Antrim Football Thread

[Hectic]

Still need to decouple leagues and championships.

Has the last month taught us nothing in terms of how teams league performances align to championship performances? 

They don't.

There are reasons for this and they persist.

So league and championship need to be separate entities.

And whoever posted the usual bullshit line about taking up the whistle yourself. 

Not much wonder we have the officials we do if 'how some punter would get on in comparison' is the bar we use to measure them.

[SoloAndGo]

Can't do it next year but looks reasonable for 2028
Use next year league to decide those places, rather than hand pick them
But I'd say you wouldn't be far away

Why can't it be done next year? We've been talking about restructuring the leagues for well over a year now.

How is it being hand picked? Those are the teams that are at the bottom.

[inabsentia]

Can't do it next year but looks reasonable for 2028
Use next year league to decide those places, rather than hand pick them
But I'd say you wouldn't be far away

Keep saying this. Forget about it and just get the finger out. Who cares what the eternal yaps will say about being put down a division

[Hectic]

Don't see the value in waiting either.

If teams have fallen to the wrong side they will quickly get to where they should be.

It's pretty simple, quarter finalists are next years senior championship and top 8 in league are next years division 1 and go from there.

Broken record - decouple leagues and championships as a lot of teams play them with different squads anyway so by aligning you would just end up continuing with a weaker senior championship.  And alignment also means you would be punishing clubs that contribute heavier to county squads across both codes.

The second division and Intermediate championship would then be pretty competitive and of a decent enough standard too for anyone worrying about not being called a Div 1/Senior team.

Maybe even be able to reduce fixtures giving the regional competitions a boost. They used to be well looked forward to occasions before we started murdering players.

[Hoof Hearted]

Can't do it next year but looks reasonable for 2028
Use next year league to decide those places, rather than hand pick them
But I'd say you wouldn't be far away

Why can't it be done next year? We've been talking about restructuring the leagues for well over a year now.

How is it being hand picked? Those are the teams that are at the bottom.

my reasoning is that teams have been aware this season what they had to do re relegation
Dont think its right for the teams who are still training for this and busting a gut to stay up end up being put down anyway

At least next year they will know and if they are bottom half they are down.
As i said, high chance that the 3 teams involved will be bottom half anyway but.......

[inabsentia]

Can't do it next year but looks reasonable for 2028
Use next year league to decide those places, rather than hand pick them
But I'd say you wouldn't be far away

Why can't it be done next year? We've been talking about restructuring the leagues for well over a year now.

How is it being hand picked? Those are the teams that are at the bottom.

my reasoning is that teams have been aware this season what they had to do re relegation
Dont think its right for the teams who are still training for this and busting a gut to stay up end up being put down anyway

At least next year they will know and if they are bottom half they are down.
As i said, high chance that the 3 teams involved will be bottom half anyway but.......

They've done it many a year to change things willy nilly to allow teams to stay up or stop teams from coming up at the expense of others.

Ego fluffing at this stage

[Spike]

Exactly this.  They have changed both league playoffs and championship draws MIDSEASON before.  No reason why they cant change this during the break.  If they don't it is because they want to avoid the aggro of the relegated clubs who want someone to blame other than themselves

[BigGreenField]

Exactly this.  They have changed both league playoffs and championship draws MIDSEASON before.  No reason why they cant change this during the break.  If they don't it is because they want to avoid the aggro of the relegated clubs who want someone to blame other than themselves

Who is they?

[Hectic]

Assume anything would come as a recommendation first and clubs then vote.

So they could be a review committee or they could be all of us via our elected club delegates.

[Gaels1789]

Hearing that Cargin vs rossa

Sunday 4pm Dunsilly pitch 1

Haven't heard anything about Dunloy biddies game yet

[Hoof Hearted]

Hearing that Cargin vs rossa

Sunday 4pm Dunsilly pitch 1

Haven't heard anything about Dunloy biddies game yet

youd imagine Toome on the Saturday afternoon, possibly Portglenone if they want a later throw in
or even also dunsilly if they dont want to ease the pitch in

[Around the glens]

Hearing that Cargin vs rossa

Sunday 4pm Dunsilly pitch 1

Haven't heard anything about Dunloy biddies game yet

Heard Saturday 4.30 dunsilly pitch 1

[Round or stuffed]

how are we a week out from the championship semi finals and not even a date never mind a venue sorted for any grade, Antrim GAA never ceases to surprise with its dysfunction

[inabsentia]

Dunloy vs St Brigids - Saturday 7pm dunsilly

Cargin vs Rossa - Sunday 4pm Corrigan

St Endas vs gort na mona - Saturday 4pm Glenavy

[PólAointroim]

Good venues for the semi finals.

St Brigids would need to improve on their last performance to make it into that illusive final, but there is no reason they can't do just that.
Dunloy on the other hand had it so handy in the quarters that it may go against them. Could go to the wire this one.

Hard to see past Cargin unless they do what Portglenone did and bottle it and they are seasoned enough not to do something like that. Rossa have done well to get this far, fair play to them and they will give it their best rattle no doubts.