Antrim Football Thread

[NAG1]

Dunloy are a good side when full out and it was refreshing to watch them this year but how can you play in the senior championship from Division 3, madness if it happens.

I would imagine that's a decision for them.

More the point, that they played in a Senior final ahead of all the dedicated Div 1 football clubs, would be the wider and more worrying point for anyone in Antrim football in general.

[BelSaft]

Can Mick McCann now be declared as the greatest Antrim footballer ever?

Who else is in the conversation. Rank your top 5

Mick McCann
Paddy Cunningham
Kevin Niblock
Sean Kelly
Anto Finnegan

[statto]

Can Mick McCann now be declared as the greatest Antrim footballer ever?

Who else is in the conversation. Rank your top 5

Mick McCann
Paddy Cunningham
Kevin Niblock
Sean Kelly
Anto Finnegan

Kevin Brady/Madden?

[InnocentByStander]

Can Mick McCann now be declared as the greatest Antrim footballer ever?

Who else is in the conversation. Rank your top 5

Mick McCann
Paddy Cunningham
Kevin Niblock
Sean Kelly
Anto Finnegan

Tomas...

[BelSaft]

Tomas in there too.

James Loughry
Sean McGreevy

[NorthAntrim]

Going by the team photo from Sunday Dunloy have 33 footballers. Six involved with county hurling. Why can they not produce a stronger league team!

[blasmere]

Can Mick McCann now be declared as the greatest Antrim footballer ever?

Who else is in the conversation. Rank your top 5

Mick McCann
Paddy Cunningham
Kevin Niblock
Sean Kelly
Anto Finnegan

What about the last century?
Kevin Armstrong
Andy McCallin
& there will be others

[Spike]

Dunloy are a good side when full out and it was refreshing to watch them this year but how can you play in the senior championship from Division 3, madness if it happens.

I would imagine that's a decision for them.

More the point, that they played in a Senior final ahead of all the dedicated Div 1 football clubs, would be the wider and more worrying point for anyone in Antrim football in general.

15 men behind a ball tactics deployed by a number of so called top teams is perhaps covering a multitude of issues.  I wonder if McEntee will ask any of the Dunloy players up next year? Smyth looks a potential.  Now that i am looking at it, there is a curious case of a lack of Antrim county representation on Sunday

[Hectic]

I reckon if Ballymena had of stuck with Scotchie Hagan theyd've been in div 1 now and an intermediate title under their belt.

PS - An outsider and not FOC but wouldn't have been as much.

They have a good young team. Unlucky probably with injuries this year. Glenravel up and I can't see Dunloy or St Endas dropping to intermediate? Leaves intermediate fairly open for a team like Ballymena to take advantage of. Rumours Moneyglass are losing a lot of players to travel

Yes Moneyglass rumours are true
Also heard that relegation is scrapped and Glenravel are making it a 14 team league.
Only hearsay mind you.

More chat along the lines of 4 divisions of 8 rather than 14 team div 1

Haha, here we go again.

I think there is and has been a lot of dead wood in division 1 since around or before the Covid nonsense and the associated lack of relegation.

If they want to sort it out do it next year and make a league after the split containing the top 4 in Div 2 and the bottom 4 in Div 1 and decide how many stay in Div 1 from that mini league.

[Hectic]

As for Cargin, they have been comfortably on top in Antrim for a long time now and hard to see who is going to stop them winning more titles, even if they don't manage it every year.

But they genuinely need to start making inroads in Ulster to be considered elite.

[geezer]

Cargin without doubt the best team of the modern era.

St. Galls without doubt the best Antrim club team of all time.

No comparison.

[Spike]

St galls are the best club side to play in antrim but largely hollow due to the postcode lottery they employed for personnel.  Cargin finished them in 2016 and every club in antrim should be thankful as the blow ins started considering the likes of bredagh, st bridget's and Carryduff as alternatives. Now a number of clubs believe they have a chance of a title. 

  The '82 st galls team should have been the club's heroes but now they are left with an empty shadow of a side that couldn't get out of the group stages this year.  Every club has blow ins but if you have too many then they desert the sinking ship quite quickly.

What Cargin and Dunloy have achieved with limited resources and playing numbers is infinitely more impressive. Just my opinion of course. 

[geezer]

Out of interest, how many outsiders did Galls have when they won the all Ireland. 2 gallaghers & pollock come to mind. Anyone else?

[Milltown Row2]

Out of interest, how many outsiders did Galls have when they won the all Ireland. 2 gallaghers & pollock come to mind. Anyone else?

Pollock wasn't on that team

St galls are the best club side to play in antrim but largely hollow due to the postcode lottery they employed for personnel.  Cargin finished them in 2016 and every club in antrim should be thankful as the blow ins started considering the likes of bredagh, st bridget's and Carryduff as alternatives. Now a number of clubs believe they have a chance of a title. 

  The '82 st galls team should have been the club's heroes but now they are left with an empty shadow of a side that couldn't get out of the group stages this year.  Every club has blow ins but if you have too many then they desert the sinking ship quite quickly.

What Cargin and Dunloy have achieved with limited resources and playing numbers is infinitely more impressive. Just my opinion of course. 

The shit is dripping off this post 

if you'd any knowledge of the 82 and 83 team that reached the finals then you'd not be writing that post,

Also you mentioned Dunloy, any blow ins on that team? And the Cargin teams, no blow ins either?

Go to bed lad and stop making a fool of yourself

[geezer]

Fair enough. Any others on that team MR2?

Cargin have never had a blow in, ever. Especially not any from Randalstown.