Derry Club Football & Hurling original

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

So clubs who cried about relegation from leagues being unfair due to having to play without their county players are now crying that they are in a relegation playoff after playing 4/5 championship games with their county players. Absolutely pathetic that they have went to ulster on a technicality, when in theory the approach taken would have benefitted the 'better' teams. Coleraine are going nowhere and will be an intermediate team (and maybe lower) in the not too distant future anyway, and Screen are just treading water at senior, a year at intermediate to rebuild would maybe be a good thing. Arrogance and entitlement are awful.

Coleraine cant sustain senior for long , maybe another 5 years max

Are they an old team? are the McGoldrick's still playing?

McGoldrick brothers and few cousins make up most of team. Older ones tipping into 30s now.

Very talented family

[clarshack]

So clubs who cried about relegation from leagues being unfair due to having to play without their county players are now crying that they are in a relegation playoff after playing 4/5 championship games with their county players. Absolutely pathetic that they have went to ulster on a technicality, when in theory the approach taken would have benefitted the 'better' teams. Coleraine are going nowhere and will be an intermediate team (and maybe lower) in the not too distant future anyway, and Screen are just treading water at senior, a year at intermediate to rebuild would maybe be a good thing. Arrogance and entitlement are awful.

Coleraine cant sustain senior for long , maybe another 5 years max

Are they an old team? are the McGoldrick's still playing?

McGoldrick brothers and few cousins make up most of team. Older ones tipping into 30s now.

Very talented family

The Barry lad must be nearer to 40 at this stage?

[North Man]

Barry played on the 2002 minor team
Was a minor in 03
Around 37 ?

[Cluborcountywhynotboth]

So clubs who cried about relegation from leagues being unfair due to having to play without their county players are now crying that they are in a relegation playoff after playing 4/5 championship games with their county players. Absolutely pathetic that they have went to ulster on a technicality, when in theory the approach taken would have benefitted the 'better' teams. Coleraine are going nowhere and will be an intermediate team (and maybe lower) in the not too distant future anyway, and Screen are just treading water at senior, a year at intermediate to rebuild would maybe be a good thing. Arrogance and entitlement are awful.

Coleraine cant sustain senior for long , maybe another 5 years max

Are they an old team? are the McGoldrick's still playing?

McGoldrick brothers and few cousins make up most of team. Older ones tipping into 30s now.

Very talented family

The Barry lad must be nearer to 40 at this stage?

I think Liam is the youngest of the main group of them (think there's a late one whose younger) and he's 27/28, the rest in their 30's, as is Holly and the rest of the main spine. Barry is 38 I think and done nets in the championship this year at times, Séan Leo 34/35. A wonderful group of players who took the club to places they never dreamt of, but seem to be coming to the end of that run with little or nothing coming off  the conveyor belt.

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

Be hoping to do screen now in the hurling to win Derry intermediate. I fancy them

[Squareball71]

And so it looks like the appeal about the relegation scenario has been thrown out. Get to training lads. You have a big one coming up. 

[oakleaflad]

Relegation games have been cancelled in the interest of player welfare. Email sent to clubs.

Derry CCC will engage with all clubs about the arrangements for 2023 and beyond.

[The Trap]

Hard to believe you could have a less competitive season after 2 covid affected year but congratulations lads.....9

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

Relegation games have been cancelled in the interest of player welfare. Email sent to clubs.

Derry CCC will engage with all clubs about the arrangements for 2023 and beyond.

Bottlers. Coleraine horrible at this sort of stuff anyhow in both codes

[GiveItToTheShooters]

Player welfare I take it the rest of the championship games will be called off using that logic
What a watery excuse, the county have well and truly shat it. No backbone

[Brendan]

Why not draw the league gradings out of a hat "and first up in Senior we have...Ardmore!"

[Wildweasel74]

Everybody knew the score, start of the year, didnt anyone object? Was any objection thrown out then?. Should the bottom 4 have went down, in theory yes but the championship based rules were put forward and time to object was way bck at the start, not once you find u a mid league team going into regekation playoffs. County Board showed no balls here, and the less said of the attitude of the clubs objecting the better. I remember Bellaghy, Magherafelt, Glen all having spells in Div 2. Certain clubs think they too good for going down.

[Mikhailov]

Lads, I have just been told by a work colleague that this is the second year in a row whereby the relegation play offs didn't finish therefore nobody was relegated last year either. Surely that is a complete f**k up of the highest order.
For 2 years in a row, Derry teams have played a meaningless league, a round robin group championship (everybody survives) and then decide not to finish off the proposed relegation play offs.
In short then no team has been relegated or promoted in any division in 2021 & 2022.
Following on from a short interrupted season in 2020 due to Covid then this is an absolute horror show from your county board.
What is the point of club football in Derry apart from the top 3/4 teams who can win the championship. No competitive league, no competitive group stages, 1 knockout game (more if you win) then if it doesn't suit, it appears you just lodge an appeal and then Derry goes back to square one again.
The clubs are suffering with no income from league gates as well - a nightmare from top to bottom

[oakleaflad]

Lads, I have just been told by a work colleague that this is the second year in a row whereby the relegation play offs didn't finish therefore nobody was relegated last year either. Surely that is a complete f**k up of the highest order.
For 2 years in a row, Derry teams have played a meaningless league, a round robin group championship (everybody survives) and then decide not to finish off the proposed relegation play offs.
In short then no team has been relegated or promoted in any division in 2021 & 2022.
Following on from a short interrupted season in 2020 due to Covid then this is an absolute horror show from your county board.
What is the point of club football in Derry apart from the top 3/4 teams who can win the championship. No competitive league, no competitive group stages, 1 knockout game (more if you win) then if it doesn't suit, it appears you just lodge an appeal and then Derry goes back to square one again.
The clubs are suffering with no income from league gates as well - a nightmare from top to bottom

I agree with your overall point but this isn't completely accurate. Desertmartin and Steelstown were promoted in this time.

[Estimator]

Lads, I have just been told by a work colleague that this is the second year in a row whereby the relegation play offs didn't finish therefore nobody was relegated last year either. Surely that is a complete f**k up of the highest order.
For 2 years in a row, Derry teams have played a meaningless league, a round robin group championship (everybody survives) and then decide not to finish off the proposed relegation play offs.
In short then no team has been relegated or promoted in any division in 2021 & 2022.
Following on from a short interrupted season in 2020 due to Covid then this is an absolute horror show from your county board.
What is the point of club football in Derry apart from the top 3/4 teams who can win the championship. No competitive league, no competitive group stages, 1 knockout game (more if you win) then if it doesn't suit, it appears you just lodge an appeal and then Derry goes back to square one again.
The clubs are suffering with no income from league gates as well - a nightmare from top to bottom

The 2021 relegation QFs did get played last year, it was after this point that Foreglen nominated themselves for relegation from the senior c'ship, instead of completing the rest of the relegation matches. So Foreglen were relegated and Steelstown were promoted to the senior c'ship at the end of the 2021. 

No idea what is going to happen this year.