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Good to see Luke back to Coachford and Dean with Village, not sure how long both will last but good to see Senior talent in the AUL. Who's the superstar on the way to Village Hacker? I thought they were finished with signings. Have Grattan brought anyone of note?.. two CBL teams have left and headed over to the AUL, are the tides changing. Hearing most teams sick of playing too many midweek fixtures and then giving teams free weekends, fixtures secretary not listening.
Normally a rounds played early will prob have a couple of league games first few weeks. I see that most leagues are down to 14 games in season bar Div 3 so they might prioritise a few rounds of that first not sure what the situation with referees is this year have we lost/gained ?Quote:
Originally Posted by fruice
The divisions look to be balanced on quality with maybe the exception of the 3rd division.
Hopefully all very competitive which is exactly what is needed.
The league needs to get back to 50 teams 5 divisions of 10 with all clubs having 18 competitive league games ,that should be the main target for the league in the short term
looks like my contact was right so. So between the Cow and Crookstown thats two league winners gone out of the CBL . Place is falling apartQuote:
Originally Posted by Dr. football
3 of UCC are gone to.Quote:
Originally Posted by KevinJBarry
Let’s be honest it’s all teams in the CBL not clubs they will come and go.
AUL still has a few “clubs” left but not many!
Sorry i was speaking in relation to 2 of the CBLs league winners have left the CBL . 3 clubs but 2 league winners.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dr. football
Has JP left Grattan?
Ya he’s after signing for knockaQuote:
Originally Posted by Play it out
Sone news out of Castleview.
Two full size Astros in conjunction with the AUL and the City Council as part of a 2 million project.
A huge step in the right direction.
Well done to all involved.
Wow, I wonder are more going over to Knocka.
Big move by Castleview. Future generations will benefit greatly from this.
The few that left castleview fc to go to knocknaheeney celtic are gone back to castleview fc apparently all not well in the knocknaheeney camp and players not buying in to managers ideas and philosophy either on the astro turf castleview fc are gonna be calling all the shots on this it is there land that it's been built on all our clubs are gonna play second fiddle to it because with and see the senior side will have priority over aul clubs and the junior and school boy/girls section will be playing/training etc on it watch this space.
Money put in by AUL to the 2 million is pittance. They won't have ownership. But its huge money got what they have to be fronting up.
They will be able to have cup finals there and off peak time slots.
Saturday evenings, Sunday afternoons, etc.
Ok I’ve heard different about the Astro and the AULS levels of use.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Goldfish
But let’s say you are correct what’s the AULS entitled to?
And where is the money coming from to build it?
Castleview have 2 other Grass pitches. Thats 8 teams at one giving time can play up there . Over 6 hours on a Saturday u could hold 24 Teams should be plenty of room for whatever the Aul need in my opinion.Quote:
Originally Posted by Play it out
Cant Fault the Aul for trying regradless of the Argreement no other league has a place to call home.
I personally used to despise playing on Astro, I get that it’s needed for games to go ahead especially after the fiasco last season, but will the teams up there be using that as their default pitch for home games like mayfield united seem to do? That will get in the way as well if they do
I see another team has left the CBL , place literally is falling apart over there . They will have great media presence but only Grangevale playing at the rate they are going
What team is that?
6 new teams minimum joining cbl so will have very strong number of teams
Teams will go and come over there. From what I've told they've gained teams.
We are all well aware that problem having been at 120 teams. Bohemians, Blarney Street, Ard na Laoi, Glenvale, etc.
The problem with it is the value of promotion and relegation each year. Corkbeg in Premier A and Watergrasshill in Premier. Changes that weren't at end of season successes and failures. Maybe AUL should look at cutting D3. It's as bare up top as ever.
So much potential to promote the league. Outside of Barry, there hasn't been.
As a previous poster said, we've a few clubs and mostly teams. If the clubs moved on to MSL like they should, we'd be all teams.
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Originally Posted by KevinJBarry
I think they will always have a fair turnover of teams. Decent teams will probably move on outta there cos will get fed up and will fancy a challenge but there will always be a john graces fried chicken fc that fancies a year kicking ball with their buddies to fill out their teams