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Everyone wants to be the best, so compare yourself to the best, at one point in time it was st galls at this point in time its Cargin.

Looking at the production line of players coming through, it looks like Cargin will be the benchmark for quite some time

[proactively went and sought players as Portglenone have done]

My post was regarding Portglenone as it was topic of recent discussion that other contributors posted about. I didnt quash anything, if Cargin proactively went and sought players as Portglenone have done then thats wrong, no matter when it happened Why on this discussion board does everything come back round to the Toome men. Theres more to Antrim county than the people from the Lough.

Is this actually what happened here? That's a significant allegation so please share the facts!

My understanding is that it is usually a player who approaches a club, who then decide if they can accept the player.
 
In this case, it's two local players who fell out with their home club in a different county several years ago and haven't been able to play club football in Ireland ever since. Very different scenario from the picture you are trying to paint!

What has happened to the major investment that we went into Gealfast ? What have been the Outcomes to date, any reports, stats, progress to date etc available and made public to the Clubs. Surely Questions need to asked?

How much of a major investment was given and what were your expectations?

It's a fair question to ask. All initiatives whether successful or otherwise should be open to evaluation

Have to agree with Marty34, them 3 clubs he just mentioned are leading the way in terms of culture. Casements model though i wouldnt be a fan of. over the years they have taken players not wanted by their clubs and put them in ahead of their own breed. And to be frank, its never worked for them. Maybe Lynn and Co. can change that now, but theres alot to be said for a club who brings through their youth and achieves success

Every club in the county have accepted a few blow-ins over the years. I highly doubt it's part of any club's planned development model.

[Derry GAA - Coaching and Development Strategy 2021 - 2026]

I have posted this before but here's a link to 'Derry GAA - Coaching and Development Strategy 2021 - 2026'

https://www.gaa.ie/football/news/the-story-behind-derry-football-s-resurgence/?fbclid=IwAR3ajz-OGvQ05EOEWDil6XTYEZ04_U2Zj6JdQNCAfnBUgv6KfSuBbedxbXk

Follow the link and you will see the full 20 page PDF.

Fixing the state of reserve football should be a big priority. My own club's reserves only played 4 or 5 games last year because other clubs kept forfeiting. Young players have walked away because they spent all lasy year training for very few matches.

@Bannside - What about putting together a team selection of injured players? Would be a strong team on paper!

Maintaining our Division 3 status would be an impressive achievement given the quality and injuries to our current squad.

What a farce

Any of the new or returning faces showing well?

Always thought they were two of the better referees. Good luck in their retirements. 

Anybody any insight on the performance last night? Anybody play well?

Yes Everton were over the acceptable PSR limit by less than £19m, but a 10 point deduction is extremely harsh on the club. Stadium construction costs and the financial sanctions against Everton's Russian owners will also have had an impact on them.

For context, Portsmouth were only deducted 9 points after literally going bust in the middle of the season.

Meanwhile Chelsea and City make a total mockery of all financial fairplay rules without sanction.

I think it would be better as follows

1A - Senior Championship
1B - Intermediate Championship
2A - Junior Championship
2B - Junior B Championship

Winners of leagues get promoted, winners of champs get promoted. Play everyone home and away in the league. Push the leagues to start later with the Championship being a straight knock out. Antrim leagues would be then more reflective of standards in Ulster. Each of those leagues in their own right would be highly competitive.

But realistically we wouldnt be doing that, be uproar if we went from a 12? SFC to 8 (1a) and so on, with that restructure you'd be dropping 4 clubs to IFC then 8 or so from IFC to JFC, couldn't see clubs going for it

Agree it would be unlikely to get voted through but this approach makes a lot of sense to me. Smaller, competitive leagues is the way to improve overall standards, not adding more intermediate level teams into the top division.

Good luck to Cargin on Sunday. As Antrim champions I hope they represent the county well and hope that everyone within the county will be behind them despite the odd snide comment on here

So the most open championship in years according to some on here and it's still cargin as champions!! some love in with Dunloys style on here as two weeks too yet when it came to it they pulled every man behind their own 45 within the first minute even
Guess the "experience" told in the end for an oul done Cargin team.

This notion that Dunloy were 'a breath of fresh air' and 'played with freedom' that I keep hearing is nonsense IMO. They set up with 14 men behind the ball in every game. That's not having a go at them, fair play to them, but some of this rhetoric about them has been rubbish.

Cargin still one step ahead of everyone else. What will worry other clubs most is that Cargin didn't appear to be at their best throughout this championship and still won it comfortably.