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I think it's the guy O Callaghan who has all saints playing the way they are,plus the older players in the squad seem to have a big say behind the scenes regarding the set up,not to many listen to what the Baker shouts which is mostly abuse

Are they allegedly playing well? I saw them tonight, fist passing the ball to eachother along the midfield line back and forward, barely ever kicking the ball and conceding every single kickout. If this is playing well I give up.

They've kicked 1-13 without kicking a ball and hand passing across the 65? Did mcnabb move the Cargin nets to the middle of the pitch or how did they score?

14 scores is more than any team have got against Cargin so far, so that is mighty impressive if they were all fisted over from their own 65 

I think it's the guy O Callaghan who has all saints playing the way they are,plus the older players in the squad seem to have a big say behind the scenes regarding the set up,not to many listen to what the Baker shouts which is mostly abuse

Are they allegedly playing well? I saw them tonight, fist passing the ball to eachother along the midfield line back and forward, barely ever kicking the ball and conceding every single kickout. If this is playing well I give up.

If that's the criteria you have basically described every football team in the county/ country.

Yep, pretty sure that would be a good description of the Ulster Final the other day

TNN have beaten the 3 worst teams in the league, Drew with a struggling Lamh Dearg and got hammered by All Saints and Brigids before they pipped Galls last night. Lets just say the money they are forking on Jackman, i thought they would have shown more signs of Progression. Though will still stay up as Moneyglass, Glenravel, Aldergrove and Endas are awful at the moment

I will judge what progression Jackman has made once the 4 or 5 starters from the panel are back available.

He is doing a good job with what he has at the minute and we've had some good results despite those players missing.

And it won't be a judgement based on whatever made up number you have in your head for what he is being paid.

Níl a fhios agaim indeed.....

The draw for Tailteann Cup is on this afternoon, we are second seeds.

From the first seeded teams I hope we don't get Down again, be even happier with Kildare, especially if we play them in Corrigan. Fermanagh would be a good Seed 1 team to get too.

All of which means we will probably get Down!

The only one you didn't mention....Sligo!

Plus Wexford and Tipp.

A substantial boost to the senior panel going by that press release.

Tbh I thought we were a fair bit more wasteful than them, and but for our wastage count in front if goals we would have been celebrating a solid victory. (Don't forget they beat us out the gate last year).

The wastage stat in front of goals is a cause for concern, but in many cases the opportunity was presented on the back of good link up play and as we all know, there's days they go on the scoreboard, and days they don't. Dommo hit the crossbar when a goal would have levelled it, and I thought if that had gone in, we could have gone on to claim both points.

Not concerned too much, I do believe we can retain our Div 3 status and that's the first Box ticked for the season.

The referee was Offaly bad, ridiculous that a ref was appointed from a county with a clear interest in the outcome of the match.

We made that joke about the ref as well yesterday!!

But it was true.

And the wastefulness in front of goal can happen, but missing easy frees is less forgivable.

I know Byrne missed one in the second half but there were 3 easy ones (for him) he should have taken before that, that you just knew weren't going to be close.

You usually know if a free taker is going to be on his game from the first one and yesterday the change to Byrne taking them should have been made sooner.

Wouldn't say turgid Kidder, that was indeed the case last week in Sligo, but yesterday I thought we had a proper go, and died with our boots on.

Players working their way into squad/team such as Kavan Keenan and last year's newbies Colm McLarnon and Ronan Boyle all did well yesterday, amongst our better performers.

On yesterday's display we should have enough to beat Wicklow in our last game  and anything we get against Clare (away) is a bonus.

To miss so many scorable frees was criminal yesterday.

Couple those with the 2 missed goal chances and we could have easily won that game.

Westmeath were no great shakes but they knew in the second half all they had to do was keep calm and maintain their margin without too much exertion as they had that gap due to our misses.

Most 2nd year minors won't be playing senior,they'll be playing res unless they are like C Johnson from cargin,which I don't think there are

I accept that but if the option is there, then allowances have to be made for it.

Last year minors are allowed to play senior, minor fixtures to be moved to midweek though not confirmed which day.

Fixtures due out on Thursday evening/Friday morning, 9 whole days before the first game.

If (2nd year) minors can play senior and there needs to be 48 hours between games then surely minor games have to be Friday, to account for Sunday/Wednesday for Senior.

Is that not the way it used to be years ago, with U16 then on a Tuesday night?

You would think every year when this comes up that this was the first time they ever had to sort fixtures.

LGFA have managed to get their full fixture schedule right down to U6 released and the relevant ones posted on the county website.

His home club and Portglenone are a stones throw apart so not really a reason him living in pg1. Like a creggan player transferring to TNN because they live in Randalstown

The transfer was for other reasons, as already stated by a few.

My point was he picked the club that was closest to him.

Should he have transferred to a further away club?

At least they aren't likely to play each other, as opposed to transferring to another club in the same county.

And there have been a few in the last 10-15 years have made that switch (boke!) from TNN to Creggan and vice versa because of similar reasons to Lynn.

28 out of 29 and I'd say a fair chance that number 29 goes to school in belfast. Just feels a bit off.

28 out of 29 and I'd say a fair chance that number 29 goes to school in belfast. Just feels a bit off.

The panel that was named at the start of the year was the same set of girls so it hasn't changed.

It looked ridiculous at the time as well.

Moneyglass withdrew all their minors so that left a few spaces for more Belfast based players.

Still a surprise that the likes of Cargin or Glenariffe don't have any representation as they were strong at U16 last year, but then again, neither would have a coach on the panel so there you go.

The U16s are not much better, with 21 Belfast and 9 elsewhere.

He lives in PG1 doesn't he, now he is back from London.

Pretty sure there was a fall out with Greenlough before he went there, so bridges burned and as someone said before, they aren't losing any sleep over him not returning there.

So I see no issue in it at all.

Don't know enough about the keeper involved to know if he had a fall out or not.

[Although there is always a strong bias towards city players with underage squads in LGFA anyway.]

This just randomly popped up on my social media. Antrim minor ladies playing tonight and of a panel of 29 there are 28 city and one glenavy. Something doesn't seem right there?

Fall out over the Minor Final last year being played on the same day Moneyglass Senior Ladies were playing in Ulster.

So the MG girls have left the panel this year.

Same goes for the Senior Ladies, apart from the O'Neill sisters who aren't available all the time as they have their studies to focus on this year so I believe will be dropping in and out.

All fair enough but unfortunate timing for the Senior Ladies after reaching Div 3 for the first time.

Although there is always a strong bias towards city players with underage squads in LGFA anyway.

It usually depends where the management team is from, sure Randalstown will be able to balance the books with the minor hurlers 

I take it you are referring to the 3 hurlers that were involved last year that preceded the change of management??

Don't see any more faces added to them to boost the numbers.

I get what you mean about location of the management teams but I was more meaning at school age it definitely works in their favour as most of the boys and girls, while maybe not at the same club, go to school together so are a lot more familiar with each other, as well as the coaches who know most on a first name basis.

I suppose it works the same for hurling/camogie and north Antrim, as the majority go to one of 3 or 4 schools and the coaches are north Antrim based.

That just seems to be the bias each way between big ball and small ball panels.

This just randomly popped up on my social media. Antrim minor ladies playing tonight and of a panel of 29 there are 28 city and one glenavy. Something doesn't seem right there?

Fall out over the Minor Final last year being played on the same day Moneyglass Senior Ladies were playing in Ulster.

So the MG girls have left the panel this year.

Same goes for the Senior Ladies, apart from the O'Neill sisters who aren't available all the time as they have their studies to focus on this year so I believe will be dropping in and out.

All fair enough but unfortunate timing for the Senior Ladies after reaching Div 3 for the first time.

Although there is always a strong bias towards city players with underage squads in LGFA anyway.