Antrim Hurling

[Minder]

lads gives us a quick reminder of how to get to Glenarms pitch from Belfast, is it, head to Larne then on to Glearm, through Glenarm then a left to Feys town road? having not played there for 6/7 years i'm a little rusty on the directions.

Ah yes Glenarm, they will play without the ball if needed.......Thankfully we havent had to play there in a while, if memory serves me right go up into the village then take a left up a hill then a right and you are halfway up the mountain. Hopefully you wont have to ask any of the natives for directions.

[milltown row]

always rely on the Minder to sort me out, i myself will be drawing swords with the men from Ardonye, they always manage to swing early and often.....or is it vote early and vote often either way i have my self prepared for a battle.

[youngfella]

lads gives us a quick reminder of how to get to Glenarms pitch from Belfast, is it, head to Larne then on to Glearm, through Glenarm then a left to Feys town road? having not played there for 6/7 years i'm a little rusty on the directions.

Ah yes Glenarm, they will play without the ball if needed.

NEver a truer word spoken

[Minder]

ACHL Div 1 Result tonight.

Glenariffe 4-11 Ballycastle 5-13

Our boys are heading for the trap door.

[MrT]

What was the craic with the late throw-in in the Rossa - Cushendall match, which saw Aiden Hamill sent off? I hear Rossa were out at 5 to 7 and Cushendall hadn't appeared at 20 past. Hamill had words with the ref (Garret Duffy?) and got the line. Anyone who was there confirm?

Cushendall up to their old tricks, they often dont come out until well after time of game.  Maybe its their way of mind games.
From what i saw hamill was sent out before match even started for shouting at ref to get cushendall out.  He was soon kept company by Jim Connolly though!! 

[theskull1]

ACHL Div 1 Result tonight.

Cushendall 2-13  Dunloy 3-16

Both teams not totally firing as far as I could see. Don't think anybody gave anything away tonight. Referee was consistent with both teams 

[youngfella]

ACHL Div 1 Result tonight.

Glenariffe 4-11 Ballycastle 5-13

Our boys are heading for the trap door.

Ballycastle won a game of hurling?!? Thats shocking in itself, but a game that has 9 goals in it and four against the county keeper . Who were ballycastle playing in the full? who got there goals!?

[aontroim]

Last Nights Results

Antrim Hurling Div 1

Ballygalget 2-15 v 1-15 Portaferry   
Cushendall 2-13 v 3-16 Dunloy   
St. Johns 0-11 v 1-18 Loughgiel      
Glenariff 4-11 v 5-13 Ballycastle      

Antrim Hurling Div 2-3
   
Cloughmills    3-5 v 3-16 Rossa   
Gaeil Chluana 0-23 v 0-6 Sarsfields   
Gort Na Mona 1-15 v 1-18 Tir na Nog   
Shane O Neills - v - St. Galls - Not Played   
Armoy 0-12 v 2-10 Cushendun      
Lamh Dhearg 0-15 v 1-8 St. Pauls      

Antrim Hurling Div 4A - 2008
   
Ballymena 0-9 v 1-10 St. Endas
      
Antrim Hurling Div 4B - 2008
   
Bredagh - v - Sean McDermotts  Not Played   
Davitts 2-12 v 2-8 St. Brigids B

[davincicode]

Hardstation, i was at the game, Aiden Hamill 1st abused Mc Sparren then went straight for the referee in the middle, granted rossa where out at 6.50 and the Dall did,nt come out to 7pm on the dot. Hamill should know that apart from blowing his whistle the referee has no power until the allocated 15mins after start time has passed, he can only report the offending team. I listened to the abuse about 20-25 mins in that connolly was shouting, he got what he deserved in my opinion, he was well out of order.

Aiden Hamill in my opinion needs therapy, he has lost it. Rossa where just outclassed and looked an average Div2 team at best, M kettle was the man of the match, he was excellent, chris hammil did,nt figure at all should pack it in. Felt sorry for some of rossa,s good minors that team will ruin them, especially if hammil is left to manage them. £8 to watch that, ive seen better Div3 teams in Dublin.

[milltown row]

being a bit harsh on the referee lads when some of you were not even at the match, Hamill looses it for whatever reasons only he knows. surprised at big Jim, shouting at the referee will never make him change his mind. if you were being treated like that at work would you stand for it? we all have had a moan to the referee but some players and managers take the piss.

as for the comments regarding referees always blowing up for needless things, and did you watch the Waterford game, people are always looking for hard tackles and the referee to let it flow, but if that happened in Antrim it would cause a riot. as someone said earlier the players have to change their mind set for this to happen.

if your team was in the county semi final and it was a tight match and one of thoses hard tackles (like in the Waterford game) happened to one of your players, and the ball breaks to the opposition and they score the goal that wins the match, would you be giving off to the referee or would you be saying afterwards, the referee did well, he let the game flow?

[NAG]

I dont like criticising referee's on here at all and Im not going to single anyone out because it is a very tough job to do and they do it for nothing.

However I have to say that the standard has been slipping in the last number of years. I dont mind ref's being picky if they are picky on every aspect consistently so that everyone knows what is a foul and what isnt.

But there is one issue that I have to take exception with and it is a fault of alot of our referee's, they cannot spot a dangerous foul. They will pull players up on silly technical fouls and let some of the most ridiculously dangerous swinging and blocking go.

I think if they irradicated these dangerous fouls then they could let the game flow by not pulling up every tiny infraction on the minor things.

[theskull1]

Heard Connelly's outburst and he got what he deserved. Have sympathy with why he was frustrated as I didn't feel at that stage that Rossa we're getting their fair share of the decisions, but the manner and tone of his tirade was way out of order.

Did the Rossa line try and promote a bit of the old Dunkirk spirit into their troops  

Kettle was indeed the MOTM

Some other oberservations. Anyone else see Gavin Bell stamp on Aaron Graffin. No one else around me seen it, so I could be mistaken

And what did use think of the sending off for a "professional foul" . Is that not a soccer rule?

[milltown row]

looking forward to the loughgiel Dunloy semi final, think i'll jump in the car and head down will be a good game.

is it fair that Cushendall have all this time now to concentrate on the final? whats the pros and cons in this.

on another note we were beat by Ardonye last night   but before the game the BBC newsline were down doing a piece on the Bog Meadows being closed for enviromental reasons due to the flooding. the girl doing the interview and claimed how dangerous it was and to make sure you all stay away from the bog Meadows. the second she stopped talking, 40 girls from the ladies team and Ardoyne seniors and our seconds ran past her into the 'DANGER ZONE' 

[davincicode]

Good point skull, some of the lads said they heard one of the umpires after the game when he was out for a smoke say it was for dangerous play, not sure what rule that comes under, maybe MR can help us out on that one? Bit harse on the keeper we would all have probably done the exact same thing in the same position. I see the guys had ear pieces in, good to see, i think it can only improve the decisions.

Hamil and Connolly got what they deserved, MR is Duffy big on the abusive language, no nonsense type of referee? I felt that he did,nt want a casement scenario to raise its head, he kept it tight, some may think too tight.

[milltown row]

Garret is flexable you can talk to him but if someone is calling you cheat and questioning your parentage then you only have one weapon to use. if the abuse continues and kids see that you can get away with it then it will continue all the time. i'm all for firing up your team and creating a seige mentality but ya can't abuse the referees, they are only human and will not give the team those tight decisions. would you?