Antrim Football Thread

[paddyjohn]

Lots of talk coming, that certain club players wont be involved with the county this year because of who didnt get the managers job. Anyone else hearing this talk, if its true what chance has lenny got.

What club?

[Spike]

Lots of talk coming, that certain club players wont be involved with the county this year because of who didnt get the managers job. Anyone else hearing this talk, if its true what chance has lenny got.

Heard same stuff but more a case of who got it rather than who didn't.  Mentioned this before, whether rightly or wrongly, a lot of players see Lenny as a continuation of the same old establishment system and some players don't want to engage in the amateurish set up that it has been in recent times.  There's a lot of training hours, travelling, sacrifices etc to be made and if they believe its 'as before' then they wont want to go through it all again.  Its the risk the Antrim board have taken on.

Lenny needs to sell them that he is genuinely a breath of fresh air, with new ideas, methods and mannerisms. 

If he cant, and if you want positives, then at least all those who commit themselves this year will indeed be just that - committed to the cause.  We don't really need any doubters / dissenters in that squad.

[Jeepers Creepers]

Lots of talk coming, that certain club players wont be involved with the county this year because of who didnt get the managers job. Anyone else hearing this talk, if its true what chance has lenny got.

Heard same stuff but more a case of who got it rather than who didn't.  Mentioned this before, whether rightly or wrongly, a lot of players see Lenny as a continuation of the same old establishment system and some players don't want to engage in the amateurish set up that it has been in recent times.  There's a lot of training hours, travelling, sacrifices etc to be made and if they believe its 'as before' then they wont want to go through it all again.  Its the risk the Antrim board have taken on.

Lenny needs to sell them that he is genuinely a breath of fresh air, with new ideas, methods and mannerisms. 

If he cant, and if you want positives, then at least all those who commit themselves this year will indeed be just that - committed to the cause.  We don't really need any doubters / dissenters in that squad.

You could apply the same sentiment regardless of whoever got the job.

[Spike]

Def MR2, if a club all pulls together then you can be successful at both codes. Football suffered badly at our club for a lot of years due to being over looked and quite honestly not being run right but now its well run from the underage to the seniors and we are seeing the fruits of that hard work.

Im confident that we can win tonight and get back into the final. Would love to see them win it as its more or less the same management and players who have lost the past 2 finals and they have all stuck together as a group.

fingers crossed for tonight

It would be quite an achievement and I think it always relects well on the health of the GAA when both codes are successful.  God knows Dunloy have had talented Dual players and the I always wondered what the landscape of Antrim football would have been like if that nineties Dunloy side had concentrated on the football rather than the hurling

[Spike]

Lots of talk coming, that certain club players wont be involved with the county this year because of who didnt get the managers job. Anyone else hearing this talk, if its true what chance has lenny got.

Heard same stuff but more a case of who got it rather than who didn't.  Mentioned this before, whether rightly or wrongly, a lot of players see Lenny as a continuation of the same old establishment system and some players don't want to engage in the amateurish set up that it has been in recent times.  There's a lot of training hours, travelling, sacrifices etc to be made and if they believe its 'as before' then they wont want to go through it all again.  Its the risk the Antrim board have taken on.

Lenny needs to sell them that he is genuinely a breath of fresh air, with new ideas, methods and mannerisms. 

If he cant, and if you want positives, then at least all those who commit themselves this year will indeed be just that - committed to the cause.  We don't really need any doubters / dissenters in that squad.

You could apply the same sentiment regardless of whoever got the job.

TBH I don't think you can. McKeever  marginally but simply because he was an Ex-Antrim player. He isn't from one of the big West Belfast clubs, and is a young and hungry manager. O'Rourke certainly not on any level.  Lenny ticks all the boxes that a lot of past mangers possessed - age group, location and club.   

Lenny needs to show us he is a fresh broom.

[Na Glinntí Glasa]

Def MR2, if a club all pulls together then you can be successful at both codes. Football suffered badly at our club for a lot of years due to being over looked and quite honestly not being run right but now its well run from the underage to the seniors and we are seeing the fruits of that hard work.

Im confident that we can win tonight and get back into the final. Would love to see them win it as its more or less the same management and players who have lost the past 2 finals and they have all stuck together as a group.

fingers crossed for tonight

It would be quite an achievement and I think it always relects well on the health of the GAA when both codes are successful.  God knows Dunloy have had talented Dual players and the I always wondered what the landscape of Antrim football would have been like if that nineties Dunloy side had concentrated on the football rather than the hurling

yeah we were still a Div1 team then through that period and contested the senior championship. the most of them played football and hurling but the hurling was the big focus in the club due to the success we were having at it.

I rem us wining the hurling semi final in 1990 against Ballycastle and then narrowly losing to a good St Galls team in the semi final over in Rasharkin. We could of won that game that day and could of done a double that year but it wasn't to be.

Be nice to see them win it this year esp with the year were having in the club so far in terms of silverware for the football, hurling and camogie

[country bumpkin]

Is it true that CJ is following his heart to play "among the bushes".... will be missed..huge talent like his brother Kevin but......

[Milltown Row2]

Lots of talk coming, that certain club players wont be involved with the county this year because of who didnt get the managers job. Anyone else hearing this talk, if its true what chance has lenny got.

Well it shows the actually level of commitment that player has, Zero

[bannside]

TBH Ref there are other things going on that I would be a lot more interested in lol.

[paddyjohn]

Should be a good game,both teams hopefully full strength,could be Dunloys year, I've relations in Ballymena,Bushmills and Roslea  bannside if you want to know sham 🤡

Bushmills? Explains a whole lot sham..

[Belfast GAA man]

any predictions for this week's football semi's and why???

[Galer]

Creggan to win simply cause there better.cargin might struggle as they havent reached the levels yet of previous years.a chance 4 the johnnies.
Dunloy by 4 if there sobber after last week lol

[Milltown Row2]

Fair play Dunloy!! Great rollercoaster !!

[Hectic]

Lots of talk coming, that certain club players wont be involved with the county this year because of who didnt get the managers job. Anyone else hearing this talk, if its true what chance has lenny got.

Heard same stuff but more a case of who got it rather than who didn't.  Mentioned this before, whether rightly or wrongly, a lot of players see Lenny as a continuation of the same old establishment system and some players don't want to engage in the amateurish set up that it has been in recent times.  There's a lot of training hours, travelling, sacrifices etc to be made and if they believe its 'as before' then they wont want to go through it all again.  Its the risk the Antrim board have taken on.

Lenny needs to sell them that he is genuinely a breath of fresh air, with new ideas, methods and mannerisms. 

If he cant, and if you want positives, then at least all those who commit themselves this year will indeed be just that - committed to the cause.  We don't really need any doubters / dissenters in that squad.

If that is the case the players involved obviously have an over inflated estimation of their own self worth. Seriously. Given the level they have or maybe have not performed at and thinking that a certain manager might not be good enough to lead them before he is even in the door Jesus wept.

[Milltown Row2]

Toys out of pram stuff, then you'll hear ones saying that's ok cause the set up (3 days old) isn't what they wanted, but have the gall to grun about other players! Comedy show