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ive always found the ulster league a useful thing for senior teams. the only problem is the availability of pitches at this time of year. alot of clubs don't want to have their pitches torn up this early in the season. ours is only recovering from the flooding it got last august time after being re-drained.

i always found the UHL a really good idea, meant clubs didn't have to organise challenge games, gave them games against teams of their own level with a proper neutral referee and gave teams a good platform for the league. I always remember a manager saying to me a game is as good as 20 training sessions and its something that has always stuck with me, i think too many managers and coaches now nearly see challenge games as an inconvenience to their pre season. I know especially in football this is what seen a lot of teams pull out of UL

I have no idea of the details of the restructure, i remember reading somewhere its a minimum of 14 games to be played for a league season so i would imagine if that cant be fulfilled then something would have to be done about it. On the convention point technically there would have to be a motion put forward however if the aforementioned point of minimum games is not fulfilled i think the county can basically do whatever they want, all should become clear after 19th january when the competition entries are processed

What way do yoju think theyll do it out of interest FF? Just a 12 team div 3 and keep 1 and 2 as 10? probably the easiest to be honest. Only thing is looking at the way div 1 and 2 relegations finished up there are 2 teams who probably feel hard done by, maybe a 12 team div 1 10 div 2 and 10 div 3 would be an option? only problem being with that is you are giving 4 extra fixtures in the league where there are the most county players and therefore a smaller calendar. 

It was an OK game overall, both teams had lots of men pulled back so there was a lot of rugby league stuff on display. We didn't break them down enough, or break enough tackle, though Laverty was good at that - like Loughrey lite - he can definitely come good this year. Took his goal very well. The goal was built on patience and passing, after a string of sideways and backwards passes CJ hit a beauty into Conor Murray and that opened them up. CJ was v influential in a deeper role, pulling strings looking for openings and encouraging those around him.

Walls was strong in goals, kick outs had distance if not much variety. Tony Scullion added a bit of stability when he came on for second half and Magill remains a solid option up front, the ball still sticks!

The match was worth going to - but oh man, is it ever warm at Creggan?

Seen Walls was in nets, thought it might have been a misprint does he not play around MF for LD? I thought Finnucene was LD keeper?

I agree mac any time we have played the ballycastle lads up there they have always given a good account of themselves. As regards to the divisions i would prefer to see a larger div2 and div3. Does nobody any good yoyoing up and down leagues all the time. But again as I have already said its a complete guessing game as to what will happen! It seems a sensible course of action all the same

if they did make a bigger div 2/3 it would also save the mess regarding Aghagallon going down. No relegation from div 2 and all remaining teams make up div 3, not rocket science but then again it is Antrim...

I am not entirely sure SaffronHeart, speculation is that Ballycastle & Mitchels are withdrawing from ACFL, Naomh Una and Con Magees will not be fielding 2nd team next season, which leaves just Lisburn and Pearses. Leaves alot to the imagination, but as i say its just pure speculation, havn't a clue what will happen

Ballycastle are a club I wish had a better football team, that catchment area could have a good div 3 team easily, have some good footballers as it is, if they could get passed the hurling/football tug of war, really unfortunate.

On the rest of the post, if that's true div 4 isn't really viable, a larger div 3 would be the way to go

The new manager in Cargin is an interesting one.

Cargin For championship  ...... You had a championship winning manager and......

Has to be their year MR2, St Galls are finished and with all the top players they have they are a cert for it Antrim Championship prediction 2015 (also see 2014,2013 etc...) lol.

i would say the bottom league could have more teams in it. Ballymena are not in good shape with regards to hurling. chat of them scrapping senior and concentrating on under age only.

i think its two down 1 up next year and then the same the year after to bring it to 8 teams for div1?

the reserve championship idea isnt great. its hardly fair to have it top v bottom in a championship draw.

whats wrong with straight forward open draws lol

would say that will be how it does pan out, 3 divisions of 8 then the rest in division 4, im sure some clubs wont be happy but its up to themselves to get their own house in order and get out of the division they are in. Like all new formats and changes there will be teething problems but (hopefully) will work itself out.

Thanks DR

JohnneyCool. If all 4 hurling divisions are reverting to eight teams and they are allowing one team to be promoted in all divisions this year. That would mean:

3 are relegated from div one and only one team promoted from division 2 to make division one an eight team league.

This would leave 12 in division 2 plus one coming up from division 3 makes 13. They will have to relegate the bottom 5 from division 2 to achieve their aim of an 8 team league. Is that correct???

That would be my take on it!

Will get messy especially if a few games are not played right to the depths of winter!

So next year - it'd better to win Division 2 than to come 3rd bottom in Division 1?

I could be wrong here but at the minute we have 10 teams in div 1, 10 in div 2, 9 in div 3 and 7 in div 4, thats 36 teams, 4 divisions of 8 would equal 32 teams, what about the other 4? or am i looking at something wrong?

Aye, somewhere like Dunsilly? That'd be just great so it would now. Just great.

Really HS can't see your point, dunsily was a great, well thought out project from our CB. The swiftness in how quickly it was completed was not only impressive but has to applauded....

Seriously though, on dunsily, I genuinely feel sorry for st comhgalls, the pitch they are playing on at the minute is brutal and not fit for senior football, seems they will be waiting a while on the use of a pitch they were promised and also, if memory serves me right put money towards?

Is this post not somewhat contradictory??

No HS you must have picked it up wrong, i was being sarcastic, the fact that heads have not rolled regarding dunsily is a farce, we are still footing a bill for something that has completely stopped while another massive project in casement is undertaken leaving dunsily getting into a worse state. Only in Antrim can this happem.

Aye, somewhere like Dunsilly? That'd be just great so it would now. Just great.

Really HS can't see your point, dunsily was a great, well thought out project from our CB. The swiftness in how quickly it was completed was not only impressive but has to applauded....

Seriously though, on dunsily, I genuinely feel sorry for st comhgalls, the pitch they are playing on at the minute is brutal and not fit for senior football, seems they will be waiting a while on the use of a pitch they were promised and also, if memory serves me right put money towards?

Some conflicting points of view on the Antrim official guestbook, wonder why the admin hasn't replied to say who is right and who is wrong? looks to me like GNM and St T's got the outcome they required, no way would they have played the game out without knowing 100%

Interesting reading on another Antrim gaa forum, pretty standard this time of year i suppose about league structures etc, was going to post on it but not a member of that forum and couldnt be bothered joining it lol. Anyway, anyone any ideas on what could be done to sort out our leagues/ championships or does everyone thing they're best left alone?

Baker gone.

No real surprise, not a big fan of his but if there are interviews happening for your job (public ones at that) then out of sheer pride you are going to pack it in. Don't think this has been handled well at all, there is a way to treat people and this is not it.

I'm hearing that a certain linesman must share some of the blame.

A fella boots a lad up the hole, the linesman draws the ref's attention to it and between the two of them conclude that it's a yellow card.

Another incident whereby by a lad elbows the full back in the face before going on to score a goal. Apparently said linesman admitted that he saw the incident but for some reason didn't think it was important.

But, hey, such is life.

But sure i heard a certain rossa man was a complete d**khead and had no life outside of his computer. But hey such is life

Why get so annoyed. U know what happened and did nothing. And as for Baile Aontroma, feck off obviously a comgalls man.ur full of sh1t. Any neutral I talked to said it was a disgrace.

Having a pop at someone while hiding behind the keyboard is well brave, Hardstation wasn't at the game so he's going on hearsay.

As for me not doing anything? I don't get what you are talking about? I run the line, any off the ball stuff that goes on that the referee doesn't see then I'll ask to call him in, as for the goal incident the referee was ten yards away from it, he called it as he seen it, ball broke to Antrim player back of the net. That's the way it goes another referee maybe would have seen it differently. Again it's difficult when your team loose and by the minimum I've lost games and feel that we didn't get the marginal calls in a match, it happens.

I think you call everything pretty down the middle MR2 and know where you're coming from i'm of the 'some days they go for ya some days they don't' way of looking at things too, but there has to be blame with the county for this. Knowing the referees family relationship with the Antrim management surely means it wasn't fair on the ref to take that game? Not having a go at the ref, but the people who make the appointments.

Could the Sars replay not have been played this weekend? I know its all football championship games on but with neither of the 2 teams involved in the football championships i couldn't see there being any problems, or is there another reason for this?