Antrim Football Thread

[Dreadnought]

Have a good day at work.

Thanks, I can book it off but others cant. But I am not going to fight here with you boys, far as I can see ye regularly make a holy show of yourselves arguing amongst yourselves. The talking will be done on the pitch in Corrigan Park on Saturday and you can show the province what ye are made of there. May the best team win.

Good now f**k off and stop stirring you dose.

Like you think you'd be reasonable and not be throwing out curse words, seeing as you yourselves haven't even been able to sell out your first home game in ages, rather than throwing abuse at Cavan away fans for not selling it out for you. Quite pathetic when you look at it, with your population...

Settle down.

That all you got? Have you sold any more tickets to your home support?

[imtommygunn]

McCann from half back seemed to do a bit of scoring too.  Monaghan rarely have bad underage teams. Great to get a win.

[country bumpkin]

McCann from half back seemed to do a bit of scoring too.  Monaghan rarely have bad underage teams. Great to get a win.

Kevin Mc Cann is a smashing young player with the genetic qualities.
Had not seen those young lads in action this year but was ways assured championship was the target.

Potts negative comments posted as to team and management.....the lads supplied the answers..

Super win and a suitable, 'be of little faith' comment made to the negativity posted herein.

[NatSoSaff]

Congratulations to the minors on a fantastic performance and result. All the more impressive considering the amount of negativity the players and management have had to shoulder. All might not be well in the camp, but all you can ask for is for everyone involved to go and give everything for the cause and that's what happened.

[bannside]

That's two very positive performances (adding the Under 20s very narrow defeat to Derry) that can give us all some genuine optimism for the future. There definitely seems to be a core of players within these squads who are destined to kick on into the senior ranks in the coming years, and that's pleasing to know.

A few weeks ago we were looking at under 16s and 17s shipping heavy defeats, on the back of the disastrous minor c'ship performance last year where we lost by 26 points.

We are right to ask questions if our county teams (at all levels) are shipping defeats of this size. We would all much prefer to be praising memorable performances than questioning what the hell is going on!

It looks like we have clear grounds for optimism going forward, as opposed to confinement of another generation of doom and gloom. That's some difference, and 100% credit to everyone involved.

[paddyjohn]

This is poor.

[asaffgael]

We have been brutal but the referee has been shocking

[Saffrongael]

Abysmal against very mediocre opposition

[Saffrongael]

If anyone has any sharpened knives they didn't get to use for the minors - you can fill your boots today.

I suspect they won't though. They'll get a free ride.

Anyway, that was an utterly pathetic performance all over the field.

If it was Lenny Harbinson or a local that oversaw that today they would be slaughtered as the cheap option & how we needed to get some cutting edge outside expertise

[Itchy]

Talking done on pitch

[imtommygunn]

Good man itchy. Gracious in victory 

Disappointing day but unfortunately used to it 

[BrendanAntrim]

That was horrible. Not one saving grace. HowTF are we supposed  to win matches playing no forwards? Abject

[EOC1923]

Terrible, and to make it worse Cavan weren't world beaters. We didn't seem to have any fwds yet our defence was wide open. Could sense the immense disappointment among the support.

[Sportacus]

Massive reality check.  We flirted with the idea of promotion for a couple of weeks but we couldn't win the big games, and we were way off it today.  We're an upper division four / lower division three team at best.  There is no obvious sign of progress sadly based on today's championship performance.
Said it before, but years of nothing at underage tells a tale.  We've pulled off a minor win this year and run a Derry U20 team missing 7 starters close.  But it's a struggle to buy into the green shoots talk.  Other counties are streets ahead, and bombing on.  So many parts of the jigsaw are missing.

[Itchy]

Good man itchy. Gracious in victory 

Disappointing day but unfortunately used to it 

Apologies,  not meant for you or the many decent gaels in Antrim but the few lads on here with big mouths and no class. Some pretty shitty stuff was posted on here about our fear of playing in Corrigan Park so I was reacting to that. Cavan are physically and experience wise ahead of Antrim but ye have the potential if ye could get your act together at underage. Best of luck in the Tailtean Cup and who knows we might meet again.