Antrim Football Thread

[Minder]

You can see them coming a mile away on this site

[the colonel]

anyone no who got the player of the yr awards last nite at the county dinner?

[milltown row]

went down to watch us v Creggan. hammered them. had have played like that we'd have beaten Gaels. how the other game go today

[Great Leap Forward]

Rasharkin beat Galls by 3 and stay up. The got St Galls at the best possible time. Lamb Dhearg make the trip to division 2. Some poetic justice there after what happened in the Championship semi-final. Not even Padraig Mullan could save them today although he did play about 5 minutes injury time.

I wonder will there be a re-structuring of the league, which normally happens when a big team gets relegated.

[milltown row]

our boys turned up for a fixture, we gave Rasharkin 3 up and they went on to score an OG to level it, was a funny goal.

headed up to watch Johnnies v Lamhs poor enough encounter, big crowd up to watch Lamhs become a jubior club, div 3 hurling div 2 football!!!!  ah well always next year to regroup

[Great Leap Forward]

our boys turned up for a fixture, we gave Rasharkin 3 up and they went on to score an OG to level it, was a funny goal.

headed up to watch Johnnies v Lamhs poor enough encounter, big crowd up to watch Lamhs become a jubior club, div 3 hurling div 2 football!!!!  ah well always next year to regroup

I got the feeling there won't be many tears shed around Milltown at Lamh Dhearg's demise!

Were they up to a lot of dirty tricks at the county final?

[hightower]

how did st agnes and rasharkin div 4 finish

[Great Leap Forward]

how did st agnes and rasharkin div 4 finish

St Agnes win the division by a point. Both teams go up.

[hightower]

cheers glf,did rasharkin not finish top?

[Great Leap Forward]

cheers glf,did rasharkin not finish top?

Nah, they lost yesterday and the Aggies won today.

[milltown row]

strange how a club gets to a county final and then is relegated at the end of the season. how do clubs get into that position?

[imtommygunn]

By being too reliant on a few of players who spent quite a lot of the season injured/away...

[aontroim]

So for 2009 the leagues are going to be as follows?

DIV 1

Cargin
St. Gall's
St. Paul's
St. Brigid's
St. John's
Portglenone
Rasharkin
Creggan Kickhams
Moneyglass
Glenavy

DIV 2

Lamh Dhearg
Gort na Mona
Dunloy
St. Endas
Aghagallon
All Saints
Sarsfields
Rossa
Ahoghill
Tir na nOg

DIV 3

Davitts
Glenravel 
Ardoyne
Cargin 2
St. Teresa's
Aldergrove
St. Gall's 2
Mc Dermotts
St. Agnes'
Rasharkin 2

DIV 4

Gort na Mona 2
St. John's 2
St. Paul's 2
Portglenone 2
Lamh Dhearg 2
Eire Og
Cargin 3
St. Malachy's

(Not sure who gets promoted due to Div 5 & 6 being the same league - i think Ballycastle + another)

Will leave Div 5 & 6 for now!

Can see Glenavy and possible M'glass coming back down to Div 2 after a year.

[culchy1]

what a weekend!!

going into the weekend hadnt high hopes, but hoped we could manage somehow to stay up
& we did it just about.
talk about doing it the hard way!
as milltown said, took the lead only for one of our own boys to score an og!
with cargin already crowned league champs, yet again, having beat us the previous day, st galls didnt seem to mind if they won or not!
im sure there has been no love lost over the years between them and lamhs, incidents such as a st galls man getting a hiding outside thompsons garage by a mob of lamhs after the county final a couple of years back.
then theres the sevens tournament in co down last year, lamhs wouldnt call off a league match the next day, which they won.
you can say what you want about the mcgourtys but their all welcome in rasharkin any time,even sean!!
did kevin tell the baker his decision yet?
hope he does commit & plays championship, not like last year, where he left after a couple of league games.
great footballer & everybody knows antrim needs him as much as he needs them.

st johns deserved to stay after their performance yesterday, they went out did what they had to do.
rumours will surely resurface now about paddy cunningham heading for de la salle park.

in div 4 we fell into portglenones trap on saturday, not much football played.
even the managers were at it up the line!
ref threaten to walk, it was that bad.

fair play to st aggies, a good well disciplined side, but like ourselves will struggle, next year!




as the old saying goes, what goes round, comes round!
lamhs have got exactly what they deserved.

[Donagh]

I'm saying it will have an impact. The original premise I made was that St Mary's doing well in the MacRory can only be a good thing for the county. Not sure where you are getting the size of the impact from. I'm not predicting Sam Maguires.

The current St Mary's team doing well in the MacRory will do nothing for Antrim football as there's nothing coming behind it. The current team is the result of a good five or six years training preparation but the school and county Board have done nothing to ensure that the reward from the efforts and investments of a few individuals will continue.