Kilkenny confirmed as gone

[Pauro 76]

Shame to see Kilkenny City go. Im sure a lot of Town supporters would have enjoyed the trip there.

[Ronnie]

SP Fingal will do a helluva lot better than some more established clubs if they have signed some of the players rumoured to have put pen to paper...

Irrelevat in the extreme. If SP Fingal sign good players so what. The question for SP Fingalis not where they will be in 12 months time, its 5 years and 10 years time.
Kilkennt City was a club that was run on what appears a financially prudent if conservative manner. It is galling that due to lack of interest in running the club from other people eventually meant the club had to step back.
However, the comments of the eircom league director are nothing short of scandalous. The FAI raised the bar, no doubt about that, and despite the well quoted cash figures for prizemoney and tv money, how much of that ever makes its way to over the half the clubs. Last year, 3 premier division clubs got no prizemoney from the league (8 in the first I think). The 3 teams above that got 6k each. Those 6 teams all paid 17k in affiliation fees, a 70% jump from the previous season in fees. If anyone thinks in our league rewarding the successful sides and hammering the unsuccessful sides is a cure for the games ills their mental.

[half_full]

At least they are (probably) going to be in the U-20 league, I know its not much but it is something for the fans.

[Bunny Kelly]

That's the problem, it won't. If more people cared about KC then this wouldn't have happened. Unfortunately, there wasn't enough support for them.

There wasn't much to support either though, for all the prudence off the pitch there wasn't enough done on the pitch. I'm sure many people here will go on about supporting a team through thick & thin but when you have year after year dross on the pitch it can wear the best of fans down.

When Kilkenny beat Limerick in August it was the first time in over a year they had won at Buckley Park & they managed just 3 wins in the last 2 seasons at home. Also Pat Scully's side is the only one in the last 6 seasons that averaged more than a point a game, with records like that over a consistant time every club will be hurt by fallen attendences.

It's too easy to just blame people in Kilkenny for not going to matches

[kingdomkerry]

There wasn't much to support either though, for all the prudence off the pitch there wasn't enough done on the pitch. I'm sure many people here will go on about supporting a team through thick & thin but when you have year after year dross on the pitch it can wear the best of fans down.

When Kilkenny beat Limerick in August it was the first time in over a year they had won at Buckley Park & they managed just 3 wins in the last 2 seasons at home. Also Pat Scully's side is the only one in the last 6 seasons that averaged more than a point a game, with records like that over a consistant time every club will be hurt by fallen attendences.

It's too easy to just blame people in Kilkenny for not going to matches

But they are the people at fault. They did'nt support their team and the end result is they have no team. Sad but true!

[amjl]

There wasn't much to support either though, for all the prudence off the pitch there wasn't enough done on the pitch. I'm sure many people here will go on about supporting a team through thick & thin but when you have year after year dross on the pitch it can wear the best of fans down.

When Kilkenny beat Limerick in August it was the first time in over a year they had won at Buckley Park & they managed just 3 wins in the last 2 seasons at home. Also Pat Scully's side is the only one in the last 6 seasons that averaged more than a point a game, with records like that over a consistant time every club will be hurt by fallen attendences.

It's too easy to just blame people in Kilkenny for not going to matches

Well said Bunny Kelly,

With must of the available money going into improving facilities there's not going to be much left over for a club our size to sign decent players. Couldn't win on both fronts without serious investment & we seem to have got the gamble wrong.

"If you build it, they will come." We built it alright, but unfortunately they didn't come!

[Dodge]

SOrry to see them go too. Jim Rhatigan is atop top man, and its a shame the rest of the "city" didn't see things his way.

[Tis-smeee]

Just remebered I was at the last ever game versus Finnharps heres a pic of the Kilkenny team running out for the very last time

[don ramo]

shame to see any club go, but killkenny had the means but were just s****d when it came to fielding a team with the work on the ground, i hope they quailify for the A Championship and have a chance of a year or two there and come back stronger, they have the facilities just the get the background sorted,

will see ye again, best of luck

fingal is yet another disaster, will not survive, to many dub clubs as it is, and the ones that are cemented into there areas are still gettin low attendances, the only thing (that i know of) they have going for themselves is the academy,


for the disater were in store for this year with the protmotion relegation c**p might as well leave the first as is

[Comic Book Guy]

Gutted to see KK go, does anyone know if they have ceased to exist or will they enter the under 20 league. I hope they do come back.
Kilkenny were always playing second fiddle in a hurling mad county and the distance of the ground from the city didn't help either and of course the poor results of the past couple of years.
Hopefully they can get a few more hard working football people into the club, and if they concentrate on producing an underage set up then who knows, I see no reason why they can't come back.

[Bunny Kelly]

The plan is to remain in the U-20 league as far as I'm aware but I don't think they'll be able to take Sporting Fingal's place in the A championship.

I'm curious what will the facility be for teams wanting to enter the A championship at future dates?

[Red Army]

Oh my god they killed kenny

Sad to see them go

[oldyouth]

Kilkenny was my 1st away game last year and it was great craic. We ripped the **** out of the home support with a chant of 'nice stand but you got no fans'. It seemed funny at the time but sad now.
As for Sporting Fingal joining the league, well I know nothing about them. More feckin Dubs in the league (and I was born and reared there 'til I saw the light)

[Woody]

City by name bog trottin hicks by nature.

May the stick waving mutants burn in hell for letting this happen.

[Bunny Kelly]

is there some irony in that comment coming from a Limerick 37 fan considering how well that area is able to run a club?

[Lim till i die]

is there some irony in that comment coming from a Limerick 37 fan considering how well that area is able to run a club?

Ah but you're forgetting the one crucial difference in this tale of two clubs...........

We're from Limerick

[Schumi]

City by name bog trottin hicks by nature.

is there some irony in that comment coming from a Limerick 37 fan

[Lim till i die]

I always liked to think we were considered city folk, if only because of our rampant, rampant gangland crime??

[feo123]

seemed as they progressing under scully when they went from being the worst team in the FD to winning alot of games the season scully was there. never recovered when he left! always sad news to see a team go under

[dcfcsteve]

Sad news. Kilkenny was a club that tried to do things the right way (e.g. investing in facilities, rather than throwing money at player's wages), yet they were hampered by the fact there just isn't the support required for a senior football club in the town at the moment. Interesting to note the contrast between comments here and those for when Dublin City demised (a club who didn't try to do things the right way...!).

I hope they can regroup in Intermediate football and eventually return at some point via the A League and promotion. Would be a fitting way for them to return.

As for Sporting Fingal.... !!! Anyone geneuinly think they will turn out to be much more than Dublin City did ? It's hard to see it. Tullamore would've been a better replacement choice for me.