Antrim Hurling

[girt_giggler]

Was suprised to see that Rasharkin - St Galls result too.  We have Rasharkin this saturday evening at our place

[theskull1]

Just for you Bredagh Gael86!

Tremendous display by Gort Na Mona yesterday. Great discipline and team work. This team should win Ulster and may go further.

Good to see Mc Collum still plugging away he was a great servant to Glenariffe when he joined us and is that big Allys baldy nut in the background?

Liam's had more clubs than Jack Nicholas  . A great hurler who was one if the best readers of the game I've seen in Antrim. Never pulled a dirty stroke either (even playing for glenariffe  )

[NAG]

He must be in a small band there Skull 

[Minder]

Our boys arent dirty, just stupid  Liam was a good lad, used to travel up and down to training from Belfast and at that time he had a young family, we had fellas sitting in Waterfoot that we would have had bother getting out to training.

[theskull1]

Our boys arent dirty, just stupid 

The two things are not mutually exclusive minder

[PlayWithTheWind]

Team                      Played         Won        Lost         Drawn     Points For  Points Against Points Diff Points

Ballycran                    13   13   0   0   341   141   200   26
Rossa                    14   9   3   2   280   219   61   20
Gort Na Mona    13   9   4   0   268   171   97   18
St. Galls                    11   8   2   1   214   174   40   17
Tir na Nog                    12   8   3   1   233   203   30   17
Gaeil Chluana    12   8   4   0   247   190   57   16
St. Pauls                    14   6   6   2   220   186   34   14
Shane O Neills    12   5   5   2   170   177   -7   12
Carey Faughs    14   5   7   2   229   272   -43   12
Armoy                    13   4   8   1   206   222   -16   9
Lamh Dhearg    12   4   7   1   149   179   -30   9
Sarsfields                    12   4   7   1   149   212   -63   9
Cloughmills                    12   4   8   0   168   240   -72   8
Cushendun    13   4   9   0   186   279   -93   8
Rasharkin                    12   3   9   0   131   210   -79   6
Glenravel                    15   1   13   1   172   288   -116   3

No that the championships are over its time to have a look at the league tables, with the bottom 8 in div 2-3 making up div3 next year.
Looking at the table looks like Lamb Dhearg will be playing div 3 next year.
Antrim website shows they only have one game remaining against Rossa, but they have only played 12 compared to Glenravel's 15  possibly some results have still to be added.

[Lecale2]

Lecale, i was playin yesterday against Gort, they were awesome but to be fair to the gort manager he came in and said it was the best they had ever played.

I would agree with him.

[Tony Baloney]

Glenravel haven't been great shakes for donkey's years if they ever where but is there no way back for Cushendun? They must have nothing coming thru in the juveniles. It's not that long ago that they were a decent intermediate outfit with big danny kinney, aidan mort, rab laverty, the mcsparrans etc.

[Glensman]

If LD are division 3 it serves them right for playing a shell of a team v Rasharkin!

[slow corner back]

I reckon that has the makings of a decent div 2 and div 3 next year. Despite many predictions to the contary there were not a lot of heavy thumpings in Div 2-3 this year as expected. The likes of Cloughmills, Rasharkin etc were reasonably competitve in most games. Ballycran were the best team in the league by some distance but this was to be expected, ulster finalists 2007. My predictions for 2009 Gorts to win Div 2 after winning Ulster intermediate title, St Pauls to be relegated. Carey to pip ourselves ( Armoy ) and Lamh Dearg to div 3 with Rasharkin in a relegation battle with Cdun. St Theresas are being promted into Div 3 aren't they? If they do they will ( could ) finish mid table.

[theskull1]

I reckon that has the makings of a decent div 2 and div 3 next year. Despite many predictions to the contary there were not a lot of heavy thumpings in Div 2-3 this year as expected. The likes of Cloughmills, Rasharkin etc were reasonably competitve in most games.

Question to scb or anybody else who had experience of this league

Do you think if all clubs were surveyed on how they felt the div2/3 league went this year, would there be a majority who felt that the opertunity to fight for 8 top places was actually beneficial to hurling development? That is a straight question btw. Wondering if more clubs fought better thorughout the season when there were more places for the taking? If so, would it be an idea to plan to combine the leagues like this every 3/4 years, just to shake things up?

[Assessor]

I reckon that has the makings of a decent div 2 and div 3 next year. Despite many predictions to the contary there were not a lot of heavy thumpings in Div 2-3 this year as expected. The likes of Cloughmills, Rasharkin etc were reasonably competitve in most games.

Question to scb or anybody else who had experience of this league

Do you think if all clubs were surveyed on how they felt the div2/3 league went this year, would there be a majority who felt that the opertunity to fight for 8 top places was actually beneficial to hurling development? That is a straight question btw. Wondering if more clubs fought better thorughout the season when there were more places for the taking? If so, would it be an idea to plan to combine the leagues like this every 3/4 years, just to shake things up?

Hi there buckwheat! Tis I.

Is this something you will be bringing to the county board along with your other grandiose ideas?  Shake what up? Dont you understand that their is a significant difference between 1st level and 2nd level hurling.  As an example, how is a team like GNM going to fair against the likes of Dunloy, Loughgiel, Cushendall etc.   Rossa would be more suited at this division than any other Belfast/South Antrim team.

[Assessor]

A Chairde Gael.                WARNING - To all Posters
Your fellow poster theskull1 (Alias 'the NUMBSKULL') has been sending me some very interesting emails.  In fact they are very aggressive and threatening to say the least.  So be warned ye guys, be careful what ye say to this Psychopath, he may turn on you if ye don't agree with his 'claptrap'.

Just thought I would let ye all be aware of what ye are all dealing with here. I offered to meet him at a time and place of his choosing, but each time he said he could not make it, as he was attending his Line Dancing classes.

There ya go!

[imtommygunn]

Interesting theory skull about shaking it up every 3 / 4 years.

Personally I think looking at it it has worked well. It has had things to play for all year. It has also shown that for one reason or another leagues weren't aligned properly beforehand with two prime examples being that Lamh Dhearg and Sarsfields have in the recent past been in division one. That would fuel the theory that it would be a good idea to do it every 3/4 years.

It probably has given weaker teams some hammerings however there've been enough games against more equal opposition that they're not all meaningless.

Also every guestbook you read about talks about Rossa and how they should be in division 1. If Rossa go to division 1 they'll have to work for it - if GNM are better placed in the league then they obviously deserve to be in division 1 before them. It's not their right to be in division 1. Next year will be interesting to see who goes up between them / Glenarriff / GNM.

[theskull1]

Hi there buckwheat! Tis I.

Is this something you will be bringing to the county board along with your other grandiose ideas?  Shake what up? Dont you understand that their is a significant difference between 1st level and 2nd level hurling.  As an example, how is a team like GNM going to fair against the likes of Dunloy, Loughgiel, Cushendall etc.   Rossa would be more suited at this division than any other Belfast/South Antrim team.

Anything to get the rise Assessor even when you embarrass yourself in the process? Not one mention of Div 1 in my post, so it can only be down to the fact that you love stirring anything I post and can't see for the blinkers you have on.

Unless I'm missing something, I do believe my questions were in regard to the div2/3 leagues that were played this year. Also, I'm asking the questions because I don't know what the answer(s) will be.