Down Club Hurling & Football

[5times5times]

Another fiasco of a draw last night. Teams being pulled out too early and the wrong repeat pairings being read out.
Annaclone minors beating Bosco on penalties to reach the final but now having to play a replay.
Darragh Cross minors playing their semi final on Saturday a day before their seniors play on Sunday.

Just a normal week for the County Board.

what happened that annaclone bosco going to replay?

[Green+Gold]

Another fiasco of a draw last night. Teams being pulled out too early and the wrong repeat pairings being read out.
Annaclone minors beating Bosco on penalties to reach the final but now having to play a replay.
Darragh Cross minors playing their semi final on Saturday a day before their seniors play on Sunday.

Just a normal week for the County Board.

what happened that annaclone bosco going to replay?

𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶-𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹

Following a review by the CCC, it has been confirmed that in accordance with the competition regulations, the game should have gone to a replay and not penalties.  The game will now be played again.

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:  Annaclone 
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: Saturday 12th September
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 12 noon

After the disappointment yesterday, our lads get another chance.

This time we are away from home, so we'd love to see a big Bosco support. 🔵🟡 #BOSCOABU

[Champion The Wonder Horse]

Another fiasco of a draw last night. Teams being pulled out too early and the wrong repeat pairings being read out.
Annaclone minors beating Bosco on penalties to reach the final but now having to play a replay.
Darragh Cross minors playing their semi final on Saturday a day before their seniors play on Sunday.

Just a normal week for the County Board.

what happened that annaclone bosco going to replay?

𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝘆'𝘀 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝗲𝗺𝗶-𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗮𝗹

Following a review by the CCC, it has been confirmed that in accordance with the competition regulations, the game should have gone to a replay and not penalties.  The game will now be played again.

𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲:  Annaclone 
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻: Saturday 12th September
𝗧𝗶𝗺𝗲: 12 noon

After the disappointment yesterday, our lads get another chance.

This time we are away from home, so we'd love to see a big Bosco support. 🔵🟡 #BOSCOABU

Exactly the same thing happened last year, I believe. No justification for it happening again.

[Be even better]

Castlewellan played

Another fiasco of a draw last night. Teams being pulled out too early and the wrong repeat pairings being read out.
Annaclone minors beating Bosco on penalties to reach the final but now having to play a replay.
Darragh Cross minors playing their semi final on Saturday a day before their seniors play on Sunday.

Just a normal week for the County Board.

what happened that annaclone bosco going to replay?

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Another fiasco of a draw last night. Teams being pulled out too early and the wrong repeat pairings being read out.
Annaclone minors beating Bosco on penalties to reach the final but now having to play a replay.
Darragh Cross minors playing their semi final on Saturday a day before their seniors play on Sunday.

Just a normal week for the County Board.

what happened that annaclone bosco going to replay?

Castlewellan played SFC v Saul on Friday night and their dual were playing less than 16 hours later in IHC. Some regard for player welfare there etc. Apparently hurling fixed for ages and county decided to fix football for Friday night after previous Monday nights game. Zero effort at accommodation.

[No1]

Dual clubs and dual players don't seem to feature in their thinking.

[Lowintotheforwards]

And both Kilclief and I think Aghaderg/Ballyvarley are asked to play hurling championship on Saturday and then football championship on Monday. County doesn't care about dual players/clubs nor indeed the initial aim of the association to promote Gaelic games (plural)

[Point-to-Point]

What has happened to Aughlisnafin?

They lost by near 40 points to Aghaderg on Monday night. With the greatest of respect to Aghaderg, they're not usually putting 40 points on teams.
They also lost the rest of their championship games this year- East Belfast by about 30, St Paul's by about 20, and Dundrum by 6.

A look on the Down website shows that Aughlisnafin won their final championship game last year, beating Magherlin by about 25.

Even looking at their league results this year in Division 4, they seemed to be putting up better performances, beating Aghaderg and Magherlin, and putting in good performances against a lot of teams in Division 4.

Aughlisnafin reached 3 Junior Finals in a row, between 2019 and 2021, losing the first 2 by 2 points, and winning it in 2021.
They then stayed up in the Intermediate Championship for 2 years, before returning to the Junior Championship in 2024. That year, they reached the final and lost to Dromara by 2 points.

It seems like an immense fall in a very short space of time. I know they're surrounded by big clubs and probably don't have a huge catchment area, but they seemed to have found themselves going from a very strong Junior team to a team struggling in a very short space of time.

[Mourne Red]

What has happened to Aughlisnafin?

They lost by near 40 points to Aghaderg on Monday night. With the greatest of respect to Aghaderg, they're not usually putting 40 points on teams.
They also lost the rest of their championship games this year- East Belfast by about 30, St Paul's by about 20, and Dundrum by 6.

A look on the Down website shows that Aughlisnafin won their final championship game last year, beating Magherlin by about 25.

Even looking at their league results this year in Division 4, they seemed to be putting up better performances, beating Aghaderg and Magherlin, and putting in good performances against a lot of teams in Division 4.

Aughlisnafin reached 3 Junior Finals in a row, between 2019 and 2021, losing the first 2 by 2 points, and winning it in 2021.
They then stayed up in the Intermediate Championship for 2 years, before returning to the Junior Championship in 2024. That year, they reached the final and lost to Dromara by 2 points.

It seems like an immense fall in a very short space of time. I know they're surrounded by big clubs and probably don't have a huge catchment area, but they seemed to have found themselves going from a very strong Junior team to a team struggling in a very short space of time.

Most of their better players transferred to the town a few years ago. Croskerys/Garland/Flanagan - Then few of the older heads retired. Didn't have the players coming through to replace all those exits.