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Shane, along with a couple of other fellas from Belfast Tech are playing yea.  The team is really St Mary's/BMC, as neither could field a team without the other. 

St Mary's, this afternoon, booked their place in the Irish Daily Mail Hurling Div 2 Final after a brilliant 14 point win over Mary Immaculate of Limerick, in Dublin. They will play Queens University in the Final which will take place on Thursday 1st December.  Venue & Time Unconfirmed.

Not bad for Belfast Hurling?  Other teams in the Division were Jordanstown, Trinity Dublin, Sligo IT, Mary Immaculate Limerick, IT Tralee, NUI Maynooth.

[e had a brother at wing forward for St Marys although I don't know if he was playing for st galls that day against us]

Is AG the guy that played full forward against Cushendall in the Championship?

Yep. Was that a brother up there with him?

Did he not play left half forward? Think youre mixing him up with Anton something or other

Skull your correct Anton McCafferty was Full forward. He also plays for St Marys. He had a brother at wing forward for St Marys although I don't know if he was playing for st galls that day against us. Aidan Gallagher was wing forward that championship game in Loughgiel

Ciaran McCaffery is his brother - he was a sub against Cushendall in the Championship but didn't feature.

Anyone hear of any movement on the Ray Matthews / Rasharkin case?
I see our friend on the county guestbook talking about pursuing someone's IP address!
God help us all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo

[I wouldn't think OE will let wild pulling go]

I wouldn't think OE will let wild pulling go. He is a good referee and he'll let the boys hurl hard but they'll need to be fair.

DMK better be on his best behaviour then 

Make sure you tell Skinner the same then!

[they really dont seem to care if they win or lose]

IMO cant see LG being beat in this one, just think Cushendall are lacking the firepower up front to really hurt them.

Couple that to the fact that they really dont seem to care if they win or lose and that to me sets alarm bells off. Dont think it will be pretty, think it could be quite rough but see LG winning.

You're basing this on what?

Cheers.  Looking forward to it.  What's on as the opener?

Not sure there's any match on before it.  Intermediate/Junior/Minor finals already been played and the football final is on the Saturday night as far as I know.

Has the hurling final been fixed yet?

25th Sept. Casement.

SIE no one is saying he deserved the shoulder in the back, but as someone already said earlier, the phrase Live by the sword, die by the sword applies indefinitely here.

He and Eddie McCloskey both got a yellow card at the same time in the first half.  He pulled around the back of Neal McAuley's (I think) legs.  Over towards the Loughgiel bench.

Skinner was on a yellow card when he shouldered Neal McAuley in the chest - had Hippy not shouldered him in the back seconds after he should have walked too.  Thought it was poor on Duffy's part to allow his injury to overshadow the fact that he should have been walking off the pitch rather than carried.   

Well said MR, absolute gentleman.

Hi Herbie 

Seemed to be for mouthing from where I was standing.  He'd conceeded free, got a yellow card, then had a go.  Unsure if he got a second yellow or if it was a straight red but who really cares - no need to talk about it as Skill said...move on.

No but you were suggesting that the trouble follows Cushendall, as if they are responsible for it.  I was just correcting you on that part...

[this is the way to treat and manage junvenile teams then let them be]

JamesH, did you's not win?

Are St Galls a threat at this age group or any other at hurling?

Then man up and let it go, if they themselves feel that this is the way to treat and manage junvenile teams then let them be, because no success will ever come from this approach.

MR2 not a dig at you could be said the same of many clubs across the board. Just time to shun people who behave like this and not give them the oxygen of any type of publicity.

If you don't want to have a dig, then why dig? If you posted your club we could all have a swipe at it.

As for not being a threat at hurling, sure we never said we were. There are plenty of hurling lads within the club who were totally shamed at the other nights activities, like i'm sure you have lads from Ballycastle and Cushendall fiasco who were embarrassed at their players/members when there was a free for all.

Seems to me that trouble follows the Dall minor team , but maybe it's other peoples fault all the time

Disagree with that.  Two games this year there has been trouble - albeit they were two games in a row.  You can argue that Cushendall had a hand in the trouble at the first game, but in Rossa Park on Friday night there would have been no trouble at all only for an extremely ill-disciplined St Gall's minor team.  The only reason trouble seems to have 'followed' our minor team was because your team only wanted use the game as a disguise for pulling the stick.  Speaks for itself when two of your players were sent off closely followed by a lose of all interest in the game.  Your number 10 deserves nothing less than a year's ban for what he did, as do the mentors for acknowledging what he did by changing his jersey from number 10 to number 14.  CJ McGourty hung over the fence himself telling your own players what a disgrace they were to your club.  Don't spew that shite that trouble follows us when every bit of it was instigated by your own players.