Setanta Cup 09

[dublinred]

Sounds like a bit of a joke , you play one series of games with your 2009 squad and finish it off the following season with your 2010 squad*

* Assuming you are still around in 2010

[Mr A]

So assuming players will be allowed to play for clubs in the second half of it, you could see a player scoring an own goal in the first games that benefits the club he plays for in the second section

[Rovers1]

quite annoying alright, but, it is fairer on the IFA teams this time.

[holidaysong]

Sounds like a bit of a joke , you play one series of games with your 2009 squad and finish it off the following season with your 2010 squad*

* Assuming you are still around in 2010

The Irish League clubs had the same problem in the 2008 competition.. Hard to find the perfect format with the two leagues being scheduled differently..

[Inside Man]

It will all be sorted once this league realises it must move back to winter football if it wants to survive. Everything is pointing for this league to move back to winter football.
I hope your wrong Red&WhiteRover because we seriously could do with the benefits this cup will give us for the season: more gates, higher advertising, etc.

[dcfcsteve]

Everything is pointing for this league to move back to winter football.

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The weather......?

[thischarmingman]

Sounds like a bit of a joke , you play one series of games with your 2009 squad and finish it off the following season with your 2010 squad*

* Assuming you are still around in 2010

Brilliant. Of all the tortuous, labyrinthine messes this league has gotten itself into, even the Shels demotion/Dublin City/Cork administration controversies would be mere molehills in comparision to the international wranglings that ensue if a club went bust mid-Setanta Cup. Would they be replaced? And by a team from which association? Or just give 3 points to whoever has yet to play them? Or to everyone who has played them so far? What about if they come back under a different name a la Limerick 37? It would be like Dublin Citygate all over again but elevated to a diplomatic incident.

A wonderful new chapter in the best soap-opera in football may soon be upon us.

[belfastred]

Is there any more detail on the Setanta Cup

Is the competition still going ahead?

[adamd164]

You could try reading the thread instead of just replying expecting someone to fill you in personally.

[Dodge]

You could try reading the thread instead of just replying expecting someone to fill you in personally.

Thread doesn't really answer his query though as there has been no official announcement.

[Inside Man]

Big news during the week was Setanta are going to lose the rights to show the premiership games. Setanta are running into huge difficulty at the minute as they paid over the odds to get the premiership games last year and outbid Sky. They are now supposedly in a big mess, it is as serious as going out of business i am told.
So with cutbacks in Setanta will we see them pull the plug on the league?

[kingdomkerry]

Big news during the week was Setanta are going to lose the rights to show the premiership games. Setanta are running into huge difficulty at the minute as they paid over the odds to get the premiership games last year and outbid Sky. They are now supposedly in a big mess, it is as serious as going out of business i am told.
So with cutbacks in Setanta will we see them pull the plug on the league?

It could be an opportunity for the LOI.

[Dodge]

Big news during the week was Setanta are going to lose the rights to show the premiership games. Setanta are running into huge difficulty at the minute as they paid over the odds to get the premiership games last year and outbid Sky. They are now supposedly in a big mess, it is as serious as going out of business i am told.
So with cutbacks in Setanta will we see them pull the plug on the league?

You're confusing about seven different stories there

[Graemerz]

Linfield-Sligo-Coleraine, thanks ta.

[gufc2000]

As of this season, all Setanta Sports Games will be played at weekends, and will commence next August

http://www.setanta.com/UK/Articles/F...ds/gnid-45036/

[kingdomkerry]

No mention of when the fixtures are out so? Think attendences will improve for weekend games.

[Derry]

it will all be sorted once this league realises it must move back to winter football if it wants to survive. Everything is pointing for this league to move back to winter football.
I hope your wrong red&whiterover because we seriously could do with the benefits this cup will give us for the season: More gates, higher advertising, etc.

bull***t

[gufc2000]

Its going to create awful havoc with fixtures. Midweek league games will be the norm for a while. Also, for those playing in Europe it will be awful messy, game every few days

[Dodge]

Its going to create awful havoc with fixtures. Midweek league games will be the norm for a while. Also, for those playing in Europe it will be awful messy, game every few days

If the league knew about it it was easily avoided. As were any games that clash with europe

But they never, ever think.

Looking forward to playing in the North on a saturday afternoon myself...

[Inside Man]

Its going to create awful havoc with fixtures. Midweek league games will be the norm for a while. Also, for those playing in Europe it will be awful messy, game every few days

Most teams will be out of Europe at that stage will they not? Your right about the fixture congestion and the league though, don't know how our club will manage it with the small squad.