Antrim Hurling

[Seamroga in exile]

Aye, you could see Davy Fitz secretly seething that the same Wexford team put them out

all due respect to Davy he said that Wexford deserved to win that match. No excuses from the Clare men. Wexford looked knackered today.   I fancy a cork and Kilkenny final. Like the seventies and eighties. I Loved watching them matches growing up.

spot on SIE all those matches on the trot caught up on wexford today. Their wides tally during their run was always going to sink them to

Tipp Kilkenny final would be really spicy

lessons to be learned up here in respect to excuses. Every team starts out the same. Antrims excuses have been not enough games and them too many games.

I thought we were discussing today's games. It's hard how you can really link the two just to do some Antrim bashing

unreal.it is the Antrim hurling thread.  stop being so defensive nah. It isn't just your county. Take a look at Ryan's excuses over the past 18 months. Maybe we should should just give Antrim a straight passage through to the leinster final.

[Hurler24]

Loughgiel undoubtedly favourites going into the championship.Cushendall have no NcNaughton and McManus is out with a back injury since last month.Dunloy are a championship team and will give Loughgiel as much as they want but wont have the hurling.As for ourselves after watching that rubbish in Corrigan on Sunday evening we may aswell join Rossa in intermediate to win a handy championship title.

[Na Glinntí Glasa]

theres seems to be a general unhappyness with most supporters with their team at some stage this year. no one team has really stood out as being on top form coming into the championship other than Ballycran in Div 1.
our side of the draw is still pretty open as to who will come out on top in it.

[Sleeping giant]

MR2 happy enough id say

[Milltown Row2]

MR2 happy enough id say

like a pig in........

[Hurler24]

What chance are we giving our U21 team against Clare?

[Minder]

What chance are we giving our U21 team against Clare?

I would think zero

[Milltown Row2]

What chance are we giving our U21 team against Clare?

I would think zero

Minus zero!!! Seriously 30 point hiding if they want, hopefully we put in a good 30 minutes

[theskull1]

Antrim have to set and accept achievable goals to keep them motivated in this game. What you'd be after is a team who goes at it 100% for the full 60. Go at them and try to put Clare on the back foot as much as they can. Clare are going to win this with 20+ to spare, but the real pastings come when you give up after 15 minutes and make it a cake walk. Keep playing every ball with the right intensity and see if we can learn from it.

[Na Glinntí Glasa]

What chance are we giving our U21 team against Clare?

god not much, that clare team would beat most senior county teams. the talent in it is unreal.

[johnneycool]

What chance are we giving our U21 team against Clare?

god not much, that clare team would beat most senior county teams. the talent in it is unreal.

Yeah, they put that Cork team to the sword pretty early on last night even if Cork did manage to take the bad look off it a bit mid way through the second half, but the result was never in doubt after about 15 minutes.
Clares distribution of the ball is very good, very few 50/50 balls pumped out of their defence, but their stick work and stick passing, support play etc, is well drilled into them at this stage and with a smattering of AI senior winners in their ranks its hard to look past them winning their third AI on the bounce.

Antrim have absolutely nothing to lose, no one is expecting anything from them so in a sense they've nothing to lose, but no doubt the players will be apprehensive about being on the receiving end of a big tanking.

[Bonamargy]

Getting to the business end of the season now. What do you think of this weekends championship games? My predictions below.

Randalstown V Lamh Dhearg - Randalstown by 4
Cushendun V St Paul's - St Paul's by 3
Carey V Creggan - Carey by 5
Loughgiel V St Johns - Loughgiel by 9

[Seamroga in exile]

Goal fest in Dunloy. Currently shamrocks up 7-8 to 2-6.

[Seamroga in exile]

7-12 to 2-6

[Seamroga in exile]

Full time. 7-13 to 2-6.