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went to game on sunday myself. what a great game for a neutral to watch, I loved every min of it.

I thought cdall got out of jail, they didn't play well but you have to admire them for sticking at it to stay level. I thought sneill had it when they went up by a point near the death but the dall fought back and scored a free again.

sneill were def the better team and will be disappointed at not winning it.

thought the ref was poor, as others have said. personally I didn't think Shane should have walked. the ball was there to be pulled on, is it foul to do so? im not a ref but natty done the same in the first half and got booked and I thought there was nothing wrong with it. Big carson should have walked for the head butt though.

I umpired at lower level national league games a number of years back and the ref and 4 umpires all get food expenses. the ref gets mileage as well.

that's it. there's no other payments that was made to him other than that.

now I haven't done umpiring in a long time but I cant imagine it changing that much since then, though I could be wrong.

I agree, they must have a great step up at the club to get to both finals in one year. how many of their panel are dual players?

Cant see C'dall getting it overly tight. Will be close and hard fought till half time but would exect them to pull clear in the last quarter. It was a lot better set up for Slaughneil last year, footballers where out in the first round which left them the guts of 3 months to concentrate on hurling only. With a combination of the hurling starting later in the year and the footballers now through to the final I cant see how they will be as well prepared and it showed in Derry final. They are selecting from almost the same panel of players. Great year for them all the same, won the hurling, beat in camogie final and through to the football final.

I forgot they have the football final next week. they have done really well this season to get to both finals. it might just tell on them tho it is do able.

dunloy won the antrim senior hurling and antrim intermediate football finals and both teams made the ulster finals that year. it is possible but extremely hard to spread all the players if they are dual.

I will be at the Cushendall game.

I honestly think they will get it tight in this one, I hope im wrong as the potential is there in that team to be even better than they have shown this season

I rem us playing them a number of years back in the early 2000's and they give us a right tight game until half time. they scored a goal early on and made life difficult for us.

I will be at that game on Sunday myself, it should be a good one.

Hard to argue on your point regards Galls path to the final. Still if their 3 main forwards (McAreavey, Stewart and CJ) had taken their chances then it would have been very close. Defensively they were every bit as good as the Dall.

If, If, If, - that's what separates teams.
I still think Cushendall had more in the tank - IF St Galls had have pushed them then Cushendall would have upped their game also.

The Slaughtneil game will be in Owenbeg I believe.
Hopefully no shocks.

same for ourselves. if we had of taken our chances we could of beat Cushendall. we didn't and they deserved to win.

slaughtneill will give Cushendall their fill for this game, it wont be a big score between them if the dall win. they proved last year v lgiel they are capable of matching them

rossa are where they need to be at the moment, sometimes you need to take a team apart and build from scratch again. this is what they have done this time around and it has allowed young players like Seaghan Shannon to flourish in midfield.

winning this and blooding a few minors into the team isn't enough, it takes hard work at underage level and progressing the under 16's/minors on constantly towards the team will be the long term goal.

but hopefully they do well this weekend

there is a chance for them, they ran lgiel close this year and this past two games Cushendall haven't really 'let loose' as people have been saying. well when are they going to do this and will they?

Cushendall deserved to win it this year as they won all their games. was a poor championship IMO, I thought loughgiel, ballycastle and ourselves were all poor and didn't play anything that they were capable of.

Cushendall will need to step it up even more if they are serious about making a go at winning ulster and getting over the all Ireland semi hurdle.

I think st galls will give Cushendall a good game, it wont be any sort of hammering at all. I do think Cushendall will pull away at the end to win by 5 at the end up but I def think that st galls will stick with them.

Suggesting the shamrocks are finished after one defeat reminds me of the years when Dunloy were supposedly finished - still lifted the volunteer cup again.
I don't think they'll be far off again next year - or the year after that either.

No problem for me supporting the Antrim champions - our city teams don't have are not rivals of the glens sides any more unfortunately! One day eh!

Prove me wrong MR2?

agreed, I've heard so many times over the past 6-7 years that we as a club were done, that we had nothing coming through etc. etc. everything goes in phases in antrim, loughgiel have had their period of dominace same as ourselves and Cushendall in the past 20 years. I would be surprised if loughgiel started to dominate again as the team they have is just that much older.

Cushendall look really good, a mix of youth and experience in their team and they aren't that old either. that's not saying they will automatically win this years final but they look have it in them to become the team to beat over the next few years

[IF IF IF]

That Dall team are young. Could be around for a while. IF IF IF that Ballycastle squad could get their act together things could get interesting. Can't see the Shams doing the damage next season. Think they now need to change things up a little

same thing every season with them. ive seen nothing from them to suggest they will in the past 3 years.

ive been to all Ireland semis involving Cushendall and cheered them on. there's a mutual respect between the clubs, much the same as there is between ourselves and loughgiel.

difference is I don't want loughgiel to win and they are the same, so were both happy doing this lol

If the county senior final is in loughgiel, can St Galls hire the local horn blowers for the afternoon?

I'd say the Loughgiel supporters will rally in behind the city slickers

Honorary chip eaters for the day!?

most def, tho they will still all have those lgiel hoddies/tracksuit tops glued onto them