League football

Has anybody got any idea when the league starts? Also can anyone explain how the leagues are working this year ?

Saturday 25 march

Last round of Aldridge Cup fixtures have been put back to this weekend (weather permitting) that could delay the start of the league by a week also. The fact that no set of fixtures have been released yet would also suggest that county board are in no hurry to start the league!

Looking at the official website I am horrified:

Round 1 of league games scheduled for 4.00 p.m. on Saturday 25th March, great.

Round 2 of league games scheduled for 6.45 p.m. on Tuesday 04th April, why restructure the league and have matches on a Tuesday night at 6.45 p.m.,

I know Kildare are travelling to Galway on the weekend before but still Tuesday night at 6.45 p.m. is crazy and unfair to both players and supporters.

Can you post the link GAA1928, just checked website and can't find league fixtures anywhere.

http://kildaregaa.ie/fixtures-results/club-football/senior/

It think that is it topcat, I'm not great on the P.C.,

Thanks for that Gaa1928, glad to see most of the games are Saturday evening.

Does anyone know if the league's have a promotion / relegation split after the initial stage ?.. I have heard a few different comments.

No split, semi finals for top 4.

topcat wrote:

No split, semi finals for top 4.

Thanks for clarification.
So the last round of league matches is the 17th of June.. and no further matches for the majority until the championship resumes.

There is a split. For example in Division 3 there are 10 teams, everyone plays each other once. After that the top 5 teams go into one group (playing for promotion) and the other 5 go into a second group (playing to avoid relegation). If you played a team at home in the initial round you play them away in the second stage. So in Division 3 everyone gets 13 matches. In Division 1 there are 12 teams so its split 6/6 so they'll end up with 16 matches each.

so we don't know do we ?.

I need help, looking at the league fixtures on the official website, I can see the first page with round 1 of the SFL Div 1 fixtures, how do you change the page to view the remaining rounds,

Download the pdf and scroll down.

Thanks all, got them.

topcat wrote:

No split, semi finals for top 4.

Leader today confirmed there is a split and then a straight final, at least for division 2. 3 and 4... there might be semi in div 1.

Division 1 has top 4 semi finals, bottom 2 relegated.

A team in division 2 and 3 could finish top and unbeaten and with the split the home/away fixture is reversed, so in theory could have 4 away matches.

Confey(0-15)v(0-5)Leixlip Tuesday 4th Apr 2017


Anyone at the game? Leixlip really that far off confey now? Poor start to the season for them.

SeamusMurphy wrote:

Division 1 has top 4 semi finals, bottom 2 relegated.

A team in division 2 and 3 could finish top and unbeaten and with the split the home/away fixture is reversed, so in theory could have 4 away matches.

Is there a split in Div 1 or just straight to the semi finals.

Think div one is just straight forward.

Couple of great results for raheens and leixlip over the weekend.

SeamusMurphy wrote:

Couple of great results for raheens and leixlip over the weekend.

great game yesterday in Leixlip. Tommy Moolick ran the show in he middle he was outstanding. Feely went off ( looked to be sick not injured) and Niall Kelly was quiet but to be fair Kevin Conneely marked him well . Athy had all the big guns out yesterday . I still think Athy / Moorefield will win the championship . Their bench has some experience in Foley and Mulhall both who came off the bench yesterday.

Couple of serious hidings in Division 4. Rheban 5-22 to 0-3 Ardclough and Kilcullen 7-16 to 0-6 Ballykelly. Also Kildangan giving a walkover to Rathcoffey.

Did Paddy Brophy play with Celbridge at the weekend?