2010 Fixtures

**1882** · 17/02/2010, 2:07 PM

Originally Posted by Boo_Boy

Car, Jim.

Tractor could also be useful

**EAFC_rdfl** · 17/02/2010, 2:10 PM

Originally Posted by seand60

Ok can anybody tell me how is the best way to get to Salthills ground coming from Athlone please.
Thanks.

heres a map

i take it you know how to get as far as terryland!!
its straight forward enough, cross the quencintenial bridge, then cross the roundabout (signposted for salthill or spiddeal id say).
go through 2 sets of lights, then turn right at the hanley oaks hotel. go up the hill past the graveyard bout a mile or 2 and then its a right turn in a back road - should be signs there for drum/salthill devon

**carrickharp** · 17/02/2010, 2:23 PM

It's a sorry joke how they are giving Derry two home matches against Harps to help them through the hard times and the whole Cork saga, two teams that should be in the A League because if Harps did half of what they did they would.

**harpstilidie** · 17/02/2010, 2:33 PM

I'm getting sick of this league. Sometimes I wonder why I even bother. Doesn't surprise me one bit that Derry got two home games against us. Typical FAI accomodating the bigger clubs who cheat while they couldn't give a toss about the smaller ones who do everything without cheating.

**Candystripe** · 17/02/2010, 2:40 PM

>>>>>>Harps fans............Look on the bright side,even though we're only playing once at the barn we will still bring more away fans than you's will on your two visits to the Brandywell.

Probably three times as many as the entire away support of all other clubs visiting there this season.

Oh yeah and to make matters even worse for ye's we've got Shels twice in the Brandywell as well. lol

**Longfordian** · 17/02/2010, 2:56 PM

Fixtures aren't so bad for us either. Derry at home twice, Shels at home twice, ditto Waterford, though we do have to go to Limerick and Harps twice.

**gufc2000** · 17/02/2010, 2:58 PM

Its a shambles having so many games to accomodate the Setanta Cup, which most teams who play in it don't give a toss about. A third of our home fixtures are are midweek, including the 2 games against Sligo. Once the again the FAI make a fcuk up of everything

**harpstilidie** · 17/02/2010, 3:02 PM

Originally Posted by Longfordian

Fixtures aren't so bad for us either. Derry at home twice, Shels at home twice, ditto Waterford, though we do have to go to Limerick and Harps twice.

Only away to Harps once.

**total hoofball** · 17/02/2010, 3:07 PM

Harps fans,

I'm not one to defend or stick up for the FAI but there is no conspiracy in Derry getting two home games against you, there is a reasoning behind it.

As the 1st division has 3 rounds of 11 games the amount of home and away games against all teams alternate every season. You will have one home game and two away games against one team and the next season against the same team you will have two home games and one away game.

Bray for example will take the position of Sporting Fingal in the 1st division and also in the fixture lists as both clubs essentially swapped places in the division same with Salthill Devon who take the place of Kildare County in the 1st division and also in the fixtures lists. As no club in existance has replaced UCD in the 1st division and in the fixture lists through finishing 10th in the PD, the new Derry take up that spot.

If UCD and Sporting Fingal were still in the first division this season UCD would have had two home games against Sporting Fingal, Derry replace UCD and Bray replace Sporting Fingal and hence Derry playing Bray on the opening day of the season and having two home games against Bray in 2010.

With Harps if UCD were still the 1st this season you would have been due two away games this season as you had one away game against them in 2009. It's just your luck that the new Derry have to take the place of UCD in the fixture lists and get two home games against you as there is no other vanacy for Derry to take up, otherwise it would distort the alternation of the fixtures for the other 11 clubs in the division.

**Longfordian** · 17/02/2010, 3:10 PM

Originally Posted by harpstilidie

Only away to Harps once.

You're right of course, since we have you at home first up. Don't know why I thought that, I must go review the fixtures again!.

**Candystripe** · 17/02/2010, 3:15 PM

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Hoofball,but that just makes to much sense for a Harps fan to realise.

Awating the contiuous whinging about this for the entire season from Harps fans.

**Mr A** · 17/02/2010, 3:27 PM

What Hoofball says makes sense and is my understanding of the logic behind the fixture calendar. The FAI could just as easily have assigned Derry Kildare/Salthill's spot though rather than UCD's.

**Candystripe** · 17/02/2010, 3:39 PM

Mr A, two seasons ago we played at home twice V Harps so if we both had of been in D1 last year we would have been away twice to you's.

But feel free to continue with the whinging, I'm really enjoying it.

**pineapple stu** · 17/02/2010, 4:11 PM

Can we drop the crap of trying to refute posts just because they're from Harps fans?

**Mr A** · 17/02/2010, 4:45 PM

Originally Posted by Candystripe

Mr A, two seasons ago we played at home twice V Harps so if we both had of been in D1 last year we would have been away twice to you's.

The games two seasons ago make no difference to how this season's fixtures were worked out. You were placed in UCD's slot for this season and hence you have the two games as explained above.

My point was that had they decided to put you in Kildare's slot it would have been reversed.

**OneRedArmy** · 17/02/2010, 5:30 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Can we drop the crap of trying to refute posts just because they're from Harps fans?

Is it ok to refute them because they are bitter, tired, childish rants, alleging unfounded favouritism by the FAI and without any substance in fact whatsoever?

**corkharps** · 17/02/2010, 8:51 PM

Originally Posted by OneRedArmy

Is it ok to refute them because they are bitter, tired, childish rants, alleging unfounded favouritism by the FAI and without any substance in fact whatsoever?

The fact that you are still in the league is a clear indication of favouritism! The fact that Stephen Kenny escaped without ANY sanction, claiming ostrich head in the sand like vision is a clear indication of favouritism! I'll leave it at that for the moment and await your next effort at cheating!

**Dodge** · 17/02/2010, 9:24 PM

Originally Posted by gufc2000

Its a shambles having so many games to accomodate the Setanta Cup, which most teams who play in it don't give a toss about. A third of our home fixtures are are midweek, including the 2 games against Sligo. Once the again the FAI make a fcuk up of everything

3 games in the entire season were moved because of the Setanta cup (all of them in the second series). No more

**jan molby** · 17/02/2010, 9:28 PM

Press release

Bray Wanderers are highly critical of the way that the League of Ireland today issued the fixture list for the 2010 season.
General Manager Jack O'Neill said:
“We are absolutely dismayed that the League of Ireland has issued a set of fixtures which places Cork City who currently have no licence to play in the League of Ireland for the coming season in the Premier Division while Bray Wanderers who obtained a Premier Division licence have been placed in the First Division.
As the 10th ranked team to receive a Premier Division licence from the Independent Licence Committee we find it staggering that the fixtures have been released in such a fashion. It is our belief that the release of these fixtures in such a format is inherently flawed and should not have been released in this format in advance of the outcome of the High Court case involving Cork City and the decision of the Independent Club Licensing Committee on Monday 22nd February”

End of Press Release.
Issued by Bray Wanderers Football Club.
17th February 2010.