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I think the case is, parents will send their children to clubs of family members or friends or if the child is old enough, he'll pick to go where his friends play. Not sure if parents nowadays are checking up on the league tables on underage and then deciding which club their son plays for. This should then give clubs a good basis to work on, especially with the new rule brought in about transferring u18, this means that if there are any losses of players from clubs, then the club has only themselves to blame, for lack of matches/poor coaching. However, overall, i think the standard of coaching is improving in a number of clubs, and needs to built upon.

Any idea where the U21 semi-finals will be held next Sunday? Cushendall and Rossa should be a decent match, with some good young players on both sides. Have a feeling Dunloy will be too strong for St Galls. I'd go for Cushendall v Dunloy final.

Sorry Queenie but if anything, St Johns are going drastically downhill, when was the last time they captured a hurling trophy? Their fortunes don't look like changing any time soon.

Any injury reports for either team?

Big enough crowd for a Wednesday night, match didn't really get going with both teams matching eachother in the first half. They went in level at the break. Ballycran seemed to be taking all their chances, on the other hand, Rossa were making chances but missing a lot of scoreable ones. Jim Connolly got two goals in the first half and Ballycrans goal was the first score of the game, a rebound from a 20m free. Conor Woods was excellent in midfield and would have been man of the match until that boy fired in the goal at the end, good finish.

The Galls machine to come out on top by 2+ on Sunday night.

Ballycran v Rossa tonight 8pm at Casement.

Hatchet, fair play. A lot of negative people around here that would complain and point out what is wrong, but you took your time and pointed out what needs to be done to correct these wrongs. Although it may seem simple, I'm sure those ideas wouldn't have been as quickly thought up at county board, or south antrim level. Your ideas are a mirror image of your progressing club. One thing I'd like to know however, and not just about GNM, about every city club, and country for that matter. How many coaches would you say you have around the ability of say, taking a minor county team. I know there aren't too many about, and I think this is what this debate is all about, the more quality coaches we have, the better our players are going to be, simple. More things need to be carried out, the way the north antrim board have done with the Munster coaches, when was the last time this took place? This should be happening at a county level, but look how long it has taken them to act, things need to be acted upon straight away to start our slow rise to the top.

Gort Na Mona  Ruairi Og  Casement Park 15/08/2009 17:30   
Rossa  Loughgiel  Casement Park 15/08/2009 19:00
Thats from County website, not many spaces available in the calender if their put off this weekend.

Anyone bold enough to come out with their predictions yet. I'll go for Cushendall +12, Rossa +1/2, Dunloy 6+, Glenariffe 7+. Is Kevin McGourty hurling for St Gall's at the weekend?