Training our senior hurlers apparently ā¦they havenāt started yet
Kanturk??
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Bad ram bad lamb
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Whoa Black Betty
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Is there a video of Davyās comments from the weekend? Is the interview available online?
There is audio footage posted on Twitter and one of the threads here
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Davy has about 4 days left in charge of Antrim.
Next stop most likely Laois. They have a proud history of paying a fortune to useless grifters to take their county teams from bad to worse
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Iām amazed no one from Antrim GAA has come out and said something along the lines of āDavyās views are his own, not oursā
The next county that gives Davy a job should be fucked out of the GAA
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The GAA cant do without Dublin. Iād say once he goes there heāll find his true home.
Clare job could be open
It was a ludicrous appointment from day one. Antrim deserve everything they are getting from him, he needs to be ran after the Offaly game - win or lose.
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Davy in Antrim
Poacher in Leitrim
Curran in Carlow
Doozies.
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Antrim hurling legend Terence āSamboā McNaughton cannot get his head around the antics of Davy Fitzgerald since taking the hot seat with the Saffrons.
It is with a āheavy heartā that McNaughton voices criticism of Antrimās displays under Fitzgeraldās watch this season ahead of āthe most important game that we have had in the past decadeā but he says he felt compelled to speak up before it was too late.
Antrim head to Tullamore on Sunday to face Offaly in the final round of the Leinster SHC round-robin with the losers relegated to the Joe McDonagh Cup for 2026 and facing a long road back to compete for Liam MacCarthy again.
Former All-Star McNaughton is dismayed at what he has watched from Antrim this year, as well as the many sound bites from former Clare star Fitzgerald which have garnered various headlines in recent months.
āHis first interview, he totally disrespected my club coaches, every club coach in the county when he said, āIām going to teach the Antrim hurlers to walk againā. Why does he have to disrespect whatās gone before all of the time?ā McNaughton told the Irish Independent.
āThat seems to be his go-to, āIāve arrived now and Iām doing this right, everybody else that has been here before doesnāt know what theyāre doingā.
āConsidering heās such an experienced manager whoās been around a long time, and heās been around RTĆ a long time as well and social media, some of the interviews he does are just plain stupid.
āThey are totally mind-boggling. Throwing players under the bus, throwing teams under the bus, totally disrespecting the players and thereās absolutely no need for it. To get the best out of anyone, you donāt insult them.
āThatās not how to get the county behind you and the supporters behind you either. Every single person I meet says, āThe Davy thing is not workingā and if he sees this interview, heāll come out and use me as an excuse.
āEvery interview he does just winds me up more and more. To come out and say that āIāve got to teach Antrim hurlers to walk againā, itās bullshit.
āItās disrespectful to everyone in the county and itās just not on. His rant about a referee or a linesman last week after the Galway match, thatās not the time or place to do that. Our focus should have been totally on the Offaly game afterwards.
āIt shouldnāt have been talking all this shite about referees and āreferees donāt like meā. Iāve an aulā saying that if youāve a problem, youāre better to look in the mirror than look out the window.ā
McNaughton āfeels sorryā for the players as āIāve been at the end of those defeats as wellā and he hopes that the senior side can muster a big response for a game with massive consequences.
The RuairĆ Ćg Cushendall clubman insists Fitzgerald is āgetting powerful commitment from playersā but it is not being replicated on the pitch and he has a few reasons why that might be the case.
āI was an Antrim man before Davy arrived and Iāll be an Antrim man when he leaves, I can only call it as I see it. Our lack of desire in every game Iāve seen this year is mind-boggling,ā McNaughton said.
āWe have good players who are now playing averagely and theyāre not playing the way they were under Darren [Gleeson, previous manager]. Weāre going to Offaly on Sunday and them boys need to play for their jersey.
āThey need to forget the bullshit and tear into Offaly. Iāve a message for Davy, I do believe that desire has won more matches than puck-out strategies or tactics or these crazy systems of his.
āItās not right, itās not right whatās going on. Letās just take a step back, re-evaluate and do the right thing. Letās go at this game in the right frame of mind and cut out the bullshit thatās going on. Itās not acceptable.
āWeāre not as good as some people maybe think we are but weāre not as bad as weāre showing. We are not as bad as Iāve seen this year. If we have to do what Roy Keane says and just run into people to make yourself feel good at times then so be it.
āDavy has to be realistic with the thing and get a group of players together that are playing for the county and himself, I donāt think the players are playing for him, I donāt. I donāt know whatās going on.
āAll the talk is about Davy whereas we need to really look at this and see where weāre going as a county. If we keep doing what weāve always done, then weāre going to get what weāve always got.ā
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Oooofffttttt
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Thatās an absolutely fantastic rant.
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āLook, itās a tough day for them boys in that dressing room. Itās a tough day for me, theyāre great lads but we just couldnāt get the displays out I was seeing in training all year.
Itās hard at this level. Antrim have been down for years, well before I arrived. Theyāve shipped some terrible beatings and weāve got more this year.
We had so many injuries. Thatās been a killer all year. Antrim has a small pick, so they have, but we needed all of āem out there but itās hard missing 5 or six forwards. Them boys fought hard, a few things went against us, there was a definite free out before the fourth Offaly goal but Iām not going into that, so Iām not. Iām not making excuses. Fair play to Offaly.
Thereās been people having a cut at me during the week. Thatās fine, thatās ok. Just donāt knock them boys in there, they work so hard. A great bunch of lads who are working hard to get better. Maybe some of them boys would be better off getting involved rather than having a cut off me.
Today itās not about me, so itās not. Itās about them boys. Great lads. The travelling is hard, itās a whole day basically gone every time we train. Iāve a young family. Commitments at home. Itās a long fucking journey to be making a few times every week. Iāll have a chat about it with my family and see where we are. But today isnāt about me, so itās not.ā
Antrim manager Davy Fitzgerald speaking following their 5-19 to 1-13 defeat to Offaly which condemns them to the Joe McDonagh Cup in 2026.
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Bluffer in Westmeath
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