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[Reserves should though stick to their own championship as to do other wise would kill junior and a lot of intermediate clubs.]

none of this answers the question originally ask, who gets promoted from junior alongside the Aggies, will Laochra and Pearses be made play a playoff at this stage?

I would reckon gorts will get another reprieve with their friends in high places working it out for them.

The right thing for Aggies is to go to a new Div 3 (of 4) with clubs wishing to enter reserves (starting in div 4) allowing 4 divisions. One of the challenges of only 3 divisions is the step to the next division is too high, 4 makes much more sense and would let teams consolidate and progress.

Reserves should though stick to their own championship as to do other wise would kill junior and a lot of intermediate clubs.

I've always thought key to making the league competitive is to have it act as seeding for championship, would put some pressure on with county lads being missing but not a total end of the world with a low ranking.

Ultimately though this is putting lipstick on the Christmas dinner, until the quality of coaching in clubs (on a broad based basis) goes up and retention rates go up then it's pissing in the wind.

but happy to kill groups of reserve players from stronger clubs by keeping it the same. Not just Cargin but 2-3 others in same situation. Players deserve a meaningful season, reserve leagues are beyond a joke and Antrim County boards promise to improve them hasn't came off its remained just as bad and getting worse. Likes of Cargin, St Brigids or Porglenone reserves joining Div 3 will only improve the division.

They have their own championship, I'm all for reserves playing in the leagues it works well, teams in lower end going to the likes of Cargin Portglenone can only raise the levels in trying to beat a 'bigger' team, if ya know what I mean.

Same goes for the hurling..

Are Utd really any further forward?

More forward than last year?

Who knows, they ain't anywhere close to what would be seen as decent

Some media outlets trying to make me feel guilty because I dare to protest about the genocide in Palestine, is a WTF moment.

I think it's ok to protest about any mass murder. Would be a bit insane not too

Some schools are preparing for exams after the holidays so they are teaching till the last day..

Rob is getting more posts on here than the mass shooting in Oz..

Not sure if I should have put this in the interesting thread 

Slot kept things simple when he took over, it's a better way to get some stability but the 11 players on the pitch had the chance regardless to win that game.. managers can get it wrong but that was the first chance of a trophy this season

Polarisation

Good luck in that fucked up country

They've managed to trend it across the world

Well maybe not North Korea or Russia

Very exciting end to the camogie

What a finish that last ten minutes was.. that barmy wife of mine wanted to watch a Xmas movie! It was clean shite! So only seen second half

It really doesn't matter who voted for it as it changed a number of years ago. The conversation is about what it should change to now and why. This is a thread that talks about Antrim football. I don't think for a second that I or anybody or anything discussed in this thread will make any decisions.

But it's a thread on Antrim football and this should be a hot topic of conservation here because current structure is so far off the mark.

Instead of 'get involved' or 'not gonna happen discussing it here'. Why not challenge or come up with better alternatives.

There has been multiple attempts on this board with how it should/could look..

You can't challenge it here, but certainly it's been talked about, I'm not shutting it down at all, just that it's been discussed at length on here since the leagues were changed

Would you f**k up in thinking anyone on here condones rapist murders and so on?

You are mentally deranged

They support and vote for politicians who have declared their cities and states "sanctuaries"

Sanctuary cities and states release child rapists and murderers to the community-FACT-rather than hand them over to ICE for deportation

How would you like this Buck living next door to you?

https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/undocumented-ecuadoran-charged-with-over-20-child-sex-crimes-in-mass/amp/

" Avila was arraigned in Lawrence District Court on December 18, 2020, for over 20 offenses, including indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, rape of a child with force, and aggravated statutory rape of a child. Later that day, ICE Boston lodged an immigration detainer with the Lawrence Police Department against Avila, but the Lawrence District Court refused to honor the detainer. Avila was released from custody on bail on March 17, 2021"

I'm sure there are a million stories you could throw up, hell your own president has this!

March 2023 indictment in New York
He faced 34 criminal charges of falsifying business records in the first degree related to payments made to Stormy Daniels before the 2016 presidential election. The trial began on April 15, 2024; Trump was found guilty on all 34 counts on May 30, 2024

But no one is condoning what you have said! Again a twisted mentally deranged individual, get help

Would you f**k up in thinking anyone on here condones rapist murders and so on?

You are mentally deranged

Muslim fruit shop owner heroically disarmed one of the gunmen. That won't  play well with the far right 'f*** off home' narratives.

Have already read on twitter he's a Lebanese Christian and that one of the shooters is ex-IDF. Twitter is some spot.

Wouldn't be on Twitter but can't imagine thats the place where I'd take post's seriously, pretty much a cesspit.

Btw I'm not saying he is a Christian or Muslim, none of that shite (weaponising) matters, it's basically indoctrinated sad individuals who actually think this will make a difference.. nope, there's no guy up stairs, they're misled by evil people

MR2 exactly clubs voted for this because it benefits them

Now Solo and Go what your talking about is football quality and benefiting football in the county.

Don't confuse it with preparation for championship etc

16 teams get to call themselves Division 1 senior teams. (Ego benefit)

Your Cargins/Ports/Brides etc don't care because it doesn't impact them that much

Rossa/stjohns/TNN and any team hanging around 8 or lower want 16 teams because if they didn't have it there's a high chance they'd be relegated to Div 2

Likes of Gort retained Div 2 and didn't get relegated (benefit) Lisburn and the likes would be in junior A so it benefits those clubs around that level to have the current structures because they get to play a higher grade albeit weaker comp.

The clubs see the structures as a benefit to them
Your seeing it from a different perspective and not as a club

They voted for the change. It hasn't worked. Would those clubs still vote for it now. Do you think TNN, Rossa, MG, Sars etc want to win a handful of games just to say they are 'Division 1 team'. Not a single player in any of those teams is happy to be beat week in week out but are satisfied because they play 'div 1'. If I was a player who won 1 match all year and was in division 1 id be absolutely scundered to say that.

But I get the status thing. And the simply solution is 1a and 1b. You still play division 1 football. I bet you MG and Sarsfields would bite your hand off to play 1b rather than a 16 team div 1.

And what I'm really saying is, yes in turn it would benefit the county. But I'm talking about individual players and teams. Playing a structure like that improves everyone. Laughable to suggest otherwise.

Not sure what club you are but you really need to take a look at your committee, as they have more than likely voted it, has there been a motion to change it? If not it's laughable that your club is complicit along with others..

Short story, went to agm one year and they were talking ref's, as a player still I was giving off about the standard, club sec pulled me I. Front of the floor and challenged me to make a difference...

Not sure I did but, instead of talking about it, get involved, change from within

Already the local political parties are weaponising (as expected) these murders got their own agenda, while not giving one fuvk about them..

Could there be chatbots on here?