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Are points in those divisions reset after the split? Looks like they are according to the country website.

Points will remain as they are now.

http://antrim.gaa.ie/news/2016-league-competitions-split-details

43 clubs in antrim according to the website:

All Saints
Ardoyne Kickhams
Carey Faughs GAC
Clooney Gaels
Colin Gaels GAC
Con Magee's GAC
Cuchullains
Éire Óg
Erins Own Gac
Glen Rovers GAC
Gort Na Mona GAC
John Mitchels
Kickhams Creggan GAC
Lamh Dhearg CLG
Loughgiel Shamrocks GAC
McQuillan GAC
Michael Davitts
O'Donnells
O'Donovan Rossa
Oisin CLG
Patrick Pearses GAC
Patrick Sarsfields
Robert Emmets
Roger Casements GAC
Ruairí Óg
Shane Ui Neill GAA
St Agnes GAC
St Brigid's
St Brigids
St Comgall's
St Enda's
St Ergnat's GAC
St Galls GAC
St James'
St John's GAC
St Joseph's
St Malachy's
St Mary's
St Paul's
St Teresa's GAC
St. Mary's GA & CC
St.Patricks GAC
Tír Na nÓg

Well off 108.
http://antrim.gaa.ie/clubs

So next year reserve games and senior games will be played on the same day as a double header;

"The CCC is to endeavour to play Senior and 2nd team games as double headers on as many occasions as possible throughout the All County Football leagues."

Does anyone know how or if this will affect the leagues? Will 2nd teams still be in the same league system where they play other reserve teams as well as senior teams or will the reserve teams just play the reserve team of whatever team their seniors are playing?

St Teresa's beaten by Sarsfields - bit of a shock.
Gort beaten by Aghagallon.
St Enda's hammered by Aldergrove.

Seems at intermediate and Division 2 level, everyone can beat everyone.

Would have to fancy Aldergrove now for the IFC. Watched them play once, wasn't entirely impressed by them but they work really hard for each other and play an effective, if very boring, system.  Anyone know anything about them?  Thought I saw your man with the baldy head from Cargin on their line.

Yeah, JC from Cargin manages them. He seems to be doing really well with them. Apparently (so I heard anyway) earlier in the year in the O'Cahan cup and Aldergrove player reacted badly to being subbed and he decked JC, I don't think the players been seen since.

Can you imagine the traffic there would be on the hurling thread if the stick fighters beat Galway at their crude version of the ancient caman game?

Not one of the regular posters on that thread has had the good grace to post on here. Probably all supporting Galway if truth be told.

As for myself, still stuck on the mainland, what was the team today?

Kerr

Healy
R Johnston
O'Boyle

Loughery
Crozier
Scullion

A Gallagher
M McCann

Kelly
Sweeney
Murray

T McCann
Magill
M Johnston

Was the team but Niblock came in for Magill and Owen Gallagher came in for Aodhan Gallagher before kick off. Gallagher came on very soon as Kelly seemed to be injured. Magill came on for Owen Gallagher and Armstrong came on for Conor Murray I think. O'Hagan came on for Healy late on to score the winner.

Creggan 1-14  0-06 St Bridgid's   
Achadh Eochaille 1-08 2-15 Lamh Dhearg   
Cargin 1-09 1-12 St.Gall's
St Pauls  0-13 0-12 St John's
Rossa 1-12 2-11 Rasharkin

Good win for St Pauls and I thought Cargin might beat St Galls by a point or 2. Good win for Rasharkin too, I can imagine points will be hard to come by for them this year. Big wins for Lamh Dhearg and Creggan.

I watched the game and all I could think of was that the fears that people had last year were starting to come true, teams are starting to copy Donegals style of play.
I know Arsenal, Tottenham etc... fans probably were cheering for chelsea last night but I cannot fathom why. If chelsea win surely that would do 4th place out of a champions league place. If I were a Newcastle/Arsenal/Tottenham fan I'd be cheering anyone but chelsea.
On another note Valdes isn't really a great keeper, he's good, but definitely not good enough for barcelona. The only reason he concedes so little is that the other teams usually son't have enough of the ball to take decent shots

He's a fantastic hurler, he really is up there with the best and would walk on to any team in the country. He got an All Star nomination a few years ago and I think he nearly would have got one had he not lost his temper a little bit.

Congratulations Loughgiel, fantastic performance and a fantastic achievement. Hopefully this can be a boost to the county and we can make a bigger impact on leinster and the All Ireland. Another thing I was thinking was that that's the All Ireland Club football and hurling championships have came to Antrim in the space of 2 years that, not many counties can say that. Again Congratulations to Loughgiel, I hope you enjoy you're win, you truly deserved it.

Things going great so far. Hope Loughgiel can keep it up

Antrim Team V Longford

1  CHRIS KERR

2  KEVIN O BOYLE
3  RICKY JOHNSTON
4  MARTY JOHNSTON

5  TONY SCULLION
6  JUSTIN CROZIER
7  JAMES LOUGHERY

8  MICHAEL MC CANN
9  AODHON GALLAGHER

10 TOMAS MC CANN
11 CONALL KELLY
12 MICHAEL ARMSTRONG

13 CONOR MURRAY
14 MARK SWEENEY
15 PADDY CUNNINGHAM

Wasn't sure if they'd play any u21's what with their championship on wednesday but there you go he has, maybe if the game wasn't so important they would have been rested.

Just took a look at the club fixtures there and I noticed in division 4 the teams who played each other today play each other again next week e.g. st comgalls beat st malachy's today and they are playing each other again next week. Any reason for this?

This was done last year also in some lower leagues - at the request of the 'A' teams in those leagues - not wanting to play 'B' teams until the higher divisions get started.

That explains it. Fair enough, the reserve teams probably have a handful of senior players playing early on and it might be unfair to ask a junior team to play a "reserve" team with players who wouldn't be there once div 1 and 2 start.

Just took a look at the club fixtures there and I noticed in division 4 the teams who played each other today play each other again next week e.g. st comgalls beat st malachy's today and they are playing each other again next week. Any reason for this?

Has the idea of a divisional team made up of players from Inter & Junior playing in the Senior Championship ever been proposed? I know they do something similar in southern counties. I'm just thinking purely from the perspective of players with clubs who may never get the chance to play Senior, and also with a look to add another competitive (would it even be competitive?) team to the championship. I can think of a plethora of reasons why not, I just think the positives would greatly outweigh the negative.

I think they tried it with the South West in hurling. I'm sure the teams would be competitive, to a point. Against the likes of Cargin and St Galls they would likely struggle but probably would be competitive against the middling and weaker teams in the SFC. Would the players still be eligible to play intermediate and junior championships with there own clubs? It might put a strain on the fixtures as games in the IFC and JFC might have to be postponed due to player involvement in the SFC

Divisions 3, 4 and 5 to start on Sunday. Div 1 and 2 on the 15th of April and Divisions 6 starts on the 1st of April.

DIV 3
Sarsfields v St. Brigid's
Cargin v Casements
Con Magees v McDermott's
Ardoyne v O'Donnell's
Dunloy v Davitts

DIV 4
Creggan v St. Gall's
Lámh Dhearg v St. Paul's
Eire Og v St. Agnes'
St. Comgall's v St. Malachy's
St. Enda's v St. John's

DIV 5
Gort na Mona v Aghagallon
Pearse's v Lisburn
Ballycastle v Rasharkin
Sarsfield's v Glenavy