Antrim Football Thread

[marty34]

Biggest fear of teams, except in Div. 4 for obvious reasons, is to get relegated.

This is where the pressure comes from.

[bannside]

Make no mistake this is a huge achievement on a lot of levels. To go ten points up against a Cavan team chasing promotion, that toyed with us last year at the same venue, is mind blowingly impressive.

To do it without some of the stars of the season so far (Peter Healy, Oisin Leneghan, Big Pat, midfielders Conor and Kevin, Ryan, Dermot and Adam - plus medium term injuries Paddy Mc Aleer and Jamie Gribben - elevates the level of impressiveness even more.

To remain secure with a panel that was depleted of its spine right up the middle before a ball was kicked - Oisin, Ricky, James. MIck, Conor, Tomas , Paddy C etc - and as a result much of its on pitch leadership - is truly amazing.

Such was level of transition I feared we would drop a division to allow the rebuild time to settle, and to do so without having to deal with the fall out of the negativity that would surround that is a massive plus.

A lot of the players headed out in Belfast last night, city and country lads together. and somewhere in Dunboyne I hope Andy was sipping a good red, content in the knowledge he has achieved his main target for the season and the rest of it is in his hands ...and the debacle of Mullingar is whitewashed from the psyche.

Maybe we can all get fully behind this now.

[Milltown Row2]

Standard response from one, waiting on the others to weigh in with theirs also

[realisticsaff]

Full Time in Newry. Down beat Longford so Antrim are officially safe in Div 3 with a game left.  Sincere congratulations to management and players on excellent achievement.

Great to avoid the basement but was it really that much of an achievement when you look at the bottom 2 teams

Nope.

[country bumpkin]

Missed the game yesterday was down south in support of the boys in green.

A big win to avoid the basement.

See BS is on a high....fair play.
But, wonder as his club is up there potential champions why they only have one individual on 'senior county duty'.......?

[JimStynes]

Andy McEntee has done a great job!

Your mates won't be happy though

I don't have mates 😢

[imtommygunn]

The state of this thread.

Great win yesterday. We could end up on 6 points which would be decent plus we could and should have won more games.

[bannside]

Forget about club representation CB, or who may or may not add to the current mix and let what Andy is building continue to evolve and improve. When that happens everyone good enough or fit enough will want to be on board. When the current injury list frees itself up there will be sufficient competition for starting jersey and places on match day panel.

[Lár na páirce 1]

Going into enemy territory today to see the table toppers against Creggan.should be a good game.a very youthful Cargin team beaten this morning in a hard hitting contest LD good few of their bigger names on today and it told in the end.

[country bumpkin]

Going into enemy territory today to see the table toppers against Creggan.should be a good game.a very youthful Cargin team beaten this morning in a hard hitting contest LD good few of their bigger names on today and it told in the end.

Be there as well....Match of the day....

[Lár na páirce 1]

Going into enemy territory today to see the table toppers against Creggan.should be a good game.a very youthful Cargin team beaten this morning in a hard hitting contest LD good few of their bigger names on today and it told in the end.

Be there as well....Match of the day....

Big statement from the wee Bannsiders today I feel.

[123Bigball]

Big statement surely. Another red for big Niall.  Be hard to defend that tackle though. On a rugby field you would probably be citied and get 6 games to go with it. Aidan MC aleese quality player for Pg1. Were Pg1 missing many men banside

[bannside]

Totally disagree Bigball. BIg Niall at 6 ft 6 always going to look a bit clumsy against  someone a foot smaller. No malice whatsoever in the tackle. More often sinned against than sinned. What a player by the way, must have caught 8 balls against the head. Is there a better midfielder in. Antrim football atm ?

[123Bigball]

Leading with the elbow to opponents head it looked like. Very lucky to not cause a serious injury. Ref must have seen the malice to issue the straight red. Some fielder of the ball all the same and chipped in with couple of points. Pg1 flying atm

[EOC1923]

Dejavu with both things, the McKeever red card and Portglenone setting a blistering pace in the league while everyone else missing 10 players 😆