Antrim Hurling

[NAG1]

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41854005.html

Davy gets his platform to air his views.

Fair play to him in naming names, if he was going to come out and blame the county board (rightly or wrongly) he may as well name the people he had grievances with.

Sure we knew it was never going to be Davy's fault anyway.

[marty34]

https://www.irishexaminer.com/sport/gaa/arid-41854005.html

Davy gets his platform to air his views.

Fair play to him in naming names, if he was going to come out and blame the county board (rightly or wrongly) he may as well name the people he had grievances with.

Sure we knew it was never going to be Davy's fault anyway.

I wonder what that was all about?

By the chat of that article, he'll not be out of a job too long.

[Na Glinntí Glasa]

Very impressed with Portaferry yesterday. Some really good players in their panel esp Cathal Coleman.

The man didnt miss a thing all game, a very good free taker.

Good to see Coby play for the last 20 mins of the game where he managed to score 0-06.

The split games now coming up where we have one away (Loughgiel) and then three at home (St Johns, Cushendall & Ballycastle).

[johnnycool]

We've been horrendously poor this year to date.

County commitments can only be blamed so much, but we haven't shown anything like an idea on how to create scoring chances rather than individual performances and defensively we leak like a sieve.

It's between ourselves and St Enda's for who goes down, unless there are 2 going down.

[NorthAntrimSaff]

Very impressed with Portaferry yesterday. Some really good players in their panel esp Cathal Coleman.

The man didnt miss a thing all game, a very good free taker.

Good to see Coby play for the last 20 mins of the game where he managed to score 0-06.

The split games now coming up where we have one away (Loughgiel) and then three at home (St Johns, Cushendall & Ballycastle).

Was he not a stand out performer in Ulster club last year?

Interesting at the bottom. The Down teams will improve but Glenariffe have gave themselves a real chance in staying up now. Would be a shame to see St Endas drop given the 3 players they've had missing. Do we even need relegation?

[podge]

Very impressed with Portaferry yesterday. Some really good players in their panel esp Cathal Coleman.

The man didnt miss a thing all game, a very good free taker.

Good to see Coby play for the last 20 mins of the game where he managed to score 0-06.

The split games now coming up where we have one away (Loughgiel) and then three at home (St Johns, Cushendall & Ballycastle).

Was he not a stand out performer in Ulster club last year?

Interesting at the bottom. The Down teams will improve but Glenariffe have gave themselves a real chance in staying up now. Would be a shame to see St Endas drop given the 3 players they've had missing. Do we even need relegation?

I would imagine that the only team interested in going up and capable of holding their own might be Ballycran. Can't imagine any of the real intermediate clubs in Antrim are anywhere near that. 

Both St endas and glenariffe are capable of competing in Div 1 and they will provide a fair few players to the Antrim u20 and senior panels in next few years so I would be all on for giving those clubs a bit of breathing space / latitude to develop, rather than having relegation hanging over them.  Seems to me it would be for the better of Antrim hurling.

If that means 11 teams in Div 1 next year then so be it .

[NorthAntrimSaff]

Breathing space needed 100%. Similar to IC season and Kildare this year. Signs of progression then relegated before they can adapt

[SaffronSports]

Antrim Football leagues are a clear warning to how that can go wrong. 16 teams in there and shouldn't be more than half that tbh.

[NAG1]

Antrim Football leagues are a clear warning to how that can go wrong. 16 teams in there and shouldn't be more than half that tbh.

Why would the single code clubs especially not want more games? The match to training ratio for a club player in those clubs must be ridiculous.

[podge]

Antrim Football leagues are a clear warning to how that can go wrong. 16 teams in there and shouldn't be more than half that tbh.

I'm talking 11 teams, not 16.  Play 10 games and then split, gives 16 league games max.

[johnnycool]

Antrim Football leagues are a clear warning to how that can go wrong. 16 teams in there and shouldn't be more than half that tbh.

Is that a one way league?

16 teams equals 15 games and finding 15 slots to play them is a challenge enough.

I think the Div1 hurling is right, there needs to be jeopardy, there needs to be something to play for, there needs to be relegation, there needs to be a reason to avoid the bottom 5.

We have 9 first round games, then another 4 after the split, so that's 13 games all in. Nothing wrong with that, especially when most of the first 9 are without county players.

[Deerstalker]

You can't be blocking teams from coming up, Ballycran will 100% want to come back up.

It's the same as the Kildare argument, they lost every game in Leinster - they won't walk the Joe McDonagh next year in my opinion.

You can't block a Joe McDonagh winner coming up to keep Kildare in Leinster.

[SaffronSports]

Antrim Football leagues are a clear warning to how that can go wrong. 16 teams in there and shouldn't be more than half that tbh.

I'm talking 11 teams, not 16.  Play 10 games and then split, gives 16 league games max.

The point is ballsing about when certain clubs didn't fancy a relegation, is what created that situation in football. If you finish bottom of your league, you deserve to go down.

[podge]

Antrim Football leagues are a clear warning to how that can go wrong. 16 teams in there and shouldn't be more than half that tbh.

Is that a one way league?

16 teams equals 15 games and finding 15 slots to play them is a challenge enough.

I think the Div1 hurling is right, there needs to be jeopardy, there needs to be something to play for, there needs to be relegation, there needs to be a reason to avoid the bottom 5.

We have 9 first round games, then another 4 after the split, so that's 13 games all in. Nothing wrong with that, especially when most of the first 9 are without county players.

The issue is that teams like St Endas, Glenariffe etc won't have deep squads and if they have 3/4 lads each on county squads they will suffer and inevitably those lads will come under pressure to leave the county squad to help avoid relegation.

I would prefer the position around lads not being allowed to play for their clubs is revisited but it feels like that is generally accepted nowadays.  Certainly the number that county squads are holding back is way over the top in my view . 

[NAG1]

Antrim Football leagues are a clear warning to how that can go wrong. 16 teams in there and shouldn't be more than half that tbh.

Is that a one way league?

16 teams equals 15 games and finding 15 slots to play them is a challenge enough.

I think the Div1 hurling is right, there needs to be jeopardy, there needs to be something to play for, there needs to be relegation, there needs to be a reason to avoid the bottom 5.

We have 9 first round games, then another 4 after the split, so that's 13 games all in. Nothing wrong with that, especially when most of the first 9 are without county players.

The issue is that teams like St Endas, Glenariffe etc won't have deep squads and if they have 3/4 lads each on county squads they will suffer and inevitably those lads will come under pressure to leave the county squad to help avoid relegation.

I would prefer the position around lads not being allowed to play for their clubs is revisited but it feels like that is generally accepted nowadays.  Certainly the number that county squads are holding back is way over the top in my view . 

This does seriously need re-visited.

Holding squad players back from playing with their club is a pure nonsense. Hopefully we get someone local on board who will understand the club game here and bit of common sense can prevail.