Young Munster Vs Dolphin

GreenDoor

It looks like YM isn't going to stop with their legal action against Dolphin and it could disrupt the new season.

This type of behaviour makes me sick. They lost to Dolphin and are now cribbing about a technicality. Take your beating Young Munster!

Crash

apparently DU are doing the same to galwegians. Don't know the full story of that one, only caught it in the irish times sports pages earlier.

toomevara

Very unedifying and IMO, pretty indefensible behaviour all round..hope they can come to a sane nd reasonable resolution.

damnyanks

What happened?

bugler

It centres on whether or not a player Dolphin fielded in the final league game and then semi-final was eligible or not.

My old man drinks with some of the YM set-up and he seemed to think it had all been resolved a while ago. Obviously, it hasn't.

I don't know the specifics, so it's hard to say what I think. Rules are rules, and they are not there for fun. The proper processes for registering players need to be adhered to, but without a detailed run down of what happened it's mere speculation to say anymore.

It is a pity when such matters are decided anywhere but on the pitch.

Amazotheamazing

Pity Dolphin are clearly being run by morons. How anyone could think a schools player was eligible to play is beyond me, if Dolphin couldn't field a team they should have forfeited those games. Rules are rules.

I don't think Young Munster are right to go through the courts though.

Downtime

Terenure College are the big losers in all this - no AIL Final in Lansdowne, no trophy (if they won) and no payment from the IRFU.

joe90

Amazotheamazing get your facts right before you start calling people morons.He was cleared by the IRFU for the first game he sub in,the club got writen cleance.I should know im one off the morons you talk about.

GreenDoor

Even if he didn't get clearance YM should not have objected because of a technical fault. They should have just taken their beaten like men.

There could be some other reason why they are so desperate. Are they in debt?

Amazotheamazing

Joe, first of all, well done on a great season, you do deserve AIL1 next year but honestly did you think you'd get away with having a schools player in the squad (written permission or not, it's my understanding the person who gave you approval had no ability to give approval), and secondly, are Dolphin so caught for players you needed to draft a schoolboy, or is the guy in question an exceptional talent? (I'm being serious, btw)

GreenDoor, rules are rules, I'm not being trite, they're there for a reason, in this instance (as I understand, apart from politics) to prevent schoolboys from incurring serious injuries due to too many committments and importantly, from injuries arising from the physical nature of senior club rugby. Secondly, you obviously don't know Young Munster, it would give them no end of satisfaction to think that the whole rugby country was against them, they love adversity, they love being the unloved club. Even Paul O'Connell admits that being from Young Munster he felt he had to try 3 times as hard as anyone else to get on the Irish team, hell some of these guys haven't forgiven the IRFU for the way Clohessy was treated.

GreenDoor, do you think clubs should be free to field schoolboys in senior games?

Also, if YM have signed Broderick, Earls and Slattery, they might have some of the best talent Limerick currently has to offer in their ranks. While they won't go up this season, they will go up soon enough. From what I hear, the YM players want to drop the whole thing, but the committee are pressing forward with it.

I feel sorry for Dolphin, (and Joe might correct me), I understand they are having trouble recruiting for next year?