Sounds interesting. Any links or is it not online?
Kerry's Eye are currently running a series to mark 10 years since the Kerry U-21 team made their Eircom League debut. Tom McGiff did managerial wonders in taking the squad to the semi-finals in their first season, and when one analyses the strength of that squad - David Hennessey, Shane Guthrie, Maurice O'Rahilly, James Sugrue, Chris Kerins, Peter McCarthy, Billy Dennehy and Seán Kelly among others, there's a strong argument that they should have applied at the first opportunity to join the First Division. Of course, they'd have had no guarantee of acceptance, but with soccer then and now the second-most played sport in the county, they could at least have consolidated like Wexford, if not challenging at the higher end of the division, but we'll never know now.
Sounds interesting. Any links or is it not online?
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They have a website, but it's very limited as most articles are in their digital edition, which requires a subscription.
Disappointing that clubs who wanted to join to the LOI in new counties like Kerry and Carlow were blocked or dissuaded, while in Galway we had the ridiculous three club scenario, which has helped contribute to the current malaise here.
Any sign of a Kerry team for 2014 ?
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The thread is about a Kerry representative team and the question was posed whether or not they would have been successful.
At the moment, 55% of the clubs in the LOI come from four counties. Fourteen of the twenty six counties have no league team. We know that most of the active sports followers in these counties will give their primary allegiance towards a county based team (as happens generally in GAA and the LOI).
My point is that a larger geographical spread would be desirable, unfortunately not always feasible though.
Aye, and then you brought up other clubs
No, you saidMy point is that a larger geographical spread would be desirable, unfortunately not always feasible though.
That's completely wrong. The league and FAI want nothing more than new clubs that can survive in parts of the country not touched by current clubs. But they're right to expect minimum standards of infrastructure and backing before admitting these clubsDisappointing that clubs who wanted to join to the LOI in new counties like Kerry and Carlow were blocked or dissuaded,
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Tralee Dynamos, to the best of my knowledge, have a stand, which means they have a better infrastructure than at least two current clubs.
We agree on the core point of bringing clubs in from new parts of the country.
Infrastracture means more than just the ground in fairness
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There is a recently setup Facebook page that I found for a Meath Football Team:
https://www.facebook.com/MeathFootba...eagueOfIreland
Well it wouldn't kill them to support their local team in the East, Drogheda.
Whilst would be welcome you could assume that those in charge of it would be inclined to look at a lack of a club as an excuse to not support another team rather than a reason to support another team elsewhere!
Well here's to them doing it. I wonder what the plans after getting 200 likes on FB are?
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Cahermoneen wasn't up to scratch, but Mounthawk Park would, then and now, be capable of hosting First Division football. Rather, because Kerry never formally applied, they never discussed the financial cost, and prior to the A Championship, it was discussions over a business plan which saw the idea binned.
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Stephen O'Mahony deserves more than to be dismissed as 'among others' (if he wasn't part of the original crop I apologise ). Limerick benefited better more than most from the Kerry talent of the time (O'Mahony, Sugrue, Kerins, McCarthy, Kelly, Timmy Lynch and David Conway all played first team for us in the space of a few years there).
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