Antrim Football Thread

Started by theskull1, November 09, 2006, 11:48:40 PM

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Milltown Row2

Quote from: Would ye whist on January 30, 2024, 09:47:10 AMAny word on the leagues for the year coming? Meeting last night as far as I understand

Think it went on late enough
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NorthAntrim


Milltown Row2

Quote from: NorthAntrim on January 30, 2024, 10:54:17 AM16 Team Div 1 passed

Play once and breaks into  top and bottom?
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BelSaft

Play once. Bottom team relegated. Top 4 play in semi final and league final.

NorthAntrim

Quote from: BelSaft on January 30, 2024, 11:47:32 AMPlay once. Bottom team relegated. Top 4 play in semi final and league final.

Apparently top 4 playoffs for league and bottom 4 playoff for relegation. One down. One relegated via championship also. Must be bottom team of each group into playoffs. Dunloy senior and seeded and Ballymena playing intermediate

EOC1923

Congrats to Ballymena and Aldergrove on their promotion to Division 1, what an achievement lads

ck

Quote from: NorthAntrim on January 30, 2024, 10:54:17 AM16 Team Div 1 passed

Big step in the wrong direction. Silly move. Would love to hear the justification for this. It will simply demean the league even further.

imtommygunn

The relegation battle from division one was more interesting than half the championship. Really can't understand why they've done this. Bad move.

NorthAntrim

Quote from: EOC1923 on January 30, 2024, 12:32:49 PMCongrats to Ballymena and Aldergrove on their promotion to Division 1, what an achievement lads

Dont forget the teams who have dodged the drop

Caesar


general_lee

So 16 teams in Division 1... what teams make up each division for 2024?

Milltown Row2

Some games will be handier enough to ref ;)
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Delgany 2nds

Quote from: referee on January 30, 2024, 06:16:58 PMJ Brady pushing to get Ballymena into div 1 but enters intermediate championship,sweet mother off fazan,what's the point
They are in IFC because Dunloy are in SFC

Spike

perhaps there is something i am not seeing here (and i will hold my hands up if that is the case) but filling the Division 1 league with teams that are clearly nowhere near that level doesn't sound like something that will improve all round quality.   There were already 1 or 2 struggling last year (and were relegated). The only chance these teams have is to gain some points when the top teams send their reserve teams down at the start of the season. Those poorer teams may marginally improve as a result but the quality of the league as a whole declines. 

As i say, happy to be wrong. Just would like to know the proper thinking on this and why they see this as benefitting Division 1 and Antrim football.   

Milltown Row2

When top teams send their reserves down to the lesser teams, they may also have lesser teams out due to their own county players being unavailable, they'll suffer far more than the top teams for the loss of their better players

Getting home advantage against the stronger teams will prove important for deciding the league placings at the end for the playoffs. Hopefully the playoffs will be done prior to championship as it will provide a bitta extra spice  leading into the championship

Lets try and look at the positives before dishing it straight away ;)

On that, was watching the lads train hard last night in prep for Sunday's important game. Need to build on that performance away last weekend
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