Cork AUL 2023/24

There is not a club in football that hasn't pulled a stroke.

Only difference is nowadays it's blatantly obvious when it's done.

Its done now because they think clubs don't have the liathroidis to take them on when it's done.

Yes I think the Aul has a percentage of the blame to carry , but the clubs who sit on the rule book an moan then that the Aul arnt doing there job , that's passing the buck.

Clubs have chairman, secretarys, treasurer an commitee members an even managers an players who are all free to read the rule book.

Yet they choose to blame the Aul.

Apply the rules, pay for the appeal , if its rejected , appeal it to the MFA,,,,,,,but don't accept the rules being ignored by other clubs and then blame the Aul for the club , team ,manager or player that you know is takin the **** to your face.

Any club commitee member has the right to ask the referee to ask for a picture and signiture of any player in question at a game.

If I had a gripe it would be to say that it's poor form that the FAI.connect is being completely ignored. That would solve a lot of this.

Great post,spot on

Lads let’s be honest Barry Peelo doesn’t get half the credit he deserves..only for his coverage on the paper of games the league would get no recognition whatsoever. Great to see he goes to a variety of games rather than just premier games all the time. To be fair AUL also have been a bit more proactive going to games aswell on social media.

But Barry is the man end of the day. Wind rain or snow and he’s a gent.

The FAI connect app is brilliant. The AUL should be encouraging teams to experiment with it for the remainder of this season and then implement it fully from the start of next season. It’s straightforward to use from what I’ve heard.

The man himself was down in aghabolaghhhhgford this morning. Aghabaolaghhhford won 4.2 good game but they were well over UCC. I've seen UCC a few times now and they struggle on the heavy pitch when the weather is bad. Credit to aghabolaghhhhgford there a fine side. UCC will be back and we have to remember it's their first year up premier too and they have put it to a lot of teams so fair play to them. Should be an exciting run in

aghabolaghhhhgford,,,,,,priceless

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Originally Posted by latte2012

The FAI connect app is brilliant. The AUL should be encouraging teams to experiment with it for the remainder of this season and then implement it fully from the start of next season. It’s straightforward to use from what I’ve heard.

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its the handiest thing ever to use. mad that AUL didnt force clubs into using it this season. made following stuff in msl miles easier

They'll have to use it next season so they should be trialing it now.

When it has to be the match card and a team doesn't do it it will cause chaos and points being deducted and added everywhere. They need to start using it now for sidelines to get used to it like MSL.

Will we see any id week games this week?

Rain forecast again for tomorrow.

The weather isn't that bad this week.

There hasn't been a lot of rain, lots of wind.

The Gaa is more of a hinderence than the rain,,,,,,,,amazing Gaa games go ahead when certain clubs pitches become unplayable in the same parish.

Strange that

There's only about 3 teams who use it. It's a bit of a pain but good for teams to be able to spot any dodgy players. Pretty sure the refs have to be up to date with the system too if there's last minute changes to a team sheet .

A lot of rain to fall today can’t see any games going ahead tomorrow

Turner's cross closed for foreseeable future..wonder where the cup finals will move to?

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Originally Posted by Broadway Joe

Lads any truth in the rumours turner's cross is out of action for foreseeable future?

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100% Closed, Likely any finals will be Colemans Park, Mardyke or Castleview again

On grass , for me if the Cross isn't available I'd go with the Mardyke.
It's tradionally a place where huge games were played . It's had internationals , LOI games the lot.

It's set up well to cater for not just the teams but supporters.

It has the parking , dressing rooms , the lot bascially .

Oh ya , they keep the pitch in great nic an I'd say UCC as a entity would be honoured to have the Aoh played down the "Dyke" .

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Originally Posted by Jason Bourne

On grass , for me if the Cross isn't available I'd go with the Mardyke.
It's tradionally a place where huge games were played . It's had internationals , LOI games the lot.

It's set up well to cater for not just the teams but supporters.

It has the parking , dressing rooms , the lot bascially .

Oh ya , they keep the pitch in great nic an I'd say UCC as a entity would be honoured to have the Aoh played down the "Dyke" .

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Great shout. Went to killumney donoughmore final down there last year and was a great choice for it

It will definitely put the AUL under pressure as I heard they had a lot of dates there between now and the middle of June.

Please God they will get a few of them back.

A fair joke to have to shut it down mid season

how many cup finals do the AUL usually have in TC?

You'd like to think AOH will be okay at end of May.

Carrigaline many be a good option wih bar for supporters and parking added on roads.

Cob with the stand and guaranteed go ahead with astro.

Another handy result for the grats will anyone stop theses lads

FairPlay harsh going well did the wanderers have many players or they back to struggling again, anyone know if strand and donoghmore played?

Grats game only game played according to Aul site I didn’t know many of Wanderers team to be honest and my opinion that team tonight were poor so I’m assuming it wasn’t team that beat UCC

Wanderers started with 11 an 1 sub.
Made a change in the 1st half due to injury.
3 down at half time .
Wanderers looked bate in the 1st half .

2nd Wanderers sub arrived at half time via a spin an I say he wished he stayed at home and watched the telly.

Honestly I can't believe they beat UCC with what I saw on show tonite.

I actually went up there thinking they might cause an upset.
The only upset was the petrol money I wasted to get up there to watch them.
Grattan cut them to peices at will.
Had the luxury of giving the 5 subs a run.

2 moments of utter brilliance.

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Grattans 4th was just a moment of magic to be savoured I'd you were lucky to see it .

2 ,,,,,,funniest peno ever awarded to Wanderers when a Grattan player was tripped in the box while defending an fell to the ground injured.

Wanderers player argued it was accidental cause he thought he was about to be booked , Grattan lad panned out injured,,,,,,,,, ref gives him a deserved ,,,,,,,,,spotter hahahahahaha best laugh ever ,,,,, both sides started laughing ffs

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Originally Posted by Jason Bourne

Wanderers started with 11 an 1 sub.
Made a change in the 1st half due to injury.
3 down at half time .
Wanderers looked bate in the 1st half .

2nd Wanderers sub arrived at half time via a spin an I say he wished he stayed at home and watched the telly.

Honestly I can't believe they beat UCC with what I saw on show tonite.

I actually went up there thinking they might cause an upset.
The only upset was the petrol money I wasted to get up there to watch them.
Grattan cut them to peices at will.
Had the luxury of giving the 5 subs a run.

2 moments of utter brilliance.

1.
Grattans 4th was just a moment of magic to be savoured I'd you were lucky to see it .

2 ,,,,,,funniest peno ever awarded to Wanderers when a Grattan player was tripped in the box while defending an fell to the ground injured.

Wanderers player argued it was accidental cause he thought he was about to be booked , Grattan lad panned out injured,,,,,,,,, ref gives him a deserved ,,,,,,,,,spotter hahahahahaha best laugh ever ,,,,, both sides started laughing ffs

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Seen that penalty couldn’t believe it myself , grattan defender can feel hard done by

That Grattan defender is clumsy out Rossum wink wink haha Grattan were good tonight tho don’t take that away from um over wanderers being poor still loads of football to be played still hopefully not much rain next few days

Only games on astros I reckon will go ahead at the weekend harsh

Anyone know any info on what the aul is planning on doing with that division 1 Shandon only after playing 4 games seems to be a joke this late into a season be nearly playing 3 a week , clubs surely need to be docked points or giving some sort of help funding to pay for astros

I’ll tell ya what there planning and it’s this simple their planning on handing watergrasshill the league by screwing over shandon I’m certain shandon are after be giving 3 games inn7 days and plus sent to Rathcoole on a Tue night complete joke in my eyes.

Now I’ll hold my hands up if I’m wrong cause few fixtures changed over last week AOH games off but I’m certain 3 games in quick succession if true tough going.

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Originally Posted by Harsh ref

Now I’ll hold my hands up if I’m wrong cause few fixtures changed over last week AOH games off but I’m certain 3 games in quick succession if true tough going.

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no alternative though. how in gods name do a team only have 4 league games played by now even accounting for the crazy bad weather? how many cups have they been in?

The conspiracy theories on here are gas.

Shandon cancelled games all throughout the season as pitches weren’t playable as did every club so only themselves or the weather to blame not the AUL.

Every club with plenty games to play will end up with a lot of fixtures in a short period of time.
Games have to be played.

Lots of clubs will be in this situation

This is the way it has been for years there is nothing new here.

Ye can take off yer tin foil hats.

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Originally Posted by Jd2793

no alternative though. how in gods name do a team only have 4 league games played by now even accounting for the crazy bad weather? how many cups have they been in?

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To be fair cup run’s upset things clubs thar didn’t make use of Astros will be behind

This season will probably go onto July the way it’s going any cups that just have finals to play should be played on any half decent pitch and get um over wit years ago Turners cross was big thing for players fellas now only won the glory doesn’t matter where it’s played

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Originally Posted by fruice

To be fair cup run’s upset things clubs thar didn’t make use of Astros will be behind

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yeah fair enough. still too many cups in AUL for my liking. this happens every year theres always a few clubs with a tiny amount of league games played in april. persistent issue that takes away from the importance of the league IMO

Agree with ya there harsh , they’d love to hand watergrasshill the league they seem to be favourite team in the eyes of the commitee

The fact they only have 4 played to now in general is bad but it is not like the they have not gotten fixtures. they have 10 league games left, 2 weeks left in April so 6 weeks to get through them for May bank holiday. Grattan have 8 league games left, must still play AOH Second round and Mossie SF.. Their next game is next Tuesday and that is AOH so I don't think there is that much of a major panic after but I am open to being completely wrong here.. Obviously it's not ideal but there are plenty clubs in this situation

There is loads of clubs in this situation with 9 and 10 games left.
it’s been the worst year for rainfall ever think back the opening weekend alone was in trouble after a downpour on the Friday night and you only have to look at the past week to see how many cancellations there is.

I was speaking to someone that told me an all weather is booked out from 9 to 9 for this Saturday and Sunday.


That’s nuts but nightlights the pressures clubs in all codes are under.

And don’t forget there is also a shortage of refs which limits the amount of games that get played

I personally think Aul should come to agreement with a club that has all weathers and block book in two nights a week 6 o clock till 10.30 clubs splits pitch and Ref with Aul giving bit of supplement towards cost then we’ll definitely have 4 games a week going ahead when bad weathers kicks in I know you’ll get one or two on here ask why should Aul pay towards it but for the lads on here that were at the AGM and start of season I’m told it was made clear by Tom that this is what Aul were looking at but again that went out the window this just my opinion it might help in the long run

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Originally Posted by Harsh ref

I personally think Aul should come to agreement with a club that has all weathers and block book in two nights a week 6 o clock till 10.30 clubs splits pitch and Ref with Aul giving bit of supplement towards cost then we’ll definitely have 4 games a week going ahead when bad weathers kicks in I know you’ll get one or two on here ask why should Aul pay towards it but for the lads on here that were at the AGM and start of season I’m told it was made clear by Tom that this is what Aul were looking at but again that went out the window this just my opinion it might help in the long run

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That would make sense but I heard the AUL haven’t any money left in the kitty because they offered all they have to the all weather pitch in castleview.

Still find it incredible if the league has given this money without going to the clubs first.

It's a pity that they have scrapped delegate meetings.