Antrim Football Thread

[statto]

Interesting league so far, no one would deny. Winners obviously Portglenone will be happy and Creggan for coming back strong after a poor period. Ahoghill as well. Losers defininitely St Brigids and St Endas won't be happy where they are at.

Aghagallon did well coming second also without 2  of Antrims key forwards, though losing last 3 will be concerning.  Good to see Loughran kick on he was fresher of the year at UCD or DCU but didn't seem be flavour of the month with previous Antrim managers. 

[NorthAntrim]

huge game in division 2 also

went to the first game with these 2,60 mins I won't get back,super coach Baker has everyman behind the ball,brutal stuff,might be good enough to win div 2,but won't be any good going to div 1,as proved last year in the play off, we've your lot HH tonight, definitely need a win,been poor since we beat Cargin

Shocking game to watch. Glenravel are a good well drilled side!

[EOC1923]

Interesting league so far, no one would deny. Winners obviously Portglenone will be happy and Creggan for coming back strong after a poor period. Ahoghill as well. Losers defininitely St Brigids and St Endas won't be happy where they are at.

Aghagallon did well coming second also without 2  of Antrims key forwards, though losing last 3 will be concerning.  Good to see Loughran kick on he was fresher of the year at UCD or DCU but didn't seem be flavour of the month with previous Antrim managers.

Yes Aghagallon also be pleased enough so far

[imtommygunn]

huge game in division 2 also

went to the first game with these 2,60 mins I won't get back,super coach Baker has everyman behind the ball,brutal stuff,might be good enough to win div 2,but won't be any good going to div 1,as proved last year in the play off, we've your lot HH tonight, definitely need a win,been poor since we beat Cargin

Shocking game to watch. Glenravel are a good well drilled side!

The first game or the second game?

[JimStynes]

Interesting league so far, no one would deny. Winners obviously Portglenone will be happy and Creggan for coming back strong after a poor period. Ahoghill as well. Losers defininitely St Brigids and St Endas won't be happy where they are at.

Aghagallon did well coming second also without 2  of Antrims key forwards, though losing last 3 will be concerning.  Good to see Loughran kick on he was fresher of the year at UCD or DCU but didn't seem be flavour of the month with previous Antrim managers.

Yes Aghagallon also be pleased enough so far

Kicking ourselves to let a few games go as well! 9 points up and 15 to go last night and end up bate by a point!

[NorthAntrim]

huge game in division 2 also

went to the first game with these 2,60 mins I won't get back,super coach Baker has everyman behind the ball,brutal stuff,might be good enough to win div 2,but won't be any good going to div 1,as proved last year in the play off, we've your lot HH tonight, definitely need a win,been poor since we beat Cargin

Shocking game to watch. Glenravel are a good well drilled side!

The first game or the second game?

Second. 2nd half was awful

[bannside]

Fair play to Ahoghill.

Still 5 or 6 games left to sort out Div 1, long way to go the way everyone is picking up or dropping points. No one unbeatable, not much between a cluster of clubs who will give themselves at least a punchers chance in the forthcoming championships.

[InnocentByStander]

Fair play to Ahoghill.

Still 5 or 6 games left to sort out Div 1, long way to go the way everyone is picking up or dropping points. No one unbeatable, not much between a cluster of clubs who will give themselves at least a punchers chance in the forthcoming championships.

Very true, fair play to our young lads who have played the league for us they have stood up, for Cargin to be where they are and the injuries they have is serious going.

[Dunsilly King]

Think we are finally starting to get warm up

[Saul goodman]

Fair play to Ahoghill.

Still 5 or 6 games left to sort out Div 1, long way to go the way everyone is picking up or dropping points. No one unbeatable, not much between a cluster of clubs who will give themselves at least a punchers chance in the forthcoming championships.

They do remarkably well in both codes for a small so credit where it is due.
In previous years they have been staving off relegation.

aghagllon did everything but win the game- should have won comfy but went asleep at the wheel the last 5

[ck]

Hearing plenty of county players played last night and plenty didnt. Andys rules remain fairly vague. I can only assume they all got permission to play. My own view is if a lad is not starting or coming on for Antrim then he should be released back to his club.

[Hectic]

I think it makes a lot of sense for lads on the county panel but seeing little action in the county jersey to be getting minutes at their clubs.

And that is as much from a county angle as anything.  Otherwise could be throwing lads into an All Ireland quarter final game having played less than 20 mins football in a month or two.

I have no idea what the arrangements are but from what I see it looks like the lads starting for the county are not involved in club games.

We are at a stage of the season, with county progressing on, where there needs to be some common sense around scheduling of club games in order to keep some balance across the piece.

Of course it could be argued that some clubs have been handicapped already but we are now at the business end of leagues and all to play for and all getting into sharp focus, particularly around relegation.

[imtommygunn]

Thee were at least five subs playing for various clubs which is good to see. It will sharpen them up if nothing else plus there were some big games last night and a bit harsh to see them miss those games if they're on the bench.

[bannside]

Looks like a fairly straightforward arrangement.  If you started on Sunday you didn't play for your club last night. If you played a half on Sunday you could play a half, and if you didn't play at all or got less than 10 mins you can play away.

Put it this way...If Andy asked a player not to strip out for his club then it's likely he has plans for that player on Sunday week.

Not exactly..but something along those lines. At least the players know themselves what the ground rules are. A common sense approach.

[Milltown Row2]

Well it's worked up to now with impressive victories for the county, every county in the country loses players due to the commitment required for playing inter county