Antrim Football Thread

[ck]

Who was missing today from the Fermanagh match?

[bannside]

Same starting 15 CK except Sean O Neill in for injured Marc Jordan.

[paddyjohn]

10 am games are sh1te. End of discussion.

Games should be 2pm and 3.30pm.

[Saul goodman]

10 am games are sh1te. End of discussion.

Games should be 2pm and 3.30pm.

10 am is good that it gets it out the way instead of waiting about to 3/4

The downside is if you are a team with some distance to travel to PG1 if you are aghagallon or even a Belfast club you need to be up and away early

[country bumpkin]

Jeez, and the Mc Ginley management team were shark food last season when relegation was not an issue......

But we can always blame Sean og.....

[imtommygunn]

1 win in 7 under Mcentee in all Competitions. Grim.

There were positive signs last week but today the wheels came off in glorious fashion. Players downed tools.
I can't remember a hammering like it and it'll have done serious damage, no doubt about it.

31 points is going to seriously demoralise. I don't know if I've ever seen us beat by that much and I have seen some bad ones, like the rest of us, over the years.

Still, like bs said, the key thing is the Longford game and that doesn't change. Even if Longford win the next day if we took two points of them it would go head to head. (That is assuming Cavan beat us and tbh their odds will be ridiculous after that match today and given they are probably better than Westmeath).

So it's all about the Longford match but the Cavan game may not be pretty

[Saffsof82]

Left to concentrate on the March Div 1 league fixtures 🙈

Play for your club in the league on a Sunday or play for your county in a friendly away to meath in a nothing game on a Friday night i know what I'm picking

Not a challenge game, Leo Murphy cup

[BrendanAntrim]

Surely today is an outlier. We aren't a bad team overnight and there were lots of factors around the team today which will have had an impact. We have a two week gap now to work on structure, game plan and hopefully get some injured players back. I think we can give Cavan a game at home on 18th and yes, it will likely come down to beating Longford on the 26th. Chatting briefly to Andy McE on Friday; his passion for the team and insights are impressive. I wouldn't hold up today as a true barometer of where we are. 

[delgany]

10 am games are sh1te. End of discussion.

Games should be 2pm and 3.30pm.

10 am is good that it gets it out the way instead of waiting about to 3/4

The downside is if you are a team with some distance to travel to PG1 if you are aghagallon or even a Belfast club you need to be up and away early

Afaik...clubs can re arrange the throw in time  between them , rather than go for 10am

[Saffsof82]

Surely today is an outlier. We aren't a bad team overnight and there were lots of factors around the team today which will have had an impact. We have a two week gap now to work on structure, game plan and hopefully get some injured players back. I think we can give Cavan a game at home on 18th and yes, it will likely come down to beating Longford on the 26th. Chatting briefly to Andy McE on Friday; his passion for the team and insights are impressive. I wouldn't hold up today as a true barometer of where we are.

Very true. Sometimes shit just happens to put it politely.

[Saffsof82]

Listening to midlands radio today it seemed we were over reliant on playing a long ball into a very isolated R McCann at FF. He has been great for us this season but today it sounded that every ball was played into him and we had no build up play or runners. Been a good variety of attack previously so don't know why it changed today

[Christmas Lights]

Seems to be that way,  would any other county in Ireland have started playing league club football yet bar Antrim? I could be wrong but it seems much earlier certainly than any other county in Ulster?  League games at 10am next couple of weeks as well is just downright disrespectful is it not?

Why or how are 10am games disrespectful?

You don't think that organising all county senior league games at 10am on a Sunday morning has that feeling of contempt? It's earlier than go games on a Saturday ffs.

[bannside]

CB - what do you mean we can all blame Sean Og. Struggling to get my head around that? Care to explain where that came from!!

Hearing now that x 2 Downeys may not be the actual right number of transfers to Brigids. Anyone willing to tidy this up. Brendan maybe??

That was a shattering result yesterday, hard to know how much long term damage has been done psychologically, and Cavan aren't going to show us any mercy in their promotion hunt.

[EOC1923]

CB - what do you mean we can all blame Sean Og. Struggling to get my head around that? Care to explain where that came from!!

Hearing now that x 2 Downeys may not be the actual right number of transfers to Brigids. Anyone willing to tidy this up. Brendan maybe??

That was a shattering result yesterday, hard to know how much long term damage has been done psychologically, and Cavan aren't going to show us any mercy in their promotion hunt.

They'll need more than the Downeys judging by that result yesterday. A couple of late goals making it look respectable. 

[Caesar]

To be fair, St Brigids are missing all their Antrim and Derry county players today