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PG1 very disappointing tonight Bannside , I take it you had a few missing?
I think most where expecting it to be alot closer ,only league but surely there should be some signs against a very understrengthed Cargin team at this stage.

Not the only time we best Galls during that time MR2!
I recall lovely summer evening near the river Bann....

On another note lads Banty has stepped away from Monaghan.
I wonder would he be interested in a new job ?

Big numbers at U7 but that's a bit early to leave a legacy!

Belfast GAA ,who ever said Cargin had big numbers?
We seldom have enough at any age group and need to go into the age group below to field a team.

The first of our recent minor titles had as many u16 on the team as u18.
But sometimes your weaknesses becomes your strength!
That is why we really punch above our weight because we are actually a very small club numerically.

As for hurling if you look at our neighbouring hurling clubs you will see lots of Cargin juveniles playing for them and infact they would likely find it hard to field teams if we started hurling also.

It's not hard to work out Bannside
The man hates Cargin and he can't hide it on this discussion board or on the pitch.
It's not just last year's semi but every game I ever witnessed him ref against us he's been brutal.
I have nothing personal against the man if I'm honest. He does a job that is thankless and all the crap that goes with it.
But as his song goes you can't always get what you want in Antrim even if that is a fair ref !
Anyway leagues are for playing....

Somebody is taking the piss lads with choosing the refs .
FFS I'm going to stay in the house .😡😡

We don't have the players to what? Be competitive against Cavan & Leitrim? Really?
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I am confident we could have beaten Leitrim if all player's where available and Cavan hadn't of giving us a hammering.

But let's be honest with ourselves we are where we are for a reason.Things need to change dramatically for Antrim to be competitive force in Ulster and it isn't always the managers fault, we have changed the manager and again and again it's the same.I am just stating that the problem is bigger than a manager.

Micky Moran managed Creggan before and made little difference.
Damian Cassidy won't make much of a difference in Bellaghy either why ?
The same as Antrim they didn't/don't have the players .
So it won't matter who we get the reality is all they can do is rearrange the deck chairs.Which might get us a short term improvement but it never lasts.

The quick fix won't work the problem is alot bigger than changing managers.The Gaa in Antrim needs a massive cultural revolution.We simply don't have enough people that are passionate about our games .Gealfast won't even put a dent in this problem.

The old saying "the rising tide lifts all ships" comes to mind when thinking about how we need to change to improve.

How we get there I don't have the answer but I'm pretty sure I know the problem.

CB has something changed in your underage setup in the last half a dozen years or so? You seemed to have a very dry spell where a lot of teams were in B competitions(a while back now) but seem to be dominating now. Anything specific change to make that happen?

(I don't know the exact timeline on it but you seemed to be dropping off for a bit then next thing winning minor titles and producing county standard footballers all round)

The main reason we went through a spell of playing in lower League and B competitions was we had low number for example our minor team would be mostly our u16 team.

That has changed a bit the last 6 to 8 years and when we have good numbers we tend to do well.

I have been told we have 40 plus u7 boys so let's see how that turns out in 10 years or so.

That is a shocking statistic 23 minutes before we got a shot with a good wind behind us . What a shockingly bad performance and like many I had great hope going up to the match which is very rare for many Antrim geals going to watch our footballers in a championship match.Again shocking.

There's a group to get out of and then a quarter final DK before anybody can think about a semi.😜

I thought the plan was to build a terrace on the other side of Corrigan this year bringing the capacity up to over 5k.Has this plan been shelved or put back?
Obviously playing at Corrigan is adventages for us but playing at Owenbeg would be our next best option if we are forced to play at another venue,it definitely shouldn't be a home game for Cavan.
I'm thinking at some stage the GAA is going till call someones bluff with these altimatives and the game will have to be conceded, although it would be very unfair if it was Antrim with the predicament we have found ourselves in.

Owenbeg would be a good call MR2

EOC is 💯% right about go games.last year was what it was because of covid and we got games for the kids and in the circumstances it was ok.It has been mentioned before about having to compete with soccer and matches every week with the go games it is a game every 3 weeks which isn't enough.The kids need more games and we need a way of keeping the teams more evenly matched so the games are competitive while still fun as there is to many miss matches especially at u9&u11 and nobody develops or learns at that age from getting badly beaten.Not sure how we sort this possibly the results from first few games are recorded and then groups are made according to how the teams preformed .Good coaching is the most important aspect as everyone knows but good competitive games regularly has to help the standard of kids entering year 8 and being of a standard that they can compete for there place on school teams.We need to change things as we can't keep doing the same thing and questioning what other counties are doing when we are at the bottom of the pile.