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The rest of the Youths fans seem to disagree
teams warmed up on it this time last season, Waterford did in March and it was as dark then.
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I couldn't care less what other teams did. If the lighting is as bad as your fellow fans are saying then it's unsuitable for any team that values their players health. Part-time league or not you can't send players to warm up on a pitch that only has floodlights for half the pitch, that are even then turned away from the actual pitch to light the car park and even then are of a poor standard. It's just not on
I suppose for most of the season its probably not that much of an issue as its still fairly bright up until 8.00 for most of the summer. Thank god for summer football
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Just because they did it doesn't make it right. Wexford were appartantly a disgrace and left Limerick with no option but to not go ahead with the fixture. All over the news. League looks like a joke now
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Jebus, we have said the lighting is 'not great' but there has never been a complaint before and AFAIK, nobody ever got a knock warming up on it. Everyone is disappointed but lets wait till we have more information.
I agree that every team has a set pre-match routine but I'm sure the referree would have agreed to a 15 min delay in KO if requested
Not great's not good enough either to be honest, not when you have a perfectly lit pitch sitting right in front of you
The lighting on our back pitch isn't up to match standard. It's ok lighting to train under, and up until today to warm up under, but it's not match standard lighting and in my opinon Limerick had the right to protest.
But still, driving out of the ground 40 minutes before the scheduled kick off time is madness. Especially since at that stage Wallace had seemingly agreed to let Limerick warm up on the main pitch. Surely the kickoff time could have been put back to facilitate this.
Both teams to blame in my opinion. Wexford for initially denying Limerick the use of the main pitch for their warm-up. Limerick for storming off in a huff 40 minutes before kick-off, even though at that stage Wexford had "given in". And the referee aswell I suppose for not controlling the situation. Will be interesting to see what happens!
I believe our players didn't actually take to the field at 8 pm and I think they are required to do so to claim the points. Perhaps that was deliberate in an attempt to avoid that scenario
Thats the way I see it also, silly situation that got out of hand. Officials have to have casting vote here.
where did wexford warm up?
More to it than we know at this stage I would say.. Limerick have become very professinal as a club this season so I can't see them stroming off in a huff. Just when it looked like we were doing things right and people in Limerick were talking the club a bit more seriously, this happens. Not happy at all.
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Because all this kicked off at 7.20, they didn't warm up. When the match was called off they went out for a training session.........on the training pitch
If he'd had any sense of humour he'd have put them out on the main pitch
Either way Limerick have a responsibility to our players, Wallace can run his players on glass for all I care, and if we deemed it unsuitable then so be it as far as we're concerned I guess
ok then would the 2 teams have both warmed up together on the 'training' pitch?
Am i right in saying that our lads train on this pitch all yr round, ie on november and January evenings.
If its good enough for training its more than good enough to warm up on.
Either way Wexford gave up in the end but LK couldnt swallow their pride.
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