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Shamrocks finish off a wonder season: Antrim sen cship, ulster sen cship, all county div 1, ulster league, u21 cship, res cship, res league, 3rd team NA league and junior feis. Camogs win u14 cship, u16 cship, minor cship, junior cship, sen cship and a few league titles and feis titles. What a year for the club

ks best in ulster,  no chance, he  would make the best 15. Liam Watson has to be close, as does Shane mc Naughton.  B mc Auley, m scullion and a graffin would also be in top 5 going on this years performances.
Shamrocks by 10+ tomorrow.

How about top 15, in no real order.  DD, graffin, hippy, neilly, jc, m scullion, ding, n mc Auley, b mc Auley, d mc Naughton, l Watson, k Stewart,  e mc closkey, n mc manus, s mc Naughton.

Magill, from Cushendall is good enough if he commits. Magill from tir na nog not even close anymore.  Loughgiel have good players and have a number of certs. Ding, neilly, scully, DD all good enough as well but they have put in a big club effort and it remains to be seen. Some of the younger lads could push for a place.

Sleeping giant........I know your name too, so why not reveal our identities and see what happens.

Bushwhacker, I have you now, took a while but I've got it. Sie, not hard to figure.   But I don't think true identities would be a way to go on this site.

Anybody see Skinner (cdall mentor) that's how you keep your composure, not.
Fair play to babs he keep his. Skinner just couldn't hide it. 

Cushendall at 7/4 is the value.

McManus is a big loss for Cushendall, he was key to their style of play.  But Shane McNaughton usually causes Loughgiel plenty of trouble, paddy McNaughton at wing forward will pose serious questions in terms of mobility, personally I thought he was the one outstanding performance in last years final.

Loughgiel may be slight favourites, but I am underwhelmed by them, hardworking, organised and functional, but do they have that spark, Watson is capable but has been decidedly ordinary for the last 3 years with one notable exception against Cork.

If Cushendall can break loughgiels impressive half back lone, and I think pace may be the way to do so, then I think they will create goal chances, as long as they don't try to beat DD from 25m they could just sneak a good exciting game

Wishful thinking Max

The general consensus around Loughgiel is that we're happy enough with OE's appointment. Hope he has a good game.

if he has as good a game as he had 2 years ago, i dont think anyone will complain.
i see hes also doing the senior camogie final, seems to be the ref in favour at the minute

Can we talk about hurling rather than who hates who the most.
what about this weekend - lughgiel not really tested yet. Rossa put it up to them a bit but loughgiel didn't really get going. Ballycatle didn't test them at all and loughgiel didn't need to get out of 2nd gear. The sendings off just made it easier.
Cushendall never looked in much danger against oisin although their keeper pulled off a save to prevent the draw, they always looked the better team. Galls are full of great athletes but only half of them would be good enough hurlers. Great fielders, great at closing down and very competitive and they play to their strength's very well, but in the end they weren't good enough to beat Cushendall when they eventually got going. In my opinion the 2 best teams are in the final. Cushendall seem to have the most to do esp without nmcm but they have some real quality and are sure to be out for revenge after losing out by 1 last year. The very sight of a red jersey is enough to get them going. Loughgiel will probably be favourites but can take nothing for granted. They too have some real quality and a well drilled defence will make it difficult for any team. Who will win, hard to call, I suppose its down to who turns up on the day.

St galls v cdall loughgiel 6pm sunday evening. Interesting weekend ahead.
Ally and Dick are both close to 40

Or could it just be a case of annoyance as the mercenary he brought in wasn't up to it and they had to sack him

Dinny, Dinny, Dinny

Well said jamesh apart from the dual clubs - not a lot wrong with the leagues. Maybe a bit more effort into playing the likes of lgiel and dunloy at a reasonable time of year. We missed a good gate because it wasn't played.  Compared with other years it was very good

JC there were programmes but I guess you had to be in early to get them.  Not much on them an A4 page with teams and ulster coucil fixtures.

That was before the Westlink was built though and it was faster to get to the Ards than it was to Casement 

NAG1 maybe the next time your for casement we will all be using space shuttles