Antrim Football Thread

[Milltown Row2]

What were the tactics today? How did Cargin approach it? Defensively?

[Sportacus]

I've seen fitter dads & lads teams. Men against boys.

[BelSaft]

What were the tactics today? How did Cargin approach it? Defensively?

Strange enough tactics from RD. 6 down with 4 minutes to go and still playing with 3 sweepers. I wouldn't say the referee was kind to Canavan's either. Holding off the ball is a free in my book?

[JimStynes]

Very disappointed in Cargin today. They looked a mile off EC and well behind in terms of power and fitness. Worrying for our club scene that we are that far behind!

[BrendanAntrim]

What were the tactics today? How did Cargin approach it? Defensively?

Strange enough tactics from RD. 6 down with 4 minutes to go and still playing with 3 sweepers. I wouldn't say the referee was kind to Canavan's either. Holding off the ball is a free in my book?

The free against Kevin O'B was wrong call, I was standing right behind it and Canavan was holding / pulling as much as KOBO was. But it's irrelevant, there was a mile between the teams all afternoon.

[Spike]

Very rusty performance from Cargin? EC far sharper.  Perhaps the gap between final and today too large?    Ec wel worth their victory though canavans and harte git a lot of protection from the man in the middle.  Set the scene in 1st 5 minutes.  Cargin dont seem to be able to adapt to the style of the ref in ulster.  Few fellas looked off the pace as well with unforced handling errors. 

Ballymena were terribly unlucky yesterday. Better side and horrible way to lose

[imtommygunn]

Rasharkin beat in the hurling too. Bad weekend in Ulster unfortunately 

[BelSaft]

Very rusty performance from Cargin? EC far sharper.  Perhaps the gap between final and today too large?    Ec wel worth their victory though canavans and harte git a lot of protection from the man in the middle.  Set the scene in 1st 5 minutes.  Cargin dont seem to be able to adapt to the style of the ref in ulster.  Few fellas looked off the pace as well with unforced handling errors. 

Ballymena were terribly unlucky yesterday. Better side and horrible way to lose

You mean the refs in Ulster actually play by the rules?

[Hoof Hearted]

What were the tactics today? How did Cargin approach it? Defensively?

Strange enough tactics from RD. 6 down with 4 minutes to go and still playing with 3 sweepers. I wouldn't say the referee was kind to Canavan's either. Holding off the ball is a free in my book?

Was standing at the wire and within earshot of devlin and Muldoon and to be fair they were telling the players to push
up. Not sure why they didn't.

[Sportacus]

What were the tactics today? How did Cargin approach it? Defensively?

Strange enough tactics from RD. 6 down with 4 minutes to go and still playing with 3 sweepers. I wouldn't say the referee was kind to Canavan's either. Holding off the ball is a free in my book?

Was standing at the wire and within earshot of devlin and Muldoon and to be fair they were telling the players to push
up. Not sure why they didn't.

Because they were out of breath.  Couldn't believe the gap in fitness.

[ClubScene13]

Big fish, small pond

[Milltown Row2]

Hopefully they'll move the championship final a bit later in the year to help with the rustiness

Surprised that RD hadn't them playing challenge games leading up to the game..

Looking at EC's games this year they had to eek out wins. So probably better battle hardened

[Silver hill]

If Cargin want to go further than first round exits in ulster every year then they have to change their approach. Way too defensively minded and only interested in containment instead of creating enough chances to actually win the game.
Errigal won pulling up because they scored 15 times and had maybe another 10-12 wides. Cargin score 8, only a few from play and less than 5 wides. That will never be good enough at that level. Handling was atrocious as well.

[Duine Inteacht Eile]

Hard luck Cargin.

Not much else worth saying about it.

[antrimman667]

If Cargin want to go further than first round exits in ulster every year then they have to change their approach. Way too defensively minded and only interested in containment instead of creating enough chances to actually win the game.
Errigal won pulling up because they scored 15 times and had maybe another 10-12 wides. Cargin score 8, only a few from play and less than 5 wides. That will never be good enough at that level. Handling was atrocious as well.

Completely agree they do not have the killer instinct in ulster