Cill Dara v Aontroim - AI Football Qualifier 26/06/10

[DuffleKing]

have antrim beaten anyone of note?

Have kildare beaten anyone of note in championship football?

Some people have asked who have we beat of significance. Maybe you should cast your mind back 2 years... Donegal, Cavan, rattling Kerry and drawing with Kildare is pretty big for antrim

Noone then?

Baker is Antrim's most successful manager since about 1912.  Simple as that.

Better than the Ulster winning teams in the 40s?

[Donnellys Hollow]

Big Willie Heffernan is a legend.

There's only going to be one winner when you take on the big Nurney monster!

[imtommygunn]

Some people have asked who have we beat of significance. Maybe you should cast your mind back 2 years... Donegal, Cavan, rattling Kerry and drawing with Kildare is pretty big for antrim

Noone then?

Define significance DK?(or maybe another question is who defines significant - you?) We have beaten teams who were considered of significance relative to us under Baker yes and lots of them. Last year beating anyone was beating someone of significance. We went from winning no games to drawing with regular quarter finalists, getting to an ulster final and winning promotion twice in two years.

[bannside]

All fair enough ITG, but Saturday night as bad as we seen for a long time. Bereft of ideas, wrong gameplan, etc.

No doubt Baker/Conway have taken things on, but I would say that with the players at our disposal, the all -ireland club champions, the new training facilities available that Jody, Culbert and others never had access to, and the best generation of players we have had for some while, that progress was ineviitable.

If Baker/Conway stay, and they deserve to, I think their greatest contribution will be to sustain our position/ranking as a division two team.

Frankly I think St Galls could have won most of the matches in Division three, and definitely division four, so lets keep the lid on what has been achieved, and if anything stimulate a bit of constructive debate/interest in how we dont get to see more major disapointments like Saturday night, or the league final, or the majority of the mismatch against Tyrone.

On what I see, if we are still in division two in ten months, then I will be pleasantly surprised, but certainly it wont happen on Saturday nights showing.

Priority one must be to bulk the squad up physically. In division two the intensity increases, and a nice running style will not prevail in that environment.

Maybe time to move this to the Antrim thread.

[imtommygunn]

To be honest I would concur with most of what you said BS.

I was just trying to put some context on Baker's reign and people assessing it because we haven't beat a big gun yet.

We build by going at teams and playing a HF line. That is the fundamental thing we must do. We have played for too long with no half forward line.

Saturday night was crap. Not the fact we got beat but the nature of the defeat. No-one could argue that.

Anyway, rant over.

[A Quinn Martin Production]

Moved my post to the Antrim board

[Donnellys Hollow]

McGeeney post match interview:

http://www.kfmradio.com/kfm-podcasting/sport-podcasts/reaction-kieran-mcgeeney-3-7-10.html

[Dinny Breen]

Beaten to the punch

[Donnellys Hollow]

snap