I would doubt it. I know you cannot fulfil a fixture without agreement from the league director or else it is fines. So teams cant just walk away
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I would doubt it. I know you cannot fulfil a fixture without agreement from the league director or else it is fines. So teams cant just walk away
Told.Quote:
Originally Posted by sligoman
The rest of the Youths fans seem to disagreeQuote:
Originally Posted by Splurge
teams warmed up on it this time last season, Waterford did in March and it was as dark then.Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
I couldn't care less what other teams did. If the lighting is as bad as your fellow fans are saying then it's unsuitable for any team that values their players health. Part-time league or not you can't send players to warm up on a pitch that only has floodlights for half the pitch, that are even then turned away from the actual pitch to light the car park and even then are of a poor standard. It's just not onQuote:
Originally Posted by Splurge
I suppose for most of the season its probably not that much of an issue as its still fairly bright up until 8.00 for most of the summer. Thank god for summer football :)
Interview with Mick coming up on Newstalk.ie
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Originally Posted by Splurge
Just because they did it doesn't make it right. Wexford were appartantly a disgrace and left Limerick with no option but to not go ahead with the fixture. All over the news. League looks like a joke now :mad:
Issue I have with it is that by the rules I know it means Wexford will receive the points and that gives them a 5 point advantage over us
Jebus, we have said the lighting is 'not great' but there has never been a complaint before and AFAIK, nobody ever got a knock warming up on it. Everyone is disappointed but lets wait till we have more information.Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
I agree that every team has a set pre-match routine but I'm sure the referree would have agreed to a 15 min delay in KO if requested
Not great's not good enough either to be honest, not when you have a perfectly lit pitch sitting right in front of youQuote:
Originally Posted by oldyouth
The lighting on our back pitch isn't up to match standard. It's ok lighting to train under, and up until today to warm up under, but it's not match standard lighting and in my opinon Limerick had the right to protest.
But still, driving out of the ground 40 minutes before the scheduled kick off time is madness. Especially since at that stage Wallace had seemingly agreed to let Limerick warm up on the main pitch. Surely the kickoff time could have been put back to facilitate this.
Both teams to blame in my opinion. Wexford for initially denying Limerick the use of the main pitch for their warm-up. Limerick for storming off in a huff 40 minutes before kick-off, even though at that stage Wexford had "given in". And the referee aswell I suppose for not controlling the situation. Will be interesting to see what happens!
I believe our players didn't actually take to the field at 8 pm and I think they are required to do so to claim the points. Perhaps that was deliberate in an attempt to avoid that scenarioQuote:
Originally Posted by Battery Rover
Thats the way I see it also, silly situation that got out of hand. Officials have to have casting vote here.Quote:
Originally Posted by ForzaWexford
where did wexford warm up?
More to it than we know at this stage I would say.. Limerick have become very professinal as a club this season so I can't see them stroming off in a huff. Just when it looked like we were doing things right and people in Limerick were talking the club a bit more seriously, this happens. Not happy at all. :oQuote:
Originally Posted by ForzaWexford
Because all this kicked off at 7.20, they didn't warm up. When the match was called off they went out for a training session.........on the training pitchQuote:
Originally Posted by see's it
If he'd had any sense of humour he'd have put them out on the main pitch :pQuote:
Originally Posted by oldyouth
Either way Limerick have a responsibility to our players, Wallace can run his players on glass for all I care, and if we deemed it unsuitable then so be it as far as we're concerned I guess
ok then would the 2 teams have both warmed up together on the 'training' pitch?Quote:
Originally Posted by oldyouth
Am i right in saying that our lads train on this pitch all yr round, ie on november and January evenings.Quote:
Originally Posted by oldyouth
If its good enough for training its more than good enough to warm up on.
Either way Wexford gave up in the end but LK couldnt swallow their pride.
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Originally Posted by da bishop
Hey look who it is, the guy who should be restricted to the Juniorball forum with all the nonsense and lies he attempts to spread
Now Jebus, you are starting to get ridiculous. Yes, L37 have a responsibility to their players and I'd expect nothing else. As for suggesting Mick would let his players out on a dangerous pitch, well you don't know him. We are an amateur team sourced only from the locality. If any of our players are lost through injury, we cannot summon up replacements easily. Hence the reason we have played a number of 16 and 17 year olds this season.Quote:
Originally Posted by jebus
Again I say, Wallace may not care about his player's health and safety (and it certainly doesn't sound it if he makes them train on a poorly lit pitch in the darkness) but we doQuote:
Originally Posted by Splurge
It really doesn't sound like Wallace values them over a few blades of grass if all this is true about the 'not great' lighting. We're in a similar position to Wexford when it comes to sourcing our players from young locals as wellQuote:
Originally Posted by oldyouth
Derry 2-0 Linfield
Glentoran 1-0 St. Pat's
Both latest scores in the cross-border thing.. Not as exciting as this training pitch fiasco though!
where do wexford warm up for there home games?
Setanta Cup has nothing on Wexfordgate
Was going to go for Wallacegate myself.. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Gareth
Wallace saying all the Lk players were happy to warm up anywhere as long the game went ahead, 19:20 was when he relented, 40 minutes is more than enough for a warm up.
If only it had of been waterford.... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by holidaysong
[QUOTE=see's it;1034375]where do wexford warm up for there home games?[/QUOTE
On the training pitch. The same pitch that midweek training at night is used for, the same pitch every visiting team compliments after being on it.
Warm up, team talk and working through last minute instructions?Quote:
Originally Posted by Splurge
Wexford manager Mick Wallace was furious after the postponement:
'Limerick refused to warm up on our second pitch and asked to train on the match pitch. In our 18 month history in the First Division, no team in the league has warmed up on the match pitch before the game.
'Limerick have been here five times and warmed up on the second pitch on each occasion. Our match pitch is the best pitch in the league and our second pitch is the second best pitch in the league.
'Limerick refused to warm up on the second pitch and threatened to leave, so at 7.20, I informed them that they could in fact warm-up on the main pitch.
'This is against our policy but I did not want to cause trouble and there was about 500 supporters here who I wanted to be able to watch a game of football but at that stage they decided there was not enough time left to warm up.
He added: 'This seemed a crazy scenario seeing as Wexford Youths had not started to warm up. Teams generally take 20 to 25 minutes for a warm up and that would still have allowed Limerick back in the dressing room at 7.45.
'It does appear that Limerick did not want to play the game. We had noted that it was strange that two of their better players, Gary Sheehan and John Tierney were not in the starting 11 for some reason. Maybe there were problems that we didn't know about.'
Wallace now insinuating that Limerick had an ulterior motive...
See here...
yeah, and we hadnt started warming up either, beats the **** out of throwing your toys out of the pram and going homeQuote:
Originally Posted by jebus
Smooth move from Wallace :rolleyes:
'It does appear that Limerick did not want to play the game. We had noted that it was strange that two of their better players, Gary Sheehan and John Tierney were not in the starting 11 for some reason. Maybe there were problems that we didn't know about.'Quote:
Originally Posted by sadloserkid
Thats not good.. :mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by sadloserkid
Or being childish and not affording visiting teams the same respect in regards to your facilities as they do to you, wouldn't be Wallace's pathetic attempts at mind games would it :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by Splurge
Derry 3-0
Farren (hattrick) :D
Nobody cares, the real story is in Wexford tonight! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by dancinpants