Club Championship Draw

Whats the craic with all the cloak and daggers for the champ times and venues....plenty of lads work weekends and need to know a bit in advance to work around them or get the time off, they cant turn around day of the match and tell the boss their off to play a match..joke!!

butterfingers wrote:

Whats the craic with all the cloak and daggers for the champ times and venues....plenty of lads work weekends and need to know a bit in advance to work around them or get the time off, they cant turn around day of the match and tell the boss their off to play a match..joke!!

Fair comment... The draw was done a few weeks ago and the fixtures should have been done and dusted the next day or two.... Same old failings.... It's true, lads do need more notice to plan for fixtures like this...

Senior Championship Round 1
Carbury v Kilcock 6 may @ clane 7.30pm

Moorefield v Clane 8 may st conleths @ 3.30pm

Naas v Leixlip 8 may hawkfield @ 5.30pm

Athy v St. Laurences 8 may st conleths @7pm

Celbridge v St. Kevins 8 may rathcoffey @ 3pm

Ballymore v Suncroft 7 may naas @6pm

carbury v kilco 6 may clane @7.30pm

Maynooth v Sarsfields 7 may hawkfield @ 6pm

Allenwood v Round Towers 8 may st conleths @2pm



Intermediate Championship Draw

Ballykelly v Ellistown 6 may athy @ 7.30pm

Nurney v Confey 8 may sallins@ 3pm

Kilcullen v Raheens 7 may moorefield @7pm

Sallins v Caragh 6 may raheens @ 7pm

Eadestown v Monasterevin 6 may sarsfields @7.30pm


Castledermot v Straffan 6 may killcullen 7pm

Kill v Johnstownbridge 7 may allenwood @7pm

Ballyteague v Rathangan 7 may carbury @7pm

Junior Championship Draw

Castlemitchell v Cogherinkoe 6 may hawkfield @ 7pm

Grange v Milltown 8 may ballymore @ 3pm

Rathcoffey v Two Mile House 6 may naas @7pm

Cappagh v Ardclough 6 may kilcock @ 7pm

Rheban v Robertstown 7 may ballykelly @ 7pm

Released these awful early! should have waited til next week.

Hawkfield for championship match? Interesting, may as well use it now we have it I suppose.

few games down for may 6th at 6pm,surely not??thats a friday!!
also thought the kevins games was may 8th nt 7th but ur only showning what u've been given

In general any games on a friday at 6pm will be near impossible for lads coming from work, college etc. to make in time and prepare properly.

Most notably suncroft v ballymore in naas at 6. This the same day as the races, not sure what time races are fixed for but surely there will be heavy traffic either way.
near laughable what a joke....

yea the first race that day is 2.30 as far as i know so should be over around 5.30/6 will definitely hit traffic. athy vs laurences should be good.

why is there such a gap before the athy larries match in conleths park

centreback wrote:

why is there such a gap before the athy larries match in conleths park

bit stupid alright, 2, 4 and 6 o clock would make much more sense.

get more money in that way!

I'd be slow to knock the Co. Board on (a) the delay in the announcement of the fixtures and (b) the timing of matches, without knowing the facts.

From past experience I know that once the draw has been made Clubs will make representations for what day and what time they want to play. If that doesn't coincide with what their opponents want negotiations often follow between the Clubs, which I presume is the reason for the delay in releasing the fixtures.

If the two Clubs come back and say they've agreed on a date and time it's not likely that the Co. Board will deviate from this and this can lead to some odd throw-in times.

When they can't agree the Co. Board ultimately make the decision.

Remember going to a game in newbridge at 2 last year, next game was on at 5 and then 6.30. Left after the 2 o'clock game and was trying to get a reciept or something to get back but was told that the early game was a stand alone fixture so would have to repay to enter. Such a load of my auld bollix

6 games between Hawkfield and St. Conleths means more money into the coffers for the County Baord and in fairness Hawkfield is a great facility and should be used alright and the county grounds should always get used for championship but should be a triple header.

Would someone like to explain to me also why Ellistown and Ballykelly have to travel to Athy to play a neutral game? Are there no grounds closer?

Cant quite get my head around why Naas should get two games though while every other club gets either 1 or none? Oh yeah sure the Fixtures Co-Ordinator / County Chairman is from Naas... Makes perfect sense.