Antrim Hurling

[MrT]

From where I was standing ( about half way line on the town side terrace ) I thought it was wide. Young campbell took his goal well although it was a poor pass out of defence to set him up. What age is young campbell by the way, he looks about 14!!
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id say james campbell is about 18 or 19.  He was minor last year so what ever way that works out.  Havnt got my thinking cap on at the min.
Both scullions were poor.  I thought skinner was probably shamrocks best player.
So glensman your telling me dunloy keeper said it was over?? uch well what can you do now?

[maxpower]

dissapointing and extremely uncharacteristic of us to throw away such a winning margin and in the end to be lucky to escape with a draw.  Don't think any Dunloy an was terribly dissapointed to hear the final whistle as there looked to be only one team hurling at the end.

We had ten minutes either side of half time where we went on top and didn't really drive home our advantage, created a few half chances for goals but didn't seriously trouble DD and gave away cheap frees. 

as for the last shot by Ding, no question at all it was wide, i had the perfect view and to be honest i couldn't understand the furore as too me it was clearly wide.

[milltown row]

after that game would Cushendall be favourites for the final? seems they are coming into the game with a bit of form. have Dunloy peaked too early? and could Loughgiel finally deliver? all these questions and more to be answered in the coming days.

on another note. the Dunloy keeper, is he under 21? and the loughgiel number 11 is he also under 21?  just that Ray was wanting the Dunloy keeper to wear a helmet, as all under 21's must wear helmets with a face guard. the loughgiel number 11 took his off during the game. was Ray being picky, and what was that thing tied to his face? was he in contact with the Chairman, ensuring a draw???

i see no referee has been fixed for it yet, and generally they dont use the same referee. will it be Owen or Garret?

[Shamrock]

Just after reading through all the posts about yesterdays game. Some good debate and some rubbish as well from our point of view we didnt perform for a good part of the game. the last 17 minutes of game was one way traffic. Like my dunloy friends said, we were winning all the 50 50 balls and turning ball at a serious rate. Dunloy were there for the taking and in my opinion still are. Our lads have come away very confident and know mentally they can match the dunloys. on the other hand theres prob no way paddy richmond will be held scoreless again and they wont score for 20 minutes. And as skull says there will be some soul searching for them to do. They have been through this before and im sure they will come out a different animal on wed night. But i honestly feel that if our lads dont freeze, we will squueze through with the game going to the wire. Id like to see a few of our younger lads thrown on with 10 to go to freshen it up and run at dunloys tiring legs - Tony mcCloskey, McKillop etc.

Two nights in a row to casement - expensive week for us folk!

Will dunloy change their line up??

[NAG]

Agree with most of whathas been said on the game at the weekend, I have to say that for a team like Dunloy to only score 1.13 and still not be beaten is unusual in the extreme. I dont think anyone who scored 1.13 would expect to win a championship match. Credit to loughgiel they seemed to have their homework done on the game, and it nearly worked out for them. This reminds me alot of the ulster semi-final last year when ballycran drew with dunloy after having them on the rack.
IMO if dunloy are able to improve their work rate they should be ok, because there is no way that loughgiel will be able to restrict their forwards as easily on wednesday night. If loughgiel can produce what they did in the last 15mins again for 45-50 then they could get over the line.

Anyone else seriously disappointed with the standard of refereeing, I have said before on this board that i dont like criticising referee's but I couldnt not mention the performance on sunday. Again he was blowing the petty insignificatn fouls and letting Watson and others (only singling him out cause he was the worst offender) away with murder when swinging on the dropping ball, he was early and low on most attempts and not a word said. It is these dangerous fouls that arent being pulled up that dont do our game any favours.

[maxpower]

Gald you pointed it out NAG

you'd nearly think winker is a great servant too antrim hurling the way referee's protect him.  i counted twice he struck his man on the hand at the top of the hurl as he caught the ball (thats some 30 -36'' from the ball) which should have resulted in his second booking.  but that was never for happening.

[theskull1]

Can anybody else remember liam watson in the UHL final in cloughmills at the end of last year? He only apears to get booked for niggling/off the ball offenses, when it's  under a dropping ball where he's at his most trecherous yet I've never seen him penalised fir it.

[Colonel Cool]

What time is the replay in Casement tomorrow?

Thanks.

[Minder]

What time is the replay in Casement tomorrow?

Thanks.

7.45pm

[THE DADGA]

how much is it into the match tomorrow??

[maxpower]

match at 7:45pm Owen Elliott to referee and £6 in

[Dunloy]

A reasonably fair analysis on the match from you all(for the best part anyway), personally i thought we were terrible but for maybe two 10 minute spells(one in first, one in the second half), i cant remember who it was but someone mentioned earlier we have fallen into a bad habit of letting teams back into games and not finishing teams off and i have to agree with that totally, realistically we should never have won ulster last year because of this problem. I'm going to stick my neck on the line here and say we will win tomorrow night. I just feel that after our past 2-3 games(which we won extremely comfortably) a bit of complacency set in and we were expecting things to come as easily to us again. We never matched Loughgiel for work rate or intensity and they probably should have stolen it at the death, i can see why they will be full of confidence for the replay but we will not be short in the respect either, looking at it from a Dunloy point of view we played for about 20 minutes, only scored 1-13 yet Loughgiel still couldn't beat us, and on top of that we were never behind bar the first 10 minutes. There is also the fact that 3 of our forwards were on holidays prior to the game and that is always going to have a negative effect on the individuals concerned, it'll give them a chance to get back up to speed, with that in mind and the fact everyone else should have given themselves a shake i cant see Loughgiel out doing us in terms of intensity and hunger this time. Dunloy to win by 5 As for the ref again agree 100%, i thought he was a shambles and his preferential treatment of "county stars" is just the most horrible sight, he was constantly laughing and joking with winker and was also being overly pally with Malachy Molloy, i cannot stand that kind of refereeing as the minute he makes it a personal thing it gets in the way of the job in hand.

[theskull1]

I see our county secreatry has been certified as on eof the GAA's new Tutor Trainers along with Jim Darragh. Are these paid roles?

http://www.anfearrua.com/db.asp?a=topicdisplay&tid=544485&xpos=0#bottom

[milltown row]

hard to strike a balance though Dunloy, we want players to respect the referee and as players we hate if the referee comes across as being arogant and making himself the main attraction, NOW we dont like referees who know players by their names and sharing a joke with them 

i understand where youre coming from as i was at the game. but the reality is this, Ray has not a care in the world as to who wins/loses or draws as was the case on Sunday. there was some things that annoyed both teams i'm sure. everyone sees it different and calls it differently.

Owen to do it tonight, did a fair job in the Inter. semi on sunday.

[saffron sam2]

Johnnies under-16 saw off Rossa by 4 last night.  The referee had a good game by all accounts.

Honestly.