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"sorry the councils" Clubhouse

What a pathetic comment ...

Stay classy....

Truth hurts, love it.

Oh dear.. perhaps this morning you will wake up and realise these sneering condescending comments make you sound like some posh Tory boy looking down your nose at clubs who don't own their grounds. (Does any club actually own their grounds?) 

I'm sure the gaels of Belfast who battled for years to get BCC to provide facilities for Gaelic Games from their rates, are most impressed.
Ardoyne, Pearses, St Malachys, Bredagh, Wolf Tones, East Belfast GAA and others all use Council owned pitches, indeed Woodlands is owned by the BCC.

Anyway best of luck in Ulster next weekend..

"sorry the councils" Clubhouse

What a pathetic comment ...

Stay classy....

Hope so, always felt like a natural order that didn't need to be changed.    though i wouldn't be against u18 1/2, u16 1/2 ....... as it seemed to balance school years and their peers out a bit better.   

It should be school year up until the end of primary school at least.

However for next weeks meeting Antrim should definitely go back to U12,14,16 and 18. - Let those who are U18 (not U17) play up if required/good enough.

Some referees on here
As MR2 always says there's plenty of courses and training to do it and no one will be turned away
Both refs made mistakes during the course of 80 plus minutes, which all refs do. But there wasn't one main contentious one that any of the losing teams can feel aggrieved about.
McDonald' and Laverty can be happy enough.

Well said HH, there are posters on here giving off about referees making "mistakes" in the middle of a high pressure games, and yet they can't count to 15 leaning over a wire..

Great to see the St Brigids V Moneyglass U20 game got played last night.

Strange bit of reporting on the reserve final in Ahoghill where Creggan proved too strong for Cargin. "It was end to end stuff as both teams chased the first silverware of the season"...

Found that really odd tbh.

Elsewhere that excellent crop coming through that we spoke of previously at St Brigid's ran away with under 15 A. Congratulations to them and also to Cargin on B final victory.

How many of these 'excellent crops' do St Brigids need before they get a decent senior team. Seem to be unbeatable at U16/U15 level then fall to an arse after that. Maybe it will be different this time

A gather up if never there was one. Theme on the other side of Mallusk.

A gather-up of what? Such tripe

What exactly does a gather up mean?

Lamh Dhearg seem to be involved in loads of scraps,creggan v biddies reserves last week ended in a row too,brush brush nothing to see here it seems 😕

I have seen most of Cargins games, Lamh Dhearg, St Johns, Portglenone, Creggan, all sporting games. In a laughable way St Brigids the dirtiest team we have came across. Needless off the ball incidents all over the place by people pretending to be hard against a few weeks ago with a mouthy management team on their line. Hearing they fought Creggan reserves last week also (match abandoned).Obviously the Donegal lad is trying to breed some fight into the notoriously soft centred St Brigids men, playing snooker with a rope.

Nonsense... game was over.
Creggan player then started row... handbags for 20 secs..

gaelfast is making a diffference in primary schools but what happens when they go to secondary - just leave it to the teachers like now?

Gaelfast bosses  in our school a couple weeks back with plans to start an Antrim secondary schools league and championship which we signed up to, to run alongside Ulster schools but only for Antrim schools, starting in September, hurling and football.

Only Antrim Schools?  So Aquinas, St Josephs and OLASP don't get to play?  Surely should be called Gaelantrim then?

St Pauls, St Brigids, St Galls, St Endas, Sarsfields

St Endas SW team. Have been for years due to failings in South Antrim. 😉

That's a bit disrespectable to the SA volunteers, and wrong. NE play Go Games, and at U13 Level in SA

St Pauls, St Brigids, St Galls, St Endas, Sarsfields

A lot of overreaction (shock horror). I for one can see it for what it was, a very bad day at the office. Some players froze, some spectacularly underperformed, and some played out of position which was alien to them, and 1 or 2 maybe just weren't (or sadly aren't) up to it. It was a cocktail of disappointment on the biggest day of the year for us unfortunately. However, are you seriously now saying we are in such a bad place after a couple of poor league performances against decent division 3 sides and a defeat to a resurgent Cavan side (who were Ulster champions no time ago)? Get your heads out of your ass! I for one was against the managements appointment at the time, but you can't ignore, despite the lack of merit or any form of qualifying CV's, that these lads have restored pride in wanting to play for Antrim. They've created an environment where as much is expected of players in terms of commitment and application as would be in Tyrone or Donegal etc. They've taken us from ambling around in division 4 to competing for division 2 status. Those of you now predictably turning on management as usual, what is your alternative for the county now? Let's hear it. A good bit of cop on required lads. I know we're all hurting, and questions rightly need asking, but cut the 'all is lost' bull s"@& narrative please.

Totally agree with every word NSS....
A bad day at the office was an adequate summary of events yesterday.
We started badly with several unforced errors from lads who had been leading the way all season led the narrative.

Mc Ginley and co have led us to a better place in my opinion and unfortunately there are those within, for whatever reason are more than quick to put the boot in...

A resurgent Cavan ran over us, and we must learn the lesson given.

Some former leaders of the pack in our county need to have a honest look within.

In former days we looked to clubs like, St John's, St Gall's, Rossa, to lead the way.....where are they now.
Belfast sides have obviously neglected their duties of care to their youth policies....
Watched Cargin under-15s totally demolish a Davitts side on their own patch on Thursday evening, and such underlines the demise of our games in one of the largest cities in Ireland.

Who within us would have believed if Nostrodamus had predicted six out of the last senior football championships heading to the South West in the past seven years?

I think a few within need to grab hold of their proverbial heads and acknowledge the stark realities.

Nobody cares more or hurts more today than Enda Mc Ginley, Stephen O' Neill, Sean Kelly and all those lads who have given a huge amount to raise our profile..


Some need to get a grip, look around and emerge blinking into the real world.

Cargin U15s are playing in Div 2, there are 5 Belfast clubs playing in Div 1

We had a player sent off for second yellow in the last minute, so no, not 13 a side!!

CB I looked at your team there on Saffron Gael match report and no offence, at least three quarters of that team will expect to start championship. Mick Tomas James and KMS  are four, who the heck are the other 7???

Ah ok... I thought PG! had a man blacked carded with 8-9 minutes to go.

St Endas taking the two points against Creggan is the eye-catching highlight of the club weekend activity. Baker could do with a win at Ballymena before the gloss starts to wear off.

St Brigid's gave us our fill of it tbf, their discipline has got noticably worse (two fully deserved red cards yesterday) that came back to bite them. If they stick to the football they wouldn't be the worst.

Game finished 13 a side?

The numbers in the city isnt neccessarily an advantage. Its the community that binds a club together and thats where i think the differences are laying in antrim at the moment.

It was no coincidence that during the troubles St.Johns, St.Pauls, Rossa, St.Galls, LD etc.. were all tight knit clubs/teams with the outside factors they faced on a daily basis playing a part in geling them lads together. Them teams had all lads with family connections to the club, their social clubs were a hub for the community and you usually played for the club whos area you were from. The modern version of this in what we are seeing today is the city teams have players scattered all around the city who have no comings and goings with each other outside of GAA.

Country teams have usually 4 or 5 family connections in each team from underage up to senior, as well as primary schools where each school in a town/village is prodominantly filled with the local clubs players. All this adds to the culture of a club which is slowly slipping away from City teams. However we have seen from St.Galls and Brigids more recently, that all that can be papered over by getting palyers in from other clubs and making a good senior team!

Who did St Brigids bring in?

There isnt enough characters available to name them all


A couple would do...

Dara Edwards
Willoe McSorley

Ah... I thought it was more recent sides you were referring to.

Neither of those two lads have played for St Brigids in 9-10 years.

The numbers in the city isnt neccessarily an advantage. Its the community that binds a club together and thats where i think the differences are laying in antrim at the moment.

It was no coincidence that during the troubles St.Johns, St.Pauls, Rossa, St.Galls, LD etc.. were all tight knit clubs/teams with the outside factors they faced on a daily basis playing a part in geling them lads together. Them teams had all lads with family connections to the club, their social clubs were a hub for the community and you usually played for the club whos area you were from. The modern version of this in what we are seeing today is the city teams have players scattered all around the city who have no comings and goings with each other outside of GAA.

Country teams have usually 4 or 5 family connections in each team from underage up to senior, as well as primary schools where each school in a town/village is prodominantly filled with the local clubs players. All this adds to the culture of a club which is slowly slipping away from City teams. However we have seen from St.Galls and Brigids more recently, that all that can be papered over by getting palyers in from other clubs and making a good senior team!

Who did St Brigids bring in?

There isnt enough characters available to name them all


A couple would do...