Antrim Hurling

[bannside]

Either switch Maskey and Campbell, cause Sutcliffe's size big advantage. Or bring Walsh out and throw on Matthew Donnelly.  Obviously they are exploiting the size difference in the Dublin puck outs.

[Baile an tuaigh]

Ronan Hayes man of the match they should be much further ahead.

[Baile an tuaigh]

Justin McCarthy said league hurling is like driving in a quiet country road and championship hurling is like driving on a motorway. Dublin are a very good team and will do well.

[imtommygunn]

The thing is though the league game was the same.  Dublin are just currently too physical for us. We've come a long way but the gap still big.

[Saffrongael]

The thing is though the league game was the same.  Dublin are just currently too physical for us. We've come a long way but the gap still big.

I can understand them winning the high balls but the Antrim players seemed a yard or two behind all the time

[groundlie]

Good year considering we languished in lower tiers for years. Light years behind the top teams, so are Dublin. All in all a good year.

[Jonkunlon]

Losers of Laois/Wexford next.

[Baile an tuaigh]

Losers of Laois/Wexford next.

Looks like Laois at the minute. I'd love to see Donal Nugent and Shea Shannon start the next day. We done best with short puck outs and low deliveries into the forwards. The long puck outs with the high balls fed into Dublins strong aerial game. I think Dublin will give Galway a serious challenge.

[Jonkunlon]

Losers of Laois/Wexford next.

Looks like Laois at the minute. I'd love to see Donal Nugent and Shea Shannon start the next day. We done best with short puck outs and low deliveries into the forwards. The long puck outs with the high balls fed into Dublins strong aerial game. I think Dublin will give Galway a serious challenge.

Donal is not fit enough for this level and Shea is too inexperienced. We'd 6 of our best forwards starting and they all struggled. Dublin were finding free players over the course of the 70 minutes. They made us appear very disjointed.

[Hurler on the Bitch]

Dubs light years ahead. The number of turnovers and simple errors was criminal. Also the clean balls won in the forward line by Dublin was telling - we didn't catch one ball in the forward line. The space and movement off the ball was a different class. At times, it was pure skill by Dublin that told the tale. Suppose being found out today saves a serious, serious embarrassment at the hands of Galway. 18 point defeat today, and 18 point loss in 1989 to Tipp. Reality is a nasty wake up call...

[Baile an tuaigh]

Thats a pity I rate Donal very highly. So its Laois in two weeks then their defeat was as big as our own. Just shows you at this level every mistake is almost punished. The experience will do us the world of good and thankfully we get another day out. Laois will fancy themselves against us can't see there being too much between us.

[bannside]

A poor day for Antrim hurling. We were second to every ball, outmuscled, physically not a shadow on the Dubs and all the best hurlers on the pitch wore blue. Tactically we are inept, what chance did any of our forwards have with the type of hail Mary's being sent in on top of them. Individually we had one or two players who could hold their heads up, but half a dozen weren't at the races from the first bell.

Maybe Clare at home eight weeks ago was our championship, or Wexford or Laois. We looked tired today, have we climbed a mountain too many?

[Jonkunlon]

It's a time for calm. Look what we have achieved the past 2 seasons. Who could have dreamed we'd have been in Division 1 let alone stay up in 2021. Further, we're not done with this season yet. Today was merely a reality check......or a cunning plan by Darren Gleeson. Keep the faith.

[Hurler on the Bitch]

I don't know why Donal was out on the wing as we needed a bit of muscle in the fill forward line by the time he came on - particularly as is not fit. Very disappointed all said. Can't pick a positive, but it was a rerun of the league game and the Dubs in the forward line were too cute and ran us ragged.

[imtommygunn]

This game was really no different to the league game. It's not a shock but we have come a long way and the players and manager deserve massive credit. I can't see Dublin beating Galway but physically they will challenge them. Galway and Limerick for me only two who could win an ai. Laois game a good chance to get some confidence back. If we were to win that I'd like to see a crack at Wexford.