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I thought P Maher especially against Dublin was looking for and got plenty of frees but gavin wasn't having it

yeah he  did go down very handy when bottled up but I'm referring to the times when hes was coming out with the ball and being held back. happend to tipp midfielders as well. everyone is complimenting the job done on corbet and Kelly by cats full backline but if get a chance look at last years match to this one, look at the quality of ball going in, bread and butter for good full backs which hickey and tyrrell are. tipps guys couldn't get striking while on the front foot due to sometimes borderling line restraint. fair play to cody for this game plan. I'm only using this as an example for the point MR2 IS bringing up.

Off on a different topic, what's your thoughts on the advantage rule? A few games this year I have noticed that it's not working. Advantage is fine when a player is running in on goal and is being fouled but the referee allows the lad a few extra steps and he plants the ball into the net or off loads to a another player who scores.

Problem for me is when a defender is coming out with the ball and is being hauled, he makes a half clearance and the ball is then won by the opposition!! Would it not be better to blow and the defender clears with a 70 yard free?

I'm all for free flowing hurling but when an advantage becomes a disadvantage it's daft.

very good point, no better example than this years all ireland Pauric Maher is the one tipp player in their half back line that gets good ball into forwards but kilkenny forwards where hanging out of him this year when he was coming out with it so he was less effective with his deliveries. word of warning but Brian Cody is on the rules committee for hurling down there and theres a bit of an uproar as his influence could benefit Teams that specialise in cute dragging and pulling. Intresting stuff

I have never wondered why because it's not true. And really, like yourself, could care less.  All I care about are the trophies on display in Fr. Healy park, which are quite abundant at the minute, unlike your own club.

quite abundant, could you list them for me please as i can only think off one. you will have to wind back ten years into the last century before medals and cups where plentiful. funny i never even thought of bringing this subject up seeing as up to last year things where pretty barren over your way and i thought it might be ignorant. this is my last correspondence on the subject to you as your last post would suggest your not well enough informed for a serious debate. good luck the in final and if you win it well done, its a pity these wishes and compliments weren't precipitated over the years.

It was a joke ffs!  There was a smilie after the  line in the original post which i notice you failed to quote.

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It's a pity you can't get over your obvious hatred of all things Loughgiel and move on.

When did i ever say the word hate, that's your club speciality but i must admit i couldn't care less if they won. have you ever wondered shy most clubs have no time for you. lets get one thing out of the road here right now, NO ONE  IS IN ENVY OF YOU, you have to get this into your head. imam not taring everyone with the same brush as there are some loughgeil people  100%. but if you want to generalise they are far the worst club fans in antrim. seen it first hand, the whole crowd roaring when the oppsing team shoots a wide, taking delight when a team representing antrim gets knocked out of the all ireland club series. it goes on and on. Ive never meet you so imam going to reserve my judgement on yourself but don't even try to defend where you ly in the popularity stakes and why that is the case

[If they win the final fair dues but don't expect them to be gracious in victory of defeat, its not in there genes]

Mother of f**king christ! Great weekend of championship hurling and all people can do is constantly slabber about Loughgiel. Well done to the Shamrocks and good luck in the final as they are a club I have massive respect for

i take it your not from north antrim FG. if you where subjected to some of the venom from there fans at and away from matches you would be of a different opinion.

If they win the final fair dues but don't expect them to be gracious in victory of defeat, its not in there genes

The first year Dunloy won the championship I was one of the first from my parish over in Dunloy. I drank out of the cup in the village and the Bridge with their players and supporters , and indeed in the pound and the old clubhouse in Loughgiel. I was actually glad to see them players win it, and have nothing but respect for the club that produced the best club hurling team in Antrim in my life time.

We were also on the receiving end of a 33 point drubbing in Cushendall  by Dunloy and went round each of their players and wished them luck for that championship and all Ireland. When we beat them in the championship they were always more than gracious to us, as we were to them. So don't spew forth with your ill informed and downright incorrect bile!

Quote from: Seamroga in exile on September 07, 2011, 09:47:14 PM
Great result, for lots of reasons!!!!   


Why? is that because you dislike Dunloy? or something else?

It's certainly one of  the reasons.

yeah read the above so you don't like us but but like to celebrate with us. heard it all now what a hypocrite

Mother of f**king christ! Great weekend of championship hurling and all people can do is constantly slabber about Loughgiel. Well done to the Shamrocks and good luck in the final as they are a club I have massive respect for

i take it your not from north antrim FG. if you where subjected to some of the venom from there fans at and away from matches you would be of a different opinion.

If they win the final fair dues but don't expect them to be gracious in victory of defeat, its not in there genes

I'm here skull. If that's true then it should have been dealt with at the time. Sure let's all go back in history and list the respective misdemeanours of players from all clubs. They'll be a worth while exercises.

no need to go every players record here as there is only one player the subject of debate and you decided to defend one of the most cynical ones on view this year. wouldn't expect you to have a balanced perspective on this subject but as like most of the posters on here this morning i was a neutral at the match. the slapping and dirty play he was at was terrible and he wouldn't have got it in the back if he wasn't purposely holding on to ballycastles ball.

SIE lg have been of the same standard for the last ten years, only the fact that the big two have dropped a level it has brought them up to it! Not that, that takes away from you winning it last year because every title counts the same point is you haven't beat anyone at the top of their game, just handy ones! :-p

It wasn't handy last year, we had to beat dunloy and cushendall,

dunloy and cushendall beat themselves last year, we only scored six points last year ffs, general discussion around north antrim is that antrim club hurling has got so sub standard that loughgeil is winning cups. if i where you SIE i would relish these days before a decent team shows up again

Just heard that Cushendall have ordered polo tops for the final!! FFS lads

dont panic mr2 if they do get buy you guys theres no way they will be allowed to take to feild in the final riding horses. i say the polo shirts are just for wearing pre-match.

thanks for the compliments about dunloy, that was some era for our club. these are dark days for us now, not much coming through either. but some of those players you seen in mullingar that are retired are now starting to coach our kids,  guys with 8,9,10 county medals and you woud never hear them mention it, still doing there bit. time to start building from the ground up again as see what happens. good luck against the dall and ffs stop with '' we havent got a chance'' stuff. yours players are in bonus territory now and go out and throw some kitchen sinks. all the pressure on the dall

I agree Arthur, there would be a full scale riot at every game if they let the hard stuff go.

I refereed a minor game a few weeks back, one of the teams had a player who was only interested in whacking his man, I warned him and ticked him and eventually yellow carded him. A couple of hard hits followed and then one incident descended into a free for all. The managers blamed me for not controlling the game!!

Ya can't win, dammed if you do and dammed if you don't. Try and ref the way I would like to see the game played, it's then down to the players to control their emotions. There are some gurny fcukers out there though

completely agree the reaction from your average club supporter when something is let go, its ridiculous. as for the ref in the all ireland, players from kilkenny,tipp or cork will get away with alot more than a antrim player or any lesser county. sundays game wasn't a classic, theres a thread on another site referring to the game as rugby with sticks due to all the dragging, pulling and pushing on the back that went on.  there are double standards at intercounty level and croke park in there wisdom refuse to acknowledge this, what incentive is there for club refs to perform to a consistant standard.

[Bar their shooting St Galls taught us a hurling lesson.]

Skull, a wee bit more credit than that please, we hurled well

Bar their shooting St Galls taught us a hurling lesson.

how much credit do you want, i agree with you for what its worth st galls hurled well, karl stewart was outstanding but doesnt detract from the fact we where awfull as skull said. think we went into this game looking at the next match. we got out of jail tonight big time and if we cant get past you in the replay good luck.

I have to say I agree with NAH here. I didn't comment on the posts about the U21s as everyone seemed to be having a field day, but it definitely left a bad aroma wafting through this thread. I've never betted against one of my own, never will. It kind of takes away from any kudos any of you who betted against the fellas would hope to have. Bad vibes indeed.

thanks for that seamroga, nice to know there is at least one other poster out there that feels this sort of thing is detrimental to the mindset of any hurlers or management trying there best in difficult circumstances. the team they played on Saturday have come from a very contrasting environment compared to our own, we could go into the details of finance, resources of numbers, prep artion time etc but this was not the point of my post. I travelled home from newry feeling utterly sick in view of the fact ten years ago Dublin's fortunes where similar to ours and look at them now. our situation has remained static and then to come on here and read so called antrim hurling people betting against there own team it makes my blood boil. if i was down to my last penny i wouldn't do it and even if i did i certainly wouldn't put it out in public domain in full view of people WHO are trying their best.

congrats to to all the posters on here WHO made some money at the misfortunes of our under 21 hurlers, this has taken things to a new low. is it not bad enough we are in this situation but now there are some people feel the need to have some financial gain from it. due to the current and past state of affairs i don't blame most antrim hurling folk for the apathy that's rife north and south of the county, but for the sake of any young hurlers that might have some aspirations to represent their county and view these pages could you keep this sort of tripe to yourself. never mind posters from other county's reading this. utterly embarrassing and typical of all that is wrong with our attitude to our county and its players.
SHAME ON YOU
As for players WHO waged against themselves because of some inside info well they don't deserve a jersey no matter how bad things are.

please don't reply to this post if your making some justifications for betting against you own team

Just in from match,as said already antrim led right up to karl Stewart being sent off, real bad tramping leaving the ref no choice. very uncharacteristic of stewart maybe Geary was niggling but no excuse. tried to contain them but some of our stronger players started to run out of steam and limerick started running through us. on the plus side for  most of the game MC manus was the best player on the field and limerick tried four different forwards on hippy and he skinned them all, Aron graffin, Niel MC auley can also hold there heads up high but minus MC naughton and Watson from last year we just laboured getting scores. would of been intresting to see what happened if Karl hadn't of walked as we where on top of them to then.

Can Armagh Hurlers achieve the Impossible against Antrim

let me think about this   NO