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Conhuir Johnston best player on the pitch by a country mile ,he really is a serious talent and a workhorse every game.

Do referees know the games they're doing when the fixtures are released?

No, I'll be probably up the country, Casements or Cargin for the craic

No thank you😉

Has anyone seen a list of 2022 panel yet?

Lamh Dearg seem to fell back a bit from where they where a few years ago ,also don't seem to have much coming through at underage ,bit of a problem for alot of city teams at the minute!.

Maybe my glass is half empty after this season but I think Creggan would be favourites next year then Cargin , Creggan should have Quinn and Small back and a FIT Burke! while not much changes for Cargin only Mick,Justy,Close,Tomas get a year older and the youth are still a bit inexperienced for the big games .For me Creggan have to be favourites then Cargin and possibly st John's (if they commit to football) the rest are a bit behind IMO, there is little between half a dozen or so of them and on any given day they could beat each other.If new management can change this it remains to be seen but the quantity of talent needs to be there for a manager to work with and we will have to wait until next year to see if the rest can close the gap.

I would love to know the background to this .Kevin Small was for me the best player in Antrim this year and the best player on the pitch when Creggan played Clann Erin .Strange call if correct!

Creggan have the experience of playing in recent finals and the hurt of losing another will really drive them on,they have quality , physicality and pace all over the pitch with a decent bench to back it up.Aghagallon have a spread of good players also but probably not enough all over the pitch to get the match-ups balanced and I expect Creggan to boss the middle third so Aghagallon will need to be really good at the back to keep in the game as long as possible ,if they are still in the game with 10 to go this game could go anyway,but Kickhams are favourites for a reason and it's really theirs to loss .Best of luck to both and I hope it's a good open game

I've watched the game back also ,and I have to say there is alot more questionable decision's in the second half than that shoulder incident! MR2 is on this board every day bit all of a sudden he gone very quiet.🤔🤔

Creggan alot more hungrier for sure in the second half Cargin started really well and then stopped playing not sure why !only scored 2 points on second half.
Some strange decision's by ref ,Kobos free for charging? Big Gerard's free for a perfectly timed shoulder and blowing full time with the ball bobbling around in the Creggan box!
But all in all Creggan the better team and got the breaks that you need on a tight championship game to win.
Don't think Cargin will take a backward step from this and we will be back next year hungrier than ever.
Good luck to both teams in the final.
Ps we have a great ground if the Corrigan boys won't hand over the keys!!

You can't compare apples with oranges ,McCann got his card overturned last year because he never should have gotten it in the first place.If McKeever got his red for striking then it must be upheld.

I can't say I agree with any of antrimman comments ,the players past there sell by date are who?  Michael McCann was the best player on the pitch against Waterford Paddy Cuningham scored almost every time he had the ball ! Who are these young talented players that Lenny has waiting on the sideline? We played with 13 men behind the ball against Wicklow and they still run through the middle or our defence and scored  7 goals( it could have been 10 ) .We need to wake up and realise we don't have the talent in our county at present. Just look at other counties around us that are playing in higher divisions they all have at least a few top quality players .We don't have them and i think there is alot of reasons why ,college football being one but I think from a younger age in other counties players are taking football more serious and are conditioning themselves and changing there life stiles to make sure they are at the top of there game and they have a real desire to play for there county.In Antrim football is just a bit of fun and doing well with club can be the height of a lads dream.I do believe there is other talent in the county that don't make themselves available but I don't know of any that would make much difference to what Lenny already has .Pat Shivers ,Ruairi McCann Creggan and Adam loughran should be in that team but for one reason or another aren't. And there in could be the crux of the problem in most counties players really want to play for there county ,and do the work to get onto the panel that isn't the case in Antrim and playing for Antrim is not a priority.

It was good to get the win today and I give the team credit for that but truth be told that was a very poor Waterford team and they where in the game until the last 15 minutes or so .We have been in D4 for a while now, all be it we have narrowly missed promotion the last few years and when we go up we only manage a year or two before we go back down so D4 is our level and unless we do something radical to change the standard of footballer we produce we are going to stay in this division. I think it is time to stop blaming managers and county boards and anybody else we can find to blame because they can't make D3 or D2 footballers from a county that simply hasn't got them.If Mick,Tomas and Paddy C had not of been playing today I think Waterford would have won today ! we still rely on these older player to beat poor teams.

Yeah bannside a few years ago we where wondering if we where going to be able to replace the likes of Tony Scullion ,Closy,Justy,Mick etc but it does now look that we have some seriously good players coming through again ,alot with good pedigree from  past names like the ONeills,McCanns,Gribbins,Shivers and Johnston's to name but a few all championship winning names with Cargin so the next generation is well and truly starting to make there Mark  on the senior team with more in the pipeline hopefully .

He would be a relation of Michael's bannside,Michael son is also a very good player.

Young Johnston is only 15 and he is already staring at minor level,he was also on st Mary's McCorry team last year, some going for a lad so young.