Antrim Football Thread

[Ghost+Tommy]

The county must have taken the hump with PG1,Ahoghill and ourselves,we could've done PG1 and Rossa at 1-15 with our game v Ahoghill not to later in the day,PG1 and Ahoghill would probably be favoured by cargin or creggan,more so PG1,Ballymena a death trap when having to cross over,albeit good lights and pitch

[Saffsof82]

hearing that pg1 were not paid the agreed fee for the use of their facilities by the county and have withdrawn their facilities from county team and club championship use by the county, any truth Bannside ?

[Swsaffs]

website has Cargin / Creggan in Ballymena
Suppose there was a few grounds this could have been it with not much travelling for either

Friday night under lights, not sure that is the best idea for the tie of the round. Dunsilly a better venue for parking and spectating

dunsilly must be out of order.
Rossa and PG1 would probably have been there too

Don't see how it could be out of order has there been any games on it past 2/3 months

[paddyjohn]

Why would Cargin and the noisy neighbours not be played in Portgleone? Ballymena is a terrible venue for a night game.

[BigGreenField]

website has Cargin / Creggan in Ballymena
Suppose there was a few grounds this could have been it with not much travelling for either

Friday night under lights, not sure that is the best idea for the tie of the round. Dunsilly a better venue for parking and spectating

dunsilly must be out of order.
Rossa and PG1 would probably have been there too

Don't see how it could be out of order has there been any games on it past 2/3 months

Did the pitches not get fried over the summer? I can understand why they'd want to stay off.

Great to see some fantastic ties coming up.

[SlemishSoldier31]

Of St Pauls, Moneyglass and Sarsfields it was only St Pauls who showed anything at all in the group games. But in all honesty the 3 of them should be relegated along with Tir Na Nog (who are down already) to try and improve the standard a bit.

Let's be honest and add glenravel  to the list, Dunloy done them a massive turn on Saturday  which nobody seems to be questioning.

Even a glenravel defeat was still putting Tir Na Nog in 4th spot.
Unless it was a tanking.

That's not in dispute, but a gimme win from Dunloy  shouldn't remove glenravel from any potential conversation about getting chopped down to intermediate. They finished below St Paul's in the league and just above us, so they aren't exactly  flying high and Dunloy throwing a match doesn't change that

League and championship 2 different animals, as EVERYONE on here agrees(for a change)
So Glenravel struggled in the league, that's fair enough
They upped it for the championship and got 3 points so they stay up on merit.

By 'upping it for championship' you mean drawing at home to already relegated TNN and scraping past Dunloy reserves? Let's add some context to the 3 points Glenravel are no better than the 4 other teams we have labelled as 'not good enough to compete'.

[paddyjohn]

Of St Pauls, Moneyglass and Sarsfields it was only St Pauls who showed anything at all in the group games. But in all honesty the 3 of them should be relegated along with Tir Na Nog (who are down already) to try and improve the standard a bit.

Let's be honest and add glenravel  to the list, Dunloy done them a massive turn on Saturday  which nobody seems to be questioning.

Even a glenravel defeat was still putting Tir Na Nog in 4th spot.
Unless it was a tanking.

That's not in dispute, but a gimme win from Dunloy  shouldn't remove glenravel from any potential conversation about getting chopped down to intermediate. They finished below St Paul's in the league and just above us, so they aren't exactly  flying high and Dunloy throwing a match doesn't change that

League and championship 2 different animals, as EVERYONE on here agrees(for a change)
So Glenravel struggled in the league, that's fair enough
They upped it for the championship and got 3 points so they stay up on merit.

By 'upping it for championship' you mean drawing at home to already relegated TNN and scraping past Dunloy reserves? Let's add some context to the 3 points Glenravel are no better than the 4 other teams we have labelled as 'not good enough to compete'.

And somehow they ended up knocked out of the championship at the same stage as the super saints.

[Hectic]

If you are judging where teams are at you are looking at championship. League is a lot of fluff.

If we really want to rank we are better taking performance over the last 2 years in groups and producing a league table.

Bit like champions league format these days where don't necessarily have to have played everyone but 6 games is a solid sample.

Might need to weight some teams points based on number of games played.

That's your best measure if anyone could be arsed digging out results.

Simpler way would be this years quarter finalists Div 1 A and Senior next year and go from there.  In my view only team maybe hard done by with that approach might be St Galls.

The rest would make a decent Intermediate championship. Current Intermediate teams become Junior and introduce a Junior B.

[paddyjohn]

If you are judging where teams are at you are looking at championship. League is a lot of fluff.

If we really want to rank we are better taking performance over the last 2 years in groups and producing a league table.

Bit like champions league format these days where don't necessarily have to have played everyone but 6 games is a solid sample.

Might need to weight some teams points based on number of games played.

That's your best measure if anyone could be arsed digging out results.

Simpler way would be this years quarter finalists Div 1 A and Senior next year and go from there.  In my view only team maybe hard done by with that approach might be St Galls.

The rest would make a decent Intermediate championship. Current Intermediate teams become Junior and introduce a Junior B.

I agree. There is a need for a Junior B. It's worked on the hurling side of things.

[NorthAntrimSaff]

Of St Pauls, Moneyglass and Sarsfields it was only St Pauls who showed anything at all in the group games. But in all honesty the 3 of them should be relegated along with Tir Na Nog (who are down already) to try and improve the standard a bit.

Let's be honest and add glenravel  to the list, Dunloy done them a massive turn on Saturday  which nobody seems to be questioning.

Even a glenravel defeat was still putting Tir Na Nog in 4th spot.
Unless it was a tanking.

That's not in dispute, but a gimme win from Dunloy  shouldn't remove glenravel from any potential conversation about getting chopped down to intermediate. They finished below St Paul's in the league and just above us, so they aren't exactly  flying high and Dunloy throwing a match doesn't change that

League and championship 2 different animals, as EVERYONE on here agrees(for a change)
So Glenravel struggled in the league, that's fair enough
They upped it for the championship and got 3 points so they stay up on merit.

By 'upping it for championship' you mean drawing at home to already relegated TNN and scraping past Dunloy reserves? Let's add some context to the 3 points Glenravel are no better than the 4 other teams we have labelled as 'not good enough to compete'.

And somehow they ended up knocked out of the championship at the same stage as the super saints.

and aghagallon and st galls..........

[jdyok]

Do we need neutral venues for the quarter-finals? Is there merit in awarding the group winners home advantage?

[Ghost+Tommy]

Dunsilly hosting 3 u14 south west finals this Sunday,so obviously not out off order

[Around the glens]

Dunsilly hosting 3 u14 south west finals this Sunday,so obviously not out off order

Probably took to pitch 2 id say.

[Hoof Hearted]

Dunsilly hosting 3 u14 south west finals this Sunday,so obviously not out off order

Probably took to pitch 2 id say.

They are down for pitch 3 yes, but Ahoghill and Glenravel hurlers are down for pitch 1 tonight so it mustn't be closed.

[Swsaffs]

Dunsilly hosting 3 u14 south west finals this Sunday,so obviously not out off order

Probably took to pitch 2 id say.

They are down for pitch 3 yes, but Ahoghill and Glenravel hurlers are down for pitch 1 tonight so it mustn't be closed.

Just clocked to that myself,

Dunsilly is where all 4 1/4s should be
Think it's a good pitch and from the last 2/3 years going to the games it really does bring the atmosphere up a notch cause it's closed in,

2 double headers?
Same as Derry and Tyrone do for most games instead of bringing people all over the place

So I think anyway
That's my 10 pence on it