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Good Luck to PJ in his new position
He's the new Antrim manager so time to get right behind him
I read his article in the Irish News today and he's deffo going to give it his best shot and get all our best players on board
I hope all our good players get right behind him
With shorty out and MC Manus taking a sabatical its gonna be tough going for first year so we need to be patient
I hope if things are tough going that we won't be hearing any snide remarks like the last manager got

Antrim Abu

It's official
Dunloy getting final
Throw in 3 o clock

Some interesting and possible match ups to ponder for the county final;
Graffin v Clarke
McCambridge v Mccaughern
Mcauley v McManus (fascinating)
Matty Donnelly v Carson
Dallas v C. McNaughton

Could be interesting enough!!! One thought... 2 of the best defenders in the county from Cushendal v 2 of the most exciting forwards in the county from Ballycastle.
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I think this will be a closer final than predictions
Wasn't that impressed with dall inside forward line today although I think natty done enough in the last 5 minutes to warrant a starting place
MC Cambridge stood up today when the dall was looking for leaders and is becoming one the top players in the county
But the Ballycastle lads seem to be responding to R Donnelly and have some fine hurlers to
LG look like they are due some reconstruction over the next two years ]

I was saying the same thing regarding the softening of attitudes. Last thing we need here is another bitching session. I had hoped that the weekends events might have had an effect that brought people together again.

Some people just can't help themselves
Best to turn a blind eye

SG do you know if PJ put his name forward for the county job
I have heard nothing on the subject for weeks

There's no doubt we started bad on Sunday.  As we did the week before against St Galls.  By my clock there was 28 mins left to play.  5 points is 5 points granted.  But we weren't dead and buried like some have suggested.     I'd expect more from us this weekend.  Thank god Hugh and paddy are ok, puts things into perspective. Another note, the appointment of a new county manager has went stale.  Any more chat of this.  Or is it PJs when he decides he wants it or not?

The was still a a half game to play for sure so we will never know
It wasn't the 5 points I was thinking of it was the one point from play in 30 minutes of hurling
Dall defence looked more stable and up front Eddie was forced forced to shoot out on the wings with a man on usually
Graffan had watson in his pocket like he does with most forwards
I personally couldn't see a way back if the game continued
Everything is on reset now and I would expect I tighter game with LG with a bit more energy
But my money is on cusendall
No one more surprised than me to say that
LG where my favourites up to last week

Is a week long enough for LG to sort out all that was wrong
The only difference now is LG know what's coming down the tracks
CDall got all there match ups right and the sweeper was working a treat
LG always relied on creating space for there forwards but that did happen
The looked a bit dead on there feet compared to Dall

Poor willie he doesn't know what way to turn now
Snp in Scotland getting landslide majority
New labour leader has Irish republican sympathies
And now this

Wait to we see the first hurling match on coronation street

There only so much dunloy can do with the traffic
We can't phone every attender at there house and ask then which way are they coming in
There should be a notice on our  county website that all glens traffic access the village from Logan's or glarryford
That would help

Yeah, well done to all involved. Stewards did a good job clearing the way too.

Any updates SIE?

Paudie McShane posted earlier on Facebook that he has had stents put in and on the mend.

Brilliant news,

great stuff. One of his daughters has put up on Facebook that's he's on the mend.

great news

Match to be played next Sunday at 1pm in Dunloy.

Played from the start??

as far as I know the game was abandoned, not suspended. Therefore the game is void. It has been "re-fixed" for next Sunday.

LOL
Is that what you'd prefer??

We're hoping you would tell us that MR2. Ask Mark and get back to us all.

Is there a time factor before game needs to be played from start Or from when game stopped!

the second half had only started 4 or 5 minutes max

i would say it will all go back to zero. there's no way there will only play one half next sunday will there

Dunloy posters tonight should praise the referee. He could have put 2 of them on the line if the notion had took him. I thought he did a really good job all things considered. I'm a neutral.

sorry JJ your not sounding very neutral from here

Ballycastle well worth the win tonight. Saul was excellent and if he had a pair of proper boots on and stopped falling over he would have scored even more. As for the referee he tried to let the game flow and got most things right although the Dunloy number 6 should have seen red. If the officials see you strike someone off the ball how can it not be red?

But what did they see? The linesman who spoke to Collie motioned that it was a shoulder charge in the back off the ball, was there some before it and that was the outcome? I don't know, maybe North_antrim_hound had a better view on it

i didn't see it as i was following the ball
its amazing the amount of posters on here seen it as the ball was at the other end, when he got up they shook hands which would suggest no malice but i didn't see it
i wonder if he deserved red was it worse than J Coen did or would Hanbury did to callinan

Also glad I made the journey. It was a very enjoyable game and the best team definitely won. Fair play to Ballycastle after coming back from a very strong Dunloy start.

After the first 15 minutes, Ballycastle started to win their own puck outs, which were varied and ensured they won possession and once they had it they had great outlets in Saul and Clarke. Both had good games but Saul the more effective although Clarke won plenty of ball at the end of the second half when they needed him too.

Dunloy mustn't have had much faith in their bench. They had nobody effective in that Half Forward line. The Ballycastle Half Back line were dominating and from then that's were their inside forwards were getting the ball but there wasn't any changes or even positional changes from what I could notice, which left Dunloy'd FBs badly exposed.

The game was won in a few places. Ballycastle staying in the game in the first half. Ballycastle's dominance in the HB line. Saul and Clarke's pace and ability to take a score but I think they won the game mostly in their own half. The tackling from their forward line was immense and fair play to them. It would be nice to see them win.

Regarding Collie McKnight, I though he had a solid game and controlled it well. He used his umpires and linesmen when they were needed. McKeague could have walked. I thought he got the tackle on McAuley that led to Dunloy's second goal spot on when many refs might have given a free. McKnight certainly did not lose that game for Dunloy. If you are looking to refs, then you are not looking in the mirror.

ok here is  my real opinion
like i said earlier he wasn't the winning or losing of the game and as i said earlier ballycastle half back line for our puc outs was the difference
the  ref  was very one sided the whole way through and has nothing to do with me looking in the mirror ( what a stupid statement )
I could go into all the bad decisions but i simply lost count
call it sour grapes or looking in the mirror or what ever
he was absolutely  brutal for dunloy and if it had of been a tighter game then his input would have a big bearing on it
say what you want that's the facts
terrible performance

Don't tell people to call it sour grapes, nah. They probably will.

thats up to them
despite the ref being poor he didn't beat us, ballycastle did by playing better and its great to see them in a county final
I know they will go in as underdogs whoever they play but it would be good for the county if they won it
throw in the johnnies performance against the dall its good to see other clubs on the up