Antrim Football Thread

[Cnoc Bán]

I know The area it is in maybe tough to find somewhere, but finding a field or something close by Dunsilly which they could turn into parking facilities would be brilliant.

Great pitch and changing rooms etc and with the new Gym going in.

If the right steps are taken (which im unsure if there are plans to or not) Dunsilly could really be turned into something special.

It already should be special.

Why the need for 3 pitches there?

2 pitches, one with a terrace at least, if not a covered stand like Corrigan, should have been the way to go.

It would also have left room to build the changing rooms on the pitch side of the bridge and created more space for the car park.

Whoever made the calls on the layout of that space back then made a complete hash of it.

[Hoof Hearted]

Do top of groups not have ground advantage for quarter finals....?

Procedure from.last year changed......

Not sure what you're talking about here

2022 quarter finals

Cargin v LD @ dunsilly
Portglenone  v GNM @ dunsilly
Aghagallon v St Brids @ hannahstown
Rossa v Creggan @ Hightown, or the swamp as it was that day

[Caesar]

My predictions for the next round:

Cargin v Aghagallon = Cargin win by 7
LD V Dunloy = LD win by 4
Portglenone v Creggan = Creggan win by 4
Rossa v St Brigid's = St Brigid's win by 6

[InnocentByStander]

I know The area it is in maybe tough to find somewhere, but finding a field or something close by Dunsilly which they could turn into parking facilities would be brilliant.

Great pitch and changing rooms etc and with the new Gym going in.

If the right steps are taken (which im unsure if there are plans to or not) Dunsilly could really be turned into something special.

It already should be special.

Why the need for 3 pitches there?

2 pitches, one with a terrace at least, if not a covered stand like Corrigan, should have been the way to go.

It would also have left room to build the changing rooms on the pitch side of the bridge and created more space for the car park.

Whoever made the calls on the layout of that space back then made a complete hash of it.

Totally agree was poorly managed at the top level, something gives me the idea they wanted to make the teams run through that tunnel thinking it would be special, in it's truth an awful idea 

[Milltown Row2]

The tunnel is there because the train runs above it....

Not sure of the ins and outs of it but you can't have cars going through to the other side of that tunnel as its a complete bottle neck, there is plenty of places to park the car, either in the actual carpark or the field besides the changing rooms, that just needs to be developed into a proper parking area.

Tunnel side at the bottom pitch there is plenty room to develop a covered stand of sorts with toilets

Maybe these things are in the pipeline I don't know, but if we have learned anything from Casement is that planning and paying isn't just as easy as saying what it needs.

What it has done (as Ive seen it) is using it for a lot of the development games and its perfect position just off the motorway, which suits Belfast, SW and North Antrim players.

There is no parking at Corrigan which is one area that needs the use of other places like the school nearby.

I'd say that it has a lot more potential 

[NorthAntrim]

Im not sure there would be enough room on the changing room side. But the slope on the far side could be made use of, terrace area with a cover is all thats needed

[Cnoc Bán]

The tunnel is there because the train runs above it....

Not sure of the ins and outs of it but you can't have cars going through to the other side of that tunnel as its a complete bottle neck, there is plenty of places to park the car, either in the actual carpark or the field besides the changing rooms, that just needs to be developed into a proper parking area.

Tunnel side at the bottom pitch there is plenty room to develop a covered stand of sorts with toilets

Maybe these things are in the pipeline I don't know, but if we have learned anything from Casement is that planning and paying isn't just as easy as saying what it needs.

What it has done (as Ive seen it) is using it for a lot of the development games and its perfect position just off the motorway, which suits Belfast, SW and North Antrim players.

There is no parking at Corrigan which is one area that needs the use of other places like the school nearby.

I'd say that it has a lot more potential

Yes but a lot of that potential could have already have been wrapped up in the original design.

Pitches aren't cheap to install, so yes while development squads get good use of it, especially the hurlers as most are North Antrim based so it saves travelling to Belfast, i still think 2 pitches would have been sufficient and the money for the 3rd put into something like a terrace or to surface the car park.

The grass slope on the far side of pitch 1 would have been perfect for a concrete terrace.

I can't recall but are all 3 pitches floodlit? If so there is more money spent.

Having the changing rooms on the other side of the tunnel was an awful idea.

The company I worked for at the time tendered to build that changing room and as i live so close to Dunsilly they sent me to survey it before the pitches were open to the public.

And my first thought as soon as i walked the site was that it was a mistake to put the changing rooms there and that the 3 pitches would never get sufficient use and i still stick by that initial impression.

Hopefully some day they find the money to develop more and put it right but I can see any money for the foreseeable being ploughed into Casement and Dunsilly will sit as it is.

[country bumpkin]

We did purchase 12 acres of land a while back just a few hundred yards above the Randalstown roundabout on the Antrim road...

The plan was to develop into pitches....

Anybody know what happened.....I presume Antrim still own that land.....??

[NorthAntrim]

I think the back pitch was allocated to Antrim club. They played there at the start but seem to be back into the centre of antrim lately. Not sure the reason. The two back pitches arent full size either. And i think only one pitch is fully floodlit at the minute

[BelSaft]

Fixtures probably be out tonight?
Could they run double headers? Can't really run 4 along with the intermediate all the same?

Cargin v Aghagallon = Cargin win by 9
LD V Dunloy = LD win by 4
Portglenone v Creggan = PG1 by 3
Rossa v St Brigid's = St Brigid's win by 1

Semis

LD/PG1
Cargin/NB

My predictions for the next round:

Cargin v Aghagallon = Cargin win by 7
LD V Dunloy = LD win by 4
Portglenone v Creggan = Creggan win by 4
Rossa v St Brigid's = St Brigid's win by 6

[NorthAntrim]

Cargin by 5
LD By 2
Creggan by 1
St Brigids by 4

Glenravel by 5
Aldergrove by 7
All Saints by 3
Sarsfields by 1

[Dunsilly King]

Cargin by 5
LD By 2
Creggan by 1
St Brigids by 4

Glenravel by 5
Aldergrove by 7
All Saints by 3
Sarsfields by 1

After that performance at the weekend I am not to optimistic. We have a lot of improving to do to get pass Casements.

[country bumpkin]

CCC did meet last evening 28th, but championship dates/venues still a guarded secret.

[Milltown Row2]

CCC did meet last evening 28th, but championship dates/venues still a guarded secret.

Sure they are home venues for those that topped their groups......

[BelSaft]

Is that not only Intermediate MR2?