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I wish you ladies would change your tampons once in a while. 

Anyway, a decent and enjoyable match for the neutral. 

Glenavy's pitch was in some nick too.  are they hosting the final?

Glad I made the effort to see the game as ya never expect a replay to be as tight as the first day. Really enjoyable for the netural. Not sure who is going to win it now. Interestin final

Apparently Delagry the gobshite thought he  was going to be in the u20 set up if JMK had ever got Sen job,that's the word in the SW-CJ for Captain 😜

will be interestin to see how Lenny approaches the CJ predicament. An unreal talent but hasn't been in the greatest of physical conditioin recently, comes and goes without fully commitin and is constantly talking to the press. A top talent and still plenty to offer but must be tricky to manage. Time is not on his side anymore and needs to giv himself a shake.

[Jesus we've had decades of failure following this formula so why cant we change it up .At the very least,surely it must be conceded that we are repeating what we have always done?]

No doubt Lenny has a plan....so did fitzy, dawson, baker, whitey etc etc.....even thornberry but thats still to be actually confirmed. 
Im sure they were all sound and great.  Harbinsons will be based on the current squad, as will mckeevers but with a bit of an eye on further down. Aidans was a grassroots up proposal. He has been turned down twice now so i doubt he'll let his good name be tarnished any more with association with antrim again. Mckeever was begged to put his name in and yet again gets a sore nose. Both other candidates offered that hope to the players and supporters of something different.   The board have went with the status quo and the repeated formula of failure so why would SW player.or general antrim supporter think things will be any different from before? 

If it was a SW manager/ outside man that had repeated failures i would be saying get a belfast man in for a change. Jesus we've had decades of failure following this formula so why cant we change it up .

At the very least,surely it must be conceded that we are repeating what we have always done?   

Will be interested to hear from contributors who have worked with Lenny and what his plus points are.  Hopefully he ia a student of S&C, a great communicator, has no time for training ground bluffers  and has great in-game management.  If he has those 4 stengths at least then we have a chance of improvement and getting off to the right start.

Lenny is a good man. What you're saying above is also true. He is very similar to all that have failed to improve our lot before him. Would ave been great to see a radicall new approach to the setup 

Looking forward to the game. I'm fancying the dall as they will cope with the wind which blows up at Leyland. Dunloy's time will come soon but tis is not the year

Predictions for the weekend

The return of the Prodigal Saul makes me think the Town might squeak it.

Dunloy v Ballycastle      -  Ballycastle by 2

Cushendall v Loughgiel  - Loughgiel by 3

Wud luv to share the optimism but I think Dunloy were only getting warmd up against johnnies. Need more than 1 Saul!

Are you from the town because you seem to know a lot more that's going on than most of the members of the club by the sounds of it .

i know plenty.   and you can't argue with any of it.  31 years since we won a county title at senior level. some of the talent that passed those gates.  and a lad that blew in from Carey can call the shots on a manager who would have died for our club getting the boot!!!   maybe if he put as much effort in on the field as he did hanging humpy we wouldn't be in this shape.  Going back to Saul, best thing to happen would he leave him at the football.  holding the club to ransom with his careless attitude.   bring back nander pinky and the boys with a bit of heart to take the team rather than that skitter from dunloy and a lad who couldn't hurl spuds to ducks

Incredible crap from you. I've been critical of club on here but your stuff is slanderous and dangerous. All your posts previous to this debate were slanderous also. Please keep your "pub talk" to your pub and let the lads focus on this weekend. We have had a disaster of a season but still think we won't be far away on Saturday. Saul will be there. He will play a part. Neal who has been a stalwart will also play. He does need a big game but he rarely lets down in championship.

Good luck to everyone this weekend

100% Leyland. I been very critical also but just frustrated. I still believe the town will come through against Rossa. They have reached the bottom, only way is up. Itll be a tight game but fancy town by 2/3 points. Good luck to all involved I'm looking forward to seeing a big performance from them.

Its horrible at juvenile level, I took our 12's for 4 years and I know what its like, kids are hanging on your coat tails looking games following you around and you're trying to win the match, plus you've the parents down and they are sorta huffing too.. Me personally I never really had that problem as I generally had just about a team every week! But it doesn't change at senior lol!! feckers still gurning at me for not putting them on!

Some of the lads really pushed on and have been county players some drifted off altogether... Country teams have it harder as in playing for the parish and I wouldn't be one for telling you to move him to a neighbouring parish as that brings a shit storm again, but losing out on the game that he loves is also pish!

Ive ref'd a few tournaments lately were subs were mandatory you couldn't start a second half without putting on your subs... why not bring this into play at under 12 and under 14

This is a good debate. To be honest most clubs I've seen nowadays are trying hard in a variety of ways to get all kids on the pitch. As you say different clubs have different problems with regards this issue.

I'm just of the opinion that at the younger juvenile levels all kids should get game time and never worry about a stupid trophy. It's very short sighted to win at the cost of losing a few kids possibly.

Good debate here. I am involved wit a couple of underage teams in my club. The debate we always have is at what point do ya start to windback the 'everyone plays' policy and start really putting out the strongest team ya have.

Championship? anything else should be for all the players in the squad

I would agree with that. Few other neighbouring coaches I would speak to would look at it in terms of age groups. Say U12 everyone plays, U14 start to be more selective. Dangerous road to go down and will lead to big dropout numbers.

Its horrible at juvenile level, I took our 12's for 4 years and I know what its like, kids are hanging on your coat tails looking games following you around and you're trying to win the match, plus you've the parents down and they are sorta huffing too.. Me personally I never really had that problem as I generally had just about a team every week! But it doesn't change at senior lol!! feckers still gurning at me for not putting them on!

Some of the lads really pushed on and have been county players some drifted off altogether... Country teams have it harder as in playing for the parish and I wouldn't be one for telling you to move him to a neighbouring parish as that brings a shit storm again, but losing out on the game that he loves is also pish!

Ive ref'd a few tournaments lately were subs were mandatory you couldn't start a second half without putting on your subs... why not bring this into play at under 12 and under 14

This is a good debate. To be honest most clubs I've seen nowadays are trying hard in a variety of ways to get all kids on the pitch. As you say different clubs have different problems with regards this issue.

I'm just of the opinion that at the younger juvenile levels all kids should get game time and never worry about a stupid trophy. It's very short sighted to win at the cost of losing a few kids possibly.

Good debate here. I am involved wit a couple of underage teams in my club. The debate we always have is at what point do ya start to windback the 'everyone plays' policy and start really putting out the strongest team ya have.

How could that game have been so one sided? Thats a fairly embarrassing scoreline

A dead rubber game on a Wednesday night when you have a championship game on Friday night.

It is what it is...

Its a hectic time off the year for dual men HS. Going from hurling cship one weekend to football cship the following wknd and important league games in between. The dual men in my club are getting er tight at the minute but if ya are winning its always easier!

[Ballycastle by at least 12]

Clanker might describe it perfectly! Ballycastle by at least 12

Got this badly wrong.

Management need sacked immediately.

Committee should also step down immediately.

I'm raging at this.  Relegated because of the disgraceful behaviour of some senior players and committee members.  Stabbed a decent man in the back and still got relegated.

No more than they deserve but our club deserves better.

Disgraceful!

I couldn't be assed getting into it at the time but I did think your prediction would be well out. I know we travelled light the last couple of outings and took tankings but at home, in a crunch game, we were always going to be a different team.
We were full value for it too IMO, 9 up at one stage in the 2nd half I think and almost gave Ballycastle a sniff of it but always had a 3/4 point cushion.

Well done to our lads. That's a tough league!

100% HS. That was a completely different Rossa team I saw last night compared to the previous one in b'castle. Fair dues to ya.

Div 2 will give the town something to work up from.

But I'd say there'll be some amount of motions from a load of clubs been fired into the ring during the winter re leagues 

[Town in good form at the minute with the new management team.]

Great game in prospect at Rossa tomo night. Town in good form at the minute with the new management team. Rossa not looking so good coming into this. Winner takes all in terms of league survival. I'll take a spin across and watch this one. Fairly confident of a ballycastle win.

I don't see how you work that out Usain.  Since Raymond was ousted they've played 2 teams that they'd played previously:
v Dunloy (May 14) 4 pt defeat
v Dunloy (Jul 27) 15 pt defeat

v Cloughmills (Apr 30) 10 pt win
v Cloughmills ( Aug 5) 9 pt win

So you could easily argue that they've gone back not improved.

I'd guess you're basing it on the fact that they've won their last couple of games but they've been against Cloughmills who haven't won a game all season and against Rossa who have been as you say " not looking so good coming into this".
So again I don't see any basis for thinking Ballycastle have improved.

I don't doubt that the Town will beat Rossa on Wednesday and avoid relegation but that's more down to the (lack of) quality of the opposition rather than the wonderful new management.

Well if you put it like that sir maybe they have went backways lol

Wednesday night will tell us more. Should be a clanker

we've a good chance of making a final this year if we play to our potential and keep our current form going but winning it, well im not sure about that. Cdall have a good well seasoned team there and will be hard to shift from the top spot. Loughgiel gave us a good pasting in the Feis Cup final and showed that they are still a serious contender after a lot of under par performance's this year.

Weds nights league meeting between ourselves and Lgiel will be more than interesting and will see where we stand. At the min im still in the 'were not there' camp in terms of winning a championship but these next few games will see where we are.

Im hopefully more than confident about winning it.

I think Dunloy are still maybe 3-5 years away from becoming the dominant force again. But who knows, if they scalp cdall it might happen. I think it'll be couple of years yet.

Great game in prospect at Rossa tomo night. Town in good form at the minute with the new management team. Rossa not looking so good coming into this. Winner takes all in terms of league survival. I'll take a spin across and watch this one. Fairly confident of a ballycastle win.

Gael, I don't know who you think I am but you have got the wrong man sir! I am an interested specatator/observer of ballycastle as I grew up in the town before moving away many years ago. I am now happily coaching some underage cubs in my wifes club, not that that is any of your business 

So in the space of a few hours you went from a disgruntled supporter to an interested speactor/observer?🤔 Make your mind up 'man'. Quick to change the subject above to...

Would you give me heed peace man. I'm more concerned with talking about hurling than getting involved with you trying to figure out who I am! You've been a member of this board since 19th September 2015 but your first post arrives two days ago......... 

Some cracking games in store this weekend. Hopefully the weather sorts itself out.

Predictions anyone?

Sarsfields v St Galls

Cdun v Gorts
St Teresa's v Glenarm

Rasharkin v Tir na nog
St Endas v Lamh Dhearg
Glenarrife v Carey

Glenravel v Davitts

Gael, I don't know who you think I am but you have got the wrong man sir! I am an interested specatator/observer of ballycastle as I grew up in the town before moving away many years ago. I am now happily coaching some underage cubs in my wifes club, not that that is any of your business