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I'm sure he was annoyed, anybody would be. But he took it very well and understood why. He hasn't told anybody from the team that he's packed it in or he hasn't asked the club for a transfer to Park or anyone else. So its a rumour at the moment. I'd be dissapointed if he left cause he has shown some real quality recently and offers a huge amount in terms of character and experience.Quote:
Originally Posted by old git
according to the draw its 'to be played the weekending February 3rd'. so it shud be on sumtime in the next 3 or 4 weeksQuote:
Originally Posted by Spudd
I hear the cup draw is taking place on monday night. Who do ye fancy playing or avoiding. I'd like to see corofin a vs b, would be a great occassion, might also need an ambulance on stand by.
Do you know anything about the views youths,would they be one of the stronger teams in limerick league,it be great for newmarket to beat them home advantage is vital at this stage in the cup, i think last time a clare youths team done so well was back a few years ago,when gerry carroll was looking after newtown youths.good luck to newmarket.:ball:Quote:
Originally Posted by vidic-class
dont know much about them now but i spose dey are a decent side...ya heard about that Newtown team doin well alrite,Newmarket got to the last 16 last year too but were beaten away from home in waterford...home advantage crucial at this stage alriteQuote:
Originally Posted by Spudd
ya that would be a cracker,youth v experience,neighbour v neighbour,all clubs prob wishin for the same thing in the draw..i reckon avenue a for the cup....but then again cup is cup..u never know!!(by the way id fancy corofin b to beat their a team if that draw does happen)anyone got odds for the cup or knw a bookies that does??Quote:
Originally Posted by Young Lad
well lads this is my first time posting on this site but i have been reading it for over the last year or so. i have been playing soccer in clare for 20 years now so hopefully i will be able to put my 2 pence in when i can.. just on the point above how could ye forget back in the 95/96 season Cloughleigh youths got to the FAI Youths Cup Final and correct me if iam wrong were beating by Home Farm 2 - 0 and it was played in de beers. Mark Stembridge was captain of Cloughleigh and in my opinion the best keeper ever to come out of clare played in goal Barry Ryan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spudd
I remember that game down in the de beers,but i was alot younger then,are you sure that cloughleigh team were the youths and not the juniors??Quote:
Originally Posted by 2on2
I remember playing against that Cloughleigh youths team. Great side in fairness but Barry was unreal. He won them so many games. We beat them in 2 lg games the cup and the shield that year but lost early in the Fai so never met them. Watching them go all the way to the final was painful.
2 years later Bunratty youths played in the Munster youths cup semi final against Leeds in Turners Cross. Lost 2-0.
Best of luck to Newmarket against Fairview.
Yea iam sure i was a youth player myself that year and played for Oldtown. Cloughleigh beat us on their way out of clare that year and sure besides that Avenue have been the only team to reach the junior FAI cup final from clare back in 1990......
Looks like games will be off again this weekend lads...
Anyone in favour of a switch to summer soccer? It will surely be discussed at the meeting Monday night.
> The committee of the Clare District Soccer League have called off all
> local matches this weekend due to the bad weather.
>
> There will be a delegate meeting of the Clare District Soccer League on
> Monday 21st January at 9PM in the West County Hotel, Ennis.
>
> This meeting will include the draw for the Prego Menswear Clare Cup.
its plain for everyone on the sidelines (except the management) that
he's wasted on the wing,, and the fact that he started the 1st 5/6 games
in the middle of the park and they won all of them... a coinkydink.. me not think so
long time ago now but i played with turnpike in a munster youths or u17 final vs some tipp team down in caimins.. hammered though
jamie is wasted out wide
and if the rumors are true about bunny do you think the managementQuote:
Originally Posted by avenueC
will move him into the middle (not that i want bunny to leave) ......no chance ... .. have anthony breaking up the play and let jamie spread the play
Managers are there to manage, they will make the decisions on where a player plays. Jamie is well able to talk for himself, I don't think an on-line petition will sway their opinions and rightly so. Have the management not taken Newtown to a great run in the FAI. Being a winger doesn't neccesarily mean you must stay on the wing.:ball:Quote:
Originally Posted by Keyser Soze
Are you Jose in disguise:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Keyser Soze
i am a special one alright :DQuote:
Originally Posted by CousinSylDolan
Thats all well and good but it's very small then in the middle of the park and in Clare soccer winning headers here is vital.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keyser Soze
Jamie is definitly a better player in the middle but you have bunny carr, kizzy kissane, tom o hare, anto whyte all looking to play there with only 2 positions going.
"very small then in the middle of the park and in Clare soccer winning headers here is vital"
Jamie is one of the best headers of a ball around despite his lack of height!!!!
www.claresoccer.net updated
was that not played in flannans? could have been double figures only for barry.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2on2
i think that was u17fai with connellans and healy and co. ye beat derry city 1-0 in 1/4's on tec field. the same year avenue youths were beaten 2-0 in munster semi final by shannon town in newmarket.Quote:
Originally Posted by avenueC
where u on oldtown team in cup epics v avenue? did ye know avenue reached the last 32 of fai 1991 only to be beaten by newmarket, who in turn got beaten in last 16. two quality teams who could probably have gone further if they hadn't met.Quote:
Originally Posted by 2on2
still all depends on were manager wants him to play if good enoughQuote:
Originally Posted by guvnor
should be able to adapt to playing out wide .. :ball:
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Originally Posted by Clifford
ah yea i remember then as if they were yesterday i played in both of them, they were properly the best cup games i was ever involved in,just because it was the might of the Avenue against a second devision side and most of us were just out of youths that year 1997..Avenue had just been beating in the FAI Cup semi final against portmarnock.They had all the big guns out that morning..Nobody gave us a chance and it was decided by a last min first half goal by Mark Hehir (super player) We had chances but JP (second only to b ryan as the best keeper in clare) was like a cat in goal for the avenue and they held out for their win..there was a great crowd at that match in the theatre of dreams (fairgreen):p played on a wet sunday morning...The second was the following year and it was as far as i know the first game to be played in the county grounds.Avenue were awarded a very dodgy goal just before half time by the most famous of all referees that ever set foot on a playing field in clare (for all the wrong reasons:mad:) and what made it worse he was only doing the line that day and managed to give a goal even though he was at least 20 yards up from the goal line he was able to see that the whole of the ball had passed the line!!!:cool: Avenue were 3-2 up and we were pushing for the goal when it has to be said one of the most lethal finishers at the time Eddie mc carthy broke up field and scored game over... it will go down as another great cup tie.. it was just a pitty that these games were both semi finals and that we never got to meet in a final...
Tonights draws now on www.claresoccer.net
Any predictions lads for who is favourites for this years cup?
Can't get the draw up, i always seem to have problems when i go into the site.
Round 2
Burren Utd / Bridge Utd B V Tulla Utd
Avenue Utd A V Shannon Olympic B / Rhine Rovers
Hermitage B / Mountshannon Celtic V Ennistymon Town
Cooraclare Celtic V Lifford A
Rock Rovers V Newtown A
Mohers Celtic B / Rineanna Rovers V Lifford B
Manus Celtic A V Hermitage A
Bridge Celtic B / Avenue Utd B V Kilrush Rangers
Connolly Celtic V Corofin Harps A / Cratloe Celtic
Shannon Olympic A V Inch Crusaders
St Pats B V Bunratty A / Bridge Utd A
Bridge Celtic A / Corofin Harps B V Newmarket Celtic B
Turnpike Rovers / Kilkishen Celtic V St Pats A
Newtown B V Kilmaley Utd
Manus Celtic B V Kildysart Celtic / Newmarket Celtic A
Bunratty B V Moher Celtic A
YA WE BEAT derry that yr , we lost 5 nil to oldbridge (i think ) from tipp. im sure there was a cup presented to em that day... but as im remembering now we lost to st josephs boys up in dublin 2-0 the same yr so i think it was the u17 fai semi we lost in dublin... an lost the munster u17 final( im open to correction on that!)Quote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
Did anyone see the article in the Clare People about Summer Soccer??It claimed to be the results of a survey on whether Junior football in Clare switched to Summer.
Who took part in the survey??
Was everyone notified that there was a survey?
The published results were so biased that it could mistaken for a GAA survey.
It could also be mistaken for a P.R. exercise by the "GAA Soccer clubs" in this county who are once again trying their best to keep our game from progressing.
They fear the possible change to Summer Football as a huge threat to their existence.What they are admitting is that their players only play the game as a second choice and if it comes to a choice they will choose another sport.If that is the case they should have no say in what happens in our game and should go back and mind their own business and sort out matters of their own sport.
This article tried to make it a forgone conclusion that the majority of people involved (and more importantly not just those who use our game to keep themselves warm in the winter) do not want to switch to summer football.
The worst comment in the article has to be reserved for the fact that schoolboy football moved successfully to summer with all the same threats in advance i.e. halving the number of participants and clubs.THAT DID NOT HAPPEN AND WONT HAPPEN.The article then goes on to say "there has been cooperation with the GAA that allowed summer soccer".This is an utter and unadulterated spin on what actually happened.The truth is there was a 95% vote in favour of changing then a meeting followed with the 2 GAA bodies (hurling and football) where this was stated (not requested) and the best way forward was worked out between the 3 bodies in an equal partnership which overall has worked well.
Summer soccer for junior clubs has not been decided by this survey or this article!!!
Roll on the AGM
[QUOTE=2on2;859192]ah yea i remember then as if they were yesterday i played in both of them, they were properly the best cup games i was ever involved in,just
who were u marking? and is brian mcmahon still kicking ball. ye had a quality team and if ye had stayed together longer ye'd have won cups. that avenue team was backboned by avenue youths team of 92 like the great bunratty team were backboned by their youths.
do you think schoolboys summer soccer was a success, seen as their still waiting for season to end? some teams training since last june. most teams have only played 10 league 1 cup and 1 sfai. 12 games (tops). 30 weeks later???????Quote:
Originally Posted by shelbourne1904
SFAI would still go on in the winter irrespective of summer change.Indications frm SFAI is that this will change shortly.
Elongated season is because this year started late due to runover rom last years winter season with a month break only in between thats a once off occurence which wont be repeated allowing earlier start.Further difficulties occured due to unprecedented bad summer with 3 weeks lost which is unlikely to occur again.
You need to look at the leagues again as only one league undecided .Unprecedented success of Clare teams in National Cup,which hopefully continues,also disrupted completion,in particular Avenue,but also Connoly and Tulla.
Great crowds during the summer.Great atmosphere.Great to see newer clubs winning things such as Pats ,Burren.Yes great success.Bridge United won a league after 11 years .Ask anyone involved would they revert.
u14 league only one not finished (an 8 game league). still cups semi's to play. so 6 league games + 1 cup game + say 2 to 3 (generous for most teams) sfai cup games = 9 games into 30 weeks. ok we lost a nice bit due to weather christmas free wkends etc but 21 weeks???????????? i'd hate to see 18 game leagues.Quote:
Originally Posted by shelbourne1904
dublin league winners killester on the way to south africa 10 days, last year maimi, portmarnock went to memphis???????????????????????????
clare league winners dont even get a set of jerseys??????? there must be some sponsorship deal. any details lads
can clare league improve the league by offering the winners a carrot (prob the veg and not the gold). a squad of 20 (partners not) a week in spain in january 300 ish 6000. could this be a realistic target. is reg fee 30? they could increase it to 50 a man and the extra 20 (20 panel x 20 x 10 teams = 4000) could actually do it for all divisions. 16000 do something like 7000 for premier. 3000 each for other divisions. gives lower teams an extra incentive to get up. tie this with bigger sponsor prize, even 5000 gives 9000 and 3000 each other division still with the other 3000 for cup winners.
what ye think.
don't think clare league will go for this .. they are as tight as a ducks arse.. how long have they been charging 30 euro per player and what have they to show for it , a pitch in doora which is never usedQuote:
Originally Posted by Clifford
they just take your money and thats it ..:ball::ball:
still don't see what clubs get out of this.. most teams have a squad of 16-20 players so approx 500 euro or 1000 euro if a & b teams a lot of money a few clubs could badly do with .. i know when i was playing a long while ago players were moaning then about having to pay league registration fee,.. dont forget a lot of clubs used to charge a membership fee to try and cover expenses for the year,, now it is 30 euro to register plus pay for training 2 nights a week and then pay again on match day ,plus your lotto tickets to support local club, not much money left now to go to disco .. must get back to work now boss is giving me funny looks.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by hacker
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Originally Posted by hacker
Lads survey was crap, if they were serious they would have sent a letter to all clubs informing them of what was going on, instead i think they only told the gaa clubs, who responded Please don't we won't be able to play soccer anymore as we have all GAA heads boo-hoo...Junior soccer is going downhill in Clare FACTS.............:(:(