Antrim Football Thread

[InnocentByStander]

Young lads are right to take travel opportunities when presented.

As for any team overrated - does anyone here actually overrate any side but their own?

Cargin are county champions and have given a good account in their annual Ulster game recently but still the same outcome - close but no cigar.

And if we are being honest Div 1 in Antrim is mediocre generally.

How many clubs have the depth to cope with losing 5 or 6 players?  I'd say no more than two or maybe three at a stretch. And that's just for league games😂

mediocre is being kind...

[NorthAntrim]

Wouldnt say mediocre without Fyfe. 2 Hynds, McQuillan, Higgins all County panel. Add in Fyfe decent line up from Midfield up

[Caesar]

Young lads are right to take travel opportunities when presented.

As for any team overrated - does anyone here actually overrate any side but their own?

Cargin are county champions and have given a good account in their annual Ulster game recently but still the same outcome - close but no cigar.

And if we are being honest Div 1 in Antrim is mediocre generally.

How many clubs have the depth to cope with losing 5 or 6 players?  I'd say no more than two or maybe three at a stretch. And that's just for league games😂

mediocre is being kind...

The senior football league this year has been very poor, even in comparison to previous years. Almost all teams just going through the motions, bar one or two. Does not bode well for the development of standards within the county. Look at Tyrone or Derry where the leagues are much more competitive

[paddyjohn]

I went to the game on at the weekend. Heard a Glenravel man saying they were missing 10 players. 8 on holidays and the 2 men in the states. Not all would be starters but at least 6 or 7 would be.

[imtommygunn]

Read the derry thread on that. I don't think the derry leagues are good at all. Tyrone it would seem have the best setup.

[InnocentByStander]

Read the derry thread on that. I don't think the derry leagues are good at all. Tyrone it would seem have the best setup.

Yeah derry league isn't cared about at all Kilrea and Dungiven were going for DIV1 either of them 2 teams will be no where near it come the business end.

Tyrone on the other hand is very competitive and taken very seriously

[Milltown Row2]

Struggling to see a difference to the league this year to previous years, no one for as long as I can remember actually remembered who won the league from one year to the next, there is and always has been one show in town.

I'm not sure how the league set up is now being looked at with regards to improving county players when county players very rarely play in the league for any county up and down the country! Strange gymnastics being used to get a odd point across

[imtommygunn]

I think a lot of counties have struggled to deal well with leagues and the split season. It probably should be looked at universally - tyrone seems the benchmark for it. It will cause apathy and do no good for standards like has been said here if not looked at.

[imtommygunn]

The relegation side of division 1 used to be great MR after the split. Every game meant something. Playoffs do this year but not much else. Also teams with loads of county players do feel like they're being punished as there was at most 2 league stage games after county went out.

[Milltown Row2]

There are play offs, that's there to help county players play with their clubs, if players are taking themselves off for holidays that's ok and clubs will have known that too.

Other than staying up, the league has been used to blood players and prepare teams for championships

I'm not sure the mindset is there between the clubs to make it 'important' why Tyronies get worked up for the league I don't know, as it has no bearing other than staying up

[JimStynes]

When's everyone sending their All Ireland tickets to me never mind?

[Milltown Row2]

When's everyone sending their All Ireland tickets to me never mind?

Do all Armagh clubs not get an allocation? 

[Spike]

the hurlers will hardly want theirs? 

[saffman]

Young lads are right to take travel opportunities when presented.

As for any team overrated - does anyone here actually overrate any side but their own?

Cargin are county champions and have given a good account in their annual Ulster game recently but still the same outcome - close but no cigar.

And if we are being honest Div 1 in Antrim is mediocre generally.

How many clubs have the depth to cope with losing 5 or 6 players?  I'd say no more than two or maybe three at a stretch. And that's just for league games😂

Chatting to a St Endas fella the other week. From their all ireland intermediate team, only 2 starters and 3 squad players still playing this year.
Thats a scary turnover.

[ClubScene13]

There are play offs, that's there to help county players play with their clubs, if players are taking themselves off for holidays that's ok and clubs will have known that too.

Other than staying up, the league has been used to blood players and prepare teams for championships

I'm not sure the mindset is there between the clubs to make it 'important' why Tyronies get worked up for the league I don't know, as it has no bearing other than staying up

Linked to championship. If you go down your playing Division 2 / Intermediate championship next year. There's been serious depth added the last few years in terms of the gap between top and bottom. Seems to be getting smaller all the time, some really big clubs seem to be either going down or surviving by the skin of their teeth ever year now.

Clonoe last played intermediate in the 90s they went down in 2022.
Coalisland last played intermediate in 82/83 they survived via a playoff last year.
Ardboe last played intermediate in 1990 they haven't won a game yet this season.

I'm bias but the margins are fine from top to bottom, but sure you all knew that you get reminded of it every October