Antrim Hurling

[Milltown Row2]

Id love nothing more to ref a match were players took the hard knocks in a game that's fair and move on.... That's the big difference... The Tipp and Cats and Galway men don't usually get drawn into creating a melee when is a hard tackle... Up North its a personal attack followed by fisty cuffs!!

[north_antrim_hound]

Id love nothing more to ref a match were players took the hard knocks in a game that's fair and move on.... That's the big difference... The Tipp and Cats and Galway men don't usually get drawn into creating a melee when is a hard tackle... Up North its a personal attack followed by fisty cuffs!!

Well would you call one player with 7 stitches in his hand another that had to go to hospital with concussion and another bad injury being soft
Those boys In the south are hard
And if they more robust as you say they the get plenty of soft frees when Antrim plays them
Don't try and draw comparisons between a hard tackle and out and out thuggery with a ref ignoring it all

[Milltown Row2]

Id love nothing more to ref a match were players took the hard knocks in a game that's fair and move on.... That's the big difference... The Tipp and Cats and Galway men don't usually get drawn into creating a melee when is a hard tackle... Up North its a personal attack followed by fisty cuffs!!

Well would you call one player with 7 stitches in his hand another that had to go to hospital with concussion and another bad injury being soft
Those boys In the south are hard
And if they more robust as you say they the get plenty of soft frees when Antrim plays them
Don't try and draw comparisons between a hard tackle and out and out thuggery with a ref ignoring it all

I'm not, I'm saying if its a hard tackle but within the rules its grand, its the reaction of players to being hit hard but fair!! They gripe and look retribution in most cases.... Anyone ending up with stitches from a deliberate strike to the hand, and lets be honest we know when its deliberate with intention or late... The late deserves a yellow but the deliberate is a red card for striking... Its going to happen tomorrow when tackles fly...

Hopefully things work out this year.... I do enjoy the games, while it will never replace playing I enjoy being involved in games and still applaud great scores or plays in a match..

[Last Man]

Id love nothing more to ref a match were players took the hard knocks in a game that's fair and move on.... That's the big difference... The Tipp and Cats and Galway men don't usually get drawn into creating a melee when is a hard tackle... Up North its a personal attack followed by fisty cuffs!!

Indeed MR, that's exactly our downfall.

[north_antrim_hound]

Good luck cushendall hope your bring it home

[johnneycool]

Best of luck to the Dall, they've a good chance if they can sustain the levels they had in the semi-final and keep that team ethos going that's stood by them this year.

[Fairhead]

Best of luck to Cushendall today. Have shown incredible fight to get here and no small amount of hurling. I do think they are up against it though. NaP have come out of Munster 3 of the last 5 years; you have to go back to the great Cork sides of the 70's namely Blackrock and St Finbarrs to find teams who have similar records in Munster. In saying that Limerick teams, both county and club, tend to underperform in Croke Park so you never know.

[hurlingstick]

They fought to the end, fair play. Na Piarsaigh just the better team. Unlucky RuarI Og.

[Tony Baloney]

Unfortunate not to get a handy teams in the final like the Shamrocks.

[Seamroga in exile]

Unfortunate not to get a handy teams in the final like the Shamrocks.

[Saffrongael]

Two very one sided games today. Never thought Dall had much of a chance today, and so it proved. Na Pairsiagh are a serious outfit.

[imtommygunn]

Hard luck to cushendall. They were up against a damn good team. Motm was a guy who was a sub shows the depth in their panel. They had strngth, speed and skill and just were too good.

Cushendall didn't disgrace themselves though. Shane mcnaughton was excellent.

[Tony Baloney]

Dall half back line had a busy day.

[north_antrim_hound]

I was down today and the Limerick crew where top class
Shane MC naughton was outstanding
No shame to go down to a quality side like that
Hard luck cushendall

[Íseal agus crua isteach a]

Cushendall got off to the worst start posable. But in fairness they scored two of the nicest goals you are likely to see. Hard luck.