Down Club Hurling & Football

[Dubh driocht]

The Burren committee who reappointed McCorry and Adams must be severely regretting their decision.  The lack of a plan, the lack of ideas and the lack of fight from Burren was shocking.  However hats off to Kilcoo, their hunger and game intelligence was outstanding. While we should never condone bad behaviour the Magpies are by far the best team in the county and are worthy Down champions.

[Eire90]

11 out of 12 not good for the future of the game.

[thewobbler]

gaa is in a bad way in down

It's worse than that.

Much worse.

[Maurice Moss]

What a team performance from our men today. Professional all across the pitch and could have had a number of winners of man of the match.

Laverty pulling the strings is something to behold.

Up The Mighty Magpies 🏁

#UTM

[Johnnysboys]

Thank god for Kilcoo
Thank god for McCorry and Adams having no plan and costing a fortune.
Thank god we don't have to listen to the noisy neighbours slabbering for the foreseeable..
This game should never have gone ahead and the referee and his assistants should hang their heads in shame. At least our club ref has the good sense to say no. We as a county struggle on a yearly basis to recruit referees and this shambles won't ease the recruitment process for next season.

[PTC]

Kilcoo won in second gear, clean sweep for east down burren can keep there reserve championships UTM

[befair]

A real anti-climax. Burren had no plan, Kilcoo vastly superior; wonder they had to resort to such underhand tactics

[Gaelforce123]

Never doubted who the winners would be today, thought Burren would have produced a bit more but it didn't come for them.
Does not and can not take away from what was the disgrace in the lead up to the game. As paying members of the GAA in Down our clubs should request and receive a full report and timeline of the events that lead to the removal of a top intercounty referee in our county even after an apparent request was thrown out at all levels of the association. The clubs have a right to know what went on and reasons behind such decisions. A real can of worms opened today for future competitions and I would have preferred that all officials refused the game and a full report published before the game would be played with a different referee. Well Done to Kilcoo (on the field) hard lines Burren, disgrace from elected county executive to give no backing to a great person and referee. 

[Leftmidfield]

Never doubted who the winners would be today, thought Burren would have produced a bit more but it didn't come for them.
Does not and can not take away from what was the disgrace in the lead up to the game. As paying members of the GAA in Down our clubs should request and receive a full report and timeline of the events that lead to the removal of a top intercounty referee in our county even after an apparent request was thrown out at all levels of the association. The clubs have a right to know what went on and reasons behind such decisions. A real can of worms opened today for future competitions and I would have preferred that all officials refused the game and a full report published before the game would be played with a different referee. Well Done to Kilcoo (on the field) hard lines Burren, disgrace from elected county executive to give no backing to a great person and referee. 

On a football note only leaving aside the other referee stuff from a neutral point of view Kilcoo won pulling up. Without Murdock next year assuming he goes to Australia the gap will be even bigger

[Saul goodman]

Kilcoo were very good today and full value for the win. They deserve credit for the win after a poor first 10 mins and losing Jerome they really upped it. Few lovely scores from play from Aaron Bran and Morgan and PD.
watching the pace of burren players at county level like magill and Kerr I thought they would have caused kilcoo more problems.

[galwayman]

Lads what's the deal with Kilcoo and Faloon?
What was the reason for the objection re him reffing it - some past incident?
As an outsider it beggars belief that a club can object to an appointed referee and get it changed.
Sure that opens a huge can of worms.
You could have this craic going on every week. I'd say most clubs have certain refs that they feel havent done them any favours in the past.

[Nanderson]

Lads what's the deal with Kilcoo and Faloon?
What was the reason for the objection re him reffing it - some past incident?
As an outsider it beggars belief that a club can object to an appointed referee and get it changed.
Sure that opens a huge can of worms.
You could have this craic going on every week. I'd say most clubs have certain refs that they feel havent done them any favours in the past.

Allegedly he has said things to them and they've said things to him/about him.

[Moonshine]

Did the whole ref scenario not manifest from a few years ago from a few players phoning him in middle of night and giving him abuse classy boys. Wouldn't get away with it in Derry or Tyrone. Down Co board seem spinless. I seen a stat about them winning 10 or 11 out of 12 championships. How many times in that period were they beat in championship I can remember a couple. Back door nonsense.

[PTC]

Did the whole ref scenario not manifest from a few years ago from a few players phoning him in middle of night and giving him abuse classy boys. Wouldn't get away with it in Derry or Tyrone. Down Co board seem spinless. I seen a stat about them winning 10 or 11 out of 12 championships. How many times in that period were they beat in championship I can remember a couple. Back door nonsense.

Started few years before that when faloon said he would do everything in his power to stop Kilcoo winning the championship

[thewobbler]

Lads what's the deal with Kilcoo and Faloon?
What was the reason for the objection re him reffing it - some past incident?
As an outsider it beggars belief that a club can object to an appointed referee and get it changed.
Sure that opens a huge can of worms.
You could have this craic going on every week. I'd say most clubs have certain refs that they feel havent done them any favours in the past.

My understanding of what they went to Dublin with is that it was a broad brush claim of historical bias, with no specifics (or evidence) in terms of names, dates or location.

In other words, a witch hunt.

I generally support the county board in what they do. Seemingly unlike  most people in the county, I do not think they've an agenda against my club or any other club.

But on this occasion they facilitated a chain of events that saw Kilcoo get exactly what they want.

It was short term thinking to solve an immediate problem, which will result in much bigger problems down the line.

The right thing to do would have been to collapse the game and get behind their referees.