Down Club Hurling & Football

[befair]

Castlewellan relegated to Div 3; is soccer too strong in the town? Same problem as Newry?

[downtothecore]

As the league season concludes tonight, which teams and players have established themselves as the definitive contenders and standout performers ahead of the upcoming championship?

Kilcoo won't be stopped, the only team who could possibly catch them on an off day is Clonduff I think, but that's a long shot.

Drumaness should win the Junior

Rostrevor probably favorites for an open looking IFC. You've also got Annaclone, An Riocht, Longstone, CNB, Darragh Cross and Liatroim any of whom could go far.

Clonduff and Burren will have right good go this year. There is enough pain built up from previous years it now geels a bit like a Mayo scenario.

[snoopdog]

As the league season concludes tonight, which teams and players have established themselves as the definitive contenders and standout performers ahead of the upcoming championship?

Kilcoo won't be stopped, the only team who could possibly catch them on an off day is Clonduff I think, but that's a long shot.

Drumaness should win the Junior

Rostrevor probably favorites for an open looking IFC. You've also got Annaclone, An Riocht, Longstone, CNB, Darragh Cross and Liatroim any of whom could go far.

Clonduff and Burren will have right good go this year. There is enough pain built up from previous years it now geels a bit like a Mayo scenario.

Clonduff have a chance. Burren, not so much.

I see Kerry have let Cian O'Neill go. He woukd be a great addition to Lavertys backroom.

[Sandstorm]

Disgusting the team a certain Div 1 club fielded in the latter part Of the ACFL.
Seems they have been targeting the premier reserve championship with little respect for other clubs, especially those fighting relegation. Not showing much ambition and let's hope it backfires on them in the final and also senior championship.
Up the yellows.

[County Star]

Castlewellan relegated to Div 3; is soccer too strong in the town? Same problem as Newry?

They do have a strong soccer set up but it's a wide catchment not just local players by the looks of it.

Senior team has been on the decline in recent years. St John's and Dromara have improved greatly and so have Drumgath. Hard to believe that there are now two divisions between Bryansford and Castlewellan.

[Leftmidfield]

Disgusting the team a certain Div 1 club fielded in the latter part Of the ACFL.
Seems they have been targeting the premier reserve championship with little respect for other clubs, especially those fighting relegation. Not showing much ambition and let's hope it backfires on them in the final and also senior championship.
Up the yellows.

If you are referring to who I think you are referring to did that match or could that match have had any bearing on relegation ?

[Sandstorm]

Disgusting the team a certain Div 1 club fielded in the latter part Of the ACFL.
Seems they have been targeting the premier reserve championship with little respect for other clubs, especially those fighting relegation. Not showing much ambition and let's hope it backfires on them in the final and also senior championship.
Up the yellows.

If you are referring to who I think you are referring to did that match or could that match have had any bearing on relegation ?

Have a look at their last four or five resilts and team selections . Up the yellas.

[Leftmidfield]

Disgusting the team a certain Div 1 club fielded in the latter part Of the ACFL.
Seems they have been targeting the premier reserve championship with little respect for other clubs, especially those fighting relegation. Not showing much ambition and let's hope it backfires on them in the final and also senior championship.
Up the yellows.

If you are referring to who I think you are referring to did that match or could that match have had any bearing on relegation ?

Have a look at their last four or five resilts and team selections . Up the yellas.

Got ye now 👍. I was only looking at last fixture

[Get Over]

Two fantastic reserve finals took place at the weekend past With Mayobridge and Burren coming out with the wins. Two clean hard hitting games that had a bit of everything!

Can not wait for the senior Championship to get underway tomorrow. Does anyone see any big surprises? I believe Saval will put up a fight against a weak point side. Mayobridge will test Carryduff also.

Excited to see the young Drumgath team test themselves again the very best in Kilcoo.

[imtommygunn]

I went to the big Carryduff Bredagh derby in the SHC last night. A late goal for Bredagh got them in the lead for the first time with ~5 minutes ago and then they scored I think a point to put the lead up to 2 points and hold on. Bredagh were very dominant in the second half so despite the lead coming so late I would say they deserved the win. Carryduff were maybe 10 up in the first half after scoring 3 goals in a very short space of time. They very much sat back in the second half and allowed Bredagh to push on. Other results from what I saw looked to go as expected.

[Nanderson]

Is anyone else's downgaa.tv coverage shocking this evening?

[Maurice Moss]

From dominating Ards teams at U14 to missing out on U18 semi finals, all while sinking to Div 3 in senior football. At least they're consistent across both codes

[Be even better]

Tough week for them. Lost out in MFC after extra time. 3 or 4 key men out injured for Hurling. The Tuesday / Thursday minor championship schedule caught up with them in fairness.

[Akinfenwa]

On a more positive note, I was looking at the locations for our football championship matches this weekend and last weekend, and I compared these to previous years, and it must be said that we have a lot more grounds hosting championship games now.

I think it's a testament to clubs within the county for the hard work and effort that has gone in to improving facilities. Quite a few clubs have improved their pitches or built a new pitch, improved changing rooms, parking etc and gotten the grounds to a standard where championship games could be held there.

In previous years, particularly pre-COVID, the reliance on Pairc Esler was evident, with the ground often holding 2, 3, even sometimes 4 matches on a given weekend. Now the games are well spread out so the workload isn't nearly as big on the county ground.

Very well done to the clubs on their continued progress.

[Be even better]

From dominating Ards teams at U14 to missing out on U18 semi finals, all while sinking to Div 3 in senior football. At least they're consistent across both codes

Easy to criticise. At least they are giving their youth the opportunity in all 4 codes unlike some.