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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.

Be surprised if Ballycastle go down, county will likely restructure the league to keep them up!

I take it your a Carey man going by your name. You might be in favour of league restructuring yourself, it might save youse from going down to Div. 3 

You are right Paddyjohn. Was worrying at half time but Ballycastle just had more about them in the 2nd half, Massive improved needed just to keep the ball pucked out to Loughgiel the next day.

Havent been looking on here in a while and got to row in behind Cromagh and JJ about Mickey Dallat. Mickey was a brilliant teacher never mind his coaching ability which was I would say was away ahead of his time. For someone to come on here and make a comment like that is a disgrace.

Tony, if you were at CPC you must not have been taught by him and if you weren't at CPC your not in a position to comment.

Best of luck to Cushendall today. Have shown incredible fight to get here and no small amount of hurling. I do think they are up against it though. NaP have come out of Munster 3 of the last 5 years; you have to go back to the great Cork sides of the 70's namely Blackrock and St Finbarrs to find teams who have similar records in Munster. In saying that Limerick teams, both county and club, tend to underperform in Croke Park so you never know.

Cloot also played underage for Armoy and Ballycastle.

....and telling blatant lies about clubs in South Antrim to feather their own nest.

How come  the St Endas and St Galls reps on here don't seem to be as outraged as you HS? Seems more like one club is taking on all the outrage on behalf of South Antrim. As other posters have said an apology has been issued so move on. If you think N Antrim are 'forcing' you to play games then why don't you direct all that passion at the S Antrim board? Naturally I'm not expecting you to answer that question but come back with some kind of deflection 

I see you neatly side stepped the question about the South Antrim board getting their house in order. No wonder Skull gave up on you!

As for divisional boards they have been around as long as I remember be it North Antrim, South Derry, South Down etc. I presume one of the reasons for their existence was to facilitate local underage games. Not sure they should be there to facilitate the failings of another division within a county. Nothing parochial in that. But you just keeping on blaming North Antrim for not promoting the game in South Antrim 

Others may be driven to promote our games amongst a handful of 'traditional' parishes (as well as areas of Derry and Tyrone, if it suits) but we'll just keep playing and try our best to promote our games throughout the county.........but we will expose lies and agendas too. Thank you.

To be fair, South Antrim's service to hurling, in the juvenile set up, over this last 20 odd years is probably pretty poor and I appreciate that their clubs have only made up the numbers in the U16 and minor championships during that time. For that reason, I can see why North Antrim clubs feel that their South Antrim brethren bring down the quality of our games.

After pages and pages HS you finally got to the crux of the issue IMO. Why have you and the rest of the concerned city clubs not got together and forced the South Antrim board to get their own house in order? Why aren't you directing your clear passion into getting the underage leagues in South Antrim into a comparable state to North Antrim's? Instead your just having a go at North Antrim for trying to get regular games for kids.

So much for all the hysteria on here for the last few weeks.

Congratulations to Cushendall on Sunday. There appearance in 9 of the last 11 finals stood to them in the 2nd half. Their experienced players like McGill, Carson, Graffin and McManus really stood up when needed. Great 1st half show by Ballycastle. The blocking, hooking and hassling was top notch. Hopefully the players come back strong next year and learn from the experience.

On a sour note I see Dunloy couldn't prevent it from being windy either!!!

Can you imagine how windy it would have been in Ballycastle?? That wind turbine would have made some electricity that day!!

It's either "disgusted with" or " on a sour note" with Fairhead.  Like I said the last time he posted on this subject and chose to ignore it.  Yes, it was windy, but not all the time. 

You know rightly SIE that my comments were tongue in cheek. And your exactly right its not windy all the time at all venues including Ballycastle.

Congratulations to Cushendall on Sunday. There appearance in 9 of the last 11 finals stood to them in the 2nd half. Their experienced players like McGill, Carson, Graffin and McManus really stood up when needed. Great 1st half show by Ballycastle. The blocking, hooking and hassling was top notch. Hopefully the players come back strong next year and learn from the experience.

On a sour note I see Dunloy couldn't prevent it from being windy either!!!

First things first, I need to get this one off my chest. I was disgusted with Loughgiel as a venue for the Ballycastle Dunloy semi final. When I arrived it at that day sure it was windy, and here was us all led to believe by everyone on here that the only venue in Antrim that there was wind at was Ballycastle 

Now they go and make it worse by playing the final on the softest, boggiest pitch in Antrim according to more experts on here!!!!!!!

No im very happy with Dunloy as the venue, sure aren't Ballycastle undefeated in county finals against Cushendall in Pearse Park.......aren't statistics great!!!! 

I was just delighted to get past Dunloy in the semi-final after having had so many defeats to them in recent years. I was hoping that Ballycastle's big players, Neal, Saul and Clarkie could deliver against Dunloy and they did but they were also well supported by the rest of the half back line especially in the 2nd half. If it ain't broke don't fix it so more of the same on Sunday please and hopefully if we get these players in to the game then we are in with a shout.

Cushendall have had 2 tough battles against the Johnnies and Loughgiel, they are the holders and probably want to make amends for not winning Ulster last year. They have very experienced players and some good young talent so they have a lot going for them. As a neutral you would have to fancy Cushendall.

Anyway best of luck to the Ballycastle players and management on Sunday and with decent weather forecast and hopefully a big crowd, the stage looks set for what I hope will be a great occasion and a Black and Amber victory of course.......

Ah damn you Skull your such a team player!!!!

Not a lot of hurling being talked on here as usual. It seems to be more about rain in Dunloy, referees, SF and how windy it is in Ballycastle!!!

Anyhoo I can't see past Loughgiel on Sunday. Unbeaten all year and a lack lustre performance vs St Galls to buck them up a bit it would be a shock to me if Cushendall get past them.

As for tomorrow Ballycastle haven't beat Dunloy in the championship since 1996 and they have put us out of 4 of the last 7 championships so Dunloy have no reason to fear us. They also have a match winner in Paul Shiels who invariably does step up to the mark for them. They will work as a team and so wont be easy beat.

As for Ballycastle I believe we have 3 potential match winners (Neal McAuley, Saul McCaughan and Ciaran Clarke) but in the last few years as a team they haven't delivered in the championship. Although still a relatively young team quite a number of players have played 5/6 years in the championship so its time they stepped up as a group and delivered on the big day. Although Dunloy have beaten us a lot in recent years I don't think overall they have a better team than Ballycastle so if we can get a big performance from some of our main players in addition to a lot of hard work from players all over the pitch then we might just get over the line. Even Skull will be happy if Ballycastle win, he wont then be part of the last team from Dunloy to have gotten beat by Ballycastle in the championship