Antrim Football Thread

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

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Take the Mark

Upwards of a minute? Wise up. Parke was grand yesterday, and no scrums on show! Gave a yellow instead of the most blatant black card you'll ever see for Cargins penalty (which we missed anyway) but apart from that he had a decent game.

St Brigids impressive enough too, could make for a good game come the business end, hopefully it won't take 20 odd minutes for a score.

YoungSaff

Quote from: Take the Mark on June 09, 2025, 11:07:23 AMUpwards of a minute? Wise up. Parke was grand yesterday, and no scrums on show! Gave a yellow instead of the most blatant black card you'll ever see for Cargins penalty (which we missed anyway) but apart from that he had a decent game.

St Brigids impressive enough too, could make for a good game come the business end, hopefully it won't take 20 odd minutes for a score.

Agree , nail on head about the penalty too , you'd hope not Brides look decent yesterday but jesus them boys on the line roaring and screaming at the ref need to relax and let him do his thing , they wonder why they aren't a liked outfit.

Some other interesting results , Cloney ran Ballymena closer than expected , were you at it Gaels1789 ?

Creggan seemed to make short work of PG1 too.

YoungSaff

Quote from: imtommygunn on June 09, 2025, 10:53:43 AMIt's just a league game - would be surprised if St Brigids anywhere close yet. It is Cargin's to lose.

What has been the story with Conchuir Johnston? Has he been injured?

The leagues etc should get more interesting now with the county players back at least.

Injured the last I heard but I have not even seen him kitted out for Cargin recently , anyone from cargin know what the story is , no Tom shivers yesterday either he is in America I am told with the elder brother to follow

paddyjohn

Quote from: AllStar15 on June 09, 2025, 09:50:52 AM
Quote from: paddyjohn on June 07, 2025, 07:05:20 AM
Quote from: HealthySaff on June 07, 2025, 01:10:53 AMHeard the same . Probably be brushed under the carpet. CCC won't be allowed to go after a Magee's Man surely.

And they won't be allowed to go after a member of the current county senior back room team either.



...who actually started it, contrary to a few reports here

Exactly!

InnocentByStander

Quote from: Take the Mark on June 09, 2025, 11:07:23 AMUpwards of a minute? Wise up. Parke was grand yesterday, and no scrums on show! Gave a yellow instead of the most blatant black card you'll ever see for Cargins penalty (which we missed anyway) but apart from that he had a decent game.

St Brigids impressive enough too, could make for a good game come the business end, hopefully it won't take 20 odd minutes for a score.

I can recall at least 2 scrums. Never said he had a bad game making the point that he needs to be pulled for letting the scrums happen for much longer than they should before a game ends in a brawl that he is in charge of.

Caesar

What's the craic with Creggan having no county men?

Both them and St Brigid's will be in the mix come the business end. There's still a gap between Cargin and the chasing pack, but certainly not insurmountable on any given Sunday.

Spike

On a positive note the much maligned league fixtures clash took the spotlight of the county footballer's performance.  Every cloud and all.

BigGreenField

With a missed penalty and some 2 pointers for the winners not sure Cargin would be too concerned.

The match report had Tomas not starting, is that right? Cargin are a total different animal with him playing (perhaps to the point of reliance).

A number of our (good) dual ref have a tendency to allow hurling rucks to develop on the football field, as the man said find the soft free and move on.

Pg1 score line probably the most notable of the weekend , if not the result.

If St Pauls can beat Agahgallon in 2 weeks  at home probably looking at Tir na nog going down in a playoff (regardless of how poor rossa have been).




Cnoc Bán

Quote from: BigGreenField on June 09, 2025, 01:37:51 PMWith a missed penalty and some 2 pointers for the winners not sure Cargin would be too concerned.

The match report had Tomas not starting, is that right? Cargin are a total different animal with him playing (perhaps to the point of reliance).

A number of our (good) dual ref have a tendency to allow hurling rucks to develop on the football field, as the man said find the soft free and move on.

Pg1 score line probably the most notable of the weekend , if not the result.

If St Pauls can beat Agahgallon in 2 weeks  at home probably looking at Tir na nog going down in a playoff (regardless of how poor rossa have been).





Yeah, with 4 draws and 2 losses by 1 point, I would fear TNN just don't have the belief to get over the line if it comes to a play off.

We won't pick up any more points this year with the opposition we will face.

Having a young team this year means they won't have the same battle hardened experience that a few of the missing players this year would have brought.

That and other teams at the bottom getting their county players back just at the wrong time for us.

bannside

Impressed with Creggan yesterday, definitely look a solid, well drilled outfit. Good value for their 8 pt victory.

Ballymena Brigids Cargin and Creggan all motoring well within themselves.

Gaels1789

Quote from: YoungSaff on June 09, 2025, 11:22:12 AM
Quote from: Take the Mark on June 09, 2025, 11:07:23 AMUpwards of a minute? Wise up. Parke was grand yesterday, and no scrums on show! Gave a yellow instead of the most blatant black card you'll ever see for Cargins penalty (which we missed anyway) but apart from that he had a decent game.

St Brigids impressive enough too, could make for a good game come the business end, hopefully it won't take 20 odd minutes for a score.

Agree , nail on head about the penalty too , you'd hope not Brides look decent yesterday but jesus them boys on the line roaring and screaming at the ref need to relax and let him do his thing , they wonder why they aren't a liked outfit.

Some other interesting results , Cloney ran Ballymena closer than expected , were you at it Gaels1789 ?

Creggan seemed to make short work of PG1 too




Yes I was at the game.

Ballymena played with a nice wind in the first half played all the football. Ronan mckillop caused us all sorts of problems with pizza aswell

Second half we came out of the gates firing 2pointer straight away then we started playing ball but Ballymena clipped on 4/5 points in the second half to keep us at bay was a great game.

Jimmy played well with Pat and colla got a nice goal, would take a lot of positives from that performance

Ballymena play some slick football I must admit aswell


Spike

Quote from: YoungSaff on June 09, 2025, 09:02:23 AMOn another note

I was at the Cargin and Ulster select ;D  game yesterday in Toome , Jesus that silly ginger fella on the line may as well of been playing wing back for them he was never off the field screaming at Kevin Parke , felt bad for him however thought he done well yesterday let it go well.

Cargin seemed to be very light in men in fairness brides are too , Cargin struggled from their kickouts as Brides squeezed hard and in fairness worked well for them was well executed and they seem to be structured well.

After taking a defeat to ballymena it makes you wonder is the gap starting to close on Cargin ??

Is it time for a marked out Technical Area for managers and backroom staff at matches?   was at a couple of games over the weekend in 2 different codes and the abuse the referees took from all corners of the pitch where club coaches had spread out was concerning.   a good bit of coaches crossing paths in front of dug outs and mouthing at each other was common.     

Perhaps MR2 and the other refs don't pay heed to it but there doesnt seem to be any let up

BigGreenField

Quote from: Spike on June 09, 2025, 02:08:21 PM
Quote from: YoungSaff on June 09, 2025, 09:02:23 AMOn another note

I was at the Cargin and Ulster select ;D  game yesterday in Toome , Jesus that silly ginger fella on the line may as well of been playing wing back for them he was never off the field screaming at Kevin Parke , felt bad for him however thought he done well yesterday let it go well.

Cargin seemed to be very light in men in fairness brides are too , Cargin struggled from their kickouts as Brides squeezed hard and in fairness worked well for them was well executed and they seem to be structured well.

After taking a defeat to ballymena it makes you wonder is the gap starting to close on Cargin ??

Is it time for a marked out Technical Area for managers and backroom staff at matches?   

Yes and a smaller limit on the number of pitchside coaches, regardless of dugouts only 2 subs inside the fence at a time.

although I suspect managers/coaches would go outside the fence to get to the same area side of the pitch (perhaps fines might handle that).

Lár na páirce 1

Quote from: BigGreenField on June 09, 2025, 01:37:51 PMWith a missed penalty and some 2 pointers for the winners not sure Cargin would be too concerned.

The match report had Tomas not starting, is that right? Cargin are a total different animal with him playing (perhaps to the point of reliance).

A number of our (good) dual ref have a tendency to allow hurling rucks to develop on the football field, as the man said find the soft free and move on.

Pg1 score line probably the most notable of the weekend , if not the result.

If St Pauls can beat Agahgallon in 2 weeks  at home probably looking at Tir na nog going down in a playoff (regardless of how poor rossa have been).



Tomas only came on last 5 or 6 minutes




Milltown Row2

Quote from: Spike on June 09, 2025, 02:08:21 PM
Quote from: YoungSaff on June 09, 2025, 09:02:23 AMOn another note

I was at the Cargin and Ulster select ;D  game yesterday in Toome , Jesus that silly ginger fella on the line may as well of been playing wing back for them he was never off the field screaming at Kevin Parke , felt bad for him however thought he done well yesterday let it go well.

Cargin seemed to be very light in men in fairness brides are too , Cargin struggled from their kickouts as Brides squeezed hard and in fairness worked well for them was well executed and they seem to be structured well.

After taking a defeat to ballymena it makes you wonder is the gap starting to close on Cargin ??

Is it time for a marked out Technical Area for managers and backroom staff at matches?   was at a couple of games over the weekend in 2 different codes and the abuse the referees took from all corners of the pitch where club coaches had spread out was concerning.   a good bit of coaches crossing paths in front of dug outs and mouthing at each other was common.     

Perhaps MR2 and the other refs don't pay heed to it but there doesnt seem to be any let up

Referee's have the means to move the ball forward 50 meters when getting abuse from the sideline

To be fair I've zero tolerance to it, if a manager or other team official wants to be carded and the ball moved 50 meters, then that's on him..

I think, and its hard to know as you are only doing the games you ref, but I feel that some referee's may take more abuse than others or possibly some coaches feel that they can give out more to some referee's.

Come Championship its a team of officials that will be getting it in the neck, but I'd be very wary that the linesman doesn't draw the attention to the ref and the ball moved forward.   
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