Sunday 27 July 2008

Down a wild card in last 12

Ross Carr's Down will provide the wild card game of the last round of the qualifiers after seeing off a determined Laois fightback in the second hand of yesterday's game.
Down really are the goal kings of Gaelic football, two more yesterday helped see them through to the last 12.
The Mourne defence is nothing to write home about, and they definitely won't win the county any matches.
However, in Dan Gordon and Ambrose Rodgers they have a good midfield with Jack Lynch also capable of doing a job for them.
Benny Coulter remains the most explosive forward in the country, when he's hot and getting any sort of decent supply he is unstoppable and there will always be the chance of goals when he's close to the target as it's almost always his first instinct to look for the net when his confidence is high.
I just don't know how far Down can go, they beat what is a Tyrone side playing way below its best and lost to Armagh.
They have beaten two Leinster sides in the qualifers but it has been the poorest championship in recent seasons so it is hard to gauge just how much Down have improved since their defeat in Ulster.
But they play an open brand of attractive football and when they get a run in the championship and get their dander up they could pull off a big result.
The top sides will not fear them in the draw unless of course you're Kerry who have never beaten them at Croke Park, but there's none of the sides from outside Ulster who will feel that they are easy pickings in the last round of the qualifiers.

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