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just eating my words.

Grand shouts by JC. THe dunloy game sounds like a clinker!

poor lady, quick fall.

The husband seemed like a great fella

did anyone watch survivors on bbc before christmas? always wondered if something like that could happen.

happened before, give google a for spainish flu

this weeks predictions

wins for Cushendall, Loughgiel, Dunloy and Portaferry in div 1

div2 Glenariffe and Gorts are the only certs hard to call the rest, Gaels nearly beat us last year and tir na og will give Rossa a good game up there

sarsfields Rasharkin Carey Faughs and Lamhs (they should win that league handy IMO) to win their games

bredagh st Agnes and tough one at Ballymena between them and Lamhs seconds

Loughgiel    Ballygalget    
We always get tanked up there at this stage in the season as we're doing very little physical work and the bodies will be flying and killing dead things. +10 to Loughgiel

      
Portaferry    Ballycastle
The Ports have Chris hunter back in the management team and they're going hammer and tongs at the training. I'd expect them to have too much speed for the Ballycastle lads. A crap day might keep the differential down though. +7 to the Ports.
          
Ballycran    Dunloy
The Crans are a good hurling team but lacking a bit of physique which doesn't suit their tight home pitch. Don't know much about Dunloy this year but if they haven't done a great deal of training yet which is their normal mode then might be a bit closer than normal. Not going to mention the referee in this one  +2 to Dunloy

          
Cushendall    St. Johns
The Dall still have a bit of sharpness in their hurling from the winter and i'd expect them to have too much for the Johnnies who are much different proposition away from Corrigan park. +9 to the Dall

agree with the loughgiel score, shams will want to set out a marker for the season.
I can honestly see the town getting beat by more than 7 points, they dont travel well, its sad but true. But Antrim hurling needs for the town to get there act together to improve the standard of championship...
Agree the cran used the big pitch up in ballycastle very well, However i do fancy them to beat dunloy this time.
I'd add another half dozen points to the dalls score in this game.

The problem all started with the Mucksavages thread.  Who started that by the way?  It's all his fault 

not sure but I certainly contributed to it!!

But there's having the craic and there's rippin the ass out of it.  One of the comments one of the newbies left was the most disgusting post I have ever seen.

totally agree. mods should ban the posters IP address

[Ive seen milk turn quicker than Kelly at full forward]

We were useless yesterday. We had no ball winner in the forwards whatsoever. Plenty of times we were out in front but couldnt hold onto the ball first time. Each time the ball was on the ground an Offaly man won it--even when there was 7 antrim players and one Offaly man round a ball, Antrim couldnt win it--look at the goal for one such example.

We were so slow with no zip to our play and poor striking--as far back as i can remember we have always been poor at striking--why? Did anyone else notice that neearly all of Offaly's scores were when an Offaly man was waltzing through unopposed as if he was out his back garden?

Ive seen milk turn quicker than Kelly at full forward

Embarrasing

Agreed! however he was the best forward in the first half, the only one with a bit of fight in him!

tis true, but more worrying is that only about 4 have a decent chance

Who do you rate as contenders for Liam and in what order. My opinion based on current form:

Front Runner
Kilkenny

Realistic Chasers
Tipp
Waterford
Dublin

Still a bit to do
Offaly
Cork
Galway
Clare
Wexford   
Limerick

Wont make an impact but might case an upset

Antrim
Roscommon
Down
Westmeath

Not next nor near it
New York
The rest no disrepect


By the way this is my opinion on how I think things stand, so no personal attacks please. Also please give your own giving the above format if you wish. Yes i have robbed the idea on oakleafer, thanks. 

What is the score? What way did the team line out?

Youngfella why would Nander Campbell need "financial support"? By this do you mean he wanted paid to take them? If so they did right to hunt him.

You have me wrong. nander and co didnt want paying, from what i heard he wanted to bring in an outside coach to the take the training every other week or too stop things from get boring and routine. He simply wanted the coach to be looked after a bit by the club. I think also wanted the club to provide sandwiches and soup for the lads after training.  Not really a big ask, just looking after the lads.

Ballycastle have certainly lost a bit of a 'physical edge' since they lost players like the Maybins, Terence Kinney etc but they have some decent hurlers, problem seems to be they keep losing their best players or they continue to play but don't seem to adopt an 'athletic lifestyle'

Ryan Donnelly and Septhen McGarry where both fine young players and had they hit the hieghts their talent suggested it could have made a big difference.  But the town still have a decent team and when on form can cause a shock or too

I agree they miss someone with kind of fight that the maybins took to the game a bit of anger.

I think things are not well in the Town. after the match the manager wee Olcan  quit at the lack of effort from the boys , Training etc, Poor numbers , no commitment , to be honest a lack of quality hurlers.

Did he leave? That must be shortest term of management in history. The town had a fair bit of trouble getting a manager this year. From what I heard nander campbell went for the position with a sound plan and he would brought joe cassidy and oran kearney (cpc managers) with him, But he asked for some financial support from to club to get his plan of the ground but was told were to go.
I disagree with you saying there is a lack of quality hurlers, The town dont play well as a team (management issue) and some lads are a bit to nice couldnt or dont know how to play a dirty stroke, which is needed sometimes.

[More games to come Wednesday. Ballycran wasting no time getting back into the swing of Div 1 after last years rout in Div 2.]

Antrim Div 1 Hurling
   
Ballycastle 0-9 v 1-14 Ballycran   
Dunloy 2-15 v 1-13 Portaferry
Ballygalget 0-10 v 1-14 Cushendall      

Antrim Reserve Hurling
   
Dunloy 0-13 v 1-15 Portaferry
      
Antrim Div 3 Hurling
   
Carey Faughs 2-10 v 3-17 Lamh Dhearg   
St. Brigids 2-20 v 1-5 St. Teresas

More games to come Wednesday.  Ballycran wasting no time getting back into the swing of Div 1 after last years rout in Div 2.

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I took the easter eggs and when up to the ballycastle game yesterday. the towns reserves were hammered in the first game.
In the senior game the town were totally over powered in every area of the pitch, ballycran could and should won by more, they seemed very composted on the ball and played to a plan.
There were 4/5 different fellas taking and missing scoreable frees for the town, this unsettled them, they should settle on one man, pinky or mc auley IMO. Interesting they played mc auley in midfield were he was able to watch balls going over his head, a waste, he should be under the dropping ball. Pinky at centre forward under a puck out seemed pointless but the management didnt change tact, pinky got a nasty slap to the hand and may have broke fingers, his hand looked heavily bandaged. cossie dallas deserves mention as the town only player on the day, making strong runs at wing half. The ref offered little protection and seemed to have a poor understanding of the rules, but take nothing away from ballycran they very played well.

Just on paddy power, for kilkenny too do the triple, league, leinster (sp) and all ireland. They'll give you 4 quid back on a 30 quid stake.

Its hard to look past kilkenny, very hard. I'll be interested to watch the dublin game, they've looked good so far, very different style of hurling to most teams.

That is a great post juice, both of them two could and prob would beat anyone atm. However it is early in the season, and in a knockout competition it only takes a slight wobble for the wheels to come off.

One more thing, when watching the game, I thought king henry was very quiet and a bit of colour in the first, missed a few frees and that. Cody must of had a word, in 2nd half he was unreal. anyone is the dummy, i think is was on keady? he passing and movement are unreal too. almost back to his best

seems there may be a new player brought into Sambo's panel tonight.

Young CJ?

You are joking??

It is a joke if he is added to the squad. cj with all due respect isnt good enough for the panel and shoudnt be near it. There much better hurlers in the county that deserve a place before that prima donna.

was just watching highlights of the dublin tipp game. Antrim in there current form will get beat by more than a dozen points easily, furthermore Dublin will play the cats in the leinster final, and wouldnt be too far away!