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Acknowledging the difference in playing standards (club and county), where do you start after that today?

Tactically: slow and ponderous allowing them to get back, set up and then force a turnover on the half.

Athletically: Obviously big gulf, but we looked slow and heavy legged. Even some of the more direct/speedier players looked a bit ragged.

Kickouts: At county level all we can work us an overload? That's a shambles. Other way we couldn't even get near theirs.

Derry were poor by their own abilities today, I don't think they gave away a scorable free all game and they easily could have had 3 extra goals in the first half alone. We had some individual bright sparks but it was hard to do that over and over again.

Can never fault lads togging out for their county, but there's failures at some level there because compared to last years run out against Armagh this is a backwards step

U20 had a convincing win against Wicklow ahead of the senior game on Saturday. Reality is our u17/u20 football could be competitive with around half of the teams in the country , but in Ulster we have the underage powerhouses of Donegal, Tyrone and Derry , with the others not that far behind.

That the footballers? Can see nothing about it anywhere

It was a challenge match so doubt any media were there. One of the players told me they won by a point.

Any word on squad/team?

U20 had a convincing win against Wicklow ahead of the senior game on Saturday. Reality is our u17/u20 football could be competitive with around half of the teams in the country , but in Ulster we have the underage powerhouses of Donegal, Tyrone and Derry , with the others not that far behind.

That the footballers? Can see nothing about it anywhere

Nearly sure Cargin have an O Cahan cup game at home at 2pm Sunday as well,could be wrong,typical Antrim running games at the same time the County seniors are playing,I know its a south west competition,but how are people going to see both if they wanted

Whats the point of the SW having a website if they aren't going to actually put fixtures up on it

Kids of 15 to 18 are loaded with exams pre summer holidays. Its a season long problem at that age group. Same with holidays and parents booking, its a lot of the time a case of parents not allowing a child to train or play because of exams. When i was young this wasnt an issue. Education comes first with the vast majority now

I blame the populist cap on student fee's in NI ( and cost of accommodation elsewhere)

Cap on fee's, means a cap on places and with over subscription (as students try and stay close to home to save money) grades needed to get in to UU or QUB
go up so kids focus on exams.

If your u16/u18 are finding it tough it's the fault of the NI exec taking short term approach to higher education funding.

Oh please won't the NI exec take focus on getting the underage gaels togged out for their league matches by giving them another £12k worth of debt.

That has to be the most idiotic take I've seen on this board.

Did I hear that the county was asking clubs what division they were looking to play in? Those on the border between 1 and 2, anyone else?

Any known intentions to publish squad details for McKenna Cup?

Would love to know if any fresh faces have made the cut for this year. Hard to know anything about it unless there's a lad from the club on it

How many clubs is there total in Antrim ? Would 4 divisions be a good idea probably making each more competitive ?

counting 34 as per a previous post

8 divison 1
8 divison 2
9 div 3
9 div 4

However they may be some teams very strong for the tiers 3 and 4 but would make competitiveness at top end better as they say iron sharpens iron

That goes through, on current league finishing positions:


Div 1:

• Cargin
• Creggan
• Brigids
• Ballymena
• PG1
• Galls
• LD
• Aldergrove

Div 2

• Dunloy
• Johnnies
• St Pauls
• Glenravel
• Aghagallon
• Tirnanog
• Rossa
• Ahoghill

Div 3

• Sarsfields
• Moneyglass
• Glenavy
• Teresas
• Lisburn
• Ednas
• Gort
• Antrim
• Davitts

Div 4

• Rasharkin
• Aggies
• Laochra lao
• Malachys
• Ardoyne
• Pearses
• Eire og
• O Donnells
• Wolfe Tones

What happens in the case of intermediate championship, there was no relegation play off for the second year in a row, are Gort na mona relegated. if so, who replaces them as st. agnes' won both league and championship, Pearses beaten finalists but finished 5th in Division 3 league, are they capable of competing at that level, Laochra finished 2nd in the league but won 1 championship match and finished third in the group. what is the answer there

I was under the impression Gort were down as Rasharkin were relegated already before finishing bottom of the group

Any word on the panel for the senior county team?

Surely cuts been made to numbers by now

Hearing Rossa, Sars and Super T's finding it hard to fill the posts. What managers out there still looking?

Did you hear that or just making it up?
Rossa's only been advertising the post for a week

After trying internally for a good few weeks.

It's been on social media for 2 weeks. Paddies been out a month or so. I believe St Pauls yet to appoint but have been speaking to a few.

Ex 'Maguigan manager close to joining either Pauls or Glenavy - must not be many out there because from what I hear both are very interested and don't have any other viable options available. Worrying going in to Dec without a manager

Could be a disaster year for a few clubs. The whole process needs to be better. Word of mouth and social media posts, should be a direct place for a manager to see where there are posts available in any county.

There is.

Called Coachie. Can see a few clubs in Antrim using/used it

Id imagine Barry Burns will take the St Paul's job and leave Antrim, Terry will stay and continue to build, Paddy Nugent is in with St John's, Hugo is the fergie of rossa he'll stay, Mcshane will have another roll of the dice with the paddies and I've heard the hotdog man is back at ods 😂 that's the west of the city covered!

Hearing new Antrim manager Doran has put his name forward for club jobs in other counties. Surely Antrim won't allow that?

It's his full time occupation isn't it?

Antrim won't be able to stop him or they'll have to come out and say he's contracted / paid

Well, he could? If he thinks Antrim will be out early enough and crack on with the clubs to prepare for Championship! What club?

Antrim U20 manager is taking TNN in 2026.

Knux did that last year as well. Took Lisburn and the u20s

Under 21 championship.

Was at St John's and St Galls game. Was really disappointed with St John's. Weather was atrocious for football but St John's didn't look like they had any ideas at all. St Galls looked astute and had purpose to their play.

Is Portglenone too young or is that a really disappointing result for them? That Aghagallon team good?

St Brigid's game conceded. They'd be my favourites but Cargin racked up a good score too.

Who conceeded to Biddies?

MG

Any word on u21 ball or when it'll be?

MG winning at a canter.

Reffing extremely poor. Inconsistent and then some dead rubber decisions at the end to put some gloss on it