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The Man City documentary on Amazon Prime is very good
No chance of going through now. Wouldn't even be confident of a Europa league place.
I obviously can’t talk about Antrim football specifically but I think you’ve hit the nail on the head in a general sense there.Fair comment HS. I totally get the product isn't good enough, but even when we fluctuated between divisions 3 and 4 for years, there was always a decent crowd at our home games....maybe 800 to 1200 home supporters.....a guess I admit. The product wasn't much better then. People you saw at matches all the time have literally just stopped going. We hadn't 200 at Pairc Esler and even less in Tullamore for the qualifier against Offaly.
So why such an obvious drop off in support inside a couple of years? Has the product got THAT much worse?
Personally, im just sick of the county game in general, even on TV i find watching county football difficult and thats the top teams, this has filtered down to me going to Antrim games, i used to go to every championship game, most league games and the odd mckenna cup game. Its been at least a few years since i went to a county game, just got out of the habit and i have zero interest in going back just apathy i suppose. Flip side of that, ive driven to Toome, Portglenone, ahoghill and other places to watch club games as a neutral just as i find them more enjoyable. dunno what we can do about the county, suppose my point is i dont think the rapid decline in numbers is exclusive to Antrim, i think all bar maybe 5-6 counties are experiencing it.
I know a lot of people (Galway & Mayo mainly) who would have been big into going to every game who now would go only occasionally as they find county football a hard watch.
It can still produce fantastic games from time to time but a lot of it is drab enough.
I go to all the Galway football games league & chanpionship but would also watch a fair amount of club football in both Galway and Mayo - one thing I find in these counties anyway still is that the very defensive football you see at county level hasn’t overly filtered down to the club scene.
Not in Galway and Mayo anyway from what I’ve seen.
There are exceptions of course - but few enough teams go that way from what I’ve seen.
Bad club games are more about just old fashioned bad football rather than defensive football borefests.
Was up in Casement for the Galway Antrim game in 2012.Awful day for Galway football but an enjoyable day out
Fair comment HS. I totally get the product isn't good enough, but even when we fluctuated between divisions 3 and 4 for years, there was always a decent crowd at our home games....maybe 800 to 1200 home supporters.....a guess I admit. The product wasn't much better then. People you saw at matches all the time have literally just stopped going. We hadn't 200 at Pairc Esler and even less in Tullamore for the qualifier against Offaly.
So why such an obvious drop off in support inside a couple of years? Has the product got THAT much worse?
I thought that Tupac and Biggie Unsolved show on Netflix was decent enough.
If you flew a Palestine flag inside a premier league ground would you be asked to leave?It would be confiscated. Not sure if you'd be asked to leave, I don't think so, but you'd be closely watched.
(Honest question, I dont know the answer).
My son had one at the R.O.I v USA friendly a couple of weeks back. No one said boo to him
NonsenseI don't understand his reasoning behind not playing him. His size and ball winning ability would get him onto most teams in ulster - he is also not a full forward the fella has good hands not feet. Lenny baffles me some of the players on the panel would struggle to make some of the top club teams on the county. Another disappointing year for the saffrons
Some of these players are the only ones who will make themselves available. Their maybe not the best but they are trying their best and that is all you can ask if they are willing to commit.
I understand that but the amount of top players we don't have representing our county is a disgrace no other county has this situation. Crozier McCann brothers Dermot McAleese, John Mcnabb - who best keeper in the county by a mile, Niall oneill worth his place, Martin Johnston , Eoin McKeown , Donal Nugent if he got into shape I could go on I know there are different reasons and it is unrealistic that every player will commit every year but we need these type of players in the saffron jersey - Phone calls need to be made accommodating these players situations or else sadly we will be in the basement for the foreseeable future.
Dave McIntyre.
I thought some of the black card calls were worthy of debate. Reilly's late foul was very close to a drag down. So he though the McAliskey effort went in, big deal. He made a mistake. Compared to Canning, Cairney and Carr, I know who I'd prefer.Who is Sky's primary commentator? David someone. He's absolutely terrible and it's like he's watching a different game at times.
They made some absolute howlers last night. Wrong player names, not knowing what constitutes a black/yellow card and let's not get started on the Mcaliskey "goal" from out the field.
Yes but when he started rambling on about his surprise as to why the guys who got red cards in normal time had not reappeared for the extra time it showed that he does needs to brush up on the rules a bit 😂
The de-catholicisation of Ireland by itself has been such an incredible positive for society over the last twenty years. This country has modernised itself at an incredible rate.
Don’t answer this if you don’t want to syferus as I understand it’s quite a personal question did you/ would you get married in a Catholic Church, will you have your funeral in a Catholic Church?
I couldn't give a shít either way. It's not entirely my decision either so asking me the question is a bit facetious.
The only time I go near a church is if someone has died or it's Christmas for family reasons. I know very few people my age who have any engagement with the church.
Having a catholic funeral is 100% your decision. I’ll give you the marriage one as it is a decision for both.
You kind of made my point for me by saying yoj go at Christmas for family reasons. We have a massive culture in this country of running the CC down and mocking the church and those belonging to it m yet when it comes to funerals, weddings (and Christmas) was use the church for our own gain.
I only go for my parents’ sake. I’m utterly bored to tears and wouldn’t go otherwise. I’m not using the church in any manner whatsoever besides sitting on a wooden bench in a chilly hall for 40 minutes. I don’t think the Catholic Church has any monopoly on dignified funerals either. Once a certain generation die off were likely to see many more secular funerals.
The de-catholicisation of Ireland by itself has been such an incredible positive for society over the last twenty years. This country has modernised itself at an incredible rate.
Don’t answer this if you don’t want to syferus as I understand it’s quite a personal question did you/ would you get married in a Catholic Church, will you have your funeral in a Catholic Church?
I couldn't give a shít either way. It's not entirely my decision either so asking me the question is a bit facetious.
The only time I go near a church is if someone has died or it's Christmas for family reasons. I know very few people my age who have any engagement with the church.
The de-catholicisation of Ireland by itself has been such an incredible positive for society over the last twenty years. This country has modernised itself at an incredible rate.
