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Jim Nelson Cup - St Galls V St Johns.
Any clarity on events MR2?

Seen the photos on clubs webpage and FB but no result!! I'm guessing with the Johnnies being the best team in Belfast that they won.. but great idea for a cup and I hope it gets bigger and better!!

certainly if run during the Feis cup period then it would facilitate the Belfast ones... I'll get the score later

Seems we were winning by 2 before the johnnies got the game abandon !! That's an auld Sarsfields tactic  . So that makes us the best team in Belfast!!

Ref report will be interesting 

Sure there isn't a decent ref in the city😃😃😃

What players are actually missing for Antrim? Is it really that many?

McManus & Graffin are unavailable so you can't count them.
Shorty is injured.
There was only 4 Cushendall players to join the panel in a couple of weeks.
Who else is out there?

the three you mentioned were are arguably three of the best in Ulster.

No doubting that.
Two of them won't be playing for Antrim this season. I wanted to know what players are to come back this season?

dont no what the story with shorty is,  am of the opinion there will be 5/6 Dall men called up.  Also there's been a few players removed in days gone by.  Wait to that gets out   

Shortys still going through his rehab training, hes a brave bit off hurling as of yet. Was chatting to him the other night in the gym and hes doing all the rehab training and working his way through it all. Be summer time before hes hurling again most likely.

An op like that is a year before your back to where you should be
Can't see him even ready for club championship unfortunately
As for the PJ bashing I think we are being a bit harsh
There's some players in the panel not up to scratch and not committed
Another thing is a lot of them are very young
I attended all the matches when shorty and Mc Manus and hippy where that age and took 2 or 3 years to get up to county pace albeit against stiffer opposition

If you read PJ comments after these matches he isn't shying away from his role in all this
He is trying his best without some really good players
Let's not start being hypocritical and start berating him like some clowns on here did with KR

He is a bit blindsided about some of the players  he brought in and there effectiveness
Speaking of which did Liam watson travel to London as I didn't see him on the team


 

Well I suppose they tanked Carlow and we couldn't beat them so maybe no surprise
Still bad

New low

County lads on tour to London tomorrow
What's the predictions
I think we are due a performance

I was down today and the Limerick crew where top class
Shane MC naughton was outstanding
No shame to go down to a quality side like that
Hard luck cushendall

Good luck cushendall hope your bring it home

Id love nothing more to ref a match were players took the hard knocks in a game that's fair and move on.... That's the big difference... The Tipp and Cats and Galway men don't usually get drawn into creating a melee when is a hard tackle... Up North its a personal attack followed by fisty cuffs!!

Well would you call one player with 7 stitches in his hand another that had to go to hospital with concussion and another bad injury being soft
Those boys In the south are hard
And if they more robust as you say they the get plenty of soft frees when Antrim plays them
Don't try and draw comparisons between a hard tackle and out and out thuggery with a ref ignoring it all

Couldn't agree more skull
The only ref that has played it square recently with Kilkenny is Barry Kelly and they hate him for it
They are the best hurlers I ever seen but also the not behind in the dark arts
Antrim don't get away with the half of it
MR 2 that's the facts
For what it's worth any time I seen you officiating you where as fair as you could be
But you can't argue with the fact that in county hurling it's a bit lob sided at times
This subject came up because of what happened to our seniors last Sunday and by all accounts one team had no interest in playing the ball
It's up to the ref to protect players who are going out to play and the ref on Sunday didn't
All the points and counterpoints won't change that

OK lads, 2 days out.

How do we think Thursday will go?

Feeling bizarrely confident the Dall will do it.

very hard to call.  I think if cushendall can hit the ground running they have a chance
It's both terms first final so it could be down to who can keep their  composure

Imm going for Cusendall

Simon hurled his corner in fairness
I thought our full back did OK as well

were not going anywhere next year. We will be back in Div 1b again next season.

I hate to run the team down as im as keen an antrim supporter as the next man. Its hard to stand and watch garbage like that yesterday and not feel that its never going to change. All these great players we apparently have yet for some reason come county level they seem to go back a step each time? Doesn't make sense at all.

Player commitment

Look how our u21s treat inter county training
Look how some of our seniors treat it
Division 1players are married to it

It just doesn't stop at whatever collective training they are doing

Shefflin was no natural but he hit 400 balls every day of his hurling life

So to confirm we can't qualify ?

Westmeath Carlow and London are above us  so the question is
If Westmeath put out a week team against Carlow and they could do that and lose then they play each other again for promotion regardless if we beat London away
Still a mathematical l chance but I think In reality yesterday killed of any hope
Anyway div 2 is where we should be

I thought last week was just another mulligar day
But looking at today which was a game I thought we would win hands down we are way of the pace even for div2

Just no cohesion between the players or support link up play
We just won a ball and hit it down the field
The sending of didn't help
Can someone pleases tell me
Is ripping someone's off not a sending off
Watson got his tore off him today and the player stayed on the field
For MC falls sending off I never seen the second but the first was yellow
MC auley got suckerd into a reaction but I thought it was a bit harsh to send him off
We where getting no favours but on balance Carlow where good for the points
Played more as a team
Woody struggled on their  no 11 and MC greevy had a stinker
Thought stoogie was quiet and our Ff line where cleaned out
Young Connely tried when he came on in fairness

You are telling other people to move on.. Jesus wept
I think you need some help from someone qualified for the sort of condition you have
Just sit on the chair and let it all out