Antrim Hurling

[imtommygunn]

Well bollocks to that

[Saffrongael]

Back to earth with a bang

Dublin 3-32 Antrim 1-18

[LC]

Getting walloped by 20 points by a team they should have beaten in the league.

To say consistency is a problem is an understatement.

[Saffrongael]

Getting walloped by 20 points by a team they should have beaten in the league.

To say consistency is a problem is an understatement.

Two different teams today and the league is the league as they say. Once we go out of Corrigan anything is possible, and not in a good way.

[NAG1]

Really but not again wholly unexpected unfortunately.

Hard to see where to go from here.

I wonder what will come out of the strategic review 

[north_antrim_hound]

Really but not again wholly unexpected unfortunately.

Hard to see where to go from here.

I wonder what will come out of the strategic review 

That's the thing about strategic reviews, they are dependent on who is writing them and who is reading them. Here's my strategic review, we still haven't upped our game at inter county under age level.

[Milltown Row2]

Really but not again wholly unexpected unfortunately.

Hard to see where to go from here.

I wonder what will come out of the strategic review 

That's the thing about strategic reviews, they are dependent on who is writing them and who is reading them. Here's my strategic review, we still haven't upped our game at inter county under age level.

Do you think we (antrim players) prefer the club over the county? Because, even at underage, the best players are still not all involved, and that's not down to the mentors

[NAG1]

Really but not again wholly unexpected unfortunately.

Hard to see where to go from here.

I wonder what will come out of the strategic review 

That's the thing about strategic reviews, they are dependent on who is writing them and who is reading them. Here's my strategic review, we still haven't upped our game at inter county under age level.

Do you think we (antrim players) prefer the club over the county? Because, even at underage, the best players are still not all involved, and that's not down to the mentors

That is a huge issue but a lot of that comes down to the environment, if our development squads are really top quality places to be involved in and be around then kids will go to them and parents will buy in.

If we continue paying lip service to them then we will continue to get the current levels of interest.

To be fair they have improved but there is still a long way to go.

[JonnyD_]

i keep coming back to the players - the current crop! we definitely have something with the players. getting them all out with a full pre-season behind them and injury free and can beat the best.

[Milltown Row2]

i keep coming back to the players - the current crop! we definitely have something with the players. getting them all out with a full pre-season behind them and injury free and can beat the best.

It's serious commitment, 3 nights a week, your own S&C on your days off, game at the weekend or away for the weekend, no breaks in the year, still doing your bit with club when you can and its not as good as it sounds.

I'm not surprised that there are drop outs, or breaks in training and no surprises that they have injuries, some toll on the body, but we lack quality depth which when you look at some of the games lately the lads coming on to some county teams as subs have some impact.

Whether we can beat the best is debatable, certainly in one off league games or Championship games at Corrigan we can be competitive but being consistent needs crops of players coming through every year, otherwise, which has been happening for a few years, we burn out that squad, they all retire around the same time and we play the Christy Ring for a year or two!

[NAG1]

i keep coming back to the players - the current crop! we definitely have something with the players. getting them all out with a full pre-season behind them and injury free and can beat the best.

It's serious commitment, 3 nights a week, your own S&C on your days off, game at the weekend or away for the weekend, no breaks in the year, still doing your bit with club when you can and its not as good as it sounds.

I'm not surprised that there are drop outs, or breaks in training and no surprises that they have injuries, some toll on the body, but we lack quality depth which when you look at some of the games lately the lads coming on to some county teams as subs have some impact.

Whether we can beat the best is debatable, certainly in one off league games or Championship games at Corrigan we can be competitive but being consistent needs crops of players coming through every year, otherwise, which has been happening for a few years, we burn out that squad, they all retire around the same time and we play the Christy Ring for a year or two!

I'd say closer to 5 nights in reality, which when you think of it is crazy.

[imtommygunn]

You can see it with the yoyoing in the likes of Westmeath, Laois and Carlow too. The effort to get up to that next level is huge. Gleeson has had them committing though this year has been funny with quite a few coming in late.

It's a hard thing to sustain and then the carrot at the end of it is to hope to be competitive - it won't be for everyone.

Same for football and hurling these days.

[Slemishgael]

Can the hurlers dust themselves down and give it a real go in corrigan at the weekend against Galway?

[Milltown Row2]

Can the hurlers dust themselves down and give it a real go in corrigan at the weekend against Galway?

Galway are a wounded animal at the minute and need (as we do) all the points. Hopefully we get a reaction too

[Kidder81]

Galway usually lay waste to teams weaker than them, the opposite of Wexford really. Hard to make a case for Antrim getting within 10 points