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are all management teams now in place ?

Kilcoo?
Burren?
Warrenpoint?
Rostrevor?
Saval?

Did Lacey get the sack?

League football has been gloried friendlies this past few years. There are a few teams going full pelt at it and then there are others who are literally playing about 3 players who will start on their championship team. Not sure what the answer is.

Tyrone system would work well. Let the league run on longer. Have a 1A and 1B with 8 teams each with 2 way league of 14 games ranging from March to end of July even August then have a knockout championship. All matches are meaningful. Even if clubs have to do without county men for max 4 league games. 1 up and 1 down. New proposals are ludicrous but hardly surprising...

What are the proposals?

No promotion or relegation in the league for the next 3 years. Can only get promoted or relegated through championship. Round robin championship and bottom team in the 4 groups go into a relegation round robin and either one or two relegated into intermediate and div 2. Similar structure in Intermediate/Div2 and Junior/Div3.

Apparently it has a lot of backing.

A league with no relegation or promotion is not a league, it's a series of organised challenge matches.

All not well in the camp pre game set the tone for a poor performance. Kilcoo physio who Lacey brought into the set up decided to go to the Naomh Conaill game and it did not go down well with Laverty and Choc. Lacey 100% heading back to Donegal and word is he struggled to deal with a few big egos over the last few weeks.

Maybe they heard they money Lacey was on? 

Kilcoo were poor. They sat back after the penalty and invited Scotstown on to them. Deserved to loose. Credit to Scotstown, they looked good and have big game players. They'll take some stopping.

Not sure why glenullin are such overwhelming favourites against Glenravel
People get blinded when clubs go to ulster
They assume its county v county so obviously derry are favourites
Makes no sense
Same in seniors
6-1 for cargin - madness I tbink

Odds are accurate IMO. Glenravel will do ok but won't win. How Glenullin are still in Intermediate is beyond me.

Good luck to Cargin. I'm hopeful but not expectant.

Belfast Live have an article online today about Antrim calling up one of the former Lavey Downey lads. Notably hes probably the only one of them that has zero chance of being called up by Derry. This must where we are at, which is fine.

So how does that work, will some of them play for Derry and now this lad is in with Antrim?

Glen it is then, 9 point winners after a poor first half

Can Cargin beat them?

I don't think that's his point. Rather why are clubs with a stack of players sanctioning players to play for them? And it's a fair point. Why would you want to deny your own players game time to facilitate other clubs' players? To win obviously but it's very shortsighted and not very moral.

If Davitts didn't enter a team should that player be unavailable? Is it fair to play for a team, within the rules? Or just deny him that opportunity of playing in an A competition?

Kerry have encouraged players from junior clubs to play at a higher grade come championship. Seems to work for them

Youre comparing apples with oranges. The Kerry situation is completely different.
St.Brigids have big numbers at underage by all accounts so instead of nurturing these players they are pulling in players from other clubs, not to mention the 6 Downeys. What does this say about their policy of nurturing talent?

Thanks for playing up through the ranks but this new lad is now taking your place. ...Oh, you're leaving? Ok goodbye.

Some will disagree and see short term success as a justifiable reason to pull in others club players but it is extremely short sighted.

Cargin 2.12 NB 0.10. One point game with ten left and then Cargin pulled away. Good game.

Plenty talented players on show tonight, Cargin took their chances, had more accuracy with their attacks and the goals came at the right time in the game..

Decent game, Cargin had 2-3 classy forwards that St Brigids didn't have and that was the difference. Downey at 11 had a good start, him going off was a big loss to St B's. 
As a fellow club member tweeted earlier its a nice way for us to end our 100th year in Antrim football, Senior champions, Reserve champions and U19 champions.

What about Ulster Club Champions too? Or even beating Glen? Now that would be some finish to your year.

Cargin won the u19. Not sure score etc but was 6-5 at halftime.

2.13 to 0.10

County management is a full time gig, he'll be in Laois more than Armagh. It will prove the point that politicians do SFA.

How could McNulty ever find the time to be an inter County manager as a full time MLA...

He'll have to stand down from politics. If he doesn't I'm sure the people in his constituency will be asking big questions!

Yeah they hate GAA in South Armagh

Do they love Laois GAA?

How could McNulty ever find the time to be an inter County manager as a full time MLA...

He'll have to stand down from politics. If he doesn't I'm sure the people in his constituency will be asking big questions!

[Kilcoo - new management required]

Carryduff ??
Loughinisland - new management - Conor OToole??
Kilcoo - new management required
Burren - new management required
Clonduff - new management required
Mayobridge- new management - Bernie Murray??
CPN - new management required
Bredagh - new management required
Bryansford - new management required
Longstone - new management required

Must be a record for the top ten clubs in the county to have so much management activity in one off season..

Castlewellan
Ballyholland - new management - Shane Mulholland
Saul - new management - John Fegan
Downpatrick - new management required
Liatroim - will probably stick with current setup??
Saval - new management required
Shamrocks - will probably stick with DJ
Rostrevor -
Glen - ?
Drumgath - ??

Anyone any updates on above?

What is the story there. I would assume as winning the title would guarantee the job, that it is Lacey walking away. Is he based in Letterkenny and travelling 3 times a week?

The money Lacey is on he could be flying his own helicopter from Donegal

Michael Walsh back managing the Bridge

No he's not

Poacher sacked?