Probably the above.
Please God can POS' Limerick just die?
Author of Never Felt Better (History, Film Reviews).
Has POS entered an underage team?
Any word on the restrictions being put on rovers B or do we wait until Saturday evening & see if half the First team squad are playing?
I'm assuming there has been some compromise at this stage.
Strange it hasnt been announced
Please don't exaggerate, Bunny! The original rules suggestion was that they could field 4 first team players in the starting 11 - that's just over 35%.
If they have a premier division first team squad of about 24 players, sure it would take a whole 3 matches before they would reach the 50% mark you mention.
Does any other national league in the world have a game by game loan system like this?
Rovers are playing Cork on Friday and Waterford on Monday.
If there are any first team players in the squad on Saturday i would be amazed.
This has always been about the Academy player development , the overage players will be minimal IMO but Rovers are entitled to have the outlet for occasional use.
That's what the rules were.
More curious for on going basis what the rule is, obviously less likely to have senior players when games on a Monday.
I wonder would they have some older players just for the B team to give them some experience, Richie Purdy & Sean Heaney played with the B's before & haven't signed up with anyone
Longford intend to play the fixture then?
#NeverStopNotGivingUp
All this would've been an awful lot easier if first division clubs were reasonable to start with and didn't just stomp their feet and say "no, under no conditions" when we now clearly know that there are conditions that it's acceptable to them under. Them being that it's an u21 team.
Is there any clarification on these rules?
Up to 4 players from the premier division squad for each and every match is hardly 'occasional use'
The notion of 'overage players' is a little bizarre and maybe a red herring- surely the problem is not the age of any player but that up to 4 players are allowed to switch over and back between the two divisions each matchday.
I for one think the game will go ahead as our supporters club have their AGM tonight and we are introducing a new initiative for ex town players to be introduced to crowd at HT and an interview taking place in the clubhouse after the game. Dessie Baker will be the first person to be interviewed for 15 mins after the game this saturday. All mgt and players are coming in also afterwards too. There was no mention of boycott in minutes of Supporters Club whatapp I saw.
I think this is Daire Doyles idea which is superb as will generate lot of interest.
Gary Cronin is he the right man to manage Longford Town?
If they were still planning to boycott there would surely be a bit more noise about it.
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