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To be fair I don't think it was the same sparse attacker numbers as previous games. We usually did have at least a couple of forwards inside toddy. Ironically the Antrim score of the day came from Ruairi Donaghy winning his own ball and intelligently flicking home.

He looks to be a strong addition to the team this year.

Dublin are currently a level - or 2 - above us atm.

Clare v impressive today I thought , and in reality they probably had another gear if needed. Positives for us too, but more significant games ahead over next few weeks starting against Kildare next weekend. They will be relishing that.

Fair play to St John's for winning the County championship but they won't be winning one again for a long time.

Their supporters cheering Slaughneil's wides when they were 8 down FFS.

Men against boys.

St John's should have had 3 off including Ciaran Johnston. A few stinker tackles.

Chrissy McKeague inside putting manners on them.

To be fair it's been men against boys for most Antrim teams against this S'neil team

Not really. Dunloy and Cushendall have given them much sterner tests, including beating them in recent years!

Hats off to St Johns. They waited a long time for that one, it's a major achievement and hopefully a wider spread of competitive clubs lifts the county. 👏👏

Agree - should be a consistent, annual venue for finals. Hurling final two years ago was a great experience at Corrigan. Fact that St Johns are there should not really be a factor.

Thought for sure the ref would blow a draw and send the game to extra time when it was around 63 and 64 mins. Don't even think anyone would have objected.

Had he signalled a longer injury time period?

Keeping us in Div 1 meant beating Laois, that's it. I am sure Davy would have been targeting at the very least a more competitive Leinster campaign, but apart from yesterday we weren't really competitive in any championship game after half time. That's a poor championship campaign, more so than this last few seasons.

Have to admit I got it wrong initially and thought it was a harsh decision, but seeing it back at half time, it was a stupid action.

But - overall the ref didn't help us, after James' goal there was an Offaly attack which ended with a shoulder charge and Offaly player holding onto the ball. Should have been our free but ref threw the ball in and they scored a goal from the re start. We arguably could have had a penalty when Nigel Elliot brought down in first half.

Battling second half but damage was done. Very disappointing - only one win all year.

Big disappointment today, we never looked like winning a 50/50 contest; each of our puck outs was a contested ball and theirs led straight to uncontested Dublin possession; our handling was just poor - uncontested passes being fumbled, catches being dropped. We were never on the same platform as Dublin today. Everything now most likely comes down to a winner takes us all away to Offaly - its not an optimistic prospect.

"No matter how you dress it up the Tailteann Cup will always be a 2nd tier competition."

It is literally a second tier competition...it was established to be so.

The amount of injury feigning and yapping from Armagh was frankly embarrassing. No need for it given the obvious talent and power in the team, but never saw the like of it. Soccer style yaps.

Hooter required for all games this weekend, which includes some crunch relegation / promotion games in lower divisions where hooter has not featured until now. Hope that doesn't increase the potential for controversy.

Who is in charge of the hooter? Home team? Ref?

RTE report says hooter in use for all games from this weekend, but that's not the case. Only to be used in Div 3 and 4 finals not regular league games.

Hooter required for all games this weekend, which includes some crunch relegation / promotion games in lower divisions where hooter has not featured until now. Hope that doesn't increase the potential for controversy.

Jody Gormley RIP, anyone listening to the recent podcast with Thomas Niblock and Oisin will know how powerful it was, if you haven't listened yet you should https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0k1qdvv

He was a fine player with of course a big Antrim connection. Very sad.

Clare not easy either though hopefully winnable. Leitrim match isn't going to be much of a spectacle with Poacher in charge of them.
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Well he will have to keep three in his own half for starters! It will be interesting, a real challenge for the coaches, county and club