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I've never heard of any acrimony that exists between the clubs or the players. Genuinely cannot recall a flare up of any kind between them either, at any time.
Dosent mean you wouldn't love to beat them, but that's a back handed compliment to Cargin because of their superiority over a long period of time.

Will it happen in 2025, lol..

Personally I would be delighted if Fergal OKane Shane Delargy and Niall McKeever turned up for training. All three can win their own ball, but in the meantime I respect their own right to make their own decisions.

Conor McGhee and Ronan Delargy would also help in that regard, both out injured atm.

But every club has players missing injured or unavailable, so this is not unique. It's still mid June, a bit early to be judging too harshly.

Take Your Mark, I'm not going to be getting worked up about a game I had no big expectation of, no matter who was playing or wasn't playing.

Anything happening in Mid June is too early to be concerned about what might happen in August or September.

And I emphasise the word "might", because you need a strong panel to win anything, and at the minute we look a bit light.

That 1 might sting a little bit more than your average league defeat Bannside as it seemed to me you were going all guns blazing at a fairly scarce looking Cargin team and managed to throw a 6 point lead.


Just for balance, Cargin played with 10 of their county final starters. Casements played with 9.
Two sides to every story...

Cargin get a goal from what many thought was a foul and a free out on Daniel McNicholl. Ball spilled and it's in the back of the net. A few mins later we miss a one on one, inches wide. 6 pt turnaround.

Small margins lads, no sour grapes here, as I say it wasn't any kind of priority.

I'm personally not judging PG1 on league performance because that hasn't been a priority. I've alluded to that numerous times this year, so 5th/6th...we are cool with that.

To my eye Creggan looked strong when we played them last week. Big and physical in right places. They're definitely in the mix and well ahead of us atm, and they're  not the only ones.

Casements are much lighter than last year, that would worry me. Some of their best ball winners in the county final are not around, for different reasons. So I'd worry about that part of their game.

Nonsense lol.

Cargin deserved their win, another league in the bag, well done.

5th /6th in league okay with most of us.

Big question is what will management find from here in the next few months. That's the challenge for JMK and in fact for most managers.

We are talking about Belfast schools combining for the purposes of team training and preparation for Ulster College fixtures.

What they do to sustain that after the competition is over I haven't a clue. Go back to their clubs and county development squads I assume..

What do you propose?

A sub committee was set up yo oversee the amalgamation project to allow a Belfast school collective to enter Colleges football.

Some of the people in that are well tuned in to be fair, mostly from the secondary/grammar school sector.

Paddy Kelly was instrumental in this, a man who has knocked his pan in trying to get something worthwhile kickstarted.

As far as I know it was an honorary appointment, with no remit or terms of engagement. That wasn't necessarily Gearoids fault to be fair.

But that is exactly what is needed. A director of football with an active and vibrant  sub committee overseeing everything from minor to senior.

I think this is now singularity the biggest priority in town, but....why do I get a feeling many in our current administration would be anti this??

We are all individuals NSS. Either we leave this to one or two mandated county officers....or some people go out of their way to have conversations and if the mood music is OK, spoon feed that back to the county officers, to take it up.

No one here can offer anyone a job! Not even Donal Murphy lol...

All that needs vetoed by Coiste Bainiste, and if they make a recommendation, YOUR club county committee delegate will have an opportunity to voice his or her opinion.

Lads hold on here a minute. When Donals tenure as treasurer was up  Andy asked him to remain with the footballers as liaison officer with County board, arranging friendlies, hotels ,  looked after appeals, organised venues, all the gear and equipment..I don't think he had any say at all on team squad or selection....

Don't get why some on here have the knives out. From what I see he has only ever had best intentions of Antrim at heart.


Lets see who picks up the slack next? Any suggestions???

Thats not a questuon who should be the next manager. Its a question asking who is going to get stuck in to make sure we have a credible list of candidates? Is that you?

There's no structure in place for dealing with this.

The executive who appointed him are no longer in those positions. We have a fairly new chairman (Seamus) a new secretary (Angela) and no secretary.

We have no football board or sub committee that in a normal world would be leading these things.

We have clubs who don't care enough to go to the bother of sourcing or nominating anyone. We have many clubs (hurling) who actually don't give a toss.

I'd say fair play to Donal Murphy for being proactive.  Who is going to lead the appointment of the next incumbent??

I got to know Andy, and he gave this his all. Problem is that his all wasn't enough, (despite a horrendous injury list) and we all know every year it dosent get easier. Retirements won't help either.

Personally I've nothing against Andy taking a week or two to consider, and if necessary throwing his name back into the hat. But that shouldn't prevent county inviting clubs to forward alternatives, and on that basis, make the call based on who is he best man actually willing and available to take on the role.

At the end of the day Andys 3 year term is up, I'd let him put a case forward for his extension on what he would plan to do differently.

Big shout out to Dermot, quality player who always put in a shift. I've also heard he mightnt be the last to call it a day.

Andy still in charge as it stands. Talk of his replacement is very premature.

Such fickle backing lol, some hard taskmasters here 🤣

Don't know enough about insurance, but I'd say public liability insurance runs for the whole year, not on an individual basis.

Plus, open to correction but maybe you get an extra 10k into a stadium, especially if the main pitch is being used. That's a lot of £.