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Aghagallon doing well and putting in the work at underage, but one u17 title and 2 senior finals where they were on the easy side of the draw both times leaves me needing to be convinced we are witnessing anything of note just yet. Next season a very important one for them to stamp their authority at senior level if it's there and it could well be.
On a different note where have Saffron Voice gone

New podcast out there - haven't listened to it but it is previewing u20 football and ulster club teams so dare I say maybe a reprieve for MR2 this week...

No podcast tonight?

None so far MR2, your ears won't be burning tonight 🤣

Thought a lot of the stuff was grand, and any promotion of our games has to be applauded, being nasty isn't required though, hopefully they can take the bitterness out and continue on..

As for giving me abuse, water off a ducks back 

what are you like at underge level, who are the strong clubs in Antrim at underage? St Brigids are getting big numbers? Aghagallon seems to be too but aren't a lot of their players from Lurgan and do their camogs not play in Armagh.
NAOMH ÉANNA are another club with big numbers

We've no Lurgan men playing for us at all!

You tell him Jim - seems there are some still need a geography lesson.

So leave the county Senior Champions with 1 player in the forward line and Aghagallon with 3?  Not sure about that one

No because my point is that the senior championship would have their own players. Cargin, Aghagallon, Creggan, PG1 etc would all have more chance as they wouldn't be up against junior and intermediate players well.

And Paul McCann is a good player but I wouldn't pick him over Adam Loughran. I'd have other Cargin players in before Paul.

I'd have Paul over every mccann brother
The work he does is unseen yet phenomenal for Cargin him and Big Stork two vital cogs in a well oiled machine

Good player surely. But I know when the game is in the balance I'd want Tomas on the ball!

When you're eight points down in a county final its Gerard and Paul McCann you need.  As good as Adam is, when the pressure came on in that 2nd half it was Paul who raised his game and Adam who disappeared. Some men are built for leagues, and others for championships

Very unfair to say Adam went missing. And I wasn't talking about Adam in that last post. I was talking Tomas McCann. I said when the game is in the balance I'd pick Tomas to be on the ball. Look how many times he has saved Cargin! Including the semi final this year again Creggan. He also made a brilliant tackle against us in extra time that set up a score when they needed it most. Are you really going to pick Paul McCann over Tomas??

That's his job I wouldn't say saving cargin he's just doing his job same as rest of the players
Don't get me wrong Tomas is a class act always has been but what I'm saying is how important Paul and stork are to the cargin set up
We've only Con johnston to come in next year and bolster that too, but we are an ageing team apparently, good luck to the rest.

Don't know how Adam Loughran doesn't get an allstar his performance v PG1 in the semi worthy of one alone. The goal was out of the top drawer in those circumstances also got a great goal in the final. Would have Tomas in too

Hard hitting stuff on the saffron voice tonight

I agree with that crap of having to have tickets on QE Code - saw a fella at the relegation playoff couldn't get the phone working tried to pay at gate and they said no - what is wrong with paying at the gate?

That was the worst experience I've had as an official on the pitch last night, ever!!

5 minutes in the abuse from the line and over the line was unreal!

Think next year I might wear a phone holder and record the game just to highlight what 'ordinary' people say during the game, both on the pitch and behind the line

Was wild abuse- even after baker was yellow carded him and few others kept at it- distracts from the team on field. More bizarre was the call to give a point was made by two umpires nothing to do with ref or linesman

Ballymena out of ideas once down by 3.. wasted opportunity for them. Aghagallon grinded them down and first step of getting Sundays result out of the system. Wonder was scoreboard not on to save Ballymenas blushes 🙈

Saves electricity keeping the board off- you know there is a cost of living crisis wolf

Not sure if he has some ties to the club or whatever. With players they have should really being doing better

I actually feel sorry for those Ballymena players being made to play in that system. They've a few flyers and a few dangerous forwards but they serve up that crap. Baker shouting and roaring and giving out abuse doesn't help either. Dark ages stuff.

Glad we got that over and done with. We should never have been in that position in the first place.

Even when ballymena were goi no further behind they persisted with everyone behind ball and letting agahagallon pass it around the back with no pressure — poor poor showing

Looks like Aghagallon didn't have much to worry about in the end

Was close and cagey for first half but in truth it looked all ballymena were trying to do was be so so defensive to avoid getting humiliated. Once the penny drops that they were 4/5 down and never going to win as soon as they come out their shell they got a man sent off and got a proper pasting after that

It seems 'Saffron Voice' is outa business.....

Was hoping they would be about for yeaaaarrrsss.

must bring them down the soldierstown road some night

Crowd was way smaller this year only a handful of people on the grass bank compared to last year

Aghagallon haven't long to lick their wounds, relegation play off on Friday night v All Saints. Surely a foregone conclusion but of course you never know.

Does anyone know if aghagallon as senior championship finalists get seeded again along with the 3 other 3 semi finalists? If they lose to ballymena I thought they will be relegated to div 2 and drop out of senior championship but unsure if that still stands given they have done enough to be seeded in senior championship next year 

It was almost as if we hit the front too early once we got the goal at start of 2nd half. Cargin just chipped away and when the game went to Extra time they managed it well, they still have a great blend of young lads playing with the old campaigners.

Many here listen to the Saffron Voice? They getting much traction with it?

Its entertaining enough. The two lads add a bit of character and craic . The instagram account was good craic, cutting the tripe out different players and managers! They have a reasonably good knowledge of the club scene

It's more or a laugh than anything AS SUCH. They cover some amount of games to be fair to them. I love the slagging they give the county board.

The only thing I can fault them on is them saying aghagallon is down the soldierstown road- not many aghagallon gaa men hail from that part of town! other than that thy are pretty spot on. They did a few good episodes reviewing Ulster club champo last year good content and banter

On my way to Mass this morning I decided to call in to watch our boys train for fews minutes there were more men standing about than training seems a lengthy injury list to contend with before Sundays final
Can't see us being anywhere close to full strength unfortunately for the big one going by that evidence 😞🙏

Saving themselves for the tougher challenges that lie ahead.

I was always of the view good players don't need to train

Hearing the ref for senior county final gonna be conall roberts st johns

If this is accurate I am sure he will do a good job

Hopefully- he is a young ref and a county final is a big step up for any young whistler