Antrim Football Thread

[YoungSaff]

It's definitely tiresome as an attitude. These massive club rivalries and folk not putting their all behind the county because of it when in the grand scheme of things our biggest clubs and their rivalries are the equivalent of who won the Bristol derby.

Who isn't putting their all behind their county in Antrim? What clubs havent got players up there?

I think there is a real poor attitude toward the county from clubs , managers will expect players to put the club first which also is a feeding factor. However with the large commitment to play county football with minimal reward . recognition can you blame some players for not wanting to play?

[EOC1923]

It's definitely tiresome as an attitude. These massive club rivalries and folk not putting their all behind the county because of it when in the grand scheme of things our biggest clubs and their rivalries are the equivalent of who won the Bristol derby.

This is an easy way of letting Antrim and its leadership off the hook for decades of failure, blame the clubs.
Instead of fixing the u15/16/17 we plough hundreds of thousands into our senior team and still could get relegated. Work that one out. If we go into Divison 4 I would leave them there and spend the bare minimum on them. Plough the money into the underage teams, start at U12/14 if it takes 10-15  years for us to rise so be it.

[Spike]

Club rivalries has nothing to do with it. Every county has internal and heated rivalries.
 
The County cant sell the Antrim dream and they keep going for the quick fix.  Stick to a proper plan and spend the time to get it right even if it takes years

[imtommygunn]

Agree on the club rivalries part. There's much worse round the country than we have and it's an easy excuse.

The problems we have are not dissimilar to a lot of counties in the context of the senior team itself. Look at the buy in you need for county level these days. The division 3 / division 4 teams in particular will all struggle to get players to commit.

We are ploughing loads into senior without underage getting hugely better. (seems to be getting worse though I do wonder sometimes is it just under more scrutiny because more info is available).

[YoungSaff]

Club rivalries has nothing to do with it. Every county has internal and heated rivalries.
 
The County cant sell the Antrim dream and they keep going for the quick fix.  Stick to a proper plan and spend the time to get it right even if it takes years

agree spike it starts at underage and youth level , plough the money into good coaches and proper structures , the state of the county is a joke , a lad from our club was telling us they had to pay for their own gear at the county wtf wheras the seniors are treated like royalty but are going nowhere. If antrim ever want to get out of the state they are in it starts at grass routes level , a big step imo is participation at high levels young i,.e Ulster A colleges football i think plays a massive factor in player development

[Take the Mark]

Club rivalries has nothing to do with it. Every county has internal and heated rivalries.
 
The County cant sell the Antrim dream and they keep going for the quick fix.  Stick to a proper plan and spend the time to get it right even if it takes years

Correct. If you keep doing what you've always done you'll get what you always got.

Tripe about clubs not buying in and no substance to back that up. Complete lazy, ill informed tripe.

[imtommygunn]

They're not doing what they've always done though. There's gaelfast and there's more investment in senior managers. It's a different argument as to how successful they have been mind you but that's not doing what you've always done and getting what you've always got.

[Milltown Row2]

So does the county have its best players playing? If not why not?

[imtommygunn]

There are multiple layers to that question. A county footballer doesn't have to be an outstanding club footballer with how the game is these days so the best county team doesn't mean the best 15 club players.. Are there boys that McEntee wants that aren't available? I don't know but I would suspect so. Are there boys that people here think should be on that could have a bit of nepotism clouding the judgement - maybe 

[Take the Mark]

'I dont know but I would suspect so'

You don't know. End of. MR2, doesn't know either. But don't let the truth get in the way of talking throught yer backsides.

[Milltown Row2]

There are multiple layers to that question. A county footballer doesn't have to be an outstanding club footballer with how the game is these days so the best county team doesn't mean the best 15 club players.. Are there boys that McEntee wants that aren't available? I don't know but I would suspect so. Are there boys that people here think should be on that could have a bit of nepotism clouding the judgement - maybe 

Didn't think it was a difficult question to be fair, plenty talk about it this last few years and by now I'd suspect that people feel there is possibly a better team but not available for one reason or another, and if so why not.

But hey, that's me just talking out my backarse lol

Take the Mark, you are way to serious, lighten up

[imtommygunn]

'I dont know but I would suspect so'

You don't know. End of. MR2, doesn't know either. But don't let the truth get in the way of talking throught yer backsides.

 

Sorry I'll get the numbers of every player in the county - could you forward them on?

Talking through yer backsides with the stuff you come out with 

[inabsentia]

So, do we reckon we'll see any actual fixtures uploaded to the county site at any point?

10 days to the apparent start of the div 1 league.

When the rest starts who knows

[Round or stuffed]

do we even know who is playing in what division, I've never seen anything like this

[Christmas Lights]

Talk Dunloy is in Division 1?  if so, how is this possible, they didn't get promoted?  Antrim is really the worst I have ever seen, they literally make it up as they go.  Why don't they just play if your in D1 you play senior championship, D2 play intermediate championship, D3 play junior championship.  League and championship winners get promoted, its very simple.