Antrim Football Thread

[Milltown Row2]

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.

Hopefully they don't put up pictures of any of our regular posters!

[theskull1]

....alright for you being totally jacked...

[Milltown Row2]

....alright for you being totally jacked...

Its not easy lol

[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.

Hopefully they don't put up pictures of any of our regular posters!

Hopefully are regular posters aren't pretending to be county footballers ffs!

[Smurfy123]

Jesus lads what have Antrim been doing since the new manager took over?
The conditioning coach needs sacked straight away looking at those pictures on that saffron site
Quite embarrassing for a county team

[Points a Good Score]

Jesus lads what have Antrim been doing since the new manager took over?
The conditioning coach needs sacked straight away looking at those pictures on that saffron site
Quite embarrassing for a county team

The conditioning coach can only do so much, from what i'm hearing the collective conditioning work is very professional and tailored to suit the needs of modern day Gaelic football. However the coach cant control the diet of players or ensure they are completing personal sessions outside of training time, also in Tyrone and the likes these processes are happening from development squad level up with the expertise of Peter Donnelly etc working with squads on their conditioning and education around the subject. Antrim are now trying to get in line in this regard so hopefully we will see the benefits over the next few years. The levels of conditioning of a modern day county footballer isnt an overnight turnaround unfortunately.

[Smurfy123]

Why play the lads then if they are not doing as they are asked?
Jesus lads the conditioning of them lads is terrible
I can see into lads having a good Christmas but that takes the biscuit
No disrespect to your management team but it doesn't look good on them
Not professional at all

[Spike]

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..

I keep it simple so even you can understand 😁

[The Bearded One]

In this day and age there is no excuse for an inter-county footballer to be so BADLY out of shape. Any Joe Bloggs who is remotely interested in health and fitness knows what to eat and general information about keeping themselves in shape. A county footballer with access to dieticians, gyms and conditioning programmes should not be so badly out of shape...there is no excuse other than laziness.

There were 3 young lads sitting behind me on Wednesday night, no older than 16 and they were laughing loudly at the shape of CJ. And he was berating other players for not making runs! I would love to see his GPS stats.

[Spike]

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

We were told on this forum by esteemed contributors hat this committed squad were adequate? Is that incorrect?  Regardless of talent, this is 2018 - a county player cant return to training 2 stone overweight and expect to sweat it off.  Are we drifting further?

[Milltown Row2]

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

We were told on this forum by esteemed contributors hat this committed squad were adequate? Is that incorrect?  Regardless of talent, this is 2018 - a county player cant return to training 2 stone overweight and expect to sweat it off.  Are we drifting further?

So by that token, nobody would have made a difference in that period of time from taking over, just as anyone with half a brain will tell you, we dont have the players to compete with the big guns... Its a mindset, you can bring a horse to water

[Minder]

Jesus lads what have Antrim been doing since the new manager took over?
The conditioning coach needs sacked straight away looking at those pictures on that saffron site
Quite embarrassing for a county team

The conditioning coach can only do so much, from what i'm hearing the collective conditioning work is very professional and tailored to suit the needs of modern day Gaelic football. However the coach cant control the diet of players or ensure they are completing personal sessions outside of training time, also in Tyrone and the likes these processes are happening from development squad level up with the expertise of Peter Donnelly etc working with squads on their conditioning and education around the subject. Antrim are now trying to get in line in this regard so hopefully we will see the benefits over the next few years. The levels of conditioning of a modern day county footballer isnt an overnight turnaround unfortunately.

Anyone with any sense would know you can't be an IC footballer and eat all the crap of the day. This isn't a new thing, I am sure the players out of shape have been around Antrim teams for years so I don't think it should be a mystery or we need to be looking in awe at what Tyrone are doing in this area. It's fairly basic.

Tyrone, and most counties,  obviously are fully bought into it, some Antrim players haven't by the look of it.

[Smurfy123]

Milltown u may not have the players to compete with the big boys but by the looks of things use certainly don't have the mentality or commitment from the players
Antrim should be able to compete with anyone outside the top 10 but don't seem to put the work in and those pictures just confirmed what I always thought of Antrim
Decent players but don't put the work in
Antrim are falling away badly
Look at Fermanagh as an example lads that seem to give there all
Sorry got gatecrashin the page

[Milltown Row2]

Milltown u may not have the players to compete with the big boys but by the looks of things use certainly don't have the mentality or commitment from the players
Antrim should be able to compete with anyone outside the top 10 but don't seem to put the work in and those pictures just confirmed what I always thought of Antrim
Decent players but don't put the work in
Antrim are falling away badly
Look at Fermanagh as an example lads that seem to give there all
Sorry got gatecrashin the page

Historically this has been the case, (bar the Baker days and long before that, going back to the 50's) we havent competetd for various reasons, we have been left behind for many factors, the players havent committed to the cause, any manager worth their salt will have a plan, this is your personal target lad, if you arent up to it then cut them loose.. but on the bases of that game (first match in Jan, in the McKenna cup against Tyrone) we couldnt match them physically or on the score board cutting loose 7/8 players based on their performance and conditioning then what are we left with?

No manager would have had those lads over 2/3 months up to the pace or shape of the Tyrone lads, and if you think otherwise then you are deluded..

I think the managers that went for this job have dodged a bullet

[Smurfy123]

Your 100% right milltown in all you say
Certainly no manager could get them anywhere near the conditioning of Tyrone in 3 months but surely the conditioning of some players shouldn't have been accepted?
Why did certain players play so badly out of shape?
What have they been doing this past 3 months?
Many nights a week are they training?