I am still not sure
Someone do a pole or is ther one????
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I am still not sure
Someone do a pole or is ther one????
Pole here
I have to admit that is funny!! Wasn't expecting that at all.Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
Where d'you think this is? Communist China?? :confused: Sorry that it sounds cold, but nobody forced them to have a family. The relatively few players who have families know full well, what the story is here before they play in the LOI. If you want to take holidays in the summer; take them, but don't play in our league.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cop on
As it is, Longford are out of everything now, so that provides plenty of breaks and weeks off during the season for their few players to spend with their families. :rolleyes:
It's sad to say that several clubs in this country are more interested in having time off, than trying to make progress. :mad:
Do you lot consider the switch to summer footy a success?Have attendances increased?Are EL clubs doing better in Europe?What do you do between December & March?What will happen if Ireland qualify for next summer's World Cup(please God)?Will you regular EL & national side fans be forced to make the unbearable choice,club v country?My interest is heightened by the Welsh Premiership's flirting of this issue!
Nicely done :DQuote:
Originally Posted by pete
I will gladly pick club over country!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Castle Barracks
Isn't there a match on tomorrow night?? Just because you didn't get through, doesn't mean all other EL clubs fell at the first hurdle for a second year in a row.Quote:
Are EL clubs doing better in Europe?
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Originally Posted by franz
It's poll :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by pete
A pole is a big stick, which obviously you weren't hit with often enough at school! :D
Did you click pete's link?Quote:
Originally Posted by crc
ha ha
so sorry I made the mistake
Its back to school for me!!!
It must be great to be perfect.
so do we keep summer soccer or not?
I say no
No, just saw it now, sorry Pete. I though he was linking to the poll that was actually taken on summer soccer, but I suppose I should have checked it out first.Quote:
Originally Posted by Schumi
There's no way we should change. Summer soccer is much better. Teams are (mostly) playing better football, and I don't remember the last time a game was called off due to bad weather (which was not the case with the winter league).Quote:
Originally Posted by franz
There haven't been many postponements due to bad weather. Happened at Longford a couple of years ago though, the pitch was waterlogged. It even postponed an Ireland U-21 International a few days later. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by crc
The last NL postponement because of bad weather was the Home Farm - Shamrock Rovers game at Tolka, in November 2004.
Pay attention superfrank,hes not a town fan or even an el fan,read again.Quote:
Originally Posted by superfrank
Id prefer winter soccer atmoospheres but summer has worked for (lets be honest on the euro thing) every1 except us.So for that reason summer is best.
Summer soccer all the way. The evening are much brighter and it doesn't get cold till the Sun goes down and Irish clubs are doing better in Europe since it came in.
I think we have seen tonight the limit of summer soccer advantage. It can help us get teams into the third round each season of either the UEFA Cup or Champions League. To take it to the next level we have to improve on things like
Ball retention
Upper body strength
concentration
and all that kind of stuff richardson was on about. Summer soccer is good for our co-effficent and will drag us to 30th in the European Co efficient table but we to take it to the next level
IMO it's hard to say if summer soccer has worked or not.The quality of football being played is better.Teams are generally doing better in Europe.No matches are being called off and it is generally a better experience going to watch a match.
Other than the improvement in the weather everything else has coincided with teams switching to full time football.IMO this is the biggest factor of all and only time will tell whether it has worked or not.
Its worked for everyone(everyone being cork and shels) except for us and bohs(2 part time teams).Playing euro games in the middle of the season is a great benefit but we'd be fooling ourselves if we thought that that was the only reason cork and shels are getting better results in europe.The full-time set up has to be recognised as a major factor in recent results in europeQuote:
Originally Posted by Sonic
Just a small correction there Bosco, Bohs are a full time outfit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bosco
I was under the impression that bohs went back to being part-time at the start of the season.Certainly they have a good few full-time players but i dont think they all are.Are they?
I think it's like half and half. Stephen Ward is a part-timer but Farrelly, Hunt and Gregg (AFAIK) are full-time.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bosco
I kinda miss the freezing cold nights watching football, then going to the pub to warm up on whisky and stout! Call me mad but going to a game wearing a t-shirt is just not right........... and no I don't mean just a t-shirt