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McGourty in for a straight swap with PC, if he's injured. Would be a loss but we can cope.
Kildare in the qualifiers then, what does everyone think?

We were very poor in the 1st half. So many basic errors, so much lateral build-up, not enough tracking back to blanket defence (maybe this was due to counter attacks of Tyrone after turnovers). In reality we gifted Tyrone two goals. Why does it always take an 8 point deficit for us to start playing against Tyrone?
From an Antrim view encouraging signs were K McGourty, who I thought was very impressive as was CJ. Tbh don't think a goal was on in the instance talked about Tyrone had about three players inside the 13 metre line in front of goal. Loughrey in 2nd half, Scullion at times, Kevin O'Boyle, Niblock, Douglas and a couple of others showed well. Thought we really had Tyrone on the ropes in the second half in a game that (worryingly for Tyrone) should've been over long before mainly due to basic errors on our part. If Gallagher would've scored that point and the ref (gave some very soft frees to Tyrone) didn't give two soft frees right in front of the posts we could have had an upset. Strange game (not a lot of atmosphere or intensity), and frustrating as we don't know where we stand. Did Tyrone take their foot off the pedal? I thought we genuinely had them rattled in the 2nd half (unlike at any time during last years final).

Maybe this team selection points towards a previously mentioned extremely defensive approach. Baker seems to really like Terry O'Neill. He's an intelligent player no doubt but I think he is too slow to play against Tyrone as was shown in the final last year. Harte will definitely look to exploit this weakness. Would maybe be better to have Tomás McCann in wing forward and CJ inside, apart from that solid team. One other thing, who would mark Cavanagh if he plays full forward? I presume that O'Boyle will mark Penrose and Brady will mark SON, so that leaves Douglas on Cavanagh. Surely fb is too far for Crozier/Loughrey to drop back. What's the story on Magill?

It has already been made I think.

Tyrone in Casement. Could be a famous victory. What do you think?

Shannon. I like the way he just let's Baker talk and gives a good insight into the person.

Heard it was off the ball and reports suggest that to and that is why I say disgrace. But I suppose it's probably best to reserve judgement until it is clear what happened.

Disgrace, why some one would feel the need to do this is beyond me. Heard they were playing Sarsfields but open to correction.

Great win last night, previous Antrim teams would have bottled it.
I knew Sean Kelly wasn't a hurler .

I doubt very much Sean Kelly is trying to get on the Antrim hurling team. Why would he?

What's the deal with Kelly and McClean anyway? They'd be a great asset to our defence who at times have looked shaky.

Antrim 3.20 London 0.04
Good win tonight especially good for points difference if it comes down to it (ours is 78 30 above nearest challenger, Sligo). Harder game next week.
Only saw the second half, we played reasonably well against a weak side and again some very poor shot selection was evident.