generated from the referee's match result submission. Firstly, why would you come on here and highlight it if it is so shameful? Secondly, what is the alternative? Put in a 10, 20, 30 point win? Some other team wins by 40 points and the referee puts in the exact score then points difference is out the window? Not as big an issue as you make out I fear.

[snoopdog]

Does anyone think we will run Donegal close next sunday. Im travelling in hope of a good performance. A tifhr pitc might suit Down better . We were 6 pointa of them last year in Clones but it was hard to know what Donegal were at that day. Always thought they coukd raise ut if they needed to.
These are the games we want and we need to improve so thr better the teams we get in the following all ireland series the better.
Any idea when Magill will be back,? Someone mentioned Mooney was back in panel? Any others? Im assuming the johsons arent interested this year either?

[Aristo 60]

Same here. Will travel in hope. A bit like Clones 2024. We ran the eventual champions very close that day and I wouldnt want to miss the opportunity to see that sort of thing happen again.

[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.

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.

I was delighted- first time Down have beaten Antrim in any game of importance for many, many years if I'm not mistaken.

I suppose this makes Down the best hurling county in Ulster? For the time being, anyway.

Thought the game was gone to be honest, and it was fairytale stuff when Hughes got the goal with the last puck of the ball.

I'm looking at it through red and black glasses, but I thought it would have been very unfair of Down to have lost that game.

Great to see a decent crowd in Newry, too.

Ultimately, Down are relegated to Division 2 on points difference. The day in Parnell Park against Dublin ultimately sealing our fate.

It's a pity, because Down, on the whole, we're probably better than the end table suggested.

Really, really should have beaten Wexford (which is sickening), and performed poorly against Kildare and Carlow, leaving too much to do when they finally found their stride.

It's unfortunate to not be in Division 1 next year, but Down should really be targeting an immediate return for 2028.

The Joe McDonagh is now a huge opportunity. This is probably Down's best opportunity to win the championship yet, and I'm particularly looking forward to Antrim, away. If Down are able to beat Antrim twice in a row, it only strengthens the argument for a revival of the Ulster Championship.

I know tickets for the football in Donegal are scarce, so would highly encourage anyone to head up to Dunloy tomorrow and support the hurlers in this championship derby game.

[LosDodgers]

Does anyone think we will run Donegal close next sunday. Im travelling in hope of a good performance. A tifhr pitc might suit Down better . We were 6 pointa of them last year in Clones but it was hard to know what Donegal were at that day. Always thought they coukd raise ut if they needed to.
These are the games we want and we need to improve so thr better the teams we get in the following all ireland series the better.
Any idea when Magill will be back,? Someone mentioned Mooney was back in panel? Any others? Im assuming the johsons arent interested this year either?

Having Magill back would be a huge boost. Him & Kerr definitely give us a much different dimension in attack which is needed as we rely too much on Murdock/Guinness/Havern on the arc.

I mean its literally the toughest game we could ask for, Donegal are flying, have great depth to their squad and we know they take the Ulster Championship very seriously so we can't imagine they will take us lightly.

But we give them a good rattle last year and if Murdock & Guinness are on top form and Pat has his shooting boots on we can give them a scare! This team has shown great fight and pride in the jersey so I don't think we will travel up there just to lie down