At least im not alone in believing the anti-UCD bias throughout womens college soccer is uncalled for. You are correct in saying Sligo IT have dominated colleges soccer for the last few years CTID, they have won the league three years in row and the intervarsities once in that time and got to another final in the process. UCD have not done anything major in years, a sad but true fact and yet they are consentently faced with a barrage of ill-will towards them. People have asked me before why it is that UCD is hated so much and I honestly can't say why
, I think it may be partially to do with how well the summer team has done in the DWSL and UEFA but people don't understand that they are two separate teams. As sad as it is to say many of the members of that team do have egos a hell of a lot bigger than they should have but they have absolutely NOTHING to do with the college team. three members of the college team also play on the summer team out of a squad of about 22. As regards the intervarsities, maybe other teams did feel UCD didn't deserve to be in the intervarsities but it was over a technicality, of sending in a form with 200 instead of 400 euro because somebody simply read the form wrong. It had nothing to do with soccer and therefore why did players from WIT and Sligo insist on bringing it onto the football pitch by jeering players while they attempted to play probably the biggest match of their college careers?? What hurt a lot of the older UCD players too was the fact that last year at the intervarsities in GMIT we cheered on Sligo at the final against UL even though traditionally we would have sided with UL. In the group stages UL had fielded their second team in the second group match because they knew they were through on goal difference anyway, this was totally against the ethos of the competition so we cheered Sligo on. Our repayment was the treatment we got at the final this year. And remember UCD had lost to Sligo on penalities for the second year in a row when we choose to support them at the final too.
Im not saying UCD are saints fair from it but this culture of everyone against UCD is demoralising and downright painful to be honest. Sport is meant to be played with a will to win but also a spirit of goodwill. Football is just a game and when the whistle goes that should be it. Im only glad this is my final year of football so i won't have to endure it anymore, but no doubt there will be more first years leaving the banquet next year as they did this year asking when all the other teams were treating is so badly? I wish I could say I hope the situation changes but the WSCAI are a shower of no-hopers who will wink at UL and tell all the other teams to go stuff it when they ask for anything. Roll on the the summer season, funny how mal o'reilly can orgainse 9 leagues in the DWSL without all the fuss of the WSCAI maybe we could beg him to run it!!!
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At least im not alone in believing the anti-UCD bias throughout womens college soccer is uncalled for. You are correct in saying Sligo IT have dominated colleges soccer for the last few years CTID, they have won the league three years in row and the intervarsities once in that time and got to another final in the process. UCD have not done anything major in years, a sad but true fact and yet they are consentently faced with a barrage of ill-will towards them. People have asked me before why it is that UCD is hated so much and I honestly can't say why
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