Buttevant are confirmed
Moving from AUL to MSL
Definitely one of the best facilities in cork
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Butevant and Innishvilla both gone MSL as per their own social media. Big loss to AUL, 2 fantastic clubs with good facilities. I guess the prospect of playing MSL is more appealing these days than a potential day out at turners cross at the end of the season in a cup final.
So that’s 3 officially gone so at best the AUL are +1.
It’s been said here that Pearse are gone so that would be the AUL at -1.
With possibly 3 more gone leavening them with -4 at worst
Will be a bit of a shake up in sections as they will have to fill up the top divisions and work from there.
Could have been a lot worse though.
Gaffers pearse is gone to msl
Part of the Important AUL notice : The league will be collecting at the start of the season €100 per team for FAI.net this will cover 50 players to be registered, any team that doesn’t sign up to this amount will have the balance credited to the following seasons registrations.
Are these lads mad? Clubs will struggle to register 20 players let alone 50 . Why cant they just give clubs the money back? or let them pay in increments of 10 players?
But there never was a straight player registration fee in AUL just a Team registration fee.
And as you can see some would not have been happy had this jumped by €100.
I think where the issue is coming from is that as teams registered players during the course of the season the player should then pay a €2 reg fee and as a result there was a bit of chasing up for small amounts of money which had to be paid to the FAI.
At least this way that chasing is eliminated and you just get what you didnt use credited next year.
Chalky to Knocka? Wheres that coming from Silver? Chalky is down to ref FAI and national cup games in the coming weeks. Im also told Niall Curtin is new Knocka boss.
Are Knocknaheeny Celtic gone Lads? Fella saying they have lost lot of players to Blarney st?
Best in a long time lads.. just heard while ago from a guy living in the northside who was told by a Glen Celtic player that a former manager of them is trying to force the club to get rid of the current managers and give him the job!!. He walked out last year thinking the club couldn't manage without him and now has his son - the captain, trying to turn players heads. Unreal if true!! This is AFTER the glen have already appointed the managers for next year!! Nothing surprises me anymore. 😀😀
There is always trouble in Glen Celtic . They win trophies , go up the leagues then fall apart. I spoke directly to a Glen Celtic player not a guy who knows someone who knows someone whose Aunt was talking to a Glen Celtic player :rolleyes:
From what I was told it looks like the majority of players are not happy with the current management or mismanagement as he called it.
He said that the club had no AGM due to Covid 19 and that the senior players want a change of management but the two that are there are refusing to step down. He also said that the ex manager was asked to apply for the job which he did.
So what are we to believe? There could be a massive split in the club over this.
Any northside club looking for players should keep an eye on this . There could be a few really good players come available very soon.
Looks like a case of watch this space so Jake.
Anyone know what went on in Richmond , were players injured.?
A couple of Travelers out their minds started on the lads while they were warming up, the lads gave them a few slaps. Next thing the travelers come back with machete, knife and Hurley’s with the rest of their family of course. Players retreated to their cars, while they were trying to get away the travelers smashed up the cars. Broke windscreens, passenger windows and so on. Only one lad got an injury that required medical attention. Lots of damage done to cars. Took a lot of guards to calm the travelers down. The same family responsible for this have a history of violence to say the least. Wish they would go and fight other scumbags instead of starting on lads trying to play a game of ball.
Disgraceful. Who is going to pay for all the damage to cars? Same problem with "certain people" in Mahon for years although things have been reasonably good in recent times. Delicate balance needs to be kept. Whose to say they won't visit Richmond again?
I see Pearse are after announcing their move to the MSL but says for the 21/22 season I wonder are they going this season and is the above a typo on their behalf.
Another loss to the league and will further add to the restructuring needed of divisions
People are saying that Blarney Street have a Premier standard squad, others are saying it's experienced heads.
What are people's thoughts on them, should they start in third no matter what?
You cant put them straight into the premier league either. You have to earn that. When Glen Celtic came back a few years ago where were they put?
The Glen were put in the first Division and when Cloughduv came from the West Cork League they went Second division.
I don't envy the AUL on that decision but I think below should decide it.
Grattan B, Greenmount & Harp Celtic all seem to have good numbers and decent players so with them all forming I would say enter Blarney Street in the third division and fight it out over the year to see who earns trophies and promotion.
If I was the likes of Watergrasshill, I'd have planned to challenge this year prior to their entry so hopefully a couple of those third division sides are strong too.
Who is in first division and second division is also very interesting while the Premier could be stacked with serious quality from the northside and a very strong Coachford. If covered well, it could be a very good AUL product for the season ahead. Lockdown seems to have given many a new lease of life.
I see Niall Reardon has taken over at Cathedral, wonder will he have many ex Leeview/Casement seniors.
Any more word on Shandon Celtic reforming?
Word of mouth, managers and players chatting, etc.
Are Harp going AUL?
But clubs coming to the 3rd division stacked with premier quality players because things didn’t go according to plan a few years back makes a fool’s of the teams down in the 3rd division.
They are only acting as cannon fodder
Just in the example of Blarney Street because this is the team that it concerns now had they managed to keep it going and had a weaker team for a few seasons the very worst they would now be is 2nd division and even at that they would be higher than that as some seasons there was no relegation because teams moving MSL.
You look at what the Glen did when they came back they had no problem winning a first division and were going well in the premier a last year what beatings would they have handed out in the 2nd and 3rd divisions if they were put down there.
What benefit would that have been to the Glen and even more so their opponents.
The same thing will happen if a premier stacked Blarney St are down there.
Its a difficult one for the aul too be fair. If its all the lads they had before they finished up they are in there mid 30s first division much like the glen that time would be a fair league given the standard that team would be at youd have 5 or 6 dropping down from premier and the rest havent been seen since they were gone at a decent level. Surely we are looking at only 4 leagues aswell with the numbers left.
Looks like your info was on the ball Jake. Heard while ago Paul Corcoran is the manager of Glen Celtic this year. Neither of the 2 outgoing lads could work with him im told so are gone from the club completely. Should be a strong league with the Glen, Grattan old guard , Coachford youngsters, Bohs , Village, etc
It will be interesting to see how they restructure the league’s as obviously there was no promotion or relegation due to Covid but they have lost at least 5 clubs
Across the divisions so will need to move clubs up along to fill sections.
You could see roughly 5 divisions of 10 or there abouts
Perfect scenario so. :ball:
Any updates on knocka? Will they have a team? If so for they actually lose many? Will they be as strong as years gone by?
Macroom have also gone MSL I see.