2014 All-Ireland champions suffer 52 point hammering

Brutal

That's the margin of defeat today for the Down ladies who lost out to Cavan by a whopping 10-25 to 0-3 in the first game of the All-Ireland Senior series. What's worse was the whole thing was televised on TG4. There is no fault being apportioned to the Down side who have lost a number of players since last year's All-Ireland intermediate success, but suffered a 61 point walloping to Donegal in the Ulster series last month in a game that ended 10-35 to 0-4. Today's defeat must be a record for a game broadcast on TV, but serious questions must be asked when two sides who are totally mismatched were pitched in together at such an important stage of the championship. https://twitter.com/Paul_Jenkins1/status/624974440879759360 https://twitter.com/Denis_Hurley/status/624985950502957057 Cavan either can't be faulted for putting their opponents to the sword without a damn for their feelings or what it might do to the Ulster side. Kilkenny hurlers never cared if they were 5 or 25 points ahead and clearly Cavan today didn't either https://twitter.com/clodagh_donovan/status/624985977682022402 https://twitter.com/BarryDonal/status/624990301787176960 In a week when the camogie association have been rightly slammed for possibly deciding an All-Ireland q-finalist via coin toss, today does noting for their colleagues promoting ladies football.