Antrim Hurling

[Minder]

The very pleasant & helpful Admin on the Antrim Site has now said that "most" clubs have agreed to move the games to the Saturday and all county players are available.

[Guillem2]

So are the league matches on this weekend on not. Saturday or Sunday. Does anybody know?

[milltown row]

we are playing sat night 5.30 at Milltown

[Minder]

Haven't a baldy!  We were out last (have to mention a very good display and win v Rossa) and the managment told us that we're playing on Sunday v Glenariffe.  Wee bit annoyed again that the club hurlers are asked to change and sacrifice for the county.  Is next weekend not a football weekend?  Surely that was the time to organise a friendly.  Having said that Sambo and Woody are obviously looking the best preparation possible for this Dublin match and fair dues to them.

Who do you play at the weekend MR?  We've Glenariffe which should be a good competitive match.  It'll tell a lot about ourselves after the match on Sunday.  We've had great old battles over the eyars with them but that few years in a row in Division 1 will have made them favourites.  Having said that, it was a great rivalry and good to get it going again.

We will be without Dan Mc Killop, you can imagine the response he got when he rang the manager to tell him he wouldnt be there and was playing in a friendly...........

[maxpower]

Think Dunloy are playing St Johns on Sunday

[Tony Baloney]

Says on the county webshite that only 100 tickets were sold to the general public at Casement!

[Minder]

Says on the county webshite that only 100 tickets were sold to the general public at Casement!

I saw that, in fairness they dont get much more than 100 in Casement ! Ithought there would have been more. I will be there with the rest of the believers and bandwagoners.

[clootfromthe21]

What's the story with the County Website - anyone else having difficulties getting on to it?

Score from the challenge - Clare 3 22 to Antrim 1 13. More competitive than that scoreline suggests - was 1 13 to 1 6 at half time and Antrim had a string of points to bring it back to a couple in it about 10 minutes into the second half. Thereafter, they just couldn't score with any fluency - missed about 3 good goal chances and had a rake of wides. Clare scored about 2 4 in the last five minutes to give the scoreline the look of a bad beating. Defence did well. Midfield and half forward was a bit ropey. Full forward line got a reasonable amount of ball but just didn't use it well at all.

[Mhic Easmuint]

What's the story with the County Website - anyone else having difficulties getting on to it?

Hosting on the county website was upgraded.  It can still be accessed from: http://www.antrimgaa.net/
Will hopefully get http://antrim.gaa.ie redirected in the next couple of days.

[Minder]

Glenariffe beat Gort Na Mona easier than i thought they would. Gorts never travel well to us.

[Arthur_Friend]

The Glenariff-Gortnamona game was excellent to watch, very fast moving and both sides getting stuck in. A few wild swings from the Gort boys but nothing malicious. One of their guys got a straight red for jabbing a Glenariff player in the ribs after being fouled. Very stupid, the ref was standing directly in front of him, plus the game was over at this stage.

[johnneycool]

Ballycastle turned us over on saturday by three points. I have impressed by McAuley in centre back even if we did play into his hands and pump everything up the middle. They do have a fairly young team in general but lack a bit of quality in the forwards to go that extra bit to challenge Dunloy, Cushendall and Loughgiel come championship time. Our lads had chances to take the game when we got the lead down to a point but for woefull decision making in our midfeild and half forwards, trying to run it past a physically bigger opponent in tight confines. The number of times the ball could and should have been moved into the full forwards with a ground pull or early delivery but instead the man in possession chose to run it and ultimately fucked up. Our full forward line was making hay when they got possession but once Ballycastle deployed a spare man to sweep up at the start of the second half we never got to grips with it and played rignt into their hands by having to bring magic out from the corner into the middle of the congestion, he did get the odd point but we needed more at that stage.

Good win for the Crans over the weekend.

[maxpower]

Crans & Ballycastle seem to be making progress this year. Though as has been said many times you have be careful when you beat the dall in the league, the best and only team who can treat the league with contempt almost and still put out a championship winning team.

Last year was talking to a Cushendall man after the Ulster success and he said they had only performed well in 3 games in total all year.  Just happened to be Championship final and Ulster canpaign.

We beat St John's in a poor match, conditions were heavy and St Johns seemed to have a very young team out

[milltown row]

we beat Tir Na Og on sat night, won by four but were up by ten at one stage. they have a great full forward. big lad hard to stop who managed to score all their scores i think.

they got well worked up those Randlestown lads. cheering and jerring when they won puck outs and frees!!!!! they played it like championship

i played against Ballymena yesterday, a serious amount of sledging going on. who coaches these teams? they were crap, hit the man first and try and get the ball later

[the colonel]

ha ha ha, thats quality!