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Cant blame a the ref for anything let it go was a good hard hitting game of hurling in which the shamrocks stood up, could argue over the red cards but dunloy easily could have had a number of penalties near the end. The shamrocks are hungry if they do win Antrim it will be interesting to see how they do against SN. St johns v cdall has the makings of another classic would be great for st johns to make the breakthrough to the final been knocking on the door for a wile now

wtf, you could argue my hole, blatant red cards all day long, if not then can we take it you are allowed to hit another player fair in the gut with the hurl off the ball in full view of everyone and also if a player is attempting to run by you its ok to just simply draw right across him in view of everyone.

Two poor enough games at the weekend, but i believe conditions played apart in that, Both Cushendall & particularly Dunloy will disappointed with their performances but thankfully Cushendall get another chance which i hope they learn from their mistakes, people mention ref bashing etc and have you tried it etc, all players and supporters want is consistency, on saturday there was no consistency in giving / not getting frees, its quite obvious that certain players have to work harder for their frees.

Loughgiel look very hungry and wont fear either of the teams they will meet in the final

Shorty incident was at the far side of the pitch from me so my view was across a crowded pitch. Looked like he drove the stick into Eddie completely off the ball.

The James McKeague incident was as clear a red card as you'll see and was just in front of me. Tiernan Coyle went past him with the ball in his hand and James swung the stick across him breaking it over his chest.

Dug out?

Petty nonsense.

Yip.. Dunloy v poor, ref bottled it twice.

Dugout issue was like children fighting, laughable.

Great win for our lads. Ref made some strange calls but thankfully never impacted result. Best team won.

Dunloy could easily have had three reds. James McKeague especially lucky.

The 4th best team in England, who haven't won a cup in years, just got beaten by the most successful club in Europe.

Only one team can win a final. When it happens against you, man up.

Let it go lads.

Who's not letting it go? This is just PR by Karius to at least make people feel a bit sorry for him.

People already felt sorry for him.

Are you saying Karius got the Chief of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Massachusetts General Hospital (a nationally reknowned medical centre in the US and the teaching hospital for Harvard) to bullshit on his behalf in some half-arsed attempt to save his Liverpool career?

https://www.massgeneral.org/News/newsarticle.aspx?id=6792

If you look it up you will see that John Henry is on the board of Trustees at this hospital. I'd say it's an attempt to save the lad some face or squeeze a bit more from his transfer fee. Well, that's what a cynic would say.

So we have a loughguile man in charge of Cdall - obviously the locals weren't deemed fit or maybe just bad at interviews

I'm assuming it's a Loughgiel man living over that side of the mountain? Eamon Gillen or SP McKillop?

[Obama out *mic drop*]

Can't blame them, too much effort ? Yeah plenty effort by staying away, dedicated Antrim men? Yep I see what you mean, well more time with their clubs can only improve them!

Read back on your posts and take a redner!

'There are none so blind as those who cannot see.'

You obviously have absolutely no knowledge at all of what sacrifices and training modern players go through. The days of a bag of balls, a lap of the field, shooting practice and a wee game are long gone.  If you had went through a few years of disillusionment and comedy training sessions up at the county then you'd soon realise why the eye rolls happen when they hear yet another bargain bucket home boy appointment has been made.   Smoke and mirrors with backroom staff, tight lipped budgets and piss poor trials.....sounds good.   

The only redner I would take is allowing myself to engage with someone who cannot think for themselves and toes the party line.  Establishment man image reinforced yet again (despite protestations) even though they continually dump on you.

Obama out  *mic drop*

What does this mean please?

Yep and as pointed out previously, there are undoubtedly  hundreds of GAA loving Irish barristers who could present articulate and entertaining insights into our games. But as he's the one who happened to play the (amateur) sport at the highest level, he's the one who gets paid a hefty sum of money for doing so.

I'm still trying to work out how many degrees of separation from the game are necessary before he agrees and it is okay to profit from the game.

I'm not Brolly's biggest fan and disagree with many of his points of view but I've seen it noted in various places previously that he donates his Sunday Game & newspaper fees to charity.

I can't help sense there's a touch of Socrates winning a Sigerson about this deed, every time I read it. Its origins would be interesting.

You could be right, I don't know how accurate the statement is. Potentially a line that was fired out years ago and has gathered legs. If he doesn't then he's even more culpable than Gooch imo

Yep and as pointed out previously, there are undoubtedly  hundreds of GAA loving Irish barristers who could present articulate and entertaining insights into our games. But as he's the one who happened to play the (amateur) sport at the highest level, he's the one who gets paid a hefty sum of money for doing so.

I'm still trying to work out how many degrees of separation from the game are necessary before he agrees and it is okay to profit from the game.

I'm not Brolly's biggest fan and disagree with many of his points of view but I've seen it noted in various places previously that he donates his Sunday Game & newspaper fees to charity.

Was sent this clip earlier. Embarrassed for those involved, we've all done stupid things with drink in but this is indefensible. Scumbags.

Phones are a dangerous thing to have when the drink is in but there is no excuse for that at all. What sort of craic is that to be having ffs. Lifetime bans! Would hope that it was just sc**bag supporters rather than the players or club officials.

I wouldn't be familiar enough with St Johns clubmen to pick the individuals out but I'm sure those within club circles would know the guilty parties.

Was sent this clip earlier. Embarrassed for those involved, we've all done stupid things with drink in but this is indefensible. Scumbags.

Black card offence?  14 years free no matter where th fouls occurs, player sinbinned for 10 minutes. If those two additions were made to the rule the level of institutional fouls would decrease. 8 team fouls per half as well and it's a 14 metre free. All the ref needs is a page in his book where he ticks the fouls off!!  Pretty basic stuff

Id agree with most of this.  I think there is 2 problems.  1) The cynical fouls that the black card was brought in to stop, but hasn't quite stopped them and 2) The amount of fouls you can get away with.  We sometimes had guys after matches who had committed 10 fouls plus, some of them not even booked!  This was obviously deliberate.  The amount of fouls a player can get away with in a game and still be on the pitch is ridiculous.  All the wee half pulls and over-eager tackling that gets blown as foul but nothing.  If your on a yellow you should only be able to get away with one of these before you see another one.

What about a basketball type system were a player is only allowed a certain amount of fouls per game - say 4. As soon as he reaches this quota he is taken off with no replacement. A more serious foul such as a yellow card offence = 2 fouls and a straight red obviously would equal 4 and removal from the game.

Or something that potentially punishes the offending team on the scoreboard. For every 3 fouls committed the team on the receiving end gets a free / 45 from the centre of the posts. They still have to convert but may be more of a deterrent?

Or a mix of both of the above.

I thought Dunloy would win but I didn't think they'd win so comprehensively.

They've been building all year and peaked at the right time. Fair play to them.

They'll beat Slaughtneil / Ballygalget and a good sod in Croke Park would be the perfect surface for them. There's an All Ireland in that team in years to come. 

I fancy Dunloy by 2-3 points on Sunday.

About Sunday.....better team on the day won. Cushendall's wayward shooting kept us within touching distance until the death.

Its disappointing and I'm sure the lads feel they didn't do themselves justice with too many below par performances on the day but hats of to Cushendall who fought for every ball.

Best of luck to them and Dunloy in the final.

Should be a decent double header in Armoy on Saturday week. Good to see a club like that getting rewarded for getting their grounds in order and being welcoming hosts.

What games are they? great set up, possibly parking the main problem but they open up the fields for that, as long as its not raining!!

Whilst Armoy's sand based pitch is a great surface at this time of year the viewing facilities at the pitch are poor but I suppose it depends on the crowd of people they have to cater for. It might be OK for Junior / Intermediate finals but certainly wouldn't cater for the crowds at the senior S/Finals.

I'm from Cushendall MR2, I'm hardly gonna predict we are gonna get beat. The truth of the matter is nobody knows who will win. There could be a point in it either way or if one team hits form and the other doesn't there could be 8 in it. An impossible game to predict.

If these two teams played 10 times I'd say they'd win 5 games each. very fine margins will decide Sundays game. The joys of Championship hurling. Can't wait.