Whether it’s true or not I don’t know, but I thought the club got their point across well in the statement up until the poetic mini match report about the club's various 'stars' at the end of the statement which was hilariously tinpotOriginally Posted by culloty82
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Harps also appealing, saying there was an issue with an international registration form from a previous club that they had no sight of
https://finnharps.ie/club-statement-2/
Dan McDonnell is reporting that while Kerry have been fined €1000, Harps have been fined €1 (one euro) Utterly bizarre
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The Harps one seems crazy. Not sure where the league can go with that.
This is the odd part of it all. Hodgins went on loan to Glenavon at the end of the 23/24 season, returned to Shelbourne again for the rest of the 2024 season but never played, or featured in a match day squad, before being released and subsequently signed by Harps.
What seems to have happened is that Shels never went through international clearance upon his return from Glenavon, so his last registration seems to have been held in the Irish League.
Harps were never aware of this, and nobody at the FAI seemed to have flagged it, and he was cleared as registered and available on the FAI Comet system.
If I sign a player for my junior team in the Donegal League, I cannot play him until he's been cleared by an FAI official on the comet system, and he's deemed eligible to play once he appears on the system for me. How they can clear a player on the system for the senior clubs, and not flag that he's not actually eligible is beyond me.
https://kesslereffect.bandcamp.com/album/kepler - New music. It's not that bad.
There is precedent of this same issue which saw the punishment stand.
Sheriff YC re-instated to FAI Junior Cup after objection against Regional
I suspect, without looking at the rulebook, that if they're in point of fact ineligible then it doesn't matter whose fault that is. As far as I'm aware you need an ITC if you were even just training with the club. Very harsh though which is probably why there was effectively no fine.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
If what you’re saying is correct then I believe Shels should be stripped of their league title seen as he trained with them after returning from his loan without ITC
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If they'd used him at all they'd have been in bother. I remember we got deducted nine points for playing Avery John in similar circumstances in 2002. He'd been training with Chesterfield or someone. We won the appeal as the Eircom League at the time had faxed through a list of eligible players and he was on it. They've probably changed the rules since then though.
Good god I'm old.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
2002 and points deductions? Please don’t mention the war!
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The FAI have responded to this and basically calling Kerry liars,messy messy ….Whether it’s true or not I don’t know, but I thought the club got their point across well in the statement up until the poetic mini match report about the club's various 'stars' at the end of the statement which was hilariously tinpot
https://www.leagueofireland.ie/news/statement-kerry-fc/
Irish by birth ,Harps by the grace of god.
Welcome to the LoI, Kerry!
The discrepancy in the date of the disciplinary hearing is interesting. Kerry say they were left hanging for an hour on 10th March, while the FAI say Kerry refused to join one on the 11th.
So is it true that Kerry were left hanging on 10th March? (Pretty amateur stuff from the FAI if so - though did anyone from Kerry put a call into the FAI in that hour to see where they were?)
Is that aborted meeting why the FAI had one on the 11th, which Kerry then refused to join? Pretty silly move if so.
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Think tonight could be a significant pointer to how the season will pan out.
If Pats can overcome shels it's will give them massive confidence that they can take the title this season,if Shels were to win I think duffer would use that as ammunition to say to all and sundry that there'll still the team to beat this season.
You'd have to think if bohs lose at home to sligo that rennie will finally get the hook, and sligo will believe they can escape the relegation trapdoor.
Drogs could go top if results go their way and maybe Doherty could get hunted for a possible vacant bohs job.
Galway are hard working but I can't see them breaking into the title challengers ,but I think they'll have too much for a Rovers side that looks stuck in aspic,waiting for the inevitable break up of the squad.
So draws all round then..
I think if we beat Rovers tonight we have to be considered contenders, though still behind Pat's and Shels regardless of the outcome of their match. Our squad is definitely a bit deeper than last season so making subs often improves us, like against Waterford.
Also Rovers would be a significant monkey off our backs, not having beaten them in the last 34 meetings (most of those we've lost too).
I never thought for a second last season we were in with a chance and always felt fourth was a remote prospect but I will be disappointed if we don't get top four after our start to this season.
As for Bohs, I know the fans are seriously on Rennie's back but I'm not sure what sacking him now achieves. A new manager will come in and say he needs a couple of windows to sort out the squad, just like Rennie did. It's really a terrible time to sack a manager.
I phoned the speaking clock to hear a voice speak, it said - "At the tone you will be very much alone"
Is there ever a good time to sack a manager? You do it in the off season there is a very limited talent pool as any coach/manager out side the LOI worth their salt will be employed and in the middle of their season and any available LOI managers will either just have been sacked or underwhelming to the fan base. Mid season just swap Inside and outside LOI options.
On Rennie specifically Bohs last league win in Dalymount was nearly a year ago. That's insane. In the last calendar year Drogheda have more league wins in Dalymount than Bohs. Sligo can pass us on that front tonight. It's gone under the radar just how poor the results from Rennie have been which is amazing considering the amount of column inches the commercial side of the club generates. To his credit he has built a good squad that is more than capable of winning games but he doesn't seem to be able to put the pieces in the right place to generate results. Against yourselves (and for the past few weeks) our right back has been one of our most attacking players but that means he's liable to get caught on the counter, as happened for your first goal (still could've done better imo). We seem to have an obsession with playing as many central midfielders as possible and that is to the detriment of the team, add to that the frequent chopping and changing of the back 4 (sometimes by injury other times by choice) its no wonder we can't keep a clean sheet. Especially since Talbot is returning to his prone to error self which was a frequent sight prior to his break at the start of last season. It's past getting toxic in the stands and now there's a growing sense of apathy which is worse than toxicity imo. So a change needs to be made sooner rather than later
On the game itself I'll say what I said about the game against yourselves last week. If Sligo show up tonight with a plan to be solid defensively they can easily win by 1 or 2 goals.
This Bohs squad is a good squad - currently achieving well below their potential - the team are in a rut and the question is whether Reynolds can get them out of the funk. So far he has shown no evidence that he can.
i also expect us to lose in Galway againt a hard working effective team, we look like a team that has run out of ideas and needs change.Think tonight could be a significant pointer to how the season will pan out.
If Pats can overcome shels it's will give them massive confidence that they can take the title this season,if Shels were to win I think duffer would use that as ammunition to say to all and sundry that there'll still the team to beat this season.
You'd have to think if bohs lose at home to sligo that rennie will finally get the hook, and sligo will believe they can escape the relegation trapdoor.
Drogs could go top if results go their way and maybe Doherty could get hunted for a possible vacant bohs job.
Galway are hard working but I can't see them breaking into the title challengers ,but I think they'll have too much for a Rovers side that looks stuck in aspic,waiting for the inevitable break up of the squad.
So draws all round then..
The off season was a shambles but the number of decent players still there should keep us compeititive but thats not good enough with our budget
Tonight’s game at Edp is sold out??????
The thing is, all 10 squads are decent, but someone has to go down.
Ha yeah I was thinking of that in recent days. Fun times.
Upwards to the vanguard where the pressure is too high.
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