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I'd find that pretty fcuked up if that had been true. I can understand being driven somewhere to play for a team that's not your local one but flying someone in every weekend for schoolboy football!!Originally Posted by drummerboy
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I kept up DodgeIts just been proven that was wrong as he was born and raised in Dublin. Keep up.... Breezing through posts again instead of reading properly?
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I'd find that pretty fcuked up if that had been true. I can understand being driven somewhere to play for a team that's not your local one but flying someone in every weekend for schoolboy football!!
Billy dennehy(another irish striker at sunderland!) was regularly flown up to shels from kerry at the weekends as a schoolboy. 45mins in a plane is better than 4 hours in a car. the logistics are certainly understandable, whatever about the costs incurred. i guess you cant put a price on the talent of kerrymen
The EL players have moved from a top of the table team to a mid/bottom table team. I dont see a big clamour for players from Bray. I'd say that you could compare the top EL team with the 4th team in Scotland, 2nd with 5th etc.
hunt is having his best season in ages.. as is foran ( who had a decent year last year.) they've never set the world alight though but they are getting a lot of local press over here
Are you serious man?!I'd find that pretty fcuked up if that had been true. I can understand being driven somewhere to play for a team that's not your local one but flying someone in every weekend for schoolboy football!!This has been going on for ages, since I was a schoolboy at least, and thats 10 yrs ago. Its another aspect of the game that the heads in the FAI should look at. Belvedere are the big exponents of this practice at the moment. I'm not sure what could be done, but to me its wrong to have someone travelling that distance, just to join what is essentially a feeder club, even more so when its a time of technical plans and regional development officers.
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With clubs getting percentages of future transfers, this practice is now rampant. There are lads from counties like Mayo, Tipperary and further afield playing in the DDSL. Clubs like Belvedere, Home Farm, Stella are just 3 of many clubs which indulge in this practice.
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there is a young lad from galway (mannion) playing for st. kevins at the moment, he also came on as a sub for the irish u15's in qatar couple days ago.
IMO this practice is most definately wrong. players should not have to leave their county to play juveinile football. BUT i understand why it happens, majority of scouts etc. have very little interest in players / clubs from outside dublin so some talented players feel they have to play in the DDSL if they want to get 'noticed'
But thats the problem. They will get noticed. Its the fcuking parents who should be putting a stop to this. The FAI could try and streamline the Under21 league with the various county schoolboy leagues. As I said earlier if the regional development officers are in place, these lads will be getting to the International squads via the trials because they are good enough. And thats where they'll get spotted. Hopefully thats one thing that comes out of the last years transfers to the foreign clubs. It can show that if you're good enough you will get that "big" move at some stage. And if not, well we still have a professional competitive league at home.
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I'm not a fan of Foran tbh. He has scored 6 goals in the cup against lower league teams. 5 of his other goals were penos. Obviously 14 goals is going to get you plenty of press but he has scored 3 goals from play in the league. OK, he's not playing as an out and out striker but he's anonymous any time I've seen him against Celtic.
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The FAI should introduce rule where have to play your junior football within say 50 miles of your home & cannot move abroad until 18 years old. Allowing kids to be shipped up to Dublin just ensures all the best junior clubs in that City & slows development of the game elsewhere.
I believe Norway stopped their kids being sold abroad a while ago & didn't do them any harm.
I'm pretty sure there was a rule where you had to be within 30 miles of Dublin to play for a Dublin team, but this would have been 10 or so yrs ago,
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ryan casey used get the train from galway to dublin every weekend to play for cherry orchard. that was about 15 years ago. has been going on for years and won't stop any time soon.
Fair play to these lads making these sorts of journey's. They must be top standard because in my day if you didn't train and just turned up at the weekend - there were a lot of ****ed off team mates.
All most of us had to sort out was hopping on the team van for away matches a few miles away and about making sure you had the subs money!!
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