Tyrone Club Football and Hurling

[Norf Tyrone]

I hear now it's Rock v Urney to see who goes down. Urney at home that is.

How did they come up with that?!

No idea. They had that on the website half a hour ago.

It's now deleted.

Short answer is that I've no idea who plays who!

[on the sideline]

I hear now it's Rock v Urney to see who goes down. Urney at home that is.

How did they come up with that?!

No idea. They had that on the website half a hour ago.

It's now deleted.

Short answer is that I've no idea who plays who!

Some mess! Can't see any other way out of other than playoffs. First two teams out of hat to play each other, winner safe.  Losers play third team - with winners of that safe in Division 2 as well, and losers to play Rock at home in the 2nd vrs 3rd bottom playoff. With losers there relegated and winners playing the winners of the division 3 playoff.

If they play the games at the weekends that's another month of football!

[tyroneboi]

Division 3 play off 'final' next week so they'll be twiddling their thumbs for a good couple of weeks waiting on the division 2 side.

[Norf Tyrone]

Owen Roes v Tatts next Sunday in Newtownstewart followed by Gortin v Urney. Loser of the Gortin/ Urney game plays Rock I think.

[WT4E]

In fairness you have to say that this looks very poorly on the rock club! They showed no respect for anyone! They'll go down to division 3 when the game gets eventually played and good riddance I say!

[TF15]

What was Rock's rationale behind not fielding? Avoiding injuries?

[WT4E]

Don't know what excuse they could give but given the fact that they are in a serious relegation scrap you would imagine if they were serious about staying up they could have done with a competitive game to prepare for the upcoming playoff! If not ... I'd be sending that ballinderry prat down the road now and tell him not to come back! Poor form!!!!

[Norf Tyrone]

Sent out tonight.

Due to the three-way tie in division two, in accordance with T.O R6.20(4), a play-off draw was made at tonight's meeting of CCC.  The draw is as follows: Gortin will play Urney with the winners retaining their status and the losers going to play Loughmacrory; the winners of Gortin/Urney V Loughmacrory will retain their status and the losers will play Rock.

[Stay On the Endline]

Division 1 League semis should be 2 good ties.

Dromore v Carrickmore
Clonoe v Errigal

Dromore going very strong in League but Carrickmore have also come very strong.

[parttimeexile]

The whole thing is a mess. Gortin are at a disadvantage because the Rock did not field, that has to be wrong. If gortin had played the rock and had managed to beat them they would now be safe. As it stands some of these teams could end up playing 4 games to determine if they are to stay in Division 2. They are making the rules up as they go along!

[LeoMc]

The whole thing is a mess. Gortin are at a disadvantage because the Rock did not field, that has to be wrong. If gortin had played the rock and had managed to beat them they would now be safe. As it stands some of these teams could end up playing 4 games to determine if they are to stay in Division 2. They are making the rules up as they go along!

Who is they?
Are you referring to the fixtures committee who are going by the bye-laws they published at the start of the year?

[tyroneStatto]

The whole thing is a mess. Gortin are at a disadvantage because the Rock did not field, that has to be wrong. If gortin had played the rock and had managed to beat them they would now be safe. As it stands some of these teams could end up playing 4 games to determine if they are to stay in Division 2. They are making the rules up as they go along!

loughmacrory are also at a disadvantage here.

if gortin had beaten rock on the pitch yesterday then the playoff game would have been urney v rock

the ccc have went by the rules 100% here but the rule has been unkind to both loughmacrory and gortin. this is why there should be a sanction for clubs who don't field whether it is a massive fine or deducted points for the following season.

[Norf Tyrone]

The whole thing is a mess. Gortin are at a disadvantage because the Rock did not field, that has to be wrong. If gortin had played the rock and had managed to beat them they would now be safe. As it stands some of these teams could end up playing 4 games to determine if they are to stay in Division 2. They are making the rules up as they go along!

Who is they?
Are you referring to the fixtures committee who are going by the bye-laws they published at the start of the year?

Yeah. I am not great fan of the CCCetc but they are kind of stuck here. They applied national rules for this at the start of the year but they don't cover this eventuality. Rock failing to show has caused this headache. If Gortin had of won 0-1 to 0-0 it would've been sorted.

Gortin, and to a lesser degree Loughmacrory on the harsh end of this and have every right to be peeved.

[parttimeexile]

OK then my mistake, they are not making up the rules just applying the ones that do not make sense. i.e, a team being being at a disadvantage due to another team not fielding!

[tyroneboi]

OK then my mistake, they are not making up the rules just applying the ones that do not make sense. i.e, a team being being at a disadvantage due to another team not fielding!

In my opinion the rules do make sense. You can't go to scoring difference if one of the teams has effectively played a game less. The CCCC could do nothing about it. The fault lies in the fact that a £100 fine is not a big enough deterrent for not fielding. A 2 point deduction in the following season would suffice (a 2 point deduction for Rock in the current season would have had no bearing on their league position so they wouldn't have been bothered).