Antrim Football Thread

[Silver Eel]

Oh no - it'll be a Rossa Biddies final if the SA mafia are involved 

[Would ye whist]

While we all ignore it and fail to call it out refereeing in Antrim is now in the hands of a small concentrate of SA referees who are more interested in keeping the games to themselves and secondly how much mileage they can screw out of it.

BS, take a day and log off, while you may feel you have a point you are not making it in the best way and making yourself look awful into the bargain

Also worth noting there are no top level SW antrim referees any more?

There are very few in the whole of the county.  I would struggle to name you two or three and I attend a lot of football.

While BS and Portglenone might be sore and posting in full pain we can't brush aside the fact that the standard of Gaelic football refereeing in Antrim is abysmal.

[NorthAntrimSaff]

To be its a Cargin Dunloy final. The rest are well back. St Brigids included, they had a poor showing v St Johns I thought

Agree , Johnnies didn't actually preform that well either I thought and were unfortunate with the goal being ruled out and the free at the end.

Dunloy will punish St Brides unless they can find another gear but need to be careful on the receiving end. LD got their goals a tad too easily I think.

Agree also, Dunloy were porus. But they now have time on the football training pitch they have the hurling break. LD probably left 2 or 3 goals behind also

[Around the glens]

Take nothing from that LD game yesterday, it was too easy in spells for Dunloy and complacency set in. It happens. Felt like they were never out of 3rd gear, LD brought it back to 6, Dunloy went and hit 1-3 without reply.

[Deerstalker]

Paddy is a brutal referee in fairness

[Hectic]

Dunloy are a team that can make creating chances and scoring look easy and often do it at pace.

Team to beat them will have to find a way to blunt that.

I'm sticking with Cargin though.

[Silver Eel]

Any idea on semi final venues - will it be Dunsilly?

[YoungSaff]

Any idea on semi final venues - will it be Dunsilly?

I'd imagine not works were ongoing last time I was at the pitch so hard to know what condition it would be in , we have good alternative venues.

Cargin good venue for Dunloy and Brides same as last time, Could see corrigan for Cargin game maybe ?

[SlemishSoldier31]

Seein that Cahair O'Kane has an article up for Dunloy game with caption:

"The game in front of our eyes was shapeless to the point of resembling u14 football at times."

Typical Derry snobbery from Cahair who must be forgetting that he plays his club football in Antrim. I have seen many a Derry championship game over the last few seasons that you could also describe in a similar way.

[NAG1]

Seein that Cahair O'Kane has an article up for Dunloy game with caption:

"The game in front of our eyes was shapeless to the point of resembling u14 football at times."

Typical Derry snobbery from Cahair who must be forgetting that he plays his club football in Antrim. I have seen many a Derry championship game over the last few seasons that you could also describe in a similar way.

Probably the fact the game was over as a contest after about 10 minutes probably played into this.

[AllStar15]

Seein that Cahair O'Kane has an article up for Dunloy game with caption:

"The game in front of our eyes was shapeless to the point of resembling u14 football at times."

Typical Derry snobbery from Cahair who must be forgetting that he plays his club football in Antrim. I have seen many a Derry championship game over the last few seasons that you could also describe in a similar way.

He plays for Drum and it was clear what he meant - it was like a friendly at times

[Níl a fhios agam]

What a weekend of sport. Attended Corrigan there yesterday and understand Casements frustrations. The officiating did not do them any favours what so ever, but id like to ask BS... What do u expect? Though at the end of the day, they only have themselves to blame. Shocking game management from both the players and their management. There was a stage, the game was crying out for someone to settle it down and Casements line made double sub subs from what i can remember. I can only assume the men they have injured must have had serious injuries, as their was better quality on the bench than there was on the field.

Though i have to say, i am extremely pleased that we have a semi finalist which opted to stay in house for management. Its becoming a thing of the past, though the passion and pride that Rossa brought to that game, i felt could have only been driven from clubmen who it meant something to. Rossa wernt given a chance going into that game, so a huge congratulations to all involved with them.

Im sure mcgleenan and co's expenses would be very hard to justify for another year following that embarrassing result. Casements must be at a crossroads what they do next.

[NorthAntrimSaff]

Jesus lads punditry/reporting is based off both facts and also opinion. Why should it matter where hes from or even if he has played the game before. Hes calling it as he sees and is right on this occasion

[SlemishSoldier31]

List of things you can buy for 40k:

- Brand new Tesla Model 3
- Seamus Coleman
- A manager that will take you to an Antrim championship quarter final

[JimStynes]

I think this is the worst standard of championship I have seen in Antrim for as long as I can remember. A decent run and bit of momentum by any of the top 4/5 clubs would get you close to the final in Antrim these days. Very little quality on any team that I have seen so far.

We made a complete balls of the LD game. Cruising with 10mins left and somehow get beat. Adam getting injured right before the PG1 game was a disaster too. But we are still a good bit behind the level we were at a few years ago. Hopefully another winter will help a few of the young lads and we have a decent age profile.