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can Saul Mc Caughan hurl for the town?   Wasn't he in San Fran hurling for the summer?? or did he walk away (as usual)  after being looked after all summer?? 

wonder will they give Saul a few more £ to play this weekend

You seem to have it in for Saul.  I've never heard of him being paid to play for Ballycastle and think that is just bullshit.
I'd concede that sometimes his commitment to training etc isn't the greatest but he's a brilliant hurler and when he goes out to play a game he gives it everything.  He's only a young lad still 21? ish so plenty time for him to develop.

Saul can't play championship as he played in New York! Can only play in the league as far as I am aware.

Don't know about that.  Might depend on whether he transferred or was on a J1.  I'm assuming it was a J1 as there'd be restrictions about transferring back and forth in the same year. The rules on J1s\sanctions are a bit complicated but I don't think there's any distinction made about playing league or championship.  Completely open to correction!

And so:
Senior
Ballycastle v Rossa -         Ballycastle by 7
Loughgiel v Creggan -       Loughgiel by 15+
Dunloy v St Johns -           Dunloy by 5
Cloughmills v Cushendall - Cushendall by 15+

[Glenariffe sent them down with a last day upset win over Dunloy.]

Did they not restructure for Ballycastle a few years ago?

The last time Ballycastle went down in 2010 I think you'll find Glenariffe sent them down with a last day upset win over Dunloy.

Beyond that clubs voted on any other restructure.

Jesus don't mention that again 

Agent Humpy is in place :-)

Rossa 2-18 Town 2-15

To be fair that's good scoring from Rossa after the last few outings

[Ballycastle by at least 12]

Clanker might describe it perfectly! Ballycastle by at least 12

Got this badly wrong.

Management need sacked immediately.

Committee should also step down immediately.

I'm raging at this.  Relegated because of the disgraceful behaviour of some senior players and committee members.  Stabbed a decent man in the back and still got relegated.

No more than they deserve but our club deserves better.

Disgraceful!

Clooney & Creggan won the Intermediate which means they have to play senior for 5 (I think) years

[Town in good form at the minute with the new management team.]

Great game in prospect at Rossa tomo night. Town in good form at the minute with the new management team. Rossa not looking so good coming into this. Winner takes all in terms of league survival. I'll take a spin across and watch this one. Fairly confident of a ballycastle win.

I don't see how you work that out Usain.  Since Raymond was ousted they've played 2 teams that they'd played previously:
v Dunloy (May 14) 4 pt defeat
v Dunloy (Jul 27) 15 pt defeat

v Cloughmills (Apr 30) 10 pt win
v Cloughmills ( Aug 5) 9 pt win

So you could easily argue that they've gone back not improved.

I'd guess you're basing it on the fact that they've won their last couple of games but they've been against Cloughmills who haven't won a game all season and against Rossa who have been as you say " not looking so good coming into this".
So again I don't see any basis for thinking Ballycastle have improved.

I don't doubt that the Town will beat Rossa on Wednesday and avoid relegation but that's more down to the (lack of) quality of the opposition rather than the wonderful new management.

Well if you put it like that sir maybe they have went backways lol

Wednesday night will tell us more. Should be a clanker

Clanker might describe it perfectly!  Ballycastle by at least 12

Dunloy v Loughgiel on the other hand should be a clinker.  Loughgiel by 5

No. No relation as far as I know.  He's a minor.

[Town in good form at the minute with the new management team.]

Great game in prospect at Rossa tomo night. Town in good form at the minute with the new management team. Rossa not looking so good coming into this. Winner takes all in terms of league survival. I'll take a spin across and watch this one. Fairly confident of a ballycastle win.

I don't see how you work that out Usain.  Since Raymond was ousted they've played 2 teams that they'd played previously:
v Dunloy (May 14) 4 pt defeat
v Dunloy (Jul 27) 15 pt defeat

v Cloughmills (Apr 30) 10 pt win
v Cloughmills ( Aug 5) 9 pt win

So you could easily argue that they've gone back not improved.

I'd guess you're basing it on the fact that they've won their last couple of games but they've been against Cloughmills who haven't won a game all season and against Rossa who have been as you say " not looking so good coming into this".
So again I don't see any basis for thinking Ballycastle have improved.

I don't doubt that the Town will beat Rossa on Wednesday and avoid relegation but that's more down to the (lack of) quality of the opposition rather than the wonderful new management.

Listen the whole thing is a disaster - we either got relegated with wats were going or drastic measure of getting rid of manager gave us a glimmer of hope. Raymond got a bad deal but again the majority of it lies at lack of leadership in club that allowed the appointment in first place.
We might avoid relegation we might not - but either way big changes needed at our place which I'm not sure will happen. Players must deliver their side of deal now

Raymond certainly got a bad deal.  I'd go further.  He was stabbed in the back.  The reason nobody wanted the job was because everybody knew it would be a tough season with so many absentees, compounded by absence of county players and others who chose to stay away from training.  Relegation was always going to be between  us, Cloughmills, Rossa and possibly Ballygalget.  The vital games were coming up and as always when the going gets tough the tough get going - except in Ballycastle where they throw the rattles and blame the manager.

But it's OK now.  The new management, a Dunloy man (Dunloy men know how to win championships - they've racked up 11 since we last got one) and a local lad -(who was rejected as senior manager a couple of years ago) have  in just a day or two turned everything round. The players have picked up their rattles.   Relegation will now be avoided and another championship in the Town by the next AGM

MacUilin Abu

[this club gets back to were otvdeserves to be]

To put it simply , we haven't got the players anymore. If you look at the county final 2 years ago we only have , ryan McGarry , Matty , Neil , kb , Clarkey and James Mcshane still hurling . All boys here went away to work or travel for a year . Most of the boys that played against cdall the other night wouldn't start in a good reserve team , but fair play to them because they are the boys at training and what can the current manager do but work with what he has got . All the talk about Ronan is pure dribble in the previous comments , Ronan done a good job and left because of his business was suffering because of it . great to see so many people talking about the club but it's just a pittt it's not for the right reasons . Hopefully things will start to improve and this club gets back to were otvdeserves to be and competing with the other big teams ..

Agree with most of that though I'd give great credit to the boys going to training and sticiking at it while getting hammered.  Also to the manager who has worked with these boys and brought in some top quality coaching.  Pity some "first teamers" weren't there to take advantage of it.  Also the bit in bold - we don't deserve to be anywhere other than where we are and until players start playing for the jersey & and the club instead of their own big heads we won't deserve to be anywhere else.

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I meant to say ...

a more innocent age?

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I don't actually know Nag. I don't know how the managerial merry go round has gone this year so I was just asking the question.  As there's only really 3 Down clubs this could be I thought someone might know whether it was bullsh*t or not.

Any truth in the story that this is a Down team with an Antrim manager?
£10k pa
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