I don't understand how Old Bridge loose home advantage to Town now in FAI.
Ferryhouse wouldn't leave Old Bridge or any team play in their facilities on Sunday it had nothing to do with the pitch the pitch was fine. Bridge shudn't loose advantage over that.
I don't know why the game was nearly played in the complex as well. Heard Lewis was pushing it to go ahead for some reason.
The real reason the game was called off was because a YETI yes BIG FOOT himself had taken up residence just behind the trees in Cooke Park. He established himself a home there and could not be budged. While assembling his home there he unearthed a cache of weapons with I something A written on top he also came across some bones which have been identified as Equine (RUMOUR HAS IT ITS SHERGAR). Also discovered were flight tickets to and from Dallas Texas dating back to the 22nd of November 1963, yes folks the day Kennedy was shot! I KID YOU NOT!
Get a grip people please!
Did oldbridge not switch the game to the complex that morning? and who cancelled the game, was it the ref who was assigned to it?Originally Posted by GreenLane08
Is that true ???
Damn...
Wait, that's all a lie, isn't it.. Yeti can't speak English.. how do you know he did all those things?
On the wider issue however though.. personally, I think it is wrong in any case, that a club should lose home advantage over what is esentially an act of God i.e. the weather. In fact, changing fixtures based on the weather could lead to games being played on dangerous surfaces, just because a team wants to retain home advantage
St Michaels weren't the cause of the freezing temperatures last weekend.. so why should they be disadvantaged by them.. no more than Old Bridge should have been either. The original fixtures should stand
It is all much ado about nothing,i am surprised Saints keep home advantage but there is a rule in place so where is the problem with taking advanage of this,be foolish not to,i do not think Celtic will mind a whole lot either because they tend to do better in cooke park,we might be debating all this again next week as i can not see games being played again the weekend
Why doesnt anybody from Clonmel Town raise this issue!!! There's not much being said about them getting home advantage if Old Bridge's pitch was ok to play on. Bish Bash, (Barry Ryan, whatever you call yourself!!!) Mega Tots, you will drive yourself to distraction with your stupid personalised comments!!! Get real people, weather is weather at the end of the day - some of you on here are making mega assumptions with referees, travel etc, games at this time of year are always getting cancelled for one reason or another - so get on with it!
I agree that it is a silly rule but argue for it to be changed then rather than be ignored. There are lots of rules around that I do not particularly like but at the same time know they have to be respected. Seemingly the rule says that if a game cannot take place due to weather conditions the fixture is reversed. Why was this applied in 2 of the 3 games refixed for Sunday week but not the St Michaels/Celtic game?
We are only asking the question as to why in two cases (Bridge/Town and Moneygall/Ballingarry) the FAI Junior Cup rule about games being postponed due to the weather was applied (i.e. home advantage changes) but seemingly ignored for the Michaels/Celtic. Surely you of all people should know about FAI Junior Cup rules after last year???
I'd like to actually see this rule. Wasn't it the weather that was the cause of the referee not being able to travel. Therefore, wasn't it the weather that resulted in the game being postponed. Also the league had ample time to find another referee if it wished to do so. As someone stated earlier, Hadnett lives closeby. Therefore isn't it the league who called the game off due to the weather conditions??
"There is no pressure at the top. The pressure's being second or third."
The Armed Yeti is obviously a defensive tactic that St Michaels are using in fear of retribution from Limerick gangs after robbing Pike last year. The equine bones and the JFK shooting??...........Prince Karim and JFK obviously at some stage stood between St Michaels and winning the Fai Junior Cup.............................................Is there nothing that they wouldn't do???
"There is no pressure at the top. The pressure's being second or third."
I wonder if the league had a monthly newsletter and just gave a general debrief on meetings and decisions and fixtures etc would all the clubs benefit from this and certainly clubs would feel less like there was some sort of conspiracy
Communications............something the League knows nothing about. Hence why two games went straight to penos a few weeks back. Because the referees and the teams don't have a copy of the competition rules!!
"There is no pressure at the top. The pressure's being second or third."
Lads,keep away from the personal attacks/insinuations if you want to keep posting in this thread.
It happened in two local cup games. Also, the competition rules state how drawn games end and every competition differs...............my point was that everyone should have a copy of the competition rules before the competition starts...............
"There is no pressure at the top. The pressure's being second or third."
No i'm not Barry Ryan i'm a supporter of Clonmel Celtic if you look back through the archives of this forum you'll see that. I'm not surprised that people have come on and make little of the whole situation. Its wrong whats happening its contradictory to the rules that are stated for each and every other club but i guess those rules dont apply to St Michaels as they do for everyone else. Also its pretty childish to assume any user on this forum that has an issue with St Michaels is automatically Barry Ryan.
You're missing the point Rory, Any League can create a new cup competition and in creating the rules for that competition, decide how drawn games in that competition are decided (penos or extra time, replay, etc) as long as they are in accordance with the Fifa directives. As far as I know going straight to penalties is a legitimate way the decide the outcome of a match............My "gripe" is that no one it Tipp seems to have ever seen a copy of the rules governing thes local cups!!
"There is no pressure at the top. The pressure's being second or third."
Communication?? Wassat??
"There is no pressure at the top. The pressure's being second or third."
I think the Information Technology age has passed the TSDL by. They have a very good website although I don't see any reasons why they couldn't have competition rules posted on there.
However it would be a great idea if they spend some of their money on updating their IT skills. Surely it couldn't be that difficult to use email for communications?
League cups in waterford all go straight to pens after a draw, this is mainly due to them being midweek games at the end of a season and light being an issue
The only non-league games in the TSDL that do not go to extra time after draw are Shield games. These are ran in all but Premier Division. The best thing to do is scrap this straight to pens rule from shield games and all concerned will know all non-league games have extra time after drawn 90 mins. Also Ref at one of the said games was told it had to have extra time but said "I'm the ref and I Know the rules"
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