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Farset your attack on Pat Hughes is a disgrace, wonder would you be as quick to say it to his face. Pat is along with Fitzy, i dont know him to be a coach or manager but a very good friend of Franks who travels the country watching football. Hes a former Chairman of the o donnells club who has no doubt put his whole life into the club and was heavily involved with them winning a few junior championships. Why have u singled out Frank and Pat at St Endas, plenty of clubs paying managers. Is it right or wrong is a debate but to pick certain people out on a forum where u can hode behind your key board is very poor. Pats certainly not responsible for ODs poor showing this year or any year but i know hes a true ODs member, supporter and volunteer. St Endas have a great man helping out with their senior team SO WHAT !

Player in question has well documented history of striking on the pitch. Are the county board and Portglenone going to wait until someone doesnt get up before they act. I see bannside hasnt commented which would indicate how bad the fighting was.
We need these incidents stamped out of our game and the only way is for stronger punnishments on players and clubs. God forbid your son was on the wrong end of a vicious attack on the pitch, playing our amature games.

After our worst championship performance in years the boards very quiet all lennys backers looking excuses for him. Love to hear what people thought.
Kickouts were poor.
Defense was non existent.
Midfield cleaned out.
Forwards lived of scraps.
Players didnt look happy coming off the pitch when subbed maybe the camps not as galvanised as reported.
Cracks starting to appear.

Hearing there was a fair bit of fistycuffs at portglenone v st johns today.
Bannside want to elaborate. Was it as bad as im hearing ?

Short term gain for long term loss is what we will get going back to the few older hands your talking about and lets not forget they took us to div 4. Bringing those guys back now will set a tone for experienced players to miss the hard graft of early season training and long trips away in the league to then drop in to the squad during championship time when the suns at their backs and look like saviours. Class way to knock a young lads confidence after putting in months of hard work. If lads dont commit from day 1 they should not be considered. Carlow have taken 33 years to get out of the basement i cant see us taking anywhere near that time to build a new Antrim team of skillful, committed,hardworking and lifestyle living county footballers. We already have a few just nowhere near enough.

Y mention Billy joe burns ? he is without doubt one of the best gaelic footballers in Antrim but is a signed irish league player who hasnt ever looked like hes had an interest in Antrim simply because hes under contract with Crusaders. Again niblock and tomas were good servants to Antrim but they have had their time. Where are the young players throughout the county that need to get blooded for the future. We r in div 4 and thats the best place to get new talent involved and learn their trade. I really think were sending out a bad message to our young lads when cj can continue leading our line in the condition hes in. Yound lads hungry and with a drive to play for Antrim are sitting on the bench watching. Time to rewrite the script and have a long term plan to introduce new talent with all the attributes of a county footballer not just the ability to kick the odd free. Div 4 should be our level for a while now lets use it to our advantage for the long term.

Id be more worried about the performance of our team than the crowd. We ripped into fitzy and adams that we were too defensive and had no system of play. Then lenny gets appointed and we heard about better systems of play, better conditioned players and kickout strategy. Could anyone really say they have seen evidence of any of these and the guys are training 5 days a week. Carlow were better all over the park and deserved the win but we are not fit by any means ( cj is in shocking condition ), kerrs kickouts have only 1 pattern (long) and we got back in numbers but couldnt get out when we won the ball. I think we are honestly playing at our level and until we have alot of personel changes we will stay in div 4 for a while. Last year we were very competative all year pushing armagh and longford for 60 mins and we had a few dismissed and both these teams are looking at promotion to div 2. Nows the time to get rid of players who dont want to commit to the lifestyle of a county player regardless of their supposed talent and build a new young hungry and committed squad who see playing for antrim as a privilage not a hassle. I believe we do have the talent but were not committing to them and going back to the old. The carlow supporters were laughing at some players conditions throughout the match.
The usual guys are very quiet about this performance are they now realising we mighten have the mix of players or management they were all upbeat about earlier in the year when we were playing the weakest teams in the league.

Well maybe in yesterdays game those points were big improvements but neither were evident on wednesday night and yes tyrone are a good team but it asks again how strong were the cavan side.

(Yesterday's performance was pleasing from a technical perspective, with two very obvious differences in style to recent years. Great to see as top teams have been implementing this for years. Still early days but you can start to see Lennys thumbprint already.)
What where the two very obvious diffrences in style, i couldnt make yesterdays game due to family engagement but i was at tyrone game and there really was no style to the performance. How strong where Cavan or was it an experimental side because what i seen on wednesday wouldnt trouble many teams even in div 4

Only scored 2-11 because tyrone took off their best players and relaxed last ten minutes and off course we took of cj who was killing our forward line. Way off the pace of tyrone even at this early stage obviously had a good christmas in Antrim. We had several players who all looked like stuffed turkeys and Tyrone were all in fantastic shape so you can tell who leads the lifestyle of a county footballer. Havnt a hope on that performance of getting out of div 4.

Tyrone in second gear, Antrim no workrate, cj 2 stone overweight , Ballymena highest represented club. Its going to be our hardest season yet. We need to look past blaming managers as our players arnt at any sort of level to seriously compete, and lenny wont be able to change that during his term.
Thought tyrone eased off and let us get a few sxores last 5 minutes otherwise could have been 30 in it. Division 1 v division 4 and it showed.

While st johns as a club cant be held to blame over the video how they handle the situation that their players and members created will say alot about them as a club. Lets not pass judgement on the club until they pass judgement on the guilty party.

No chance their club will kick them out its not the first time and wont be the last st johns member to be so disrespectful. Lots of genuine first class gaa people in st johns but have always had a section of their supporters and players who let themselves down. Been lots of talk in previous times of serious foul play in respect of verbal abuse of a personal note on the pitch that the club quickly closed rank round . Now they will have no option but to hold their hands up and say sorry but thats the most anyone can expect. WONT BE GOOD ENOUGH THIS TIME ! shame on you .

Maybe theres a case for all players eligable for a sanction to be registered at start of year so they can be brought together under a development name with similar aged players so they still get to compete at their own age group. Would save clubs leaving their own players out at certain age groups which must be demoralizing for them and their parents.

Yes Rossa had a player playing who usually represents St Teresas, would you rather the lad doesn't play his minor age group because he is loyal to his club and they can't field at that level, or allow him the chance to showcase his talents against players his own age. JimStynes i think a lot of clubs not just Belfast clubs use the rules to suit, as far as i am aware he is the only player not fully participating with the Rossa club and after todays match i don't think your club can really use that as part of the reason they were beat quite easily. Rossa have a lot of very good young players like a lot of Belfast clubs. After the weekends results i think the GAA is alive and well in Belfast. Glenavy deserve a lot of credit for today very well organised.
lastly Lamh Dhearg deserved their victory today had that wee bit more composure from experienced players like Micko, Conor and Ryan Murray,Reg and Paddy Cunningham. People talking about St Johns being the team over the next 5 years but I'm sure Lamh Dhearg will feel the same with the experienced young players they have. Anyway maybe a SW team could feature if they stop feeling sorry for themselves. Belfast GAA alive and kicking scores.