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[in a few years time]

Ballycastle must be favourites for the championship in a few years time.

Fixed that for you SIE 

Result from last night
Ballycastle 4:22 Ballygalget 1:15

Without Magic Ballygalget were a bit lost. 8 down at half time and then had a man sent off (deliberate striking I think) 10 minutes into second half.  The Town played well enough. No Pinky, Matthew or Saul so some odd positions like Clarke in centre forward. Good to see Gerard Laverty coming on as sub in second half after bein out for over a year injured and as well Michael Dallat. He did'nt look fit but good to see him back too.

[black and amber boy]

I have been supportive for quite a while now. But after what i watched today cassidy has to get the boot! needs to go back to teaching. He has lost the dressing room. Mickey mc shane seems to be clued in and doing a good job but maybe a change in the management team is needed. debate???

WTF! Cassidy is the trainer. McShane is the manager. what is wrong with their fitness? OK they got tired near the end yesterday but it was hot. If the dressing room was lost they would'nt turn up for training and I hear theis plenty at training nights. No harm but your talkin balls.

I would question if black and amber boy is in fact a Ballycastle person. If he/she doesn't know the manager/coach set-up by now they've been under a rock for the past few years! Joe & Michael doing gr8 work with our boys and have the utmost respect for them.  Go stir shit in someone else's club u t**t!

never thought of that. Thought maybe Joe might of cuffed his ears at school some time. 

I have been supportive for quite a while now. But after what i watched today cassidy has to get the boot! needs to go back to teaching. He has lost the dressing room. Mickey mc shane seems to be clued in and doing a good job but maybe a change in the management team is needed. debate???

WTF! Cassidy is the trainer. McShane is the manager. what is wrong with their fitness? OK they got tired near the end yesterday but it was hot. If the dressing room was lost they would'nt turn up for training and I hear theis plenty at training nights. No harm but your talkin balls.

Not first time for player in question.  You live by the sword you'll die by the sword.

and then he says

No need for that you little keyboard warrior you!!!

lol

[lost 2 poor goals - cant understand why Ryan McGarry wasnt in goals]

Cushendall beat us in Feis final by 2-11 v 1-12. Decent game. Played with a bite of bite to it, both teams went at it. The standard wasnt brilliant, but was still fairly competitive the whole way through. We were 6 or 7 up in first half and lost 2 poor goals - cant understand why Ryan McGarry wasnt in goals - saw him pucking about at half time.

Was relatively pleased with our lads - they stood up to cdall and could have won the game with a bit of luck.

Overall an encouraging week for us beating nearly a full strength Loughgiel team, and running a full strength Dall team to 2 points in the space of 5 days albeit the Feis Cup. Definite steps in the right road.

I hope lads knuckle down over next two months.

Leyland that looks like your blaming the keeper for the goals.  Ryan has been away and to just go straight into team after comin back would'nt be fair maybe.  And I would'nt blame the keeper if you have an extra man in defence and can't deal with a high ball into the square it is'nt hardly the keepers fault. And not one high ball TWO high balls.  Cushendall have a good defence. They ahve had for a few years now so where's the sense in giving a good defence an free man. And when that man is Neil McManus well what more can you say!

[We are still developing a team and a squad and who knows it could be a few years before we get back to a senior final but we will get there]

Leyland nothing against the club at all, just going on pure facts and having watched them for a good number of years.
Always expect them to do better than they have done and then when it comes to it they don't produce. Maybe this crop of young players coming through will help maybe they won't, but too many times I have expected them to come to the championship and be really competitive recently and when it came to it just didn't count.

If your not from Ballycastle NAG, what facts are you going on that gave you such optimism about Ballycastle over a good number of years and that has left you so disappointed?

I can give you some facts as well. The 1990's was a barren time for our underage development and teams and apart from a handful of players there wasn't sufficient numbers coming through to step in to the senior panel. That meant when the core of the team from the 90's left the scene in the mid 2000's we were at a very low ebb at senior level and there was no real competition for places. It came to a stage that around 2007/08 there was only really Pinky and Cosey over the age of 24/25 in the senior team and it was a case of putting in players from the '07 u21 team like Cormac Donnelly, Neil McAuley, the Dallats, Gerard Laverty etc. That still didn't give us a big enough squad and we have then really had to wait to the last couple of years for the next good underage crop (this years u21 team mainly) to blend in with those other lads. This has given more numbers at senior level and competition for places again but of course this year we are missing one of the top players in the county and no team can afford to lose a player like that.

We are still developing a team and a squad and who knows it could be a few years before we get back to a senior final but we will get there. So I certainly haven't been disappointed with the teams efforts over the last few years, in fact I have been getting more and more optimistic.

Hear hear.

And for North Antrim's big 3 - Loughgeil and The Dall and Dunloy I think they should be takin a good hard look at St Johns this year and not Ballycastle.

Delighted for lads tonight beating virtually a full strength shams team in feis semi final by 3 points. Considering our recent poor form I was expecting a different result. But credit to lads. A bit of passion shown. Loughiel were poor. Their last two games have been 0-11 and 2-7.........

I reckon cushendall will be looking on with interest. Are loughiel stale?

Any way I'm sure Shams won't lose too much sleep over tonight. But for us it was certainly a good boost for our young squad

In Loughgeil too

Shams 2-06 Ballycasle 0-15

Outstanding result and will boost our boys.  How close was L'geil to full strength, Leyland?  Thought they were playing a lot of fringe players?  What about the Town was Matty & Pinky back?

irish news today revealed ryan mcgarry,shay casey  and colly mc fall left panel to secure work abroad.add in a few niggly injuries and 16 at training is fair enough if ryan made the choice not to bring anyone else in.

True about Ryan McGarry. He hasn't played for Ballycastle for about a month now. A big loss to us and the county. Clubwise losing him and Michael Dallat to work abroad and Hippy with injury as well as others not back from injury like KB and Gerard Laverty or boys struggling to get back like Dermot Donnelly and P McLarnon, we are finding it hard this year. If Matthew's injury does'nt clear our season is over. It'll be just trying to make sure we have the points to stay up.

Newstalk sport sat sun highlights. From the podcasts section has 30 min discussion following up Donal ogs proposal of an ulster hurling team.  Worth a listen. Sambo also on it.  Kieran Shannon makes a few excellent points.   Just to let u know its out there and worth a listen IMO.

There is a point in it that Belfast is too important to the gaa to be left in the hands of the Antrim county board

Here's the link

http://newstalk.ie/player/podcasts/Newstalk_Sport/Newstalk_Sport_SaturdaySunday_Highlights/24430/0/an_ulster_hurling_superteam

Congratulations to St Johns. A well deserved win. They outplayed us all over the pitch. Our boys were very disapointing.
Just didn't seem to have any confidence . Big Matty was injured in the first half and was struggling at FB and the injury
got worse in the second half. Movving him to FF was crazy but maybe shows we had nothing on the bench.
As for Mark O'Neill he's not really from the Town sure his Da was a blow in :-)

As for Johnty, let he who has never sinned cast the first stone!

Most teams have had there "hatchet men" allright but not so many now. It did sound to me like it would be a stupid thing for a parent of 2 good young hurlers to do cos I'm sure he'd not want the same to be done to his own.

Sets the U21 final up nicely, but on last nights showing the Johnnies must be hot favourites.

I agree there that St Johns would be favourites now. I'd say the Town will be happy enough with that too cos it takes some of the pressure of them as holders.

From the ones I talked to today, St Johns deserved the win. Our tactics were wrong
and they took good scores. They got a goal just on half time when we were getting
back into it and it was a bad goal to give away.
The main talking point wasn't the ref.
It is alleged that a certain fat loudmouth on the St Johns sideline told his son to
inflict some damage on our youngest player and that his son tried that twice in off
the ball strikes. The thought is that this was done with Friday evening in mind.
The ref was'nt blamed for that because he did'nt see them but there was a question about
the yellow card at the end.
To sum up. The ref was OK. St Johns deserved to win. Mickey Johnson is a sc**bag.

' the caterwauling corrigan clamor? lol' will be out in force again tomorrow, all 25 of us :-) should be a good game BlackandAmber. Also looking forward to Friday's game but I'm at a loss to understand why it's in Ballymena, no disrespect to 'All Saints'.

Corrigan could make the difference (or the ref    ). I think the first game was closer than the scoreline would say. I hear yous have a real good U-21 side and our boys are'nt too bad as well. Should be a good game.  I'd guess it's Ballymena for it's half way and handy for more N Antrim ppl. That sorta assumes more neutral N Antrim ppl will go than neutral Belfast ppl. Dunno if that's right but I think it would be the thinking behind it.

I hope the referee isn't being bullied on a website!! It could sway his thinking 

He'd not be wastin his time readin this crap would he?   He'll be studying the rule book. 
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' the caterwauling corrigan clamor? lol' will be out in force again tomorrow, all 25 of us :-) should be a good game BlackandAmber. Also looking forward to Friday's game but I'm at a loss to understand why it's in Ballymena, no disrespect to 'All Saints'.

Corrigan could make the difference (or the ref    ). I think the first game was closer than the scoreline would say. I hear yous have a real good U-21 side and our boys are'nt too bad as well. Should be a good game.  I'd guess it's Ballymena for it's half way and handy for more N Antrim ppl. That sorta assumes more neutral N Antrim ppl will go than neutral Belfast ppl. Dunno if that's right but I think it would be the thinking behind it.