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On top of what Maroon Manc said I think I can remember 4 or 5 times late on where Blind just chipped the ball downfield to their defenders. United didn't really have any target man but the balls he played didn't give Martial any chance. Yet he kept doing it.

The sending off was big but I was worried about this one anyway. Also feel Liverpool are due a result against United so not confident about that either. West Ham looked poor for the 65/70 minutes of their game I saw but obviously turned it around dramatically. Big 4 games coming. Could be in the shit or buzzing in two weeks, odds aren't favouring the latter.

Boys yet again I think we are misplacing the blame here, Blind is not a centre back, he is and has been one of the most consistent and actually creative player the team has had all season. Yes he was not good on Sunday but the whole team had a serious off day.

I think it is just where the team are currently with so many young players and the team changing so often.

I would be more concerned with the form of Darmian who seems to have lost all confidence, hopefully a run of games will help him because I thought he was a really big prospect for that position.

Its the idiot who keeps picking Blind, he's a backup left back at best. He's not good enough in midfield to be a United player and as a centre half he's made mistake after mistake, lost count of the amount of times he wanders away from his man in the box, only happened a few weeks ago against Chelsea and it cost us a win that day.

Shows you what the manager must think of Blackett that he let a young centre half go out on loan when they are so stretched.

I think when LVG let Blackett go out on loan he had Blind, Shaw, Rojo, Darmian and Young who could all play left back. I don't believe Blackett is pulling up any trees at Celtic either.

I'm getting married later in the year and we're attending a pre-wedding course which is being ran by accord.  It's ran over Friday evening and Saturday.

What can I expect at this?  I understand the topics are co-ordinated by lay-people. 

Fermanagh is definitely incorrect.  Including hurling and ladies there's still less than 40.

Fair play Bingo well done.

Now for that 3 hour barrier!

That will take some doing but never say never.

Thats a bit of a shame.  I ran Berlin on Sunday and was hoping to see how I felt this weekend before deciding whether or not to enter.  I guess they have to cut it off sometime.

Yeah, its a close call but I took the leap and will run it, what the pace will be will be decided over the coming weeks.

How did you find Berlin?

It was my first marathon so I don't have a lot to compare it to... but I thought it was fantastic.  There was great support the whole way and I found the stations well stocked.  It was very flat and the weather was perfect.  I've seen some people complain about the cups of water but I didn't find it an issue (I was hoping for a sub 5 hour so it didn't bother me to stop and sip it).  The bag drop was well enough signposted I thought.  I finished in 4.53 which I was delighted to get and I'll definitely run more marathons now.  I'd highly recommend Berlin to a first timer.  What did you think?  You were going for a much quicker time...... did you find the stations problematic?

Just in case anyone should might miss it, entry for Dublin Marathon closes tomorrow at 5pm. Surprising how people are training for it now and will actually miss the registration cut-off.

Thats a bit of a shame.  I ran Berlin on Sunday and was hoping to see how I felt this weekend before deciding whether or not to enter.  I guess they have to cut it off sometime.

Still hard to bate a Mondeo!

Haha, true that!

Come on LL, keep this updated 

Nothing constructive to add, but best of luck with everything Helpneeded.

Based on what I've seen so far and what I expect to happen in the remaining games:

Kealy (think Kerry will win the AI, and in the absence of any outstanding performers this year I think he'll get it)

Higgins
Marc O'Se
Enright

Keegan
Harte
Flynn

Maher
Moran

Connolly
Gooch
O'Brien

McManus
AOS
Brogan

I think McManus deserves one, but if someone lights up the semis and final (Donaghy, JOD, COC, Kilkenny, Rock, McCurry) then they will probably come in at his expense.  Connolly will probably need to hit 6/7 points over the next couple of games to keep his place too.

This is depressing for me as literally if we (Antrim) had anything close to a full team we could (given the draw) be in an All Ireland Quarter Final. We tore through Fermanagh last year with some of our better attacking players (about 9 of which were unavailable this year for reasons only they know).

I said before it was our C team playing Fermanagh this year so losing to them was inevitable. They are well organised with a couple of good attackers, nothing more but yet that is enough to beat half the teams in the country. Our club teams would run over the top of Fermanagh teams at the moment.

I agree they've only beaten Ross (who are well organised and have improved but are defo seriously lacking up front) and Westmeath (who are atrocious at the back and everyone thought were fantastic as they made a comeback v a Meath team who looked like they were going to win by 20 points) and our C team.

We would defo fancy our chances with a full (or anywhere near to it) team of getting to the AIQF. The reason we haven't is that we are a mess ran by a joke County Board, who have no desire to succeed, spreading apathy to the players, supporters and kids growing up in our County that includes the 2nd largest populated City on the Island. We should (given our population and number of clubs) be hockeying the rest of Ulster (Dublin Style) year in and out.

Sorry for the rant but it's frustrating to watch teams with inferior players progress further than us due to lack of structure/pride in ourselves.

Lay off the drugs.

[good county board]

Two rubbish teams playing each other once again. Fermanagh to win at a canter.

It's great the way you keep commenting about antrim fermanagh to say how rubbish the two teams are rubbish. A real valuable contribution

Fermanagh are probably a better side than your lot. Unfortunately we're nit but maybe in a one off game who knows.

"Keep commenting"? Not sure I ever commented before but I simply made a prediction which was spot on. Fermanagh are a very poor collection of players who are well coached, brilliant manager, good county board and good loyal support. They deserve to be still playing in the qualifiers.
Antrim have none of these and deserve nothing! A 2nd half Laois collapse gave them their 5mins of fame but let's face it it's been an embarrassing year, even by Antrim standards.
I know there are good Gaels in Antrim (I'm related to a few of them) but the lack of professional structure, know how, expertise, tradition and player development means they send out teams every year which are a laughing stock.

Good one

[I am quite sure Cargin would give them a run for it and St Gall's would most likely beat them]

Another championship defeat and those who hammer their keyboards can have no hope in their hearts........we are languishing at the bottom of the heap and even the most ardent optimist within the ranks of the long suffering followers of the Saffron would struggle to look forward.
Kevin Madden was spot on in the Irish News.
We are a county who constantly field without our best players, have no training facilities or structured development planning and are led by a county board which looks on the polishing of egos as their main concern.
As to the future..........well consider who is the front runner for the chairman's post!
Jeez we were beaten by Fermanagh..........I am quite sure Cargin would give them a run for it and St Gall's would most likely beat them.

You can't be serious?

Serious indeed and hanging my head in shame.......Sorry but Fermanagh were,and I think are a poor side indeed.......Antrim were hanging in there untul a few minutes from the end......a man down..........and forced into action without the likes of Niblock, Sean Kelly, Bam Neeson, Aodhan Gallagher, Sean Burke, Kobo O' Boyle, the Mc Canns (Mick, Tomas, and Paul) M Magill etc..........

I've watched Cargin recently and they wouldn't get within 15 points of Fermanagh.  They scored 7 points (if I remember correctly) against Lamh Dearg at the game I attended and they were poor.  I don't think St Galls would have any forward other than Niblock who would start for Fermanagh.

I've no doubt that St Gall's and Cargin are good club teams with plenty of good players, but it's nonsense to suggest they would beat a well drilled county team who have been promoted to Division 2.

i am a big fan of the Benzema rumor, I actually think he would be a great fit...

Aye, Benzema would definitely come to Liverpool.

TFT very insightful. Interesting that you are in Liverpool yourself though, or was that just at the time of the post?

Ive no idea what you're on about.  No chance of Benzema coming to Liverpool - get realistic.  A couple of weeks ago someone here was talking about getting Klopp and bringing Reus too.  Think more along the lines of Milner and Ings.  Liverpool don't have the wage structure or CL to attract someone like Reus/Benzema. 

i am a big fan of the Benzema rumor, I actually think he would be a great fit...

Aye, Benzema would definitely come to Liverpool.

[I am quite sure Cargin would give them a run for it and St Gall's would most likely beat them]

Another championship defeat and those who hammer their keyboards can have no hope in their hearts........we are languishing at the bottom of the heap and even the most ardent optimist within the ranks of the long suffering followers of the Saffron would struggle to look forward.
Kevin Madden was spot on in the Irish News.
We are a county who constantly field without our best players, have no training facilities or structured development planning and are led by a county board which looks on the polishing of egos as their main concern.
As to the future..........well consider who is the front runner for the chairman's post!
Jeez we were beaten by Fermanagh..........I am quite sure Cargin would give them a run for it and St Gall's would most likely beat them.

You can't be serious?