Antrim Football Thread

[paddyjohn]

Angermanagement...Hugh Mc Gettigan perfect choice if he was chosen as DOF. No better man.

hugh is as clueless as lenny 

Very  hash and very disrespectful tbh.

[bannside]

Tomorrow is the last day for nominations to coiste bainiste if any one on here would like to offer the benefit of their wisdom at a higher level. Who the holy heck wants to step into Sean Kellys shoes as PRO. As far as I know Sean has to step down. Then we are likely to find out how spoiled we actually were for the last four years!!

[ONeill]

What was Baker Bradley able to do with Antrim players that no other Antrim manager has never really even nearly done since?

[imtommygunn]

Instil belief. Cahill was great at it in the hurling too.

[imtommygunn]

Yeah that would be fair too.

[ONeill]

It would be fair to say that Baker was working with better players than we currently have though?

Our best players now are lads who were playing under Baker, and them now 33-36. Have the likes of Loughrey, McClean, C Brady, K Brady, Scullion, Gallagher, Niblock, Close, T O'Neill been replaced with the same quality?

Did the managers on either side of Baker achieve similar success?

[GiveItToTheShooters]

So Antrim are apparently after a guy who has done nothing in his two years as a manager with a promising team. Jesus christ the night. I'd say there are even lads on the board with a better managerial CV than Mcginley. Bizarre. But they can't complain if these are the guys theyre going after. If there was a division 5, antrim would be in it.

[ONeill]

Are Swatragh the promising team?

[imtommygunn]

They were never going to win Derry. Getting them much improved was surely the objective.

That being said definitely unproven but I would still say he's left swatragh in a much better place than when he started.

The Roscommon game under Dawson was the worst I ever saw.  Hard to know what to make of Mcginley to be honest.

[GiveItToTheShooters]

Left them in a better place
They got beat by fkn Banagher last year for gods sake , and lost to a brutal Magherafelt team this year. Fair enough they were defending champions etc but theyre shocking

[Hoof Hearted]

Counties and clubs keep going after the big name
ie players who were great players in their day
Great players don't make great managers
Mickey Harte wasnt a big name player but look what hes done
But i suppose if the regular guy ( like us boys  on here ) don't apply  then what can you do
But if for example bannside and Milltown Row went up against Enda Mcginley and Bran McGuigan, who's going to get it ?

[imtommygunn]

To be fair magherafelt were defending champions. Slaughtneil did make them look ordinary but would have to most teams. I didn't realise banagher beat them the year before. Oops. Ok maybe I retract that he left them in a better place. I thought they had done better.

[GiveItToTheShooters]

Counties and clubs keep going after the big name
ie players who were great players in their day
Great players don't make great managers
Mickey Harte wasnt a big name player but look what hes done
But i suppose if the regular guy ( like us boys  on here ) don't apply  then what can you do
But if for example bannside and Milltown Row went up against Enda Mcginley and Bran McGuigan, who's going to get it ?

I'd rather bannside and MR2

[paddyjohn]

I'd rather Bannside and MR2 also, but not Belfast GAA man, he'd cost way to much

[Milltown Row2]

Counties and clubs keep going after the big name
ie players who were great players in their day
Great players don't make great managers
Mickey Harte wasnt a big name player but look what hes done
But i suppose if the regular guy ( like us boys  on here ) don't apply  then what can you do
But if for example bannside and Milltown Row went up against Enda Mcginley and Bran McGuigan, who's going to get it ?

I'd rather bannside and MR2

I do have some Croke Park experience