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Glin Rovers B 1 Knockaderry 1
Also Division 1 Adare Utd 1 Killeaney 1
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Glin Rovers B 1 Knockaderry 1
Also Division 1 Adare Utd 1 Killeaney 1
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Friday, June 8th
Division 1 League Cup Final (et & pens)
Kildimo Utd V Ballysteen 730, Clounreask, (G O’Connor, S Hartnett, J Molyneaux, 4th Official TBA)
Premier Division (all 730)
Athea Utd V Newcastle West Rovers (P King)
Abbeyfeale Utd V Shannonside (J Roche)
Ballingarry V Glin Rovers (L O’Connor)
Granagh Utd V Broadford Utd (T Fitzmaurice)
Rathkeale V Carrig Celtic (P O’Brien)
Sunday, June 10th
Premier Division
Shannonside V Athea Utd 1130 (P O’Brien)
Glin Rovers V Abbeyfeale Utd 1130 (G O’Connor)
Broadford Utd V Ballingarry 1130 (P O’Connor)
Carrig Celtic V Granagh Utd 1130 (J Roche)
Newcastle West Rovers V Rathkeale 1130 in Woodfield (P King)
Division 2
Pallaskenry V Bally Rovers 230 (T Fitzmaurice)
Rathkeale B V Newcastle West Rovers B 230 (P O’Donnell)
Ferry Rangers V Askeaton 1130 (J Molyneaux)
Knockaderry V Shountrade 230 (E Barrett)
St Itas V Glin Rovers B 230 (JP Murphy)
Friday, June 15th
Premier Division League Cup Final (et & pens) (Provisional)
Abbeyfeale Utd V Rathkeale 730, Clounreask
I think if anyone’s going to win the league this Sunday it’s Rathkeale.
Glin away for Abbeyfeale is a much bigger hurdle than Rovers away for Rathkeale.
I think you could be right sheared,Abbey game is tougher..surely rovers will try though as it's the last time ever them lads will wear that jersey.pride and heart for the jersey. That team have been gutless enough over last few seasons tho so possibly not.. it was a wonderful club and a shame to see it go.. best of luck to both teams over wknd...
kildimo win div.1 league cup on penalties vs ballysteen
NCW Rovers were forced (kind of) to give a walkover to Athea last night.
Both teams agreed to split the points.
Both teams were under pressure to get a team out, especially Rovers as Newcastle were playing Gaelic or something.
The league came back and told Rovers they had to play it because it would give Abbeyfeale an unfair advantage over Rathkeale on Sunday.
The theory being that Rovers would be fresh on Sunday due to not playing last night.
So now, NCW Rovers are going to be deducted 3 points and fined for the pleasure of it.
Not exactly promoting football.
Friday, June 8th
Division 1 League Cup Final
Kildimo Utd 2 Ballysteen 2 aet, Kildimo Utd won 5-4 on pens
Premier Division
Athea Utd V Newcastle West Rovers, walkover to Athea Utd
Abbeyfeale Utd 5 Shannonside 0
Ballingarry 0 Glin Rovers 2
Granagh Utd 0 Broadford Utd 2
Rathkeale 6 Carrig Celtic 0
arent rovers still going to be fresh sunday now as well??? doesnt make sense, what if glin had agreed with ballingarry to share points as well what wouldve happened then? all 4 teams docked points?Quote:
Originally Posted by Cruyff
A playoff it is then. I’d imagine it’ll be Friday June 22, unless there’s already a provisional date.
Fair play to Rovers for fielding a team yesterday🙄
Will Kildimo go straight up into the premier or will there be playoff with shannonside? Wasn't there a similar situation a few years ago when Rathkeale b won division 1.
Straight up - there was a message from the Munster Council that confirmed due to the amalgamation of Newcastle clubs the third place team goes up a couple weeks backQuote:
Originally Posted by twouptop
Abbey beat ratk 3 0 last Nite. Totally deserved it and played some excellent football on the night..football was the winner.
Rathkeale do the double with a 1-0 win over Abbeyfeale tonight.
Will post my thoughts in time on what has been a poor season for the league across the board.
Can’t wait. Take a break everyone, the World Cup is on
Looking forward to it shearer, will be interesting read im sure
Right, I suppose I'll give my few thoughts on the season.
Starting at Division 3, a two-horse race from the start really. I didn't think (and I don't think Broadford B did either) that Creeves would burst out the blocks like they did and fair play to them, a welcome return to Division Two and Broadford B will definitely spice things up next season also. With that said, the rest of the Division was a bit of a shambles; teams making up the numbers in a tiny division but I'll touch on that later.
Having been arguably the most competitive division in the Desmond League with the last few years, to say Division Two fell from a cliff this season would be an understatement.
Rathkeale B and Shountrade were far and away from the rest of the pack and were rightfully promoted, the former notably averaging over 4.25 goals per game.
But the rest of the division (and this applies to most of Division Three) is abysmal considering what it has been the last few years, the very definition of Sunday League. One look at some the scorelines recorded over the course of the season will highlight that, crazy stuff. A really poor standard, I won't go singling out anyone but it's just poor.
I don't even know what to say about Askeaton, I think people know my stance on walkovers of which they gave one this season, but my how the mighty have fallen. There was a bit of a relegation battle towards the very end with the likes of Pallaskenry, NCW Rovers B and Bally Rovers in the mix of which Rovers B came out the worst, but I don't think they're too pushed considering the amalgamation and neither would Bally Rovers have been had it been them for the same reason.
Division One was always AFC's to lose I felt, fair play to them for going unbeaten in a season where everyone took points off each other and they only split the points in one of their games. Coming back to teams taking points off each other, Division One was awfully competitive this season as seen by the fact that AK acquired 25 points and came fourth (in two previous years 28 and 29 were required).
I'm not exactly saying anything groundbreaking when I say that the main problem with Division One is that none of the teams are able to get promoted outside of the two that just came down (Granagh United being an exception to the rule last season). It was never realistically going to be anyone but AFC and Killeaney going up, even the team that took AFC's promotion spot, Kildimo United, are a fairly common Premier team.
I don't know about everyone here but I spent so much time wondering who was going to win the Premier that Glantine totally slipping went under my radar. Glantine lost to AK who had less than a starting 11 on the last day to dismiss any hopes of survival and to reiterate what I heard from a Glantine man, if you can't win those games you deserve to go down, a fair statement.
Feenagh seem to be the cat with 9 lives, someone will have to drive a stake through their heart to relegate them it seems!
Absolutely zero sympathy for Abbeyfeale United B going down, pretty much because of a walkover. While I've been critical of sides with less than a full-team, how they couldn't grab 7 lads, get hammered for 20 minutes by Killeaney and blow it up is beyond me.
Jesus wept.
A two horse race in the Premier, not helped by Broadford being miles off what they were last season and Ballingarry's Renaissance not living up to expectations. Abbeyfeale picked up the title in a playoff, but they can thank their lucky stars that they got that draw against Glin Rovers overturned! Glin Rovers had a great league run this season in fairness, was shocked to see them get beaten by Rovers in the Desmond Cup.
A so-so season for the aforementioned Rovers who themselves will probably take solace from a semi-final appearance in the Desmond Cup.
I think I've been vocal enough about Athea in the past, a Premier team giving a walkover is a disgrace and brings the league into unnecessary disrepute. I've zero beef with Athea, they dodged a bullet last season with regard to relegation but they deserve to go down in my view this season.
To conclude what has been a ridiculously long post, the league has declined. I know this is said every year by a poster or two but it's blatantly clear this year. I think the introduction of Summer Soccer (which was brought forward at the recent AGM and is to be the subject of an EGM) is for the greater good. Coming from someone who is a member of a 'small' club, forcing clubs to either adapt or perish would improve the quality of the league. More amalgamations, yes some clubs may fold (my own included) but you have to break a few eggs to make an omelette. If you can't get enough interested players then maybe you shouldn't be around.
It's quality over quantity, straight away I think that Division Three should be eradicated and make Division Two bigger. Ideally in Summer Soccer you'd only have two, maybe three, leagues.
Furthermore, I think the introduction of Newcastle West Town will make the league a lot more interesting especially with the talk of them having three teams.
I'll leave it at that, didn't intend for this to be so long.
Were you at the AGM Shearer? What I heard was only the one club brought up summer soccer and it wasn't greatly received at all?
Wasn’t at it, heard Ballysteen brought it up and it was going to an EGM.
My above post has been my point of view before the AGM took place I might add.
Ya Ballysteen brought it forward alright - pro's and con's - more pro's I think but from what I heard it was unlikely to go ahead
The fact that it’s going to an EGM suggests it’s being given some thought.
What will stop it is, for once, the ‘big’ clubs being outvoted by the ‘small’ clubs.
The crowd that brought up summer soccer and for some reason seem to be driving it ballysteen are the very crowd who’ll have no team or a very poor one if there’s a football match on . Most clubs are happy as is but tighten up the season a month or so . Last August to mid June nearly 11 months was the longest junior league in Ireland this year .
The main focus of the league should be 3 divisions not 4 and less blanket postment weekends when some teams pitch’s are fine .
If this league doesn't change to a summer season it will be gone in the next decade. The interest is dying out and to say it will clash with the football, it already f#@*ing does in the current format!!!!
anybody have info on the new KB amalgamation and how that would work? is it across the board or just junior
It was decided at the AGM that the vote would not go ahead as it "would be the biggest decision this league will ever vote upon thus far". The league are going to send out detailed info on what exactly is to be voted on i.e. Format, breaks for exams etc.
Arguement of GAA clashing for me is not a valid one as hurling and football in west Limerick ran into late October/early November, 21s hurling started in November and finished in January, then hurling and football training started back end of January with league starting in end of Feb? What's the difference is soccer changes to CALENDER Soccer? Not much I think, the month of July will be the only month now that wasn't played before. Soccer will stop in Oct/Nov and start back up Feb/Mar (depending on what format the league go with, which could be same as schoolboys which is taking a break in July and start of august for hols?).
As Shearer pointed you may lose a teams but more than likely will lose names and they will amalgamate but I'd take quality before quantity any day. The FAI as pushing this for junior from 2020 onwards, so is probably coming anyway. I think the vote will be a lot closer than people think especially after the season we just had!
Don’t know if it was mentioned but the Munster Champions Trophy draw was done a few weeks ago.
Abbeyfeale got a bye in the second round, here’s the first round draw:
1st Round
Killarney Celtic (Kerry) v Janesboro (Limerick)
Brideview Utd (WWEC) v UCC Utd(Cork B&S)
Newmarket Celtic(Clare) v Ringmahon Rgs (MSL)
I see a lot of the city teams have gone back this week. Has anyone local gone back training. Any news on transfers, management etc etcQuote:
Originally Posted by Shearer
It only finished up last month...i would think very few would have appetite to get back into training this early. The season is too long as it Is!!! End of the month I'd be guessing for the better teams and August then for the rest about a fortnight before the league starts 😆
Long season alrite and fellows need a break..I know there is a few back,broadford were back last nite.. had 3/4 New lads by all acc. Heard ratkeale back next wk.. who is Newcastle town management team for coming season?
Heard Newcastle west were back last week also. Bit early to be going back training after barely finishing the season
Who are the new lads and where are they from. Heard a guy from Limerick coming out to manage NCW. Couldn’t see Rathkeale being back before August as they were going up until the end of JuneQuote:
Originally Posted by southern kid
Heard today that few players are leaving Rathkeale to go back to play with their home towns . Like Adare boys going back to them etc