The provisional early-season fixtures have been released by the Leinster branch. The season opens up for the firsts for the second year running with the first two rounds of the Neville Cup on September 13 and 20 as well as two rounds of division 4.
Two eye-catching ties in the Neville, Monkstown face Pembroke while Lucas Piccioli will face his old charges straightaway as Three Rock host Corinthian.
The league begins in earnest on September 27 with the majority of ties pitching last-seasons front-runners against sides from the lower reaches with Fingal-Corinthian probably the tightest tie on paper. October 4, though, sees a huge clash with Pembroke playing Rovers in Serpentine Avenue.
Fixtures:
Week 1 - September 13
Neville Cup Round 1:
Kilkenny vs Suttonians, Railway Union vs Dublin University, Monkstown vs Pembroke Wanderers, Clontarf vs Glenanne, UCD vs Naas, Weston vs YMCA, Three Rock Rovers vs Corinthians, Avoca vs Fingal
Division 4: Round 1
Division 4: Round 1
Week 2 - September 20
Neville Cup Quarter-finals
Division 4: Round 2
Week 3 September 27
Division 1:Three Rock Rovers vs Railway Union, Glenanne vs Kilkenny, Fingal vs Corinthian, YMCA vs Monkstown, UCD vs Pembroke Wanderers
Division 3: Round 1; Division 4: Round 3; Division 5: Round 1
Division 1:Three Rock Rovers vs Railway Union, Glenanne vs Kilkenny, Fingal vs Corinthian, YMCA vs Monkstown, UCD vs Pembroke Wanderers
Division 3: Round 1; Division 4: Round 3; Division 5: Round 1
Week 4 October 4
Division 1: Railway Union vs Glenanne; Kilkenny vs Fingal; Corinthians vs YMCA; Monkstown vs UCD; Pembroke Wanderers vs Three Rock Rovers
Division 2: Clontarf vs Naas, Skerries vs Avoca, Weston vs Dublin University, Navan vs Suttonians
Division 3: Round 2; Division 4: Round 4; Division 5: Round 2; Division 6: Round 1; Division 7: Round 1
Division 1: Railway Union vs Glenanne; Kilkenny vs Fingal; Corinthians vs YMCA; Monkstown vs UCD; Pembroke Wanderers vs Three Rock Rovers
Division 2: Clontarf vs Naas, Skerries vs Avoca, Weston vs Dublin University, Navan vs Suttonians
Division 3: Round 2; Division 4: Round 4; Division 5: Round 2; Division 6: Round 1; Division 7: Round 1
Week 5 October 11
Division 1: Kilkenny vs Railway Union, Corinthians vs Glenanne, Monkstown vs Fingal, Pembroke Wanderers vs YMCA, UCD vs Three Rock Rovers
Division 2: Naas vs Skerries, Avoca vs Weston, Dublin University vs Navan, Suttonians vs Bray
Division 3: Round 3; Division 4: Round 5; Division 5: Round 3; Division 6: Round 2; Division 7 Round 2
Division 1: Kilkenny vs Railway Union, Corinthians vs Glenanne, Monkstown vs Fingal, Pembroke Wanderers vs YMCA, UCD vs Three Rock Rovers
Division 2: Naas vs Skerries, Avoca vs Weston, Dublin University vs Navan, Suttonians vs Bray
Division 3: Round 3; Division 4: Round 5; Division 5: Round 3; Division 6: Round 2; Division 7 Round 2
Week 6 October 18
All Ireland League Round 1
Division 2: Avoca vs Clontarf, Dublin University vs Skerries, Suttonians vs Weston, Navan vs Bray
Division 3: Round 4; Division 4: Round 6; Division 5: Round 4; Division 6: Round 3; Division 7: Round 3; Division 8: Round 1; Division 9: Round 1
All Ireland League Round 1
Division 2: Avoca vs Clontarf, Dublin University vs Skerries, Suttonians vs Weston, Navan vs Bray
Division 3: Round 4; Division 4: Round 6; Division 5: Round 4; Division 6: Round 3; Division 7: Round 3; Division 8: Round 1; Division 9: Round 1
13 comments:
thanks for the info.
The draw for the neville cup looks to me like it has been fixed.
without being too disrespectful to the nevil cup, does anyone like playing in it, that is anyone in the top devision.australia only have 1 competition the league, and then the top 5 have a play off.
you wonder why players get burnt out early in there career. expecially if they do all that extra international stuff.
A lot of clubs use the Neville Cup to bring through some youngsters into their squad and give a starting role to squad players while resting others.
So I think there is a role for the competition to play.
last day of the league...all top 4 teams in action against eachother...coincidence?
can any explain why the divisions have been set up the way they are?division 8 and 9 only have 7 teams, Division 4 has 13, division 5 has 12............makes no sense at all!
Considering that Div 1 was the only league to complete their fixtures last year, does the fixtures committee think that makin gleagues bigger is going solve this problem?
Will teams entering in the lower divisions get a reduced entrance fee as they will only have half the matches?
The full fixture list is up on the leinster website:
http://www.leinsterhockey.org/Public/Fixtures.php
Has nobody noticed how the branch are totally ignoring everything below Div 1, most clubs in Div 2 only have 6 league matches before xmas. And the new structuring for the Irish Senior Cup is very ignorant, the lesser teams always enjoy the day out against the big clubs and this will no longer happen. I am all for developing the elite level of our game but does the rest of Leinster have to suffer in order to do this? The branch is meant to be a members organisation run by members on behalf of the members. Its intention is not to isolate the top 6 or 7 clubs and make it even more difficult for emerging clubs to join the "elite". Anyone have any thoughts?
anyone notice the very small amount of money given to hockey in the capital sports grants from the gouvernment only €4000 to greenfields out of €50 million. Hockey being ignored? Did anyone apply?
http://193.178.1.186/pdfs/08allocationswebformat.pdf - for a full list of who got what in the monster pay-out for irish sport (bar hockey) click the link
The Irish Senior Cup should have been left as it was with the Senior 1 clubs joining in the 3rd round. This new system is very unfair to developing teams/clubs. In the last number of years teams like NICS, Bandon & Kilkeel have made the semi finals. Under the new system the chances of upsets or luck of the draw have greatly decreased.
nth kildare got 215000 euro towards there new pitch.
We are perhaps a shy sport ... no-one mentioning the word Hockey in applications
You have "The North Kildare Club" in Leinster, in Munster you will find Fermoy HC (under "Fermoy Community Sports Project") getting €200K for a pitch & Catholic Institute in Limerick get €20K (not sure if for Hockey or Tennis).
The only ones who mentioned Hockey - Greenfields in Galway get €4K.
Any other pitches hidden in there ?
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