But let's pretend!
Return to Winter Football
Stay with Summer Soccer
Meh
The league has a few main tartgets. Regards facilities, you're right, it is something they have to look at. The Tallaght stadium is a good model, though hopefully all clubs looking to build will have their own unique style. Stands should be built with at least about 2500-3000 covered seats and similar-ish facilities that would be found lower tier Croke Park, Aviva or in Thomond. Not likely to happen soon though.
But let's pretend!
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
If we continue to have winters like this then a conventional football season will require a winter break. For this very reason that you can encounter such unplanned adverse conditions that can decimate a footballing schedule I think we're better with summer football.
Having struggled to get home from Edinburgh the last few days and just the sheer misery if it all. I think we can say that summer football is here to stay.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Even without severe weather like we've had the past couple of years, for a league with infrastructure as poor as the LOI it should be a no-brainer.
DID YOU NOTICE A SIGN OUTSIDE MY HOUSE...?
Orange balls and big coats. I hadn't realised LoI fans had turned into a bunch of mard arses after only a few seasons of summer football.
If you attack me with stupidity, I'll be forced to defend myself with sarcasm.
So where is this going? Its all gone quiet ..... is it just being pushed through, complete disregard for any sort of logic or reason. Will anyone be culpable for it? Is there anyway of identifying that. I know the FAI will point the finger at the clubs can we identify them first anyway ...
Athlone Town
Bohemians
Bray Wanderers
Cork City FC - Voted for Summer Soccer
Derry City
Drogheda United
Dundalk
Finn Harps
Galway United
Limerick
Longford Town
Mervue United
Monaghan United
Salthill Devon
Shamrock Rovers
Shelbourne
Sligo Rovers
Sporting Fingal
St. Patrick's Athletic
U.C.D.
Waterford United
Wexford Youths
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
from readin back on this and other threads it looks like
Monaghan Summer
Longford Winter
Athlone Winter
Sligo Winter
Shams Summer
Cork Summer
Galway Winter
Derry Summer
Harps Winter
not to sure of the rest.
but if anyone would just look out there window i think that should end the arguement
I wish i did not know then what I dont know now
I'm gonna highlight the ones looking to change so we know who is who. Anyone know the rest?
Athlone Town - Winter
Bohemians
Bray Wanderers
Cork City FC - Summer
Derry City - Summer
Drogheda United
Dundalk
Finn Harps - Winter
Galway United - Winter
Limerick
Longford Town - Winter
Mervue United
Monaghan United - Summer
Salthill Devon
Shamrock Rovers - Summer
Shelbourne
Sligo Rovers - Winter
Sporting Fingal
St. Patrick's Athletic
U.C.D.
Waterford United
Wexford Youths
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
Summer for Waterford
But is this the way the club voted? There obviously will be cases where the vast majority of fans will want summer soccer but their club, without any consultation and against fans wishes will have voted for winter football instead. I'm just trying to identify which way clubs voted.
Last edited by A face; 05/12/2010 at 6:22 PM.
The SFAI are the governing body for grassroots football in Ireland, not the FAI. Its success or the lack of is all down to them.
I'd agree the clubs don't appear to have consulted fans (although members clubs should be fairly representative) and so fans veiws have no influence on how the club votes, but also you can't make the leap that internet forums are representative of all fans either. Using Dundalk as an example, just because the fans on the internet forum are against winter football doesn't necessarily translate to a majority of Dundalk fans are againts a return to winter football (same as the poll here doesn't represent the whole LoI fanbase, whichever way the vote goes).
Last edited by Macy; 06/12/2010 at 11:43 AM.
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