Derry Club Football & Hurling original

[RedandBlacks]

Expect nothing else.  Barker and Co dont have a notion.

Clubs wanted their county players for all matches so what do you expect. This is the only solution and as far as I'm concerned Barker and co have been excellent. If clubs were prepared to play starred games without county players as in other counties this wouldn't be an issue. You can't have it both ways.

That is correct but there are problems with mid-week games : 1 -- It is very difficult for the away team to get their players available for long distance game e.g. Desertmartin v Slaughtmanus or Steelstown v Lissan and 2 -- Impossible, as has been already said, to full-fill a Reserve game in mid week when the teams are located a long way apart. 

But this is a trial year and hopefully the system can be "tweeked" to address these issues

Croke Park would need to come to "grips" with the real problems of addressing Player Welfare and spend less time placating the Kildares and Dublins of the "nearly professional" Gaelic Football's elite

The system definitely needs improvement. Lissan played Faughenvale on Wednesday, yet play Castledawson on Saturday. You would think anyone with a bit of common sense would have swapped the fixtures about. Especially expecting to fulfil a reserve game at 645 and its a 70 minute drive.

This would mean Faughanvale heading to Desertmartin on wednesday past.  Suit one team to disrupt another?

Ach thats not what i meant at all. Theres no reason why local teams cant play eachother midweek, and leave the longer journeys for the weekend. This year we had to play in foreglen midweek for a 1900 throw in. in slaughtmanus for a 1930 throw in. and faughenvale for a 2000 throwin. was home at 2300 for that match. And im sure its happening to every other club. just a bit of common sense needed. you get up at 630 for work, thats a long day

[Link]

So something like the Irish league do on boxing day and have all the derbies. Coleraine vs Ballymena for example.
Suppose it wouldn't be too hard to implement if there are only 2 sets of midweek fixtures.

[RedandBlacks]

So something like the Irish league do on boxing day and have all the derbies. Coleraine vs Ballymena for example.
Suppose it wouldn't be too hard to implement if there are only 2 sets of midweek fixtures.

Yeah exactly. im all for mid week games, but a lot can be said for who you play during them. if anything its failing the reserve football. also by the time sunday comes a lot of teams will have played 4 games in 11/12 days. plus the light training sessions ye have in between those days.

[Low and Hard]

Any reports from games over weekend?
Screen racked up badly needed win.
Good result for lavey. Heard Seamus Downey was badly behaved?

[BackInTheGame]

Any reports from games over weekend?
Screen racked up badly needed win.
Good result for lavey. Heard Seamus Downey was badly behaved?

I, for one, am shocked by this. Gobsmacked, in fact.

[Link]

I'm only hearing tonight about two members of the screen panel having a bust up at one of their team mates wedding?

No prizes for guessing who was stuck in the middle 

They're some mess this year. Between that, a certain forward messaging the manager at the start of the year telling him he didn't want to play for them because it's a sinking ship and them welcoming him back a few weeks later and then changing managers mid way through the season, it's been a pretty disruptive year for them!

some mess surely. 2 handy wins in 2 games

[doiregael93]

I'm only hearing tonight about two members of the screen panel having a bust up at one of their team mates wedding?

No prizes for guessing who was stuck in the middle 

They're some mess this year. Between that, a certain forward messaging the manager at the start of the year telling him he didn't want to play for them because it's a sinking ship and them welcoming him back a few weeks later and then changing managers mid way through the season, it's been a pretty disruptive year for them!

some mess surely. 2 handy wins in 2 games

2 badly needed wins for them but don't get carried away. They're not out of this mess yet. Still in the relegation zone and some big teams to face yet! Young grant will be a big miss for them the rest of the year!

[Champion The Wonder Horse]

The league is exciting now.

Not sure that 10 points is enough to keep anyone up.

Claudy, Glenullin and Greenlough in massive diffs.

Kilrea and Draperstown in false positions.

As are ourselves and the bridge.

Bellaghy and Lavey looking over their shoulders.

Slaughtneil will win it, if they want.

For the rest, largely irrelevant.

[Buzzkill]

The £80 season ticket for the club championship seems like good value.

Can anyone tell me what the prices are for double headers and single games. I am sure they went up in price last year?

[restorepride]

Doire v Ciarraí, iomáin faoi 21 ar TG4!

[RedandBlacks]

Anyone know if final positions in the league come down to point difference or head to head ??

[Norf Tyrone]

Anyone know if final positions in the league come down to point difference or head to head ??

GAA rules are head to head. Derry unlikely to be different.

[shawshank]

http://derrygaa.ie/fixturesandresults/?countyBoardID=7&compGroupID=50011&leagueTable=y

The fun starts in the next four games. I think we will scrap in by the skin of our teeth by making the playoff game against Foreglen/Banagher. We had a draw yesterday V Rossa, an important point keeping up momentum after last weeks win V Glenullin. Think Screen will be ok but will have to keep winning. A potential few rough encounters to emerge as tempers get stretched in the run in. Every game is like a championship game now.

[Josey Wales]

What way does the play off work?  Is it the 5th from bottom plays the winner of Div2?  If thats the case what 4 teams to you feel you will finish above?

[Keyser soze]

Must surely be the most harebrained scheme in a long time, even for Derry CB, to relegate 4 and possibly 5 teams out of the top division in one fell swoop.

You would wonder at the thought process behind this, that someone would randomly say:

'right I've got it, the solution to Derry's football ills at county level is that our players are playing too much football, what we need to do is give all senior teams 11 games a year in the league and at least one in the championship. And this season lets ram 15 league games into about 10 weeks so that lads are playing 3 games in 8 days a few times, after not having a game for 2 months, which will allow us to introduce a nice big long break in the middle of the summer that we can fill with glorified friendlies, sure that'll allow any lads that want to f off to America the perfect opportunity to do so'.......

complete mad nonsense.