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Ah now ITG dont lose the run of yourself now!

12-13 of st galls starting 15 have all played county football at some stage, whereas cargin maybe have 8 at most!

Disappointing showing from ahoghill, though they would have put up a fight at least.

Pj was away on holidays apparently!

Hopefully better game tomorrow in Creggan, can't be as one-sided as tonight.

I concur with outcome but not that venue will make that big a difference, mr2 as i have previously posted:

"I honestly dont think the venue will make that big a difference, galls will grind out the result & pull away in the last 10-15mins to win by 5 or 6. cargin indiscipline will again see to that. although i hope it to be closer, as it has the makings of a great game. think ciaran close is cargins main man & if he is on song they could just pip it, but have my doubts."


cargin will be missing paul mccann for his sending off in qtr final, apart from that havent heard.

be some crowd alrite, £8 is a bit steep but hopefully we get our monies worth!

Championship semis this weekend - any predictions?

You would think St galls & st johns be the favs in senior, with aldergrove going for the double at intermediate level for league & championship.

think ahoghill could give st johns a scare, but johnnies should be too strong.
heard ahoghill players were dropped for hurling champ for going on drinking binge the week before.
fair play to their manager, took balls to do that, no doubt as they lost the manager gets the blame but in my opinion the ones who went drinking let whole team down.
wonder will it make any difference to football panel, make them think what they could achieve if they wanted to show bit of committment?!

I believe as I have previously said Lenny be good man for the job with madden or even jc as right hand man.

Does anyone know how ai tickets are divide up in county?

Some clubs get 4-6 tickets between them yet any member of county management comm get 4 apiece!

Grassroots at its very best there eh!

All you journos bannside & RG, must get your info & ideas from websites like these lol

I honestly dont think the venue will make that big a difference, galls will grind out the result & pull away in the last 10-15mins to win by 5 or 6. cargin indiscipline will again see to that. although i hope it to be closer, as it has the makings of a great game. think ciaran close is cargins main man & if he is on song they could just pip it, but have my doubts.

your 100% right bannside regarding ahoghill, great club & facilities to match it!

Yip, county Antrim post is a great wee paper, not before time too! Some open & honest columns in it well worth the read. Great for match reports also all grades and codes, brilliant championship supplement also! Raises the profile of Antrim gaa no end!

Think lenny would do a good job along with madden as trainer.

i agree that the baker did bring antrim forward, but as bannside says he had a good crop of players coming through to work with. we need to take next step now. baker fell out with alot of players mainly st galls, which stems from an ulster club match few years back, he also dropped cunningham who was his capt for few years, shows his ego goes before the team.

bannside have u taken up another role now, with a weekly column?

heard at weekend sean mcveigh has a heart complaint, not sure how serious, i was told he cant play at min & didnt feature in their league game. hope he is ok & back playing again soon.

it is also in the spirit of the game to not do what most teams do, in that if a player gets rightly sent off for a sending off offence that their club appeals it?!?! and they no doubt get off on a technocality! or that a team plays an illegal player and serve no punishment!

also if someone in a senior team books their wedding 1 or 2 years in advance do they know that it will affect another club staying in a certain division, away and feel your head pat! it could so easily affect their own club!

and if your not from moneyglass why worry, what goes round come round!

Why all of a sudden all this talk about teams transferring in players from other clubs?
if you went through every club in div1 football for instance there wouldnt be one team who had at least one player in their squad who is a blow-in!
and its not only happening at senior level, the great lamh dhearg minor team from last year, was a belfast select lol
it happens so put up with it! and it happens as much in south west as does in south antrim!
gerard o'boyle(creggan/cargin), ryan boyd (randalstown/moneyglass), aidy scullion (ahoghill/rasharkin), mark mcnicholl (randalstown/creggan), phelim mccloskey (randalstown/ portglenone), paddy logan (ahoghill/ballymena).........
need i go on! portglenone even get players from bellaghy reserves!

as for moneyglass getting relegated, its over a season you get relegated not one match in which you aint involved! some clubs should clean up their own backyard before looking at others!

good luck to st galls and all antrim teams involved in ulster!

I think our failing against Derry, was our sweeper system was no as derry ran the ball forward rather than kicking it, therefore taking sweeper out of game. derry kicked short kickouts and our full forward line didnt chase back on numerous times leading to scores for derry.
work-rate needs to be upped by all players and sweeper needs to devised better. the difference between derry breaking out of defence and antrim breaking out was night and day!
derry bursted out at speed with sweeper covering for man carrying ball and antrim dilly dallied with ball coming out, allowing derry half forwards to filter back into defence ready for next counter attack!
took baker ages to catch onto short kickouts!
i hope antrim get right result on sunday but unless these problems are addressed i feel they wont!

Gerry let me know if u get my pm, i tried 3 times and kept saying error ocurred!

good luck to all!

Yeah fermgael, thats what i meant, is seanie injured or being rested for mckenna cup?

i will submit mine next week! hope for no last minute injuries or suspensions!!

what the story with seanie johnston lads?