Antrim Football Thread

[rogercasement]

To be fair EOC I would discount Ahoghill, they consider themselves to have had a good year if they beat us once. Plus they quadrupled their efforts against us, that would annoy me if I was in their management also all they want to do is pull and drag, they try and play football against other teams and get blown away, don't understand them. Either play one way or the other.

[Dunsilly King]

Don't think he is any more a step up than Dillon. Dillon has a better CV, having coached Derry at senior and u21 level. He has also been with UU Jordanstown in Sigerson the past 5 yrs. Think they are both of a similar level with Dillon having experience at a higher level

[Saffsof82]

Strength and Conditioning in the PG1 set up will be arguably better than the county set up MR. John McKeever is well on top of things like this.

I wouldn't say we are favourites Stiffler, but I'm not going to apologise for saying that I would definitely expect to see noticeable improvement, and that should realistically leave us close enough.

Can't see how ports S&c can be better than county BS! Anyone who has been in county hurling as last 2 years has made great progress under Brendan Murphy and he's up with more with the footballers this year it can only bode well. Hard to imagine ports bringing in a specialist of his calibre but maybe yous have someone lined up?

[country bumpkin]

Do hear what you are saying BS but cannot see PG1 scaling the heights any time soon.
J Mc K may well encourage better but to win a senior championship an essential ingredient is most certaily strength in depth and although I do have a slightly vested interest in Casement's your failure to impress at under age level above under 13 for a time such is a stumbling block to early success.

Some may well be involved in well rehearsed requiems for Cargin but have observed a steely resolve within and regret that they did not fire on all cylinders last year and firm intentions to get it right next year.
Creggan will no doubt be favourites to retain Mc Namee next year and such by right.
However to retain with the target on their back is a more difficult task.
Takes a good team to win it and a better team to hold on to the prize and a tremendous feat to make it three in a row.

Casement's will be ready for battle in 2022 but in all honesty I just cannot see them bring Mr Mc Namee to Portglenone.

May well prove me wrong but will be the first to congratulate them if they breast the line as winners in 2022.

[bannside]

Brendan Murphy is very highly rated, there's no dispute about that. We are happy though with the new S&C set up that JMK has put in place.

UUJ have gone completely backwards these last 5 years so I don't think that's a yardstick to measure anything except spectacular underperformance.

Again CB, your opinion may well be right. Of course there is still a gap, but I think we can find some improvement this year under a fresh management. Time will tell of course, all we are doing is speculating!

[Milltown Row2]

Hard to ascertain college football, you can only play the kids that go to the college, that changes, and last year there was no football

[bannside]

Just not getting the right kids now at UUJ. That's what it is....

[bannside]

Lol CB. Everyone is preaching a well rehearsed requiem for poor old Erin's Own! Don't think anyone is falling for that one just because of a sub standard 30 minutes football.

Right here and now Cargin are favourites for 2022 closely followed by your Lough shore neighbours. The odds on the rest are rightly higher. There's a reason for this!

There's a few others in the pack though who could nip a result on any given day.

[country bumpkin]

Lol CB. Everyone is preaching a well rehearsed requiem for poor old Erin's Own! Don't think anyone is falling for that one just because of a sub standard 30 minutes football.

Right here and now Cargin are favourites for 2022 closely followed by your Lough shore neighbours. The odds on the rest are rightly higher. There's a reason for this!

There's a few others in the pack though who could nip a result on any given day.

Not making reference requiems in the present era, but u must recall Cargin falling at the final hurdle on 11 separate occasions to the delight of more than a few.
"That's it, they won't be back," a well rehearsed phrase as many tripped out of Casement.

Of course upsets, are possible but this year there was a strong section and a not so strong section.
Casement's did occupy a place in the latter.

County bye law does require a 'seeding system', which possibly because of present circumstance was not employed in 2021.
A return to such will ensure a different climate....

J Mc K may well encourage improvement but.....the path to the top is steep and requires at least 25 sturdy individuals to carry the load...

[Milltown Row2]

Lol CB. Everyone is preaching a well rehearsed requiem for poor old Erin's Own! Don't think anyone is falling for that one just because of a sub standard 30 minutes football.

Right here and now Cargin are favourites for 2022 closely followed by your Lough shore neighbours. The odds on the rest are rightly higher. There's a reason for this!

There's a few others in the pack though who could nip a result on any given day.

It may take 2/3 seasons to get the benefits of a new manager, luck, experience and settling into new tasks will provide some humps on the road to success, at least you'll have the ones complaining about managers getting paid off your back 

[bannside]

Welcome Antrim, that's a decent team right there if the remit was within the last 25 years. Not too many positions there that you could argue about. Justy a fine servant too, steady as the town clock.

Ricky in the full back line somewhere must be worthy of consideration. Joe Quinn at Midfield also has to be in contention, and Aodhan Gallagher never let club or county down.

We haven't been spoiled by marquee forwards in this time. CJ was one but never rose to the heights that were anticipated for a variety of reasons and the outstanding club forward during this era surely had to be Ciaran Close.

It depends on the terms of reference. Is it ability, it is consistently high level of county service, or is it the best players seen during that time...in which case Kieran Mc Gourty is nailed on somewhere!

No one could dispute the talent of Kevin Mc Gourty, but he dazzled only to deceive in Saffron, and the big one who got away was possibly the best of the lot. Eddie Quinn.

All about opinions.....

[shawshank]

UUJ use to target top players to entice them to the uni. They stopped that policy.

[bannside]

Indeed. So much outlay for such little return. Meanwhile Paddy Tally was making the most out of what he had.

[imtommygunn]

How many years did Sheeny McQuillan play for antrim?

[Dunsilly King]

Welcome Antrim, that's a decent team right there if the remit was within the last 25 years. Not too many positions there that you could argue about. Justy a fine servant too, steady as the town clock.

Ricky in the full back line somewhere must be worthy of consideration. Joe Quinn at Midfield also has to be in contention, and Aodhan Gallagher never let club or county down.

We haven't been spoiled by marquee forwards in this time. CJ was one but never rose to the heights that were anticipated for a variety of reasons and the outstanding club forward during this era surely had to be Ciaran Close.

It depends on the terms of reference. Is it ability, it is consistently high level of county service, or is it the best players seen during that time...in which case Kieran Mc Gourty is nailed on somewhere!

No one could dispute the talent of Kevin Mc Gourty, but he dazzled only to deceive in Saffron, and the big one who got away was possibly the best of the lot. Eddie Quinn.

All about opinions.....

That's it.  I toyed with Aodhan Gallagher and with Joe Quinn but those performances from Shenny McQuillan during the Brian White days made me go with him.  Maybe would change it to Aidso the more I think of it for consistency.

Millions of talent like the McGourtys but I suppose you have to go with who actually did it all the time.  Anyway, I signed up when you were all talking about this but activation to join only came through last night so that's why I thought I'd post anyway!!

Happy Christmas lol

S Kelly is not the best CHB we have had, not by a distance. WHB yes.