Antrim Football Thread

[Stillwater2]

That all changed last Monday night at the County meeting.

Bottom 2 automatically go down and only 1 up.

Changed to suit a few clubs

[stiffler]

That all changed last Monday night at the County meeting.

Bottom 2 automatically go down and only 1 up.

Changed to suit a few clubs

Play off gone then ? Hard to keep up !

[Hoof Hearted]

Antrim in a "changing the rules to suit certain clubs" shocker

[Milltown Row2]

Clubs will always suit themselves, this is a broken record to be fair!

I'm not totally against it though but you could lose a lot of league games because of county commitments and win 5 games in championship and go up!!

Will make the intermediate championship even more competitive

[realisticsaff]

That all changed last Monday night at the County meeting.

Bottom 2 automatically go down and only 1 up.

Changed to suit a few clubs

The county board are a shambles literally making it up as they go along

[Saffrongael]

I think they started with a "no promotion" stance in some leagues until a few clubs put forward some fairly simple, straightforward solutions 

[Stillwater2]

Clubs agreed at the workshop the Monday before that it would be 1 down and 2nd bottom will go into a playoff with top of the league below.

Couldn't be voted on as a workshop,  the following Monday a few clubs got together and presented different proposal. Then the carnage starred.

[NorthAntrim]

Madness to either have no promotion or a playoff with second bottom. Not a lot of motivation for clubs going into league. 1 up 2 straight down is the only way IMO

[realisticsaff]

Clearly with all games starting at different times on sunday the clubs weren't in favour of 10am starts and why would they be its ludicrous, another huge L for the county board

[Hoof Hearted]

Regarding promotion and relegation,was coming home from the glens on Sunday and decided to take in the Glenravel v Ballymena game,45 mins I'm not going get back(couldn't watch it for the full hr),brutal stuff,and too think both teams are paying management teams to put that shit on display,there meant to be 2 off the teams aiming for promotion,they're at their level,i know both teama missing men but thats no excuse,Ballymena are playing the same type off shit they played last year with the dinosaur manager in place,JC should at least know better,so called modern manager

Who isn't these days
Aghagallon had a 2 time all ireland winner on the line on Sunday and had 14 behind the ball

[paddyjohn]

I'd say both clubs won't care what's said about it. They'll use the league to try these kinda systems out especially without the county men.

Maybe not the most appealing style of Football.

[Milltown Row2]

Was it clubs with county players that asked for this format?

[Belfast GAA man]

who in charge of Gaelfast these days? long time since saw an update on progress but maybe i missed it.....

[delgany]

Was it clubs with county players that asked for this format?

The two down/one up is for one year to rectify the odd no. of teams in div1. League structures will be reviewed / revamped in Sept 23.  Probably revert to one up/ down for 2024.

Two down / one up in 23 was proposed by a Div 2 team , with aspirations of promotion!

[Saffsof82]

Too many teams in div 1 and 2. Limit it to 10 and add a div 4. Championship reflects league, senior down to junior B, solve the fixture crisis by removing 6 games from league, could start late April then with the same finish point