Hopefully the home end will be like a morgue with them already relegated. Wont stop the few from hanging about for trouble or our own gloating and too ready to jump in to another dance off. This week though? I'd have the game scheduled for Saturday or unday afternoon myself mainly for the clubs to minimise the risk of sanction when under close scrutiny. No skin off na Gardaí noses eiher way when its not their job to deal with public disorder.Originally Posted by oriel
Saw that about the bus somewhere. That’s a shame they couldn’t get the numbers.
Never knew that, so the games over this weekend have to have a result!
About you being confused, whats your take on an FAI Cup revamp as my post referred too?
What sort of revamp? You can't change an entire senior cup competition to suit the junior leagues, in which the junior clubs don't win any games. It's already weighted from July onwards to suit the junior teams back in preseason, and there's already plans to change all football in Ireland to a calendar season.Never knew that, so the games over this weekend have to have a result!
About you being confused, whats your take on an FAI Cup revamp as my post referred too?
If the junior leagues don't want to change to a calendar season, it's their fault if the cup doesn't suit them.
Other than that, there's no revamp you can possibly undertake to a knockout cup.
Plenty of European leagues seed the top tiers and make them play away to lower / non league teams.
Instead of qualifiers, you could do that instead.
Manufacturing an annual trouncing of non-league teams wouldn’t do much to improve the competition. For what it’s worth I don’t think there’s anything drastically needed to improve it as it is now. If anything, the FAI Cup means more to fans of clubs in this country than a lot of other leagues national cup does IMO, given it’s one of only two major honours up for grabs, as well as accounting for a quarter of the countries European spots. I can’t think of any other country where you’d get 10x the cup final attendance as you would with a league game between the same two sides.
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The only revamp idea I have would be to add an extra round and have even more junior clubs in the cup, give them an extra round to play to get up to fitness before LOI clubs entered.
God knows, the GAA love trying though
If it was the GAA they would add a backdoor to the FAI cup. There's more backdoor action in the GAA than on onlyfans.God knows, the GAA love trying though
Was about to say this, UK and Ireland cup is huge for all sides even if it has been devalued a bit at the insistance of EPL clubs for meaningless early European rounds, possibly the Copa del Rey? You'd think it would mean more in Germany with as the only possible silverware for most sides, ditto France. But seems more like a way to cause some financial trickle down effect on the continent to lower leagues. If it aint broke leave it not sure I like not having replays though understand why they were done away with with only a handful of ft clubs that it may not have as much a negative impact as benefits if a replay s away in comparison to earning a replay away in an Anfield and scale could sort a non-league clubs finances out. But then I also think there should just be a CWC, purist or old fashioned....if it was financed like EL qualifiers. Streamlining qualification at non-league or addition of preliminary rounds maybe. Not seeding and taking away from the fun of the cup draw itself.
Only fans of who?
Don't search for onlyfans on your work laptop. That is all I will say.
Theres an awful lot of instability going behind the scenes at the club. In Longford Leader this week a certain town official who went as SF co clr and failed was whingin about the mins of the Co Co and the local media publicised his post on twitter criticsin the Co Co. all sour grapes. If he concentrated more on the runnings of our club it would be in a better place. Shame on him. Theres huge disquiet on facebook at whats going on. Its being like this since the end of last season after the Kerry FC press release when a prominent town supporter got a 7 game ban for confrontin club official after final whistle tellin on him to resign!
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
Are you referring to yourself in the third person as a prominent Longford Town supporter?
How dare the club ban someone as important and famous as you are!Prominent
adjective
- 1.
important; famous.
"she was a prominent member of the city council"- 2.
projecting from something; protuberant.
"a man with big, prominent eyes like a lobster's"
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lol yeah but google would probaly give all the washed up reality stars and popstars in the nip to have to pay. Am I wrong AB...
The simple fact is a large portion of fans who travel to matches don't work or live in the county as it's in a hape economically.Are you referring to yourself in the third person as a prominent Longford Town supporter?
How dare the club ban someone as important and famous as you are!
The population of Longford Town is something like just over 10,000, if we were getting 1,000 at a home game that's a serious % of the population so it's unrealistic given our current standing to expect large away crowds.
We're also bottom of the first division and likely to take a hammering tonight, with the cost of living you can't blame people not wanting to probably pay 25+ quid for a bus, ticket in etc
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Kerry and Galway 2 up in 15 minutes
Cockhill 1 up on Waterford aswell!
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Feel for Longford and it's barely 10 minutes into the game. They've been woeful, Galway 2 up and it doesn't really flatter them. Looks like a horrible evening for a game of football and if they let their heads drop Galway could rack up an embarrassing score line.
Andy Spain's literally had to limp off, so the first opportunity for Oran Crowe to make a meaningful impression, after a brief cameo last week.
That'll do very nicely! Elsewhere, interesting to note that none of the First Division sides currently lead their non-League opponents, even if Waterford are fielding a number of their U20s tonight.
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