Antrim Football Thread

[bannside]

Just a severe shortage of males born around 2003 and 2004 CB. Thankfully the numbers reverted to higher levels thereafter. Its just a blip, nothing else to see.

[Saffrongael]

Are Glenravel an amalgamated team ? Fair few out of towners?

[Saffron71]

Glenravel tend to have alot of lads from the general North Antrim area playing for them including Cushendall, Glenariffe, Glenarm, Loughgeil and Cushendun due to these clubs being Hurling only clubs.  I also see that Ballymena didn't field against St Galls which would maybe mean that a few Ballymena lads might have got a sanction to play at Glenravel for U21 if they couldn't field themselves.

[Duine Inteacht Eile]

Surely a good league run and a respectable performance in ulster is a low enough bar to set?

What is a respectable performance in Ulster, in your view?
Before we start setting low bars etc.

[Spike]

The bar is resting on the ground at the moment.  Right where you want it.

[Milltown Row2]

The bar is resting on the ground at the moment.  Right where you want it.

Div4 would be the ground?

[Spike]

In your haste to answer you've become confuaed in the difference between expectation and reality.   

[bannside]

Google search gaa counties by ranking 2024.

The two charts I saw have Antrim at 17th and 19th.

We've seen them a lot lower than this in the past. If we could jump another three or four places that would be fantastic progress.

[Milltown Row2]

In your haste to answer you've become confuaed in the difference between expectation and reality.   

There is a question mark there, so it's a question not an answer, carry on

[Spike]

Happy to go with progress.

[Duine Inteacht Eile]

The bar is resting on the ground at the moment.  Right where you want it.

We will likely lose to Armagh, the current All Ireland champions. I imagine McEntee will be doing what he can to win that game but chances are they are better than us. Is that how we should really be judged?

[Spike]

Its our only proper way of testing.  Then the league.


To say to andy he has a free pass to lose by whatever is all wrong. 

[bannside]

So what would be an acceptable level of performance against Armagh in next year's cship look like?

[ONeill]

Don't let the fcukers move ye outta Corrigan.

[BigGreenField]

So what would be an acceptable level of performance against Armagh in next year's cship look like?

Last time out vs Armagh I think it was 2 points scored after 30 mins (with the wind?) a distinct lack of physicality across the park but most noticeably in the forwards who had no interest in competing for ball unless it was delivered on a plate. Armagh sauntered forward at half pace to score. Success this time is in the performance not the result or even the score line - how long can Armagh be made to go before running the bench. Not inspirational but where it's at (unless an early melee and some helpful red cards).

McEntee has improved the teams resilience, physical ability and a bit of grit - Fermanagh away should have been a marker to kick on to a final at Croke Park however it didn't because a question mark remains in attack, some talent but a lack of intelligent play. Not clear to me who the onfield general is directing the attack and for a team with some great options as "bears in the square" there is a refusal to kick the ball to the forwards (not until they are double marked), the attack is ponderous and against decent defence's hasn't the guile or out and out pace to break them down, a kicking game needs to develop going forward.

Hoping players coming back from injury provide the missing pieces, failing that perhaps the new rules might bail out. Either way mid table Div 3 is where it's at.

At a county level the likes of Clare and Offaly have shown great work - spread the net wide for s&c training (huge numbers at each age grade rather than narrow dev squads) and build a culture of physical development, focus on getting clubs to coach the basics with some stick around  passing assessment of coaching structures in a club, heavy handed but needed.

There was a pow wow led by county coaching officer 18(?) months ago after county minors on the wrong end of a heavy score, has a peep been heard from that.