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Where and when with the Intermediate final be? Tickets via the ClubSpot app?

recently it has been the day before senior final, and mostly in dunsilly. which is a fair neutral venue for Glengormley and crumlin
Although Ballymena and St Teresas 2 years ago was in Toome, which again would be a good shout.

Only other spot might be Glenavy, otherwise Dunsilly it is. County keeps the whole whack that way

if Rossa don't let the Biddies to get too far ahead they've every chance in the final.  Wouldn't want to be trying to claw that gap back in every match.

Depends if the biddies learn how to shoot in the next week and a half

Well nobody predicted that weekend

Dunloy have anyone in midfield second half? Don't think they won a single kickout.

If brigids could take a point that would have been a big score

Any word on u20s fixtures?

Dunloy vs St Brigids - Saturday 7pm dunsilly

Cargin vs Rossa - Sunday 4pm Corrigan

St Endas vs gort na mona - Saturday 4pm Glenavy

[Why can't it be done next year]

Can't do it next year but looks reasonable for 2028
Use next year league to decide those places, rather than hand pick them
But I'd say you wouldn't be far away

Why can't it be done next year? We've been talking about restructuring the leagues for well over a year now.

How is it being hand picked? Those are the teams that are at the bottom.

my reasoning is that teams have been aware this season what they had to do re relegation
Dont think its right for the teams who are still training for this and busting a gut to stay up end up being put down anyway

At least next year they will know and if they are bottom half they are down.
As i said, high chance that the 3 teams involved will be bottom half anyway but.......

They've done it many a year to change things willy nilly to allow teams to stay up or stop teams from coming up at the expense of others.

Ego fluffing at this stage

Can't do it next year but looks reasonable for 2028
Use next year league to decide those places, rather than hand pick them
But I'd say you wouldn't be far away

Keep saying this. Forget about it and just get the finger out. Who cares what the eternal yaps will say about being put down a division

Is naming it 1B just to soften the egos that they aren't in Div 2?

we need an 8 team championship. perhaps 10 to give a chance to an intermediate team coming up.  it cant go on like it is, the hard decision should have been made to put all of those clubs in the champ relegation battle into the intermediate championship.

Agree with div 2 and the egos, but an 8 team div 1 would throw it all out of whack.

34 clubs.

10, 12, 11

Realistically teams that are at that top level are:

Cargin
Creggan
Dunloy
Brigids
Johnnies
LD
Aghagallon
PG1
St Galls

And on the day either:
Ballymena
Rossa

There's a step down to:
Moneyglass
St Pauls
Randalstown
Sarsfields
Glenravel

That middle pack in intermediate would do far better being strengthened. Drop Aggies, Comgalls, Davitts and Lisburn all down.

Is the cargin v creggan minor match this past weekend a predictor this weekend?

cargin 7-17
creggan 0-3

Cargin for Dunloy vs LD
Corrigan for PG1 vs Rossa

Bit of a stitch up for Pg1 there

What way does relegation work this year then? Was it last year they had that mini league because one of the 4 bottom teams was already relegated?

is the intermediate championship group stage then straight to semi finals, have seen in a number of previews that q finals are being predicted, but there haven't been q finals for the last few years

Straight through to semis as far as ive heard

Intermediate kicking off this weekend and saw on Hoganstand Owen Gallagher has left back for Galway. Im sure that put a big enough dent in Glenavys hopes. Hard to see past Endas based on league form but does a second team go up if they win both?
 
Gort vs St Teresas - Gort by 4
Davitts vs Aldergrove - Aldergrove by 2
Comgalls vs Endas - Endas by 8
Lisburn vs Glenavy - Lisburn by 1

Any word on the relegation play offs?

I'm sure they'll wait till to see how the championship groups turn out before choosing who gets to stay up in both.

If St Endas are running riot in div 2, what happens if they do the double? Didn't this happen a few years ago where one team won both and only one team went up to div 1?