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Christ you lot would rather bicker about him and him than actually discuss football. Completely endemic of whats wrong with this county, politics and grudges

The lad made a post and people commented on it and discussed it. Settle Petal!

Reserve leagues are hard to call. Some clubs struggle to put out 2 teams and I think a 13 a side game would be better for reserve teams. Possibly a bit more common sense used with fixtures also. One problems could be refs for all these games!

Sure there's plenty of refs!

We had the reserves into lower leagues before, I thought it worked well, though we'd decent numbers

We had a div 4 and div 3 team as did Cargin, we also had entered a team in div 4 hurling and won the leagues two years in a row..

leagues shouldn't all be on a Sunday, games can be played Friday and Saturday nights come the summer, think other counties do this so be interesting to hear how it works

Exactly, a Cargin/Galls reserve team would give a fair number of teams a hard time and allows teams to build depth. Mean that the games being played would allow biggers clubs with more players to get more football and more football means less drop off. Most of it all it stops the current reserve set up to stop being a pub team spectacle.

Christ you lot would rather bicker about him and him than actually discuss football. Completely endemic of whats wrong with this county, politics and grudges

https://antrim.gaa.ie/news/fixtures-review-club-forum

Fixtures review tonight, what's the outcome?

I think if they split div 1 up they may as well just properly reconfigure the leagues to 4.

Div 1/2: 8 teams
Div 3/4: 9 teams

On one hand that step up from div 2 will be even more daunting now, but frankly you can't see much changing from the way it is now.

Also chatting with some other lads as to why reserve teams were ever pushed into their own leagues? It'll own serve to strengthen football and the teams that are involved and give a chance at development for younger lads compared to now where one week you might play a reserve team that'll duff you and the next might end up with a no show.

Thoughts?

Amalgamation Proposal / Vision:

Carey McQuillan Rovers
St Mary's Cuchullains 
St Brigids Sharmocks
Oisin Emmets RuairíÓg

St Enda's Ardoyne Pearses
Colin Davitts
St Agnes ÉireÓg
Gort Lamh Dhearg
St Patricks Teresa's Mitchels
O'Donnells St John's Galls
St Paul's Rossa Sarsfields
St Brigid's Malachy's

Magee's UiNeill Saints
St Ergnat's Erins Own
St Comgall's Creggan NanÓg
St. Mary's Casements Gaels
St Mary's James and Joseph

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What an awful idea

Talking of clubs improving there facilities, I see on Social media that Sarsfields have got the green light for new changing rooms. Long overdue.

Fair play to them, that the new 4G pitch last year that my own club trained on last year and then this. Big steps forward.

With the terracing and seating, they wont be far off hosting games in 2017. Parking may be an issue though

Whats the pitch like at Sarsfields these days?  I remember a lot of years ago it was like a bog if there had been rain - assume that has been addressed at this stage?

It'd still be as heavy as ever outside of the good Summer months. Always find the grass to be too long.

Just where is the best venue in Antrim for club matches?  the Belfast clubs don't want it in the SW and the SW clubs don't want it in Belfast unless its casement (which isn't going to happen anytime soon). Plenty of good pitches but all venue have their difficulties.  For obvious reasons planning finals for Toome or Milltown wouldn't be the greatest forward planning idea but what about the rest? All seem to have terrible parking problems but good pitches whether it be creggan, ahoghill, Ballymena, Hannahstown, Dunsilly or hightown. no one wants to go to glenavy and Corrigans views are the poorest of all which is why its unsuitable, regardless of the parking problem.   

The safest bet was Ahoghill because it kept the moneymen happy with the gate receipts, the neutrals from derry and tyrone antrim were happy enough to attend, the pitch is goo, vantage points are good and parking is available (although wet days are a risk!).  Bottom line is that glenavy is a better venue than Corrigan so a strange decision, but neither should have been brought forward as options.

I was at the Cargin/St Johns semi and as far as I was concerned it went very smoothly. There is a step to go in terms of viewing. But short of Creggan, I'd say it's a fair distance for either of the teams to travel. It's also right beside a main road and decent carparking facilities. The move to Corrigan reeks of nepotism.

http://www.irishnews.com/sport/gaafootball/2016/10/13/news/antrim-official-resigns-amid-row-over-county-final-venue-734419/

More great press for the county board