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Kerry FC officially awarded a first division license,welcome to them …..
Kerry are in. What they have planned can actually go ahead now full steam hopefully. https://www.fai.ie/domestic/news/clu...ences-for-2023
Well done to everyone who got this over the line and welcome to the LOI Kerry FC. Its great to have a new face from a different location in the country. Hopefully you'll inspire other clubs to make the leap too. I really hope this works out.Quote:
Originally Posted by CorribsideSteve
Great news for the Kingdom and the league. I can't think of any other club since the mid-80s going about the job of stepping up to senior football in such a methodical and professional manner. Let's hope they get the crowds they deserve now.
Looking forward to taking in a game there myself next Summer.
Pre season friendly for Rovers ....lets go.
Great news !
Certainly helps that there'll potentially be six home Munster derbies, assuming that it follows a 36-match season, and not that much farther for Galway fans to travel either these days, given the motorway as far as Limerick.Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
I really hate their crest. The Crown on the Harp looks very wrong to me. Best of luck to them all the same.
A host of clubs fans will be hoping they draw Kerry away in the cup just for the novelty of an away trip to Tralee
Without the crown, it was basically the long-standing KDL crest, so they threw in the reference to the Kingdom to differentiate it both from that and from Harps' badge. That said, the coincidental similarities to the old RIC emblem have been noted!
Welcome to the Nuthouse Kerry, where you need to be mad to want to stay but you’ll have lots of company.
Has anyone asked the Healy-Raes for a comment ? Or have they turned their backs on football - sorry, sokker - now John Delaney can no longer rest his balls on their chin ?
Dennehy would definitely welcome a friendly like that!Quote:
Originally Posted by sbgawa
Yeah, the 6 Munster games and Galway will be attractive fixtures. Finn Harps and Bray have reasonable profiles that those will be good fixtures as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by culloty82
Harps, Waterford and Galway should be battling for the First Division title next season. Longford, Treaty, Wexford and Bray are likely to be battling for the final two playoff spots. Athlone, Cobh and Kerry will be looking to join that mid table battle. Looking at the First Division table, Kerry will be doing well to challenge Athlone and Cobh to start with.
brilliant!Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
Ditto to all of this. Welcome Kerry!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shinkicker
Welcome, Kerry FC.
Great to see a new club come in & hope it goes well.
It's harder than it looks, it's a disorganised shambles, but it has its moments.
Massive congrats to Kerry FC must make a trip down there as I havent being there since 1994!
Initial capacity will be 1,150 - as for merchandise, no replica jerseys planned yet, rather oddly, but everything else will be on sale shortly:
http://traleetoday.ie/kerry-fc-seaso...-coming-weeks/
That's a decent capacity for a stand, for a club starting out. I'm excited by this. Hopefully it works out. Of course initially they will only be concerned about their own survival and consolidation in the 1st Division but over time, I hope they're successful to the extent that they can be a template for a pathway to the LOI for the likes of Mullingar, Castlebar, Cavan/Monaghan, Carlow, Kilkenny etc.
Would imagine rather than Castlebar themselves, it would eventually be the Mayo League launching a senior team, not just to get support from Ballina, Westport, etc, but also such a set-up would best be able to financially scale-up.
That does make more sense re Castelbar as Kerry have done.Quote:
Originally Posted by culloty82
I hope Kerry can extend that stand before the new season, as it looks like unfinished work!
Maybe the Healy-Rae could sort something out!
You'd imagine that will sell out easily for their first home game - expecially if it's against Waterford.Quote:
Originally Posted by culloty82
With some good local marketing/PR and a few favourable early results, they could well sell out quite a few games, as that's not a big capacity at all. Surely smallest in the league?
A round of hang sangwiches and a cup of tay is about all those clowns could sort.Quote:
Originally Posted by nr637
The stand has 500 seats. 1150 will be the capacity.Quote:
Originally Posted by CorribsideSteve
Kerry have built up through the youth leagues. If they can become established, it would be a good template for others.
They represent the "vote for me, I got the council to fix your potholes" type of Irish political person perfectly. That Pierse Morgan-style nauseating love-in for John Delaney ... Kerry would do well to stay 1,000 miles from them.Quote:
Originally Posted by EatYerGreens
The website has updated from "Coming Soon", with the box for subscribing to the newsletter, to "Currently Under Development", which suggests work is ongoing for it to go live before long:
https://kerryfc.com/
And it has just gone live today - hopefully won't be long before the senior manager is announced, along with a First Division squad.
Please let it be Roddy....Quote:
Originally Posted by culloty82
Does Brian Spillane have the qualifications?
He had applied for the U19 job (which also couldn't be announced before the senior licence was awarded, and has yet TBC), but appears to be working with the new management at Killarney Celtic for the moment.
Not a good start there lads
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soc...-42199039.html
It's getting them plenty of publicity all the sameQuote:
Originally Posted by pateen
For the wrong reasons though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Glen Of Aherlow
It's a myth that 'all publicity is good publicity'. Just ask Harvey Weinstein :D
Similarly with sponsorship - ground, matchday and player rates seem unremarkable, but unlikely (to put it mildly) they'll get what they're requesting for jerseys and shorts:
https://kerryfc.com/sponsorship-pack/
Just show a lack of research from Kerry, like how hard would it of been to look at prices the other first division clubs set for season tickets and go similar
Especially when the League itself published such a page only the week before. The more serious issues at play are that there is still no manager appointed yet, no players officially under contract as far as is known (presumably the U19s could technically play, but do they revert to KDL clubs once their season ends?), and almost certainly no merchandise released now in time for Christmas, all of which suggest a lack of preparedness behind the scenes.
The tickets is madness. A complete own goal. As you say, price comparisons were readily available.Quote:
Originally Posted by culloty82
With the late licence approval, the delay in merchandise is more understandable.
Interesting to read in Kerry's Eye that a dozen KDL clubs use Mounthawk Park as their home ground - as you'd expect, a number of Tralee teams, but some surprises such as Abbeydorney, Ballymac, Cloghane (Dingle Peninsula) and Lixnaw, where you would imagine they might be able to rent a field from a local landowner, as happens in many cases in the county. That said, now that the full First Division fixtures calendar is out, the KDL should be able to maximise the local schedules for the weeks when Kerry are away, as far as underage games will allow.