Antrim Football Thread

[country bumpkin]

must be a SW thing.....

See what i did there? 

Bit blind perhaps........but i do see what you are endeavoring to do...

Ever hear of the great Muddy Waters  ??

[Milltown Row2]

must be a SW thing.....

See what i did there? 

Bit blind perhaps........but i do see what you are endeavoring to do...

Ever hear of the great Muddy Waters  ??

No, were they a 70's group?

[Milltown Row2]

Back to page 918 and read the bottom few posts. Things have taken a turn for the worst.

Still as clear as mud!

Seems our senior football team is very concerned at their perception of the complete failure of our County executive to act in a supportive role for one of their number.
They have forwarded a letter to that body outlining such concerns
Document signed bu all the panelists and has been circulated to clubs.
Again Only in Antrim

Well if there is a letter out there and everyone knows why be cloak and dagger about it? so first off, what did the player do and when did it happen and why?

[country bumpkin]

Back to page 918 and read the bottom few posts. Things have taken a turn for the worst.

Still as clear as mud!

Seems our senior football team is very concerned at their perception of the complete failure of our County executive to act in a supportive role for one of their number.
They have forwarded a letter to that body outlining such concerns
Document signed bu all the panelists and has been circulated to clubs.
Again Only in Antrim

Well if there is a letter out there and everyone knows why be cloak and dagger about it? so first off, what did the player do and when did it happen and why?

Can see at least four signatures placed by Milltown Blues on the document......ask them or indeeed ur club sec..

[Milltown Row2]

Back to page 918 and read the bottom few posts. Things have taken a turn for the worst.

Still as clear as mud!

Seems our senior football team is very concerned at their perception of the complete failure of our County executive to act in a supportive role for one of their number.
They have forwarded a letter to that body outlining such concerns
Document signed bu all the panelists and has been circulated to clubs.
Again Only in Antrim

Well if there is a letter out there and everyone knows why be cloak and dagger about it? so first off, what did the player do and when did it happen and why?

Can see at least four signatures placed by Milltown Blues on the document......ask them or indeeed ur club sec..

You're still not making any sense lad

[aontroim]

Antrim County Board,

We, the Antrim Senior County Footballers, are writing to you as a collective to voice our anger and
extreme frustration at the recent decision taken by members of the County Board. This decision
identified a member of our team for an alleged incident that occurred against Armagh on the
25th March 2017. Croke Park officials issued an image of the alleged incident and requested the player
to be named. County Management and two members of the County Board reviewed the image and it
was agreed that the player could not be identified with total certainty. Subsequently, the player was
then identified, without consulting County Management. This resulted in a suspension which was later
successfully appealed. It was only after the County Board identified this player a second time that a
second suspension was issued. As a result, the player in question could potentially miss the biggest
game of the year against Donegal in the Ulster Championship.
We find it unacceptable that not only was this player suspended as a result of information provided by
our own County Board but that there was no county representative available to accompany him for his
appeal. We do not believe that this course of action would occur in any other county.
Unfortunately, as a team, we cannot stand by and allow this mistreatment of our teammate. We feel
we need to make our concerns clear to our County Board that we find it completely unacceptable that
any player who has dedicated months of hard work and sacrificed many parts of his life to represent
his county should be treated in this way and let down by representatives who are purportedly in a
position of support.
This decision will be contested again and we would expect full support from our County Board in this
matter.
Faithfully,

Antrim Senior Football Team
{player signatures}

[NAG1]

Should the county board not have named the player in question, does that not leave them open to suspension themselves?

Poor form that no one was there to accompany the player to the appeal hearing, outside of that I dont see what the issue is here.

[Milltown Row2]

jeeze that didnt hurt!!

While we much prefer the ref to deal with this there and then, this sort of stuff has been going on for a while now, and i'd say if Croke Park issue a request on naming a player in an image then that would need to be given? no?

Antrim has never been great at this stuff, unlike Armagh and Tyrone in turning over these sort of decisions, why the county is being blamed on giving up this lad for something he did/didnt depending on what it was (I take it the lad in question carried out an off the ball red card offence?) is silly, if shoe on the other foot and Micheal Murphy was getting a ban we'd be all for it and saying how well the Donegal county board has dealt with that

[country bumpkin]

Is that it??  Youngsters don't know they're born these days!!

Been about a while AQMP........but cannot recall a player receiving sentence, dubios or otherwise and winnin an appeal on such......then recalled a few weeks later and initial sanction imposed again.....but possibly in "your day" this was commion place

[Milltown Row2]

Is that it??  Youngsters don't know they're born these days!!

Been about a while AQMP........but cannot recall a player receiving sentence, dubios or otherwise and winnin an appeal on such......then recalled a few weeks later and initial sanction imposed again.....but possibly in "your day" this was commion place

What are you saying here? It's ok to let players off the hook, I'm not talking about Antrim player here, just in general?

[north aontroim gael]

Antrim County Board,

We, the Antrim Senior County Footballers, are writing to you as a collective to voice our anger and
extreme frustration at the recent decision taken by members of the County Board. This decision
identified a member of our team for an alleged incident that occurred against Armagh on the
25th March 2017. Croke Park officials issued an image of the alleged incident and requested the player
to be named. County Management and two members of the County Board reviewed the image and it
was agreed that the player could not be identified with total certainty. Subsequently, the player was
then identified, without consulting County Management. This resulted in a suspension which was later
successfully appealed. It was only after the County Board identified this player a second time that a
second suspension was issued. As a result, the player in question could potentially miss the biggest
game of the year against Donegal in the Ulster Championship.
We find it unacceptable that not only was this player suspended as a result of information provided by
our own County Board but that there was no county representative available to accompany him for his
appeal. We do not believe that this course of action would occur in any other county.
Unfortunately, as a team, we cannot stand by and allow this mistreatment of our teammate. We feel
we need to make our concerns clear to our County Board that we find it completely unacceptable that
any player who has dedicated months of hard work and sacrificed many parts of his life to represent
his county should be treated in this way and let down by representatives who are purportedly in a
position of support.
This decision will be contested again and we would expect full support from our County Board in this
matter.
Faithfully,

Antrim Senior Football Team
{player signatures}

Antrim Football Panel: "Lads we've been relegated this year BUT on a positive note we haven't had the usual annual fall out that goes to the press and paints us in a bad light"

Antrim Football Panel after some reflection: "WE'LL SOON SEE ABOUT THAT"

Comical stuff.

[TyroneOnlooker]

Am I missing something here? What do the Antrim players want here? If Croke Park have asked for a name, should the Antrim County Board refuse to comply? Where would that leave them in terms of the ethos of the game?

If a player has been up to no good then surely they must face the consequences.

That's not to say Antrim County Board shouldn't still try and defend him, if indeed what he did was defensible. We can all remember plenty of Tyrone/Dublin/Mayo/Armagh offences over the years that have been overturned due to 'technicalities'.

I hate to say it but...only in Antrim

[theskull1]

+1
I'd suggest the lack of integrity that I sense here tells its own tale.

[Hectic]

Yeah the lad in question should have had some representation from our County at his hearing.  Not sure what the rest of the letter is about.

[johnneycool]

Yeah the lad in question should have had some representation from our County at his hearing.  Not sure what the rest of the letter is about.

It's a bit of a sticky one for Antrim CB when Croke Park no doubt were putting them under pressure for a name to be seen to be coming down hard on what must have been an off the ball incident reading between the lines and trying to keep the player in question available for the championship. Not giving any name due to lack of "total certainty" will only wash for so long.
If there was genuine doubt as to the person in the photo it doesn't say much for the lad who probably knew it was him and was content to keep his gub shut and let this shit get to the letter writing stage.

Irrespective it was bad manners that the Antrim Croke Park delegate or someone in the county executive wasn't there to represent the lad in question.