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Pretty sure it reverts to under 19 this year, so there will be a 2 year drop off, probably a large % of the squad. In good hands with Hugh and his capable backroom team.

County will remain U20 for 2021

Fantastic display by our minor footballers. The work rate of the two midfielders had to be seen to be believed and over all the team has an excellent balance. Quinn was unmarkable in the first half and when Donegal got to grips with him after the break Tiernan McAteer and Ronan Kelly took up the challenge. Very well managed from the sideline, made changes when needed and had no fear of using the bench. A huge positive on a day that went down hill very quickly after the minor game.

The Development squad players usually receive a training top, shorts and socks. These are funded by the players selling tickets, each player to raise around £60 if memory serves right.

As you know we have some fine juvenile hurlers, just don't have the numbers interested to field teams at the moment. Some lads sanctioned last year to Dunloy, but we are in the middle of discussions at present with other clubs over forming an amalgamation at Juvenile hurling level, see what comes from that.

What clubs or can u say?

Better say nothing at the moment PJ, nothing certain yet and I won't want to jump the gun, but there does seem to be a fair number of other Sw clubs struggling with Juvenile hurling as well as us.

As you know we have some fine juvenile hurlers, just don't have the numbers interested to field teams at the moment. Some lads sanctioned last year to Dunloy, but we are in the middle of discussions at present with other clubs over forming an amalgamation at Juvenile hurling level, see what comes from that.

rasharkin had no minor team last season and im not sure if they have one this season. They could struggle in the years to come like what we did until it becomes more stable and they can field at every grade each week.

We have a Minor team this year.

Wow, that is some player contract St Brigids have, leaked on Twitter yesterday, im all for player commitment but that's just ridiculous in n amateur game.

2nd half of Antrim game was very entertaining, some excellent scores from both teams. Conor Hamill , delargy and Niblock were the pick of the Antrim players, with Conor Myler, Cathal McShane and Kieran McGeary all excellent for the Ranch. I thought it was a good enough game for the start of January. We failed to get to grip with the powerful running of Myler which cased us huge problems. A lot of frees missed was a concern. We looked a lot better after the introduction of Tomas and paddy McBride. Same problems keep raising their heads though, very slow and ponderous turning defence into attack, soft down the middle of defence and slow to react to situations on the field.

My  initial reaction to  Saffrons was positive.  Change is needed at CB level, but after listening to the now infamous voice mail left to the SA chairman i would have serious problems supporting that particular candidate. Also the removal of the divisional boards i can not agree with. We play in one all county league, Minor. That has been an awful league for us. When it was SW league we were sure of games and fixture dates, but now in all county, very few city teams travel to play their away fixtures if more than 10 miles outside their home base and give little or no notice if they are not fullfiling a fixture. The 16-18 age group is the biggest drop off time for young players and if we cannot give them regular football they will leave. I think the SW board does an excellent job and i would not like to see it removed. Still change is badly needed at the top and while a few of the saffron candidates would look like excellent supporting then a full ticket is problematic.

No point having the head in the sand Milltown. Can only comment on what i saw, and i didn't see much that was positive. I will be back at Creggan on Sunday for the Armagh game so hopefully a more positive performance by the team will generate more positive comments.

Very poor game. That was as poor a Ranch team as i have viewed in a long time and yet if they had a reliable place kicker they would have won. Complete isolation of Fleming and McNeill in the first half, no direct ball to the FF line at all, must have been a hell of a cold stand for those 2 lads. We won the majority of possession at centrefield but insisted in lateral and backwards distribution, time and time again our half and full forwards making decent runs but having to check and check again because the ball wasn't coming in. Laverty at half back was the only player who showed ambition and confidence to break the tackle. TS looked liked he didnt care when he came on. Young O'Neill came on and his only contribution was to give away frees. Magill had an impact at FF in the second half but by that stage we had started to some quicker ball in. The down side of the faster ball was that our half forward had all withdrawn to midfield and there were no runners to feed off Magill. Early days but Russ has a lot of work to do. Lack of physicality still a problem which will take Mike McGurn alot more than a season to help. Would have thought getting him involved with our development squads would be a better long term plan.

Hogan Stand- Antrim ranked 32 from 33, 33 being New York. Bit severe , cant see how they figured waterford or  London were ahead of us but doesn't matter. The only way is up now!

Cj is a class act on the pitch. Tomas is a good player running onto the ball, but his ability to win ball and break the tackle is just average. Our full back line was left badly exposed again. Against Cavan, our hf line didn't track the runners and our fb line ended up in too many no win scenarios of either following their own man or going to meet the runner. Somewhat similar again against Wicklow.
I would not agree that it was a very good ff line of Wicklows. I thought we made them look good and our half back line ended up just marking space, but was too close to midfield and too far from our back line. c murray is a decent attacking half forward but his work rate off the ball is terrible and would be no addition at this level. Certainly mcveigh and mick back would help but we seem devoid of ideas and guile once we get the ball over our own 45.
While the lads are right in that many players ran themselves into the ground, our mental frailties were evident to see once again. Unable to shut out a game when we were in total command probably the most frustrating thing.

I always try and be positive with antrim football but I really didn't see any positives out of today's game. Defensively unorganised, a midfield with no creative ideas although plenty of ball, and apart from cj we looked very poor up front. Easy to blame the management but this group of players have had their chance, and then some. We cough up the ball in every tackle and once again our half forwards were completely lost. Similar to the Cavan McKenna cup game, though against a much more limited opposition in Wicklow. Build with short passing until we get to midfield and then we get stage fright and either turn back or just boot hopeful balls into a very static forward line. Cj was a class apart today, without him we would have been really embarrassed. More ideas when Ryan Murray came on. Big Niall won plenty of ball, but for his size and experience he brings very little penetration. Don't know where baker goes from here, but as some of his back room staff have suggested, he could hardly do worse than bring in a few new faces as some of our more experienced players have shown last season and this, either they don't have the hunger for county anymore or just not the ability.
Tough days ahead for antrim.
Ahoghill was in great shape though bloody freezing. Fair play to the clooney men on good organization and getting on with the job in difficult circumstances.

That was a cold stand at creggan today. Cavan starting this season were they left off last year. Very fit and well drilled, willing runners coming off the shoulder constantly, attacking and shooting with conviction. Antrim, very, very early days but some players haven't come on much. Gallagher at ff was terrible and then moved to wing hf and didn't do any better. Brother did better when he came on for kobo . Murray on the ball was ok but off the ball didn't bother covering his man at all and with Cavan running at Antrim defence this was a disaster. Got moved to the other wing for a while to see how much space he could give to that hb. Mick and Sean did ok in middle but when we won the ball we were all at sea, with little or no ideas how to penetrate an average enough defence. Young delargy did ok at cb but was left very exposed at times with 2v1 coming from Cavan runners. Kerr had no chance with the goals and kick out we're solid. Up front we were awful. Niblock was the best on show but the lack of movement and intelligent running by those around him forced too many turnovers. Paddy Kelly did well when he came on, physical presence at the edge of the square before moved out to bulk up middle. Bam looked hungry but arrived on very late on.
It's very early days but wasn't what Baker would have wanted for the first run out.