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Secondary Schools Football

  • 06-02-2013 9:39am
    #1
    atilladehun
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,629 ✭✭✭


    Bah! just here to rant really and let people know whats going on in schools football

    Here's the story:
    http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/league-of-ireland/schools-mess-cant-be-allowed-to-fester-3327134.html

    My own view on the online registration is that it is difficult, awkward and busy teachers are bombarded with reams of instruction emails throughout September and October which only adds to confusion. If it wasn't such a cheap, poorly designed site they might not have had so many issues but I can clearly see why so many schools don't complete every step of the process. (I'm the IT go to guy in my school)

    But there's more information lately. All the refs received a letter telling them not to ref games in small competitions set up by teacher between schools. There's loads of kids who didn't get a game all year for their schools because of whats above and now the FAI are trying to stop those games too.

    This isn't a new thing either. Each season the FAIS sets up a league that guarantees 3 league games and one cup game for each school. Thats it. After the pool stage of the league 2 teams qualify and 2 teams are finished football for the year. Thats half the schools in the country done by November. Schools have been setting up little leagues for years after christmas every year as it's usually the same schools qualifying and the same ones not making it if their smaller schools or if football is a second sport.

    I'm sure if schools thought they'd get more than 4 games in a year then teachers would be more determined to register.


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