Antrim Hurling

[Gael-in-exile]

Seen a report i think had said mcmanus, shivers and bennett had left

Left or asked to leave?

Looking in from the outside, little or no input from them or any of the back room team, so why would you hang around?

It's the Davy show.

And the last time he had any success of note he'd Paul Kinnerk by his side and that wasn't yesterday.

No coincidence

None whatsoever. 

Kinnerk is a Limerick man living in Clare.

You could pick many holes in Davy's success. Kinnerk obviously involved in Clare All Ireland win being one.
Wexfords LSHC win in 19 seen 4 games played and they only beat Carlow. Three draws and one win. Then got by Kilkenny by a goal in the final.

So that year they played 7 championship games and won 2.

[johnnycool]

Seen a report i think had said mcmanus, shivers and bennett had left

Left or asked to leave?

Looking in from the outside, little or no input from them or any of the back room team, so why would you hang around?

It's the Davy show.

And the last time he had any success of note he'd Paul Kinnerk by his side and that wasn't yesterday.

No coincidence

None whatsoever. 

Kinnerk is a Limerick man living in Clare.

You could pick many holes in Davy's success. Kinnerk obviously involved in Clare All Ireland win being one.
Wexfords LSHC win in 19 seen 4 games played and they only beat Carlow. Three draws and one win. Then got by Kilkenny by a goal in the final.

So that year they played 7 championship games and won 2.

Forgot all about that 2019 Leinster win.

They lit bonfires down in Wexford that night.

[imtommygunn]

Johnnies won by one. Late comeback.

[BrendanAntrim]

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?

[Duine Inteacht Eile]

Signalled 3 minutes though there was a stoppage during it.
Expected him to blow at a draw too tbh.

[old timers]

Watched the stream - few stoppages but that's technology for u - thought ODR beat themselves early changes in 2nd half appeared to upset their rythem and late changes definitely didnt pay off  - it's bad when Jerome comments on it - onward for the johnnies

[paddyjohn]

West Belfast hurling is on the rise. Goodness me what a statement.

[Jonkunlon]

Quality of stream for St John's v Rossa was poor to say the least. 23 minutes of commentary apologising for it. Time Antrim GAA looked elsewhere.

Antrim's Twitter (X) feed spends the week of Championship promoting nothing but the purchasing of the streams at the expense of completely ignoring the other competitions on the same day.

Our County Board really are an amateur outfit.

[Saffron71]

Yea very much an amateur outfit.  Add to that the farce that the intermediate hurling championship has become.  In a championship that promises to be one of the most competitive only one game this weekend in the final round of group games (Randalstown v Glenarm) where both teams had something to play for.  That's 4 other games that were effectively dead rubbers.  Even in the last couple of years there have been at least 2 dead rubbers in this championship going into the final round.  Surely the county should add a quarter final round or else reduce this championship to 8 teams and run it with the same format as the senior.  Or better still go back to straight knock out.  For me a championship game should never be a dead rubber.  Championship hurling is about going hell for leather.

[podge]

Yea very much an amateur outfit.  Add to that the farce that the intermediate hurling championship has become.  In a championship that promises to be one of the most competitive only one game this weekend in the final round of group games (Randalstown v Glenarm) where both teams had something to play for.  That's 4 other games that were effectively dead rubbers.  Even in the last couple of years there have been at least 2 dead rubbers in this championship going into the final round.  Surely the county should add a quarter final round or else reduce this championship to 8 teams and run it with the same format as the senior.  Or better still go back to straight knock out.  For me a championship game should never be a dead rubber.  Championship hurling is about going hell for leather.

 Couldn't agree more.  The most competitive championship and it's being ruined by a refusal to have 6 going through in the same way that junior and senior does.  The intermediate clubs need to make a stand. 
It will be interesting to see what happens the team that didn't field yesterday in terms of punishment.  Throw them out of next years championship I say.

[SaffronSports]

I think it either needs to go to 8 or 12. This year it had 11 but that means 5 rounds of matches to get beyond the groups which equates to 2 months of groups when its every other week

[podge]

I think it either needs to go to 8 or 12. This year it had 11 but that means 5 rounds of matches to get beyond the groups which equates to 2 months of groups when its every other week

I'm not talking about the size of groups.  Just talking about top 3 going through rather than just 2. Group winners go straight to semi and the other 4 play on 2 matches for the other semi final spots.  Same as senior and junior.

It's just adding one more round of games but makes many of the group games meaningful.

[SaffronSports]

I think it either needs to go to 8 or 12. This year it had 11 but that means 5 rounds of matches to get beyond the groups which equates to 2 months of groups when its every other week

I'm not talking about the size of groups.  Just talking about top 3 going through rather than just 2. Group winners go straight to semi and the other 4 play on 2 matches for the other semi final spots.  Same as senior and junior.

It's just adding one more round of games but makes many of the group games meaningful.

Aye but the reason only 2 go through at present is because it takes 7 rounds to complete while senior takes 6. Add in a preliminary qf or whatever and that takes it to 8 rounds which is basically a month longer than senior when you're taking dual clubs into consideration so you'd really have to change the whole format.

[podge]

I think it either needs to go to 8 or 12. This year it had 11 but that means 5 rounds of matches to get beyond the groups which equates to 2 months of groups when its every other week

I'm not talking about the size of groups.  Just talking about top 3 going through rather than just 2. Group winners go straight to semi and the other 4 play on 2 matches for the other semi final spots.  Same as senior and junior.

It's just adding one more round of games but makes many of the group games meaningful.

Aye but the reason only 2 go through at present is because it takes 7 rounds to complete while senior takes 6. Add in a preliminary qf or whatever and that takes it to 8 rounds which is basically a month longer than senior when you're taking dual clubs into consideration so you'd really have to change the whole format.

I'll say it again- it's one extra round of fixtures involving 4 teams. Not that hard to accommodate.

[NAG1]

West Belfast hurling is on the rise. Goodness me what a statement.

The second game yesterday wasn't much better. Hard to remember 2 games of such poor quality in the last while.