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Deluded, now that's something that Dunloy were on Sunday thinking their neighbours would sit back and watch them hurl. The wife might let me out but then again she could be busy winning another Ulster title......

Is she from Slaughtneil?

Club delegates were fed a crock of shite on many aspects of this from the beginning. They also opened their mouths wider and allowed themselves to be, refusing to listen to any alternative. Anyone who spoke against it was an anti-GAA "blackguard". That was the term used by the St. Brigid's delegate. You reap what you sow.

I've seen it said on this site many times, same old guard in situ just in different chairs over the last few decades getting a handy wee turn. Things will never improve in Antrim unless the whole house is cleaned out and start afresh with genuine honest people in the correct positions....

Saffron Vision was supposed to be the start of a new era for Antrim GAA. Unfortunately it seems to have gone by the wayside.

It seems that Antrim is one of the few counties who cant seem to get their house in order.

Id say the Casement episode has left a sour taste in everyone's mouth and that is the fault of the Ulster Council who fed the Antrim county board a lot of sweetie mice and attempted to coerce Antrim into signing over Casement Park to the Ulster Council.

The last time we had strong leadership and good governance was when John McSparran was in charge. Been moving from disaster to the next ever since.

Are you having a laugh? Dunsilly?

I thought his tenure wasn't as bad as the last two. Do you think we need a complete overhaul at the top and if so who on earth would want such a task?

I can be corrected but I think it was Dr. John who was at the helm when we bought Dunsilly and what an abject failure that has been. Who would want such a task? It's a big question but from where we sit the only way is up.

Club delegates were fed a crock of shite on many aspects of this from the beginning. They also opened their mouths wider and allowed themselves to be, refusing to listen to any alternative. Anyone who spoke against it was an anti-GAA "blackguard". That was the term used by the St. Brigid's delegate. You reap what you sow.

I've seen it said on this site many times, same old guard in situ just in different chairs over the last few decades getting a handy wee turn. Things will never improve in Antrim unless the whole house is cleaned out and start afresh with genuine honest people in the correct positions....

Saffron Vision was supposed to be the start of a new era for Antrim GAA. Unfortunately it seems to have gone by the wayside.

It seems that Antrim is one of the few counties who cant seem to get their house in order.

Id say the Casement episode has left a sour taste in everyone's mouth and that is the fault of the Ulster Council who fed the Antrim county board a lot of sweetie mice and attempted to coerce Antrim into signing over Casement Park to the Ulster Council.

The last time we had strong leadership and good governance was when John McSparran was in charge. Been moving from disaster to the next ever since.

Are you having a laugh? Dunsilly?

whoever did make the call to shut casement when they did really didn't think it through at all. In the mean time we will have to get used to not having a home for another ten years at this rate.

Think Mc Nulty is using this as a political dig at the shinners as well
Ulster Council to blame and the last half wits we had in charge at county

seen him today on the tv going on about it.

In the short term would they not be better investing some money into grounds around the county to try and help the facilities. they ask clubs to do all the work to host the games, the least they could do is do more to help improve that match day experience in some way.

If most ordinary Antrim folk knew how much has already been spent on planning consultants,and contractors delay penalty fees they would go mad
It's well into the millions
The paltry fee casement was let go for to Ulster Council was also way below market value
The whole thing is a complete mess

I seen the plans for casement online on the planning service web site a brave while ago and they are still floating about.

the fees that they will have been charging will have been shocking high and what has been spent on it at the moment is mental. All we have got from casement is fecking silage!

It's a right shame this has been allowed to happen. I was up past Casement last week and had a look in. Sad.

Anyone ever speak to our own club delegates to see if clubs inquired who is responsible for the mess
At the end of the day casement belongs to Antrim Gael's and the clubs or am I way off on this

Not any more it doesn't.

This board today has had more action than the match. Keep it up lads.

any news yet on any suspensions for your own action on the sideline saturday? two ex stars over the wire. i didn't see it but am informed a star player could be in a drop of hot water also

Well you didn't see it. The referee obviously didn't see anything either. No red cards or yellow cards. Just cause you boys have resulted to puke hurling don't try bringing the rest of us down as well.

Ok!!  Exactly how did use beat us two years back?  lol quit the crack now

Fast flowing, expansive attacking hurling that yielded a higher score than our opponents SG? 

Just cause you boys have resulted to puke hurling don't try bringing the rest of us down as well.

And here we have it, Loughgiel change tactics to try and win the game, quite similar to what Cushendall have done in previous years under Smokey (Eoin Campbell being sacrificed more times than enough to play sweeper) and nobody else is allowed to use it. Only adapting to win the match
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Cannon Fodder, my remarks about puke hurling were made with my tongue very much in cheek. Have a sense of humour ffs. You'll need one if you are to last any length of time on this discussion board.

This board today has had more action than the match. Keep it up lads.

any news yet on any suspensions for your own action on the sideline saturday? two ex stars over the wire. i didn't see it but am informed a star player could be in a drop of hot water also

Well you didn't see it. The referee obviously didn't see anything either. No red cards or yellow cards. Just cause you boys have resulted to puke hurling don't try bringing the rest of us down as well. 

This board today has had more action than the match. Keep it up lads.

The conditions didn't stop a few Cushendun men knocking over plenty of points from 60-70 yards.

If any team in the county were going up against Dunloys forwards they'd set up defensively. If you don't you'll get cleaned out. Can't fault Loughgiel for doing it. Were Dunloy not expecting it? Tactics are a bit like dugouts, not everything goes the way you want.

[Also when are we going to learn about Ballycastle, we continually take these big game there only to have them completely ruined by prevailing conditions]

I believe that the results at the weekend were fair and the refs in both games did not cost any team - i thought they were neutral, tried to let both games flow (rather that than start /stop) yep for sure they missed somethings (and probably could have been helped more by their linesmen) - overall a good performance by both men in the middle.

I take it you werent at the game yesterday then Sweeper. It wasnt as much a case of stop start as it was stop stop. The game never got going in any sense especially in the second half, partly LG tactic and partly the ref.

Didnt affect the outcome of the game just made it an even poorer watch.

Also when are we going to learn about Ballycastle, we continually take these big game there only to have them completely ruined by prevailing conditions. No programme, no announcement of the teams, no PA system for anthem but apart from that was grand 

Bad enough with the wind up there in July/ august never mind the business end in October. Its a very exposed place and whoever uses the conditions best normally comes out on top.

Only fair that the cdall johnnies replay is in the city tbh. Can't have everything in NA IMO.

No stewards in the car park on the way out either. Complete mess trying to get out. Dunloy did a great job on the Saturday with stewards directing traffic right down through the village.
What about this new 20 grand ticket van as well? That was some investment. I've seen shorter queues going to the ticket booth at croke park. If there is any way to make a balls of something as simple as walking up to a gate man and paying into a game our county will find it.

Things I learned today :
1. Ballycastle is one cold hole.
2. iPhones don't like rain.
3. Never steal a Dunloy mans dugout.
4. Dunloy ladies make an awful lot of noise when annoyed.
5. Tiernan Coyle is a hardy wee bucko.

O and don't act the bigman, never ends well when you show yourself up for what you are.

Things I learned today.

Our wee country is a cold hole....
Loughgiel haven't gone away you know😉
Dunloy tried to rattle Loughgiel by taking 'their dugout' how dare their. The scenes that follow this where a disgrace. They actually tossed for the Dug out Dunloy won & Loughgiel still refused to move?
The standard was awful I thought last night's game was poor.
IMO ref had a solid game. Possibly got shorty call wrong but his linesman was right on it to.
Loughgiel will canter the final.
Semi replay is 2weeks time in Loughgiel. Final has been pushed back.

"Loughgiel will walk the final."  If this weekend has taught us anything it's that nobody walks anything in Antrim anymore. But after dethroning the defending champions Loughgiel will be favorites for the final.

Well done to LG
Can't explain why we only hit 8 points in 60 minutes of hurling.
We where very poor

Did anyone other than Shorty score?

Loughgiel out fought Dunloy in just about every position on the pitch. Didn't see that performance coming. Fair play to them. Strong favourites to win the final now.

Credit to St Johns, they were hungry, hunted in packs and were no doubt the better team on the day. 

However, all that being said, even on a bad day for Cushendall - they're still in it.

A new set of officials for the replay will be very much in Cushendall's favour as well!

On to the new era today, Dunloy will be very much looking forward to 3.30pm today.

I thought St. Johns get some handy enough frees but you couldn't attribute any blame to the referee for the way we played. Came 2nd most of the game but thankfully we had a couple of subs capable of coming on and changing the game. Thought Ciaran Johnson was superb for St. Johns. Graffin was excellent for us as was Ryan McCambridge. Won't matter who referees the next day, if we hurl like that again we'll be out.
Best of luck to the neighbors Cushendun in their final.