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Fair play to Meath there, hunger hanging out of them all over the pitch that second half.

Great to see a new 3G gaelic pitch setup in Poleglass. Really impressive facility and should benefit that area significantly in the next few years.  I assume that was mostly funded by Belfast City Council?

A messy one by all accounts, Mitchels put up somewhere in the region of £300,000 which was around 1/3 of the total costs i think. The rest was made up from Lisburn city council and a nearby fold housing or somthing like that. the project was then handed over to Belfast City council as it fell into their boundries after the Council mergers in 2015 and now Mitchels have to pay top dollar to play on it with their only perk being a perferred booking (they have pick of bookings). Being honest i don't fully understand how these things work as the agreement with LCC was that Mitchels were joint owners of the facility as such and but when the powers shifted to Belfast and their sourced out English Leisure company they got screwed over and have to pay to train/play on a facility they already paid for. Maybe it is that BCC had to pay for all new assets and as such LCC gained the money back and it is them screwing the club over but one thing is for sure it is messy and at the moment not suprising with all that is going on.

That is absolutely disgusting. i really hope Mitchells take this as far as they can, I'm sure securing that pitch as a home was seen as a springboard to getting the underage back going again, hope they get something sorted.

Very exciting appointment, third Ulster man to manage Celtic in the past 11 years.

I'd love to see us bring Jimmy McClean to Celtic Park this summer.

I wouldn't, he's not a Rodgers kinda player. His style of play suits where he is, hard work and press. Rodgers likes a more technical player.

i go to the NW200 every year, always enjoy the atmosphere. To even link it to the 12th is wrong imho I've never seen anything that would suggest that. Yes road racing is mostly done by protestants over here but they do have a real passion for the sport.

i think your spot on skull. It was apparent that we didnt have a big support there on sunday.

i suppose im old enough to have seen the big antrim support that was at the games during the late 80', through the 90's. Even the ulster hurling finals were attended by a massive crowd who would usually sit all over the grass hills at Casement Park and were entertained by two good games at minor and senior level. The football games were still well attended despite us not winning a game for so many years. I was lucky enough to be at the Down game when we finally broke the losing run and finally win a match in the championship.

Those days of a big support are gone, and long gone at that. I would struggle to name you a single person i know who attended Croke Park on sat to watch the football from my neck of the woods. The interest just isnt there any more. Its not just football, its the hurling as well. Unless the games at home most people wouldnt attend an antrim hurling match.

How could we even justify opening casement to house around 1000 people? after the novelty has wore off the place who would even want to go to play a game at an empty stadium?

http://www.football365.com/news/brno-czech-football-stadium-rebuilt

this is what casement needs never mind the white elephant!!!!

hope dunsilly doesn't end up like woodlands which is a hole

in what way is it a hole? New changing pavilion, great parking facilities and a full size 3G floodlit pitch... aye def a hole

In South Antrim they play football games on a Thursday night for more recreational purposes, the bigger clubs who already have 2 decent teams get a chance to give older fellas and the lads who just want the craic a game and for smaller clubs who dont have or cant field a reserve team it gives them a chance to give games to lads who maybe aren't getting much first team football with a couple of older lads thrown in. Ive played a bit of it myself and not overly competitive and usually good craic.

Neil Lennon throwing his hat int he ring for Ronnies job again

Wouldn't want him back, he had his time, thought he would walk into a job in the english prem and when he didn't and had a grim time at Bolton he thinks Celtic will take him back? Thanks for the memories Neill but not again. In fact, would go as far as to say id rather John Hughes or Paul Hartley before Lennon again

Let Ronny win the league and then go, citing personal reasons or something similar. Dont want David Moyes, very rarely did a Moyes team ever go out and try put 3-4 past someone he's all about getting 1 up and defending it. We need to think outside the box, whats Rodgers doing these days? i know he's a Celtic man and the chance to bring celtic into the champions league might be enough for him. Big Mick would be a good shout, seems to be able to get lesser players to play good football and dig out results. he's doing a great job with Ipswich and his main striker as Daryl Murphy who couldnt hit a barn door for us!

Is there not a few decent gaelic teams in KK? i thought there was a decent enough interest in club football to a certain extent anyway.

They tend to do this in blasts, few weeks/ month or so they are flat out then you dont see or here from them for 6 months. just park the big guzzler up for a few weeks and take the wife/ daughters micro/ fiesta to work! lol

Streamed the last episode of American Crime Story last night, really enjoyed it. think it portrayed the whole saga well and showed what a crazy circus the whole trial was. it also reflected the powder keg that LA was at the time. I see they've commissioned a 2nd series, dont know what it will be focusing on but itll be hard to top this. very enjoyable with a star studded cast who brought their A game.

The cathal McCarron situation is nothing even close to what went on with the antrim hurlers.

You only need to speak one recent manager to get the truth about the set up - and KR told us all the truth plenty of times. It no secret at all.

I think we can safely say there's more than one issue wrong with Antrim county hurling.

No end of issues.



Where does the repair job start?

Do we pull out of the CR?

I don't think pulling out of the CR is an option, we are too big a county to not field a senior hurling team. Would maybe be benificial to play the u-21s get them a good few games and let them maybe gel to try give an all Ireland u21 a rattle. Maybe not to win but at least be competitive.

I think we are going to have bigger issues here than players off the panel. the problem being that every man and their dog has heard about it. you can say we shouldn't speak about it on a public forum but the cat was out of the bag well before it was mentioned on here and the fact so many know about it shows how common knowledge it is. i really fear that croke park will get involved in some way over this, esp if it hits the media. Not defending what has been done but i also feel some of our players are going to made a very big example of, by all means id like to see them off the panel but thats gonna be the least of their worries i think, hope i am wrong.