Antrim Football Thread

[Milltown Row2]

Tyrone in second gear, Antrim no workrate, cj 2 stone overweight , Ballymena highest represented club. Its going to be our hardest season yet. We need to look past blaming managers as our players arnt at any sort of level to seriously compete, and lenny wont be able to change that during his term.
Thought tyrone eased off and let us get a few sxores last 5 minutes otherwise could have been 30 in it. Division 1 v division 4 and it showed.

That's the point! Top 8 team v a team ranked late 20's.. lads aren't fit either or been playing to a standard that Tyrone have..

[country bumpkin]

Top team in Ireland held to a draw v div 3 opposition.....really hope Lenny can work the oracle but he has some task ahead.

[Milltown Row2]

Top team in Ireland held to a draw v div 3 opposition.....really hope Lenny can work the oracle but he has some task ahead.

have you the Dublin teamsheet?

[AQMP]

The result from last night sheds no light on Antrim's ability to get out of Div 4, which surely must be the priority for 2018?

[Last Man]

Top team in Ireland held to a draw v div 3 opposition.....really hope Lenny can work the oracle but he has some task ahead.

have you the Dublin teamsheet?

The Dublin football squad are on a team holiday in South Africa this week.

[Milltown Row2]

Top team in Ireland held to a draw v div 3 opposition.....really hope Lenny can work the oracle but he has some task ahead.

have you the Dublin teamsheet?

The Dublin football squad are on a team holiday in South Africa this week.

Apparently not, the man in the know said they were held to a draw by Div 3 team....

[saffronog67]

Top team in Ireland held to a draw v div 3 opposition.....really hope Lenny can work the oracle but he has some task ahead.

have you the Dublin teamsheet?

The Dublin football squad are on a team holiday in South Africa this week.

Apparently not, the man in the know said they were held to a draw by Div 3 team....

Dublin are the top team in Ireland and they were held to draw by a division 3 team, he didn't say anything that wasn't a fact. Tyrone had 2/3's of their squad changed from last years heavy defeat to Dublin so it's not like we were playing their strongest outfit either.

I wont be jumping to any over-the-top conclusions regarding last nights result but I will say that we throw the towel in far too handy, and that is a mind set the players need to challenge.

[bannside]

Was at the game, sitting with two Tyrone club managers who between them provided six starters, so I had a good insight into the work going on there behind the scenes. Obviously it's impressive in both the number of sessions and things finishing off with lots of in house games (Tyrone dont do challenge games) and when its all weighed up, Tyrone are a lot lot further down the road than us. As we already know.

I took home from the match some positives and a few negatives Obviously, but all in all we scored 2 -11 and hit the crossbar, despite being off the pace and looking ring rusty. When we get the right settled team out and the (match) fitness up a notch or two, we should achieve main target of getting out of division four. Id be very confident about that.

[Milltown Row2]

Top team in Ireland held to a draw v div 3 opposition.....really hope Lenny can work the oracle but he has some task ahead.

have you the Dublin teamsheet?

The Dublin football squad are on a team holiday in South Africa this week.

Apparently not, the man in the know said they were held to a draw by Div 3 team....

Dublin are the top team in Ireland and they were held to draw by a division 3 team, he didn't say anything that wasn't a fact. Tyrone had 2/3's of their squad changed from last years heavy defeat to Dublin so it's not like we were playing their strongest outfit either.

I wont be jumping to any over-the-top conclusions regarding last nights result but I will say that we throw the towel in far too handy, and that is a mind set the players need to challenge.

Hardly the top team in Ireland if they (the top team) are in South Africa, so not really fact.. Tyrone are a top 8 team.. now if you do the math you'll find we are ranked maybe 28th possibly, thats a fair difference in quality.. but hey some will have been laughing under there sleeves at that result

[Spike]

Some outfit. Lenny maintaining Antrims mckenna cup record. Fitness levels of a pub league outfit

[Milltown Row2]

Some outfit. Lenny maintaining Antrims mckenna cup record. Fitness levels of a pub league outfit

I'm surprised it took you this long... and that's what you came up with? Don't give your day job yet..

[bit of banter]

Only scored 2-11 because tyrone took off their best players and relaxed last ten minutes and off course we took of cj who was killing our forward line. Way off the pace of tyrone even at this early stage obviously had a good christmas in Antrim. We had several players who all looked like stuffed turkeys and Tyrone were all in fantastic shape so you can tell who leads the lifestyle of a county footballer. Havnt a hope on that performance of getting out of div 4.

[Flanker]

Some outfit. Lenny maintaining Antrims mckenna cup record. Fitness levels of a pub league outfit

Maybe the "pub teams" that are supplying the players for the *pub league outfit" need to look in the mirror first

Our top "pub team" this year were beaten by more than double scores  22 to 10 in Ulster Club first round   

just saying & just using your language

[paddyjohn]

Jeepers creepers lads & ladies. Happy new year, peace and good will to all men and women.

There is a few pics on Saffron Gael that don't do any favours for some lads, hopefully Lenny and his backroom team will sort it.

Saffron Abu.

[bannside]

Apart from very obvious lack of condition (which Fintan Devlin immediately needs to step up and manage for his credibility too) I'm equally concerned about what CJs role is on the team. The two games I've seen so far this year he spends the vast majority of his time around the middle third or even deeper. He is marking no one, and especially against Tyrone this allowed them an extra man every time they attacked through the middle. So what exactly is his role??

It's definitely a challenge Lenny and his backroom team need to face up to. If CJ is calling these shots already, the dressing room will be lost in no time.