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#226
Antrim / Re: ANTRIM HURLING
January 25, 2014, 07:20:48 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on January 25, 2014, 05:46:17 PM
Quote from: Bonamargy on January 25, 2014, 04:51:13 PM
Quote 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!
#227
Antrim / Re: ANTRIM HURLING
January 25, 2014, 04:51:13 PM
Quote 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
#228
Antrim / Re: ANTRIM HURLING
January 25, 2014, 01:17:39 PM
I see on the Antrim guestbook that Rossa have decided to enter the intermediate championship this year. Bit of a surprise?  Glenariff and Cloughmills dropping down to Intermediate as well
#229
Antrim / Re: ANTRIM HURLING
January 14, 2014, 10:41:14 PM
I think the shams will win by about 5 points. Have a guess at 3-11 to 2-09
#230
Antrim / Re: ANTRIM HURLING
January 04, 2014, 07:28:16 PM
There is going to be a North Antrim league. Think all the division 1 and 2 teams from North Antrim have agreed to play (not Loughgiel as they have bigger fish to fry). Will be good to get competitive games up and running before the County leagues start at the beginning of April.
#231
Antrim / Re: ANTRIM HURLING
December 11, 2013, 09:26:57 PM
Quote from: johnneycool on December 11, 2013, 08:54:40 AM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 11, 2013, 08:45:36 AM
Quote from: Tony Baloney on December 10, 2013, 11:07:12 PM
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 10, 2013, 10:40:17 PM
Quote from: Jeepers Creepers on December 10, 2013, 10:14:11 PM
So in theory you could finish 5th and win the league or finish last and still stay up?

Finish 5th ??
I think he means at the cut off point where it splits in 2.

I'm easily confused but top five which is 10th, 9th, 8th, 7th, 6th the bottom 4 here will play off to meet the top team in final? Has that been worked out yet? 9th plays 6th, 8th plays 7th?

eh?

Is there league playoff now??

I thought it was  just a straight 9 game first phase and then split where you'd get another 4 games against the other teams in your section. The top team in the top section wins the league.
The bottom two teams in the bottom section get relegated??

Is it more complicated than that?

????? Teams play each other once (9 games) then splits into to sections of 5, top 5 will play for league title and bottom 5 will be in a relegation battle with 2 going down.  the teams play the other 4 teams in their section again once (now total of 13 games) points are NOT reset to zero after the first 9 games. No playoffs!!  Makes it easier for the county to arrange club games around the new Leinster championship. Also makes all the games in the new division 1 more competitive and meaningful