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I've no idea who the PRO is or anything about him but I highly doubt while covering a Leinster Championship Hurling match he'd have much time to be scrolling Twitter for updates of another match.

Half the time when you're updating Twitter with match updates the next poc out has happened quickly and you miss a load of the match as it is without scrolling for another match.

We'll dont retweet things on twitter all week about buying tickets to the minor game then.

So you can gurn about them completely ignoring the match? Or if someone's granny or granda turns up and didn't know you needed tickets you could gurn about that?

I can see both sides of the argument here and I get it the PRO was in Corrigan, however you would think he could have made arrangements with say Safrron Gael, a mate or club mate who was going to the minor game and let them update the scores on the County Twitter account, we aren't looking Sky Sports coverage however a team sheet, the score and at a push a scorer is the minimum that can be expected in this day and age

I had a very brief stint with a Camogie County account and I had to be approved at one of the meetings by the clubs before I was allowed access to the account so there could be a similar reason.

I've no idea who the PRO is or anything about him but I highly doubt while covering a Leinster Championship Hurling match he'd have much time to be scrolling Twitter for updates of another match.

Half the time when you're updating Twitter with match updates the next poc out has happened quickly and you miss a load of the match as it is without scrolling for another match.

What is the actual reason given for 10am games? I know there's an adult soccer league in Ballymena and surrounding areas with 10.15 starts on a Saturday morning which was to allow players to watch Ballymena United in the afternoon. Are the 10am games on days when Antrim play or what's the actual reason other than the Antrim board doing it to annoy football people obviously. 🙄

Feile is everything that is bad about the Gaa, a horrible competition that goes completely against everything the Gaa have been promoting via go games

I'd make the case that Féile is basically just Go Games but for U-15 kids and with results kept. In North Antrim there's Championship from u-11 so u-15 will be well use to results being kept.

Cushendall won U-15 Feile today, beating Loughgiel in the final at Dunsilly

Not much between them today. That's 2 in a row for Cushendall. Gort na Mona beat St John's in the final of the B competition as well. They looked very good too.

Even the group stages in the Championships, you'll still see a fair bit of rotation in the top teams as they save players for the big knock out matches.

It's one thing I think the GAA are poor at. Loads of leagues that have a final at the end and then you start Championship with a league. Do a league and then do a knockout championship, there's no greater spectacle in sport than if you don't win, you go home. The product has become diluted, probably to ensure a few extra quid along the way.

[GROUP 1]

SENIOR CHAMPIONSHIP GROUPS

GROUP 1
Cargin
St Johns
Rossa

GROUP 2
Portglenone
Ahoghil
Lamh Dhearg
St Endas

GROUP 3
Creggan
St Galls
Dunloy

GROUP 4
Aghagallon
St Brigids
Moneyglass

Would there not be another 3 teams in Antrim to go senior and fill out the other 3groups to 4 teams each?

In all honesty, I think there's probably too many clubs deemed senior as it is in Antrim without diluting the quality further.

If we had the best 30 footballers in Antrim on a panel, the best coach around coaching them, where would we be? Our history suggests probably not much further forward than where we are now. Division 2 maybe if all the stars alligned?

Not sure what the solution is. There's some really good players coming through, the lads coaching them are good and working hard but rather than closing the gap on the top teir we seem to be getting caught up by that next tier down.

Are all the clubs in Belfast funding their own facilities or are they getting council money, GAA money or just rich members putting loads in? Just asking as I was at Lamh Dhearg on Monday and Davitts tonight and the facilities are outstanding. Obviously quite a few other clubs in Belfast with excellent facilities too.

Cavan and Fermanagh are likely to still be in the Tailteann Cup. Only 16 go into the Sam Maguire and that includes Westmeath and one of Sligo, Leitrim, London or New York. Unless Cavan or Fermanagh reach the Ulster final they'll be Tailteann Cup. If another div 3 or 4 team make a provincial final, I think Meath might drop in too.

I didn't see any of the football matches but read this thread regularly. Pre league, the attitude was staying up would be an achievement the way things were going. Now those same people are saying just staying up was a bad campaign. It's tough enough for a county like Antrim without our own ripping into the team.

Big win yesterday for Tir na Nog away to Cushendun, Creggan look like they are in a relegation battle already
Glenarm and All Saints starting the new leagues with a win also

Sarsfields I'm guessing missing 3 Antrim players ? Tough for a Div 2 team to absorb

I was at the Shane Uí Néill Vs Sarsfields game. Glenarm made a great start and took a big lead. Sarsfields came back  with a rattle second half but had left themselves too much to do. Tough old match on a very heavy pitch.

Anrai Seoighe are Henry Joys. They play hurling and then there's Mary Anne's that played Camogie although I don't think they're fielding this year. North Belfast direction I believe.

Belfast Saints I believe are an amalgamation of a couple of Belfast teams. St Agnes and St Teresa maybe if I remember right. Pretty sure someone said that a few pages back.

Good win. Probably a bit of pressure on there at the end when you consider how so many recent games have gone.