Antrim Hurling

[Milltown Row2]

Very proud! I thought we were unlucky. The ref gave us nothing.

You don't get things from the ref, you earn them.. didn't see much wrong with the ref that said I'd love to know, their penalty was the Cork lad inside the rectangle?

said earlier we missed 5 handy ones in the first half. Second half very scrappy and they got their scores easier, some handling errors two, they got a goal and a point from us first half, losing easy possession and turned over.

Second half we played well enough but not pretty

[north_antrim_hound]

Played good but second half should have tried playing through the lines more, game really opened up for cork last 15 minutes. I'm putting some of that down to us having a tough game last week and they are well rested. We just blew up

[Saffrongael]

Cork got the scare of their lives today. I think over the 70 minutes we deserved to win. Absolute joke we weren't at the launch during the week.

Lol

[gallsman]

Cork got the scare of their lives today. I think over the 70 minutes we deserved to win. Absolute joke we weren't at the launch during the week.

What are you smoking ffs

[Milltown Row2]

[keep her low this half]

Overall Antrim played well, much better than I expected. Of course as is always the way in championship hurling weakness were exploited. Our full back line, in particular our corner backs have been poor all year. Out the field Mickey Bradley at midfield struggled, Ciaran Clarke at centre forward didn't get into the game and personally I thought Mcmanus and big Domhnall both struggled to get into the game, although Mc Manus's sideline was superb. Now onto the positives, Keelan Molloy, Eoin Campbell and James McNaughton were superb, better than anything Cork had to offer.
Overall 2022 has been a good year. Division 1 retained, Joe McDonagh won and a competitive performance in the All Ireland series.
Darren Gleeson deserves huge credit for all he has done, I doubted him before he took the reins but I was wrong and so were a lot of other people.
Next year we have 5 Division 1 matches and 5 Leinster championship matches to look forward to. We have a competitive team for the first time in about 15 years and that is something we should all embrace and enjoy
The good times don't last long, lets make the best of them and enjoy them.

[marty34]

Must be mentioned that there was a very strong breeze there today.  Antrim used it well in the first half.

Cork took over in the second half.  Still hard to work Cork out in fairness. Could open up and give somebody a pasting or could just get over the line - hard to know about them.

They kept persisting with the short puck out in the second half when they had a strong breeze although they run into trouble with it at times.  Maybe they've just sticking with it as that's they're plan regardles, when they get to the next game.

Stick to the process as they say but it just needs refined a bit. And they have time to do it. As they hadn't played for a while, they'll be happy to get the competitive game.

Antrim's year is a happy one - decent league, Joe Mc Donagh and all set for next year.  Need another player or two.

Mc Naughton is very good. Build a team around him.

[Upandover]

Far too many wides in the first half, boys struggled judging the wind but cork didnt have any problems with it second half.

Ref was poor, cork were throwing constantly, the penalty they got was outside, could go on.
One thing the difference between the sides is conditioning, night and day between Antrim and the premier counties, we are busted at times too early in the games.

Enjoyed watching the games at corrigan and the day out at croke, hopefully more to follow.

[gallsman]

Far too many wides in the first half, boys struggled judging the wind but cork didnt have any problems with it second half.

Ref was poor, cork were throwing constantly, the penalty they got was outside, could go on.
One thing the difference between the sides is conditioning, night and day between Antrim and the premier counties, we are busted at times too early in the games.

Enjoyed watching the games at corrigan and the day out at croke, hopefully more to follow.

Really noticeable - one or two lads side, Cork very clearly bigger, stronger, faster.

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

Far too many wides in the first half, boys struggled judging the wind but cork didnt have any problems with it second half.

Ref was poor, cork were throwing constantly, the penalty they got was outside, could go on.
One thing the difference between the sides is conditioning, night and day between Antrim and the premier counties, we are busted at times too early in the games.

Enjoyed watching the games at corrigan and the day out at croke, hopefully more to follow.

Really noticeable - one or two lads side, Cork very clearly bigger, stronger, faster.

Couple belies there

[Upandover]

Far too many wides in the first half, boys struggled judging the wind but cork didnt have any problems with it second half.

Ref was poor, cork were throwing constantly, the penalty they got was outside, could go on.
One thing the difference between the sides is conditioning, night and day between Antrim and the premier counties, we are busted at times too early in the games.

Enjoyed watching the games at corrigan and the day out at croke, hopefully more to follow.

Really noticeable - one or two lads side, Cork very clearly bigger, stronger, faster.

Couple belies there

Mad, how do ya have a belly with that amount of training and playing county level.

[Milltown Row2]

Far too many wides in the first half, boys struggled judging the wind but cork didnt have any problems with it second half.

Ref was poor, cork were throwing constantly, the penalty they got was outside, could go on.
One thing the difference between the sides is conditioning, night and day between Antrim and the premier counties, we are busted at times too early in the games.

Enjoyed watching the games at corrigan and the day out at croke, hopefully more to follow.

Really noticeable - one or two lads side, Cork very clearly bigger, stronger, faster.

Couple belies there

Mad, how do ya have a belly with that amount of training and playing county level.

Didn't stop 'The Rock'

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

Far too many wides in the first half, boys struggled judging the wind but cork didnt have any problems with it second half.

Ref was poor, cork were throwing constantly, the penalty they got was outside, could go on.
One thing the difference between the sides is conditioning, night and day between Antrim and the premier counties, we are busted at times too early in the games.

Enjoyed watching the games at corrigan and the day out at croke, hopefully more to follow.

Really noticeable - one or two lads side, Cork very clearly bigger, stronger, faster.

Couple belies there

Mad, how do ya have a belly with that amount of training and playing county level.

Didn't stop 'The Rock'

Was he not more built than fat

[Saffrongael]

Far too many wides in the first half, boys struggled judging the wind but cork didnt have any problems with it second half.

Ref was poor, cork were throwing constantly, the penalty they got was outside, could go on.
One thing the difference between the sides is conditioning, night and day between Antrim and the premier counties, we are busted at times too early in the games.

Enjoyed watching the games at corrigan and the day out at croke, hopefully more to follow.

Really noticeable - one or two lads side, Cork very clearly bigger, stronger, faster.

Couple belies there

Mad, how do ya have a belly with that amount of training and playing county level.

Didn't stop 'The Rock'

Was he not more built than fat

He was an it was 20 years ago

[imtommygunn]

One of the best engines on that team looks like he has a belly but there are many far lighter than him that can't cover as much ground.

Cork aren't s physical as some of the munster ones either but we have definitely improved on the physicality stakes.