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Antrim - Ballymena - Portglenone has a fantastic look to it. The year of Mid Antrim

Wonder who referee will be for the final. Darren, Kevin Parke, Mark O Neill, Paddy Tomelty....one from that quartet I'd imagine.

Lol Ref, you beat me to it.

Enda bought a house in Portglenone and transferred from a his previous club in London to Casements. #Class act.

Thanks to Cargin for excellent hosting yesterday, brilliant venue for a match, pitch immaculate.

Looking forward to today's second semi final, should be a cracker.

Thrilled for our players to shed the semi final chokers tag, been a long hard haul...we have a real punchers chance now of a title.

Portglenone, Ballymena, Antrim. How good would that be....

Should be 2 great games, may best teams win and no oul nonsense or talking points other than good hard honest football.

Bring it on.

Game on.

Creggans appeal is with Ulster and will be heard 2moro night.

The outcome will be either to take the game to rematch (probably next Tuesday or Wednesday) or throw it out, in which case Saturdays semi final between PG1 and LD goes ahead as scheduled in Toome at 4pm on Saturday.

Casements preparing for a 4pm throw in Toome on Saturday against LD until we are notified of something different. That's all we can do...trying not to lose focus.

Looking forward to seeing Cargin and St Brigids, most observers will see this as the final in anything but name.

St Brigids feel they were closer in last years semi final than the scoreline, a couple of errors making the difference. And there is no doubt they have kicked on another gear since then.

But Cargin looked better than ever in the QFs, will take a massive effort from any club hoping to dethrone them.

https://www.irishnews.com/gaa/antrim-sfc-could-be-delayed-as-creggan-take-objection-to-ulster-XNTCDAKC5JD6XLUKLZICHHPJFY/

If we want Antrim county teams to have  quality facilities, management teams, support structures etc, the finances need to come from somewhere.

Watched a good bit of Tryone TV over the weekend, quarter finals, two ended in draws and go to a replay. Rough guess, between paying for Stream and those paying into the ground...50k across 4 games wouldn't be unreasonable.

At £10. £500k lift??

Not including intermediate and junior, big crowds go to these as well.

In fairness its a complete religion in Tyrone, feck all else to do.

A lot of SW clubs stepping up in this regard, improving facilities either currently or in planned stage.

Wonder who the first might be to provide sheltered viewing...none atm, fair play to Rossa for being ahead of the game.

I believe 28 clubs in Tyrone have both sheltered viewing (stands) and
match standard floodlighting. That's an impressive statistic...

100% Referee. Setting the standard still, gymnasium, viewing facilities, playing surface. Up to others to match up, I know it dosent happen overnight.

Ballymena and Portglenone both got ambitious plans for similar...

Quit yo Jibba...lol.

As I said before, either would/will be tough proposition. All tough matches at this stage...

Ach look, how would I know. Probably a million miles away...lol!