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Cant believe they dont have a team. Is it cos they dont think they can win it or wot??

As hardstation said they had a good minor team in that final & maybe should have won it.

Under 21 Hurling Championship - Rearranged Fixtures04 April 2008
1. St. Gall's v Cushendall
Refixed to:  Wednesday, 9th April @ 8.00 p.m. in Casement Park

2. Lamh Dhearg v St. Brendan's
Refixed to: Saturday, 12th April @ 2.00 p.m. at Lamh Dhearg


I wot imagine st galls match changed due to Antrim football match on Sunday. Fair enough if it is.

Milltown...maybe i'm mistaken but were Cushendall not looking to get the match changed to Saturday instead of Sunday. ie play U21 Championship on Saturday & Rossa in Ulster league on Sunday.Heard that Sean Burke will be playing for St galls & is CJ not injured

McManus more & likely wont be playing & probably wont hurl again this year, has to go for operation at start of May. McCarthy is not hurling this year out of choice...(dont ask).....So again it's a pretty open championship this year with B/castle, Loughgiel, St Johns, Dunloy all pretty strong.

Was gonna say was it not the record for most championship appearnaces in history..rather than consecutive appearances

Ulster seem they are doing their bit for Hurling by organising these leagues. U21 Championship starts this weekend...think those matches are on Sunday. So alot of the teams wont be playing some of the younger players on Saturday as they championship on Sunday.

Gareth Magee started training with county squad, Micky Kettle & Neil McAuley are injured. Who's McDonald?

Sean Delargy has been one of the best defenders in Antrim the last couple of years.

Paddy plays the majority of his club hurling at midfield & for a stage last year he was superb & his style is more suited to playing there. I'd have him on the team, Minder it's your opinion that he shouldnt be on...no harm as its your opinion.......it's back to the same old question who else is there??

Bad defeat alrite. was Jody in charge?(not blaming him...just asking)

Thats a great idea Cloot. I'm sure the majority of tickets were sold in North Antrim. Cushendun sold the most last year & I'm sure they would prefer the money to be spent on hurling.

If anyone on the Antrim team would have the legs for Tom Kenny it would be Simon but being good enough to mark him is a completely differant story.

Cork team:

M. Coleman

S.O Neill
D.O Sullivan
S. Murphy

E. Cadogen
J. Gardiner
C. McGann

K. Hartnett
T. Kenny

T. McCarthy
B. Corry
K. Murphy, ERINS OWN

L. Desmond
K. Canty
P. Cronin

I think alot of the problem in the Belfast clubs is when players get to the age of 17 onwards when offer attractions catch their eye. At underage I have seem some cracking teams in Belfast that seem to lose interest when they reach their teens. Look at the Rossa minor teams of the late 90's..some cracking players but how many of them players are still playing..very few. There has to sustained effort put in at underage..not just cos you have a strong team, you have to work year in year out which is where the stronger North Antrim teams .If out of every minor team you get 2 or 3 to become good senior hurlers then it is job done.

McGrath back in for Waterford

Waterfords Ken McGrath
07 March 2008


Ken McGrath will make his first start of the season for Waterford when they take on Antrim in Sunday's NHL Division 1 game.

The Mount Sion man had not featured for the county since last year's All-Ireland semi-final defeat to Limerick and there were serious concerns over his availability this year.

Waterford (NHL v Antrim) - C. Hennessy; E. Murphy, K. Moran, A. Kearney; R. Foley, K. McGrath, J. Kennedy; M. Walsh, S. O'Sullivan; S. Prendergast, D. Shanahan, E. Kelly; S. Walsh, D. Prendergast, S. Casey.


I think the problems S&W had with Tosh would have been his style of play not over him being disruptive.

Aye the back injury that he suffered last year & in reality since he was U16 has returned. Not sure how long he's out for.

I've played in championship matches where in the team huddle before throw in...a player has shouted over to a teammate' cover me' , bent down on his knee, & took a slash with out anyone seeing him.

Never heard anyone taking a dump like SS2 has!!!