Cork AUL 2023/24

[Broadway Joe]

What are the pick of the games this weekend?
Springfield ucc and watergrasshill Shandon be the standout 2 for me.

[Jason Bourne]

This has been the best season since we came back out of Covid in terms of actual competition in each division.

[Cityboy66]

Hopefully no games called off this weekend. Weather has been kind hopefully pitches have recovered enough,, a lot of teams gone weeks without a game don’t be suprised if we see some strange results…. hopefully we get a few weeks going on bounce now with evening games nearing too

[Cityboy66]

What are the pick of the games this weekend?
Springfield ucc and watergrasshill Shandon be the standout 2 for me.

2 AOH Games.. Rathcoole/Greenwood A and Knocka/Richmond.. Richmond doing well in league… Also Boher/Coachford B in Div 3 both going for Top 2…

[Broadway Joe]

2 AOH Games.. Rathcoole/Greenwood A and Knocka/Richmond.. Richmond doing well in league… Also Boher/Coachford B in Div 3 both going for Top 2…

Rathcoole and greenwood have both got stronger as season goes on to be fair.
Richmond going well in div 1 and knocka have lost 5 out of 8 in premier.

Boher flying it ....ill go with a greenwood,knocka,boher treble but expecting some close games

[Rossum]

Hopefully no games called off this weekend. Weather has been kind hopefully pitches have recovered enough,, a lot of teams gone weeks without a game don’t be suprised if we see some strange results…. hopefully we get a few weeks going on bounce now with evening games nearing too
Glenthorn grattan the first victim of the weekend

[latte2012]

Did any games go ahead today and are any going ahead tomorrow? Seems like we are doomed with this weather.

[The Goldfish]

I wonder did many games go ahead today?? Was talking to two of knocknaheeney celtic players well ago travelled all d way down to crossbaryy to play richmond in aoh cup and were togged off and ref walked pitch said no lines on pitch and grass was way to high to play a match and the richmond Committee rang the aul told them the situation early this morning but Aul member told them the referee has to inspect pitch and make the decision and offered to travel to knocknaheeney celtic to play match but Aul said no the referee has to inspect pitch first what an absolute disgraceful decision and carry on the Aul are living in cuckoo land

[GerCork]

4 out of 7 games off today. I would say teams were short players more than pitches being unplayable. It will probably be more of the same for tomorrow's fixtures

[Gunnerozil81]

The water that's fallen last few months is relentless. Most pitches thst don't have quality drainage works done need a week at least of dry weather

[Mashedpotato23]

View held to a draw by donomore today, anyone at the game?

[Broadway Joe]

4 out of 7 games off today. I would say teams were short players more than pitches being unplayable. It will probably be more of the same for tomorrow's fixtures

Looks like your prediciton was right.be some backlog st this rate.
Was talking to a watergrasahill lad this morning and they knew since yesterday morning game wasn't going ahead.
Apparently the hurlers had a game so it was clashing.
Youth game went ahead there yesterday.
No wonder the aul can't get through games

[Broadway Joe]

I wonder did many games go ahead today?? Was talking to two of knocknaheeney celtic players well ago travelled all d way down to crossbaryy to play richmond in aoh cup and were togged off and ref walked pitch said no lines on pitch and grass was way to high to play a match and the richmond Committee rang the aul told them the situation early this morning but Aul member told them the referee has to inspect pitch and make the decision and offered to travel to knocknaheeney celtic to play match but Aul said no the referee has to inspect pitch first what an absolute disgraceful decision and carry on the Aul are living in cuckoo land

Sounds like 1 of the games that could genuinely have gone ahead so.
Not sure what richmond are at not even cutting their grass.
But at least they had volunteered to move it i guess.

Yet the ref had to view the pitch and get his payout for turning up..haha.

Wonder how many of the games that were called off were inspected by refs as per the new aul rule.

It's gone mad at this stage...different rules for different trams.
It wouldn't surprise me if there's a loada walkovers in a few weeks when the fixture backlog arrives

[Play it out]

Ya an absolute dissaster of a year for weather.

Walkovers likely for teams without anything to play for, handy for teams still going for honours and are training motivated.

[Average Baller]

The mighty Grattan killer Bs’ title hopes took a bit of a dent this morning..

[latte2012]

The mighty Grattan killer Bs’ title hopes took a bit of a dent this morning..

That league is still open. All teams are capable of taking points off each other.

[fruice]

The mighty Grattan killer Bs’ title hopes took a bit of a dent this morning..

Bad result for them when you consider that’s Parkviews 1st point of the season.

Funny how things work Grattan Bs remaining games are all away from home.

[The Goldfish]

ANOTHER **** UP BY THE CORK AUL COMMITTEE ONCE AGAIN. I was speaking to Shandon Celtic skipper and he told me the Cork aul committee member rang the secretary to ask would they agree to change game from sunday morning to Saturday and rightly so refused to change dates to facilitate Watergrasshill as the Watergrashill hurlers were playing sunday and lone and behold a phone call came through on friday from Cork aul committee member to say the game is now off over pitch unplayable even though Shandon celtic argued the point in saying there pitch is playable but Cork aul were having none of it FAVOURISM for the mighty Watergrasshill is there for everyone to see 1 good season they had last year and the Cork aul are falling all over them Beggers belief i tell ya Beggers belief

[Hacker]

To be fair to Grattan that's not the Parkview team that started the season they have a lot of new additions recently.

They may be a better team than what we saw before christmas

[Jason Bourne]

Bweeng, Los Zarcos an Bosco's will all be hit hard with the Gaa an midweek games . I wouldnt worry about the Norries ,,,,,they might get a few additions themselves ;)

On the favouritisim thing.......

There's a Aul rule book there with loads of rules in it. It was written once by those who cared, an respected by those who played. It meant something.

Read it one way , makes perfect sence.
Turn the book 90 degrees an it looks a different set of rules , an those in this league who are good at the dark arts turn the book as they see fit.

The Aul merely apply the rules , depending on how the book is turned.

Every club has turned it in their favour at times .

[Cityboy66]

ANOTHER **** UP BY THE CORK AUL COMMITTEE ONCE AGAIN. I was speaking to Shandon Celtic skipper and he told me the Cork aul committee member rang the secretary to ask would they agree to change game from sunday morning to Saturday and rightly so refused to change dates to facilitate Watergrasshill as the Watergrashill hurlers were playing sunday and lone and behold a phone call came through on friday from Cork aul committee member to say the game is now off over pitch unplayable even though Shandon celtic argued the point in saying there pitch is playable but Cork aul were having none of it FAVOURISM for the mighty Watergrasshill is there for everyone to see 1 good season they had last year and the Cork aul are falling all over them Beggers belief i tell ya Beggers belief

To be honest there is Pro/Cons to this I personally don't see any issue with games being requested by teams to be moved to different days if that means the games are being played at this rate. Obviously teams want their best team available. If the opposition team rejects which is fair enough then the games should go ahead as planned on the fixed date. Hopefully the weather clears up over the next few weeks when midweek games kick in and this won't be happening as teams will not have a reason to be cancelling games.

[latte2012]

To be fair to Grattan that's not the Parkview team that started the season they have a lot of new additions recently.

They may be a better team than what we saw before christmas

That’s not the same grattan team that were doing well start of the season either.

[latte2012]

Bweeng, Los Zarcos an Bosco's will all be hit hard with the Gaa an midweek games . I wouldnt worry about the Norries ,,,,,they might get a few additions themselves ;)

On the favouritisim thing.......

There's a Aul rule book there with loads of rules in it. It was written once by those who cared, an respected by those who played. It meant something.

Read it one way , makes perfect sence.
Turn the book 90 degrees an it looks a different set of rules , an those in this league who are good at the dark arts turn the book as they see fit.

The Aul merely apply the rules , depending on how the book is turned.

Every club has turned it in their favour at times .

It’s hilarious how the norries presume that every country team is made up of GAA players. GAA will make very little or no difference to the teams you mentioned.

[Play it out]

Watergrasshill have a very good 19s side as well so they should have had all of them registered and able to use at any point t during the season.

[The Goldfish]

I heard there was a bit of commotion down in banteer Saturday evening between Donaghmore fc and Castleview fc where a Castleview player with his top off was running after a Donaghmore player around the pitch surley chips and beans will elaborate on this disgraceful carry on

[Broadway Joe]

ANOTHER **** UP BY THE CORK AUL COMMITTEE ONCE AGAIN. I was speaking to Shandon Celtic skipper and he told me the Cork aul committee member rang the secretary to ask would they agree to change game from sunday morning to Saturday and rightly so refused to change dates to facilitate Watergrasshill as the Watergrashill hurlers were playing sunday and lone and behold a phone call came through on friday from Cork aul committee member to say the game is now off over pitch unplayable even though Shandon celtic argued the point in saying there pitch is playable but Cork aul were having none of it FAVOURISM for the mighty Watergrasshill is there for everyone to see 1 good season they had last year and the Cork aul are falling all over them Beggers belief i tell ya Beggers belief

Laughable. Two teams on 4 games,1 team tryna get it played and the other no interest cause it clashed with hurling.
If they hadn't played each other yet surely they could have just done it in pophams if it was playable and done the reverse fixture in watergrasshill later!

Granted weather has been brutal but no good reason that game should not have gone ahead.

There was underage games on watergrasshill pitch Saturday so how the phone call made Friday to call it off.

Between that and the richmond/knocka grass cutting scenario another classic day for the AUL Hall of shame but no doubt the blazers will be out for the end of season p**s up and photos.

Hopefully with the bright nights coming we can get back to football and some good league run ins...division 2 in particular wide open.

I presume about 2/3 weeks for the night games?

[fruice]

The rules are the rules unfortunately it might annoy lads.

The rule book allows this to happen there is no rule making Watergrasshill go to Shandon.

The AUL will probably have asked them to go to Shandon but Watergrasshill are well entitled to say no.

It might leave a sour taste but no one doing anything against the rule book.

[Rossum]

The rules are the rules unfortunately it might annoy lads.

The rule book allows this to happen there is no rule making Watergrasshill go to Shandon.

The AUL will probably have asked them to go to Shandon but Watergrasshill are well entitled to say no.

It might leave a sour taste but no one doing anything against the rule book.
Shandon were asked to move the game to the Saturday and said no , play the game on the day it was fixtured for the Sunday

[Plumsfc]

Fixture was put out a week before they rang to try change it to help out Watergrashill..a joke helping out certain teams..didn’t every club get a email saying no games to be called off unless ref calls it

[AverageJoesGym]

Aul night tonight in the Kiln. Few pints with the lads. I'll be in attendance myself, anybody else from this forum going? I presume Ballwasthere will be up the Fob with the Village lads for Monday club .

[AULstarboy]

View held to a draw by donomore today, anyone at the game?

I heard the view had 4/5 starters playing and should have won by 6/7 they just couldnt score. Played most of second half with 10 when it was 1-1 thet went 2-1 up and conceded with a minute to go. no doubt the strongest team wil play Saturday to get it over the line and start their celebrations.

[AULstarboy]

I heard there was a bit of commotion down in banteer Saturday evening between Donaghmore fc and Castleview fc where a Castleview player with his top off was running after a Donaghmore player around the pitch surley chips and beans will elaborate on this disgraceful carry on

I heard that too. his season is over and he will be lucky to escape a ban for the start of next season. Although i did hear it was a very soft red. both players had a kick out at eachother and one got sent off.

[Plumsfc]

Rules are rules but didn’t every club get a email stating no games can be called off unless pitch is unplayable or ref calls it

[Average Baller]

Any drama in the Kiln last night I wonder? Grattan and the two teams they have recent history with.. great planning ??

[latte2012]

Any drama in the Kiln last night I wonder? Grattan and the two teams they have recent history with.. great planning ??

Jesus Christ boy. It’s not 3 cartels they had in there. Hope nobody got shot in retaliation for handbags at a junior ball game that happened in the past.

[Jason Bourne]

Glenthorn deducted 3 points ,,,,,,,that's the end of that.

2 horse race to stay up......Corkbeg and City Wanderers.

Springfield should be OK long as they win at home.

Village get a draw or win against Coachford an they still must be considered contenters.

UCC , the jury is out on them.

Won games we knew they win,,,,,,,were beaten hands down by Grattan. Very iffy in the cups.

Coachford,,,,,,won't stop in fairness. League or Cup

Grattan are a different beast this season. Tis all on the table.

Be interesting to see how the cards fall.

[fruice]

A tight call between city wanderers and Corkbeg to finish 3rd from bottom but even after that they must face the winners of the Premier A playoff to stay up

[Play it out]

The league forgot that a couple of years ago and in the end the teams told the league they couldn't be bothered. I can see it not happening again.

Maybe your post will remind them!

[GerCork]

And just like that the mid week ball begins. Going to be an interesting few weeks.

[Harsh ref]

A lads the weather is shocking few days away in Malaga I had couldn’t post wife said no phones or talking rubbish so I’m back now take it I didn’t miss much grattan game off tomorrow

[Play it out]

Glenthorn v Springfield off, is that pitch or player numbers do people know?

[Harsh ref]

Glenthorn pitch was never going to be playable anyone that played there will know the far corner couldn’t hold a cup of water

[Play it out]

Certainly. They have struggled to field recently and got deducted points.

Glenthorn could easily be strong again next season with a manager with pull in the area.

[Ballwasthere]

I work with a lad signed with them and he said the match was called before they even asked about numbers so I’d say it must be the pitch, the side nearest the bank is notorious for bogging

[Cityboy66]

I work with a lad signed with them and he said the match was called before they even asked about numbers so I’d say it must be the pitch, the side nearest the bank is notorious for bogging

It can actually be a lovely pitch on a good day to be fair. Hill with a 3-2 win today, Catherdral winning 4-2 and Coachford 3-0. Good to see some pitches passing the weather Atleast. Hopefully a dry spell now and plenty of games with midweek games back in the next few weeks..

[Broadway Joe]

Some cracking games for the different divisions down next week.
Coachford ucc
Watergrashill shandon(if there's no hurling)
and bweeng Boscos all big games for the relevant leagues

[Harsh ref]

Ah lads I thought Castleview won league in November the way they were on Facebook just seen league table there it’s still going on 5 months later for god sake great credit to Cathedral to keep plugging away and keeping it going thought they’d fall apart after the main man got suspended no disrespect that league very poor night games on the way hopefully we see top teams a lot more now hopefully grats keep form going cream always rising to the top.

[The Goldfish]

I was at that game today and the way Cathedral celtic played today it was very good that old lad up top/wing i think they were calling him winks he took his goals very well but the standard has dropped massively i agree with yourself Harsh Reff i deleted a few of Castleview players off social media over the way they were celebrating in December saying they have league in the bag but only for seniors they would be no where near the top of that league just my opinion

[Cityboy66]

Ah lads I thought Castleview won league in November the way they were on Facebook just seen league table there it’s still going on 5 months later for god sake great credit to Cathedral to keep plugging away and keeping it going thought they’d fall apart after the main man got suspended no disrespect that league very poor night games on the way hopefully we see top teams a lot more now hopefully grats keep form going cream always rising to the top.

Home to Kilbrittain in AOH Last 16 Nxt wk so still silverware to play for to be fair. Big chance of promotion too.

[Play it out]

Castleview have had a great season.

They've done it with most of last year's squad and a few signings, good going. Cathedral and Knocka haven't been a match. Cathedral now doing well after a tough time, fair play to them too.