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Big shock Bannside in U-15 championship. Most people thought Portglenone were nailed on to win that after winning the league.

what clubs to the st mals lads hail from?

A lot from St Endas from what I could see in the team photo.

The rule about 17 year olds not being able to play was only brought in last year. It has not been about for years.

Intersting quote from Kilcummin member Sean Kelly (former Uachtaran)  who was responsible for awarding Junior and Intermediate finals to Croke Park. He was talking about why Kerry clubs do so well in the Junior and Intermdiate Club All-Ireland.

"Naturally while that's great for Kerry, I thought that it would be more equal that more counties would get the opportunity to be in Croke Park through the clubs.
"But that's the way it worked out. There's a reason for that as Kerry have only eight senior clubs, so therefore we'd be number nine whereas other counties would have 16 or more senior clubs so the intermediate champions would be number 17"

Point of note to Farset. As you know we play the Galway champions on Sunday. The Galway championships are not aligned with league standings either. Oughterard finished 8th in Division 1 in Galway this year and played Intermediate Championship. Just proves that because you play in Divison 1 you will not automatically win an Intermediate Championship as we have discovered throughout the years. We were promoted to Divison 1 in 1989 and for the next 4 years we played Intermediate Championsiup and could not win it before we bit the bullet and moved to play at Senior level in a championship that we were never going to win. Other Division 1 teams have played at IFC level in recent years and it is not just confined to Antrim as shown above.

As stated last week we never had any intention of playing in the B championship. It wouldn't have been fair to legitimate B teams and if CCC didn't want us in the A championship we certainly werent going to risk injuries for an All-ireland semi-final in the B championship which wouldn't have meant anything to us.Thats a pity as it would have been a cracking last 4 with us, Dunloy, Creggan and Naomh Brígid.  We won't know who the best U-21 team was.

Lads, don't bother heading to NÉ v LD match tonight. We won't be there.

This farce from the CCC gets worse. As of today's game between LD and ODR, Naomh Eanna finished 2nd in the section on score difference even though we only played 1 game and yet we havent been awarded a place in the 'A' competition. To my astonishment I have just discovered that CCC are now making LD and ODR play again on Tuesday night at Jordanstown to see who goes forward to the A competition.
Honestly talk about winging it and making it up as you go along. Have the CCC no shame? They should be seriously embarrassed. We may not win the A championship as there are a number of good teams like Gall's, Dunloy, Creggan, Portglenone et al but we would like to be afforded the opportunity. So much for supporting Antrim's representatives in Ulster.
As for entering the B championship Farset can make all the snide comments he wants but without having spoken to our players I would say that they would have no inclination to enter any such competition not out of snobbery but out of respect for legitimate B clubs who would aspire to win this. By relegating us to the B competition the CCC have show massive disrespect to the sides in the B competition.

MR2  we would have fielded an understrength team but when 8 starters on your senior team are u-21 and another 5 or 6 subs it doesnt leave you with many players.

Well we at Naomh Eanna would have thought that we would be pretty competitive in the U-21 Championship until the head of the CCC told us last night that we were being ejected from the A competiton but we could play in the B. Told us we had to play a game by 1st December (same day as our Ulster Final) but wasnt prepared to give us an extra 2-3 days grace. So if Rossa beat LD at the weekend they will go through despite us finishing 2nd in the group and not having lost any matches on the pitch. Only in Antrim would this happen. We weren't looking any favours just a bit of common sense and flexibility by the CCC.
Would the head of CCC have taken this stance if he thought here was a chance of getting a vote from us at County Convention for Chairman. I dont think so.