Unimpressive Draw for Down in first League Game - 02/02/2004

National Football League - Division 2B
Round 1: Down 3-11 Tipperary 3-11 @ Burren 2.00 pm, Sunday 1st Feb 2004

DOWN stuttered to an unimpressive draw with Tipperary in this opening Division 2B game at Burren yesterday.

The players rose above the poor conditions to produce a brilliant second half as Tipp came from eight points down to take a one point lead from a Declan Browne goal a minute from time. But Liam Doyle rescued Down with a pointed free two minutes into injury time.

Down will be wonder how they threw away an eight point lead at the start of the second half and also a six point lead midway through the half.

Trailing 1-6 to 0-4 at the break, Tipp's fightback started six minutes into the second half. A Browne free looked to have been fielded by Down keeper Mickey McVeigh, but he dropped the ball allowing James Williams to send it to the net.

SCORERS -
Down: B Coulter 1-3, D Hughes 1-1, D Gordon 1-0, J Clarke, C McCrickard, L Doyle 0-2 each, A O'Prey 0-1.
Tipperary: D Browne 1-7, P Cahill, J Williams 1-0 each, G Burke 0-3, A Fitzgerald 0-1.

DOWN -
M McVeigh; M Higgins, A Molloy, J Doran; R Sexton, Sean Ward, S Farrell; B Coulter, D Gordon; L Doyle, J Clarke, C McCrickard; E McCartan, A O'Prey, D Hughes. Subs: D McCartan for Doran; A Shields for O'Prey; Shane Ward for McCartan.

TIPPERARY -
P Ryan; D Byrne, S Collum, L Cronin; N Sheehan, T Russell, B Hahessy; K Mulryan, A Fitzgerald; G Burke, F O'Callaghan, James Williams; P Cahill, D Browne, D O'Brien. Subs: M Webster for Russell; L England for O'Callaghan.

REF - S McCormack (Meath).

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