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Down for the All Ireland within 4 years? TheRock2121 (Donegal) - Posts: 1142 - 09/11/2021 15:22:54 2388919 Link
Guess Jimmy was open to coming back to the GAA after all. Big cock up that its not with Donegal but no surprise really given Donegal's incompetence in such things. panamasam (Australia) - Posts: 2782 - 09/11/2021 15:53:59 2388928 Link
If the rumour is true and Jim McGuiness is coming to Down we might as well pack it in. After having never missed a Down game ( apart from during the pandemic closure) home or away, Championship, League or McKenna Cup in good times and bad for the last 46 years, that's me done. Finito FiorDunach (Down) - Posts: 72 - 09/11/2021 15:54:42 2388929 Link
Is it true? Strange if it is. I like Jim and he's a brilliant coach but I think it'll be an uncomfortable marriage if it happens as the county and the man like different styles of playing. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 09/11/2021 16:16:42 2388933 Link
Replying To FiorDunach: "If the rumour is true and Jim McGuiness is coming to Down we might as well pack it in. After having never missed a Down game ( apart from during the pandemic closure) home or away, Championship, League or McKenna Cup in good times and bad for the last 46 years, that's me done. Finito" That's the spirit. A true supporter of your county. Rolo2010 (Donegal) - Posts: 739 - 09/11/2021 16:17:03 2388934 Link
Replying To FiorDunach: "If the rumour is true and Jim McGuiness is coming to Down we might as well pack it in. After having never missed a Down game ( apart from during the pandemic closure) home or away, Championship, League or McKenna Cup in good times and bad for the last 46 years, that's me done. Finito" Er, why? keeper7 (Longford) - Posts: 4088 - 09/11/2021 16:18:19 2388935 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "Is it true? Strange if it is. I like Jim and he's a brilliant coach but I think it'll be an uncomfortable marriage if it happens as the county and the man like different styles of playing." If he joins up with Down as is reported and they play close to style of play that won All Ireland with Donegal in 2012 or how they took out Dublin in 2014 by scoring 3-14 I think all Down supporters should be delighted. The_analyser (Roscommon) - Posts: 3759 - 09/11/2021 17:42:03 2388947 Link
He was a disaster with the soccer coaching. For me he did good work with Donegal for a few years and has been living off that ever since. He hasn't evolved his coaching to any extent. He's a bit like Davy Fitz. He ll gee em up for a year and then he's spent. Similar style of play to Davy too. Packing defences..and a limited short passing game that ultimately fails in the white heat bloodyban (Limerick) - Posts: 1710 - 09/11/2021 18:26:00 2388953 Link
Anybody seen rorysboys lately? be interesting to hear his opinion now. What a disaster from Donegal CB if this is true. Jim would have lifted the whole county if he had come back in to manage us. Tirchonaill1 (Donegal) - Posts: 2756 - 09/11/2021 18:37:51 2388956 Link
Replying To FiorDunach: "If the rumour is true and Jim McGuiness is coming to Down we might as well pack it in. After having never missed a Down game ( apart from during the pandemic closure) home or away, Championship, League or McKenna Cup in good times and bad for the last 46 years, that's me done. Finito" You must not like winning so Donaldtrump (Galway) - Posts: 252 - 09/11/2021 18:44:26 2388958 Link
Jeez. Poor down supporters first Paddy Tally now this. Used to be a great stylish footballing county. Backheel (Leitrim) - Posts: 133 - 09/11/2021 18:59:57 2388959 Link
Replying To FiorDunach: "If the rumour is true and Jim McGuiness is coming to Down we might as well pack it in. After having never missed a Down game ( apart from during the pandemic closure) home or away, Championship, League or McKenna Cup in good times and bad for the last 46 years, that's me done. Finito" Wow. That's like getting a Rolex watch on Christmas morning and throwing it in the fire. Donegal_abroad (Donegal) - Posts: 1321 - 09/11/2021 19:12:45 2388961 Link
Replying To KingdomBoy1: "Is it true? Strange if it is. I like Jim and he's a brilliant coach but I think it'll be an uncomfortable marriage if it happens as the county and the man like different styles of playing." Wouldn't agree. Conor Laverty and Marty Clarke offer a nice counter-balance. To see Jim as solely defensive is to miss the point. Think about what he brings in a holistic way to a setup. Fitness, tactics, psychology, soccer experience, Sam Maguire winning experience. Would have him back in 5 seconds in Donegal. Our loss. Donegal_abroad (Donegal) - Posts: 1321 - 09/11/2021 19:16:47 2388962 Link
Replying To TheRock2121: "Down for the All Ireland within 4 years?" Hope your right, would be happy with an Ulster for now, but we wont get carried away,this is all only rumor at the minute, nothing concrete germac (Down) - Posts: 535 - 09/11/2021 19:29:29 2388965 Link
Down people wont let Jimmy McGuinness get near that job, they usually go for a Down man as manager, dont know if there ever was an outsider there. Plus they play open attacking football so mcguinness would be a disaster there totally the wrong style of play, mcguinness defensive stuff is gone with the high bike now anyway. surely plenty of Down men with all irrelands to do the job. dickie10 (UK) - Posts: 693 - 09/11/2021 20:40:08 2388969 Link
Replying To keeper7: "Er, why?" Down snobbery : ). They're above defending in Down lol. Something is needed though. Down nowhere near where they ought to be. Jim has a first class football brain and great intensity and doesn't tolerate anyone being half-hearted. If true, I reckon it'd be a good move for Down. We need to have Down back at the top table essmac (Tyrone) - Posts: 1141 - 09/11/2021 21:05:57 2388971 Link
Replying To FiorDunach: "If the rumour is true and Jim McGuiness is coming to Down we might as well pack it in. After having never missed a Down game ( apart from during the pandemic closure) home or away, Championship, League or McKenna Cup in good times and bad for the last 46 years, that's me done. Finito" Like yourself i think it would be a disaster to try and mix Down's great traditional game, and Jim McGuiness. Oil and water. cuttothebone (Kildare) - Posts: 163 - 09/11/2021 21:12:25 2388972 Link
Fáilte romhat Jimmy. He might be just what we need to move up a level and integrate that promising U-20 panel we have. Suas Sios (None) - Posts: 1550 - 10/11/2021 09:09:07 2388976 Link
Did people not watch the later years Jim was in charge of Donegal? Yes, he started as defensive but he evolved as he went along and at the end played as attacking as anyone in the country. Down should be delighted if he steps in, in any capacity. I would love him back in Donegal. FootballGuy (Donegal) - Posts: 228 - 10/11/2021 09:58:08 2388981 Link
Replying To dickie10: "Down people wont let Jimmy McGuinness get near that job, they usually go for a Down man as manager, dont know if there ever was an outsider there. Plus they play open attacking football so mcguinness would be a disaster there totally the wrong style of play, mcguinness defensive stuff is gone with the high bike now anyway. surely plenty of Down men with all irrelands to do the job." The previous manager was a Tyrone man Paddy Tally who is now on the management ticket in Kerry. Down like every other team in Ireland play men behind the ball and attack at pace its about getting the balance right. Down have given the job to a number of men who won all irelands and they never worked out, so we need something new and i for one think this management team will get the best players in Down wanting and dying to put the jersey back on. Yourjoking (USA) - Posts: 706 - 10/11/2021 10:09:55 2388982 Link