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Transfer deadline day.. what city clubs are poaching other clubs players today?? big money moves across the city!

I had a good laugh at this

Has it ever been brought up at committee meetings within the county to move senior matches from a Sunday to a Friday/Saturday night. give players and coaches a chance to enjoy the weekend. Particularly Dual players who would have one weekend free every two months on estimate.

Late to the Party Guys, Great appointment last week. Hope we can build on from here on in.
we really need to improve the standard of the schools football and put a real emphasis on this in the coming years. probably sound like a broken record., but the population of St.Mary's CBS and St.Louis should be more than capable of competing at a MacRory Cup level. These are what we have to build for in the coming years and getting youngsters exposure to this high level football and getting more guys exposure to Sigerson level football when they reach that age. 
A goal should be an u17 Ulster within 4 years and maybe an u20 in five years.

Is there ever any chance of a north Antrim team being started up again? it would be good for hurlers at junior/intermediate level to compete at senior?

Angermanagement...Hugh Mc Gettigan perfect choice if he was chosen as DOF. No better man.

hugh is as clueless as lenny 

BS any view from the players on how they felt about Lenny and his backroom during the term?

I have a few sources saying he was not popular in the camp

Madden/McKeever, however Cassidy is a win at all costs Character, something that could be enstilled into our county and the grit and steel we lack county-wide. Could also look into Fearghal McCusker from Maghera or Sean Marty Lockheart.

Someone based with the Universities worth a shout? Deegan or Paul Rouse, could even give O'Rourke a chance to implement his grand idea

MC ginley could bring alot to the table with his own playing experience with Tyrone and what a setup should consist of.

Few faces into the squad. Bring few younger players in and let them learn from a Mick MC cann or paddy Cunningham

You could have had 2 Johnston's,shivers ,ruairi MC cann on that team yesterday easily . Young gribben another one who should be about county set ups. MC enhill from rossa another great young player who was about panel for a bit this year.

Seemed to be a trend with lenny during the leaguenot giving to many of these guys a chance, ryan mcnulty, eoin nagle, eamon fyffe, adam loughran just to name a few

Every young footballer in the county should look up to a player like Mick McCann. True professional, and looks after himself for the age of him. Unlucky today, but I think time for a change next year.

Make or Break for Lenny this weekend guys? Or do you think he deserves another year?

Are the columns not there for the flood lights?

I cant see the original planning application on line as it only goes back to 2010 so i dont know what was approved but Id assume that when it was done that was on the plans.

Yeah I thought that the last time I was up there, was there not enough funding at the time to input the floodlights?

Can I ask a question here maybe DK may know, In our County training ground Dunsilly, is there any proposal for floodlights being put into place? It would be great for winter training for development squads. Great facilities up there, but not enough pitches in the county are floodlit. This is where Tyrone and Derry/Armagh could also have an advantage, as a good number of clubs particularly in Tyrone are floodlit.

I can't say I agree with any of antrimman comments ,the players past there sell by date are who?  Michael McCann was the best player on the pitch against Waterford Paddy Cuningham scored almost every time he had the ball ! Who are these young talented players that Lenny has waiting on the sideline? We played with 13 men behind the ball against Wicklow and they still run through the middle or our defence and scored  7 goals( it could have been 10 ) .We need to wake up and realise we don't have the talent in our county at present. Just look at other counties around us that are playing in higher divisions they all have at least a few top quality players .We don't have them and i think there is alot of reasons why ,college football being one but I think from a younger age in other counties players are taking football more serious and are conditioning themselves and changing there life stiles to make sure they are at the top of there game and they have a real desire to play for there county.In Antrim football is just a bit of fun and doing well with club can be the height of a lads dream.I do believe there is other talent in the county that don't make themselves available but I don't know of any that would make much difference to what Lenny already has .Pat Shivers ,Ruairi McCann Creggan and Adam loughran should be in that team but for one reason or another aren't. And there in could be the crux of the problem in most counties players really want to play for there county ,and do the work to get onto the panel that isn't the case in Antrim and playing for Antrim is not a priority.

Some of what you say makes sense, Michael is an exception as far as I'm concerned as he has proven to do it against the best opposition in the country. Paddy Cunningham, yes was good at the weekend against Waterford, but I'm sure a Pat Shivers/Ruari mcCann(Aghagallon)/Eamon Fyfe/Conor Small/Odhran Eastwood could have given the same performance, yet not given the opportunity.
If we cant build a young team that can beat the Waterfords, The Wexfords this would be more beneficial to Antrim in the future.
Lets not forget, Recent Minor/U20 teams have beaten Donegal. Competed with Tyrone and Beaten Armagh at u17 level. the talent IS there.
Yet the old Antrim way applies, Rely on the old guard.

Its hugely frustrating to look forward to another year in the basement. I think we are better than that. Point lost in Sligo and a home draw to Carlow were the most costly days this year; taking last Saturday as an unexplainable blip.

So next year Louth and Leitrim will be down in 4, both beatable, and we have beaten both in recent times. Wexford you suspect will improve, Carlow too. It will be very hard to finish top 2.

'Sack' the manager? and what...who coming in will make a massive difference? What players aren't playing who should be? None except Matt Fitzpatrick.

Continuity I think is a valuable commodity here. Lenny and his team will have learned with each season. Lets put the lessons to work for next year,

Lenny is a huge part to blame for the downfall of the senior teams as of recently, the way he sets his stall with 13 men behind the ball playing a hugely defensive system against teams like Wicklow is purely unacceptable. he has a crop of talent that has came through the ranks and is reluctant to use them and revert to players who are a few years by their sell-buy date. need to refocus with a manager with a clear strategy and a total organizational reform. Players that need to be given a chance in an attacking system that Antrim can actually put scores on the board. the quality is there. Management, not so much.