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Who's the dirty fcker who stood on Dolan's hand???

I see kilbride complaining about that at ht. didn't see it.

Ocallaghan as a holding chb is fine. Man marking in fb line he could lose cross it with fouling. Wonder what was up with oisin.

Why was the number 9 holding his face...

She put the picture on twitter herself. It was from some modelling gig she'd previously done.Then she cried her lamps out on tv when confronted about it.

You'd be hard pushed to find as weak leadership as we've  seen from the unionists this last few months.

Also noticeable how quick robinson was to crawl out from wherever he was when sean kelly was arrested.

Fair play to these two boys for at least standing up for what they believe in.

The 4 of them - absolutely no way.

No offense to the fella but I think Conal Kelly is overrated and shouldn't be on the team. Haven't seen enough of McBride. What's McDonagh's best position? Bam good sub but not starting 15.

McLean to full back. Healy to contest number 4 / number 7 positions.

Mccarry (or is it mcgarry??) in cf was excellent.

I have a feeling one team will win by a bit this weekend. I'm just hoping it's loughgiel.

Watson can't be as bad again and cooney can't be as good again. Loughgiel won very little possession though and that is a worry.

In regards to magill, he is now 30 something and wants to finish his career perhaps winning a senior championship with cargin. although i cant see st galls being beaten for at least 5 years. I think there key players taking a break from county will do them the world of good.

in terms of sunday as a proud johnnies man, i cant get my head round how we dont have at least one player starting on the county team, we were the second best team in the county getting beaten by st galls in the final. St galls only had 2 players on the starting 15? how does this reflect antrim football?

I don't understand why people keep asking about st galls players on the team... Dawson picks what is available to him. If everyone was available more than 2 galls playes would be on it. Healy and McLean should be back at some stage too.

What St Johns players would be on it? The two best teams in the county do not necessarily play out the county final. Lamhs and Cargin would be better than johnnies.

High balls into St Thomas's full back line usually resulted in some kind of score. Their full back line would be shaky enough i'd have said.

I read in different stats in different articles of what Cooney scored. One said 12 points - is that right?

A lot would be from play. If himself and the number 15 were marked better the next day that would go a long way but I guess the question is whether or not LG have the men to mark them.

Hard one to call this one.

It's a bit rich coming from Willie when he says it's all about the money with these boys. Why are you not in FAIR any more Willie and what was your question with the peace funds - where has the money gone?

It's sad to see this happen to anyone. Pathetic really. This guy was fading back to anonymity and being a laughing stock that he is now he gets in the media again.

How anyone could be "led" by this guy or Bryson is beyond me.

[I thought that free was for deliberately lying on the ball and Kelly would be right to award the free in rather than the soft option of a hop ball on the 21.]

Aye Johnney spot on, there are too many CHF out there at the minute that could take the scores he did on Saturday. Possibly Loughgiel were more worried of Murray in FF and he only got the one shot in on goal and it was shite!! While Cooney was given the freedom. Can't see that happening again and I'm sure if St Thomas's are smart they won't play the same game. Was listening to the build up of the game on the radio and at Half time when I nipped round to the shop.

They had a Galway man on talking about St Thomas's and how they play, he said they don't score a wile amount of frees and most scores come from open play, poor discipline also, which was noticeable with some silly rash tackles.

Refereeing I thought was pretty poor, Barry is usually a better referee than that. As for the free that led to a 21 metre free, he said he scooped the ball off the ground, the lad picked the ball twice legally but the umpire give it. At what point did umpires call free during play? Very strange

I thought that free was for deliberately lying on the ball and Kelly would be right to award the free in rather than the soft option of a hop ball on the 21.

It's hardly surprising some of the Galway lads were caught out with Kelly's adherence to the rule book when you consider the eejit who refereed the Galway final. They're used to getting away with blue murder.

That was for the last minute winner, the free the umpire called was earlier on, Waston's resulting shot was defelected out for a 70

One of the defenders lifted the ball clean off the ground did he not?  I think it was a corner back.

Are a lot of hurling clubs not registered as almost separate entities now?

Randalstown have a few boys as skull says now playing for neighbouring clubs. Not sure what the story is.

If he lives in Ballyronan sure he could play for Ballymaguigan...

On the subject of so many Cargin players and Lamhs players on the antrim team dawson can only pick the best out of what's available to him. I think Anto Healy will be back and McLean when recovered from injury too which will up the numbers from st galls.

It's not what you've done that matters, it's what you are now.

Right now there is just about nothing between these two teams in talent or squad depth.

Before a match you can only judge a team and it's players on what they've done.

What is going to happen is an unknown.

Brigids are good but come these stages they've always disappointed. There's nothing to suggest anything different.

You base what you say on a run through connacht. They have won connacht before but never beat cross.

I would like to see them win to be honest but in the here and now brigids have not done it at this level with similar squads of players and cross have with the same squad.

[If Brigids either slow it down or think they can outmuscle Cross they'll be beaten like every other side who've gone down the same path.]

Brigid's have had two goes at Cross by this stage and have come up short.  Renewed hunger won't be enough to beat Cross this time, Cross have that in bucketloads themselves.  The only way to beat Cross is a very fast, direct game and basically pure football.  If Brigids either slow it down or think they can outmuscle Cross they'll be beaten like every other side who've gone down the same path.

Which is exactly what Brigids don't do. Plenty of teams have tried to do just that to Brigids and ended up wrecked at the end of the day.

Both these teams are set up very similarly in how they approach games, they're experienced and aren't afraid to be physical but their game is based on far more than that.

Indeed to say Brigids plan would ever be to out-muscle an opponent is a complete mis-reading of the situation - they haven't done a minute of physical training all year, everything has been focused toward getting the ball in their hands and making every player feel comfortable with the ball in hand and knowing where their outlets are. Both teams have the talent to plain out-play opponents when their opportunities arise, and that's the main reason they both find themselves in an AISF.

You referred to Cross being in a 'war' with Brigids which seemed to me you were suggesting a physical approach by Brigids. Brigids dont need to go to war, they just need to outfootball Cross, the way the Dublin sides did a few years back. I havent seen them this year so i don't know if theyre capable of that.

All I meant by war is it'll be an incredibly closely-fought game. Unless tempers flair I don't expect it to spill over into anything like the Cross-Garrycastle match this year.

I just feel the teams match up remarkably well, for every Osin there's a Frankie, for every Senan Kilbride there's a Jamie Clarke (or Peter Domican if we're talking about potential match-ups), for every Aaron Kernan there's an Ian Kilbride and so on. Both teams have exceptional strength in depth.

Even Brigids' tactics this year have leaned much more towards incisive kick-passing and the pressure they exert in defense and in the middle reminds me of only one other club team - Cross.

If the two teams play to their abilities it will probably be the game of the tournament.

Oisin has contributed more to club football than probably any player. When the going gets tough you can count on him and he has shown this on many occassions. Frankie dolan is no doubt gifted but a poor man's oisin.

Kilbride not close to aaron kernan either. Not remotely in fact as aaron kernan up there with the better club players too.

So i wouldn't agree with either of those match ups and your third one not so much so either.

I would like to see brigids win but they have it all to prove on this stage.

I would question two sides of it...

Why would a church allow gay marriages when it views homosexuality as an abomination?

Why would a gay person want to be married in a church which deems it as an abomination?