Down Club Hurling & Football

[Truth hurts]

A good East Down source told me that its looking like Jerome Johnstone along with Aidan Brannigan to manage Kilcoo. Conor Laverty will head proceedings when the county season finishes. The timings of the Gilligan and Thornton exit meant that candidates are thin on the ground .

[Granto]

White smoke from the Whin Fires then 

[Lotto]

A good East Down source told me that its looking like Jerome Johnstone along with Aidan Brannigan to manage Kilcoo. Conor Laverty will head proceedings when the county season finishes. The timings of the Gilligan and Thornton exit meant that candidates are thin on the ground .

I believe very little of what you say but what is obvious is that Kilcoo cannot attract a big enough name to fit their egos. If there is any truth about Jerome Johnston, even though having soundly rejected him weeks ago they may now proclaim he is the man they wanted all along. Jerome as a caretaker boss, catch yourself on that will just never happen.

[thewobbler]

Is it to early to suggest that Conor has a settled defence and midfield in mind already, while Kerr, McAleeenan, Doherty, Havern (and possibly O'Hagan) are pretty much locked in for the forward line?

Amazing turnaround in just 4 months if this is the case.

[thebar]

Is it to early to suggest that Conor has a settled defence and midfield in mind already, while Kerr, McAleeenan, Doherty, Havern (and possibly O'Hagan) are pretty much locked in for the forward line?

Amazing turnaround in just 4 months if this is the case.

Fully behind the Down Set Up but lets not get carried away. Anyone with a little sense and organisation would have improved the set up from last year which is welcomed but wouldn't be calling anything amazing in the month of February. Of course time will tell and good luck to the whole set up.

[ardtole]

Come the Donegal game, I think O'Hagan, Kerr, Havern  McAleenan and Gilmore could be 5 of the 6 forwards. With McPartland playing the sweeper role a more defensive minded player could possibly claim the other half forward spot.

I'm not sure if Doherty and McAleenan can both be accommodated in the same forward line despite both being named to start tomorrow.

Gilmore looks like he has a goal in him whenever he plays,, very promising player. At half back in particular we seem to have great strength in depth.

[Johnnysboys]

Interesting selection for tomorrow nights game. No doubt there will be changes to the starting lineup as always but as mentioned above - a few names seem to be certain for positions now. Massive improvement in 12 months which is great to see - another two point's tomorrow night and we are nicely set going into the week off.

[ardtole]

There was only 1 change to the team that was named to start v Tipp. I think Shay Millar picked an injury up in the warm up and Gerdy Collins replaced him.

[Last Caress]

Is there any live streaming of the game this evening?

[Sheedy]

Is there any live streaming of the game this evening?

no, gaago have rights to national League, they don't tend to cover division 3 or 4

[Ed Hardy]

Any radio stations covering the game?

[Mourne Rover]

The most dramatic finish seen at Newry for a long time cannot disguise the fact that, as we probably already knew, we are very much a work in process. Antrim were big and strong and clearly the better side until they effectively collapsed in the closing stages, and we actually missed an open goal as well as the 1-3 we scored in consecutive attacks. Both of Antrim's first half goals were defensive howlers but they had every opportunity to close the game out. They didn't manage it due to heroics from McEvoy and Murdoch when all seemed lost. Gilmore was also decent with Kerr and Havern good in patches. Laverty remains unbeaten in normal time during his five matches but he knows we will have to knuckle down during the two week break if we are to keep the run going in Fermanagh. D3 is likely to go to the wire.

[urbangael]

Scoring 2.18 and winning a game while not really playing well is always a decent day but letting Antrim score 2.17 is obviously concerning. I thought Antrim dominated the physical side of the game. The change is keeper didn't help Down. Too many lads below par and to be honest if it wasn't for the 2 Burren lads (Kerr and Murdock) we'd have went home empty handed. Great attitude to keep going and big Havern only came to life in the last 5 mins. Top of the league and lots still to work on. Take it and move on.

[skat man]

Changes in the defence backfired . a much more solid unit when mcparland was introduced before half time. played poorly and won , good trait

[Nanderson]

Looked like it wasn't going to be our night from very early on with passes either bouncing off players or being misplaced. Nasty injury to Barry looked like it would spell the end of our night as Antrim always looked to have the edge on us. But the men fought right to the very end. Don't really understand the reason behind playing Laverty whos a forward for his club at corner back and magill who'd be a no.6 or midfield for Burren at corner back as well. As a defender myself I always feel like the full back line is a very specialised position and you want your players to be well used to idea of tightly marking their opponents