Antrim Hurling

[Jesusjones]

Nag I totally dispute what you are saying. RM was nowhere near Neil at the time of the sending off, he was on the one 45 yard line and Neil was on the other and RM had his back to Neil as he was watching the play in the Dall full back line. There was hardly a dirty stroke in the game? Are you having a laugh? Mc Keague struck Scullion off the ball with the stick. How can the referee give a yellow for this? The umpire told him what happened. Is throwing your stick not a dirty action? According to RM throwing a stick at someone is only a yellow card. I already said I don't blame him for the defeat but I do blame him for refusing to apply the rules of the game. Anyway it was the same for the league game in Dunloy earlier in the year. I was at an U-21 match earlier this year and he called one of our players a "Silly B*****d"

[NAG1]

Think I can see your agenda here JJ interesting way to open your account first two posts.

I watched the incident for myself NMcM was on the Dunloy 45 and Ray was no further than the Mid Field as he pointed at him. Think your missing the point, he was called a cheating b*****d by one the the Cdall players, you dispute who it was then fair enough, well then I think Neil should take it up with the player who it was and not RM. If I was the ref I wouldnt take being called that by anyone would you?

The umpires are experienced enough to know what is a yellow and a red so that was their decision I did not see the incident.

I do agree he talks to much to the players but thats how he likes to referee.

[Jesusjones]

Calling a referee a cheating b*****d is wrong. However sending off the wrong man is also wrong. I would have had no argument if he sent off the player that said it but he got it wrong. I hope he will be big enough to admit that. Unless something can be done Neil will miss the quarter final against Glenariffe and he doesn't deserve this at all. As far as the incident with Mc Keague hitting Scullion off the ball goes, there is no grey area here, if you strike someone you should walk simple as that, there is no grey area here. The same with throwing a hurl at another player. If RM is going to apply the rules so rigidly for one team and send people off then why not apply the rules the same way for the other team. Look up the rule book, there is no grey area, striking is a sending off as is throwing a hurl at someone. Which is a more serious offence? Striking with a stick and throwing a hurl or calling someone a b*****d? SD's tackle on PD was late but Skinny got away with a few bad tackles as well. All we are looking for from referees is consistency.

[pdiddy]

Ballycran vs Loughgiel 17/8/11

Venue?

[theskull1]

Reality is Cdall will beat glenariffe easily (unless it's a Sat evening match as they appear to favour that time  ) without NMcM and he'll be bursting ready to go in the semis. Is this post just trying to create a backs up against the wall mentality for the next 2 months training? Certainly looks that way

[ruairi]

TheSkull1im def not trying to create any backs against the wall mentality. Reality is we are in for a battle against Glenarriffe and when the game is in the mix it is usually neil who is our driving force on.

Personally the way I feel RM saw an opportunity to send neil off for what was said in dunloy after RM made a cheeky comment (all be it jokingly), but it isnt that funny to a fella who just got his front tooth broke. One of the first things a referee is there to be is impartial and make sure no serious injuries occur. I dont think he has done either effectively. I gave him the benefit of the doubt though in the first game but thats twice out of two occassions.

On the actual game, the conditions werent perfect but were alright and i thought as a competitive game it was good but both teams will have work to do to win it this year.

[pdiddy]

Reality is Cdall will beat glenariffe easily (unless it's a Sat evening match as they appear to favour that time  ) without NMcM and he'll be bursting ready to go in the semis. Is this post just trying to create a backs up against the wall mentality for the next 2 months training? Certainly looks that way

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Skull, what's the craic with your game against Glenariffe?  I take it you want to change it from the Sat evening?

[oisinog]

Reality is Cdall will beat glenariffe easily (unless it's a Sat evening match as they appear to favour that time  ) without NMcM and he'll be bursting ready to go in the semis. Is this post just trying to create a backs up against the wall mentality for the next 2 months training? Certainly looks that way

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Skull, what's the craic with your game against Glenariffe?  I take it you want to change it from the Sat evening?

The craic with the match on Saturday night is dunloy have organised a weekend in Tipp and only approached Glenariffe at the end of last week to get this match rearranged. We have no available times or dates before the cushendall match as we have other plans coming up to the championship. Really Dunloy can blame Glenariffe as much as they like the only people they can blame is their own management for not trying to change it when they booked the weekend away.

[maxpower]

The craic is Dunloy arranged this weekend, supposedly to be a fantastic weekend, offered to play Glenarrife the week before or the week after or any midweek night that suited.  They even agreed to play on Sunday evening when Dunly returned home from the weekends training (i would have thought this would have given them the best chance of winning) but despite initially agreeing to this have since renegaged

The match is to be played on Saturday evening now so training weekend off

[Minder]

Glenariffe will get a handy 2 points this weekend. It'll cost us 300 quid but sure 

Are youse not fielding?

Edit - Just saw the above post by Max

[oisinog]

Hopefully Dunloy have learned an important lesson from this. Rearrange any prefixed league games before organising a weekend away. They have no one to blame but themselves

[NAG1]

If I was in your position Oisin I wouldnt be poking to much at them if you have to play them on saturday especially when you look at your current predicament and goal difference 

[Minder]

If I was in your position Oisin I wouldnt be poking to much at them if you have to play them on saturday especially when you look at your current predicament and goal difference 

In fairness for years we capitulated when it came to switching matches, if teams were in a tight spot we would very kindly help them out of it, it used to send the players mental. I can remember us changing games to help out the opposition but it didn't suit our players. We seem to be just doing now what every other team does.

[oisinog]

We are quite aware that we are probably going to go down. We have not been good enough this year. A year away to rebuild will do us no harm it has happened to us before and we came back stronger.

Our main aim is to give cushendall a good run in the championship 

[Minder]

We are quite aware that we are probably going to go down. We have not been good enough this year. A year away to rebuild will do us no harm it has happened to us before and we came back stronger.

Our main aim is to give cushendall a good run in the championship

There were two narrow defeats to Ballygalget earlier this year that you would think would have went differently if Tosh had come back a bit earlier.