Antrim Football Thread

[Christmas Lights]

Another Cargin procession to a county championship. Fair play Dunloy,  some club

[Grace Murphy]

Dunloy for me. Sexy big lads they are.

[Na Glinntí Glasa]

Slow first half from both sides with not much excitement for spectators.

Second half I thought we were comfortable with what ball we gave away. The goal was an og as it came off a defender and was going wide.

The four 2 pointers in a row were massive and killed any chance Portglenone had to get and get back into the game.

Portglenone have some really good players and created chances but it just wasn't their day.

[Take the Mark]

Portglenone dont have it.  Their forwards are poor and they have no appetite for a battle.  Ref soft for dunloy too which didn't help them.

Dunloy have great distance shooters which is a brilliant asset in tight games.

Ref good to Dunloy were they? What about the 2 point free given near half time?

[Cnoc Bán]

Dunloy took their scores really well, brave in attack. Smith great to watch.

Portglenone too cautious in attack and missed a number of scoreable chances, Dunloy are so open at the back if they are turned over but a team has to be prepared to be brave with a long ball, Dunloy correct bet so far is teams won't and they have time to get back.

Would go as a far as saying decky smith is the best footballer in Antrim, Keelan molloy not far behind

Don't forget Seaan Elliott.

Tore PG1 apart.

[SaffronSports]

Portglenone dont have it.  Their forwards are poor and they have no appetite for a battle.  Ref soft for dunloy too which didn't help them.

Dunloy have great distance shooters which is a brilliant asset in tight games.

Ref good to Dunloy were they? What about the 2 point free given near half time?

When the ref blew the whistle on that I looked and without doubt there was 3 Dunloy defenders and goalie in the half, two Pg1 forwards and then Enda Lynn was close to halfway (I was behind the goal so not sure where he was but it absolutely wasn't a breach on Dunloy).

[marty34]

A great result for Dunloy. A great club. Shows clearly that the dual club status works well, if managed properly. 
Helps also that you have good footballers (and hurlers). A great squad with new talent coming through every year. No doubt that they'll be at the top end in Antrim football for a few years yet.


That's another disappointing year for PG1 and their flagship team. Year after year, seems to be the same old story.

What are the issues? Have they regressed this past year or two? Have they not a 'big name' management ticket? Players just not there?

[Take the Mark]

Marty34, have they not a 'big name' management ticket? They only have the biggest named management in Antrim if not Ulster.

[Dunsilly King]

A great result for Dunloy. A great club. Shows clearly that the dual club status works well, if managed properly. 
Helps also that you have good footballers (and hurlers). A great squad with new talent coming through every year. No doubt that they'll be at the top end in Antrim football for a few years yet.


That's another disappointing year for PG1 and their flagship team. Year after year, seems to be the same old story.

What are the issues? Have they regressed this past year or two? Have they not a 'big name' management ticket? Players just not there?

Their management team
John McKeever
Padraig Hampsey
Conleth Gilligan
Emmett Bradley

[bannside]

Haven't posted here for a bit but fair play to Dunloy, they were hungry, sharp and well coached. Got their shooters on the end of their moves, and compared to Portglenone had little or no wastage.

Casements looked flat for some reason, tried hard but couldn't find a way through a well drilled Dunloy defence.

No excuses from us, better team won on the night when it mattered.

Dunloy have half a dozen players would not be out of place playing at county level and will be a worthy and dangerous opponent for the winners of Cargin and Creggan. Carry a hunger that will be hard to suppress...they are no longer under the radar, they've well and truly lost that tag.

Now the focus is on who their opponents will be.

[paddyjohn]

Be some sharpening of knives around the Wild Duck and Fiddlers rest this weekend.

Dunloy the better side last night. They'll cause either of the 2 Toome sides bother in the final.

[Take the Mark]

Haven't posted here for a bit but fair play to Dunloy, they were hungry, sharp and well coached. Got their shooters on the end of their moves, and compared to Portglenone had little or no wastage.

Casements looked flat for some reason, tried hard but couldn't find a way through a well drilled Dunloy defence.

No excuses from us, better team won on the night when it mattered.

Dunloy have half a dozen players would not be out of place playing at county level and will be a worthy and dangerous opponent for the winners of Cargin and Creggan. Carry a hunger that will be hard to suppress...they are no longer under the radar, they've well and truly lost that tag.

Now the focus is on who their opponents will be.

Gracious as per, Bannside. Reading your posts from earlier in the season and other posters referencing Casements I had an inkling all was not well. This has to be the case after watching that last night and the previous game. They were so far off the pace it was obvious.

[bannside]

Tbh I thought Casements were very flat against St Galls and were lucky to get through. That flatness continued last night, not sure why, I went there expecting to win the game, so Im not going to jump in now and say otherwise.

Cuchullians kicked on easily another 10% since they beat St Brigids in the QF, and the winners of tomorrow's semi will find themselves in a proper game in a fortnight.

Casements have to review what went wrong (without the knives) and see what is needed to go again. I've said many times theres plenty of talent coming through the club, in fact get should definitely get stronger....last night just another bump of many on a long hard road!

[SoloAndGo]

MG playing against 14 men again. That's 3 of their games this IFC. Not much between the teams until the sending off.

[Spike]

Do they even need it though?  The intermediate antrim championship is at its lowest quality in living memory.

It wouldn't be junior grade in other counties.  Some clubs need to be forced down into into whether they like it or not