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JOG selling yourself a bit cheap there. Get cracking and you could be hitting the slopes late Feb 26.

Get a few meetings and one on ones to get reved up b4 Christmas. Foot to the board in January to take the ulster league by storm

😁.. I could be really good at skiing by the end of the 2027 winter. The wife is doing up my CV and powerpoint

With the CV and PowerPoint polished you could add The wife on to the support team as well. A couple of ton a month for administrative support.

JOG selling yourself a bit cheap there. Get cracking and you could be hitting the slopes late Feb 26.

Get a few meetings and one on ones to get reved up b4 Christmas. Foot to the board in January to take the ulster league by storm

I hard chat Doran & Niall Morgan were taking Clan Eireann

a WhatsApp message in fairness one of them "forwarded many times"

He mustn't be too fond of the wife all that time away from home 

More handbag money. stuffed with cash as well. Happy wife = Easy life

The Peter Healy playing for Ballyboden - it's not the former Antrim player is it?

Living in Dublin for the past decade, he transferred from St Enda's Glengormley to St Enda's Ballyboden.

One would imagine that McBride, Murray, Jordan would be close to retiring, 3 seasoned players for Antrim.

Rumours of 1 or 2 other lads on the brink of AFL offers.

All things for any prospective manager to be thinking about along with of course gutting out a lot of the squad and adding players in.

TTM would be interested to get a view on who you would think a prospective new manager should be considering bringing in assuming there are a few retirements and after gutting out a lot of the panel.

Assume between retirements, unavailability through circumstances and gutting the panel you need to pull 10 new guys in.

Do you or does anyone feel there are 10 guys who you believe are out there that can add something and are in a position to give a reasonable level of commitment.

 

[he was never off the field screaming at Kevin Parke]

On another note

I was at the Cargin and Ulster select   game yesterday in Toome , Jesus that silly ginger fella on the line may as well of been playing wing back for them he was never off the field screaming at Kevin Parke , felt bad for him however thought he done well yesterday let it go well.

Cargin seemed to be very light in men in fairness brides are too , Cargin struggled from their kickouts as Brides squeezed hard and in fairness worked well for them was well executed and they seem to be structured well.

After taking a defeat to ballymena it makes you wonder is the gap starting to close on Cargin ??

Is it time for a marked out Technical Area for managers and backroom staff at matches?   was at a couple of games over the weekend in 2 different codes and the abuse the referees took from all corners of the pitch where club coaches had spread out was concerning.   a good bit of coaches crossing paths in front of dug outs and mouthing at each other was common.     

Perhaps MR2 and the other refs don't pay heed to it but there doesnt seem to be any let up

Referee's have the means to move the ball forward 50 meters when getting abuse from the sideline

To be fair I've zero tolerance to it, if a manager or other team official wants to be carded and the ball moved 50 meters, then that's on him..

I think, and its hard to know as you are only doing the games you ref, but I feel that some referee's may take more abuse than others or possibly some coaches feel that they can give out more to some referee's.

Come Championship its a team of officials that will be getting it in the neck, but I'd be very wary that the linesman doesn't draw the attention to the ref and the ball moved forward.   

is it not

Misconduct by a Team Official(s) that warrants a Yellow or Red Card results in a free kick on the offending team's 13m line.

Can remember we played Ardboe in Tyrone somewhere, early 90's I think, wasn't Omagh but don't think it was a county ground, and yeah they beat us that day  , so not all bad these Tyrone teams in Ulster 

Ardboe's only SFC win in 90's was 1998 and St John's beat them that year after a replay (the drawn game was in Pomeroy). Their last Tyrone win before that was 1987 and they played Enniskillen and Burren in Ulster. Was it a challenge or tournament game yous played them in?

Pretty sure MR2 is right on this

Don't know what year it was but Ardboe beat StGalls in ulster. Would guess Mid late 80's

I think it was in Cookstown but not 100% on that.

Can remember we played Ardboe in Tyrone somewhere, early 90's I think, wasn't Omagh but don't think it was a county ground, and yeah they beat us that day  , so not all bad these Tyrone teams in Ulster 

Cookstown ?

Surely that's highly unlikely. They weren't a joint ticket at Lavey, just their previous 3 managers?

Why would they join up now?

No Godfather + 2dads (God Children)?

Which trio?

Godfather +2?

Did he have any success with loup?
What happened at galbally?

Did he not manage Errigal Ciaran to County final the year Dungannon won it

Regardless of the debate whether Ryans challenge was a foul, in the interest of protecting the player, was mc Quillan  obligated to stop play for a potential head injury?

That is a very valid point.

Yes he is but when players (not in this case) keep holding their heads at every 'tackle' it can be the a bit much to keep working out was he hit, how bad or where was it on the body.

In this particular incident, the ball was played across the pitch? so the position the keeper was in was natural enough? plus he was really reaching for it and collected it, the aftermath was worse than what I had thought though, but it wasn't a charge, I thought he caught the ball first and collided second.

It's all about opinions though, people want a physical game and when it suits them and non contact when it doesn't

Wise up.
You are making a fool of yourself.
The referee had unobstructed vision from less than 20 yards.

Mcguigan is great at inviting contact and getting the free. He had plenty of time to put his hands up to protect himself but he tryed to take one for the team. Joe didn't buy it. And rightly so

So putting your hand up was going to protect yourself.

This was a 13-14 stone man coming full pelt.

The only way you were going to protect yourself was to get the hands up and forcibly push him to the side which would more than likely have resulted in fairly heavy fall

Would Shane have seen yellow or red for doing this

More than likely

Thanks DK, and fair play to Creggan for staying around and respecting the occasion. Great club.

I can tell you our club makes no apology in saying we partied hard tonight, massive night in and around our social club. We completely understand this dosent necessarily translate into championship success, but PG1 will mark this down as a considerable step on our journey from division three to the top of division one.

The poor PG1 cows

Won't be milked for a fortnight

No -  there are definitely subs getting no game time not playing at all for their clubs.

Tbh I dunno but it's working so I don't want to knock it too much. There must be some reason for Lynch but who knows what it is.

Don't know the ins and outs or the inner workings but whatever medicine had to be given looked to be accepted by those who had to take it and the other squad members  must have been happy with it as well.

That was as hard working.  committed and disciplined display as Antrim football has produced in many years.

Yes there were  mistakes, some poor execution, might not have been the best 15 players in Antrim on display but AMcE would have gone down the road knowing he got a performance and is gradually getting the building blocks in place.

As mentioned in the SG report there was every opportunity to throw in the towel... Shakey start, hit for 1.3 at the start or second half to go 4 down, already qualified, blistering hot day.... They didn't. Stuck to the task, kept the shape, kept the discipline.

This was typified by a 2-3 minute arm wrestle around the middle of the first half. Fermanagh had possession probed left and right for a good 2_3 minutes trying to stretch and break the defence. Typically Antrim wouldn't hold their Shape and discipline, someone would go for a big hit, a lunge, someone would step out of sync. They didn't got the turnover quick transition. Al point @ the other end.

They might struggle with some of the stronger harder running teams further down the line but there was a bit of a statement made.   

Hard work and discipline is a prerequisite. Being selfless and giving to the guy in the best position. This will allow the talent to flourish CJ's first touch an assist for ALs goal. Only for a slight miss control his 2nd touch was more than likely going to end up in someone hitting the net as well. OD's first touch hitting the net although a miss hit. His 2nd or 3rd an assist for RMcC goal.

Small steps but you can see that there is clear buy in and work being put in. Just need to keep making the small steps and build confidence and belief.

Plenty to work on but the age profile of the finishing 15 should give scope for improvement over the next few years

How many has he thought right enough? I am sure he mustn't be a kick in the arse away from double figures between league and championship. Four in championship and how many in league?

(Edit) at a guess seven or eight?

In contention for the 2023 Golden Boot