Linfield boss slams Healy

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Originally Posted by Speranza

Please accept that we are not full-time. it's becoming tediously repetitive now.

Derry City may/may not be full-time, but train five nights a week, hardly a little lax on the training there.

Now, what about the other teams in the Eircom league? They are either full-time, or in Derry City's case, basically full-time.

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Originally Posted by EnDai

So, when Shels are in season and you are out of season, and you lose, it's a problem?

When Glens are in season and Shels are out of season, and you lose again, its also an unfair scheduling problem?

When would you like to play us so? We've written off July and February. Two down, 10 to go...

When you can have part-timers and full-timers together there will never be a great time.

In the summer we have players away, and out of season and when the season kicks off, there is other cups and a lot of games - the top teams in the Irish League or more or less on more than 40 games thus far. Fatigue is bound to creep in - even professionals would feel a game on Saturday and a game on Monday or Tuesday often a little tiring.

Players being "out of season" in full-time football is not the same. Obviously there is a break, but they are back in training, indeed, training camps in Spain in one case. Players are not allowed to saunter off on holiday in the closed season.

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Originally Posted by crc

I have to agree with David here. While I would like to think that the eircom league is much better, the results are inconclusive. We've only had about 12 months of games, and I don't think either side can draw many conclusions.

The one thing it probably is possible to say is that the eircom League probably has more strength in depth. Linfield (W2 D1 L1) Glens (1-0-4*) and Portadown (1-3-1) would probably fit into the top half of the eL quite easily, but below that I think that the eL has better teams (Bohs, Pats, Longford, etc.)

[*just realised how bad the Glens record has been against eL teams in the past year, but the other two compensate. W-D-L figures are what I can remember in Setanta and Europe this season and last.]

I would agree with that certainly, in fact, it is great to have to read a post that smacks of common sense, non insular as opposed to the continued arrogance I see from a minority of people on here.

For the sake of argument, Speranza, even if your arguments were true, the tone in which you voice them just makes people hostile and switch off.