Limerick Premier Division 2011/12

[mrman]

there should be a playoff at the end of the season between 2nd and 3rd in D1a and 2nd and 3rd last in the premiership, having teams going up that cant compete is a bit of a joke and disheartening to a club that cant compete

[Bayern Munchies]

I was talking to 2 pike people (well in the know up in pike) sunday night and they said pike are going A championship next year dont know how true this is but these are two good pike men.

yeah defiantly going to happen...If it wasn't impossible :p...seeing as there is no A championship next year I extremely doubt they'll be going into it ;)

[Jofspring]

Ha ha.....Ya no A championship for the foreseeable future so unless they applied for the first division by November 20th they are going nowhere. Poor attempt at a fake rumour there.

[Second]

I was talking to 2 pike people (well in the know up in pike) sunday night and they said pike are going A championship next year dont know how true this is but these are two good pike men.

It's not April 1st is it .. Ha ha what a stupid rumour to try start

[Fairkop]

so two good pike men (well in the know up in pike) said pike are going to play in a league that does not exist next year........best of luck anyways,the whole of limerick are behind yee,theres no doubt yer favourites to win it.

[Second]

so two good pike men (well in the know up in pike) said pike are going to play in a league that does not exist next year........best of luck anyways,the whole of limerick are behind yee,theres no doubt yer favourites to win it.

Any odds on this league might throw my mortgage on pike winning it

[Bayern Munchies]

I'm not a betting man but if they do enter it...I'd say they would be favorites...Couldn't look past them.

[Hollywood Hogan]

Why would pike want to go down the LOI route, they have 3 players in their squad that have turned down the opportunity to play LOI. They would just join other sides in Limerick. Pike are grand where they are and will no doubt continue to dominate local football for years to come

[Jofspring]

Why would pike want to go down the LOI route, they have 3 players in their squad that have turned down the opportunity to play LOI. They would just join other sides in Limerick. Pike are grand where they are and will no doubt continue to dominate local football for years to come

I think you missed the point though. We know they aren't going down the LOI route because despite what hightackles two good pike men well in the know say, there is no A championship anymore so its a non story really.

[Second]

It's hardly because they didn't want to play LOI that they signed for pike.. Ha ha

[mrman]

We all know why they signed for Pike, its Loyalty to Pike or maybe not lololol

[twofeet noboots]

Lads we all know why people sign for pike, get over it and get back to soccer talk please.

[Black and Red]

christy doyle goin to the boro i heard

[deadly man]

We all know why they signed for Pike, its Loyalty to Pike or maybe not lololol
Here we go with the stupid comments again
Pike are a great club with great players and great clubmen
Ease up on the pike bashing lads

[thomas72]

YEllow Lyons to the boro heard its good as done if true that would be the signing of the season yellow and mike o gorman would better anything around.

[abbeyvale]

there should be a playoff at the end of the season between 2nd and 3rd in D1a and 2nd and 3rd last in the premiership, having teams going up that cant compete is a bit of a joke and disheartening to a club that cant compete

So based on your idea of trying to strenghten the Prem, a team could finish 5th in 1A this season and be in with a chance of playing Prem football the following season via a play-off,
For example if Div 1A finished with lets say Dines 1st, Shannon Hibs 2nd, Pike 3rd, Balla 4th and Shannon Town 5th, and Shannon Town went on to meet 3rd last in the Prem and beat them in a one off game, how would that strenghten the Prem?

Next season , you'd end up with a team that finished 10th in the Prem this season being replaced by a team that finished mid-table in Div 1A.

[Black and Red]

your dead right abbeyvale stick to the way it is now because that idea would just make the leauge weaker

[mrman]

So based on your idea of trying to strenghten the Prem, a team could finish 5th in 1A this season and be in with a chance of playing Prem football the following season via a play-off,
For example if Div 1A finished with lets say Dines 1st, Shannon Hibs 2nd, Pike 3rd, Balla 4th and Shannon Town 5th, and Shannon Town went on to meet 3rd last in the Prem and beat them in a one off game, how would that strenghten the Prem?

Next season , you'd end up with a team that finished 10th in the Prem this season being replaced by a team that finished mid-table in Div 1A.

if they beat a premiership team do you not think they should be classed as better than that team then, surely both teams would make sure thay had a full strength team out for that game, what the alternative to stop teams from not competing when they are promoted.

[Jofspring]

if they beat a premiership team do you not think they should be classed as better than that team then, surely both teams would make sure thay had a full strength team out for that game, what the alternative to stop teams from not competing when they are promoted.

Beating a team in a once off doesn't mean over a season they would be stronger. By that logic Hospital beating Killmallock in the FAI means Hospital should be up in the premier or are better than some premier teams.

It does seem wrong though that a team can finish midtable in 1A and be playing Premier the following season.

Abbeyvale had a good Idea before where there was a few divisions of all A teams. Premier A, 1A, 2A and below that would be Premier B, 1B, 2B. It would mean the A and B teams are kept seperate and teams will go up on the merit of A team vs A team and B team vs B team. It would mean players playing with for example Pike B and Balla B have something they can win and reach the top of i.e be the Premier B champions and not just win 1A and be stuck there. At the moment that would look like.

Premier A: Pike, Janesboro, Carew Park, Fairview, Regional, Killmallock, Balla, Wembley, Star, Aisling, Corbally, Summerville

1A: Geraldines, Shannon Hibs, Caherconlish, Caherdavin, Shannon, Mungret, Charleville, Granville, Croom, Moyross, Dromore, Bruff

and so on below that, 2A.

Premier B: Pike B, Balla B, Fairview B, Janesboro B, Killmallock B, Corbally B, Aisling B, Summerville B, Geraldines B, Charleville B, Regional B, Shannon Hibs B.

and so on below that, 1B, 2B.

It would be interesting to see how that would work. It may not work at all though.

It would also add some of the stronger lower division A teams that are making there way up in with other A teams for example, Lisnagry, Weston, Hill Celtic, Hyde, Coonagh, Ballylanders would be in tougher divisions and the teams higher up would be in tougher divisions instead of there being a big gap between the top 3 or 4 in lower divisions and the rest. And also the stronger B teams in lower divisions i.e Charleville B, Shannon Town B, Geraldines B, Prospect B will be in tougher divisions also and make it more competitive.

[widow]

Best idea I've heard in a long time. Something has to be done to rejuvenate junior soccer in limerick, standard is **** poor apart from two teams full of mercenaries

[mrman]

surely if you playing a relegation playoff you will field your best team and if so then the best team will win on the day, I agree that a team who wins a div that cannot go up is unfair but a team that comes 5th in the div should not also go up unless they can beat whats at the bottom of the league ahead of them, does that not make sense,

anyway I also agree that something has to be done about the premier div its in 3 teirs at the moment

[blinkx]

YEllow Lyons to the boro heard its good as done if true that would be the signing of the season yellow and mike o gorman would better anything around.

I'd still prefer John Tierney.

How many players have the Boro signed now? Must be verging on 20-25??

Alot of players to keep happy. I wonder what's attracting Christy Doyle down there.

[passandmove]

Mrman most divisions in limerick are in three tiers so the prem is no different.Also about the standard,dont the currernt fai champs come from limerick?Didnt a 1a side reach a munster semi last season?Also this constant complaining about pike and boro being too strong is getting tiresome,havent balla ran both teams very close on a couple of occasions this season?didnt caherdavin take pike to pens?wembley drew with boro last weekend,carew or the view could catch either team on a good day too.Teams just seem to take the easy wayout by constanstly moaning,why not try meet the challange and work harder?If players dont want to play against a tierney, barry, moloney, clarke, waters, kavanagh or whoever they should go sign for a lower league club in my opinion.

[Black and Red]

prob d chance of winning a premier leauge medal at the end of the season

[hotspur]

Best idea I've heard in a long time. Something has to be done to rejuvenate junior soccer in limerick, standard is **** poor apart from two teams full of mercenaries
Balla have a big turn over of players every year robbie kel, barry quinn, dodo or dildo what ever ye call him he played with caherdavin, fahy played with granville fairview, yer keeper played with corbally and most of the balla team are from moyross.

[hotspur]

Mrman most divisions in limerick are in three tiers so the prem is no different.Also about the standard,dont the currernt fai champs come from limerick?Didnt a 1a side reach a munster semi last season?Also this constant complaining about pike and boro being too strong is getting tiresome,havent balla ran both teams very close on a couple of occasions this season?didnt caherdavin take pike to pens?wembley drew with boro last weekend,carew or the view could catch either team on a good day too.Teams just seem to take the easy wayout by constanstly moaning,why not try meet the challange and work harder?If players dont want to play against a tierney, barry, moloney, clarke, waters, kavanagh or whoever they should go sign for a lower league club in my opinion. Super post passandmove wembley very unlucky not to beat the boro pike lost three matches this year.

[blueboy2]

YEllow Lyons to the boro heard its good as done if true that would be the signing of the season yellow and mike o gorman would better anything around. Lyons Ryan and Gary Higgins gone to Pike maybe the two good men well in the know up in the Pike can confirm this.

[deadly man]

Lyons Ryan and Gary Higgins gone to Pike maybe the two good men well in the know up in the Pike can confirm this.
You seem to know everyones business Blueboy
Did Prospect sign many players?

[Soccer Lover]

aa 3:0 summerville

both sides poor, aa could have won by 10

[abbeyvale]

Premier P W D L F A Pts
Janesboro 13 12 1 0 57 15 37
Pike Rovers 11 10 0 1 49 10 30
Carew Park 13 9 1 3 28 19 28
Fairview Rgs 12 7 1 4 42 20 22
Regional Utd 13 7 1 5 23 24 22
Kilmallock 14 7 0 7 26 26 21
Ballynanty Rs 13 5 2 6 32 23 17
Aisling Ann 13 4 1 8 20 43 13
Wembley Rvs 11 3 3 5 18 24 12
Star Rvs 12 3 1 8 14 42 10
Corbally Utd 12 2 1 9 23 40 7
Summerville 13 0 0 13 8 54 0

Results
03/12/11
Aisling Annacotty 3-0 Summerville Rvs,

04/12/11
Ballynanty Rvs 0-1 Kilmallock,

Fixtures
11/12/11
Star Rvs v Wembley Rvs, 10.30, K Gorman
Corbally Utd v Kilmallock, 10.30, D Broughton
Regional Utd v Fairview Rgs, 10.30, G Clancy

[abbeyvale]

Results and table updated above, also includes next weeks Prem fixtures

[abbeyvale]

if they beat a premiership team do you not think they should be classed as better than that team then, surely both teams would make sure thay had a full strength team out for that game, what the alternative to stop teams from not competing when they are promoted.

So based on your theory, Caherdavin (a mid-table first division team at present) are on a par with the current FAI and Premier League Champions (seeing as though they drew with them last week)????? Will you stop for god sake.

Any 1 team could catch any other team on a one off performance, its the luck on the day, but you need some sort of consistancy to stay in the Prem (one result won't get you that)

We beat Balla 3-2 last month in a good display, did we deserve it? Yes, Are we a better and more consistant side than Balla? No.............Do you get it now pal?

[AlanOB]

Great away win for Kilmallock today. Wouldn't mind seeing a match report on that. Seen a lot of Balla lately and am a slight bit surprised by that result.

[passandmove]

Wembley Star is a big game next weekend,looks like its 2 from wembley star aa and corbally to go,Kilmallock are safe as houses after today's great win for them.

[Hollywood Hogan]

Wembley will be ok, for me between star and corbally to join Summerville in 1a next year

[deadly man]

Wembley Star is a big game next weekend,looks like its 2 from wembley star aa and corbally to go,Kilmallock are safe as houses after today's great win for them.
Wembley seem to have gotten there act together to be fair,cant see them been relegated
Star are on a horrible run at the moment,if they get Kevin Barry in they have a great chance of staying up
AA are very very very very poor,hopefully they will get the chop

[Fairkop]

just past the halfway mark lads and what shocks me about that table is the fact ballynanty are 20pts behind the league leaders.

[whitestripe]

Wembley seem to have gotten there act together to be fair,cant see them been relegated
Star are on a horrible run at the moment,if they get Kevin Barry in they have a great chance of staying up
AA are very very very very poor,hopefully they will get the chop

AA have more points this year than this stage last year, so hopefully they will not get the chop.

[Hollywood Hogan]

Hope AA stay up, had an awful start to the season with several of their players heading for greener pastures. They have a super set up out there. As for balla result Sunday, it was a nothing game with their biggest game of season this sunday

[booster 03]

aa 3:0 summerville

both sides poor, aa could have won by 10


explain where and how it should have been 10, this arrogance ****es me right off

[Jofspring]

The two good pike men can confirm.

Looks like the two good men above in Pike were wrong again. Yellow has signed for the boro according to everyone on the Facebook page.

[neverseenit]

Kevin Barry signs with pike A...

[passandmove]

Yellow is a great signing for boro top player,is it only the top 2 makings signings?Any other clubs with any transfer information?I dont think their will be any ins or outs at wembley neways.

[mastermind1]

Kevin Barry trained with Avenue United last week, I spoke to him briefly and he seems like a nice fella. He did mention there were a few clubs he was thinking about signing for and Pike were definitely one of them. Has the signing been confirmed? Didnt get to see much of the lad to tell if he was good but he certainly has the height and power to cause problems, would he be good enough to start for pike?

[neverseenit]

Kevin Barry trained with Avenue United last week, I spoke to him briefly and he seems like a nice fella. He did mention there were a few clubs he was thinking about signing for and Pike were definitely one of them. Has the signing been confirmed? Didnt get to see much of the lad to tell if he was good but he certainly has the height and power to cause problems, would he be good enough to start for pike?Good player alright and does cause problems to teams.. Not a starter for pike though.. Good sub to bring on..was doing well for Carew but was sub a couple of times so he won't start for pike either in my opinion

[Raheen Boy]

Is Ian Storan signed with any club this year now that he is back from Buffalo?

[Hollywood Hogan]

Think this is kevins fourth club since last December, good player but will be third choice at pike behind Alan and pat. Yellow is some signing for Boro, top top player, way above junior football. Boro will push pike all the way with the squad they have now

[Fairkop]

lyons is another big signing for the boro,strong squad being built there and to secure his signing given they are out of fai is indeed impressive.

[barryk]

1813
Saw this picture on www.limericksoccer.com. Can Anyone name the player bottom left

[leather]

I think it is the chap from shannon, played with the view for a seaon, gifted left foot...frank nolan??