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The 17 year olds are far from outraged at lack of twitter coverage, if they are even aware of it at all.

They are well aware of the situation with coverage they get on Twitter and Facebook. Believe it or not lads at 16/17 are on every social media going nowadays. So the u16 Celtic Challenge team were playing in Dundalk, the minors in Dunsilly and the senior hurlers at Corrigan. So how come the u16s get coverage when they were playing in a different county. You can't say that he can't be in different places at one time.

Judging by what some fellas tell me, the minors were outraged that the U16 Celtic Challenge team was mentioned on the Twitter page but no mention of their match against Armagh.

Outraged? The problem with kids today

Yes, outraged. And those "kids" are the future of our county teams.

I'm sorry if I was more outraged because the Twitter hadn't put up some info after getting hammered then there is something seriously wrong.

Talk about going out of your way to be outraged!

I'm sure if you talked to any minor that played yesterday they would have been disappointed with the result but then going into Twitter after the game to not even see a "good luck" message for the lads from your own PRO would be very demoralising. The PRO has an obligation to promote every aspect of county games to the public. But if any Tom, Dick or Harry went on the Antrim official page they wouldn't know any different if our minors were playing or not.

Judging by what some fellas tell me, the minors were outraged that the U16 Celtic Challenge team was mentioned on the Twitter page but no mention of their match against Armagh.

Outraged? The problem with kids today

Yes, outraged. And those "kids" are the future of our county teams.

Judging by what some fellas tell me, the minors were outraged that the U16 Celtic Challenge team was mentioned on the Twitter page but no mention of their match against Armagh.

Minor game started at 1pm in Dunsilly, 30+ mins to half time, surely a retweet from other accounts such as Ulster GAA or Cavan who were at it would have been acceptable. Senior hurlers threw in at 2pm, 35+ mins later and it's half time, surely there was sufficient enough time to retweet a FT score from minors?

So what I can gather, if you tweet like a 13 year old girl you're not capable!?

So get the big bucks but say 13 year old girls are useless

Don't think that he's not capable, but you can see where his priorities lie. Our minor lads were playing earlier on and no mention of a score, a team sheet or nothing. I get he was in Corrigan and that's fair enough, but what was stopping him from informing followers of the game by at least retweeting from other accounts? Hugely frustrating for our young minors who are representing this county at this level and to get zero recognition from our PRO is concerning.

Were Antrim minors not supposed to be playing today?

Had to go into Cavan's socials to get updates on the game because Antrim are in Corrigan covering the Leinster Championship match against the Dubs

St John's v Aghagallon home win +3

Rossa v St Brigids home win +3

TNN v Ahoghill home win +2

Cargin v Moneyglass home win +4

St Galls v Creggan away win +2

Portglenone v St Enda's home win +4

Well done Tony, Lawrence and to all involved. Great to see the level of organisation behind this, probably 8 or 9 of a management team with nothing left to chance and shout out to Paddy Kelly who's doing superb work behind the scenes.

You cant underestimate the influence of Saffron Vision in all this and one of their main successes being the establishment of Saffron Business Forum which is a big driver in ensuring the funds are in place to enable our squads are properly prepared.

We are still a long way of winning silverware, but a lot of essential boxes are starting to be ticked!

Yeah like the trip to Waterfoot for the senior footballers, you need some serious financial backing for stuff like   that

The county couldn't give a toss about any level of football in this county

Not a good start to your interview for PRO..

=D

According the Antrim Strategic Plan 2020-2022, one of their main aims of the plan was to develop a fit for purpose Antrim fixture programme, it's now 2023 and we saw 10am throw ins and leagues starting in first week of March. Does this mean that that "fit for purpose" notion goes out the window? It also says that games are regular, meaningful and meets the needs of all patrons. Not quite sure how footballers start the leagues in early March with 10am throw ins but the hurlers start the leagues at the end of March and every week start at 2pm

Was very impressed with the minors on Saturday. Sé Ferris coming off the bench offered something different and a driving force. Callum Gribbin only coming back from injury and he looked relatively sharp in the second half after being introduced and took some courage to take his shot from just inside the 45 to get the equaliser.

Great signs for these young lads who will take great heart from that result going forward into the championship. They are guaranteed a QF since being in the group of 4.