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Cargin throwing games???

are they worried about Championship or is there another reason?

MR2, I think you mind find they have long memories around toome!

a certain county final about ten years ago hasnt been forgotten!!

Tyrones nfl campaign can be taken with a pinch of salt, tomorrow will be the real tyrone. Back to nearly full strength, only gormley and cassidy of first team not available. Im sure antrim will have learned from final last year and will try not to let tyrone get too far ahead from start, if the score is only few points at ht then we will see what both teams are made of! I can see a copy of last weeks game, win at all costs. I know where i would rather be on monday morning, the next round! With one kevin mcgourty scoring the winner, carlsberg dont do gaa results!!
On that subject for once brendan crossan of irish news wrote a decent piece more than i can say for his weekly anti man united rants, and he is right mcgourty is one of if not the best in county at minute bar niblock, and one thing is for sure if needed mcgourt will be champing at the bit to show what he can do against the ulster champs.
Just remember this time last year terry oneill was drafted in at last minute and got 2 man of the match awards!
All the talk is near done now, just hope its a good day, weather wise and casement will be packed.

Wouldn't agree with you on team selection. Think it will be more like this;

Mcgreevy; brady,douglas,o'boyle; scullion,crozier,kelly;gallagher,herron;
T mccann, niblock, loughrey; cunningham, m mccann, cj or g o'boyle.

Magill won't start!
Again a very good bench to pick from.

Not sure what to expect on sunday, if antrim can replicate the first 20 mins against louth, there could be a major shock on cards.

But tyrone are a wounded animal and will easily go about their business as they know how in championship.

Could someone post scoring system!

Just entered there too!!

i'm sure afew others were same as me, waiting on last nights match to if any injuries were pook up, sure enough i would have pook SON!!!

''saffronsam

Team I think was along the lines of

Finuncane (little to do)

Gault (tried hard but was taken for four points by Laverty)
Doherty (did reasonably well on Coulter, but a bit fat)
Boyd (Naomh Eargnaid)

Scullion (did reasonably well)
Carey (not great)
Loughrey (did well, particularly when moved to chf for the second half)

Hasson (did better than I thought he would, but still a long way short)
Edwards (largely anonymous)

Close (not in it, still loooks too much like Tintin)
Herron (too slow, no real contribution)
Somebody else.

Cunningham (unerring with frees, couple of superb scores from play)
Magill (one speccy, looks reasonably sharp and will do a good job if he commits)
O'Boyle (worth another look)

Subs

Eoin O'Neill (don't think he's up to it)
Gerard Walls (not up to it)
Neil O'Connell (did well, got a super goal, I think)
McCann (not on long enough to rate)''

saffronsam, your probably the same fella who was in uproar this time last year when baker was appointed.
give the fellas a chance, thats if you know their names,lol.
think it was gault and douglas of st johns corner backs, with paul doc at full back-fat i hear you say, as nana would say, what a f**king liberty!!
not since colin corkery have i seen a fat senior county player!!
some fat heads all the same.

Interesting interview indeed, love him or hate him, he talks an awful lot of sense when he wants to!
i for one would like to see him back with county squad, as the best players available should be playing county football, hopefully he does make himself available.

que the usual mcgourty bashing!!

good luck to st teresa's and st gall's on sunday.

sambasaffron,
Moneyglass match was a farce to start with, as moneyglass had a wedding the day before and just didnt turn up at their own pitch, but then somehow were allowed it to be refixed, after appeal and counter appeal.

as you said little odds now as rasharkin have admitted defeat and arent playing anymore games in div 1 and are confined to division 2 yet again.

Samba saffron you sure you havent already made this accusation about rasharkin?
which was made on antrim gaa message board and duely replied to:

Name : Arnold02 November 2009I can understand the frustration by many regarding the number of fixtures still to be played in Div 1 Football. The county try their best and release fixture dates well in advance at the beginning of the season. The problem lies when clubs call off or re-fix games for strange reasons. This has happened to a club in div 1 football for the past two seasons. If this club survives again due to other clubs fielding understrength teams, will the county make sure this does not happen again. Lamh dhearg sufferd as a result of this last year and another club could be relegated as a result of this, this year

And the rply:
Name : Just for the record03 November 2009In response to the various emails regarding Rasharkin getting various matches called off this is absolute nonsense. Three games have been rescheduled this year for the following reasons 1) St Galls match postponed at the request of St Galls, 2) Moneyglass didn't field for reasons of their own which was the subject of appeals by both clubs and must now be refixed and 3) St Paul's was rescheduled as Rasharkin were competing in the Ulster JHC final on the same day.

The comments around the 3 points secured against St Galls last year fail to include the fact that on the way to avoiding relegation I believe Rasharkin also defeated St Johns, Portglenone, Creggan and Gort na Mona. Lamh Dhearg were relegated last year as they could not beat St John's in the final game to stay up. Fair play to Lamh Dhearg they have regrouped and are making an immediate return to division one.

As for Rasharkin it will be a tall order to fulfill all the fixtures let alone stay up but we will give it our best shot. If we are not successful we will take our medicine and move on. To suggest there are other motives at play here smacks of sour grapes and places question marks over the integrity of our club which is not acceptable.

so you think clubs should be punished for being dual clubs!!

Noticed at the Mullahoran match that the time was counting down again in the 1st Half and then when it got to nought started counting up again for the length of Injury Time. It then counted up during the 2nd Half and continued on into Injury Time but most people seemed glad that the referee didn't play much with the score at 1-21 to 0-01.
The flashing - GOAL - sign that comes on instead of the latest match score for about 30 seconds is handy also so people at the match know when a goal has been scored.

yeah drici, its a bit of a roy of the rovers scoreboard dont you think!!
how did st pauls pull that result out against the johnnies in corrigan?
between rasharkin, glenavy and st pauls as to whos for the chop.
could again be a mad scramble to get matches played again for rasharkin with hurlers doing well in ulster.
down to the wire yet again i would say.
ahoghill have done well this year, probably going up 2 divisions in successive years.

congrats to all involved at con magees glenravel on their new facilities.

what do any of you fellas think of the antrim county board adding £1 to price of tickets for ulster final!
apparently its for development, underage!
someone correct me if i'm wrong!

not a bad way of making a few £'s!
but think their taking the mick abit, doing it on ulster final tickets!
saying antirm got 10 thousand tickets and going by irish news yesterday,
county had sold over 7 thousand.

means they will make over 7 grand a quid a ticket!!

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some weekend alright glens abu!!
still cant believe it, antrim in an ulster football final, never thought i would see the day!!
the composure and way antrim played, bossed the game, unbelievable!

tony scullion is a totally different beast this year!

baker & niall conway have to get alot of credit for it, but the players themselves have really showed what their capable of!!
i could go through the whole team, to a man, they wanted it, big time!!
big mckeever, i thought he was a duhal.
6 clean catches in any match is good by any mans standards.
he just blew up before he hit cross field ball which ended in 45 which ended in goal!
but i cant critise any player, for their work ethic, enthusiasm or appetite for the game!

im not going to get too carried away and say we might beat tyrone, that would just be clean silly!
wouldnt it?!?!?

Did anyone go with stevie o'neill?
was going to say gamble but its not really now hes declared fit and ready!!

im in top 500 this week anyway, still players to play this week!

marathon not a sprint!!

What would you know.

i dont pretend to unlike most!!

you must do more work, less time getting in the papers!!!