U-10's prevented from playing for a year.

kaimera

Looking for a news link atm.

Yesterday's Hearld had a story of two youngs kids, one 10, one 7 who were brought to another club by Daddy for his own reasons.

However, their old club refused to give them a transfer and they lads are now stuck in GAA_limbo ie. no football for the year till next years transfer window.

Official Rule is anybody over the age of 5 needs a transfer but not many clubs actually implement this rule. Usually tis if you've played U12/U14/U16 you'll need a transfer.

Crock of **** imo. Club are being pricks in this case.

The eldest lad was told he had to leave the pitch as he wasn't eligible to play

thirdmantackle

St Peregrines are the club in question

The father changed the kids to St Brigid's because of some incident (which he has every right to do)

Now St Peregrines won't approve the transfer for the kids to go through until next year (they've done this in the past to adult players)

So St Brigid's now have a barrister and a TD working on the case on behalf of the parent to get it sorted so his kids can play GAA

kaimera

Thanks for that. Didn't have a paper handy writing it up.

For shame on the club really but seeing as how they've done it before prolly no surprise to some people.

cardoor

Can they not go down the permission to play route. The Secretary from St Peregrines doesn't have to sign it. It will only be for a year though but at least the young lad can still play.

Imposter

kaimera wrote:

Thanks for that. Didn't have a paper handy writing it up.

For shame on the club really but seeing as how they've done it before prolly no surprise to some people.

Surely these rules are there to stop players being poached by the bigger clubs! Just because one case punishes the players for something they aren't directly involved in doesn't mean the rules don't make some sense.

tribulus

i think its a bit ridiculous in light of their ages. At that age it should just be about getting the kids active and enjoying their football. More understandable at older ages and senior.

kaimera

Imposter wrote:

Surely these rules are there to stop players being poached by the bigger clubs! Just because one case punishes the players for something they aren't directly involved in doesn't mean the rules don't make some sense.

But the lads are U-10 and the father moved them. It's not like they were poached.

Imposter

kaimera wrote:

But the lads are U-10 and the father moved them. It's not like they were poached.

Do we know why the father moved them? (What was the incident reffered to in the 2nd post)

Drummerboy2

Bring the kids down to the local soccer club until the issue is sorted out.

mchurl

Drummerboy2 wrote:

Bring the kids down to the local soccer club until the issue is sorted out.

now now lets not be silly!!:D

But this case smacks of a load of nonsense, i understand why the rules are in place, ie to stop the bigger clubs from poaching the better players from smaller clubs, but surely this is only for when the players are sin or around the u-15 age group and up. To stop a ten year old and a seven year old playing is just plain silly. Maybe, and this is just a guess, the father upset someone in the peregrines club and as a sort of revenge, they are blocking the transfer.

thirdmantackle

I've a bit of involvement with Brigid's and I know the whole story

the father switched clubs due to some incident between a club official (or team management), his son and himself

he has every right if he wants to switch clubs as there is no 'parish rule' in Dublin

solskjaer20

While It sounds pedantic enough, I think the club's probably within its rights.

I don't know how it works in Dublin, but in Derry U-10s is mainly about training within your own clubs and the odd challenge match against local teams.
So they can still train with the new club, just not play for them, and there probably won't be many matches missed anyway. (I asumme Dublin doesn't have a U-10 County Championship, I could be wrong).

Where i'm from its football mad and I remember at U-10 we had about 100 lads running about at traineing......and when playing matches it usually involved giving everyone a run out and both teams making subs all the time, even playing two or three separate matches.....and to be honest no one will notice two lads who arn't supposed to be playing......and more importantly no one will care.

Conclusion: Train with new club, play matches anyway...........the opposing team and the ref won't give two ****s.