Tailteann Cup 2023

Enda McGinley comes across as a real gent.

As bad as Laois are Down's forward play is scintillating at times. Speed of hand and foot, good movement, lethal finishing.

True enough

Billy Sheehan seems to see the funny side of this walloping anyway. Smiling away on the sideline. I'd be offering up my resignation after a humiliation like this. And the defensive coach may seek employment elsewhere, also.

Thank god that’s over

I don’t think I’ve saw a county game with 8 goals

Marty Morrissey talked about The Sunday Game highlights coming up tonight with all the hurling and football action. He said Down have been the biggest scorers this weekend. Well Clare scored 5-26(41) in the hurling against Dublin. Down had 8-14 at the time. They added 2 more points to finish on 8-16(40).

Well at least the Tailteann Cup has given a few nice days out for the fans not just hunting glory.

Was nice to see them around Limerick celebrating even if I was gutted myself.

Could be wrong but I feel like winning this would mean a lot more to Down fans so I hope they go do it.

If there was a formula for translating a football score to hurling, 40 pts in football must be around 60 in hurling!

Always felt that the last couple of weeks was papering over the cracks and Limerick even missed 4 good goal chances against Laois, so it was coming. In many ways you would prefer to have lost last week by a point with very few watching than having to face getting annihilated very publicly on national television. That does nobody any good including Down in a similar way to Tipperary getting a record score against Offaly last week and failing to raise much of a gallop yesterday.

It’s actually really sad to see a county like Meath in the Talteann cup .

Exactly. Throw in Down, Cavan and Fermanagh into that too. Poor reflection on structures within the county that has allowed this to happen. Look at Clare, a duel county, not a huge population but competing valiantly for Sam while some of their hurlers would walk on the football team. People fawning over a Down/Meath final in the second tier need a reality check.

It's like the cute hoor club secretary and manager entering their U14 team in the fourth Division championship knowing full well they will win it easy, so they get all the plaudits for bringing a trophy to the parish, when in actual fact they could have been competitive in Division 2 or 3, but not winning a trophy

Push out the boat a little and strive to improve rather than being stuck in a little bubble, happy to be legends in their own lunch-boxes.!!

Down, a division three team, would have had to make the Ulster final to avoid being in the Tailteann Cup. Hardly cute hoorism by anyone.

A county steeped in football tradition. 8th overall in the roll of honour with 5 wins, their only loss in a final being the 2010 final to Cork. Hardly a lifetime ago. What's gone wrong up there that they are now happy to compete in a Tier 2 competition. How does a county like them end up in Division 3 in the first place. FFS, Limerick were in Div 2 this year, a county where hurling is king at this point in time and football laughed at. Clare likewise, but granted football is taken more serious there.