Antrim Football Thread

[bannside]

All to play for. Four tasty quarter finals, none of them easy!

All Saints will rue missing so many good chances. They were still in the contest right up to the last minute and the loss of two of their half back line was just too big a burden against well drilled Kickhams.

[paddyjohn]

Looks like creggan have stepped it up second half. Still tight enough though. Johnnies on by a goal 2-10 to 1-10.

  Bs could do a podcast too   (he probably could!)

It would be better than that We Are Antrim debacle

I enjoy the We are Antrim podcast to be honest.

Haven't heard the Saffron Voice lads in ages.

[Sportacus]

Watched that Cross game today on tv.  Our championship is played at such a slow pace compared to that, it was like a different sport.

[NatSoSaff]

Watched that Cross game today on tv.  Our championship is played at such a slow pace compared to that, it was like a different sport.

Big difference between knockout football and group round robin dross

Anyway, when do ballymena play Cargin?

[Gold]

Watched that Cross game today on tv.  Our championship is played at such a slow pace compared to that, it was like a different sport.

Been at a number of Tyrone club games there from Junior to Senior at the weekend. The pace is frightening!

[NatSoSaff]

Watched that Cross game today on tv.  Our championship is played at such a slow pace compared to that, it was like a different sport.

Been at a number of Tyrone club games there from Junior to Senior at the weekend. The pace is frightening!

Again, big difference in knockout football and the monotony of group fixtures in Antrim.

[Would ye whist]

Only for a very dodgy penalty call Ballymena would have been playing Cargin

Watched that Cross game today on tv.  Our championship is played at such a slow pace compared to that, it was like a different sport.

Big difference between knockout football and group round robin dross

Anyway, when do ballymena play Cargin?

[Hectic]

Semi finalists fairly easy to pick.

Portglenone and Dunloy are a shoe in and Cargin and St Brigids, while having to work a little harder, will be joining them.

[BigGreenField]

Is the semi final an open draw or does that depend on appeals of the quarter final results?

The 4 semi finalists should be relatively certain.

[belfastsaff]

St Galls and lurgan two teams with big ambitions and peoples dark horses gone.

skip to the semis now.... are repeat pairings allowed ?

[EOC1923]

Funny game at Glenavy, St Galls missed a lot of chances and were fairly well organised but it always felt Cargin would react and get the job done. This Ballymena game coming up the tracks where apparently they are using the fact Mick got his red card lifted to drive them onto victory against us. Oh wait.....
Joking aside a lot of work to do for Cargin starting with Creggan in what looks a 50/50, Dunloy for me will take some beating, even the group they had afforded them to field a reserve team last weekend and no offence to Lamh Dhearg but I dont think they are up to offering Dunloy any sort of challenge. St Brigids will be getting stronger every week and Portglenone dug out a victory and now have a strightforward QF. Going to agree with BS and say its prob the most open one for decades. People mentioning Tyrone , its on a different level to our county unfortunately.

[Spike]

7 of the quarter finalists could win it which is a good place to be though the groups need to be looked at again as moneyglass getting tanked by 30 odd points cant happen in a serious senior championship.  -57 score difference,  sarsfields -67? my goodness

that shows how poor a team that has been allowed to take place in our showpiece event.   

There have been other mismatches too involving sarsfields, st pauls, glenravel and while they didnt get embarrassed, Randalstown are in those thoughts.  Thats 5 teams so far off the pace its scary which is way too many for our senior championship to carry with any credibility. 4 of these teams cant be allowed to stay in the senior championship next year.  Those lower ranked clubs wont vote for it but something needs done.

Portglenone the only contender with a safe passage. Seem to get a nice draw every year 

the other 3 games will be tight enough.

[NorthAntrimSaff]

Quite funny how the boys who are constantly on about the amount of teams in senior championship are so quick to mock a team up from intermediate a few years and are trying to kick on. Took creggan down the home straight yesterday missing some important players. They werent cocky in saying they would beat Creggan. Confident they are an established senior side and can mount a serious challenge.

[NatSoSaff]

Only for a very dodgy penalty call Ballymena would have been playing Cargin

Watched that Cross game today on tv.  Our championship is played at such a slow pace compared to that, it was like a different sport.

Big difference between knockout football and group round robin dross

Anyway, when do ballymena play Cargin?

Ach away on! Only for your aunty having no balls she'd be your uncle

[Swsaffs]

7 of the quarter finalists could win it which is a good place to be though the groups need to be looked at again as moneyglass getting tanked by 30 odd points cant happen in a serious senior championship.  -57 score difference,  sarsfields -67? my goodness

that shows how poor a team that has been allowed to take place in our showpiece event.   

There have been other mismatches too involving sarsfields, st pauls, glenravel and while they didnt get embarrassed, Randalstown are in those thoughts.  Thats 5 teams so far off the pace its scary which is way too many for our senior championship to carry with any credibility. 4 of these teams cant be allowed to stay in the senior championship next year.  Those lower ranked clubs wont vote for it but something needs done.

Portglenone the only contender with a safe passage. Seem to get a nice draw every year 

the other 3 games will be tight enough.

Cross beat clan na Gael by 29 should they be relegated??

Bellaghy beat by 18 is Derry a serious championship??


They low teams come on more getting tanked than going down to division 2 beating Antrim town by 30 no offence to Antrim town or Davits,