Down Club Hurling & Football

[Ed Hardy]

Any idea of the line up from todays game?

[Johnnysboys]

Anybody know anyone out there with a bit of loyalty to manage a senior club team???

[Cuan12]

Senior team managers who display loyalty and have the interests of the team/club rather than their c v are in short short supply but I can think of one double act currently available and would be a good fit for any senior team, having won several u 21 titles and being narrowly beaten in a SFC final by Kilcoo.

[Hard2Listen2]

Senior team managers who display loyalty and have the interests of the team/club rather than their c v are in short short supply but I can think of one double act currently available and would be a good fit for any senior team, having won several u 21 titles and being narrowly beaten in a SFC final by Kilcoo.

Good man Big G. Stick by your buddies even though they bad mouth your club & it's best players.

[thewobbler]

Anybody know anyone out there with a bit of loyalty to manage a senior club team???

Loyalty? It's impossible.

Even a strong, established senior team that needs little more than continuity and control, will have a couple of bubbling underbellies. One being younger players (and their vociferous families) who don't have the patience or temperament to play their way into the starting teams. The other being established players who have eyes on travelling or moving (sometimes for the GAA dollar, sometimes just because, you know, there's more to life than kicking a ball).

Our serial champions have found a way to largely control both, for now. But the irony is that if the rest of us can find a way to do the same, then we are no better off... unless we are the only one.

So what use is loyalty? It's a hiding to nothing.

I would blame the travelling circus of senior football managers/ management teams for many of the problems in football. But expecting talented coaches and leaders to invest several years at a club sticking fingers in the dyke, just isn't practical on any level. They're damned when they do, damned but a little financially better off when they don't.

[Truth hurts]

I was in Molloys earlier and heard that the Magpies are on the lookout for new management. I wonder why there has been no announcement?

[Hard2Listen2]

I was in Molloys earlier and heard that the Magpies are on the lookout for new management. I wonder why there has been no announcement?

Obviously they were waiting on you breaking the story for them!

[KeyboardWarrior645]

I was in Molloys earlier and heard that the Magpies are on the lookout for new management. I wonder why there has been no announcement?

Laverty and Choc to take over

[Link]

Burren minors went full kilcoo towards end of the semi final at st paul's yesterday. Subs and all in throwing digs.

[Truth hurts]

Burren minors went full kilcoo towards end of the semi final at st paul's yesterday. Subs and all in throwing digs.

What happened?

[Smurfy123]

Darren O H officially retires from Down duty

What a player and role model to many

For 5 or 6 years he was brilliant.

A nice debate to have

Would Darren be in Downs top 100 players ever to grace the jersey?

From 1960-2022?


Enjoy retirement Darren

[Nanderson]

Darren O H officially retires from Down duty

What a player and role model to many

For 5 or 6 years he was brilliant.

A nice debate to have

Would Darren be in Downs top 100 players ever to grace the jersey?

From 1960-2022?


Enjoy retirement Darren

For me Darren was one of the few players in recent memory that probably would start in the 90s teams and and would probably be a good player for even some of the biggest counties as well. He'd definitely start corner back for the dubs 6 in a row team

[sdg]

Darren O H officially retires from Down duty

What a player and role model to many

For 5 or 6 years he was brilliant.

A nice debate to have

Would Darren be in Downs top 100 players ever to grace the jersey?

From 1960-2022?


Enjoy retirement Darren

For me Darren was one of the few players in recent memory that probably would start in the 90s teams and and would probably be a good player for even some of the biggest counties as well. He'd definitely start corner back for the dubs 6 in a row team

Catch yourself on he wouldn't get near the Dubs 6 in a row 15, 

[Truth hurts]

A top defender who gave everything for the county, one of Ulster's best defenders for a number of years. It is great to see him coaching the minor footballers and passing on the baton.

[Johnnysboys]

Kilcoo management gone. All the stories of discontent in the camp starting to prove accurate. Time for the REAL managers Laverty and Choc to step into the breach.