Out last night do Connolly have 2 teams :-) ... How are bunratty cratloe looking this year ??
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Out last night do Connolly have 2 teams :-) ... How are bunratty cratloe looking this year ??
Ya connolly have 2 teams and bunratty/cratloe have a squad in the 1st division lost loads from last year( ally McMillan, diarmuid Nash, Paul butler, Sean McDonald etc) so they won't be as strong as last year. Not sure have they pulled there Bteam or not
Did anyone watch Avenue v Newmarket last night? How did the match play out? Any new signings for these teams?
Two very bad teams last night Avenue looked to have a most there first eleven besides Russel . Newmarket missing a lot of players from last year probably because the most of them are playing hurling but still the players that played gave a good account of themselves . Looks like when Newmarket get all their players back they will be hard to beatOriginally Posted by 0030
Who were Newmarket missing that are hurling
Enda Kelly , Colin Ryan , Eoin O Brien , Alan Brigdale , Also Docka and Nabs were missing
Colin Ryan Eoin Hayes Eoin o brien and enda kelly are all on the not senior panel
Cheers is there any former LOI players knocking around down there?
Sure Colin Ryan and Eoin Hayes will be back with Clare team in January and hurling won't be over til November at this stage.. So won't get kuch out of them two unfortunately
To say the 2 teams last night were bad is a bit harsh. We played some good football in the first half and should have been out of sight by halftime but ended up 2/2. The 2 goals conceded on our behalf were fairly bad. 2nd half newmarket were the better side and we had to battle for the win.and the crowd seemed to have enjoyed it.just on the other note, russ and john healy missing, con, davy mac and simon cuddihy gone, pa wilson on the bench, gary flynn injured,17yr old dean d'auria at right back(excellent game) and more youth on the bench with paddy o malley and nikki.(ones to watch).we have lost alot but have young players coming through along with scott hennesy.so it looks good. Daithi and horse were back and eoin played.
Not 100%, Stephen hickey Ennis town limerick, Eoin o brien newmarket limerick, David smith avenue played with mervue at some stage I think.
Ryan Boyle(Lifford) played a hand full of games with mervue in eircom league. David Smyth was also there at the time but didnt play in eircom league. Was in squad for a few matches. Stephen Hickey and Eoin O'Brien are the only others i know to actually play but im sure there is another few around
Darren O'Neill(Lifford) played with Limerick. Pat Durkin(Lifford) played with Cork City
I just had a look at the fixtures for the upcoming weekend and it looks like the Clare League have not learned from previous seasons. This weekend 4 teams start their Premier Division campaign while several others are playing Munster Junior and League Cup games. Can the league not start on one designated weekend where every team gets to play. The league gets fragmented straight from the off. I know its a tough job to coordinate games but surely the league can start as it means to go on?
what can you do when the league organises a league cup at start of season to accomodate a certain teammissing the gaa lads untill they all back for start of league ? 100% guaranteed a certain team will not be starting there league campaign on sunday and yet newmarket b & bridge utd a are down to play 2 games in 3 days in div 1 league cup tonight and again wednesday.
" football is a simple game "
Lads I don't know what all the fuss is about.. The premier division shield was there before ..it stopped for about 3 years..in fairness it doesn't just accommodate 1 team it accommodates nearly every team in premier league .. As most have Gaa players.. Look at Rhine rovers for example they have turned up for 2 games this year with 8 players. This is due to Gaa .. Like it or not but if you don't have Gaa lads playing soccer you won't have a league.. It's not as if clubs have youth teams coming through( Bar 2-3 clubs ) .. As for the fixtures starting this weekend clubs enter Munster junior and fai cups , the fixture secretary doesnt enter them. So if he has to get games played by a certain date then he has to..would the teams playing in the league this week prefer to have no game so to wait for cup games to be played !! I very much doubt it..
The league cup isnt the problem. Its the fact that matches are not coordinated an therefore teams can get a run of games in the league and the league table becomes fragmented. If teams are in the Munster Junior or FAI then designate a weekend where these games are played. Its about fairness and consistency and in previous years the league tables have been a mess because one team could have 10 games played whereas others maybe only 5/6 games. If other leagues can coordinate their leagues then surely we can too. As I've consistently said, its a lot of work in organising a league and thanks to those who do it. However, surely we can start off the season as we mean to go on. Obviously as games get postponed during the winter there will be discrepancys but surely not now in September!
Fair points .. My reply about fixtures suiting certain teams was in reply to old git who seems to think the burren get an unfair advantage on other teams.. I do agree with you about setting aside certain weekends for fai look at limk this week all fai games are on I think.. This makes sense.. But as you say it's not an easy job doing fixtures .. I agree no team should be more than 2-3 games ahead.
Wont have a league? Are you for real? Clare soccer cannot move forward while it waits around to see what the GAA are doing. If a couple of teams cant field a team due to GAA matches then get rid of them. I never seen a GAA match postponed due to a soccer game. All limerick teams are going into their fai and munster matches this weekend having played 6-8 league matches already, and the clare teams have a couple of shield games played. And people still wonder why the gap between limerick and clare soccer is so wide...
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