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Interesting Kerry lineup.

If I were Declan Quill I'd be a bit peeved. Every year come championship he's bench warming and he'd make nearly any other county team in the land! Has he ever started a c'ship game?

Is Quirke the big basketballer fella? Is he not a bit heavy for midfield - would he have the legs for a full seventy there?

Bryan Sheehan is another boy who could perhaps struggle to make the breakthrough too.

Good to see Declan O'Sullivan on the team too. He's a good footballer and showed some good character getting back from the dead last year to have a good AIF.

Mossy Lyons played the whole league too did he not? Would guess him and Quill particularly wouldn't be too happy about bench warming.

Am I missing it - what is the Derry team if it's been named?

Re all those antrim players not playing - I'm pretty sure that McClean has been having injury problems. O'Boyle only started back to club football this year, Convery is 28 and maybe Jody is thinking of players for the future, Micko and Niall Ward are not county footballers and Magill has never had the commitment. McGourty - more trouble than he's worth though disappointing about Kelly.

Out of the list maybe Convery and Kelly I would like to see there. The others I can see justifiable reasons for them not being there.

Not a bad Antrim team considering. Glad to see some physical presence added with Quinn and Doherty. Surprised to see Kieran Close on the bench - thought he was on fire for club but then we seem to have an abundance of small left footed corner forwards so I suppose someone had to go. Disappointed, for the game in general might I add, that Bradley got off but it's been one big mess from start to finish.

Lynchboy to say Derry have as much talent now as they had in 93 is IMHO ridiculous.  Look at the defense - you could fit one player from today's defense in 93 - someone either Lockhart or McGuckin at no. 4. Not a midfielder would get near the team, probably not a half forward would get near the team and Paddy Bradley or Enda Muldoon might make the FF line. The current Derry team granted will more than likely beat Antrim but they are no more than a half decent side as opposed to 93 when they were obviously outstanding.

At present Derry are a half forward line,a corner forward, half a defense in fact probably three quarters of a defense, probably a goalie and one midfielder short of being AI challengers! Doherty, Lockhart, McGuckin, Bradley and maybe Muldoon on a good day are the only players who would get on AI challenger teams! Some would argue McCloy - not so sure though...

That McCaffrey fella who it states is from Rossa - I thought he was from St Galls if my memory serves me correctly from last year? Milltown has he changed club?

Don't really know what to make of the team. Young hippy though should be a damn good player for that age group.

They'll be in the Liam McCarthy group stages with early losers in Leinster, Munster and Galway all also in the hat.

Just on comments about the club game. Not a hurler but from the outside looking in I think the standard has dipped considerably. The standard of players in the county is not what it was ten years ago and definitely not what it was twenty years ago. Gone are the days when we could have a club team realistically make anything of a fight for the AI.

I think that the absence of club games has not helped. Three or four years ago the younger boys were getting nothing in terms of senior hurling as Dinny wouldn't allow club games and I think that has stifled development so the younger boys coming through are maybe not as good as they could/should be.

The better teams have dropped in standard considerably. I watched Cushendall - Dunloy last year and was shocked at how bad Dunloy had become. A lot of this however did look due to rustiness and I think that they can be serious challengers if they get the right games.The U21 team they had two years ago was really good and wiped the floor with what is now a good percentage of the Cushendall senior team. They need more from Darren Quinn and the like who showed so much promise early on Cushendall also have a few weaknesses in their team and really five to ten years ago would not have been near a county title with current team. Loughgiel possess about 7 or 8 good players and the rest they could interchange quite easily with boys on their reserve team to no great detriment. The Down teams I don't know enough about but I think Down have some hurlers like Braniff, Coulter jnr, Magic and maybe one or two others who I'd love to have in an Antrim team. Rossa are realistically an aging team but hopefully St Johns will improve from their underage structures. St Galls have all the potential but realistically hurling is second to the big ball and unless they can change that I can't see them challenging seriously for senior honours.

The club leagues look to be running well this year though and that will hopefully increase the standard. The ulster league however appears to have become a bit of a joke. I never thought this league would be of great benefit to top antrim or down teams but really it's a league which could have been very beneficial to Derry teams and Armagh teams and lower league down/antrim teams.

"Anchor" tags are the way to go as wobbler said.

Here's a link which describes pretty much what he has said:
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp

How you do this in frontpage express I'm not so sure but if you know the teminology it may help you get a menu option or whatever.

Frames are bad, avoid them if you can as some browsers don't support them. In this day and age no excuse for not having up to date IE or Firefox. Not sure if Opera supports them or not though.

Paddy Bradley at a time played for Cliftonville did he not?? He was at least playing for someone and was rumoured to be signing for them.

Jim Robinson is also in Lost as far as I can remember!

He's only been in it once or twice but I think he's the one who owns that Dharma company so he may play a big role in later series!

He now plays an evil **** in everything he's in!

I think(and hope) that this match will be a lot tighter than a lot of people reckon. Hopefully Mr. Brolly will be giving some good advice.

Paddy "Hands" Cunningham should be back for Antrim by all accounts which would be a big boost especially with the unavailabilty of Kevin McGuckin. I would also anticipate a few younger boys to start - Loughrey, Crozier and even possibly young O'Boyle at corner back. I wonder who'll be full back. Would McVeigh fit the bill?

Hopefully Joe Quinn will be in there and give some physical presence. Close and Cunningham in the forward line are a bit small so I'm hopefully they'll have a big man in there to help them out and like other people have alluded to before I'd not have Kevin Niblock near the team... McGourty as an impact sub. too.

Derry , without Bradley, should lack real potency in attack. If Muldoon can be denied goal chances in there I don't think they have forwards capable of hitting 3/4 points in a game and if they can stifle Gilligan they should cut off any good supply. Have yet to see Lynch do anything of real merit at intercounty level - hopefully I won't eat those words!

Optimistically - Antrim by two...

I think Sam's idea of giving a small percentage of the ticket sale to the clubs is an excellent one.

A lot of it I think is down to success as well. I think if, for example, we had a draw in 1989 we would have sold significantly more tickets than we do now. If you did a draw like this in Armagh / Tyrone at the minute you would rake in the money. However if you had done it in Armagh 10 years ago it would not have been remotely as successful. Those people think like if I give this money it'll help us win Sam again. With Antrim at the minute obviously the mindset is different and it's win a game...

The name and shame I think is an excellent idea though. It's important everyone puts the effort in. I would go one step further and show the number of members per club and have a "ratio"/percentage or something of that effect. Numbers are all well and good but you would expect larger clubs to sell larger amounts etc.

This draw is a great idea and an excellent starting point. I think seeing benefit is something that is maybe a problem for a lot of people. I have no doubt that this money will be put to good use. However like I say a lot of people's mentality is what will this get me? Will we win the all ireland? It's a good starting point and such things will get better in time bu we also need time for people to buy into it. A wee bit of money to clubs would perhaps give people "visible" benefit which might help. It's hard to know. It's one which has provoked a lot of debate and most people are quite negative which is unfortunate.

I would also question Max about whether he thinks such a draw would be a huge success in Derry? I don't know if it would...

It's hurling on next wednesday. The football seems to be on this weekend - mostly on Sunday.

Check out the county web-site fixtures.

http://antrim.gaa.ie

Don't go anywhere near it Benny - the traffic is usually mad.

http://www.virtualfestivals.com/index.cfm?section=festivals.event&id=638&mode=lineup

Deadly lineup.

Sarsfields took a fair old hammering last night. Looks like they may be out of their depth at that level.

Gort Na Mona beat by Glenarm is an odd result too.  Maybe they were concentrating on the football.

Syd I reckon you sound like a nasty corner back...

Apparently they beat Galway by 5 points in a friendly.

Not sure who their stars are but I think most of the team would be from Belfast - I think one of the schools,can't mind which, did well in the McLarnon. I know of one Dunloy and one Stinsons too.

Who knows about management. Maybe your man O'Prey will be able to take that minor team right through. Two have already even made it into senior.