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In his interview after the game Gleeson said Antrim hurling needs to improve the structures drastically. Dont know exactly what structures, maybe its training facilities, coaching, the underage hurling setups, i dunno. But i hope its something they are looking at, with Neal Peden. I'd imagine funding is an issue to improve the structures much.

Probably need to work towards getting the division 2 sides up to div1  level

Yea, that could be it aswell

In his interview after the game Gleeson said Antrim hurling needs to improve the structures drastically. Dont know exactly what structures, maybe its training facilities, coaching, the underage hurling setups, i dunno. But i hope its something they are looking at, with Neal Peden. I'd imagine funding is an issue to improve the structures much.

Im absolutely gutted from that match, we hit too many wides, didnt win enough ball, when we got possesion turned over in the backline it was so frustrating, i feel we dont have players running off the shoulder enough like the top teams do aswell.
But would be madness to question Gleesons position, we're still better than all those years losing to teams like westmeath and carlow. For me he's our best manager since dinny cahill. Darren Gleeson should get all our support!! i hope he stays on.
The joe mcdonagh will be tough to win next year, offaly will likely be in it and they look like they are on the way back.
Im just gutted

Team is named for tomorrow, strong team although Niall McKenna not named is a blow, he must be injured.
Its a huge game tomorrow, hopefully the lads can get the win! C'mon Antrim!

I cant see anything online about the minor game against meath that was due to be played last night. Why it didnt happen, if it was conceded etc. Its strange. You would think that Antrims gaa twitter or facebook page should give an update.
I wouldve fancied us to beat meath in minor hurling aswell

Should there be a root and branch review of hurling in antrim? I don't think Laois have ever beat us by 30+ points? The smoke screen of Gleesons seniors can't hide just how much we are struggling under age. Beaten by Kildare at minor last year and Laois yesterday. Not good.

Absolutely spot on, if we don't put more emphasis on our underage teams then it's hard to get new players to replenish our senior team. The last team that got the proper attention was the minor team Shorty, Mc Manus Hippie and co played on and they did good. We need some sort of plan and resources to improve it.

Saw it suggested somewhere on twitter that the minor hurlers have conceded tonight's game against Meath.

If that is correct, it will have been a pretty grim 24 hours for Antrim hurling.

Yea the minors are meant to be playing meath tonight, cant see anywhere online about the game being on.
Yea if that's true its been a pretty tough 24hrs for Antrim hurling

Anybody know if that u20 game is being shown anywhere? I cant see it on Pairctv or anything on laois gaa twitter page, last weeks u20 and minor games v down were shown on Pairctv

Some result for Dublin, makes me feel a bit better about last weekend

Don't know where it's coming from that the Laois match is in Portlaoise. Every official source has it TBC

Yea it has been a great year, the league campaign was absolutely brilliant!
If we can stay in the leinster for next year by beating Laois that'll be great.
Looks like the game v laois will be in laois, doesnt seem too fair, but sure lets go and win it

https://thesaffrongael.com/category/latest-news/hurling/

It says that on the saffrongael website, dunno if its true or not, hopefully not

GAA website has it at Parnell Park. Good news

That's good

Dissapointing today, dublin too good for us, that ref was shocking for me, tho obviously dublin were always going to win easily playing like that no matter what the ref did.
Big game v Laois, anybody know if it will be in a neutral venue? Im guessing it has to be

I watched the match and wondering what stuck out about the ref? I can't recall a moment when I gave off about a call, and that's me watching it as a supporter btw

There were a few times our forwards were fouled and didnt get a free, there was one with mccann in the 2nd half i remember. And dublin got a lot of very soft frees, while we didnt. The red card seemed harsh aswell, no replays on the gaago stream but seemed harsh in real time

The red card (at that level) is a red card offence, McCann ran into the tackle looking a free if I'm being honest. There were at least two calls for over carrying that I thought were frees the other way against Dublin!

On the game we should have kept the points ticking over as for a spell we went searching for a goal when the point would have improved our point tally, they got two goals that were soft enough and a well taken goal. Dublin did a number on our attack and snuffed them out of space or closed the options from our ball from defence to attack. You can't fault the lads we just came up against a better team on the day (twice)

We'll agree to disagree on the ref then

That's your lot? Ok

Ach i could go into it but i cant be bothered getting into a silly online argument. People see games differently, its all good

Don't know where it's coming from that the Laois match is in Portlaoise. Every official source has it TBC

Yea it has been a great year, the league campaign was absolutely brilliant!
If we can stay in the leinster for next year by beating Laois that'll be great.
Looks like the game v laois will be in laois, doesnt seem too fair, but sure lets go and win it

https://thesaffrongael.com/category/latest-news/hurling/

It says that on the saffrongael website, dunno if its true or not, hopefully not

Dissapointing today, dublin too good for us, that ref was shocking for me, tho obviously dublin were always going to win easily playing like that no matter what the ref did.
Big game v Laois, anybody know if it will be in a neutral venue? Im guessing it has to be

I watched the match and wondering what stuck out about the ref? I can't recall a moment when I gave off about a call, and that's me watching it as a supporter btw

There were a few times our forwards were fouled and didnt get a free, there was one with mccann in the 2nd half i remember. And dublin got a lot of very soft frees, while we didnt. The red card seemed harsh aswell, no replays on the gaago stream but seemed harsh in real time

The red card (at that level) is a red card offence, McCann ran into the tackle looking a free if I'm being honest. There were at least two calls for over carrying that I thought were frees the other way against Dublin!

On the game we should have kept the points ticking over as for a spell we went searching for a goal when the point would have improved our point tally, they got two goals that were soft enough and a well taken goal. Dublin did a number on our attack and snuffed them out of space or closed the options from our ball from defence to attack. You can't fault the lads we just came up against a better team on the day (twice)

We'll agree to disagree on the ref then

Championship for us this year was a bonus, main thing was getting another year in div 1 which we achieved. The players now have a taste of what is needed at this level, they also have seen the step up from league hurling to championship time. It'll stand the lads for next year massively. Be great to go out get past Laois and get another game. If we do that I'd say this will have been a really successful season for us

Yep, completely agree

Dissapointing today, dublin too good for us, that ref was shocking for me, tho obviously dublin were always going to win easily playing like that no matter what the ref did.
Big game v Laois, anybody know if it will be in a neutral venue? Im guessing it has to be

I watched the match and wondering what stuck out about the ref? I can't recall a moment when I gave off about a call, and that's me watching it as a supporter btw

There were a few times our forwards were fouled and didnt get a free, there was one with mccann in the 2nd half i remember. And dublin got a lot of very soft frees, while we didnt. The red card seemed harsh aswell, no replays on the gaago stream but seemed harsh in real time

Antrim have been much more competitive at corrigan this year compared to playing away.
I think the tighter pitch allows us to make it a battle against these top teams. Playing on a bigger pitch against a team like dublin with more athletic players allows them to stretch the game more and find more space.
Although the laois players arent anymore athletic than ours, i still think it gives them an advantage to be playing at their home ground. They wont have any travelling aswell.