Cork Footballers

[yellowsliotar]

What teams are travelling 3 hours to a U14 game?
An hour + small change each way I'd say is close to the max. It is in the West Division anyway which I presume is one of the biggest.

Bantry to Youchal would be very close to 2 hrs

Rebllog getting rid of divisions was a terrible idea

 

[peopleluas]

What teams are travelling 3 hours to a U14 game?
An hour + small change each way I'd say is close to the max. It is in the West Division anyway which I presume is one of the biggest.

We're in Mid-Cork and we've been in the same groups under age as Castletownbere (over 4 hours round trip on a week night) and Rockchapel (2.5 hours round trip on a week night).

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

What teams are travelling 3 hours to a U14 game?
An hour + small change each way I'd say is close to the max. It is in the West Division anyway which I presume is one of the biggest.

It’s common enough a 1 hr- 90 min each way for some clubs at some grades. The chap that first made me very aware of it and gave loads of examples abd said his young lad had to be taken to Newmarket (I think) from Passage for a 5:30pm throw in on a Friday evening. 2 cars got lost on the way too!
For the inter county, football mainly the travel requirement stories are almost legendary status for decades. Fellas from Beara, West Cork and Duhallow..
Was it Ruairi Deane/Alan O Connor that was travelling from Bantry to Fermoy for training?
The O Sullivan Bearas almost 3 hour one way trip to train in Mitchelstown/Mallow even 25 years ago.

 

[bluesball]

Many moons ago Youghal and Castletownbere were in the same football league. You would be faster going to Dublin than Castletownbere from Youghal.

 

[The Dagda]

It’s common enough a 1 hr- 90 min each way for some clubs at some grades. The chap that first made me very aware of it and gave loads of examples abd said his young lad had to be taken to Newmarket (I think) from Passage for a 5:30pm throw in on a Friday evening. 2 cars got lost on the way too!
For the inter county, football mainly the travel requirement stories are almost legendary status for decades. Fellas from Beara, West Cork and Duhallow..
Was it Ruairi Deane/Alan O Connor that was travelling from Bantry to Fermoy for training?
The O Sullivan Bearas almost 3 hour one way trip to train in Mitchelstown/Mallow even 25 years ago.

Why would Passage u14s be playing in the same division as Newmarket?

 

[The Dagda]

Just had a look at all the Passage West Juvenile fixtures and the furthest is Millstreet which is an hour away if you left now but that's very much an outlier.

 

[random2404]

Why would Passage u14s be playing in the same division as Newmarket?

There was always this soft borders rule after the regions (north, east, west etc) came in. You’d often see the odd team thrown in to a different region i don’t know was it to mix it up or something, Passage into north seems a bit extreme but maybe that’s why

 

[The Dagda]

There was always this soft borders rule after the regions (north, east, west etc) came in. You’d often see the odd team thrown in to a different region i don’t know was it to mix it up or something, Passage into north seems a bit extreme but maybe that’s why

The majority of passage west fixtures are less then 30 minutes away. Now the west is a different ballgame altogether.
If you're playing in Ballyvourney underage you're travelling an hour to most games.

 

[random2404]

The majority of passage west fixtures are less then 30 minutes away. Now the west is a different ballgame altogether.
If you're playing in Ballyvourney underage you're travelling an hour to most games.

I know that, but that’s been it with most the cases i’ve seen, it’s the most random of teams just thrown into random regions. (teams that would have no reason to be in a different region) i’m not saying that’s what happened with that passage case but..

Don’t ballyvourney compete in Mid cork ?

 

[JimmyBarrySmurph]

Why would Passage u14s be playing in the same division as Newmarket?

Rebel Og stopped using divisions years ago.
It’s been Regional for a long time.
And as far as I understand if there aren’t enough teams at a particular grade in a region then those teams join up with another Region. It happens a lot.