Antrim Hurling

[keep her low this half]

If its 2 through could probably guess group 1 being louguile & Rossa.
However if 3rd gets Q/F could st endas put it up to ballycastle?

Group 2 I'd imagine Dunloy to top with cushendall and the johnnies battling for 2/3rd

Ballycastle drew with Dunloy and St Johns in the championship last year with a very young team. I wouldn't be writing them off just yet, fully capable of springing a surprise.

[saffman]

Agreed & if they build on that again no reason they can't reach the semi finals and give it a rattle themselves.
Just think in group 1 if st endas are to be optimistic at all they'll be targetting the town for a result.
Unfortunately I just don't see it happening on group 2 for tir na nog at all. It is still great though seeing likes of Stuff endas & tir na nog up in the Snr championship

[imtommygunn]

for me ballycastle and rossa have similarities. Both with their best panels are very useful. The covid and lockdown stuff has meant a lot less of their players could travel etc as both seem to fall into that camp where they have a lot of players who do which weakens them a lot.

Ballycastle, can't mind how many years ago, really threw a championship away and should have buried cushendall and it's not even all that long ago so they must have some talent about.

[Plain of the Herbs]

People of Antrim. It recently came to my attention that Olcan McFetridge won an Antrim and Ulster Club SHC with Loughgiel in 1989. How was this possible in he was a Glen Rovers Armoy club man? Was there a bye law at the time to enable this? Just curious.

[imtommygunn]

He moved club that year is all it was I think. I don't think he was an armoured player that year but he did move back.

[keep her low this half]

He moved club that year is all it was I think. I don't think he was an armoured player that year but he did move back.

It wasn't as straight forward as that. He had missed club championship with Armoy for the previous 2 years due to injury. When Armoy withdrew from the senior championship that year ( we had wanted to drop to intermediate but were not allowed ) he wanted to hurl in a club championship. That year he fielded for Armoy in the league, Div 1 and for Loughgiel in the Championship.
Don't ask me how those rules worked.

[imtommygunn]

I didn't know any of that. Interesting.

[johnnycool]

He moved club that year is all it was I think. I don't think he was an armoured player that year but he did move back.

It wasn't as straight forward as that. He had missed club championship with Armoy for the previous 2 years due to injury. When Armoy withdrew from the senior championship that year ( we had wanted to drop to intermediate but were not allowed ) he wanted to hurl in a club championship. That year he fielded for Armoy in the league, Div 1 and for Loughgiel in the Championship.
Don't ask me how those rules worked.

Some obscure county bye-law. 

Sambo was able to avail of one back in the day.

[Antrim Coaster]

Wasn't that the year that Shamrock Rovers won the Antrim SHC?

[Saffrongael]

Wasn't that the year that Shamrock Rovers won the Antrim SHC?

Yeah that was the last one before their drought

[imtommygunn]

They playing a team down in Carey in the AI semi final. I can't even mind who it was. If I mind rightly they only got beat by a point. Ollie Kilkenny? was playing for the other team.

[ardtole]

What clubs amalgamated to form shamrock rovers and what year?

[ned]

What clubs amalgamated to form shamrock rovers and what year?

Loughgiel and Cloot.

[Plain of the Herbs]

Loughgiel played Ballybrown from Limerick in the All-Ireland semi-final. I came on the match programme last week and saw Olcan was listed in the Loughgiel team. It didn't make sense as I knew he was Armoy, so I raised the query here.

They playing a team down in Carey in the AI semi final. I can't even mind who it was. If I mind rightly they only got beat by a point. Ollie Kilkenny? was playing for the other team.

[imtommygunn]

I thought it was a Limerick team with Kilkenny from Galway playing lol.

Yeah fair enough question. I wasn't aware of the circumstances surrounding it but it definitely was an odd one.