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Has something I said offended you in some way BB. Whats with the attitude?

Whenever you can provide a concise perspective on what you think needs to be done and why then I'll reply although you'd do well to see if you can find any reference I made to stop playing hurling at compeditive levels before you start. I'll let you have the floor for a while if you are able to say anything constructive. Lets be having you.

Stop evading the issues/questions Skull.  !!!!!!!!!!

Quite clear then what Ballbusters objectives are.  Name like that your only here to stir things up and talk pure pish.  By singling out MR, Skull and someone else in your first post, you immediately set your targets on who to annoy.  Sort of boy that sits at the bar telling the young ones that "when I was playing it wouldn't have been done like that at all..."

Colonel what ever happened to that young Brick fella, thought he was back hurling for youse again this year?  Seemed like the boy to have made the difference in the A.I. semi last year as youse were one panel member off Croker.

@ Queenie


who's gonna ref the final, is either team gonna be missing players. really looking forward to it and i believe the Minor Final is now on before it, it should be a good game and i hope Loughgiel can claim the 3 in a row (i think its 3)

Someone called "Speedy" did our league match v Lamh Dherg and had a sound game, let the game flow well and cut out any nonsense before it amounted to anything.  Would he be a contender for the final with Duffy?

Has it been confirmed if there will be a Minor/Senior Hurling Final double header yet?

Also (and I couldn't believe this when the fella said he actually heard this) - Elliot when sending off a Cloughmills player was heard by some of the Cushendun crown to say to the player "Bye bye XXXX, you knew it was coming".
A bit above his station there and not really in keeping with the impartiality with which a referee should treat the game and the players themselves.
Referees get a hard time and god knows I wouldn't be one but that is completely disgraceful.

I think the referee's remark was more to do with the individual players conduct rather than a vendetta of sorts.  He was already on a yellow card, was warned again and then pulled wildy across Rory McQuillan so Owen was letting him know he was gone...in his own special way 

Did anyone happen to catch what Henry Shefflin said after beating Waterford lastweek?  Telling reporters that he was going back to training with his club for their county championship...after winning an All Ireland semi.  Think if it was Antrim in that situation there would be any county championship??  Kinda shows the difference in the boards.

Think the Rossa v Shamrocks will be a cracker, fortune favours the brave lets hope Rossa give it a real go, city needs something. Who is Colm Cunning (referee)? Is he one of the new lads on the scene, lets hope he lets the game develop into what should be worth the admittance fee on the night.

Colm Cunning from Dunloy.  I think hes a brother of Connor Cunning.  Usually has his mum and dad with him to do umpires so there will be no off the ball incidents missed.

After a dirty challenge with real intent to mame someone, there will always be a bit of a melee, and as long as nothing too treacherous happens then in that melee then to me it's part of the game. The main aggressor has to stood up to. But yes I agree that if the melee decends into similar levels of violence as the first challange then those involved should be dealt with as well. I also thought Cathair was lucky not to be carded for his involvement.

Tried to go looking for that video online but no joy.............. but I found this clinker from 1984.

http://www.youtube.com/user/feisnangleann#play/uploads/0/1E1G1bQXnQg

Check out 2:37 onwards.  

For 10 points name the Dall number 5 and the Dunloy number 12

Dall number 5 = Sambo
Dunloy number 12 = Dominic Kearns of Glenariffe?

Top of the class Skull? 

Aye I know...what is the craic with the Antrim match anyway?  Can we or can we not get relegated.  I read something on the county board guestbook -

"What do the new fixtures mean for Antrim hurling? The losers of the Antrim/Offaly play Clare/Galway and the loser of the second game gets relegated?
No, Antrim, Offaly and the losers of Clare v Galway and Limerick v Wexford all go into a hat and play off. The 2 losers of those games then play-off to decide who is "relegated". Endless and certainly not doing anything to help club activity."

Darrren Hamill had a great game and so did the McDermott's Benny and Blaine, John and Liam Dillon were good too.
Cushendall didn't start Graffin or Karl McKeegan, they came on in the second period.

There was a decent crowd at the match and anyone I've spoken to since all agreed that it was a hard and tight macth.  The ball seemed to be flying around midfield and both sets of half forwards alot of the game.  Plenty of hooking, blocking and tackling so I couldn't really say that there were many clear cut scoring opportunities.

I wasnt sure myself what it was, was more of a question than a statement

Any word on how the NA select went in their challenge game against Cushendall last night?

I was playing in the game myself.  3 periods of 25 minutes and the game ended a tie 1.11 each.  Had to be stopped 10 mins early because of a bad back injury to Eoin McAllister but he was up and moving about again after half an hour.  Was a good hard game of hurling