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Really but not again wholly unexpected unfortunately.

Hard to see where to go from here.

I wonder what will come out of the strategic review 

That's the thing about strategic reviews, they are dependent on who is writing them and who is reading them. Here's my strategic review, we still haven't upped our game at inter county under age level.

Do you think we (antrim players) prefer the club over the county? Because, even at underage, the best players are still not all involved, and that's not down to the mentors

Was on the way back from a game yesterday and had RTE radio 1 on, the section before the start of the Ulster final they wanted to talk about the hurling the night before and how great the game was, John Mullane though had other ideas and got tore into RTE, which is his current employer on the radio, lets face it his isnt suited for TV  (just a joke John btw, mine isnt great either)

He put his argument across very well and Des and Marie were a bit flustered, John also pointed out that there was very little coming from the players and other pundits. You can argue that its unknown that a game will turn out like it did the other night but with only so many able to watch it or go, it left a lot of people missing out on it.

Surely its time for a red button on the screen that allows you to shift to any game that is being broadcasted by RTE anyways, for the likes of the Munster championship they will fill their grounds for most games, so it won't have a pull on numbers at the game.

If you get a chance, listening to John's commentary, its brilliant, serious passion

Prefer theater of streams 

Surely it is so easy for yer doll to prove Gadd and Netflix wrong...look no 9 month prison sentence...sue papers incoming?

Watched the interview and thought she was a bit mental. Stated she hadn't watch the show but knew a fair bit about it.

She might have had the 9 months suspended, she just states she never went to prison.

One today there- we had a kickout, Oisin O'Neill won it and was fouled and from the free he played the ball back to the goalkeeper. Is that allowed or should it have been blown up as no one else had touched the ball?

This is the problem, players fans and supporters not knowing simple rules...

Though I'll throw one at you. Player claims a kick out mark, ref blows for Mark, player claims mark, player plays it back to keeper, foul or not?

MR2, was coaching the U10's the other night and one of them just pulled the sliotar out of another's hand during the game at the end .  I called a free and the wee bollox questioned me, but now I'm not sure if I was right. 

Was he right?

Same as football, you can't snatch the ball out of another players hands.

Embarrassing watching Antrim at home the venue straight from the 1940's.

Have you been?

Arsenal's record at Utd has been dreadful these last few years..

But hey ho, will mean nowt as Spurs are rubbish

4 wins here... crazy

Rory's putter has heated up nicely.

Yeah he's been very steady too no major mistake (so far). If he cuts those out he'll contend hopefully a good omen for next week. Schauffele has lost the plot a bit here!!

The hype will go into overdrive this week

Yeah, this four trick pony will undoubtedly miss the cut at the next major...

Sleep well knowing Rory is Irelands best golfer

Well it's the lodges/villas I meant. I wouldn't be one for the aul tent now. Fond of my air con and instant hot water. Iberian finals are in Salou next Saturday with a bank holiday on the Monday so we're going down and staying for a few days.

Sanguli is the best Eurocamp I've been to by a fair bit. Class spot!!

Heading to Cambrils this year and interested to see how it compares to Marina di Venezia. 

Cambrils is fantastic. Been 5 times. Kids love it.

Would love to have my kids that age again to go back.. Cambrills was excellent

Ref didn't want to risk being in position of giving away a dodgy free for a potential winner.

Considering the quality of some of the scores, I found the whole thing very boring.

10 seconds, I'll not hold him on that with how defensive they'd have played that ball!

On a positive I backed the draw so fair play ref!

A missed free isn't. And that's the point, you shouldn't be looking at the outcome.
The penalty for committing a foul near your own goal is that the opposition is presented with a scoring opportunity (a free). They are not given a score, just the opportunity to get one. The onus is entirely on them to capitalise on that. If they miss it, tough luck.
The advantage rule should allow them to make use of a better opportunity if it presents itself but again, the onus should be entirely on them to capitalise on it and if they miss it, tough luck.

For me, the main reason for the advantage rule is so that the awarding of a free kick is not a punishment to the fouled team.

And of course it's my opinion.

From a personal perspective from playing as a defender for most of my playing days I'd have same opinion.

That said when I started to play up front I'd be looking my advantage, in essence my cake and eat it attitude.

But the rules are the rules.. lots of them need looked at tweaked to help..

I'd love a rule that would wipe out slabbering, but hey can't fix that side of things

The logic is that you don't get 2 attempts at a shot for a foul. You get 1.

That can be a free or let the play continue if the opportunity is deemed by the ref to be better than the original free.

A free is not a guaranteed score. If you don't take advantage of it then tough. The same should apply to shots that are deemed to be "better than the free".

There is an advantage if he misses in the 5 seconds. He just didn't take it.

And that's your opinion and grand. But that's not how it's done or intended.

A free is not guaranteed but it's a better advantage than a missed shot.

That's a good point.
It also reinforces my belief that the rule is wrong in that if you get an opportunity to shoot from a more advantageous position then you should not get a free regardless of the outcome.
It should be one or the other.

depends if you're shooting off balance i think

There's no advantage if he misses within the 5 seconds. So if he misses then within the 5 seconds, bring it back for the free, because in olden times the ref gives the free and they score from it. I'm not sure of the logic he had a chance but missed, tough?