The first IL club 'Credit Crunch' casualty.

[JerseyRed]

On both occasions that Linfield played league games there I witnessed numerous people falling such was the conditions of the away part of the ground. Do you think that is acceptable for the any match, never mind the top division in the country?

Perhaps these people were standing in parts of the ground that is not deignated for spectators? They've got terracing which passes the criteria.

[David]

Perhaps these people were standing in parts of the ground that is not deignated for spectators? They've got terracing which passes the criteria.

And I have saw people slip on the terracing which is also covered in mud.

[Graemerz]

Face it Parker, the ground is a shi*thole that isn't up to a standard and the only reason they got into the league was because they kicked up a stink.

[SolitudeRed]

Face it Parker, the ground is a shi*thole that isn't up to a standard and the only reason they got into the league was because they kicked up a stink.

We all know Suffolk road isn't great but it must have fulfilled the licensing criteria after all we were able to play there at the begining of the season while the work was ongoing at Solitude.

[JerseyRed]

And I have saw people slip on the terracing which is also covered in mud.

oh FFS

[Mr_Parker]

On both occasions that Linfield played league games there I witnessed numerous people falling such was the conditions of the away part of the ground. Do you think that is acceptable for the any match, never mind the top division in the country?

It is the only ground where I have witnessed numerous people falling so I would say that it is more dangerous than other grounds.

And I have saw people slip on the terracing which is also covered in mud.

When you concede/rebut my points and answer my questions, then we can move to yours.

Still unable to answer but still prepared to trot out that old line.

Face it Parker, the ground is a shi*thole that isn't up to a standard and the only reason they got into the league was because they kicked up a stink.

1. The grounds met the standard.
2. What stink was that/ The one when they had to take the Irish Football League to court along with Lurgan Celtic on the basis of discrimination and the one which the IFL settled out of court?

[Graemerz]

Still unable to answer but still prepared to trot out that old line.





1. The grounds met the standard.
2. What stink was that/ The one when they had to take the Irish Football League to court along with Lurgan Celtic on the basis of discrimination and the one which the IFL settled out of court?

IFL ran scared.

[Mr_Parker]

IFL ran scared.

Of being publically 'outed'

[EalingGreen]

I don't know the exact circumstances about Donegal Celtic/Suffolk Road etc, but I suspect that with the IL/IFA having treated DCFC harshly in the past, and all the legal threats and bad publicity etc which followed, when it came to licensing the ground for senior football last time, they treated them leniently.

And if by doing so, the IFA/IL was tacitly admitting that they'd been harsh in the past, DCFC will also have given the IFA/IL to understand they would get the ground up to standard asap, in recognition of the new dispensation.

Subsequently, with "the slate having been wiped clean", when it came to Licensing the club (i.e. more than just the ground) for IPL purposes this season, DCFC fell short on the total number of points needed. I suspect that had they made good on the (implied) undertaking to improve Suffolk Road, this might have earned them enough points to have got into the IPL ahead of Bangor.

Consequently, my guess is that whilst Suffolk Road does have a License, it still isn't genuinely up to the standard that that implies.