mgbgt1978 wrote: » I live just up the road from the Racecourse. Whatever about the actual crapness of this 'experience', I have had to endure 10 hours of the same CD blaring away on repeat all day.... ....."Bing Crosby sings Christmas Songs on his death-bed". Honestly, the most maudling, depressing Christmas Carols you could find. And apparently this sh!te continues every day until the 20th December.
mgbgt1978 wrote: » I thought it was a good bit quieter around here today . I don't think anybody can possibly feel any sympathy towards this Crowd, despite their pathetic 'blame everyone else' cancellation statement.
Comhra wrote: » So does anyone actually know who the organisers are/were? I haven't seen any named group/organisation laying claim to this shambles of a venture? Was it just some bunch of local chancers or was it organised on a bigger level with similar ventures tried on across the country?
JamesBond2010 wrote: » Go handy with the bait your not fishing @ all :D:D
bazz26 wrote: » Ah twitter - the home of verbal diarrhea.
ChewBerecca wrote: » Interesting to see if Limerick CB can deflect the farce that occurred with the womens match if Limerick win. How do you manage to allow a pitch to be booked for a national qualifier, knowing full well you'll need it the same day for training, in a time with no ticket sales? Its like someone was trying to hedge their bets, if Limerick didn't get into the All Ireland at least they'd get something for hosting the LGFA.
phog wrote: » The county board? How do you make out that they are anyway responsible for the farce? They had one condition on the booking of the ground ad the ladies football assoc still went ahead and booked it. Unbelievable stuff from them. Our Sports and Social club book a venue every year for the Children's Christmas Party. We book it early in the year & before the H/Cup rugby fixtures are announced so if the venue we're looking at has a clause that they want it available if we clash with home Munster match then we just move on and book somewhere else. How did the Ladies Football Assoc not foresee the probability of Limerick getting through to the All Ireland Final. Then, to make matters worse, when they knew the venue wasn't available to them they didn't look at Thurles/Ennis as an option but moved the game to Dublin.
ChewBerecca wrote: » A training session was given precedence over a scheduled competitive fixture. Which everything aside, is bonkers for sport run mainly on a volunteer basis, when titles are all the players have to work towards. We could ask how did Limerick not foresee the hurling team was going to make the final and therefore need the grounds? Its not as if they would have lost the revenue of ticket sales by rejecting the semi final booking. If anything, had ticket sales been allowed, they probably would have made more money allowing people in to see Limerick train. The teams thought Limerick would respect the importance of their semi final by allowing them to use the pitch they had booked. Instead it was pulled out last minute and triggered a series of unfortunate events.
The Heineken Cup is a professional tournament, with teams of logistical experts to resolve any last minute cancellations and pools of funds to legally secure venues, the GAA/LGFA is volunteers. Its not easy to compare the two when one is a multi million euro professional organisation and the other is made up of people with other day jobs.
phog wrote: » Limerick Count Board made it known that if they get through to the final they would want the ground - the reason why they needed it is irrelevant. Why would anyone go ahead and book the ground with that condition. Amateurish at best. You've completely missed the point I was making about our S&S Club
Clareman wrote: » Personally I think it is very bad form BUT the booking was made with the condition being called our well in advance, Dublin was chosen as the next neutral venue (I would have thought Ennis would have been a better fit) but when Parnell Park wasn't available then Croke Park was made available, now I might be foolish but I would have thought that of being given the choice of Gaelic Grounds, Parnell Park or Croke Park that EVERY player would pick Croke Park.
ChewBerecca wrote: » Its an amateur sport run by volunteers, amateurish is its definition. I didn't miss your point about the kids Christmas party. A competitive fixture in a national league that teams and backroom staff spent weeks preparing for should be viewed with more respect and levity than a training session where the home team have multiple alternative stadiums to train in within an hours drive. The HC is a massive earner for hotels and could be a week/months worth of takings in a night. The hotels hedge their bets by taking Christmas party bookings in case Munster don't get through. In this case, the training session was seen as the HC match, rather than the actual semi final game. Which indicates Limerick view the womens semi final as a kids Christmas party that can be held elsewhere using your analogy. The events that followed would be akin to moving your Christmas party to another hotel, finding out its flooded and you need to move again, Santa broke down on the way there, and the food only coming in the last 10 minutes you've the venue booked for. This is about respecting the leagues in the Gaelic Games. A semi final, no matter if its hurling, football, mens, ladies, shouldn't be shunted out of a venue to facilitate a training session. And especially not last minute when it was clear Limerick had a good chance at making the final early in the season.
ChewBerecca wrote: » It was such bad form that the match was brought forward and Galway only found out when they were 50 minutes away. Most of the team were travelling separately so I've heard it took a while to get through to everyone, hence why they only got to Croke Park so late. Cork as well had to wait on the pitch, unsure if it was going ahead or not and then it couldn't be televised because the changes were so last minute TG4 couldn't arrange everything to covid standards. If it was a mens match, the pitch inspection would have been earlier and the Mayo fixture would have been delayed to allow Galway time to warm up, or else it would have been rescheduled.
phog wrote: » None of this is on the Limerick County Board, a lot of it is more of the same amateurism from the ladies football association.
Clareman wrote: » I think this match shouldn't have been brought to Dublin at all, Ennis would have suited both teams but there was probably a reason for that as well.
johnnyryan89 wrote: » Any remember an arcade that used be on O'Connell St, where the Vodafone shop is and what it was possibly called?
Berty wrote: » Buzz or something was it?
Treepole wrote: » Reading this and your other comments on the matter you obviously have very little idea what you are talking about.
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