Antrim Football Thread

[asaffgael]

DR, would you have many starters overlapping for each team?

[Calm Down]

I think all hurling finals this Saturday and Sunday ,football finals the following week,

Ah, Footballers get an extra week to prepare ..

Gives you another week to prepare for reffing it MR2

[Na Glinntí Glasa]

DR, would you have many starters overlapping for each team?

quite a few of the hurling panel

starters on Sunday past - Seaan Elliott, Keelan Molloy, Aaron Crawford, Conal Cunning, Connor Kinsella, Oran Quinn, Connor McKinley

On the bench - Ryan McGarry, Chrissy McMahon, Deaglan Smyth, Karl O'Kane, Callum Scullion, Anton McGrath, Ryan mcFarline, Ciaran McQuillan, Liam McCann, Kevin McQuillan, Oisin McErlaine

hopefully ive not missed anyone out there but all them lads are still with the football panel tomorrow night

[asaffgael]

On another note, surely the county board could invest in a score board for dunsilly?

This and even some concrete steps at the hill would help nearly finish it.

Apart from the elephant in the room of the floodlights. Is this purely a funding issue?

[bannside]

Huge number of dual players alright DR. The vast majority would have hurlung as their No 1 sport, and are focussing on a county final against their biggest rivals in a few short days time. Ironically....Rossa hurlers have sound claims that but for their own dual exploits they may have had the 10% extra to get over the line yesterday. As I say, no easy answers and fair play to all the dual clubs/players out there trying to juggle both.

[Na Glinntí Glasa]

aw def BS. you could see that with the lads struggling there towards the end. Beattie was completly fuked at the end and couldnt run anymore and he had to come off.

Of course it worked in our favour this time but you cant not feel sympathy towards another dual club who are trying to be sucessfull on both fronts. Its not easy in normal times but this year its even harder for the clubs with next to no rest time given.

Something has to give and with a senior hurling final this sunday against Loughgiel, well you wont find many folk too upset in Dunloy if we lost tonight and none of the players are injured. Personally id love to see us win and make the final as theres no doubt we could (if we had a free run at it) win the IFC but thats the joys of being a dual club.

Football/hurling clubs dont have the same problems to deal with

[Rawhide]

It is true, Slaughtneil are just a club apart.

[Na Glinntí Glasa]

They most def are that but when they have become more successful with the hurling the football has suffered. The same has happened with Dungiven and Lavey over the years.

You have to go back to 1969 for St Johns as the last team to win the football and hurling in the same year. Its very hard to do the double in Antrim compared to Derry where theres only 8 hurling teams take part in the whole thing compared to 37 teams in all the football competitions, so you cant compare one with the other.

I think only St Johns, Rossa and ourselves are the only clubs to do a minor football and hurling double (correct me if im wrong) so again, its very hard to be successful in both codes in a single season,

[Milltown Row2]

They most def are that but when they have become more successful with the hurling the football has suffered. The same has happened with Dungiven and Lavey over the years.

You have to go back to 1969 for St Johns as the last team to win the football and hurling in the same year. Its very hard to do the double in Antrim compared to Derry where theres only 8 hurling teams take part in the whole thing compared to 37 teams in all the football competitions, so you cant compare one with the other.

I think only St Johns, Rossa and ourselves are the only clubs to do a minor football and hurling double (correct me if im wrong) so again, its very hard to be successful in both codes in a single season,

St Galls also 

[Na Glinntí Glasa]

my bad 

what year did St Galls do it?

[Milltown Row2]

my bad 

what year did St Galls do it?

2001 and beat in both finals the year before!

[Calm Down]

Any word on whether McCann is appealing his red card from Saturday? Apparently he head butted and it was reported by the linesman

[Belfast GAA man]

why the various Posts on mc cann? another cargin lad wasw sent off - county players are allowed to be suspended

[Calm Down]

why the various Posts on mc cann? another cargin lad wasw sent off - county players are allowed to be suspended

Well sorry Mr Angry, I have not seen nor heard anyone claiming Kane's innocence whereas the social commentary is that Mick had done nothing bar a bit of grappling, therefore they hope he will be free for the final,

Can someone get Belfast Gaa Man some Tampax please

[imtommygunn]

McCann is their best player.