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South Down Tournament at Burren

Team 1
Dylan Little, Padraig Mackle, Joey O’Hare, Sean Campbell, Martin Beeton, Conor Flynn, Adam Mooney, Noel Crossey, Conor McCabe, Deaglan Murphy, Sean McCann, Ciaran Kelly, Brian Crossan, Jack Martin, Pearse Fitzsimmins, Peter McKenna, Joe McStravick, Paddy McDiarmuid, Eoin McNulty (injured).

Team 2
Jonathan Fyfe, Peter Heally, Conor Carey, Kevin Hillen, Tommy McGoran, James Carey, Cormac Eastwood, Padraig McPartland, Kieran McGee, Johnfrancis McCarthy, Rurai Scott, Conor O’Doherty, Padraig McGreevey, Mark Walsh, Conor McAuley, Oran McGuckian, Ciaran Mooney, Michael Brazier, Sheamus McGarry(injured).

Team1 2-2 V North Armagh(B) 0-0 Team2 0-0 V North Armagh(A) 0-4
Team1 1-0 V South Down(B) 0-1 Team2 1-0 V South Down(A) 2-0
Team1 2-1 V Louth(B) 0-1 Team2 0-2 V Louth(A) 2-1
Team1 0-3 V South Armagh(B) 0-4 Team2 1-0 V South Armagh(A) 2-3
Team1 1-5 V East Down(B) 1-0 Team2 0-4 V East Down(A) 0-2

Team2 qualified for semi-finals
Team2 1-2 V Louth(B) 0-2

Team2 qualified for final.
Team2 0-1 V South Armagh(B) 0-2

We had a tremendous day at the South Down tournament hosted at the magnificent Burren complex. We travelled with 38 of the 40 panel with 2 of the guys on long term injury. It was great that the 2 lads could travel with us and we wish them both a speedy recovery.

We arrived in good time to get settled into our changing rooms and started to digest the rules and the teams competing on the day. There were 6 teams in total, South Down, East Down, South Armagh, North Armagh, Louth and Antrim. Each panel had 2 teams and these were divided into an A and a B team. We have chosen not to operate an A and a B and simply divided the panel in half to make Team1 and Team2. Each game was 10 minutes long and each team played their A and B at the same time.

Team2 ended up playing all the A teams and certainly found the going tough in most of the games. We tried hard in all the games and it was very valuable information for the coaches as we adjusted the formation in each game and got close to our strongest setup at the end when we registered a 2 point win against East Down.

Team1 were the stars on the day and finished runners-up in the B-section. The team showed tremendous fight and team ethics battling against the rain and the wind on Burren’s second pitch. They got through to the final to play South Armagh and this was played on the main pitch. We took the lead in the first half and had chances to extend that lead before half time but unfortunately missed. In the second half South Armagh equalised and it was backs to the wall. We were once again unlucky to miss a good chance and then South Armagh was awarded a dubious free to win it by one on the final whistle.
The panel were presented their development squad shirts on the day and were worn with pride and great spirit. On behalf of the coaches I would like to thank all the kids who have attended the sessions and the final matches. You have been a pleasure to work with and have a brilliant future ahead of you. I hope you will buy into what we have attempted to build this year and that you will continue to work at your game and your physical development. On the Teamer website there are key exercises for core and strength development as well as injury prevention. Please get into a good habit and work at these over the winter and this will bring you on to the next level for next year.

Admin, you have some job. some serious ???? in this county. all i can say is fair play 2 ye as it must be so annoying to be constantly telling the whinging posters to give it over!

I would just like to thank Joe Edwards on behalf of St. Malachy's for taking the time out of his busy schedule to present our captain Declan Martin with Div 5 cup on Thursday night.

Support the camogs next Sunday at Croke fly the affron flag !!

Enough talk about the floodlights!! There was a B championship final on and the floodlights are stealing All Saint's thunder

Would like to say congratulations to Glenarm for winning division 3, we can have no complaints because over 14 matches the best team always comes out on top. Well Done.

to all those complaining bout the floodlights failing how on earth is it the countys fault that they failed. They failed because of an electical hitch nothing 2 do with the county. given the change i would love 2 play under the lights at casement even if the fail

Is there 2 teams promoted from this league like last year?

All saints were superb last night, St Pauls put on a good show though Ballymena had too much for them, congrats to all involved

In response to a previous comment saying that a match being postponed is a 'travesty' .I feel this is a rediculious thing to say when you consider the young life that was lost in county down less than 2 weeks ago now that IS a travesty . Our final 2 years ago was postponed due to a water logged pitch and there wasnt a word of complaint and what followed has an absolute cracker of a game so my advice is to chill out it will be worth the wait

I realise that this was not foreseen and that no blame can be laid at the county for lights failing. The only positive thing is that I believe the county have now made a committment to testing the lights on the day of the games so that these incidents may be avoided in future. One gripe though, and I hope its not deleted or savaged is ????? Surely this is a practice the county can learn from in the future. You now have lamh dhearg and st johns supporters who paid 5 pounds in,may be unable to attend the next game and were unable to get money back, whereby people who did not attend can now do so nexct time free of charge.

so much work goes into preparing teams for county finals i take wat your saying about the lights failure, so why not play it under light that has never failed ??????

I believe fans have the right to gripe about the travesty that went on at Casement last night. Do you know how much preparation goes into getting these kids ready for the day. To say it was totally out of the counties control is washing your hands of the situation. At the end of the day it was the counties fault ????????

What a wonderful night for All Saints.Great team performance,fantastic support and just reward for Hugh Killough and Raymond Shannon and the work they've put in with this group of players.As for the floodlight failure,these things happen.Yes its disappointing, especially for the players,but some things just can't be foreseen.

I would just like to say that the All Saints V St Paul's was a bridge that both clubs can build upon. All Saints, as it happens this time, where the better team, however,St. Paul's have the ability to improve - and goog luck to both teams in the future