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I thought it was an incredible performance by Dunloy

Considering - it's December against a top class team who are seen as one of the fitness and most physically conditioned club teams ever.  Of course we would love to play the game in Casement Park in July but that is not how championships are played

Factor in
- County player Eoin O'Neill leaving the country for a year
- losing Woody, the mainstay of our defence for over a decade
- injury curtailing Decky Smyth involvement
- injury ruling out regular match winner Chrissy McMahon
- captain and legend Paul Shields missing from the starting line up

That's potentially a third of the team missing at the start but the lads that stepped in performed heroically

The county teams do seem to be well prepared and are generating good interest. But almost 3 months went past with NO fixtures for the rest of the girls left behind

The County board cancelled Feile last year as it clashed with a senior county fixture and I just fear the priorities are misplaced!

Good win for the junior camogie team in the All Ireland final

Two all irelands in two years for Antrim now. Some good work being done by the camogie board. U-16s lost a final last Sunday as well.Comfortably stayed in the senior championship as well this year.

majority of players have been idle all year, immediate success but will it be worth it?

Pretty sure there was a bye law that prevented the chairman from entering the field of play to stop a championship game going to free kicks - but common sense prevailed

Sat 11th - bring it forward 1 day

Surely supporters can already make both games.

Camogie over at 3.

Leaves 2.5 - hours to get to din silly.....

Great idea. Sure the girls can just swap ends at half time and not worry about actually taking a 15 minute break or indeed water breaks.  Supporters can pay into the event but walk out immediately after the game, forget the presentation or even the main sporting event they have purchased a ticket for.

If they park inside the grounds, don't stop for anything to eat  and race up the roads at dangerous speeds they could absolutely take both games in

No idea what all the fuss is about

Decision making was poor yesterday, Darren has made great strides in this aspect of the game but will take more work from many more people

I go to loads of underage games and I see mentors shouting instructions to the man in possession all the time - this is the problem, we aren't coaching our players to make decisions for themselves on the pitch.  What we should be doing (imho) is letting the players make their own decisions on the pitch and providing/discussing learnings after

As I say that is just a small piece of a much bigger jigsaw that involves the number/quality of coaches, availability of suitable games, school ties, third level ed and development squads

Can I ask those who support the cessation of all activities - why?

I understand Covid is on the rise, but to date there has been no linkage between outdoor participation in sport to the transmission of the virus.  Ergo cancelling sport will have no beneficial impact on the reduction of the spread!

Stopping youth sport will have a significant detrimental impact on the physical, social & emotional well being of our children.  Make no mistake, the season is over, for many children GAA would be the only structured physical activity they would get at this time of the year.

In my mind this was purely a PR move to counter the negative publicity generated recently.  Everyone knew the problem was the celebrations not the sport but out with the bath water went baby and all.

[A lot of injury time but tbf to the ref a lot of Rossa players seemed to go down at different stages throughout the game!]

Fair play to the lads stuck at it when it looked dead and gone!

A lot of injury time but tbf to the ref a lot of Rossa players seemed to go down at different stages throughout the game!

Ronan Molloy put in an exhibition and the equalising score from Chrissy McMahon was a brilliant score!

Been a great Championship, extremely competitive group with 4 good teams!

So there was that amount of stoppages in the 2nd half? Seems odd.

I didn't time it, ones around me had it 9.5 minutes over.

Enjoyable game, Rossa hurled well. Great finale by our lads

Antrim Twitter had a score up at 42 minutes into the second half and it wasn't the final score!

Maybe, the number of times Rossa men went down was equally questionable

So there was that amount of stoppages in the 2nd half. Is that what you are saying? I've never seen nor heard of that amount of time being added on to a half without there being a very serious injury.

As I say I wasn't timing it and it did seem to run on, but Rossa did try and time waste by going down 'injured' on about a dozen occasions.

With the water break it is impossible to time games now as a supporter! Game is up when the ref calls for the ball

[A lot of injury time but tbf to the ref a lot of Rossa players seemed to go down at different stages throughout the game!]

Fair play to the lads stuck at it when it looked dead and gone!

A lot of injury time but tbf to the ref a lot of Rossa players seemed to go down at different stages throughout the game!

Ronan Molloy put in an exhibition and the equalising score from Chrissy McMahon was a brilliant score!

Been a great Championship, extremely competitive group with 4 good teams!

So there was that amount of stoppages in the 2nd half? Seems odd.

I didn't time it, ones around me had it 9.5 minutes over.

Enjoyable game, Rossa hurled well. Great finale by our lads

Antrim Twitter had a score up at 42 minutes into the second half and it wasn't the final score!

Maybe, the number of times Rossa men went down was equally questionable

[A lot of injury time but tbf to the ref a lot of Rossa players seemed to go down at different stages throughout the game!]

Fair play to the lads stuck at it when it looked dead and gone!

A lot of injury time but tbf to the ref a lot of Rossa players seemed to go down at different stages throughout the game!

Ronan Molloy put in an exhibition and the equalising score from Chrissy McMahon was a brilliant score!

Been a great Championship, extremely competitive group with 4 good teams!

So there was that amount of stoppages in the 2nd half? Seems odd.

I didn't time it, ones around me had it 9.5 minutes over.

Enjoyable game, Rossa hurled well. Great finale by our lads

Fair play to the lads stuck at it when it looked dead and gone!

A lot of injury time but tbf to the ref a lot of Rossa players seemed to go down at different stages throughout the game!

Ronan Molloy put in an exhibition and the equalising score from Chrissy McMahon was a brilliant score!

Been a great Championship, extremely competitive group with 4 good teams!

School argument doesn't stack up, that's an indoor activity over 30 hours a week with c30 children in a confined space. 

GAA is groups of 10 for 1 hour per week outdoor!

Family exercise is grand but doesn't not for developing social skills, and as I have said, many will walk away and so the clubs will suffer.

I'm disappointed the attitude of the GAA has largely been - it will be difficult so let's not bother.

So you think Children will be pressurised into returning but seniors competing for the volunteer cup won't!

Should parents not have the same right of choice as the seniors?

Again the science shows adults to adult transmission at a much higher rate than any form of transmission involving Children! If we return to lockdown it is much more likely to be the result of international travel and community transmission within the adult population

Yet the solution is to deny children the opportunity for outside exercise and play!

Surely then by that logic - no teams should be going back!

I would actually accept that argument over the prioritisation of adult competition give adult to adult transmission has a far higher occurrence rate