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Felt the striking was very poor, disappointing after a strong championship. Feel sorry for glenariffe who I'm told were the best side in this grade but we're shafted due to a number of factors.

If Glenariffe were best team they wouldn't have had 3 draws in the round robin. Went in Carey's favour that GNM had nothing to play for  but that situation was out of their control.

3 outstanding "team" performances got Carey over the line thankfully, so glad for the panel after so many disappointments

Hope to see a great game in cushendall tomorrow, could go either way but St Endas big favourites after a fantastic league campaign. 

Hoping that the referee gives decent protection to Rocket as he's targeted every game by opposition and nothing has been done about it in the championship to date. 

heard 2 or 3 different venues on the way home for that replay. between colaiste feirste, Ballymena for a weds night and then our own pitch this weekend.

Either way St johns will yet again be kicking themselves they didn't get it over the line. Fair play to Cdall as they looked dead and buried but they got the draw at the end. It was a game that went one way and then back again esp in the first half. Cdall were well in control and then St Johns hit 6 unanswered scores to get back in it again.

As for our game, thank god its over. I swear you dont need anymore games like that in a season lol

i wont lie, i was very quietly confident we would get the job done this time. last year was a real learning curve for our team and Lgiel taught them a lesson that day. It was made harder work than we needed to at the end up as with 4 points to the good we should of seen that game out. But fair dues to Lgiel, they could of got a goal at the end up.

a tough game and a good contest between the teams.

Big difference in Dunloy conditioning this year - last year there were a few light boys - this year  they have become men. Loughgiel need to say goodbye to their All Ireland generation and move on.

I'd go a step further. The county should allocate a sizeable annual contribution to Saffron Gael..in effect they have a private firm doing their PR and Marketing, and not only that, do it exceptionally well. They're certainly not making money out of the venture atm, and need all the support possible to make this sustainable.

The biggest value is the promotion of our games to the next generation. How can you put a price on this??

100%

Can't see anything other than four wins for the Belfast teams in the junior and intermediate semifinals

An All NA IHC final and 2 Cushendall men against each other on the sideline to.

Very very harsh red for Carey today, changed the game in favour of sarsfields but great steel to go and beat Sarsfields in their back yard, and a man down for a long period.

Sambo has previously said he was only concerned about Sarsfields in the IHC so final should be a foregone conclusion.

Anyone heard how much into senior double header?

Senior championship is double header in Ballycastle

Is st endas match still on?

Carey v Armoy fixed for 7pm tomorrow night - far too late to be starting a championship game at this time of year.  Could and should have been fixed for an earlier start on Saturday or Sunday, no common sense

Great to see a big crowd turnout but really disappointing performance.

- WM much more physical - won 95% of breaking ball
- Antrim's first touch was woeful
- High balls into forwards clearly wasn't working - persisted anyway.

Not many positives to take from the game unfortunately.

Jackie Carson taking Carey I hear

agree - and according to Michael McShane, SN team had a younger average age than Dunloy yesterday !

2 Derry teams putting out Antrim teams! Fair play to whatever they are doing in Derry club hurling but we need to look at why we arent competing with them.. Its a non contest at county level but those results 2 years running doesnt make good reading..

Any ideas on attendance?

Was chatting about this today and we guessed (probably poorly) 6-7 thousand......anything different??

We reckoned 3/4

Any ideas on attendance?

Mark ONeill is refereeing the final.