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Be interesting to see how Glenariff fare this year.

The gap between Intermediate and Senior has been huge for quite some time with teams going up and finding themselves completely out of their depth.

Glenariff might be best placed to be the exception given they have had some really good underage teams coming through in recent years.

If losing to Kildare is our level then we are not in a good place no matter how good anyone says Kildare are or how bad the conditions were.

And that's no disrespect to Kildare.

We think we can be a top tier hurling county yet at our best in the last 20 yrs or more we clung to senior status by our finger nails.

And at club level our senior champions got hammered in provincial.

Hard to be optimistic about the year ahead.

Any of the underage teams likely to give us some cheer?

I see we have a team/squad announced for tomorrow night's game.

Looks like a mixture of what could be the core along with getting others some experience.

Which is probably about right for this competition.

[Hopefully they can get over the line and do SW and N Antrim proud]

Is it not pretty much a legacy thing?

Ladies football has grown a lot in the last 10 yrs around SW Antrim and indeed into N Antrim.

But are the majority not girls who were with Moneyglass because there was no team at their own club?

Hopefully they can get over the line and do SW and N Antrim proud.

Or just Antrim would suffice

Of course for Antrim too but I was meaning their local communities.

Senior level is where the measure is.  If you win an All Ireland or indeed and Ulster senior title you are the best out there.

When you move down through the grades it's more of a novelty than anything else given the criteria for entry seems to bounce all over the place and too often titles are won by teams 'playing down'.

Is it not pretty much a legacy thing?

Ladies football has grown a lot in the last 10 yrs around SW Antrim and indeed into N Antrim.

But are the majority not girls who were with Moneyglass because there was no team at their own club?

Hopefully they can get over the line and do SW and N Antrim proud.

The answer still lies in reducing the number of clubs on the city (albeit people won't agree)

Remove the senior argument for one min
 that's a different story

Assume for one second this was to play out:

Two clubs amalgamate (just like the schools)
You have one less pitch
30 kids instead of 15
Two sets of coaches at the one session
More numbers
More fun
More quality across the levels (ie instead of having 3 outstanding players you'd have 6 and likewise instead of having 3 who are not as developed you'd have 6) 

If we think the amalgamation at schools beneficial to city games......

I'd amalgamate clubs at underage all over the place.

Aim for squads of 60+ and stream into A, B and C teams.

Pooling coaches and other resources.

Of course would never get the buy in from the characters at every club who would go to war for their own badge and burn everything of any value in the process.

But that's how you get closer to top end development (players, teams and leagues) while also catering very well for the more recreational types.

Sounds like a fair bit of inflexibility on display.

I never get why teams or committees get so precious about having to move if it is in the best interests of a lot of people likely to be in attendance.

Given the football is on national television I would have thought the Camogie would have accommodated accordingly in this instance.

Would have expected football to accommodate if it was the other way round.

Hopefully everyone gets from A to B safely.

Anything like that viable on up the county?

Randalstown, Ballymena, Ballycastle and Carnlough take a lot of clubs into their catchment.

Two Antrim teams, covering the majority of clubs, competing in A level colleges would be a great grounding for upcoming talent in the county.

Belfast a good start regardless.

Just seen the Intermediate fixtures

Moneyglass vs st treases Saturday 4pm @ the bear pit

Glenavy vs Sairsfields Sunday 2pm @pg1


2 very strange venues for these games.


Any word on the junior games.

So much for neutrality
St Teresa's can walk down ffs.

Venues for those games are a joke. Hightown or Hannahstown for those games.

If driving from Moneyglass to Hannahstown might as well drive another 5 minutes for the better viewing, and a seat if you so wish, at the Bear Pit.

But both a hell of a lot closer for St Teresa's.

think he meant hightown for MG/St.T game
Hannahstown for Sars/Glen
As i said earier myself, 2 decent neutral venues

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Bear Pit a strange choice alright given a few kick passes could get you from St Teresa's to it.

Just seen the Intermediate fixtures

Moneyglass vs st treases Saturday 4pm @ the bear pit

Glenavy vs Sairsfields Sunday 2pm @pg1


2 very strange venues for these games.


Any word on the junior games.

So much for neutrality
St Teresa's can walk down ffs.

Venues for those games are a joke. Hightown or Hannahstown for those games.

If driving from Moneyglass to Hannahstown might as well drive another 5 minutes for the better viewing, and a seat if you so wish, at the Bear Pit.

But both a hell of a lot closer for St Teresa's.

We really need to have a conversation about splitting the county in two and having a Country Championship and a City Championship.

I have heard very little by way of complaint from players of coaches about the current structure. 

And I talk to people involved across a number of clubs.

It's mainly on here.

No idea what way any working group would be thinking.  Maybe depends who would be on said working group too.

But surely we value our Championship higher than our League?

I believe the two paragraphs above the one you put in bold shows what we can take from any team's League face v Championship face.

What's happening with Junior Championship?

Have Laochra Loch Lao won group 2 on score difference in 3 way mini league with Na Piarsaigh and Éire Óg? With the latter 2 now in quarter finals?