Who wants summer soccer!!!!

[franz]

I am still not sure
Someone do a pole or is ther one????

[pete]

Pole here (http://www.indospectrum.com/travels/vancouver/files/cd040_27aug04_totem_poles_stanley_park_183.html)

[themull69]

Pole here (http://www.indospectrum.com/travels/vancouver/files/cd040_27aug04_totem_poles_stanley_park_183.html)

I have to admit that is funny!! Wasn't expecting that at all.

[mypost]

our players have to....raise a family AND play for one of the most successful teams in the EL for the past few years. All they want is a couple of days break.

Where d'you think this is? Communist China?? :confused: Sorry that it sounds cold, but nobody forced them to have a family. The relatively few players who have families know full well, what the story is here before they play in the LOI. If you want to take holidays in the summer; take them, but don't play in our league.

As it is, Longford are out of everything now, so that provides plenty of breaks and weeks off during the season for their few players to spend with their families. :rolleyes:

It's sad to say that several clubs in this country are more interested in having time off, than trying to make progress. :mad:

[Castle Barracks]

Do you lot consider the switch to summer footy a success?Have attendances increased?Are EL clubs doing better in Europe?What do you do between December & March?What will happen if Ireland qualify for next summer's World Cup(please God)?Will you regular EL & national side fans be forced to make the unbearable choice,club v country?My interest is heightened by the Welsh Premiership's flirting of this issue!

[tiktok]

Pole here (http://www.indospectrum.com/travels/vancouver/files/cd040_27aug04_totem_poles_stanley_park_183.html)

Nicely done :D

[superfrank]

What will happen if Ireland qualify for next summer's World Cup(please God)?Will you regular EL & national side fans be forced to make the unbearable choice,club v country?
I will gladly pick club over country!!


Are EL clubs doing better in Europe?
Isn't there a match on tomorrow night?? Just because you didn't get through, doesn't mean all other EL clubs fell at the first hurdle for a second year in a row.

[crc]

I am still not sure
Someone do a pole or is ther one????

pole here
It's poll :rolleyes:

A pole is a big stick, which obviously you weren't hit with often enough at school! :D

[Schumi]

It's poll :rolleyes:

A pole is a big stick, which obviously you weren't hit with often enough at school! :D
Did you click pete's link?

[franz]

ha ha
so sorry I made the mistake
Its back to school for me!!!
It must be great to be perfect.

so do we keep summer soccer or not?
I say no

[crc]

Did you click pete's link?
No, just saw it now, sorry Pete. I though he was linking to the poll that was actually taken on summer soccer, but I suppose I should have checked it out first.

[crc]

so do we keep summer soccer or not?
I say no
There's no way we should change. Summer soccer is much better. Teams are (mostly) playing better football, and I don't remember the last time a game was called off due to bad weather (which was not the case with the winter league).

[mypost]

I don't remember the last time a game was called off due to bad weather (which was not the case with the winter league).

There haven't been many postponements due to bad weather. Happened at Longford a couple of years ago though, the pitch was waterlogged. It even postponed an Ireland U-21 International a few days later. :eek:

The last NL postponement because of bad weather was the Home Farm - Shamrock Rovers game at Tolka, in November 2004.

[Bosco]

Isn't there a match on tomorrow night?? Just because you didn't get through, doesn't mean all other EL clubs fell at the first hurdle for a second year in a row.

Pay attention superfrank,hes not a town fan or even an el fan,read again.

[Sonic]

Id prefer winter soccer atmoospheres but summer has worked for (lets be honest on the euro thing) every1 except us.So for that reason summer is best.

[Rebal Boy]

Summer soccer all the way. The evening are much brighter and it doesn't get cold till the Sun goes down and Irish clubs are doing better in Europe since it came in.

[thejollyrodger]

I think we have seen tonight the limit of summer soccer advantage. It can help us get teams into the third round each season of either the UEFA Cup or Champions League. To take it to the next level we have to improve on things like

Ball retention
Upper body strength
concentration

and all that kind of stuff richardson was on about. Summer soccer is good for our co-effficent and will drag us to 30th in the European Co efficient table but we to take it to the next level

[Wiseguy]

IMO it's hard to say if summer soccer has worked or not.The quality of football being played is better.Teams are generally doing better in Europe.No matches are being called off and it is generally a better experience going to watch a match.
Other than the improvement in the weather everything else has coincided with teams switching to full time football.IMO this is the biggest factor of all and only time will tell whether it has worked or not.

[Bosco]

worked for (lets be honest on the euro thing) every1 except us.

Its worked for everyone(everyone being cork and shels) except for us and bohs(2 part time teams).Playing euro games in the middle of the season is a great benefit but we'd be fooling ourselves if we thought that that was the only reason cork and shels are getting better results in europe.The full-time set up has to be recognised as a major factor in recent results in europe

[themull69]

Its worked for everyone(everyone being cork and shels) except for us and bohs(2 part time teams).Playing euro games in the middle of the season is a great benefit but we'd be fooling ourselves if we thought that that was the only reason cork and shels are getting better results in europe.The full-time set up has to be recognised as a major factor in recent results in europe

Just a small correction there Bosco, Bohs are a full time outfit.

[Bosco]

I was under the impression that bohs went back to being part-time at the start of the season.Certainly they have a good few full-time players but i dont think they all are.Are they?

[superfrank]

I was under the impression that bohs went back to being part-time at the start of the season.Certainly they have a good few full-time players but i dont think they all are.Are they?
I think it's like half and half. Stephen Ward is a part-timer but Farrelly, Hunt and Gregg (AFAIK) are full-time.

[daithi]

I kinda miss the freezing cold nights watching football, then going to the pub to warm up on whisky and stout! Call me mad but going to a game wearing a t-shirt is just not right........... and no I don't mean just a t-shirt