Antrim Hurling

[NAG1]

What's the craic with Dinny Cahill? Looking at Shamrocks All Ireland picture last year and he was in with the team wearing a Loughgiel hoodie top. Now he's with St Thomas' very strange..

dinny wasn't near loughgiel last year.

Sure what's one more 

[Sleeping giant]

One more will make it 4 in a row nag

[NAG1]

One more will make it 4 in a row nag

Couldnt resist it SG, so what did big PJ and the Burke fella fall out about at HT? In fairness it did look funny looking in from the outside.

[Sleeping giant]

I no nothing

[Íseal agus crua isteach a]

What's the craic with Dinny Cahill? Looking at Shamrocks All Ireland picture last year and he was in with the team wearing a Loughgiel hoodie top. Now he's with St Thomas' very strange..

dinny wasn't near loughgiel last year.

I thought that was Dinny laying on the ground beside PJ O Mullan. Could be wrong though a while since I was home. If not, he looks wile like him.

[Minder]

That is Mick O'Connell

[Íseal agus crua isteach a]

That is Mick O'Connell

Thanks that clears that up for me.

[bannside]

Some midfielder he was too! Havent seen many better since.

[Seamroga in exile]

Some nice heeds in that photo. 

[pdiddy]

I'll never get tired of looking at that photo 

[CitySlicker11]

Watson a big fan of what Neil McManus had to say in the IN today.

[NAG1]

Watson a big fan of what Neil McManus had to say in the IN today.

Dont see a lot wrong with what he said in that article.

[CitySlicker11]

And neither do I, just Watson seemed to agree with him on twitter....

[north aontroim gael]

back to work today after a recovery day yesterday 

My thoughts on Saturday were that the best team won.  Good luck to St Thomas in the final, they have a number of fine hurlers and they won't be far away.  Much like Loughgiel last year their hassling, tackling was top notch and we were unable to break the tackle and get shots away on various occasions up front.

For us I thought the full-back line emerged with great credit (not often you say that after an 8 point defeat).  Ding and Duck were superb and Neil McGarry put in one of his best ever performances.  If we could of made the ball stick a bit better up front they wouldn't of had to do half the work they did.

We were cleaned out in midfield again unfortunately i felt we were very slow to make a change there.  Eddie was the only forward who was winning his own ball.  When Shay Casey got ball out in front of him in the first half he caused trouble as well.  Declan Laverty having two of his quietest ever games in CF played a big part in our downfall as well.

Would of loved to have seen one of those early goal chances go in but I think we used up our quota of goals in last years final and last weeks semi-final!

The last three years have brought more success than I could of dreamed of after the barren run of 6 final defeats.  Huge credit to all involved and hope they enjoy a well earned rest.  Not the end of this team by any stretch but a few new faces need to be blooded over the next couple of years.

Hopefully the greatest legacy will be that they have inspired another generation to go and win an All Ireland as the team of 83 did.  Up the Shamrocks.

[NAG1]

back to work today after a recovery day yesterday 

My thoughts on Saturday were that the best team won.  Good luck to St Thomas in the final, they have a number of fine hurlers and they won't be far away.  Much like Loughgiel last year their hassling, tackling was top notch and we were unable to break the tackle and get shots away on various occasions up front.

For us I thought the full-back line emerged with great credit (not often you say that after an 8 point defeat).  Ding and Duck were superb and Neil McGarry put in one of his best ever performances.  If we could of made the ball stick a bit better up front they wouldn't of had to do half the work they did.

We were cleaned out in midfield again unfortunately i felt we were very slow to make a change there.  Eddie was the only forward who was winning his own ball.  When Shay Casey got ball out in front of him in the first half he caused trouble as well.  Declan Laverty having two of his quietest ever games in CF played a big part in our downfall as well.

Would of loved to have seen one of those early goal chances go in but I think we used up our quota of goals in last years final and last weeks semi-final!

The last three years have brought more success than I could of dreamed of after the barren run of 6 final defeats.  Huge credit to all involved and hope they enjoy a well earned rest.  Not the end of this team by any stretch but a few new faces need to be blooded over the next couple of years.

Hopefully the greatest legacy will be that they have inspired another generation to go and win an All Ireland as the team of 83 did.  Up the Shamrocks.

Would agree with that assessment apart from that one element.