Cork AUL 2025/26

[Cityboy66]

Heard Wanders are gone alright. If this is true they shouldn’t be allowed enter the league or any league anymore between fielding illegal players and this they’ve been an issue for years now.

[Harsh ref]

League is bit of a farce to be honest apart from coachford it’s Dog ****e go threw teams

Donoughmore struggle with gaa

Village will be village really offer nothing

Knocka could be gone at anytime

Ucc allowed start when they want and their very poor

grattan will be grattan always there or about but will win nothing with coachford about

And castleview struggling for team manager playing on goal

And this is best Aul top league have to offer quite poor in fairness

[Harsh ref]

Lads im back im only saying what i heard but boys our first week back
next week we can have full fixtures but pinting with grattan lads hears their lads out next Friday for the horses so ya man curtain asked peppa after drink down the klín left week for free weekend and lord and be hold he sorted um hahah surely Martin need to talk to peppa the helper

[meballs]

Grattan are entitled the same as anyone else to ask for a free weekend surely?

Awful shame City Wanderers are gone, they were a good outfit for the past decade or two.

[Ballwasthere]

Regardless of what people think of any alleged shenanigans on wanderers part over the years at the end of the day we’re down another team, there’s 14 teams between the top two divisions, it needs a reshuffle in the summer

[forward152]

No matter that the reason, there's a lot of teams close to folding, or struggling. Why are lads giving up soccer for other sports. Pitches, weather, facilities??

[Broadway Joe]

No matter that the reason, there's a lot of teams close to folding, or struggling. Why are lads giving up soccer for other sports. Pitches, weather, facilities??

Open to correction here but munster junior league teams dont seem to be folding.
Maybe some teams are just sick of the s**show the aul has become.
Probably will struggle to finish season in all divisions again so will give nil nil draws as results like a few years back.

They obviously can't control the weather but 7/8team divisions,no backup plan (astro pitches) for bad weather means teams go weeks on end without games.
Must be hard to keep interested for teams that are not in contention.

Aul struggling to get 4/5 fixtures going ahead over a weekend but shipping league fulfilling all fixtures every week not a great sign either.

Im hearing of 1 other team in prem A that will prob call it a day at end of season aswell.

[Harsh ref]

You’ll have same problem next season as you did this year teams from Premier A refusing to go up cause they know they be wasting their times against coachford at least staying down the divisions they have some hope of silverware.

And Joe your spot on with Aul having no plan B I was talking to two managers recently that said they haven’t played for nearly two months how can you keep players interested if you have nothing to play for

[One touch]

Lads the demise of the aul is there 10yrs or more. Reduced number of teams every year - 6 or 7 teams in a division is a joke, if you can't have 10 team divisions, reduce the number of divisions! games called off all over the place , its amazing how the poor weather mostly affects aul teams pitches and avoids msl and cbl grounds.Total overhaul in Aul needed quickly or it will fade away, its now by far the worst league in Cork junior soccer (emphasised by no oscar traynor team) behind msl, cbl, wcl and even Cork youths league is far better run.

[fruice]

The reason MJL teams aren’t folding is they are clubs not teams.

They have a steady influx of players coming through to keep the show on the road it’s a simple as that,

It’s numbers that are beating the AUL
teams.

5 years time you will have a much different look in the top divisions in the AUL.

City teams are on a constant scramble for players and some will hit on the right group for year or two but will fall away again.

It’s evident in most city teams and their numbers aren’t big.

There is no hiding anymore with the APP.

Coahford dominance doesn’t help things either

[forward152]

Agreed, sorry I meant AUL specifically

[forward152]

The prospect of summer football is also appealing to some players

[meballs]

Summer Football would help in many ways. The costs for clubs would reduce as all weather pitches would be needed far less often for games and trainings.These don`t impact MSL / MJL teams as much as lots of them already have all waethers or floodlighted training pitches etc. If playing in summer evening games could be utilised for much of the season meaning more gamedays & the shortage of refs would be less significant. Either way Summer Football will always be dividing opinions thats simply mine. Premier AUL is a one horse race these days, most teams don`t expect to win the AOH either and think if we can avoid Coachford we might make a final. Prem A has been a nightmare this season as it was a mixed 6 team league with 2 decent enough sides (Banteer & Springfield), 2 average sides in Hibs & Strand & 2 Strugglers Shandon & Glenthorn.Someone says above that a Prem A team is calling it a day i`ll guess that`s Shandon as i would expect Glenthorn to return to having just 1 team which would be the current Prem A side.In a strange way i reckon the 3 lower divisions have all improved in recent years meaning that gap is closing & some of those can compete higher up potentially with a rejig of leagues incoming.

[Harsh ref]

Will there be many games played this weekend with weather not great for the week

[Harsh ref]

There won't be no training up in northside this week I'm up here in the topser with a few gratten and castleview heads a good banter between us and peppa is on his way soon with tickets

[Average Baller]

2 cup finals down in Cobh this weekend hope we get 2 good games.

[One touch]

Well lads, the final paragraph of Conlons interview in the echo today says it all. The chairman of the aul hoping that the aul and msl would come together in 1 league! He knows the aul is going down the pan. Can count on one hand the clubs that the msl would entertain- the BS that goes on in aul would not be tolerated there. Take out Coachford and there ain't many left. Training will be done in the pubs across Cork this week. Farcical!!

[Harsh ref]

Couldn’t agree more One touch.

And on training i said it yesterday about them all out drinking Castleview grattan had to cancel training last night over lads in pub ha be surprised if they don’t have to Thursday night and theses teams want to compete with coachford for honours castleview grattan knocka would be better off if they brought back the inter pub league mad for drinks theses boys and don’t forget it’s the Aul have to offer haha

[The Goldfish]

The norries not training this week? i heard that gratten called off there training for the week peppa done them a huge favour by giving them a free weekend and they are supposed to be challenging for leagues and cups etc, I don't think coachford are missing training this week to go to pub to watch horse racing thats the difference in winning mentality and that stems from club culture and proper management unlike the bluffers thats up in norrie land thinking there big clubs and poor management.

[Retired Folk]

Grattan the oldest club in the AUL and a very sucessfull one at that. Have been challenging for premier Titles for years.

Knocka who won all the Aul has to offer and brought great sucess and exposure to the Club and area.

Castleview the most decorated club currently in the Aul and the only Club to actually keep a team in the Aul after Moving to MSL. I think people cant see passed the fact they have more than one team in here and forget the 3 they have in the MSL already??

All the big Clubs in the MSL came from the Aul Ringmahon,Marys,Castleview and so on.

Why knock down Clubs. Why not get involved with one of um and fix the issues been claimed. This is after all JNR football.

It be no walk in the park For Coachford in the MSL.

Northside is flooded with Football Clubs compared to others.

[Harsh ref]

Retired we can talk about oldest club and team that has done well but hands down every team up north side knocka grattan castleview didnt have numbers this week had to call training off Tue and thurs and there the teams we want to compete with coachford will any secretary in aul have balls to call peppa out and ask him why teams getting free weekend first week back im telling ye now this aul gone absolute farce wait now for two weeks time when gaa fixtures out I bet ye million dollars coachford won’t have game on Sunday when their playing gaa and peppa will give up Fri away to wanderers or handy sat to village 100%and say what people on about coachford still playing you won’t see um away to grattan week their playing gaa maybe i be wrong but watch this space

[forward152]

Still a lot of games called off. Hopefully next weekend will see a few more games.

[Waterloo]

Still a lot of games called off. Hopefully next weekend will see a few more games.

Ya shame there was not much on this weekend 🤣🤣🤣

[meballs]

Well done to both Waterloo & Belmount on their cup wins, big weekend for both clubs. Cup wins for Grattan B & Blackpool over Blackstone & Glenthorn B in the city challenge booking their places in the semis.Coachford again with a stroll in the park, you have to give them credit to be fair they can keep doing it every week there is very little slacking off.

[Harsh ref]

That’s the point I was making MeBalls coachford still training still winning and the Norries calling training off and getting free weekends so lads can go drinking thats a difference between them and the rest the best theses other 6 teams in Premier can hope for in day out in turners cross coachford will have league over in next 2 or 3 weeks league has become a farce

[Harsh ref]

Well lads we finally get to see a full set of games great weather proud day for the Aul

So here goes I’ll be taking myself up to Grattan park before I head to work so hopefully a good game but for me

As long as grattan and knocka players have the beer out of system can see both. winning quite handy today

As for Village v Castleview for me this could end up 5 all both backline poor but goals in both and especially the dog walker for castleview is on fire at the moment so should see plenty of goal mouth action

[Harsh ref]

Good win for grattan

If I’m hearing right looks like the beer still in system of knocka heads haha

[Ballwasthere]

Village-View 2-2, both teams struggled playing up the hill, village could have been 4 up at half time, Castleview could have and maybe should have won it in the end, decent game

[Harsh ref]

Think I a poor pundit on my predictions

Knocka 150 chances on goal strikers need to bury heads bate out the gate




Wasn’t far off Village v view 2 all my god could of being 4/4 fair play


Grattan doing what they do best playing D Murray

[Harsh ref]

12 hour shift done boys pint for second half of City game not bad weekend of football seen Casey done well with Munster team how will peppa look after them now without him just asking did they play this weekend

[goal-achio]

But are they not entitled to have a weekend off if they have a representative on the munster team?

[forward152]

They've only 5 league games to play too

[Broadway Joe]

They've only 5 league games to play too

3games I think if you throw in the 2 walkover against city wanderers

[latte2012]

But are they not entitled to have a weekend off if they have a representative on the munster team?

Of course. They’ve played more games than anyone else all season too.

[Bowser]

Of course. They’ve played more games than anyone else all season too.

Coachford have the bar set and its a high bar, they have to play everyone at some stage so the moaning on here is a bit painful- up to everyone else to close the gap
On a separate note- the Business League gone to summer football, could be interesting with fellas hopping clubs to keep playing all summer- they might go with that intention but by time AUL pre-season comes around if the teams they join are in the hunt for trophies you might find they'll stay put- could be problematic for AUL teams. Is there any sort of rules around it?

[Hacker]

The 3 team one calendar season rule might have an impact.

[Bowser]

The 3 team one calendar season rule might have an impact.

But if I leave my current AUL side to play for Ice Cream Van United I can go back to same AUL club technically.
The issue I see is if that was a players genuine intention but Ice Cream van Utd reach a cup final the player might think again and this could damage the AUL.
The leagues should have come together about the different calendars and set some rules

[forward152]

One impact on AUL teams is players can go to the CBL outside of the AUL transfer window. AUL teams could be hit by lads leaving.

[Harsh ref]

Predictions today

Grattan 9 nil

Cathedral Celtic 4 1

And assuming knocka lads sober

Knocka 8 nil

[AverageJoesGym]

Fai Junior Cup 3rd Round

Grattan v Knocka
Cow v Coachford
Castleview/Blarney v Carrigtowhill United
Banteer v Bandon/Ringmahon

Some interesting games there.

[Harsh ref]

Lads do ye think the fixtures for next week will go up today or is blast from the past pictures more important

[forward152]

Fixtures are up on one of the other AUL sites

[Harsh ref]

They seen me post fair play

[Harsh ref]

Lads Aul must be looking to bring in few pound Im giving ye a week notice now I just seen the Ref Aul is sending up to do grattan knocka game he’ll dish out cards for players sneezing absolutely horrendous Aul only asking for trouble in my eyes im back Fri night from few days away definitely taking this one in over 7.5 cards is banker bet for me lump job them gangster know how to bring money in haha and I hope we seen AUL committee out in force next week cause I know they all read this so I’m giving ye notice