Antrim Hurling

[youngfella]

  Cant wair to read the boys match reports

[youngfella]

Any one got the margin in the dunloy game ?

[glens73]

From the county website -:

Dunloy    3-22   2-8   Ballycastle    Loughguile   Qtr Final   
Glenariff    1-8   2-16   Cushendall    Ballycastle   Qtr Final   
St. Johns    2-8   2-10   Rossa    Casement Park   Qtr Final   
Loughgiel    4-15   1-13   St. Galls    Ballycastle   Qtr Final

When are the semi-finals being played?

[youngfella]

From the county website -:

Dunloy    3-22   2-8   Ballycastle    Loughguile   Qtr Final   
Glenariff    1-8   2-16   Cushendall    Ballycastle   Qtr Final   
St. Johns    2-8   2-10   Rossa    Casement Park   Qtr Final   
Loughgiel    4-15   1-13   St. Galls    Ballycastle   Qtr Final

When are the semi-finals being played?

A day for the favorties them. Ballycastle have there work cut out for them after two very heavy defeats to dunloy. The milltown men arent as close as we all hoped to the shamrocks. Monkey says the cushendall came back from six points under at half time. The city slickers had the best scrap of the day.

Not a day to be a ballycastle man, how can it go so wrong after winning an under 21 championship just last year?

[milltown row]

it must have been the referees first match, think he was a ballymeana man. poor for both but that was not the reason for us getting beat. 4 goals in the first half by Loughgiel killed the game off, though we out scored Loughgiel by 1-7 to 0-7 in the second half meant nothing.

for me Loughgiel played a different type of game to the last few years. Watson played in the corner and and the young lad Shay in the other. a two man fullforward line with a crowded midfield. tactics were right and they exposed our weaknesses. all the play for a change did not go through Watson and a better spread of scores was the result.

though we tried it was always a up hill struggle, that was even before the whistle, Karl Stewart was outstanding for us and terry Austin, normaly a fullback was moved to fullforward and scored 4 points played well. we got out of it what we put into it......nothing

strangely for us and some may chuckle, i thought when Kevin McGourty came on for us in the second half we gave Loughgiel a better game.

anyway good luck to the teams left in the competition strange result up at Casement, as hardstation was quick to remind me of my quote, fair play to Rossa life in the auld dogs yet. anychance of a report Hardstation? believe Jonty was acting up on the sideline and Whack for the diidle was song by Rossa

[theskull1]

Didn't get to 3 of the games yesterday so hopefully match reports will be posted by others

Our game against Ballycastle went to script. It was I game I was worried about as the town seemed to have responded to the hammering they got when they played us in the league, but they looked like a team who had no understanding of championship hurling last night. I counted 6 players on their team who realy looked as if they were trying. The rest were way off the pace and bar a dodgy 10 minute spell where we took the foot off the pedal, we had it very easy against them. Dunloy did what they had to do with a good brand of hurling and certainly, after watching a weekend of football on RTE, even a one sided match like this was still entertaining to watch

[Lecale2]

That was some result for Rossa. St John's were hurling well in the league.

[theskull1]

Did the league results not show that the Johnnies form had dipped coming into the championship

Draw against the town and then beat easily by portaferry?

Thought that Jonty would have had them peaking at the right time, but it appears that come July and August have the Johnnies go into holiday mode.

Also 2-10 to 2-8 is not great nicking in a hurling match. Exciting as it may have been, it doesn't appear to have had the quality needed to scare the dall in the semi's

[Two Hands FFS]

Wasnt really suprised that Rossa beat the johnies. The reason why St Johns were doing well in the league early on was cos they were so much fitter than everyone else cos they were training like mad. On top of those 2 league results Skull mentioned they also only beat Glenariffe by a point in that contraversial match up at Corrigan.

Rossa are a championship team & wouldnt have been concerned by league form. They have some very good  hurlers & some very good minors coming through as well

[theskull1]

Rossa's U21's gave us a real game as well whereas the Johnnies U21's (who won minor 3 years ago) didn't put a team into it. Antrim really needs the Belfast clubs to get back up there competing for honours

[Tony Baloney]

Sounds like the Oisins collapsed in the second half against the Dall. Any match reports?

[Two Hands FFS]

From Cushendall website. www.ruairiog.com

Championship Struggle!

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04 August 2008
Ruairí Óg eventually ran out winners in this local championship derby match though it looked like near-neighbours Glenariffe were going to cause a major shock when they led by 1.06 to five points at half time.  However a number of astute changes by management at half time and the introduction of Shane Mc Naughton, Brian Mc Naughton & Neil Mc Manus certainly helped turn things around.  Donal & Shane Mc Naughton scored the two goals with Neil Mc Manus having a hand in both majors. Special mention must go to Ruairí Óg's man of the match Paddy Magill who scored fourteen points in total. The final score read: Ruairí Óg 2.16 V Glenariffe 1.08.  Full report and photos to follow!

[Arthur_Friend]

".... cause a major shock" 

[Shamrock]

Latest version (part 251)

Antrim SHC - 2008
Team 1 Team 2 Venue Date Time Referee Comment
Loughgiel  St. Galls  Ballycastle 03/08/2008 13:15 Matthews Ray Qtr Final 
St. Johns  Rossa  Casement Park 03/08/2008 14:00 McAuley Liam Qtr Final 
Glenariff  Cushendall  Ballycastle 03/08/2008 15:00 Elliott Owen Qtr Final 
Dunloy  Ballycastle  Loughguile 03/08/2008 18:30 Duffy Garrett Qtr Final

Fair enough outcome, all things considered lads. So then what about the games

1. Us v St Galls - like all previous posters have said, st galls will give us our fill of it. Always do and the big pitch in ballycastle will suit their style. We had a few bad results, ballycastle in particular where we were brutally bad. But last 2 weeks has seen a good improvement and with a few of our injuries clearing up - will have a good side out, though we will still be without ding and prob neilly. Will McGourtys all be playing or is cj still in states. - hopefully win with 5 or 6 to spare

2. Dall v Glenariife - local rivalry etc - Dall seem to have turned a corner. Glenariffe will put it up to them but dall will pull away in last 12/13 minutes to win by 9pts

3. St Johns v Rossa - again locally rivalry. St johns by virtue of playing div 1 all year will pip rossa- who lets be honest are more of a championship side. St Johns to win by 5 with a late goal from McFall making them safe

4. Dunloy v BCastle - to me the best team in county at presentr will brush the town away. Although it wont be like their recent league game - dunloy to win by 14pts, pulling up and playing 5 subs.

Any other opinions???

My predicions wernt far off the mark........

Dall pulling away in last 15mins with glenariffe putting up a fight as they usually do. Mcmanus made a massive difference for them.

Dunloy as predicted won easy - 18pts - my prediction of 15 not bad, and they used 5 subs!!

Got the st johns game right except the late goal went to Rossa!!

Our game went well, played good stuff in first twinty and game was over by half time. MillTown we scored o-9 in second half not 0-7!! Irrelevant really

5 weeks to semi

Rossa v Cushendall
Dunloy v Loughgiel

alot of work required to get team fitter, tactics, stick work etc.


Should make things interesting

[milltown row]

Shamrock at halftime the score board read, 4-5 to 0-6 then when we came out it was 4-6 to 0-6? anyway the final score was 4-14 to 1-13 but it was different in the Antrim website. i'll have to look into that

not having Watson as your main player works better for ya's.