Antrim Hurling

[Minder]

Let Meath keep it, Antrim were an embarrassment

[Seamroga in exile]

Let Meath keep it, Antrim were an embarrassment

oh I agree. Best team won hands down. It's just amazing how a final in croke can be scored wrong.

[paddyjohn]

Whoever runs that clubaontroim Twitter account should be clashed or at least have the phone taken off them. A mistake was made, Antrim lost out. Get over it.

[theskull1]

Lets not have any excuses. Lets be man enough to accept that thats our level. We could have gotten over the line but didn't but would that have only hidden the truth of where were at. Thats not to ridicule anyone thats trying to improve our lot. It just is what it is. We showed little or no togetherness or belief in each other and invited on what came about.

[Minder]

Whoever runs that clubaontroim Twitter account should be clashed or at least have the phone taken off them. A mistake was made, Antrim lost out. Get over it.

Seems like a 14 yr old is manning that account

[clootfromthe21]

Let Meath keep it, Antrim were an embarrassment

oh I agree. Best team won hands down. It's just amazing how a final in croke can be scored wrong.

Meath didn't win, the game was a draw. What a shambles.

[NAG1]

Lets not have any excuses. Lets be man enough to accept that thats our level. We could have gotten over the line but didn't but would that have only hidden the truth of where were at. Thats not to ridicule anyone thats trying to improve our lot. It just is what it is. We showed little or no togetherness or belief in each other and invited on what came about.

Actually sums up the whole season for the county team pretty well. Promised so much ended in utter shambles.

Feel sorry for Woody Pappy and Sambo, three genuine hurling men asked to clean up a mess that wasn't their doing.

The seeds were sowen early in the year and hard to come back from the disgrace that it was.

[Leftbackno4]

I'm sure the Antrim stats man will be able to confirm the correct score ?

If the ref recorded a score wrong and gave  an Antrim point for Meath it wasn't a draw, Antrim would have won by a point.

We lost whatever way you look at it.

The players weren't good enough to beat Meath

The management wasn't good enough to beat Meath.

[paddyjohn]

Lets not have any excuses. Lets be man enough to accept that thats our level. We could have gotten over the line but didn't but would that have only hidden the truth of where were at. Thats not to ridicule anyone thats trying to improve our lot. It just is what it is. We showed little or no togetherness or belief in each other and invited on what came about.

Those few lines summed the whole season up for me. Well said pal.

I hope Sambo, Woody, Pappy & Neal Pedan stay on with the team. Give them a fair crack at it,

[NAG1]

I'm sure the Antrim stats man will be able to confirm the correct score ?

If the ref recorded a score wrong and gave  an Antrim point for Meath it wasn't a draw, Antrim would have won by a point.

We lost whatever way you look at it.

The players weren't good enough to beat Meath

The management wasn't good enough to beat Meath.

Genuinely think the management wouldn't have been out of place playing 

No blame attached to this management for the result at all.

Look further back if you want to attach blame

[Leftbackno4]

3 great Antrim men who stepped up when we needed them most and I would back them all the way for another tenure.

But you can't look past the fact  they picked, prepared, setup and motivated this Antrim team with only one objective which was to win an All Ireland final in Croke Park against Meath and they lost.

The substitutions were shocking.

Our most dangerous forward on the day (Conor Johnston) got absolutely no service ....

The defence were commanding in the 1st half and strangers to each other in the 2nd....

This result sets us back 2 years...

[NAG1]

3 great Antrim men who stepped up when we needed them most and I would back them all the way for another tenure.

But you can't look past the fact  they picked, prepared, setup and motivated this Antrim team with only one objective which was to win an All Ireland final in Croke Park against Meath and they lost.

The substitutions were shocking.

Our most dangerous forward on the day (Conor Johnston) got absolutely no service ....

The defence were commanding in the 1st half and strangers to each other in the 2nd....

This result sets us back 2 years...

Only management to blame for this result was the original one at the outset of the season. Disgrace

[theskull1]

I disagree
Blame donkeys years of poorly attended, poorly invested in , poorly emphasised, poorly supported, dev squad & minor preparation.

We've poor prepared our fighters for years and then pushed them into the ring only to bury their heads into their gloves when they quickly find themselves on the ropes against better prepared opponents. And then we ridicule them for their ineptness. Why the fcuk would anyone want to fight for that?

We are broken at County level and it'll take more than one or two changes to fix it IMO

And we want to build a 38K stadium to play in 

[btdtgtt]

I disagree
Blame donkeys years of poorly attended, poorly invested in , poorly emphasised, poorly supported, dev squad & minor preparation.

We've poor prepared our fighters for years and then pushed them into the ring only to bury their heads into their gloves when they quickly find themselves on the ropes against better prepared opponents. And then we ridicule them for their ineptness. Why the fcuk would anyone want to fight for that?

We are broken at County level and it'll take more than one or two changes to fix it IMO

And we want to build a 38K stadium to play in 

I certainly don't compare our players to fighters - nor absolve them of blame. Poorly invested in does not cover their part in our demise.

But as I said before - for the primary issue to address this - does anyone believe we can lift our standard without a radically invigorated club scene? No. We know this issue - it's within our control - not dependent on money or anyone else - so f**kin do something.

[Seamroga in exile]

I'm sure the Antrim stats man will be able to confirm the correct score ?

If the ref recorded a score wrong and gave  an Antrim point for Meath it wasn't a draw, Antrim would have won by a point.

We lost whatever way you look at it.

The players weren't good enough to beat Meath

The management wasn't good enough to beat Meath.

Genuinely think the management wouldn't have been out of place playing 

No blame attached to this management for the result at all.

Look further back if you want to attach blame

ryan?