Antrim Football Thread

[NAG1]

Re Fibrus MOM, all that's needed is a slight change in the wording...Fibrus Antrim Player of the Match.

Surely this is a welcome development, a way of 8/10 players per year getting a reward for their efforts.

Surely these initiatives should be applauded.

I am all for the players being recognised and rewarded.

I am not for players standing on the pitch after a defeat being asked to pose for these photo opps.

There are ways and means it could be tweaked.

[NorthAntrim]

Re Fibrus MOM, all that's needed is a slight change in the wording...Fibrus Antrim Player of the Match.

Surely this is a welcome development, a way of 8/10 players per year getting a reward for their efforts.

Surely these initiatives should be applauded.

100%. Its also an extra way of our main sponsors getting a little bit more publicity and if the players benefit also happy days

[NorthAntrim]

Re Fibrus MOM, all that's needed is a slight change in the wording...Fibrus Antrim Player of the Match.

Surely this is a welcome development, a way of 8/10 players per year getting a reward for their efforts.

Surely these initiatives should be applauded.

I am all for the players being recognised and rewarded.

I am not for players standing on the pitch after a defeat being asked to pose for these photo opps.

There are ways and means it could be tweaked.

Are you also against the players standing for selfies after a defeat or signing jerseys/hurls of kids?

[imtommygunn]

[AllStar15]

Re Fibrus MOM, all that's needed is a slight change in the wording...Fibrus Antrim Player of the Match.

Surely this is a welcome development, a way of 8/10 players per year getting a reward for their efforts.

Surely these initiatives should be applauded.

Not against the the actual idea, I think it's great to have a company like Fibrus on board and getting their airtime. I just think that after a defeat or a heavy defeat, it's a bit embarrassing for the player receiving, that's all. 

[NAG1]

Re Fibrus MOM, all that's needed is a slight change in the wording...Fibrus Antrim Player of the Match.

Surely this is a welcome development, a way of 8/10 players per year getting a reward for their efforts.

Surely these initiatives should be applauded.

I am all for the players being recognised and rewarded.

I am not for players standing on the pitch after a defeat being asked to pose for these photo opps.

There are ways and means it could be tweaked.

Are you also against the players standing for selfies after a defeat or signing jerseys/hurls of kids?

Wow tetchy for a Monday morning.

I find it cringeworthy the Fibrus award. Same for the hurling awards that's my opinion. To me it plays into a psyche that we have had for too long within the Antrim set ups. Nothing to do with the players getting rewarded for what they do for the county.

Staying on the pitch with the kids is completely different and to be admired by all of the teams across the board who do it.

[barnish oggie]

Wouldn't say turgid Kidder, that was indeed the case last week in Sligo, but yesterday I thought we had a proper go, and died with our boots on.

Players working their way into squad/team such as Kavan Keenan and last year's newbies Colm McLarnon and Ronan Boyle all did well yesterday, amongst our better performers.

On yesterday's display we should have enough to beat Wicklow in our last game  and anything we get against Clare (away) is a bonus.

To miss so many scorable frees was criminal yesterday.

Couple those with the 2 missed goal chances and we could have easily won that game.

Westmeath were no great shakes but they knew in the second half all they had to do was keep calm and maintain their margin without too much exertion as they had that gap due to our misses.

[Spike]

There is a reason why both these teams are in division 3 and shot selection and composure are two of them. 

Antrim missed plenty but lets be fair so did Westmeath who carved us open through the middle at times with ease.  Cant fault the effort from the players, gave their all just were beaten by a better side on the day.  Big effort needed for the wicklow match in particular

[bannside]

Tbh I thought we were a fair bit more wasteful than them, and but for our wastage count in front if goals we would have been celebrating a solid victory. (Don't forget they beat us out the gate last year).

The wastage stat in front of goals is a cause for concern, but in many cases the opportunity was presented on the back of good link up play and as we all know, there's days they go on the scoreboard, and days they don't. Dommo hit the crossbar when a goal would have levelled it, and I thought if that had gone in, we could have gone on to claim both points.

Not concerned too much, I do believe we can retain our Div 3 status and that's the first Box ticked for the season.

The referee was Offaly bad, ridiculous that a ref was appointed from a county with a clear interest in the outcome of the match.

[barnish oggie]

Tbh I thought we were a fair bit more wasteful than them, and but for our wastage count in front if goals we would have been celebrating a solid victory. (Don't forget they beat us out the gate last year).

The wastage stat in front of goals is a cause for concern, but in many cases the opportunity was presented on the back of good link up play and as we all know, there's days they go on the scoreboard, and days they don't. Dommo hit the crossbar when a goal would have levelled it, and I thought if that had gone in, we could have gone on to claim both points.

Not concerned too much, I do believe we can retain our Div 3 status and that's the first Box ticked for the season.

The referee was Offaly bad, ridiculous that a ref was appointed from a county with a clear interest in the outcome of the match.

We made that joke about the ref as well yesterday!!

But it was true.

And the wastefulness in front of goal can happen, but missing easy frees is less forgivable.

I know Byrne missed one in the second half but there were 3 easy ones (for him) he should have taken before that, that you just knew weren't going to be close.

You usually know if a free taker is going to be on his game from the first one and yesterday the change to Byrne taking them should have been made sooner.

[Lár na páirce 1]

Hopefully the Antrim masters teams go better than our senior side plenty of old timers reappearing I've heard

[Hoof Hearted]

Hopefully the Antrim masters teams go better than our senior side plenty of old timers reappearing I've heard

Off the pitch as well as on it AFAIK 

[Milltown Row2]

Few all Ireland winners on it.

Bannside will sort it

[Round or stuffed]

not much chat around the start of the league, who is the team to watch in each division?

[GAABoardMod5]

Knock off the naming of posters.

Not impressed with comments on refs either.

A few posts deleted.

Next will be some permanent bans if it continues.

Mod5