Antrim Football Thread

[bannside]

Impressed with Creggan yesterday, definitely look a solid, well drilled outfit. Good value for their 8 pt victory.

Ballymena Brigids Cargin and Creggan all motoring well within themselves.

[Gaels1789]

Upwards of a minute? Wise up. Parke was grand yesterday, and no scrums on show! Gave a yellow instead of the most blatant black card you'll ever see for Cargins penalty (which we missed anyway) but apart from that he had a decent game.

St Brigids impressive enough too, could make for a good game come the business end, hopefully it won't take 20 odd minutes for a score.

Agree , nail on head about the penalty too , you'd hope not Brides look decent yesterday but jesus them boys on the line roaring and screaming at the ref need to relax and let him do his thing , they wonder why they aren't a liked outfit.

Some other interesting results , Cloney ran Ballymena closer than expected , were you at it Gaels1789 ?

Creggan seemed to make short work of PG1 too




Yes I was at the game.

Ballymena played with a nice wind in the first half played all the football. Ronan mckillop caused us all sorts of problems with pizza aswell

Second half we came out of the gates firing 2pointer straight away then we started playing ball but Ballymena clipped on 4/5 points in the second half to keep us at bay was a great game.

Jimmy played well with Pat and colla got a nice goal, would take a lot of positives from that performance

Ballymena play some slick football I must admit aswell

[Spike]

On another note

I was at the Cargin and Ulster select   game yesterday in Toome , Jesus that silly ginger fella on the line may as well of been playing wing back for them he was never off the field screaming at Kevin Parke , felt bad for him however thought he done well yesterday let it go well.

Cargin seemed to be very light in men in fairness brides are too , Cargin struggled from their kickouts as Brides squeezed hard and in fairness worked well for them was well executed and they seem to be structured well.

After taking a defeat to ballymena it makes you wonder is the gap starting to close on Cargin ??

Is it time for a marked out Technical Area for managers and backroom staff at matches?   was at a couple of games over the weekend in 2 different codes and the abuse the referees took from all corners of the pitch where club coaches had spread out was concerning.   a good bit of coaches crossing paths in front of dug outs and mouthing at each other was common.     

Perhaps MR2 and the other refs don't pay heed to it but there doesnt seem to be any let up

[BigGreenField]

On another note

I was at the Cargin and Ulster select   game yesterday in Toome , Jesus that silly ginger fella on the line may as well of been playing wing back for them he was never off the field screaming at Kevin Parke , felt bad for him however thought he done well yesterday let it go well.

Cargin seemed to be very light in men in fairness brides are too , Cargin struggled from their kickouts as Brides squeezed hard and in fairness worked well for them was well executed and they seem to be structured well.

After taking a defeat to ballymena it makes you wonder is the gap starting to close on Cargin ??

Is it time for a marked out Technical Area for managers and backroom staff at matches?   

Yes and a smaller limit on the number of pitchside coaches, regardless of dugouts only 2 subs inside the fence at a time.

although I suspect managers/coaches would go outside the fence to get to the same area side of the pitch (perhaps fines might handle that).

[Lár na páirce 1]

With a missed penalty and some 2 pointers for the winners not sure Cargin would be too concerned.

The match report had Tomas not starting, is that right? Cargin are a total different animal with him playing (perhaps to the point of reliance).

A number of our (good) dual ref have a tendency to allow hurling rucks to develop on the football field, as the man said find the soft free and move on.

Pg1 score line probably the most notable of the weekend , if not the result.

If St Pauls can beat Agahgallon in 2 weeks  at home probably looking at Tir na nog going down in a playoff (regardless of how poor rossa have been).



Tomas only came on last 5 or 6 minutes

[Milltown Row2]

On another note

I was at the Cargin and Ulster select   game yesterday in Toome , Jesus that silly ginger fella on the line may as well of been playing wing back for them he was never off the field screaming at Kevin Parke , felt bad for him however thought he done well yesterday let it go well.

Cargin seemed to be very light in men in fairness brides are too , Cargin struggled from their kickouts as Brides squeezed hard and in fairness worked well for them was well executed and they seem to be structured well.

After taking a defeat to ballymena it makes you wonder is the gap starting to close on Cargin ??

Is it time for a marked out Technical Area for managers and backroom staff at matches?   was at a couple of games over the weekend in 2 different codes and the abuse the referees took from all corners of the pitch where club coaches had spread out was concerning.   a good bit of coaches crossing paths in front of dug outs and mouthing at each other was common.     

Perhaps MR2 and the other refs don't pay heed to it but there doesnt seem to be any let up

Referee's have the means to move the ball forward 50 meters when getting abuse from the sideline

To be fair I've zero tolerance to it, if a manager or other team official wants to be carded and the ball moved 50 meters, then that's on him..

I think, and its hard to know as you are only doing the games you ref, but I feel that some referee's may take more abuse than others or possibly some coaches feel that they can give out more to some referee's.

Come Championship its a team of officials that will be getting it in the neck, but I'd be very wary that the linesman doesn't draw the attention to the ref and the ball moved forward.   

[Flanker]

On another note

I was at the Cargin and Ulster select   game yesterday in Toome , Jesus that silly ginger fella on the line may as well of been playing wing back for them he was never off the field screaming at Kevin Parke , felt bad for him however thought he done well yesterday let it go well.

Cargin seemed to be very light in men in fairness brides are too , Cargin struggled from their kickouts as Brides squeezed hard and in fairness worked well for them was well executed and they seem to be structured well.

After taking a defeat to ballymena it makes you wonder is the gap starting to close on Cargin ??

Is it time for a marked out Technical Area for managers and backroom staff at matches?   was at a couple of games over the weekend in 2 different codes and the abuse the referees took from all corners of the pitch where club coaches had spread out was concerning.   a good bit of coaches crossing paths in front of dug outs and mouthing at each other was common.     

Perhaps MR2 and the other refs don't pay heed to it but there doesnt seem to be any let up

Referee's have the means to move the ball forward 50 meters when getting abuse from the sideline

To be fair I've zero tolerance to it, if a manager or other team official wants to be carded and the ball moved 50 meters, then that's on him..

I think, and its hard to know as you are only doing the games you ref, but I feel that some referee's may take more abuse than others or possibly some coaches feel that they can give out more to some referee's.

Come Championship its a team of officials that will be getting it in the neck, but I'd be very wary that the linesman doesn't draw the attention to the ref and the ball moved forward.   

is it not

Misconduct by a Team Official(s) that warrants a Yellow or Red Card results in a free kick on the offending team's 13m line.

[Take the Mark]

Thats correct Flanker, 50m for players, 13m free for abuse from the bench/sideline.

[YoungSaff]

Who are the top refs in the county ? is there a ranking as to who gets big games or what way does it work?

[InnocentByStander]

Who are the top refs in the county ? is there a ranking as to who gets big games or what way does it work?

Theres a ranking system.

Whoever takes Toland on the most Coffee dates throughout the season.
Minimum of 10 or he does the final himself.

If it happens 2 or more take him on the same amount of dates it will then go to the Ref who spent most money buying coffees for him.

If that ref happens to be from a club in the final it will go to the ref who took Brendan on the 2nd most dates.

And so its an easy system to follow.

[Plugin]

With a missed penalty and some 2 pointers for the winners not sure Cargin would be too concerned.

The match report had Tomas not starting, is that right? Cargin are a total different animal with him playing (perhaps to the point of reliance).

A number of our (good) dual ref have a tendency to allow hurling rucks to develop on the football field, as the man said find the soft free and move on.

Pg1 score line probably the most notable of the weekend , if not the result.

If St Pauls can beat Agahgallon in 2 weeks  at home probably looking at Tir na nog going down in a playoff (regardless of how poor rossa have been).

St Paul's have every chance of beating Aghagallon who seem to be getting worse..only scored 1-3 yesterday,looks like they'll be in the relegation mix if it's bottom 4 playoff

[paddyjohn]

I think it's unfair to name refs on here. I've no huge love for some of them but they are doing a tough job.

[Goodray]

With a missed penalty and some 2 pointers for the winners not sure Cargin would be too concerned.

The match report had Tomas not starting, is that right? Cargin are a total different animal with him playing (perhaps to the point of reliance).

A number of our (good) dual ref have a tendency to allow hurling rucks to develop on the football field, as the man said find the soft free and move on.

Pg1 score line probably the most notable of the weekend , if not the result.

If St Pauls can beat Agahgallon in 2 weeks  at home probably looking at Tir na nog going down in a playoff (regardless of how poor rossa have been).

St Paul's have every chance of beating Aghagallon who seem to be getting worse..only scored 1-3 yesterday,looks like they'll be in the relegation mix if it's bottom 4 playoff

Aghagallon look a beaten docket even with the so called county men

[YoungSaff]

Surely there is no consideration of reappointing McEntee?

We should be starting the hunt now for our new man

[paddyjohn]

I'm heading to Moneyglass & Toome to see if I can talk Snoopy & Screamer to comeback again.