In my opinion, it is an absolute joke that the U20 championships are starting next weekend.
This comes only a week after the ending of all senior,intermediate and minor fixtures. What will that say for the quality of football if the U20 teams have not trained collectively up to now.
So the county board are only giving teams 1 week collectively before the start of the championship.
Why can't they give it another 2 or 3 weeks at least?

Agree totally, our own club have not trained since relegation final was won.
U-20 competition is not taken seriously enough by our CCC.
p.S. Did anyone see the gestapo like tactics by the field officer in Markievicz yesterday????? MORE ENTERTAINING THAN THE MATCH, WELL DONE TO THE MAOR UISCE WHO WENT STANDSIDE

IT Leaves teams with just a week to prepare and considering the bulk of panelists are away in college its hard to get any collective session in. Should be competitive tho. Who will be favourites? Curry won the last 3 minor championships before this year and Coolera are the holders will anyone be able to stop these two teams?

the county board wonder why sligo dont win u21 championships. the u20 championships are not structured well enough and they do not place enough emphasis on it. look in the likes of roscommon and donegal. the u20/21 championships are just as important as the minor and that is why those counties are successful. time for change?

U20 A Championship
Group 1: Coolera/Strandhill, Calry/St.Joseph's, Tubbercurry
Group 2: Curry, Coolaney/Mullinabreena, St.John's
Group 3: Easkey/St.Farnan's, Eastern Harps, Tourlestrane

Winner of each Group proceeds to final stages. First two teams drawn play in a Semi-final and remaining team gets bye to Final
Fixtures: All Saturday 9th at 5pm
Calry/St.Joseph's V Tubbercurry
Coolaney/Mullinabreena V St.John's
Eastern Harps V Tourlestrane

fairly stupid way of running a competition the 3 best teams are in group 2. county board need a kick in the **** what an utter shambles

sligonian, any thoughts on the u20 a nd b?

Calry/St.Joseph's V Tubbercurry: calry by +4
Coolaney/Mullinabreena V St.John's: johns by +2
Eastern Harps V Tourlestrane: tour by +6

No thoughts at all Johnno1.

marys and buninaddan cud be quite strong in the b. 2 years ago they played out a thrilling minor b final and replay with the bunnies winning the replay by a point. cud be a cracking tussle in the group stage.

Yes John01 this should be a great match and also the two met last year in the B final so plenty of rivialry!

does ny1 no if the bunnies have the same team as 2 years ago. i no marys myte be down a few numbers due to soccer etc

There was a few suprises today with Mullinabreana getting a good win over st johns and a big surprise in the B with Enniscrone beating St Marys.

not a great surprise with marys missing a handful of players that contested the minor b final 2 years ago

Castleconnor 2-9 V 1-11 Bunninadden. Another suprise

well well the two favourites for the b go down in the first match

i think geevagh can be a force in the under 20 b league,they have 7 of the players who started on there senior team who had a great run in the championship under john hughes.With the likes of pat hughes and stephen mullaney who was in the weekender team of the championship and who is also capable of pulling the women they have great chance of bringin under 20 glory to geevagh.

Bunninadden 4-17 0-8 Enniscrone/Kilglass
St. Mary's scr w/o Castleconnor

Disappointing to see Marys conceding to Castleconnor, for a club that size... Bunninadden back to winning ways

wud hav been at the marys match 2nite until i heard it was a walkover cause marys were missing about 10-12 players. dissapointing to say the least

Easkey/St Farnans 4-10, Tour 0-3.
Easy for the West team, poor ref, 2 red cards for handbags.

as a neutral who seen last few mins of first half and the second half Ref had a decent game in my eyes. took no nonsense.
as regards the 2 red cards.. 1. Contribution to a melee and 2. striking opponent.... ah ya he was wrong to send them off! NOT!... right decision to take action immediately.
Very poor Tourlestrane side, Easkey/farnans will be hard stopped..

The B championship has some interesting ties tomorrow -
Castleconnor V Enniscrone - Castleconnor
St. Pats V Geevagh - St. Pats
Bunninadden V Marys - Bunninadden
Shamrock Gaels V Molaise Gaels - Molaise

In the A:
Coolera V Calry - Calry
Curry V Coolaney - Coolaney

Really think the U-20 has to be in spring time anymore, crazy having it this time of the year.