Quote from: Would ye whist on Today at 02:55:47 PMGreat to see the Hightown Drunken Louts out again at the weekend, not only abusing our players but one of their own...........absolute disgrace
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Show posts MenuQuote from: Would ye whist on Today at 02:55:47 PMGreat to see the Hightown Drunken Louts out again at the weekend, not only abusing our players but one of their own...........absolute disgrace
Quote from: BrendanAntrim on May 20, 2024, 02:01:43 PMWhat do we think is a likely neutral venue for match v Sligo? Omagh looks to be about equidistant...wouldn't be too bad a choice for supporters to get to. Armagh maybe asking for a bit much, certainly hope its not Clones.
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on May 09, 2024, 01:30:27 PMQuote from: EOC1923 on May 09, 2024, 01:18:38 PMQuote from: bannside on May 03, 2024, 06:09:29 PM100% SO82 about those two!Add Cahir Donnelly and Johnny Hannon to the promising U20 players above, both v impressive in Cargin v Aghagallon game last night. Not a dig, but Aghagallon quite negative throughout which made Johnnys coring performance all the more impressive.
Let's just say their progress has been noted! Two of our best performers in last years narrow under 20 defeat to Donegal on penalties in Ballybofey..
With the team they had out It's difficult to 'open' up against such a talented Cargin team away from home?
Quote from: AllStar15 on March 25, 2024, 08:41:03 AMQuote from: EOC1923 on March 24, 2024, 08:41:04 AMIf we ever had a football sub committee their first job should be to reduce division 1 to 8 teams. There are so many sub standard teams in there, at least 4 of them would be in Division 3/4 in any other county and it's doing no one any favours, them or other teams that strive for better.
Explain how having 8 teams would make the county better? A nice condescending tone from a Cargin man in his ivory tower.
Quote from: Níl a fhios agam on March 13, 2024, 11:18:40 AMMy post was regarding Portglenone as it was topic of recent discussion that other contributors posted about. I didnt quash anything, if Cargin proactively went and sought players as Portglenone have done then thats wrong, no matter when it happened Why on this discussion board does everything come back round to the Toome men. Theres more to Antrim county than the people from the Lough.
Quote from: Duine Inteacht Eile on March 12, 2024, 10:54:08 AMQuote from: bannside on March 12, 2024, 10:25:21 AMThe great thing about schools that take their GAA ethos really seriously is that the programme starts the first week in the gate at year eight.I didn't say that.
A school that offers 8 hours a week across a mixture of training/matches/S&C/pilates/yoga/ diet and nutritional advice will produce a much better individual...than say a school that offers x2 hours a week across the same spectrum of activity.
It's basic maths.
Across 40 weeks and 7 years it's 2240 man hours versus 560 man hours.
Obviously not an exact science, but a blind man should see the difference a full on school can make to player development versus a school going through the motions.
Then do the same exercise across a progressive club versus a club taking short cuts.
It's all about the work, and as Duine says, the level of apathy in some Antrim schools and clubs is appalling.
The issue is the apathy in our communities. Gaelic football isn't a big deal in a lot of them. Kids don't really care and their parents don't value it and if that school programme was available to them they simply wouldn't go.
They struggle to buy into the couple of hours a week. They don't value it that highly.
Quote from: ck on March 10, 2024, 09:23:21 PMQuote from: bannside on March 10, 2024, 11:15:20 AMThis group have definitely had their share of hammerings over the years, and that being the case we are all to blame. Let's not put this at the door of the management or even the players, they're out there doing their best.
Here's the ironic thing...and it's only my opinion....we could get 4 or 5 county seniors from this squad. I've seen some year groups we get a lot less than that.
Potentially Manus McCrossan and Niall Hynds would be midfield (in this team) and two Cargin seniors Conan and Conchuir Johnston were also missing yesterday.Cargins Big Charley McCann will turn into a baller before hes finished.
Tiernan McCormick has a massive future in Saffron if he can develop a bit more end product to match the flying runs.
I'm not deliberately cherry picking here, yesterday was hard to watch, but there's a batch here that need our support not our derision.
Wise words Bannside.
The McRory Cup debate is a nonsense. Plenty of counties have very few players if any playing McRory Cup yet they compete at the top level. The issue starts and finishes with the clubs. Not enough quality players being produced. The easy answer doesn't exist. Its a numbers game along with old fashioned graft and hard work by good coaches who are in it for the long game.
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 11, 2023, 01:54:39 PMQuote from: InnocentByStander on December 11, 2023, 01:36:52 PMAs I started the debate id like to weigh in. Brilliant bit of goalkeeping saves the ball between the stage of dropping the ball from hand to foot, only contact made with forward is due to the forward being in motion of kicking the ball takes him into the goalkeeper. If you pause it you can see the initial contact is with the ball and doesn't touch the man until the fella's momentum takes him into the keeper.You can't pause the match though, and my initial reaction from the view on screen 'live' is foul..
Its honestly incredible goalkeeping great save/block.
I see how everyone has different opinions but your reasoning for saying its a foul MR2 is wrong as there is no contact with the man until after ball is blocked/saved.
P.S Pause the video at 16 seconds
If it was a touch on the ball first then yes I can say keeper made contact with the ball play on.
As for having a chat with the umpires, yeah, not problems.. The umpires have a duty too and maybe they felt it was a free also as they didn't call him in?
You can tackle the ball in the square if the keeper has it, other contact will generally result in a free
I mentioned on another thread yesterday that the main chatter in games are what the ref did, rather than the mistakes the players do during the 60 + minutes of a game, is it easier to blame the ref for a teams failings?
Quote from: SaffronSports on December 11, 2023, 02:26:07 PMTo me there's absolutely no doubt the goalie makes the save between the player dropping the ball and his foot kicking it. The angle the ball comes out tells me that for sure but the real question is did he make contact with the player before the ball. The angle is inconclusive to be honest and you're really only trusting your eyes. Personally my first viewing was no foul but I can see why there's debate.
Quote from: Milltown Row2 on December 08, 2023, 12:01:52 PMQuote from: HealthySaff on December 08, 2023, 11:21:00 AMThat's a pity the all star games are postponed. I was looking forward to bringing the kids to it.
I would not have been a nice experience for them considering the flooding in and around the Antrim area these past few days, roads closed all over the place last night on way home from work and it rained a good bit on top of that.
Can only imagine lads getting injured (Hightown springs to mind)