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Next weekend. They seem to be on the sundays.

I am not sure - BS would maybe know. Definitely looks good though.

Keenan has been a great addition for antrim this year - hardy wee boy. The other two wouldn't be too shabby either.

They had an AI in them around 2012 / 2013 but they have dropped off a good bit now hurling wise. I think football just has more clout in dublin. If Con O'Callaghan played hurling for dublin they'd be a much better team for it and you could likely say the same for a few of the footballers.

I don't know about distribution of money but be surprised if it were much different.

It was great and no call to change it too.

The hurling league (possibly more so division one) was no more than friendlies this year.

Rasharkin jumps out at me!

Used to happen in Dunloy but seems to have been nipped in the bud. Ridiculous that this was happening.

Between Laochra Gael and GAA Social my wife always asks me why I watch / listen to stuff that's so depressing    Seems to be the way of it these days - you want to talk to someone then they need to have some sort of back story. (No a dig at anyone just a marketing thing - I haven't listened to this week's one but IMO the Bells are modern day heroes and are just great people so while I have no doubt it will be a bit sad I'll be very interested to listen to them too).

Sitting back on a lead. You see it happen all the time. Entertaining game between two very evenly matched teams.

Tends to be twitter I think. But for twitter there'd be no Jamie Bryson and I don't think there'd be the rise there is in the south either.

They were very good in the league last year too bu dropped off come championship. Maskey, if he's not away, is probably helping. They must have a few at county too.

Yeah - you'd be hopeful we'd go through. I don't think the final appearance as a minimum is a reasonable expectation mind you. Knockout stages and see how we go from there. Same standard as any year tbh so it's a good test to see whether we've made much progress.

You wouldn't expect Dublin to take us for granted as we drew last year though and were on a par in the league.

Tough enough group. Wexford are not a bad side. You would still hope we go through. Tipp have fell away a lot so hopefully that continues...

Money aside, as its standard across the country. Spoke to Darren a few times and his passion is very real and commitment to the task (from what I see) is what you are looking for in a manager.

3 to 4 years is generally enough for both players and management, I've seen some good kids come through recently at club level to suggest that the future at senior hurling in Antrim could get better.

Dealing with the younger generation is tough though, was at a under 14 I think development games at the weekend and while we were on top over Derry, I still think we are miles away from other hurling strongholds

Basics need addressed I feel across the clubs, catching, striking left/right dipping the ball, speed of delivery, spatial awareness, these are the basics that the club should be on top of before coming into development squads.

Club is still king and some clubs don't (maybe understandably in cases across both codes) have faith in them and would rather develop their own kids to succeed with them.

What's the answer? We really do have a lack of togetherness that other counties have for whatever reason, I think in most counties County is king and club comes a very close second, but the carrot of getting to Croke with your club is easier here than with the county might be one reason

In the football and hurling we've invested a lot at senior level and tbh while we are not going to win all irelands I think both setups are considerably better and something that younger ones can hopefully aspire to. The hurling setup is considerably more professional than we have ever had before irrespective of the outcome of the upcoming games and the football would be the same. However the underage results aren't inspiring in either code - I kind of hope maybe there's a plan to start with senior but we will see.