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Lenny wouldnt have too many cargin men to consider after todays match looked like a team that has too many miles on the clock and the didnt have any craft that st galls had in their later years. Mick mc cann was very good but just hadnt the legs for extra time, tomas on his own up front. St johns very defensivly set up but they can play that way as they break at pace with very good ball carriers and good target men to hit. Will make for a good final. No doubt this was all planned to aggravate sw supporters who forgot Belfast teams could play football.

Your very quick to let people know how much ur club raises at fundraisers bannside. Another few of those and you may be able to afford a senior coach like mckeever.

It would be a county contract covering all Antrim squads mr2 so 40,000 isnt that bad a price to pay. S&C is alot more than telling players what to eat etc but as i say starting it at senior level is a waste of time, if we had a creditable coach who was making it part of our players development from a young age then  maybe we will get our players to level of those in the more successful counties, but it will still only be 1 piece of the jigsaw to make up our best county footballers.

Well that would be a great investment £40,000 to look after all Antrims S&C with oppertunity to train up some Antrim players with an interest in the subject. Guys who could after a while and with his guidance take on development squads and even run workshops for clubs and coaches. Much better than footballers and hurlers u21 squads all paying different coaches when we could have a full time coach in place.

No point giving guys strength and conditioning if they havnt the other attributes to be a county footballer.
S&c needs to be part of their lifestyles from early age thats why we need a proper one for development squads. Antrim need a dull time s&c coach working with all antrim squads bringing new ones in every year or so means were starting all over again. Pretty pointless

Is Bernard Dunn not working with the Dublin team.
Dont forget Mick McGurn was in not too long ago.

So what are we saying should we have gathered all the players round and let them decide who should be appointed. Thats whats been wrong players want too much say and have to much influence, we need players to buy in to playing for their county having pride in the jersey and becoming role models for tbe younger development squad and club players to aspire too. We have none of that and in my opinion thats more important that the manager and the backroom team.
On that note last year Antrim senior players had access to Manager,coach, s&c coach, physios, player analysis, gps tracking  , food after training and always excellent hotel facilities for away matches so i really cant wait until i see a professional set up like the ones being talked about here, really cant see what else players could want for especially playing in div 4.

Mr2 im totally happy with lennys appointment, i feel he had the best cv of all applicants. I am totally behind him and i feel he will do a good job if he gets the support of the players and off course the clubs and county board but his backroom team will be important as it will be a selling point to players committing. I just find it strange that we dont know who he has helping out. Surely if applying for the post and being interviewed he would have had to disclose this at the time. Alot has been made of other applicants backroom teams being of the highest calibre people so alot of people do see the backroom team as being very importan, which it is .

Anyone any wiser as to lennys backroom team. Hearing there will be trials for players wishing to join senior panel this year anyone else hearing this.

Lots of talk coming, that certain club players wont be involved with the county this year because of who didnt get the managers job. Anyone else hearing this talk, if its true what chance has lenny got.

Were not going to div 2 because were not good enough, s&c is given too much press about county squads,  if u ask me players gym work should be 365 days a year with a lifestyle to match, this should be imprinted on our young generation at development squads etc . What good is a s&c coach to players like cj who is our best finisher by far but is clearly out of shape and hasnt a great lifestyle. S&c is one ingrediant in the make up of a county player committment, attitude, lifestyle, etc are others that we are really short of with our players. We have players choosing soccer over training, stag party weekends and then the usual bluffers who attend training but use slight injurys to rule themselves out. We r worried too much about the make up of our managers ie what clubs he from, whos he managed , whos his team all of which need to be creditable yes but we have forgotten about the players on the pitch what qualities are they bringing and all too often that is what lets us down. Development is the key word here and development squads are where all our attention should be. Lets have a long term plan developing the next Antrim senior team who bring all the right tools in their bag.

Like what ? What do we need for our players that fitzy didnt have last year. O thats right he hadnt a big enough backroom team.
Lennys won a senior all ireland club title im sure hes well aware what the county will need.

Ok lets round up 20 sw men give them expenses totaling around 100,000 a year and we will pick up sam within the next 3 years sure if its backroom men we need lets just go get them. Forget about the players.

Galer
Who should have got the job in your eyes and what makes u think he would have taken us out of the dark ages

What makes mckeever a suitable sw man. Id say his current club team wont be happy with all this hype about him getting the Antrim job, shows a real lack of ambition to succeed with them. Maybe their happy to be an after thought .