Casement Park in line for major overhaul - 40,000 all seater Stadium.

[AustinPowers]

Armagh season ticket holder from day one, wasn't many Armagh fans in O Moore Pk just before covid when we were well beat in division 3. Will quite happily watch it on TV to back the Antrim stance, and the Armagh bandwagon jumpers should just suck it up and forego a day sending Insta snaps so they're seen in attendance and remember there is a lot more to the GAA than piss ups and selfies.

Yes, I agree

[Spiderlegs]

Time the Armagh supporters made their peace with the fact you're not going to the match. A few of you can come or none. Make the choice.

Given what the Ulster Council said about the ground not meeting the Health and Safety requirements due to the minimum amount of tickets needed exceeding the capacity, I'd say we all need to make our peace with it not going ahead at all, assuming Antrim players and managers aren't bluffing.

[Spiderlegs]

Give me one single reason Antrim management or players would even contemplate playing this game if its not at Corrigan?

Because the GAA rulebook says it can be changed.

[Spiderlegs]

Armagh County Board should come out and support Antrim on this, in the spirit of the games. They'll have plenty of other days out this summer. Give the disgruntled apple-chompers with season tickets free entry or some crap to a NFL game. Or pallets or something.

They already have entry to all Armagh NFL games and I think a free ticket to what could potentially (although unlikely) be a Tailteann Cup match is unlikely to be an acceptable compromise for those who spent 150 euro to ensure a right to buy tickets to every match. 

For the 100th time on this - not Antrim's problem.

No, it's Ulster Council's problem, and to solve it they will move the game.

Antrim supporters are actually the ones going to be shafted the most here. They're gonna have a handful of people at their own home game against a few thousand Armagh fans.

Sure that's going to be the case no matter where the game is played!!

How? If it's moves elsewhere then then it won't be their own home game

[David McKeown]

Time the Armagh supporters made their peace with the fact you're not going to the match. A few of you can come or none. Make the choice.

100%, names in a hat or whatever for the tickets.

Completely undermines the season ticket that and not just for the counties involved.  Id imagine they'd have to give as many to the season ticket holders as they can

Yeah I meant season ticket holders in the hat, I wonder how many season ticket holders Antrim would have

I may be wrong but was a season ticket not really bad value for Divison 3/4 counties as those individual tickets are cheaper than division 1/2 but season tickets weren't.

[Spiderlegs]

Can someone tell me why Antrim would want to concede home advantage where they might keep the score down to a respectable level in context of Div 3 team playing All Ireland Champions, never mind facing into it like an away match in front of 15k plus Armagh supporters.

Would be like turkeys voting for Christmas!

Ulster Council need to suck it up because they took eye off the ball and forgot to put that stipulation in place before the draw, and genuine Armagh supporters need to put hand up and say its only fair it's played at Corrigan....and let them watch it on TV for the day if they arnt one of 1780 Armagh season ticket holders (48% of their total)
lucky enough to draw one in an internal Armagh raffle.

The GAA rulebook IS the stipulation.
Ulster Council can change the home venue if need be.

[Armagh18]

Can someone tell me why Antrim would want to concede home advantage where they might keep the score down to a respectable level in context of Div 3 team playing All Ireland Champions, never mind facing into it like an away match in front of 15k plus Armagh supporters.

Would be like turkeys voting for Christmas!

Ulster Council need to suck it up because they took eye off the ball and forgot to put that stipulation in place before the draw, and genuine Armagh supporters need to put hand up and say its only fair it's played at Corrigan....and let them watch it on TV for the day if they arnt one of 1780 Armagh season ticket holders (48% of their total)
lucky enough to draw one in an internal Armagh raffle.

The GAA rulebook IS the stipulation.
Ulster Council can change the home venue if need be.

And Antrim can tell them where to go. Be interesting to see what happens then.

[Milltown Row2]

The game won't be played and Armagh can have warm weather training in Miami instead

[armaghniac]

The game won't be played and Armagh can have warm weather training in Miami instead

But there will be a strict rule about keeping to your own room.

[Armagh18]

The game won't be played and Armagh can have warm weather training in Miami instead

But there will be a strict rule about keeping to your own room.

Careful now Ted

[twohands!!!]

Can someone tell me why Antrim would want to concede home advantage where they might keep the score down to a respectable level in context of Div 3 team playing All Ireland Champions, never mind facing into it like an away match in front of 15k plus Armagh supporters.

Would be like turkeys voting for Christmas!

Ulster Council need to suck it up because they took eye off the ball and forgot to put that stipulation in place before the draw, and genuine Armagh supporters need to put hand up and say its only fair it's played at Corrigan....and let them watch it on TV for the day if they arnt one of 1780 Armagh season ticket holders (48% of their total)
lucky enough to draw one in an internal Armagh raffle.

The GAA rulebook IS the stipulation.
Ulster Council can change the home venue if need be.

And Antrim can tell them where to go. Be interesting to see what happens then.

I think the rule-book is fairly clear on this - if Antrim (or any county) don't show up to the venue the match is fixed at they would play no football in the championship at all for two years. They could play league football in 2026. Bascially they would be out of the complete championship this year - missing the Armagh match means they would be out of both the Ulster Championship and the All-Ireland series/Tailteann Cup (there's no mechanism for teams to play in the All-Ireland/Tailteann if they don't play in the provincial championship, apart from New York) and then their punishment for not turning up would be a one match ban for the next match in the same competition they didn't turn up for so it would be the Ulster championship as opposed to the league. Being banned from the first game would mean that whoever was drawn against them would proceed to the next round of the Ulster championship and as there would be no mechanism for them to re-enter the Ulster championship, Antrim would play no championship football in 2026 either.

That's what the rules say so I really doubt it will happen that Antrim don't turn up. In the grand GAA tradition I'd say there is high odds that some sort of fudge will occur - the one place we can be pretty sure it won't be played is Casement anyway.

[Milltown Row2]

Can someone tell me why Antrim would want to concede home advantage where they might keep the score down to a respectable level in context of Div 3 team playing All Ireland Champions, never mind facing into it like an away match in front of 15k plus Armagh supporters.

Would be like turkeys voting for Christmas!

Ulster Council need to suck it up because they took eye off the ball and forgot to put that stipulation in place before the draw, and genuine Armagh supporters need to put hand up and say its only fair it's played at Corrigan....and let them watch it on TV for the day if they arnt one of 1780 Armagh season ticket holders (48% of their total)
lucky enough to draw one in an internal Armagh raffle.

The GAA rulebook IS the stipulation.
Ulster Council can change the home venue if need be.

And Antrim can tell them where to go. Be interesting to see what happens then.

I think the rule-book is fairly clear on this - if Antrim (or any county) don't show up to the venue the match is fixed at they would play no football in the championship at all for two years. They could play league football in 2026. Bascially they would be out of the complete championship this year - missing the Armagh match means they would be out of both the Ulster Championship and the All-Ireland series/Tailteann Cup (there's no mechanism for teams to play in the All-Ireland/Tailteann if they don't play in the provincial championship, apart from New York) and then their punishment for not turning up would be a one match ban for the next match in the same competition they didn't turn up for so it would be the Ulster championship as opposed to the league. Being banned from the first game would mean that whoever was drawn against them would proceed to the next round of the Ulster championship and as there would be no mechanism for them to re-enter the Ulster championship, Antrim would play no championship football in 2026 either.

That's what the rules say so I really doubt it will happen that Antrim don't turn up. In the grand GAA tradition I'd say there is high odds that some sort of fudge will occur - the one place we can be pretty sure it won't be played is Casement anyway.

Were Cavan to get a fixture change before with Corrigan?

[screenexile]

The problem the GAA/Ulster Council have is public opinion (outside of the few thousand Armagh season ticket holders) is firmly with Antrim. Are they going to then f**k Antrim out of the Cship for 2 years?

I doubt it.

Armagh really need to insist the game is on Antrims home turf. Armagh will win the game easy I don't see why Armagh fans care so much about a foregone conclusion of a game against a Division 3 team.

[Sheedy]

If the match is moved and Antrim are forced to play or else receive a possible ban they should do what dromintee done a while back against crossmaglen and field county board officials and fellas in jeans

[illdecide]

The problem the GAA/Ulster Council have is public opinion (outside of the few thousand Armagh season ticket holders) is firmly with Antrim. Are they going to then f**k Antrim out of the Cship for 2 years?

I doubt it.

Armagh really need to insist the game is on Antrims home turf. Armagh will win the game easy I don't see why Armagh fans care so much about a foregone conclusion of a game against a Division 3 team.

Screen in all honesty 95% of Armagh fans will gladly have it played in Corrigan Pk and not get to see the game live. Give them the home game and play it to whatever capacity crowd is allowed and move on. It's not Armagh who are protesting it's the Ulster council, Armagh and Antrim are on the same page here.