Quote from: Milltown Row2 on January 25, 2014, 05:46:17 PMQuote from: Bonamargy on January 25, 2014, 04:51:13 PMQuote from: Milltown Row2 on January 25, 2014, 04:43:42 PM
There's also no guarantee of winning the Antrim Intermediate also, as Glenariffe will also fancy themselves. I can see both sides to it and 9 years is a lot for a club to suffer in Championship, Antrim suffered 18 years before beating Down to get past the first round!!
Rossa will obviously fancy themselves and getting out of Ulster is easy enough for a team like Rossa, the semi final is the game that will decide if they have actually improved and again no guarantees that they will help the following year in senior championship as we were dicked in the first round and nearly relegated (luckily someone came back to steer the ship )
There will be a ripple effect though as it reduces the senior championship, maybe if they run a group system to generate an extra (hidding for us) game but if there are only 7 teams, Loughgiel, Dunloy, Cushendall, Clooney Gaels, Ballycastle St Johns, Naomh Gall then it devalues it a bit
Sarsfields are also up in division one, so automatically in the Senior championship
Clubs pick the Championship they want, has always been the case, Sarsfields have not won an Intermediate match in 7 odd years , they'll hardly want to play senior championship
Clubs can elect to play up levels if they wish, they are not allowed to choose to play a lower grade than their league. Division 1 is Senior, 2 is intermediate, 3 is junior, and 4 is the new junior B. Simple as that. Sarsfields are in the Senior championship. Fact!