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zero pace up the middle of that forward line with big carson and matty in 11 & 14. The two corners in Clarke and PJ have plenty of pace, i can only hope that they can do plenty of damage.

Defence looks strong and its good to see eoghan campbell back in midfield instead of the forwards.

i can only hope they get the job done but as others have said that forward line doesnt strike fear into anyone, shorty aside that is.

Cant see us getting a result, the teams a bit depleted with ones working on sat and injuries. Ballycran should beat us easy enough.

Division 1
Ballycran V Dunloy: Ballycran by 10
Portaferry V Ballycastle: Portaferry by 4
St John's V Loughgiel: Loughgiel by 8
Clooney V Cushendall: Cushendall by 12
St Galls V Rossa: Rossa by 6

Division 2
Ballygalget V St Paul's: Ballygalget by 10
Cushendun V Carey: Carey by 2
Cloughmills V Glenariff: Cloughmills by 2
Armoy V Creggan: Creggan by 5
Gortnamona V Sarsfields: Sarsfields by 5

hes 37, same age as me. hes as young as hell! lol

Paddy is 35

Nigel did his cruciate that day against Cdall in the semi final so hes a bit off playing. Kevin McQuillian is injured as well, hes another loss, Nancy is due a back operation and wont be seen for a while. So really we have only shorty to come back in there.
I would expect to see alot of minors getting a try out through the season.

Thanks for that.

Will Sean Dowds not be playing or is he still abroad? What about Paddy Richmond?

As someone said earlier Dunloy probably don't have the depth Loughgiel have so can't afford to lose 4 or 5 but come the Championship their first 16-17 will give anyone in Antrim their fill of it.

Sean is in Australia and wont be playing. Paddy retired a season ago and wont be back again.

We didnt have great numbers there at under age for a few seasons and what we had played 'B' grade. It will take us a few years to get a competitive 21 panel to match everyone else.

The 15 we start with should give us a decent shout but we wont be favs to win the championship

Can any of the Dunloy posters name your name who started? Thanks

Looking forward to the league games next weekend. I see nearly all games are set to start at the one time (I know ours is changed to Sat). If the County/Clubs wanted to bring in a few extra quid they could stagger the start times. I'd happily go and watch Dunloy / Cushendall etc in the afternoon then go and watch our boys in the evening.

1. Gabby McTaggart 2. Karl Okane 3 Mickey McClements 4. Oran Quinn 5 Phelim Duffin 6 James McKeague 7.Chris Kearns 8. Peter Mckeague 9. Kevin McKeague 10. Kevin Molloy 11. Nicky McKeague 12. Miceal Murphy 13. Ali Dooey 14. Paddy Doherty 15. Chrissy Brogan

Karl, Phelim, Peter, Miceal were subs most of last year. Kevin Molloy is a back and i dont know why he was in the forwards.

No shorty, Nancy, kevin McQuillian or Nigel Elliott in the forwards which is a loss. Interestingly there was no minors starting that game. We have a few who i think should be in there for a try out.

i see bunga had to go off after 7mins with a hamstring injury. Hes been plagued with that which is a pity if its happened again. Losing one of our stronger players before the seasons started isnt great.

Loughgiel 1-18 dunloy 0-04. Final score Mcauley cup final.

never got to the game but thank god i didnt go. The brother was at it and said it was a load of rubbish. Gale force wind in the first half and Lgiel used it well to get the scores, second half it died. Added to the cold and us sending a second team out he left early with his wains not even wanting to leave the car due to the cold lol.

Its usefull to get people some game time i suppose.

I see Henry Sheflin has called a press conference tomorrow
Will it go anything like this

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8-HgJ9Uztgg

The great man has called it quits at County level. We've lost a living legend. I've been lucky enough to have met him a few times and he's always come across as a decent fella. He always has time for the fans, no matter what colour their jerseys. He especially took time for the youngsters. He'll be a big miss to all hurling fans around the world.

I read a quote earlier:

"DJ electrified the fans, Henry electrified the players"

To be fair he always was a gentleman and had plenty of time for the fans. Joe Canning was the same, he stood on the pitch for an age one day after a match to sign sticks and shirts and never moaned once about doing it. Henry was the same.

Listened to his interview with Marty Morrisey on 2FM last night and he came across really well. A down to earth family man who loved hurling.

i noticed that myself. In ulster they have their own exchange rate and dont pay any attention to the current rate. God forbid they wouldnt get enough cash

It will make the Antrim Post tomorrow! haha

the ulster league is a joke. Its pre-season football and nothing more.

Its that bad that in hurling that none of the Div 1 Antrim sides even bother with it anymore and prefer to train on their own rather than trod about wet boggy pitches playing reserve and experimental teams

i know. I hate being a depression on a monday morning! lol

Im hopefully heading down on sunday morning to the match. Im going there more hoping we can pull a result out of the bag. Last time i was there for a Laois game was the leinster championship match and they had a massive home support that puts ours to shame. They will be big favorites for the match and rightly so.

we won away to carlow in 2013 in the league and that was our last win. We haven't won a home game since march 2012 against Laois. we won 2 at home that year.

Our record in the league is extremely poor and we haven't made any progress in 4 seasons in terms of it. Yes we did well yday but offaly were already qualified and it didn't matter how they did. Even still we should of been winning our home games. We have only won 1 league game since we moved to Ballycastle as well and that was the play off game v Offaly.

to be fair they have done more training than any club player has at this point of a season. I dont begrudge any one a rest but i still wont be wasting £13 into a game that clearly we have one eye on the game the week after.