Fermanagh V Antrim (1 June 2014) Enniskillen

[armaghniac]

Don't think its anything to do with Sky. Cavan and Armagh are not live next week either.

The BBC don't bother with teams in the lower half of the Ulster championship.

[ck]

Just home. A great great game. Antrim by far the better team, Fermanagh really poor at times.
Enjoyed the banter from the Antrim fans!

[Sportacus]

Well done to the Antrim squad. Great to see the forwards buzzing.  On another note, there was not 1, not 2, but THREE PSNI speed traps between Enniskillen and Ballygawley Roundabout on the way home - does make you wonder...

[FermGael]

Where do you start with a game like that?

We were awful.  Blame and simple.  Yet we could have snatched the game  at the death had the Antrim defender not cleared the ball of the line from McCluskeys shot.

Firstly fair play to Antrim.  They had there tactics spot on and their forward line tore our defence to pieces.  Their full forward line had our full back line on toast. The loss of John Woods after 10 minutes was a huge loss.  How a foot to the face is not a free I will never know but then again the second Antrim black card was hardly a foul never mind a black card.

Fermanagh got back into the game( twice) because Antrim tried to defend.  They were much better at attack and I think you should just stick to that. Niblock ran the show and Neeson was very impressive.  Antrim had a great strategy for their own kick outs and it worked a treat.   

The loss of Tomas Corrigan before throw in was a big loss.  Quigley scored 1-6 but was really on his own until  Ruairi Corrigan was brought on. Made a real difference when he was brought on.  When we switched Owens to full forward it caused panic in the Antrim defence. Our sweeper system did not work at all in the first half. We played much better when we pushed up on Antrim and went man to man.

[armaghniac]

From the Sunday Game Fermanagh were unlucky with the shot at the end.
Antrim should be doing better and perhaps this starts now.

[FermGael]

From the Sunday Game Fermanagh were unlucky with the shot at the end.
Antrim should be doing better and perhaps this starts now.

Honestly we should never had got that close.
Would have been robbery if we would have won that.

[tintin25]

Getting into Brewster was abit of a shambles, why couldn't ya just pay at the turnstile? A lot of folk missed the start of the game!

Some Fermanagh players couldn't even do the basics like a simple kick or hand pass!

[FermGael]

No longer allowed to pay at turn style for county games.
Croke park directive.

[ck]

The Sunday games coverage of this game tonight was nothing short of disgraceful. Tokenism at best.
Yet they feature a game that was already on live today.

[Gold]

If we had ve contrived to lose that game today I would never halve gone back!

We were class at times, Ferm couldn't live with us. Our footballers are better than div 4 standard but we have to stop being so brittle and shitting the nest. Need to keep attacking as that's our strength

First champ win in 5 years though!!

[Throw ball]

Don't think its anything to do with Sky. Cavan and Armagh are not live next week either.

The BBC don't bother with teams in the lower half of the Ulster championship.

For once I do not think it is BBC's fault. Do not think they were given the rights to all the games in Ulster.

[orangeman]

Well done Antrim. I fancied them even if the bookmakers didn't.

[ck]

Don't think its anything to do with Sky. Cavan and Armagh are not live next week either.

The BBC don't bother with teams in the lower half of the Ulster championship.

For once I do not think it is BBC's fault. Do not think they were given the rights to all the games in Ulster.

BBC can only show a game if RTE shows the same game. BBC have no exclusive rights.
All the more reason RTE should have given it a proper feature on TSG last night.

[AQMP]

Getting into Brewster was abit of a shambles, why couldn't ya just pay at the turnstile? A lot of folk missed the start of the game!

Some Fermanagh players couldn't even do the basics like a simple kick or hand pass!

Have to agree with this.  Trying to get into the main stand was a shambles.

[AQMP]

Don't think its anything to do with Sky. Cavan and Armagh are not live next week either.

The BBC don't bother with teams in the lower half of the Ulster championship.

For once I do not think it is BBC's fault. Do not think they were given the rights to all the games in Ulster.

BBC can only show a game if RTE shows the same game. BBC have no exclusive rights.
All the more reason RTE should have given it a proper feature on TSG last night.

The word missing there is live. BBC have in the past (only a couple of years ago) shown the full game later on in the evening about 7. I certainly remember a Monaghan & Antrim game being on BBC at this time. They seem to have done away with this now though.

hs, I seem to remember the Donegal game in 2009 being shown deferred at about 7pm or 7:30pm??  This sticks in my mind as in my excitement at a win in Ballybofey I texted my brother in law about a great result for Antrim and he gave out buckets as he wanted to watch the game without knowing the result.