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followed one of those utube links and came across this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aM_E8HbVYro

Jesus christ. I hate the thought that such people exist

Dunloy beat Portaferry 2-17 to 1-11 on Saturday evening . Decent enough run out for both sides

Skull, apologies made. I accept i didnt give seamus elliot the credit he derserves. He done a brilliant job over the last 15 years with underage coaching in the county - developing many successful venture as the Indoor Leagues, Clareway and opening up Hurling to many young people than ever before. He is himself a true legend in Hurling circles. The point i was trying to make, was seamus is now getting on in years and new fresh face with plenty of ehtusiasm as Humpy would be a great ambassador for coaching in Antrim.......Would you not agree??

No bother NA. I think hurling would be in a far worse state if it wasn't for Seamus, although I do agree with the main point about him working at the coal face of coaching. I think he should spend his time coaching coaches....something he does very well as the colonel has said.

[I know seamus elliot was decent]

I know seamus elliot was decent but his day is gone. Humpy is an absolute legend

talk about downplaying what seamus has acheived coaching underage (and senior) teams over the past 30 years  . I think there are more appropriate words to describe this than "decent" don't you?

In fairness Syd...that was the best we've played in the past 4 years (up front anyway...we gave away scores too easy IMO), but haven't played as well since. Getting there though but we've got plenty to do before August

Mushy, Pappy and Shane are the management team North Antrim

It'd surprise you the number of ref's who miss that sort of thing.

We'd a lad got his hand broke when batting a high ball which he managed to do, but his opponent pulled so low that he caught him on the hands. The pull had to be three feet too low yet the ref missed it and didn't give a free.

As I've said Liams catch was text book (stick parallel to the ground) so two (MINIMUM) away from the ball.

Liam Richmond got a broken hand last week against Rossa. Went up for a puck out and caught it (text book catch while protecting himself with the stick). The problem is he needed another hand to protect the hand he was holding the stick with. Typical Seamus Shannon - Cold and Yellow. I've never seen him put his hand up under a dropping ball in my life yet he'll sit behind and sledge and try to look like a hard man.

[might be worth a go]

I actually quite like the idea and think it might be worth a go.

Not to the administartion it wouldn't. I can understand the sentiment though and would favour it as it would provide clubs more of the summer months to make use of. 

Whats the general feeling guy's of general standards in the club game at the minute? 

I wouldn't be too impressed with what I have seen to date this year (although its great now that the matches are there to be played). I believe this is in part down to years of neglect by our county board as sucessive county managers ruined club leagues in their quests to win all ireland titles  Clubs must also take a share in the drop in standards as the basic skill level and laissez-faire attitides of a some of the young players throughout the county leave alot to be desired. The right type of coaching must not have been carried out in enough clubs. One man looking after a bunch of young fellas is just a babysitter. Every team should have at least 4 mentors to push any team on. Clubs need to find more bodies to play their part and get standards up.

BTW
Dunloy beat Rossa last night 3-19 to 1-12. Don't believe Rossa are as bad as this scoreline might suggest going by skill levels anyway. There was just too many players who looked as if they could take it or leave it. 

in antrim we have problems that players barely play for the clubs and dont care about meaningless games for the club and would rather play county any day. they love their day getting hammered at croke and 10 minutes on the sunday game

Don't know if too many would agree what that colonel.


Club everytime BTW. We had 4 goes at it and have to live with the ifs buts and mabyes after losing on each occasion. But better to have lost in love than never to have loved at all eh? Thats how I make it through the day anyway

The managers had nothing to do with this. It's unbelievable some of the crap that comes on here.

No worse than you hear in the street Insider so get off your high horse

12 players came up to us after the game last night Skull and told us that they can't make the game this Saturday, expect a call from the manager

Thanks for the update milltown. So is the match definately off? Word hasn't got down here yet.

So I take it Skull, Dunloy will not be playing full panel against ourselves this Saturday night? We would struggle to get players down for that time, more than likely be playing myself.

Think the senior football games have been moved till the Sunday

Think our football match is still on saturday...sure we've 2 achl matches the next day (sen & sen res)

As regards the starting 15 on saturday, I can't a full panel being available milltown. I'd say all our dual players will be away with the footballers and not be selected fot the hurling at all

Plenty of hurling activity on this weekend, is the Ulster League fixtures still on for Saturday,

According to our club website Dunloy play a host of matches in the next few days,

v Loughgiel senior feis thurs night,
v Gorts u21 fc fri night
v Moneyglass sfl sat 3pm
v St Galls uhl sat 6pm
v ballycran reserve hl sun
v ballycran shl

bit of a clash there with football and ulster hurling league on sat.  Any other club in the same position

Its great really

This is a really tough ask for any individual max is it not. I hope that we spread the play across whole player population, but that is not easy. Nobody should be playing more than 3 games. Hopefully abit of common sense is used to get everyone through this weekend

[Always]

Keep your head in the sand why don't you Truth. Your lads do not know the difference between hard hurling and dirty hurling and with the mentors on the line encouraging it then its easy to see why youse know no different. I don't think Dunloy are the only team to have seen this behaviour this year? Are youse not becoming a bit of a common denominator and the season has only started. Feel free to ignore everything I said 

I agree with your comment about the ref btw.

Just so I'm not exaggerating I'll change "Always on the lookout.... " with "Too often on the lookout for the dirty slap" from my previous post. Apart from that I think I'm on the money.