Tickets booked online £9, pay at gate £13. Save yourself a couple of pounds if you are going. https://gaa.tickets.ie/Booking/Even...g-antrim-v-cork-ballycastle-gaa-16-March-2014
Far "as i know", but dont quote me on it, under 16s get in free and there should be a student discount. Get your short trousers out, failing that just pull the waistband of your jeans down to mid thighs.
I got them into Healy Park and Celtic Park for nowt..... In fact I get myself into Celtic Park for nowt... It was an accident though. The Longford team bus was backing in so I walked in behind it. None of the bucks with the tickets saw me and I never saw them until I was already well in. The kids might not appreciate the journey though...... Although it is only a bit further time wise than Omagh.
Yeah, there is a few spots on the way up all flegged up to the eyebaws. The kids call it the Olympic flag.
Bought the ticket today in Super Valu.... An interesting conversation. "can I get a ticket here for the hurling tomorrow up in Ballycastle?" "Ummmm...... We only have tickets for GAA".... "Ok.......... Do you have tickets for that?" "Yes...... What match?" "Tomorrow in Ballycastle" "hurling. Antrim Vs a Cork?" "Yes....." "I thought we only had GAA tickets" "Hurling is.......... Never mind. Thanks". I then got asked if I would steward at Celtic Park tomorrow. I would have done it any other day.
That would annoy me, some f**kers think there is only one code in the GAA. Change of plans for me today, apparently "we" are going out to drown our shamrock early, with friends. She who knows best has it all sorted, so no game for me. [we will be hammered anyway].
Well...... We weren't great at all. Antrim can consider themselves quite unlucky. They hit a few bad wides in the first half and generally played the wind a lot better than we did. Everyone left fairly content. Antrim knew they had put in a performance and we got out of Dodge with the points. I hope Antrim stay up now.
Clare blitzed the **** out if Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaterford. 5-18 to 0-20. It was over at ht and then went away home for themselves.
Dubs 1-22 Cats 3-13 Tribesmen 3-16 Premier 1-19 Banner 5-18 Blaaaahs 0-20 Model 2-21 Laois 1-18 Rebels 0-18 Glensmen 1-12 Faithful 2-15 Treatymen 2-15 Kingdom 3-13 Carlow 0-17 Westmeath 3-11 lily whites 1-14
A hurl being passed off as a Samurai sword in a St Patricks day parade in Tokyo [video=youtube;HYsZN4DjtR0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYsZN4DjtR0[/video]
Not as bad for Antrim as i thought it would be Reb, did hear about the bad wides. Cant see where we are going to get the points to stay up, but all in all, great that a Cork team graced the pitch in Ballycastle, and young local lads were getting autographs from Cork players after the game. https://scontent-b-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1.0-9/10013622_297871493697607_1914153777_n.jpg
That was brilliant to see. I was chatting to a lady before the match whose son just went bouncing over to JBM to get stuff signed. It was quite a thing to see. I never get fussed with celebs or footballers if anything but I was struggling to keep my **** together with JBM too.
I' late watching the waaaaaaaaaaterford Vs Kilkenny game. I was out messing about. KK lead 1-7 to 0-8 at the half. The goal by Jonno Farrell was really a great thing. A certain free to Kilkenny that the ref never gave. They played away on the floor and smashed the breaking ball towards goal. The keeper saved it and Farrell just followed it in. I'm coaching kids at the minute and that goal was perfect to show them to play to the whistle and always follow up. In this case twice. Ritchie Hogan also scored an absolute belter of a point off his left hand side. It was absolutely hockeyed at him. He caught it, swivelled and pointed. ****ing lovely.... Dirty bastards.
Watched most of that myself, high scores in some games today, alas the Antrim game was one of them. Shefflin is a cool guy, never gets fazed by anything, just plays the game as it should be.
I'm still way behind, just finishing off the Dublin Tipp game. A really good contest. Tipp win 1-19 to 0-19. Surprised to see Clare draw with Galway 0-18 to1-15. Cork beat Wexford 2-24 to 1-20. Limerick edge out Laois 1-17 to 1-13 Antrim bate out the gate 5-27 to 4-9 by the Faithful. The drop will really hurt Antrim. A real shame.
